this morning on "world news now," the winter storm on the move right now. alerts are up across nine states in the east as those dangerously windy conditions wreak havoc across multiple regions. the forecast just ahead. >> breaking overnight, the president of south korea kicked out of office. deadly protests following the court's decision. why she was impeached and what's next for the u.s. ally. new this half hour, taking drag to a criminal level. >> the manhunt outside fort lauderdale. is it a manhunt? it's for two armed robbers dressed as women. poorly dressed as women. first a jewelry store and now a sandwich store. is it the same guy? are they the same man? >> got a little hungry. >> yeah, maybe, oh, man. the real woman whos

we're getting our first look at mama june since her dramatic weight loss surgery documented on her reality show "from hot to not." we'll find out how much weight she's lost and how she's doing it later in the skinny. it is friday, march 10th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we do say good morning on this friday, everyone. we're going to start with the bad news. the millions of people who had put away the snow boots and trotted out the shorts and the t-shirts in for a new bone-chilling blast of winter. >> that's right. radar shows the storm moving from the great lakes to the northeast where winter alerts are out in nine states. >> in missouri, the governor has declared a state of emergency after a round of hail, heavy wind and even some tornadoes causing damage across that state. >> some forecasters say the jet stream producing all this heavy wind is one of the strongest in

the best illustration is from mt. washington observatory in new hampshire where wind gusts hit more than 100 miles an hour. listen to this peaking at 119 miles an hour. >> and you can hear the wind in that video there. >> and see how it's just pushing this guy along. but the heavy rain and snow is what millions can expect over the next few days. here's abc's linzie janis. >> reporter: severe storms moving through the heartland as another system wreaks havoc from the great lakes to the northeast. a falling traffic light near buffalo, new york. a security camera capturing a terrifying moment when brittany gardner and her daughter arrive home near cleveland. you can hear the wind. gusts up to 60 miles per hour in the area. when this happens. daughter, madison, holding on for dear life. mom racing to her. madison wasn't hurt. hundreds of thousands in the

area without power. 24 hours after that plane carrying michigan's basketball team skidded off the runway, wind forcing a ground stop at laguardia airport. that ground stop leading to hundreds of flight delays here at laguardia. the wind is expected to cause problems and now there's snow in the forecast for the northeast. linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> unfortunately for many of us, it's set to hit just in time for the morning commute. >> all right. so to find out exactly where and when and how much of course, we turn to accuweather's justin povick. good morning. >> kendis and linzie, thanks and good morning to you. we're looking at snow as we go throughout the morning potentially even into the early afternoon once we get in towards southern mass toward boston. but again, much of this will be during the early morning hours with 3 to 6 inches going to be a possibility along interstate 80. new york city could see one to three inches of snow. and then back behind i

afternoon, we'll have some gusty snow squalls or bursts of snow along with much colder temperatures. linzie, kendis? >> all right, turning our focus overseas now seven people are injured three seriously after what's being called a random ax attack in a german train station. it happened last night in deuce counsel dorf in western germany sparking a massive police response. the suspect was arrested after jumping from an overpass near that station. he's recovering from serious injuries. he's described as a 36-year-old immigrant from the former yugoslavia. police say the suspect appears to have psychological issues. breaking news now from south korea where judgment day ended with the country's president being kicked out of office. a constitutional court has ruled unanimously to uphold park geun-hye's impeachment, the country's first democratically elected leader to be ousted from office after she was implicated in a corruption and influence peddling scandal. immediately following the court's decision, protests on

supporters and critics of park clashing with each other and with police. so far two people have died. riot police are out in force and south korea's military is on alert. >> turning our focus back here at home and secretary of state rex tillerson is recusing himself from the state department's deliberations on the keystone pipeline decision. there were some concerns of conflict of interest because tillerson, of course, is the former ceo of exxonmobil. president obama halted the project you may recall which would bring oil from canada to the united states. but president truv revived. now to the uproar over the latest comments by the new head of the environmental protection agency. epa administrator scott pruitt is directly challenging the widely held belief that carbon dioxide from human activity is a major cause of climate change. >> no, i would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. pruitt's view conflicts with

as well as the epa itself. its own website, its own website says carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change. environmentalists as well as democrats say he's unfit for the office he holds. the founder of wikileaks is slamming the cia days after releasing a trove of files believed to contain the agency's top secret hacking tools. in an online news conference julian assange accused the cia of incompetence and offered to help tech companies like and and google fix software holes in their electronic devices. abc's kenneth moton has more. >> julian assange on the record, the wikileaks answered questions online defending his organization's move to expose alleged cia secrets. >> the central intelligence agency lost control of its entire cyber weapons arsenal. >> reporter: wikileaks released what it says are thousands of documents

