making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, americans on vacation killed in a fiery plane crash in australia. the new video showing the plane as it was going down slamming into a shopping center. >> the flooding emergency on the west coast. evacuations ordered overnight after a levee breached and more rain on the way. president trump naming his replacement for national security adviser, high praise for his choice on both sides of the aisle as new details emerge about a revised immigration plan and fiery debate in the united kingdom. will president trump get an official state visit or be shut out? and flag flap old glory proudly displayed behind vice president presence but can you spot

good morning to you. i'm adrienne bankert. >> and i'm gio benitez. diane and kendis are off this morning. we begin now with the breaking news we've been following all morning long. four americans killed in a plane crash in australia. their chartered plane crashed into an outlet shopping center near melbourne and exploded upon impact killing all aboard. flaming wreckage scattered across the property. you see it there. the mall had not yet opened for the day and no one on the ground was injured. >> that's the good news. the terrible news two of the four passengers have been identify the by their families as greg dehaven and russell munch on their way to play at a new golf course. what one relative describes as the trip of a lifetime. >> their wives believed to be traveling with them in australia but were not on the plane. this shows the plane clearly in trouble as it came over a busy highway in full view

people on their way to work. >> explosions gone off one after another and cars going off as well so a lot of smoke, a lot of flames. >> the plane hit the roof and rear wall of several of the stores and destroyed cars in the parking lot. the australian pilot is described as very experienced with an impeccable safety record. the local governor says it's the worst aviation disaster in 30 years. the very latest coming up on "good morning america." terrible. this morning's other big story, rising creeks and rivers in california from rain that just doesn't seem to end. >> yeah, you know, many parts of california have seen record rain including san francisco. receiving about a year's worth in just the past few months. you can see that new storm system moving in from the pacific over northern california, southern oregon and even parts of idaho. >> yeah, adrienne, the latest evacuations due to those rising rivers are east of san francisco where the san joaquin river

there is expected to go above flood stage. let's get to the forecast from accuweather's cam tran. good morning, cam. >> good morning, gio and adrienne. the rain won't let up in the west. another additional 1 to 2 inches of rainfall expected across the foothills today and then we have to talk about all that snow above 6,000 feet talking about 1 to 2 feet of snowfall so the passes will be very slow going. we're also talking about gusty winds along the coastline as well over 60 miles per hour. further off to the east that same storm system that brought wlus terry conditions will bring thunderstorms across the gulf coast states today. gio and adrienne, back to you. >> thank you very much, cam. there is a lot of reaction overnight to the president's latest announcement. >> yeah, president trump is back from his weekend in florida ready to roll out a new version of his immigration ban. >> the president is also announced a national security

mcmaster. john mccain extremely critical of the president calls the pick an outstanding choice. abc's kenneth moton is tracking the latest live from washington, d.c. good morning, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, adrienne and gio. president trump's new national security adviser has the military credentials and already getting that bipartisan praise on capitol hill. this morning, the president's pick. >> he a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience. >> reporter: army strategist h.r. mcmaster will get to work as the next security adviser. the active duty lieutenant gin is known as one of the army's leading thinkers. >> what a privilege to be able to continue serving our nation. >> reporter: it comes after the firing of michael flynn. the administration now forging ahead with new executive orders on immigration expected this week. a senior white house official says in the new draft people from seven predemocrat nantzly muslim

first order would still be banned. this time syrian refugees won't be automatically rejected. green card holders and dual citizens of u.s. and those seven exem exempt. the policies sparked holiday protests. not my president's day demonstrations in several cities. >> i don't listen to anything he says. i just -- we are a disgrace around the world. >> reporter: lawmakers debated after nearly 2 million britons downgraded president trump's upcoming state visit. >> we should not be inviting him to come here and preach hatred and his bigotry. >> reporter: the sddemonstratio against him were mostly peaceful here. gio and adrienne. >> kenneth moton, thank you. all right, we turn to the troubling increase in threats against jewish community centers

