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morning. tensions mounting. another high profile police shooting prompting pro testings and outcry. why the white officer says he opened fire on the unarmed black teenager. >> new this morning. a paternity shut down because of a video. the university acting because of what some members are accused of chanting. >> a chaotic scene, large, green bails bouncing past police. >> and viral proposal. a man asks his girlfriend to marry him every day for a year and she doesn't even know until now.
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good monday morning. we have to start with yet another american city starting the week off in the grips of growing racial tensions. >> a vigil was held for a young black man shot and killed friday by a white police officer who says the man tried to attack him. >> the officer has been placed on administrative leave. abc has the latest. >> what's his name? >> done any robinson. >> reporter: the college town of madison wisconsin konconsin konconsin on edge after protests for an unarmed black 19-year-old who was shot and killed by a white police officer. >> i just want everyone to know that tony was one of the best people i knew. >> when anybody dies in our community and there's an incident like this this is not a black issue, this is not a white-ish, this is a humanitarian issue. >> reporter: the officer responded to calls about
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robinson's behavior. >> cars apparently hit one of his friends. >> reporter: the authorities say robinson assaulted him. he opened fire. robinson was under supervision after pleading guilty to armed robbery robbery. an investigation is opened into his death while community leaders are trying to bring a city back together. >> don't pass judgment on this young man or on law enforcement officials. the facts will come out. >> reporter: the police chief was among those remembering tony over the weekend. he said the city is trying to avoid so many of the miss steps that caused anger in ferguson missouri. abc news washington. >> another story of racial tension developing. a fraternity chapter at the university of oklahoma shut down after this video surfaced online. it appears to show members using a racial chant.
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the members using a racial slur several tiles and eluding to lynching. the national headquarters closing the chapter overnight and the university is investigating investigating. a tweet showed vandalism at the sae house with the words tear it down. >> the growing pressure on hillary clinton over the private e-mails she used. even some of her supporters saying it's time for clinton to speak out. here now abc's bazi kanani. >> reporter: hilly clinton in the spotlight while the former secretary of state isn't taking questions about her decision to use a proouft e-mail account for government business. her husband and daughter faced questions at a event sunday. chelsea told reporters -- >> as her daughter we e-mail things about thanksgiving dinner and our plans to watch a movie on friday night. in terms of her official e-mails, you'll have to ask her. >> bill clinton's former boss
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says he didn't know and president obama told how he. >> everybody new through news reports reports. the blackberry that i carry around all the records are available and archived. >> clinton is not the first secretary of state to use private e-mail. general powell also used some personal accounts. >> a lot of the e-mails went into the state department system addressed to the employees and the state.gov domain. >> on abc's this week he told george stephanopoulos that he couldn't comment on clinton. but when the department asked him to turn over his e-mails he didn't save them. colleagues and critics say clinton should start talking. >> i think that she needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is. >> once this shadow of doubt has
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been placed i think it's going to linger throughout a presidential campaign should she decide to run. >> abc news washington. >> there won't be any questions about south caroline niece linsey gram's e-mail. he hasn't sent any. he's been in congress for 20 years and he does not have an e-mail account. graham is on the subcommittee which oversees privacy, law and technology. >> there must be something about that. we learned overnight about a extraordinary letter sent by 47 republic senators to iran regard to the talks on sunday. the letter warns that any nuclear agreement will expire with president obama's term saying president obama will leave office in january of 2017 while most of us will be remain in office well beyond perhaps decades. among those signing.
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possible presidential candidates marco rubio, ted cruz. >> one year ago sunday that malacia area lines fliegtd 370 disappeared disappeared. a new report about the doomed plane was issued on the anniversary. apparently the battery of the underwater battery beacon had expired more than a year before the plane vanished. so it might not have been working at the time the plane went down. >> at least one person dead after a mining accident in west virginia. two other minors injured. there's no word on what caused the accident. the coal mine is located about 25 miles south of wheeling near the pennsylvania border. >> $25,000 reward is being offered in the shooting of a federal judge in detroit by two men trying to break into his home. he was shot on his front porch trying to protect his family inside. his wife says he's doing well this morning. the shooting was an apparent
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attempted robbery and likely had nothing to do with his work as a judge or prosecutor. another shooting this one involving nfl running back chris johnson. expected to make a full recovery after being shot in the shoulder. he was riding in a jeep while another vehicle pulled up. someone opened fire. the jeep's driver was killed. johnson spent last season with the jets and becomes an unrestricted free agent tomorrow. >> jury selection over the death of a camera assistant on the set of the filming of the movie taking place on a railroad bridge when an train killed sara miller. the executive producer are charged with involuntary man laurgter and trespass. csx said it twice denied the executives permission to shoot there. >> another weekend of honoring those who took part in the voting rights 50 years ago.
