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donald trump soars to ct crushing his gop rivals in five states setting his sights now on hillary clinton. >> if hillary clinton were a man, i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. >> many diddic front-runner fires back. >> if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in. >> as she closes in on the democratic nomination, winning big overnight, gearing up to take on trump. the gop front-runner joins us live this morning. severe storms tear through the heartland. reported tornadoes and lightning strikes taking down homes. as flash floods drown the midwest, blinding rain and pelting hail. the threat now moving from texas to iowa, 24 million people in
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kid rock's nightmare. g a game running, leaping, even licking players. who let this dog the dogs out ♪ and good morning, america. happy wednesday. that dog just wanted to have a little fun. >> yeah, exactly. >> at least the dog was very nice. >> he was very nice. and he's fast too. robin is on assignment. we're coming off a big night in the race for the white house. >> that's right. on the democratic side hillary clinton winning all but one primary raising big questions about how much longer bernie sanders will stay in the race and then on the republican side, donald trump sweeping all five
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over ted cruz and john kasich. >> carly fiorina as a running mate. donald trump's going to join us live to talk about that and big wins but first abc tom llamas is at trump headquarters with all the latest. good morning, tom. >> reporter: george, good morning to you. trump now so confident he's calling on senator ted cruz and governor john kasich to get out of the race. he says they have no path. he's also unleashing on hillary clinton and just last night right here in trump tower i asked him about a possible running mate. >> i consider myself the presumptive nominee. >> reporter: fresh off a sweeping northeast victory, five for five, donald trump predicting his victory streak will run through november. describing hillary clinton as a flawed candidate. >> well, i think the only card she has is the woman's card. she's got nothing else going and, frankly, if hillary clinton were a man, i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote.
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it to the general election, he likely will be dealing with mor attorney general's fraud case against trump university will be heard before a jury. >> are you worried at all that you could possibly be running for president in november and also standing trial for trump university? >> no, that's a civil case. very simple. i'm going to win that case very easily. >> reporter: senator ted cruz betting big on indiana next week hoping to capitalize on trump's troubles and against the billion fair's values. >> you know, donald trump loves to style himself an outsider and, listen, when it comes to human decency, when it comes to politeness, when it comes to respect, he's right. >> reporter: cruz maintaining indiana is not a make or break state. the campaign insisting they're going all the way to the convention and with a running mate. >> senator cruz announced he's come up with a short list of potential running mates and started the vetting process. >> he's wasting his time, tom.
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listen, running mate. >> reporter: would governor christie be on your list. fantastic. thank you. >> reporter: and we have been seeing more of governor christie here at trump tower so we'll have to wait and see. another moment from last night going viral. we mentioned senator ted cruz in indiana. he's been comparing his campaign to that fictional basketball team from the movie "hoosiers" which takes place in indiana. last night he tried to make a point and tried to show symbolism and had his body man measure the hoop at a stadium, the problem is he didn't refer to it as a basketball hoop, he referred to it as a very formal basketball ring, social media exploding ripping him for calling it a basketball ring and the more or less formal hoop. >> tom llamas, thanks so much. to the democratic side and hillary clinto
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winning four of five prima demo race now stands. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: amy tate states i. if her victory speech overnight is any indication she is gearing up for a showdown with donald trump. ♪ eye of the tiger >> reporter: hillary clinton overnight in the land of "rock can" taken taking the stage to his song. >> thank you, pennsylvania. [ cheers and applause ] what a great night. >> reporter: delivering bernie sanders a near knockout. >> whether you support senator sanders or you support me, there's much more that unites us than divides us. >> reporter: clinton throwing punches across the aisle too. >> we're going to imagine a tomorrow where hard work is honored, families are supported and where love
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>> reporter: setting her sights friends, if you are a democrat, an independent or a thoughtful republican, you know their approach is not going to build an america where we increase opportunity or decrease inequality. >> reporter: and playing all the cards. >> mr. trump accused me of playing the, quote, woman card. [ booing ] >> well, if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in. >> reporter: those four big wins put clinton closer to locking in the nomination once and for all while sanders is single rhode island victory still leaves him lagging in delegates but he is going down swinging. >> this campaign is not just about electing a president,