nationwide. yesterday alone nearly a dozen were targeted across the country. since the start of the year, nearly 60 jewish centers have received menacing phone calls. the fbi investigating the cases as potential hate crimes. a new white house statement says ins diptss have no place in this country and overnight ivanka trump who converted to judaism said on twitter america is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance. we must protect our houses of worship and religious centers. meantime, this was the scene at a jewish cemetery west of st. louis. dozens of headstones vandalized and police are reviewing security footage to see who is responsible. to north korea, the investigation into the death of the half brother of north korea's leader is still wide open. kim jong-nam died last week after apparently being poisoned at an airport in kuala lumpur. but overnight malaysian officials says his cause of death has not been determined and no evidence he suffered a heart attack and t

crews are battling a fast-moving brush fire near boulder, colorado. they destroyed four buildings and one horse trailer and forced the evacuation of 75 homes. no homes have been destroyed. the blaze started at a horse ranch. so far no injuries have been reported. the cause still unknown. south central texas is still recovering from those four tornadoes just this week. two of them smashing through san antonio where the damage estimate is about $100 million. amazingly no deaths but hundreds of building hit. many completely destroyed. vehicles smashed and the winds knocked 11 railroad freight cars off the tracks. >> just incredible pictures there. still ahead this morning right here, the pope's warning to young people about texting at the dinner table. >> not just rude but could be dangerous. a community comes together overnight remembering a police officer killed in the line of duty. new details about that officer and the suspect in

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hundreds gathered last night in whittier, california, a suburb of l.a. to honor a police officer killed in the line of duty. that officer was a 27-year veteran of the force. authorities say keith boyer died after a shoot-out with a gang member. that shoot-out happened after police officers responded to a car crash. when they tried to search the suspect, investigators say he opened fire and they believe the same man had already killed a relative and sto

wound up crashing. the alleged gunman was wounded along with another officer. the officer who was killed had been thinking about retiring. >> so sad. uber now has a former attorney general looking into sexual harassment claims against the company. eric holder has been hired to review the accusations against the ride sharing service. a former uber engineer wrote about alleged sexual harassment by her manager in a blog post. the woman says the manager had a history of harassing uber's female employeesen the repoe man has come for a billionaire's yacht. are you crying yet? the boat is brand-new. it just left the shipyard but now it's been impounded in gibraltar. the owner owns millions in fees on the vessel. he should be able to cover it, though, he's worth more than 13 billion. a spokesperson calls the seizure a technical problem that should be solved soon. well,

problem these are traffic problems. specifically a new study of cities with the worst traffic worldwide. so let's take a look. number three, new york city. you guessed it where drivers spend 89 hours on average in traffic during peak periods last year. moscow, russia, home of the kremlin and nearly 12 million people has the second worst traffic and that leaves los angeles as number one. the study says motorists wasted 104 hours sitting in gridlock last year costing every driver more than 400 bucks in wasted fuel and lost productivity. i bet. >> that's for sure. i've sat in those traffic lanes. well, pope francis is speaking out about the dangers of texting. the pope urges young people to keep their cell phones away from the dinner table. the tech friendly pontiff warning texting during family meals endangers communication. this is not the first time he sounded the alarm about technology threatening personal relationships. i think it's interesting he directed this to young people but i see plent

well into their silver years we'll just say with the cell phone at the dinner table. just saying. >> when we come back here, the security breach at one of america's busiest airports, the search to find 11 passengers who slipped right through security. take a close look at this american flag. right behind vice president pence at an official event the big problem with old glory. [phone ring] hello. hi, it's anne from edward jones. i'm glad i caught you. well i'm just leaving the office so for once i've got plenty of time. what's going on? so those financial regulations being talked about? they could affect your accounts, so let's get together and talk, and make sure everything's clear. thanks. yeah. that would be great. we've grown to over $900 billion in assets under care... by being proactive, not reactive. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing.

