were, you know, no power for several days, no hot water for two weeks. >> reporter: but while there's almost no chance of andrea being remembered like that, we are expecting it to pick up with the very real risk of flooding in much of southeastern, north carolina. i'm jon camp for abc news in wrightsville beach, north carolina. thank you, jon. the forecast from another member of the extreme weather team, accuweather's jim dickey? >> we continue to track andrea, made landfall in florida thursday evening. continues to spin its way off the north. soaking rainfall as it rolls its way up the eastern seaboard by 8:00 a.m. this morning. it will be over eastern south south carolina, then interacting with the storm moving out of the ohio valley so rain comes down in bucks up the eastern seaboard through the day. many spots multiple inches by tonight. john and diana, back to you. >> all right, jim, thank you. keep it here for "good morning america." sam champion is in the thick of it this morning again. he will have the latest on

"gma." moving on now to other developing story, new information about another supersecret government surveillance program. >> monitoring activities online apparently going on for years and abc's devin dwyer joins us with the details. >> reporter: good morning. the whistle-blower who exposed the top secret program to "the new york post" says it was a massive violation of privacy. the government can watch your ideas form as you type. it's for electronic information, top secret documents leaked to "the washington post" revealed for the first time that the national security agency can tap directly into the servers of nine major internet companies. able to see everything from google e-mails to facebook photos to apple ichats. >> it is sweeping, it is not what i would expect out of the united states. >> reporter: the classified program code named prism began in 2007 during the bush administration and has been

repeatedly renewed by congress. officials say it does not target anyone inside the u.s., only focusing on suspected foreign terrorists overseas. >> we've got to examine ways to be able to get things that can prevent plots from hatching and americans from being killed. >> reporter: a separately to "guardian" newspaper verified by the obama administration says they were covertly collecting phone calls from every american. they call it a critical tool. >> within the last few years there was a domestic case that was thwarted because of their ability to do this. >> reporter: news of the program has reignited debate about domestic spry spying and striking a balance between privacy an security. >> i think they revoked my privacy rights by doing that. >> if it prevents me from getting blown imi'm all for it. >> reporter: the obama administration officials say all of this is legal approved by

special intelligence court and there are extensive safeguards if place here. as for those nine internet companies involved, five of them flatly deny any knowledge of the prism program. diana and john? >> all right, devin, what are we are hearing from top u.s. aggressive officials? >> reporter: this a rare e-mail james clappard say they could tip off america's enemies to what we're doing, make it harder for the u.s. to track them and says the leaks give a misleading impression and that the government is not listening in to americans' phone calls or snooping in their online accounts. john and diana. >> all right, devin, thank you in washington for us this morning. well, president obama wakes up this morning in california where later today he'll begin historic summit with china's president much the two met at the white house 16 months ago. among the most -- the issues almost certain to come up in their conversation is cybersecurity, china's reported high-tech spying is considered a top threat by the obama

administration. and north korea's disputes with its neighbor south korea is also likely to be on the agenda. just this morning the north proposed new talks with south very in an effort to mend recently strained relations, the hope is to have those on sunday. so far no confirmation from seoul that they will happen. all right, queen elizabeth's husband having exploratory surgery today at a london hospital. buckingham palace saying the operation was planned several days ago after prince philip had tests on his abdomen. he attended a garden party yesterday and turns 92 on monday. he's expected to leave the hospital in two weeks. russian president vladimir putin and his wife are getting a divorce. in a rare public appearance together the couple went to the ballet and then they announced to a reporter their marriage was over. just two months shy of their 30th anniversary. putin and his wife acknowledged they hardly saw each other because of their work and say it is a mutual decision. a major milestone on capitol hill today for congressman john dingell. the michigan democrat is now the

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we are just hours away from the all important release of the may jobs report. investors have been waiting for this all week. it is likely to show that about month. that would be enough to appease wall street and enough to keep the unemployment rate at 7.5%. employers have added an average of 196,000 jobs a month this year. there is well above the 120,000 needed to keep the unemployment rate from going up. now, despite the concern about the jobs report, wall street rallied yesterday staging a 200-point turnaround. it's now back above 15,000. a new sign the economy is recovery. most of us earned back most of t

the money lost in the housing bust and stands at a record high of $70 trillion. a saudi prince suing "forbes" for underestimating his wealth. they ranked alwaleed bin talal at $20 billion. he says he's worth 30 billion and claims "forbes" deliberately squeezed him out of the top ten. like we said, we hate it when that happens. >> i really do. >> trying to make him look bad. >> not cool, "forbes." this happens to be the happiest day of the year especially for john. it is officially national doughnut day created in the 1930s to honor women who served doughnuts to soldiers in world war 1. dunkin' donut, krispy kreme and tim hortons will give them away for free. some with a purchase of a drink so check your specific store.