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is about transforming our nation. [ cheers and applause ]owing to in the fight. >> with your help we're going to win here in west virginia. >> reporter: not just west virginia, sanders says that they will stay in this fight through california's primary in june but we are seeing a tale of two very different campaigns played out right now. clinton's advisers say they are winding down their primary fight and ready for a general election. >> and jon karl is going to show us the delegate map that shows why that is the case. to him right now. jon, starting with the democrats almost impossible now for bernie sanders to catch up to hillary clinton. >> it sure is, george. hillary clinton had a big night, four out of five states but, of course, it's all about delegates. hillary clinton won 194 delegates last night, bernie sanders, 129. that means she is getting very close to where she needs to be to win, in fact, sanders would need to get 91% of the remaining delegates to clinch. >> and how about the republic
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>> big, huge night for donald trump. bywo that's more than that. pennsylvania 54 ran under their own names. our team is interviewing them based on that. we project donald trump won 131 delegates last night. that brings his total much closer to where he needs to be, the 1,237. in fact, he needs to get about 47% of those remaining to clinch. >> okay, jon karl, thanks very much. let's talk to donald trump right now. he joins us by phone. mr. trump congratulations on the win. it looks like you won every county, every congressional district. the exit polls show 25% of the party say they won't vote for you in a general election. i know you believe you're the nominee right now. how do you win that 25% over. >> i think they will come over, george, as soon as they get in line, right now they're backing other candidates and they're backing somebody he, but they're going to come over. i've watched it all my life. i mean, they are angry, they're
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confused and they don't know how this is all happening and then all o turns into love. i've seen it many, many times politically and in other parts of life and that's the way it is. >> you are getting a lot of buzz about those comments you made about hillary clinton. if hillary were a man i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. what did you mean by that? it struck a lot of your critics as sexist. >> it's not sexist. it's true. just very, very true statement. if she were a man she'd get 5%. >> 600,000 votes. she's gotten 12 million votes. >> she is a flawed candidate. she is a candidate that, frankly, is i think -- she's not going to do very well in the election and i look forward to showing that and, frankly, you just look at her votes. you look at her -- even bernie sanders said she has bad judgment. i mean, bernie sanders himself said she has bad judgment. that's a big statement to make. that's a statement worse than many of the statements i've made against people i'm running
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>> you heard her response. she said she wants to be dealt in on that woman card charge and women. the women gave me great marks anttacked on tt ont. she gets up and all's saying she didn't play that card mistake not doing it but she's playing it against us. >> you know that most polls show she does better in a national election with women than you do. >> that's okay. i mean, i haven't started on her yet. you know, polls showed that jeb bush did better than me and he failed an polls showed all these people i played, that i did, that i won against,
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that many of them did better than me and by the end i was ul choice. i mean carly did resotet agains the debate on the you'll rememb had so many -- we had so many candidates ahead of us on that stage but she had the one good debate she went up then she dropped like a rock and never resonated with the people so i mean carly is not going to do the trick. i like carly, nice person but she never resonated. she didn't do well. she went -- she was very low
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an insignificant player, so imi. millions of votes more than him. i ha weekends and buys up all tecond round delegates. he buys them, you know, takes them out for hamburgers, takes them out for cake. he takes them out to hotel rooms. he takes them sightseeing. >> i have to get one more question in. let me get one more. you're giving a major -- in i'm not focused on that. >> you're giving a major foreign policy speech today. how do you convince people they can trust you with the nuclear codes? >> well, because i'm probably
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you know i was against the war in iraq. other peoplgast in iraq. and i was against it for years and bush used to hate me for ingainst it and they sent people to the white house to try and convince me and all i'd say is it destabilized -- it will destabilize the middle east and iran will take over the middle east and that's exactly what happened and we have isis to top so they made a horrible decision, but hillary clinton voted for it and by the way, they did not knock down the world trade center, okay, just so we get that straight. iraq did not knock down the world trade center which is in theory why we went in there and went after them. >> donald trump, thank you for joining us this morning. >> okay, george. thank you very much. >> and from politics, george, to our other big story, that severe weather outbreak overnight continuing this morning. take a look at the lightning strikes in houston, just moments
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the heartland unleashing the plains, it was a dangerous day yesterday. but o c cta for ightening. overnight, tornadic storms in texas. >> there it is. >> reporter: as lightning lights up the sky you can see a huge funnel cloud hovering over a field. tractor trailers flipped on their sides. cars wrecking after a reported tornado crosses highway 75. lightning striking this apartment complex. electrical wires damaged and sparking. and this spectacular image over dallas.