hashtag stuffy nose. hashtag no sleep. hashtag mouthbreather. just put on a breathe right strip. it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than cold medicine alone. shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. breathe right. for the first time in 20 years this spillway in northern california is now open releasing a torrent of water into the tuolumne river. the extra water is likely to flood parts of modesto, south of sacramento this afternoon. residents urged to evacuate. this morning drivers are likely to find flooded roads in most of california and wet roads further north. expect snow in the mountains

coast up to the canadian border. if you're flying airport delays are most likely in san francisco and new orleans. as we get closer to spring a good reminder do not walk out onto thin ice. what a group of teens did last night on a pond in new york's central park. >> the ice was weak because of recent warm temperatures and despite signs saying to stay off the ice, the seven kids went out to take a selfie. the ice broke but luckily two tourists who saw it happen came to the rescue. >> i grabbed a backpack. i didn't even know if he was still attached. i could feel there was a body on it. we pulled the body up on shore and he was -- he was -- if i didn't grab him a second later he was gone. he was barely breathing. >> good job. they helped get all seven victims out of the water which was said to be about 18 feet deep. six of the victims were taken to hospitals and treated for mild high poi they remember ya. they will all be just fine. three years after a movie

new hearing did under way for the retired police officer involved. curtis reeves is using the controversial stand your ground law to avoid a murder trial. that florida law allows people to use deadly force when they fear death or great bodily harm. reeves is accused of fatally shooting chad oulson. they argued about olsen's texting in the movie theater then olson threw a cell phone at reeves. the hearing could last two weeks. the tsa is trying to explain how a checkpoint went unstaffed. 11 passengers walked through an unsupervised metal detector at new york's kennedy airport yesterday. three set off the detector's alarm. the tsa did not report the breach to police for two hours. the agency says employees involved will be disciplined and retrained. a new study finds teen suicide attempts fell as same-sex marriage became legal and researchers found a 7% decline in 32 states

legalized same-sex marriage. that figure was 14% among gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students and it focused on data before the supreme court's historic ruling legalizing same-sex marriages. heartbreaking news from former teen idol david cassidy battling dementia. the 66-year-old singer/actor done i remember 23ed it to "people" magazine. he became a star says his family has a history of the disease, cassidy plans to stop touring to focus on his health. he has had several brushes with the law in recent years. we wish him the best. >> with bankruptcy. he seen said he saw this coming. really sad. let's lighten it up with sports. >> some of last night's highlights from our guys at espn. good morning, america. he's stan, i'm neil. we're in a hurry. >> check out college basketball. texas and west virginia. jared allen

texas, man, look at him go get it and throw it down. then there was this. ouch. well, lamont west would help west virginia pull away. he threw that down one more time. west, 6 of 8 on three-pointers in this game. wound up with 20 in the first and finished with 23, a career high and west virginia wins, 77-62. panthers/blues, jagr has great hair. shattenkirk misplays it. that ends up in a goal with the panthers up 1-0 trying to go 5-0 on a road trip for the first time. kyle brodziak shoots and rebods

trocheck, five seconds left before they were going to o.t., killed the buzz in st. louis. panthers. 2-1. got to go. also, women's college basketball, wait, before we go, ohio state with a win over number two maryland s we have a tie on top of the big ten. >> got to go. >> back to you. >> you got to go, you got to go. >> got to go. up next in "the pulse," creepy, crawley cuisine. wait till you hear what angelina jolie and her kids are cooking up. >> no, oh, my goodness this video and just like "star wars," the world's first hover bike takes flight. date with your eye doctor. your eyes will love you for it. show your eyes some eyelove. eyelove is all the things... ...we love to do with our eyes. but it's also having a chat with your eye doctor... about dry eyes... ...that interrupt the things you love... ...because it could be chronic dry eye.