agency's tools to hack into computers, phones and smart tvs. >> wikileaks discovered the material as a result of it being passed around a number of different members of the u.s. intelligence community. >> reporter: the cia has not confirmed the authenticity of the documents but commented on assange saying he's not exactly a bastion of truth and integrity. the agency continues to collect foreign intelligence overseas to protect americans. wikileaks praised by candidate donald trump for the release of russian hacked e-mails from the democratic party. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> now the white house calls this situation different. >> there's grave concern that the president has about the release of national security and classified information. >> reporter: buzzfeed also reported one of the president's closest political allies in britain nigel farage spent 40 minutes thursday at the ecuadorian embassy war assange has saw the asylum. two weeks ago they posted this

president in washington. the white house says it was unaware of farage's meeting. apple and google are all scrambling to make sure the cia can't hack into their products. our counter-terrorism analyst pointed out when it comes to listening in, the intelligence community has to abide by a strict legal process. kendis and linzie. >> we're learning new details about the deadly collision between a bus and freight train in biloxi, mississippi. federal officials say the bus wasn't supposed to be on the road where it got stuck on the railroad tracks. the ntsb investigators say the driver may have used a gps for commercial vehicles rather than directions from the tour company. four people died in that collision. a 10-year-old boy may face charges for allegedly pointing a laser at a sheriff's plane in fresno, california. earlier this week, the crew was distracted by a bright green laser light flashing through the cockpit. police say the boy was intentionally pointing a laser into the sky from his backyard. pilots can be temporarily blinded by those.

taken the words row row your boat to the an entirely new level. chris burdish is the first person to cross the atlantic on a paddleboard. he started in morocco, 93 days and more than 4,000 nautical miles, he later finished off the coast of antigua. burdish did not use your average paddle board. it's 20 feet long and look at the cost here, $120,000. >> wow. that is like a paddle board on speed. >> it looks like just a boat really, right? >> probably has a motor under there. >> i feel like there's a kitchen under there. you know. >> exactly. it's got internet. so if you ever needed proof that dogs do all the work at the iditarod, listen to this next story. >> yeah, this is video of linwood fielder on his sled as he made his way through alaska, but at some point, he fell off the sled because, well, he fell

>> yeah. >> i can relate to that. >> yeah, we can. so that didn't stop his dogs. the team arrived at the checkpoint without its musher. fielder showed up an hour later on foot. >> that's a real drag. >> can you imagine? >> he had to walk. right? but the interesting thing is he says from the moment he left the sled until his face hit the snow, he was still asleep. that's a bad way to wake up. >> he said he had been fighting to stay weak. obviously if there was that much room still left before the checkpoint, you know the dogs basically know, we've been here, done this, going to acted like we've been here before and they're doing all the work. >> clearly. coming up, the manhunt under way for two parns in crime. the armed robbers are not just caught on camera breaking the law but breaking nearly every rule in the fashion book as they try to inpersonnate women and do a bad job of it. >> ru paul would not be happy with that >> the torturous way "game of thrones" fans had to find out the exact date

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fell on his face on to a desk. apparently at same men robbed a check cashing store the day before. we don't know whether they were wearing the same outfits or not then. >> let's just point out, those are horrible drag costumes. >> hey, it's been effective because these guys are still at large so -- did the trick. >> all right. >> we're going to stay in florida and turn now to what was a dramatic standoff. >> the standoff inside a jacksonville credit union happened months ago. we're now seeing surveillance video as the suspect takes 13 people hostage. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: the surveillance video of this hostage situation, released to us by florida prosecutors is the heart of their case against 24-year-old nicolas humphrey. >> this is going to be an active shooter inside the bank. >> reporter: more than a dozen cameras were rolling when police say he terrorized customers and bank tellers at this jacksonville credit union in december. it's not clear that he ever asked for money, but the accused gunman is seen as plain as day putting his pistol to the head

bank employees to their knees, and pushing another to the front of the building. >> he threatened to kill hostages multiple times. >> reporter: this went on for nearly two hours until two people hiding in an office made a run for their lives. the distraction gave the s.w.a.t. team the break they needed to storm the credit union. humphrey's family says he has mental health issues. he is still in police custody, charged with armed robbery, kidnapping and auto theft. humphrey is pleading not guilty and will appear in court at the end of this month. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >> that court appearance due march 23rd. when we come back, a first look at mama june's transformation. >> "the skinny" is next. . >> "the skinny" is next. cold m' wearing off. that stuff only lasts a few hours. or, take mucinex. one pill fights congestion for 12 hours. guess i won't be seeing you for a while. why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex lasts 12 hours? let's end this.