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of it. now. ceo helping those of us on th freezer. >> reporter: restaurant employees taking shelter. more treacherous driving conditions. visibility so poor people pulling over taking shelter at gas stations. for as pumped up as the atmosphere yesterday it certainly could have been a lot worse. still, thousands though without power across oklahoma and judg
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going to take some work before the lights are turned back on. >>'l 60 miles per hour of damaging wind and that's going to be the issue today. the tordo anyw from southern iowa right down through parts of illinois, western tennessee, mississippi, down along the gulf and back into parts of arkansas too. large hail is the second threat. tornadoes still a possibility but i think that threat for general thunderstorms reaches all the way to west virginia and virginia and i'll have much more coming up on that, amy, in just a couple of minutes. >> thousand to a big headline overseas. the key suspect in the paris terror attacks has been handed over to authorities in france. salah abdeslam was captured in belgium last month after four
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he is accused of providing logistical support for the cell be held in solitary confinement in a jail near paris. and share. we have an explanation for the mysterious green streak of light seen near l.a. last night. here it is. >> ooh. >> scientists say that is probably a piece of space junk. likely an object that was in orbit, it it burned up on its way back into the atmosphere. it came crashing down to mother earth here. >> either that or the green hornet. >> i'll stick with the space debris, george. i'm not sticking with the green hornet but a lot took to social media and said, wow, you see this fireball but for n
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we're told space debris burke up in the a delaying a soccer game but this coverasn't any dog but a really >> the dog was fined for excessive licking, though. >> disruption of the game. excessive licking. >> it was an adorable disruption. back to ginger right now. that's winter behind. >> you that is winter that happened in maine almost 5 inches of know there in pars of new england and new hampshire too and it's cold there.
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temperatures, mid to lowe 60s mid typier 60s. >> reporter: make your delays through your bethesda and rockville. we have a leesburg pike, the crash cleared. we're with the outer loop delays. back to you. >> anchor: thank you so much. happening now, one southbound lane of rockville pike is feting by after a watt you are main break early this morning. the problem
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24 million people in its path and we are tracking the latest all m to "el faro" that sank in a hurricane in october. it could hold critical clues about what caused the ship to sink. and then also this morning the "full house" reboot is a huge hit on netflix but not everybody is happy about it. >> not everybody. you know what, that san francisco home, the tanner family lives in, well,
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everywhere you look it's become a huge tourist destination again >> like you're going to apologize to the neighbors. >> take a picture we could his sister told a court she a sd with songs that could generate millions of dollars more to prince's estate and eva pilgrim is outside paisley park with the latest. good morning, eva. >> reporter:
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>> reporter: and it's not just those classic hits that could bring in songs. >> deangelo, patti labelle. angie >> reporter: prince's former band, the revolution after spending several days together grieving prince they decided they will go back out on the road and play shows in his honor. no word yet when or where they will perform. george. >> okay, eva, thanks very much. let's talk about this with our chief legal analyst, dan abrams. it's so hard to believe there might not be a will.
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what does it mean. >> you want to make sure there isn't a will, right, because s. get equal ngs and full siblings have to do appoint an executer, again, we're not just talking about money in the past as eva laid out we're also talking about millions and millions of dollars moving forward. >> here's the question. because of that secret vault of songs but if he left no instructions is it okay to publish those songs. >> that's going to be the decision someone will have to make and, look, that's his fault. i mean, i hate to blame him after the fact but if he had strong feelings about what should happen to those songs after his death, he had to have written it down. look, this is a reminder to everyone, if you have 300 to
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>> we know what he's capable of. >> reporter: hawkins has not yes happened to his wife. if convicted he faces 15 years to life in prison, george and ufc is on "gma" sharing their secrets to staying in shape. wait till you see what happens when jesse and i try out their moves. yeah, jesse is on the ground. just note that, please. n we see. like the designer smile. it's bolder, brighter and our blogs are buzzing about it. it's the new must-have look. the designer smile by colgate.