>> i don't think i'll have another for awhile. i had three this morning and are having a doughnut coma. >> this is from the doughnut planet. gourmet doughnut overdosing on them, carrot cake and all kinds of different flavors you don't find at dunkin' donuts. >> now the crew can tear into it. >> yes. >> we've had our fill. when we come back, game one of the nba finals, it's in the books, plus could the fastest man on earth be slowing down? usain bolt's surprising loss. and they're going to need more than a skimmer to clean out this swimming pool. how did the suv end up in the drink? coming right back with that.

tropical storm andrea is bearing down on the east coast bringing soaking downpours from georgia all the way to new england. there's a look at ft. lee, new

jersey. a live look at the wicked weather outside already. and it is expected to get a whole lot worse throughout the entire day and the night. all right, andrea is putting a big damper on the morning commute flooding roads from georgia to maine. a wet ride from amarillo to albuquerque just south of denver, as well. slick times in the northern rockies and upper midwest. if you're flying, airport delays are possible for virtually all of the east coast from atlanta all the way up to boston. all right, well, the first lawsuit filed in connection with that deadly building collapse in philadelphia. it claims it violated safety standards. >> people in the neighborhood had been warning it was in danger of falling down and abc's ron claiborne is there. >> reporter: rescue teams completed their search. they had found no one not since a 61-year-old woman was brought out injured but alive. >> john just felt to see if he could field a person under the pile. she moved. she just wanted to get out of

the hole. he held her hand. he gave her water because we had access to her but as soon as we cleared an area she tried to walk out on her own. >> reporter: rescue teams used dogs, motion detectors, even sonar, and tracking cell phone signals to owners. among the six dead, ann brian, a 24-year-old arts student shopping at the thrift shop that was crushed. myra plekam who was rescued was lucky, trapped 13 hours. others survived in collapsed buildings far longer. in the 2010 haiti earthquake, a child survived eight days buried in rubble. earlier this year, a woman lived 17 days in the wreckage of the garment factory collapse in bangladesh. experts point to the rule of threes as the keys to survive. you can't go more than three minutes without air, more than three days without water, three weeks without food. here in philadelphia, the big question was, why the collapse happened in the first place. >> there was no block. no bracing. nothing holding it up. it was just kind of standing there blowing in the breeze.

>> reporter: and we learned the demolition had not been inspected by the city. it didn't have to be. it is not required. with no survivors left to be found, what was left of the collapsed building is being taken down by hand, considered the slower but safer way. ron claiborne, abc news, philadelphia. pretrial hearings continue in florida today for the murder case against george zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. a judge may decide whether a 911 recording of the scuffle moments before martin was killed should be admissible. yesterday the judge denied a defense request to let some witnesses testify confidentially because they fear retaliation. connecticut lawmakers are putting aside up to $50 million to pay for a new school to replace the scene of last year's massacre, sandy hook elementary where 20 children and 6 adults were killed. it will be torn down and replaced by a new building. the money was approved by legislators yesterday. justin bieber has joined the list of high-profile celebrities willing to pluck down a quarter million dollars for a trip into space.

the biebs will travel aboard richard branson's virgin galactic spaceship responding to a congratulatory tweet justin bieber said let's shoot a music video in space. a close call for a san diego woman after she drove her suv into a neighbor's pool. there it is. police think she stepped on the gas instead of the brake driving through her own garage, two fences before landing in the water. she's okay, just embarrassed of the that's a long way to accident al a aally to do that. big comeback in the nba finals. here's espn. hi, i'm hakem dermish with your "sportscenter" update. we begin with game one of the nba finals. lebron james looking to get some revenge. first in the '07 finals. under two minutes, heat down. bad mistake by green. allen makes all three free

throws. lebron james to chris bosh, no. heat, 5 for 8, five turnovers. lebron did have a triple-double but tony parker outdid him in the fourth. 13 seconds left. leaner, got it. tony parker, 21 points in the game, 10 in the fourth quarter, spurs go on to win 92-88. game two is sunday in miami. turning to hockey. the blackhawks in game four of the western conference finals. first period, no score. working the puck around the back of the net. kyle clifford to slava voynov, beats corey crawford. kings up. niklas hjalmarsson tips it into the zone. bryan bickell sends it by jonathan quick all tied at one. second period, still tied at one. jeff carter into the zone, sends a puck in front for dustin penner and they take a 2-1 lead. hjalmarsson's shot deflected.