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a drone pictures you're seeing. video over the bridge in selma alabama. a crowd of up to 20,000 people gathering. they were marching when demonstrators were beaten by police. the march from selma to montgomery begins this morning and scheduled to end on friday. >> a journey got underway overnight. the first ever attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. it used more than 17,000 solar cells and larger than a 747 and after today's flight other stops include india, china, hawaii and here in new york. the whole thing expected to end back this summer. >> to weather here in the nation. sunny and warm in the west coast across much of the nation as well. but much of the south still seeing heavy rain with parts of texas seeing flash flooding and up to six inches of rain.
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>> in the northeast and great lakes, 40s. 80s in south florida and the dessertcembersert southwest. >> we have got a tiny survivor to tell you about a crash not discovered for nearly a day, a baby girl found alive inside. the chance encounter that saved her life. >> plus a death investigation of a different kind. the poisoning probe at a world famous dog show.
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today apple tells us more about its smartwatch and the big
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event in san francisco. it's apple's first new product line since the ipad five years ago and the first since tim dock became ceo. consumers are cool to the wearables but weren't enthuse yachtic about the tablets until the ipad. >> gas prices going up rapidly and there is no sign of this stopping any time soon. the average price of a gallon is $2.45. that is up 28 cents since last month. aaa says demand is up as spring approaches and the crude oil increases. miami wants to take the top stop and soon have the largest shopping mall in the country. wanting to build one of the mall america's in south florida. having artificial ski slope. no word on when this american dream miami is going to open. >> getting through the first day
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an unseasonably warm and dry winter. the winner is expected to take nine days to cover the 970 mile course. >> now for a look at the morning road conditions closer to home. slippery across much of the northeast and making roads wet and flooded across most of texas and much of the south and most of florida. >> and if you're flying delays possible in new orleans, in memphis, dallas and houston. to utah where they're calling it a miracle river rescue of an 18-month-old little girl. >> that little girl is fighting for her life after an accident killed her mother flipping their car into an icy river leaving her strapped in her car seat up side down for some 14 hours. it was a fisherman that spotted the car and called for help. >> i do know the baby was in a car seat in the backseat on the passenger side. the vehicle was on its top. so the car seat could have
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possibly been out of the water. it was along the embankment. so i don't know exactly how much of the car -- how much water was getting into the car. >> the little girl remains in critical condition. the conditions so extreme that police officers were sent to the hospital. >> father east two teenagers pulled off the ice in lake michigan. they were walking along the shore. the ice broke free and floated out in the open water. nobody hurt in this one. >> and rescuing man's best friend from the frigid waters of the charles river near boston. cooper an 8-year-old golden doodle was hiking with his owner when he got startled and ran off getting himself stranded. cooper is safe and sound back with his family. >> there is growing mystery surrounding britain's version of the west minister dog show.
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the investigation launched after one of the competitors died after returning home. toxicology tests being done and expected to show whether the prized dog was poisoned. >> a couple stories from arizona starting with the high speed chase. the truck going over 100 miles an hour as a man inside was tossing out bales of marijuana. hundreds of pounds was still inside when it ended. most of what was thrown was lost because other drivers had stopped to pick it up. >> they didn't want to create a road hazard. they wanted to get that stuff out of the way for people coming later. i'm sure they turned it in and collected evidence for the police. good samaritans. >> a calmer scene at yesterday's spring training game. >> the star of the royals game was delayed by a large swarm flying in of bees.