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for help is raising questions. hink assistant looks tothe be dead from i polaris accident. >> reporter: the count really badly. >> i can't hear you. can you repeat the phone number? >> can you hear me now. >> i can hear you better now. >> send the ambulance. >> i have not yet because i don't know what's going on. what is your name sir? >> send the ambulance now. >> in this newly released 911 call listen as kid rock grows more and more agitated while the dispatcher asks for more information. >> i need a [ bleep ] ambulance. >> sir, i'm going to send you an ambulance but i'm having a hard time hearing you. your phone is breaking up badly. i heard you say your polaris. >> what part of send an ambulance don't you [ bleep ] hear. send a [ bleep ] ambulance
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going to help the situation. i'm just trying to furearly fous into the call the dispatcher says she's sendingus ated excha have been sent sooner? >> with phones, typically the dispatcher may know generally where you're calling from but would not have an exact address so they really have to rely on the caller to provide the exact address. >> reporter: in sacha's case the ambulance's arrival time wouldn't have mattered. police say he died much earlier already deceased when they arrived. kid rock posted this message on
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devastated. rip, his death an accident. what surprised many of us when you call 911 from a cell phonet. the "full house" fans flocking to the home made famous by the sitcom. now neighbors are in an uproar. we're talking to one of the neighbors coming up next and george, you'll have to explain that. >> i already confessed. to the couple wondering what a good deal looks like... no. seriously? we'll give it a 6 for composition. scary. wow, what about just putting a fair,
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♪ everywhere you look everywhere -- >> we all know that theme song. it's "full house"'s "everywhere you look" and apparently everywhere you look there are fans flocking to that house thanks to the new netflix spin-off "fuller house." once again many neighbors saying how rude when they see all those tourists, mary risley
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house and we are joined now by mary. t a tight street and clog the street? >> yes, oh, sure. >> what problems does that present for at them? >> no, no, i've had little kids ask me if i have seen john stamos and have had people ask if it's a museum. does anybody live there? >> well, speaking of -- >> listen to this, last week
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a little crazy right now. mercy. mercy. >> whoo! >> all of them dishing this morning right here as>>ough thee >> i am. we're in a safe spot far away from them. i'm just one of millions of fans around the world, the ufc has more than 260 million fans in more than 150 countries and a lot of those fans are women. >> yeah. >> more than 10
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right here in the u.s. alone and just when you put amy and jesse, me. >> that's my game. >> you might be amhe cost. now, though, some are crowdfunding to are their fertility treatments. one couple sharing how they made it work. we'll have their story coming sdmup we've seen how expensive it can be. now to amy with the morning rundown. >> the big story this morning, donald trump delivering a crushing blow dominating his rivals with a five-state primary sweep and picked up the lion's share of delegates from maryland to pennsylvania
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and now he is focusing on hillary clinton. claiming if s calling on senatornd e do y stand okasich to get out clinton. that's been a known fact for a long time and she's going out there playing the women's card. if fact, she gets up and says, i'm a woman. that's what separates me. >> reporter: the race moves to indiana where senator ted cruz has committed a lot of resources and has key staffers living there now and lots of volunteers. donald trump today is giving a major foreign pol
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washington and he heads to bernie sanders is reassessing . his candidacy but he insists he is staying in the race until theernight from north texas into oklahoma. the damage is extensive in some areas where thousands have lost power and abc's phillip mena is in whitesborough with the latest. phillip. >> reporter: amy, good morning. yeah, officials believe that at least one tornado ripped through this area. this doctor's office shredded. you can see the wood, this duyt where all of this stuff, the insulation spilling over into the parking lot. it is from the roof. it is blown off. now, we were driving around the neighborhood and we saw plenty of downed trees and downed power
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a nearby school flooded but this for us just outside of it. dallas, thank you. former house speaker dennis hastert is expected to guilty t skirting bank laws to cover up past misconduct but prosecutors say he sexually abused five boys when he was a high school wrestling coach. an apology is expected on capitol hill from the ceo of a major drug company that raised the price of a life-saving heart drug by 500%. the outgoing head of valeant pharmaceuticals is expected to tell lawmakers he was too aggressive and made mistakes in jacking up those prices. well, a new report card shows more american high school students are not making the grade in math. the
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and only about one-third of high schooln unknowingly entered the half marathon instead. the 12-year-old did not let hern she finished in 2:43. that is not bad considering she's 12 and she just had trained for a 5k. her mother was worried about her and sent police out looking for her. i love this. the police go running alongside her and say, you can stop now. no, i'm going to keep running. >> she is a winner. that was a straight story. thank you, amy. new calls to ban caffeine powder. the families of two young men who died after taking it have gone to congress and asked the fda to ban it. our chief health and medical editor dr. richard besser is here. this can be poison.
