making news in america this morning, president trump weighs in overnight after a former top official testifies the administration ignored her warnings. we're live in washington with the details. breaking overnight, airport chaos. anger boiling over when several flights get canceled. police rushing to the scene. hundreds of travelers left stranded. many battling each other. the airline now offering its explanation. jimmy kimmel is back to work after taking some time off following his son's health scare. he wasted no time getting right back into the battle over health care. >> hopefully some kind of common sense will prevail. one senator -- >> plus, an update on how little billy is doing. mountain bikers and things get crazy and a ltl

for comfort with that bear. one of those cute little bears. that was a big bear. >> they are no longer fans of the chicago cubs. >> we'll get more on that in a little bit. we start this tuesday morning with new details on what led michael flynn losing his job. >> sally yates testified that she urgently warned the white house that flynn could be blackmailed by the russians. >> but the president reacted quickly on twitter saying, the russ/trump collusion story is a total hoax. when will this taxpayer funded charade end? janai norman has more details from washington. good morning. >> reporter: kendis and diane, morning. the warning that michael flynn had been compromised. ultimately yates was fired first. new details about the national security concerns that rocked the early days

presidency. former acting attorney general sally yates testifying she met twice with white house counsel to warn that then national security adviser michael flynn might have been lying to the white house and had discussed president obama's sanctions against the kremlin for election meddling with the russian ambassador despite telling the vice president he hadn't. >> the vice president was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because we believe that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. >> we believe that the russians knew this and that created a compromised situation. a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. >> reporter: but flynn remained on the job for 18 days after the warning even participating in a phone call between president trump and vladimir putin. in that time it was yates who was fired for not defending trump's controversial muslim travel ban. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete

shutdownmuslims entering the united states. >> reporter: monday a panel of appeals court judges hearing a challenge to the travel ban deciding whether trump's past anti-muslim statements could be used against him. >> he's never repudiated what he said about the muslim ban. it's still on his website. >> reporter: as of monday a controversial post was still on president trump's website calling for a complete shutdown of muslim immigration to the u.s. but within minutes of abc news asking the white house press secretary about that, the post was removed. kendis and diane. >> yeah, our cecilia vega asking that question and getting actions moments later. thank you, janai. thousands of additional troops may soon head to afghanistan. senior military and intelligence officials reportedly recommending the expansion to pressure the taliban into working out a deal with the afghan government. the extra troops would offer advice and training to afghan forces and it's said to be supported by top cabinet officials. still has to be approved by president trump. and today

voting for their new president. the vote comes weeks after a corruption scandal ended the current president's term and closer to north korea conducting another test. election results set to be confirmed tomorrow. and emmanuel macron, the newly elected president of france is set to take office sunday, a week after his landslide victory over candidate marine le pen. he will likely meet president trump for the first time at a nato summit in belgium later this month. a scare in a busy train station in paris. dozens started evacuating passengers. it focused on a train from northern france. no arrests and police aren't saying what was behind that evacuation. france has been under a state of emergency after a series of terror attacks there. >> yeah, and those kind of incidents the reason that the tsa back at home is launching a new program aimed at deterring terror attacks. the goal is to protect so-called soft taet

outside security zones at the nation's airports and other transit hubs. the new programs to integrate all levels of law enforcement to help plug the security gaps. breaking overnight police say they've arrested the man behind a string of random shootings that terrorized areas of phoenix. 23-year-old aaron cecita faces 26 felony counts in connection with the shooting that killed nine people. police say he randomly stalked his victims. except his first victim, his mother's boyfriend and police say there may have been more victims. he was already in jail on that other murder related charge. all right, time for a look at the nation's weather. that powerful storm system that dumped heavy rain and rail in southern california did this to coors field in denver. that hail was so thick, the rockies were forced to postpone last night's game with

afternoon. east of denver, this funnel cloud was caught on camera swirling and taking form before eventually dissipating luckily and noaa says this april was the second wettest april on record for the whole country nearly an inch above the average. >> jimmy kimmel was back on his show for the first time since revealing his new son billy's heart condition. >> and jumped right back into the health care debate while talking to senator bill cassidy. the louisiana republican had suggested the senate's health care bill shut include a jimmy kimmel test of covering pre-existing conditions, but in a fiscally conservative way. kimmel also made light of the issue. >> so now the health care bill moves from the house to the senate, where hopefully some kind of common sense will prevail. and i would like to apologize foray

should have health care. it was insensitive and i hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. new video of billy. he says that he is getting bigger, he is sleeping well, he even joked that billy can read. >> still ahead, chaos overnight at a maim u.s. airport. the new video just coming in. plus, new details in the death of a penn state fraternity pledge. what the 911 tapes are revealing as one member speaks out. let's hope your packages don't get delivered like this. someone is getting ready for a big more training.