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>> the fans were treated to a concourse and they were able to play the game and the royals did win. look at that. >> now that spring training game that one doesn't count. just spring training right now. >> the games in the nba do. some highlights from yesterday's action from our guy at espn. >> hello and welcome inside "sportscenter." i'm john busher graus. russell westbrook against the raptors with an unbelieve annual performance. there he is. no one in transition faster. fearless. get out of my way. layup line layup. and did a great job distributing as well. on the run. wow. what a dish. triple double for russell westbrook. can't get the three either. a flip on the line too. he'll take it. 30 points 17 assists.
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11 rebounds. what about the clippers. in golden state to take on the warriors. the best home record. look at the play. between the legs around the back and go and shoot a three with nine seconds on the shot clock. he's in trouble and gets out of trouble. he decides to fire it up. . thanks for shooting. dream on green was really good. and warriors win 106-98. meanwhile, championship week presented by dixbick's sporting goods. the championship game 7:00 over on espn tonight. >> thanks to our guy there at espn. up next in "the pulse." a price less document now being held for ran some. how are you going to demand a
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let's check "the pulse." beginning with the tale at the vatican. >> two documents are being held for ransom demanding more than $100,000. it's the first time that the vatican has acknowledged the letters. >> michael angelo painted the ceiling and created many other masterpieces and said to be valuable since the artist dictated his communications. the vatican and italian police are looking into this. >> to what could have been some valuable senate shots for fans of "full house". >> fans outside the san francisco homemade famous by the
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sitcom in the '80s and gs 90s. >> what they missed was the man in the t-shirt who was the real uncle jesse himself. >> john stamos posted this photo on instagram standing next to the fans who had no idea he was right there. let's turn to a proposal that took 365 days to prepare and create. this is kind of cool. >> it is cool. every day for a year dean smith videotaped himself holding up a sign asking his girlfriend to marry him. showing him doing every day tasks in their community. when it came time to show her the video, her family was in on it at a resort in aruba. they used signs to lead her to the beach and, of course she said yes. >> 365 days. he probably wasn't sure. >> c'mon. 100% sure. >> he bought himself some time. >> i give him the benefit of the doubt. you're not invited to the wed. >> for some of you your local
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>> good morning, everyone, i'm matt o'donnell. it is 4:27, happy monday. it is march 9. we're following several developing stories. al house collapsed in camden with a family of four inside. we're live on the scene with the dramatic story of survival. a brand new video of the moment a wrong-way driver slammed into several cars in bucks county. the accuweather team is tracking freezing rain. we'll tell you where it is icy where weather updates throughout the morning. the eagles top wide receiver is out of here, a top quarterback is coming back. many moves, "action news" is next. ing place in l.a. if you're on social media you know by now that the guest of honor will be dancing man.
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>> the effort to put the party together went viral over the weekend. we have the details. >> a tweet from pharrell. >> from a small room in echo park these women started a worldwide phenomenon starting with these picks posted online by a cyber bully with the caption spotted this specimen trying to dance and he stopped when he saw us laughing. >> when i saw it it was heartbreak. >> i think when you see this picture it strikes notice that someone wanted to have fun and somebody ruined that. >> they set out to help a stranger. invited friends over late thursday night. she made a simple tweet to find the man and ex-plosioned in popularity. it became the top trending topic on twitter. in hours the search was over. >> we assumed he was in america. so to find him in europe made it
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more of a production. >> his name a shawn. he lives in london. originally the plan was to fly shawn to l.a. and have him be the only man partying with the all women's group gni. mega stars like moby and pharrell williams said they wanted in on twitter offering to perform at the party free of charge. then the donations started rolling in. what seemed like an insignificant act at first spurred an international movement and changed the life. >> he messaged me actually just like an hour ago and he's like i haven't stopped smiling for 24 hours. i was like it's so great. i hope that people realize how's easy it is to do something good. i didn't even leave my couch and look at what happened. >> in echo park abc 7, eyewitness news. >> one tweet. >> they took it upon themselves to track him down. good story. >> that's news in
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>> following a developing story on this monday, march 9. a house in camden collapses with a family inside. we'll have a live report. >> another shooting of an unarmed black teen by white police officers has tensions running high in madison wisconsin. >> we're watching after slick spots as tracker 6 tracks freezing rain in the area. >> let's find out about the freezing rain and head over to david murphy and matt pellman is in for karen rogers. >> reporter: weather services guys expanded the area of concern with that freezing rain.

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