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caffeine. and caffeine in c and buy pure caffeine, system so strong it is so hard to measure how much you should take. >> you have a sense right here. >> if you look at one cup of coffee that has 00 milligrams of caffeine. if you take one teaspoon of the powder it's the amount of caffeine in 28 cups of coffee and that can be really dangerous. one teaspoon of in that can cause nausea, vomiting, anxiety, heart palpitations. a tablespoon, chest pain, irregular heartbeats, seizure and in some cases death. you're supposed to take 1/16 of a teaspoon and no kitchen can even measure that. >> no way to measure it. why is this on the market. >> it has to do with how supments are regulated. they don't have to show they're safe or effective to go on the market. the fda can only take action after people are harmed and in the fall they sent letters to five companies and those companies stopped selling the product but they have to go after ea
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on congress to get rid of it or for fda to change the regulationinmenu." >> here we are, the "gma morning menu." the top hollywood actress opening up about trying to look perfect and why she's drawing the line now to set an example for her daughters and gearing up for wedding season and decoding what you should wear if you're the guest. what's too formal, too casual? plus, the secrets of the toughest woman in the ufc. ufc stars miesha tate and paige vanzant are here to tell you how to stay in shape. we have all that coming up live on "gma" here in times square. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] e feet pp in high school, learned the horn from my dad and played gigs from new york to miami. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer.
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just think what you might be missing. ♪ hey baby welcome back to "gma." we've got that handsome couple there gearing up for wedding season. this morning we're getting the fashion of weddings. we decode the invites and decide what to wear. >> i love that dress. we'll talk about that. first we want to talk about this. one of hollywood's top stars is opening up about pressure to look young. actress amanda peet who by the way you look fabulous, mom of three getting candid revealing where she's drawing the line for the sake of her daughters, linzie janis is with us to explain. good morning, linzie. >> reporter: she does look fabulous but amanda peet is doing something pretty rare. she is rejecting everything from botox and fillers to surgery. she says she wants to set an example for her daughters. >> i want to you feel hey heart. >> reporter: the hollywood bombshell known for
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got to give" and "the whole nine yards." >> i'm onef it's painfully obvious but i'm still ashamed to admit this.ctss of hbo's "togetherness" firing off in an article for lena dunham's newsletter "letter" she's ashamed her graying hearsaying i've bleached my teeth, dyed my hair, peeled my face but she's now pushing back on hollywood's insistence on youth at all costs. in the name of her daughters. >> she's in this stage of her life. it sort of provided a good convergence point for her to reflect on these things. >> reporter: the something's got to give star revealing she's constantly pushed out by younger talent like alicia vikander writin e
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there's no room for you. >> do you see thishe operating table. crediting the decision to her two daughters nine show disturbing levels of anxiety about their looks. >> she's trying to raise them to be smart and independent women who are less concerned with outer appearance. >> reporter: instead, peet says she's going to steer into the skit and age gracefully. in the article peet also compares herself to her sister who is a doctor. her sister has been able to embrace her gray hair almost wearing it as an asset, a badge of her experience so very different culture in hollywood. >> such an important message to send to the daughters. really crucial. >> absolutely. >> i'm happy she's doing it with two young girls myself. >> she looks great. >> she does. >> fabulous at 44. >> let's go over to amy. >>
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"maybe baby?" new hope fcdc in eight couples are facing $15,000 and some insurance companies do not cover it and many are getting creative. after four years of disappointment, this couple's best chance of growing their family was in vitro fertilization. >> looking at $17,000 total all out of pocket. >> reporter: required to pay the full amount up front ben a full time student and kate an executive assistant were going to be stretched thin. so they turned to aro option for many looking for help paying for medical costs. crowun
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>> we're hoping to do ivf. >> reporter: they posted awould to have kids. >> reporter:youcaring.comuncara medical needs has seen the number of fertility related campaigns grow steadily. gofundme.com says at least 1,700 ivf campaigns have raised over $3 million so far. but no matter how you're planning to pay experts say advancements in science have helped the bottom line. >> far less spending is done today in certain cases than was done years ago because we can achieve pregnancy with fewer cycles. >> reporter: in just three months kate and ben raised $4,100 from 33 people. mostly friends and family. at 38 kate says it allowed them