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friday "skinny." we're going to start with what really was big news that "game of thrones" fans got. eventually. >> hbo finally revealed when winter is coming only after a torturous facebook live segment in which they hid the clue inside a block of ice in which millions of fans were forced to sit and literally watch fire melt ice. >> they had to wait through multiple technical glitches. it didn't work out, as well. there were freezes. the streams died several times before they found out season 7 premieres on july 16th immediately after hbo released its first official season 7 trailer. >> there's only one wall that matters. the great wall. and it is here.es. the great wall. and it is herds. the great wall. and it is her. the great wall. and it is here.. the great wall. and it is her. the great wall. and it is here. the great wall. and it is herd. the great wall. and it is here. re melting ice publicity ul e

is it me or did millions of people just spend ten minutes watching a block of ice not melt to reveal the "game of thrones" season 7 premiere date. >> another said it was worse than ramsey's death scene. >> that's pretty bad. >> ouch. >> next to a sneak peek of the amazing transformation of mama june. >> "here comes honey boo boo" star has undergone gastric surgery and skin removal surgeries and implemented a strict diet as well as exercise regimen. wow, she looks amazing. she's in a new series called "mama june from not to hot" documenting her dramatic slimdown from 460 pounds to what's being reported as a size 4. >> and we tv has released a promo of tonight's episode. >> hey, what are you doing? >> cleaning my money and counting it. >> fitching to go do my workout. be gone for a couple hours. >> do you have a minute? >> yeah, i do. >> i kind of have to tel

something. >> what did you do at something? >> why does it have to be something i did at school. you know i love you. >> that full episode of mama june "from not to hot" airs tonight on we tv. >> keeping with the theme, dramatic transformations, oprah winfrey is turning into the incredible shrinking woman, as well. >> she certainly is. the media mogul looks stunning on the cover of her magazine this month showing off her slim figure. >> oprah is 63 years old and looking decades younger. did her own sound of music twirl in a field of wildflowers for a shoot in telluride, colorado. >> she was decked out in a tight fitting top, fitted green army jacket and an a line flor maxi skirt. >> oprah says she's down 45 pounds since joining weight watchers but she says it's all because she made the switch from dieting to a lifestyle change. so she still eats bread. >> still eats bread. >> and finally, a quick congrats to mark zuckerberg. >> the facebook ceo announcing on facebook of course, he and

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>> look, what matters is that we're lowering the cost of health care and giving people access to affordable insurance plans. >> i have insurance now but probably going to lose it unless this is fixed. >> what's your message to lawmaker who are pushing this bill forward? >> leave it alone. >> this is part of our efforts to eliminate vulnerabilities that radical terrorists will exploit for destructive ends. >> guess what, president trump, your muslim ban 2.0 is still unconstitutional and still illegal. >> there were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships worked even longer even harder for less. >> this is just the latest time that wikileaks has humbled the u.s. government. they accomplished hundreds of thousands of classified files from the state department and the pentagon. but this is in some ways wikileaks most daring release yet. >> a day without a woman is a day without peace. >> i'm a mom. like many of us here are, right? and we've got a lot to do. >> niece are uncertain, even

trying times, but as we all stop to look fear in the face, the result has not only been passion but action. >> as a marine corps veteran, i'm disheartened and disgusted with this scandal. >> i felt like my privacy had been taken away from me. >> i'm ryan gosling. i dedicate this award to yoko. thank you very much. >> so that's not ryan gosling. >> no, it's really not. an imposter. the only thing missing in the rewind was samuel jackson's response to ben carson talking about slaves being immigrants. >> it was not necessarily pg his response. >> you have to look it up. >> yes. don't miss our updates on facebook. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now." informing insomniacs for two decades. "world news now." informing insomniacs for two decades.

making news in america this morning, breaking overnight one of america's staunchest allies in asia in crisis. overnight its president removed from office. deadly protests in the streets. here at home, snow is on the move. just as tens of millions of people are on their way to work. that snow coupled with viciously powerful winds, the forecast coming up. new this morning, high drama on hollywood boulevard. in a scene reminiscent of a movie a suspect leads police on a chase that ends in the heart of tinseltown. caught on camera, the robbers who got all dolled up before hitting a jewelry store. at one point even flying into a desk.