check out patrick kane. kane with the equalizer. third period, michal handzus to marian hossa for the game winner as the blackhawks win, 3-2 and take a 3-1 series lied. that's your "sportscenter" update. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. one more sports note. spiptsing great usain bolt says that losing a race is a good thing. >> really. there he was running fourth from the top of the screen, starts well but he's edged at the line by justin gatlin of the u.s. gatlin's margin of victory, 0.01 seconds. police find something strange in a car. how you can tell the government's tapping your phone in the funnies. he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪

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time to check "the pulse." we start with a unique take on the government's surveillance story. >> take a look at this picture from "the huffing post" online. a combination shot of president obama and george w. bush. is that not freaky or what? the name of the banner headline, george w. obama, all references to similarities in the program overseen by both presidents. that's creepy. i can't even look at it. i don't know who it is. woo! >> both exactly the same. of course, the entire controversy right now providing funny material for the late night comics. >> take a listen to a sample of what they said last night. >> it's been a rough couple of weeks for obama. this comes on the heel of the irs scandal and before that there was benghazi, even the cra crackheads of toronto are like, rough week, hey. there you go, barry. >> i'm conflicted here, folks. on the one hand this proves obama is a tyrannical despot who ignores all the rules.

on the other hand i kind of like tyrannical despot. shows spunk. new report that the government is secretly collecting the phone records of verizon customers since april. act audience booing ] >> i knew something up when you hang up first and my wife was like hung up and obama was like, how about hang up at the same time. >> can you imagine? wow. yikes. they put it -- we shouldn't even try to come up with our own stuff. that's good material right there. a sheriff's deputy outside of l.a. was a little suspicious when he got a call about an alligator. when he pulled over the van there was a four-foot gator inside along with a kangaroo. >> all legit. the animals part of a traveling zoo and the owners had made ang emergency pit stop to clean the gator cage. >> just another day on the job. >> gauger cage, you know what that means? i do. for some of you your local news is coming up.

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checking our top stories, tropical storm andrea is moving up the eastern seaboard after spawning more than a dozen twisters in florida and sending a giant tree crashing down on a restaurant. it's now unleashing torrential rain on savannah, georgia. a word of another massive government surveillance program. "the washington post" reporting the nsa is tapping directly into the servers of nine major internet companies. five of those deny that. president obama is in california where he opens a two-day summit with china's new president. items on their agenda likely to include cybersecurity and tensions on the korean peninsula. looking at today's weather, warm and dry for the west coast, severe storms from albuquerque to amarillo. scatters showers in the upper midwest and andrea reaches there by later this evening. finally for us this morning, an odd couple born out of tragedy 50 years apart but as close as can be. >> inseparable friendship by a

kind-hearted retiree. abc's josh elliott explains. >> reporter: they are the unlikeliest of pairs. 22-year-old collin smith and 72-year-old ernest greene known to all here at highpoint university as a package deal. >> we always have fun. >> reporter: prior to his freshman year of high school, collin, a budding three-sport athlete, was involved in a horrific car accident which left him paralyzed from the chest down. greene, a recently retired engineer, heard from his church about the accident and felt what he says was a calling to help collin whom he'd never met. so he called collin's family, offering his services to the me. greene put in 12-hour days, leaving his home before dawn to get to collin's house by 6:00 a.m. he would then get collin out of bed and ready for school and then make the 45-minute

drive to high point university attending classes with and taking notes for collin all while pushing him three miles a day or more. and just weeks ago, collin graduated from college and, of course, it was ernest pushing him on to that stage. [ cheers and applause ] >> i had pushed him all over the campus for four years. i wanted to push him up to get his diploma. >> reporter: greene was surprised with one of his own. >> without him i wouldn't have got to where i needed to. wherever i go -- >> reporter: you think of the love he has for you and the love you have for him. can you quantify it? >> i really don't have a way to measure it. once again, how do you describe ernest? you can't. it's hard to describe what we mean to each other. >> reporter: josh elliott, abc news, high point, north carolina. >> what a great story. >> wow. that's what's making news in america this morning. >> up next "good morning america." have a great weekend everyone

and a great morning. strong winds, heavy rains, flooding. the first tropical storm makes landfall. we have team coverage for you as we track andrea. that's the big story this morning. good morning. this morning the big story is the weather. we're tracking andrea and it is wet out there. if you are waking up, you will look out and say it's raining. how long will it stick around and how will it impact me today. we'll answer that today with lynette charles. >> i had to set up what is going again. you can see what is going on.

and the tropical moisture to the north. we will be in the thick of things today. you want want to know how much rain we will be in 56789 to 6 inches that's locally but we should be at 2 to 3 inches. as we go into the afternoon. this will not be wrapped up until tomorrow. this is what we're going to be in store for as we head throughout the day. we're dealing with a flash flood watch in effect for this morning. this will linger. >> see it in we'll see a changing in the forecast. not a wash out. and not only do we have the rain but