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action quickly and keep them from maxing fund-raising campai provided something else. >> it motivated us to keep goin. >> congratulations to ben and kate and rebecca and abc news chief women's health correspondent dr. jen ashton are here with more. we know it's expensive. most insurance companies do not cover all of the costs so how do the costs break down? why does it cost $15,000. >> let's itemize the bill. relative costs so they can vary a little. but first the in vitro fertilization drugs cost about $5,000 then you go through stimulation where we're injecting more drugs and monitoring with ultrasounds, that's about 2,500. the retrieval procedure done in an operating room with anesthesia about 2,000. the lab
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the embryo transfer another an cycles. >> i foe we see the numbersbrena medical procedures why are they >> listen,ftenis a subspecialty of og/gyn. not that many infertility doctors and when you go into the lab there are not that many embryolojists. that adds up. for comparison if you have a hip surgery and paid out of pocket you could pay 35 to 55,000 for that. >> rebecca, areternatives for c? >> i think this is what is so important for couples to know about. there are resources beyond just crowdfunding. those infertility treatments, you should talk to your doctor, doctors like dr. jennifer asht,
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if you're in the military, if you're a teacher or >> i did not e of the programs. a phenomenal program. 000 bringing you to eresting.0, about $35,000 per cycle. if you need to have a uterine surrogate which is legal in this country add another 65,000. that could bring you up to $100,000 per cycle per pregnancy, per baby, that adds up. >> for those of us who have kids you know the costs don't end at pregnancy. >> exactly. they only go up from there. unfortunately, and right now
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18 costs about $2 tohousto all severe weather blowing through at this hour you can see that tree intoom mang wind possibili through about noon today so keep your eye out. if you can delay some of the driving especially if it's happening right there, give it an hour. the storms pass. so much better afterward. still have that severe threat for western kentucky, southern iowa all the way back into parts of louisiana along the gulf. tonight, spotty
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the 50s. tomorrow, rain cool into next week. >> s along with those storms too. just to note. all right, lara, let's get some >> we'll begin with the gala and melissa mccarthy had trademark humor. >> everyone in this room obviously is known for their physical prowess and their superior athletic ability, i mean, people enjoy you for your
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me -- could you hold that for wrong -- let me -- give me one sec. >> it was a greatnt everybody was like, after a couple of more jokes melissa did get serious saying it doesn't matter how small or how big your cause is, even singing amazing songs like ariana grande makes the world a happier place, how impressive it is that no one in that room picked the easy way, they were told you can't do it. they all just forged ahead and proof positive, melissa mccarthy, great speech, congratulations on the award. now, to your dairy feel good story. chobani's ceo, the chobani ceo surprised 2,000 full time employees with an ownership stake in the company. the yogurt mogul or i'd like to call him the yogul gifted
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tenure, chobani is estimated to be worth m of stock. >> wow. >> good for him. >> the ceo says he aprils to share success with his entire family. >> right now this is a private company so he's giving his shares back. >> so incredible. >> his own money away. he knows that that is going to create a wonderful workplace filled with trust, hard work, they're all in it together. >> america has this obsession with greek yogurt. i feel it's because of chobani. i love that yogurt. >> makes me want to buy chobani to know there's someone doing the right thing. >> congrats on that. it's a happy "pop news" day. you can call -- we found the sweetest gig in the world. lisa schroeder, you are my idol. so who can lisa? she's mars
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taster. the candy company, snicker, ta textures, flavors and as if endless candy not enoh official. >> she also has a great dental plan. >> i better check. where do i want to go? oh italy's twix bars -- >> look a little subpar. >> congratulation, lisa, i'm not jealous, i swear. finally would like to introduce you to a baby ostrich who is not as athletic as his fellow feathered footracers. all seems right, right?
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>> reporter: grab a jacket and umbrella today. temperatures are going to be a lot cooler, we could get a shower at any given point throughout the day today, but they will be spotty and light and could be a drizzle or mist as well. temperatures, mid to low 60s across the region. rain tomorrow, tapering off on friday. saturday looks to be dryer but we're staying cool, fairly cloudy through the weekend. highs in the mid typier 60s. >> reporter: on the mid week drive we have a lot of distractions out there, including a couple crashes on the capital beltway. headed into silver spring, outer loop delays usually there, just before you get to colesville road. you'll see the crash cleanup, blocking a couple lanes with this one.