pulled the driver of this bmw out through the sunroof. half of it was danging off the third floor of a parking garage. she shifted into drive when she was parking. she wasn't injured but could face charges because there are reports she doesn't have a valid license. eight defendants are set to be arraigned in the death of a penn state sophomore. court documents show timothy piazza fell several times during a february frat party. he eventually landed face first in a stairwell before the fraternity finally called 911. one frat brother who's not facing charges says he wanted to call for help but was told the 19-year-old was fine. >> i said we should call 911. get him in an ambulance and i'm screaming, i got thrown against the wall and i didn't know what to do after that. i felt kind of useless and i felt like i had no say in the situation after that. i was told that i was

>> another fraternity member eventually did call 911. that call came 12 hours after piazza's fall down the stairs. the dispatcher was told piazza was unconscious but not that he had fallen. >> we're learning new details about a viral video showing a teenage boy violently body-slamming a woman. it happened at a pool party in north lauderdale, florida. when she asked partygoers to lower the noise, nancy james was grabbed, slammed to the ground and then dragged and tossed into that pool. she ended up in the emergency room with bruises. the teen, a 16-year-old, has been charged with battery. we're getting a look at another piece of video out of florida. this courier employed by amazon was caught on camera, see when she does as she arrives with the packages at the customer's fence. packages go right over. amazon responded in a statement saying the woman has been identified for, quote, future training purposes. the boxes, by the way, contained

her defense so it wasly there. >> it's bicycle helmets so maybe she was testing them to make sure they were durable. when we come back we'll hear from the girl attacked by an alligator and fought it off. first the chaotic scenes from an airport overnight. you can see the anger boiling over when passengers got some bad news. ouch! ♪ skin-flex™, anna! sit! new band-aid® brand skin-flex™ bandages. our best bandage yet! it moves like a second skin. ♪ dries almost instantly. better? yeah. go! good thing because stopping never crosses your mind. band-aid® brand. stick with it™

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breaking overnight from florida, wait till you see how angry people got at an airport. the whole thing caught on camera. >> all this happened just hours ago after at least nine spirit airlines flights were canceled at ft. lauderdale's busy airport. that left hundreds stranded. security officers you see there were called in and a number of passengers were detained as a result. now, spirit airlines says the problem was caused by a/down by its pilots. the union and the airline are trying to work out a new contract but what a mess there overnight in ft. lauderdale. we're hearing new details in the murder of two doctors in boston. inside their penthouse apartment. but while police have a suspect in custody there's still no word on a possible motive. the man suspected of killing two engaged doctors in their $2 million apartment appearing before boston judge. >> a plea of not guilty has entered on your behalf in both counts. >> reporter: 30-year-old

bampumim teixeira now facing two counts of murder in the gruesome deaths of dr. richard field and his fiancee dr. lina bolanos. now new details about what happened the night of the murders. >> we just ran in as shots were fired. >> reporter: investigators discovering a book bag filled with jewelry near the couple's front door. while police initially thought the suspect might have known his alleged victims, the d.a. thinks otherwise. >> there is no evidence whatsoever at this stage to conclude that this defendant had a personal relationship with dr. bolanos or dr. field. >> eva pilgrim will have the latest from boston on "good morning america." newly released documents indicate however that teixeira worked for a security company that provided services to the building right next door to the doctors and as i mentioned more on "gma." now to a dramatic rescue an/philadelphia street. a 9-year-old girl was hit by an suv and pinned underneath one of the wheels but she wasn't there for long.