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vice president pence is with a european union official. check out the flag behind the vice president. it has 51 stars. >> of course, we all know the usual flag has 50 star, one for every state. even the star alignment was wrong. a real american flag has five rows of six stars and four rows of five stars. >> whoever was responsible for this typo, i have a feeling they're in trouble. up next, angelina jolie, the last time we saw her in cambodia she was talking about the very difficult split from brad pitt. >> but this time it's as if she were on an episode of survivor. she is eating and cooking all sorts of delicious things. look at that. taking on her kids and a reporter, jolie says a spider's flavor is really good. and that it's hard to chew on a scorpion. >> i always thought it was difficult. one of her kids said some tasted like unflavored chips. jolie, that's appetizing. jolie will be on "good morning america" ler

about bug dishes. >> almost like our chips this morning. >> kind of. >> nope. okay, so what do you expect when you combine a motorcycle with a really big drone. >> first hoverbike. this is scorpion 3. it has four blades like a drone that lifted off the ground. software limited speed and range so he doesn't go out of control. the manufacturer says the goal is for it to be used as an extremeup with good morning washington. it's february 21, 2017.. and eileen whelan will break down today's weather in just a moment. but first we want to update you on some stories we are following right now. president donald trump has named a new national security adviser. lieutenant general h-r mcmaster is the former director of the army capabilities integration center. he takes over for former adviser michael flynn who resigned earlier this month, amid controversy over his dealings with the russia

the conservative political action conference has rescinded its invitation to alt-right speaker milo yiannopoulos. the move came hours after video spread online, showing the brietbart news editor discussing sex between young boys and older men. yiannopoulos, who has been widely criticized for many of his comments, responded on facebook telling so-called idiots, that he does not support pedophilia. good morning washington. toss to eileen - cooler for back to work & school today - spring-like warmth returns wed. thru sat. - rain/storms saturday with cold front - cooler (seasonable) sunday today: partly sunny to mostly cloudy. cooler. highs: 56-61 winds: sse 5 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. cool, but mild for february. lows: 43-46 winds: s 5 mph we

pm sun. warmer. highs: 64-70 winds: s 5 mph we are learning more about that huge fire that

in mclean over the weekend. the massive fire is now raising concerns about the lack of hydrants in the area. the closest hydrant was a fifth of a mile away - and crews had to set up a relay system to get water to the home. neighbors say the lack of nearby hydrants is unsettling.

fire. but having fire hydrants removes a lot of the concern and the fear that people have about being caught in the middle of the night 227 and all of a sudden something terrible happened a fairfax fire spokesperson tells us arriving firefighters know where the hydrants are and also have maps - but it still took 12 hours to put the fire out. happening today. a space-x rocket is due to arrive at the international space station. the rocket blasted off from cape canaveral over the weekend, to kick off it's mission to deliver supplies to astronauts at the station. once they unload the supplies, the rocket will be packed with trash and other items and returned back to earth next month. if you were waiting for the jackpot to grow, before you bought a powerball ticket-- your wait is over. the jackpot for the multi-state lottery is now up to 403 million dollars. and that number will likely increase ahead of wednesday's big drawing. if you don't have a calculator handy-- the lump sum payment, after taxes, is about 244 milli

it's xx and we're just getting started. coming up. a big decision from president trump. a new national a big decision from president trump. a new national security adviser is on the job, as the president prepares another executive order, targeting immigration. the details.. coming up. plus, a major breach at one of the nation's busiest airports. an open security line, left totally unattended. how long tsa says it took before anyone noticed.. the details.. ahead. good morning washington. - cooler for back to work & school today - spring-like warmth returns wed. thru sat. - rain/storms saturday with cold front - cooler (seasonable) sunday today: partly sunny to mostly cloudy. cooler.

winds: sse 5 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. cool, but mild for february. lows: 43-46 winds: s 5 mph wednesday: am clouds. pm sun. warmer. highs: 64-70 winds: s 5 mph