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in the meantime this is a look at thes utast at thesa bridge, merry field crash, before you get to 66 on the right side of the roadway. back to you. >> anchor: thank you. happening now, one southbound lane of rockville pike is getting by after a water main break early this morning. the problem spot is right at the intersection with cedar lane in bethesda. crews have located the brake, now it's tike to rip up the road. that work is expected to last about 4 hours. happening today, the washington wizards will introduce new head coach scott brooks, signed on to lead the wiz under a five year, $35 million contract. today's news conference is set for 2:00 p.m. you can watch it live on our sister station,
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adies anntmen, york city. and now it's time! for "gma." >> that can get us going. thanks, bruce for that announcement. the superstars are here with us and they've got a big exclusive announcement this morning. >> absolutely. hundreds of millions of people follow the ufc. if they weren't fans before, i think amy and jesse are now among them after hitting the octagon for a killer workout. poor jesse, they're up in our own ufc octagon right now. amy, jesse, take it away. >> that's right,
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popularity is skyrocketing especially among women. acand, un me. think the rough and tumblet so watch it with her. i get super passionate about it. >> reporter: demi lovato and her mom are not alone. the once rogue sport is in the mainstream raking in $600 million in profits in 2015. amassing 40 million viewers on their biggest fight nights. >> the takedown by rousey. >> reporter: to find out about the draw of the ultimate fighting championship, amy and i stepped into the cage with chris. >> so let's take it to the next level. >> reporter: to maximize the warm-up not to mention the pain
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training at high altitudes wher we moved on to the supermanh. >> the thai clinch. >> i was blacking out for the last three seconds. >> and double leg takedown. >> perfect. >> finally amy and i were ready to face off. >> emergency, emergency. >> amy got knee with this knee pick. and proving to be the ufc spar star. >> boo. >> wait, what? it fits perfect. >> i mean, jesse, you really deserved that. i have to be honest. >> forgetting beat up. >> i was a good punching bag for amy. don't let the size fool you. she is a bulldog in the okay that done. >> i like the bulldog part. two of the ufc's toughest women are joining us to share their tips. fitness tips, ufc
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championship miesha tate you have to be. what can we do at home to try to ouok a little like you. t down lunge. six-second lunge, three seconds down and three seconds holding so one, two, three, hold it and then you punch two three and you're back up. okay? >> going down, that's where you feel the burn. >> and you feel it when you're holding it there. try a few in a row. you will ee feel it in the gluts. >> that double workout with "dancing with the stars" as well but when you're in the octagon what kind of things do you like to do. >> since i've been on "dancing with the stars" it's been hard to get to the gym and lift weights. a good tip for anybody at home. all the ladies that want to tone your airports, do this. >> for how long. >> as long as you can, trust me, it hurts real bad.
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>> with no weights. >> sneak one of these in. >> that's how you tone the arms and get a tricep in. that's my workout out to kick s booty. you'll show us moves in the octagon. i'm giving you full permission. >> when i saw that clip, i think i might have my work cut out for me? show me what you got. >> this is a rear choke. you know how to tap, right? >> i know how to tap if i'm passing out. ready? >> oh, my god. >> that was good. all right. >> you know what's amazing. she didn't understand what tap meant. she thought i was patting her on the back instead of saying let go. >> that happened. >> you're up, what should i expect. >> i get to do one of these to you. you know, as much as i will like to put you in that, my go to move is to do the clench. >> a th
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knee in the face, a little elbow.ge with these ladies coming up and the warnings in parts of tars new england all the way right here through long island eastern long island all above that stationary front, ooh, it is chilly this morning, actual temperatures in the 30s for a lot of folks.tonight, spotty rain with lows in the 50s. tomorrow, rain more likely with a high in the lo
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and saturday the most likely day to stay dry before goldbergs" is celebrating its three seasons with a special look back episode his lazy eye and his inability -- blah, blah, blah, blah. blah, blah, blah. >> love a good blooper real. watch it tonight at 8:30, 7:30 central right here on abc. >> thank you. now to kevin spacey and michael shannon, the two star as president nixon and elvis presley in "elvis & nixon" taking us inside their 1970