and lifted the suv with their bare hands to free that child likely saving her life. she was taken to the hospital in critical condition. we're going to turn to wild video from overseas. take a look. dusan vinzik was among a group of riders when this bear takes charge after his friend. vinzik screamed and the bear peeled off down the hill. not clear why he gave up that chase. but i'm sure they're thankful. >> just a scream, huh? >> yeah. new video of a shocking circus attack. everyone here, we should point out issing, a lion locks its jaws around a trainer's throat and dragged him around. this happened in france. families in the audience running away in fear but that longtime trainer was able to get up and walk away recovering from some serious injuries. >> tough video to watch. we are hearing from a very brave 10-year-old who

the jaws of an alligator. juliana ossa says she was in about a foot of water in a florida lake when that alligator attacked her. the nearly nine-foot gator wrapped its entire mouth around her leg and told "inside edition" what she did next. >> what they taught me at gatorland, so i put my two fingers up its nostrils. it couldn't breathe so had to breathe through its mouth and opened its mouth and let my leg out. >> other than stitches she's expected to be okay. and she had just learned that nostril trick at a gator park she went to not too long ago. >> we'll have to keep track of that. scream for a bear and the nostril trick for an alligator. time now for sports. the golden state warriors are still undefeated in the nba playoffs. and we get the highlights from espn. >> good morning, america. he's stan, i'm neil. we're taping this during a commercial break of "sportscenter." >> little known fact there. we got the warriors taking on the jazz, game

series, warriors won the previous three so they had the brooms with them and steph curry and company are moving on. curry had 30 points to lead all scorers, got that to go somehow over rudy go obert. draymond green helped out. 22-0 when green gets a triple-double. curry and company will wait on the winner of the many rock rockets/spurs series tied at 2 apiece and san antonio will get a week of rest. 121-95 to get the sweep. angels playing without mike trout, oakland playing with the low. went yard. third game in a row they've won on a walkoff. take another look. let it breathe.

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offering cold hard cash, nearly $2200 to move there. he says the rent is cheap and here's the selling point, there's high speed wi-fi. >> in case that's not enough it is 50 miles to the nearest city, less than 400 people live there right now and one of them admits there's not a whole lot to do but village life is definitely free of stress. >> trying to build up the population. i will get there. in the meantime, a man in israel is proving it's all in the advertising and he now has more takers than he can handle. >> instead of placing a regular ad to sell his old suv he used his skills as a visual effects artist to create this masterpiece. everything his '96 suzuki can and cannot do from driving underwater to cruising with dinosaurs. >> the two-minute video has been viewed more than 2 million times and now apparently everyone wants to own that suv. >> so they may not have realized the whole cannot do part of the

attention, oreo lovers, new flavors you might want to try. we're getting reports mississippi mud pie oreos will be out this summer. >> but that's not all. limited edition waffles & syrup oreos are hitting shelves this week in select stores and firework oreos are out. the filling has candy in it that crackles and pops like pop rocks. >> and the makers of oreos are running a contest for new flavors. the grand prize is half a millup with good morning washington. it's may 9th, and you will need a sweat shirt to step outside. another chilly start to the day this week. your forecast is moments away-- but first here are some quick headlines. scathing testimony from former acting attorney general

she told congress yesterday that she repeatedly warned the white house that then-national security adviser michael flynn could be blackmailed because of his communications with the russians. the president- calling her story a total hoax. and the cardiac kids doit again. the capitals win one on the road to force game 7 in their series with the pittsburgh penguins. they scored 5 goals last night to win the game and tie the series at 3-games a piece. game 7 is tomorrow at the verizon center. good morning washington. toss to eileen frost advisory in effect until 9am for western suburbs. - chilly morning; nice afternoon - tomorrow - warmest day of the week - showers return late week

day weekend - may warmth in sight today: mostly sunny. chill start, nice afternoon. highs: 65-69 winds: nw 5 mph tonight: partly to mostly cloudy. not as cold. lows: 44-51 winds: s 5 mph wednesday: partly sunny. milder. highs: 68-72 winds: n 5-10 mph

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8 arrests made- some- involving cases of child prostitution. this - as d-c looks at new ways to stop human trafficking. jay korff has more. some bad news for several local

scientits say re-examinations of several negative zika tests have found three people last year did -- in fact -- test postive for the virus. as we first reported in february, two pregnant women thought they were negative... but were latrer then told they did have zika. that re-testing came after botched results from the d-c public health lab -- because of mistakes

workers. a total of 423 samples had to be retested by other public health labs and the centers for disease control and prevention. 26 patients are still left with inconclusive results. the d-c department of forensic sciences says it has informed all providers of their test results. former president bill clinton is planning a new book- but it's not what you might think. he's teaming up with a famous suspense author james patterson. the book will be a political thriller called "the president is missing." it's set to be released next summer. clinton has published several nonfiction books and a memoir, "my life" in 2004... but this will be his first novel. it's xx and we're just getting started. it's "do or die" for the capitals as they force game seven against the penguins. highlights and reaction from last night's huge win.. coming up. good morning washington.