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meeting. this shot of them is the most requested photo in the national another because they'reestroy . >> i know, americans. they hate us. >> they don't hate us, elvis. they hate what we stand for. >> and so happy to have kevin spacey and michael shannon with us this morning. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> had is the untold story of that famous photo. what happened between elvis and nixon. >> one 69 things that drew me to the script is that even though this is based on a real he vent the meeting between them is completely mysterious. there's no document of it. there's no recording of it so a real event and completely imagined event. >> it had to have been a huge undertaking. i know you're both incredible arcs but to play such larger than life real people. >> yeah, i think both
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and really wanted to approach it in a way that it wasn't l >> what were your impressions. >> that he swore like out hell. >> the thing i was most surprised about was his deeply spiritual nature. you know, i think a lot of types with the impersonations and whatnot it leads you to a very superficial view of elvis but he was actually a very deep thinker and he read a lot of books that i was surprised to find out he was into. >> what was it like when the two of you first saw each other in costume? >> it was -- yeah, it was pretty remarkable. i mean we had to start with the oval office scene. >> did you laugh at all. >> we both didn't want to
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to play them with a certain seriousness but there were a icoup and there was a couple of types where i did something that was very nixonlike and he lost itvi what's more fun, playing an actual president or this made up president or do you ever slip? i would be afraid i slipped into that southern drzal. >> what's interesting, the set we used in our film was the west wing oval office and the set we used in "house of cards" is a completely new oval office we built so actually not the same room and i hope that when people see me in an oval office set in this movie they won't think of frank underwood and i hope when they see me as frank underwood they won't think of nixon.
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♪ this is wocofc on "gma." you can see ufc announcer bruce buffer handing out cupcakes and that's because miesha "cupcake" tate is one of the ufc superstars with us. we're about to find out why one of the toughest women in the ring goes by cupcake along with some other ufc secrets but first let me introduce you to everyone. we've met the ladies. miesha state and paige vanzant. we have dana white, hall of fame fighter chuck liddell and jon jones, daniel cormier and frankie edgar. i'll tart with you, dana, since you are the boss, first of all. you have a big announcement and what is that announcement? >> we do,0 has been interesting to say the least. you know, putting this thing together. there's been some crazy
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downs, jon jones just fou his against osp. he's been out for 15 months. and now he's back. and he wants his ufc light heavyweight title back so the pain event will be daniel cormier versus jon jones. [ cheers and applause ] >> there is not a ufc fan in the world who is more excited than i am. i am a big fan. i watched you fight last month and 15 months off you were given interim light heavyweight title. in order to get the permanent title you have to be beat daniel who you were supposed to fight but who iso how do feel about that? do you think this is the perfect matchup for you now. >> yeah, absolutely. me and my team, we've been working extensively and have a great strategy to beat daniel cormier. i got thrown a last-minute change of opponent. felt like i did great with it given the circumstances and
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plan which is to dominate daniel cormier l, second, how do you think you'll fare in the fight the second time around with jon. >> i'm hire, made a lot of improvement in the last training camp and i don't think in july that it should be a problem. >> you know, we're looking forward to this. this is as nice as you've been to each other as long as i can remember. >> it's early. >> it's early in the morning for you guys and i want to talk to you, paige, and they call you -- i mean, you're on "dancing with the stars" now. >> yeah. >> i'm trying to -- how do you
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dancer all of a sudden? you're doing a great job by the and hoping i can bringfa som aa over to mma that don't am and o paige any advice? >> you know, people ask if i gave her any advice. don't watch what i did. you know, that was the reason i got on "dancing with the stars" was to get -- get a different audience, see -- back then they thought we were neanderthals and we're kind of neanderthals but not completely. >> i'm not messing with you,
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cupcake? that's the last thing i would ile and started beating up people that didn't think i wld . and gave myself the other. >> yeah. i'll do my best. >> that's why we set you there. thank you guys for coming. we're looking forward to ufc 200 july 9th. i'll make sure i'll be there. coming up the best ways to dress for any wedding from black-tie to the beach so stay right there. we'll be right back with more
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activity on the capital beltway in silver spring, lanes have een reopened on trying to get back up to speed. southbound i270, your accident activity is after german town road, looking at heavy delays there. from the spur on the beltway, crash on the outer loop before you get to river road. melanie, back to you. >> anchor: thank you. top stories, firefighters
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