making news in america this morning, a rally in ferguson, missouri turning violent overnight. two police officers shot. new details just in on their condition. plus the hunt for a gunman. more misconduct. another black eye for the secret service. this time two agents allegedly drunk crashing into the white house barrier. why were they not arrested? found alive. two women making their way out of the woods after 24 hours. how they were discovered and the emotional reunion with family. and golfing gator, a giant predator taking a stroll across the green. the pictures going viral this morning. and good thursday morning to you all. breaking news out of ferguson, missouri, two police officers

shot overnight outside police headquarters. >> it happened at a demonstration with dozens of protesters celebrating the police chief's resignation and calling for more dismissals. both wounded seriously not from ferguson. abc's bazi kanani has the latest. >> reporter: protesters and journalists in ferguson say they were packing up and clearing out when suddenly at midnight gunfire. >> we saw the muzzle fire from the gun atop the street so we were just ducking down and once we duck down we saw the cop was shot right next to us. >> reporter: the bullets hitting two officers from neighboring police departments, a st. louis county officer truck in the shoulder a webster groves officer shot in the face. they were there to help keep watch over the protesters gathered outside the ferguson police station after the resignation wednesday of police chief tom jackson. he is the sixth city employee to resign or be fired since the release last week of a scathing justice department report finding widespread racial bias

in the city and police department ferguson first erupted into protests becoming violent at times after the fatal shooting in august of unarmed black 18-year-old michael brown by darren wilson. this morning at least three shots were fired from north of the police department. >> these police officer were standing there and they were shot. just because they were police officers. >> reporter: the gunman still on the loose and dozens of witnesses shaken. >> bullets were really right past my head. it was kind of traumatic. i'm still kind of in shock because of it. >> that's abc's bazi kanani thanks so much. joining us live over the phone is our abc producer mary moore. mary good morning to you. can you tell us exactly what you're seeing right now. >> good morning, i'm looking at the police tape and we have different municipalities parked in front of the ferguson police department and then there's also

looks like they're still looking for someone so, you know they're armed and walking around. >> as you mentioned, these officers from different municipalities we heard about two officers shot and sure enough they're not from the ferguson police department. what do we know about their conditions at this point? >> haven't really heard about their conditions. i mean i tried asking questions but i do know those are st. louis county officers you know, they were identified as having the brown uniforms so that's typically st. louis county officers. >> mary what is your sense right now? officials for a very long time have been worried about things escalating yet again. do you get that sense this could sort of set things off again? >> definitely. i felt like that was going to happen after the press conference earlier, you know we came outside the press conference and there was kind of a problem with some darren wilson protesters that showed up because they were you know not in favor of chief jackson, you know stepping down so all night, you know there's kind of

been a tension in the air. >> abc producer mary moore, mary thank you so. >> we are getting new video in from that scene. >> you can see, take a look. investigators going over evidence from the shooting. it appears to be the officer's helmet on the ground. this video taken just minutes ago. that's a grassy area across the street from the ferguson police department. >> and, of course as soon as news broke of the shooting pictures started popping up immediately on social media. >> many of the images show protesters standing toe-to-toe. >> we're keeping a close ion 0 the story. two police officers shot in ferguson, missouri during a protest there. you can stay with abc news for the very latest on the officers shot. another update later on "america this morning" and, of course another roundup on "good morning america." new scandal hitting the secret service. two agents now under investigation. facing allegations they were driving drunk in a government vehicle. >> yeah one of them reportedly

was a top member of the detail that protects the president. and at first it seemed they were going to get away with it. abc's andy field with more. >> reporter: the latest embarrassment for the embattled secret service two agents drove into a barricade at the white house allegedly. they were drunk in a government vehicle after attending a retirement party for a fellow secret service agent. officers on duty wanted to arrest them but a supervisor let them go home. the incident comes as a brand-new director leads the secret service. >> i think when you fail and we have failed we own it. now it's up to us to correct it. >> reporter: strong words just weeks ago from joseph clancy whose agency is on major damage control. before this incident there was the prostitution investigation into more than a dozen agents in colombia in 2012. agents drunk on presidential detail in amsterdam in 2014 and just months after that perhaps the most embarrassing a man who scaled the white house fence making it to a stairway leading

to the first family's living quarters. >> the president, the first family the white house are going to be secure. >> reporter: the white house will only say president obama has been informed of the allegations. clancy says the secret service inspector general will investigate the two agents accused of driving drunk in a government car. andy field, abc news, washington. for the first time we are hearing from the university of oklahoma now closed sigma alpha epsilon chapter. about that racist chanting video. the chapter's board of trustees and alumni say a, quote, horrible cancer entered the house several years ago and was not immediately stopped when it should have been. their statement also asks for forgiveness. yesterday a small group of protesters made their way through the dallas neighborhood where the family of one of the young men seen in that video lives. >> the world needs to know where he comes from. it's not ou. he comes from here. he was raised here. he went to school here in the dfw community. >> that was outside of a house. parker rice's family not known

if the family was actually there at the time of the protest. ou's president says he's creating a new executive position responsible for overseeing campus diversity programs. a candlelight vigil was held for the service members killed. they gathered near the beach where debris was found and the black hawk crashed into the gulf of mexico. four were national guardsmen from louisiana and others marines based at camp lejeune in north carolina. prosecutors at the boston marathon bombing trial asked jurors to focus on the death of an mit police officer. shane collier was killed three days after the bomb blast. this video allegedly shows dzhokhar tsarnaev and his now deceased brother tamerlan on mit's campus. they approached collier's car from behind killing him in order to steal his gun just hours earlier, the fbi showed images saying the brothers were suspects in the marathon attack.

time for us to turn to weather across the nation. there will be heavy rain in the deep south today. up into the ohio valley. there could be flash flooding but east and west coast, expect snow showers in the rockies. >> high of 48 in new york. minneapolis will hit 64. 66 in memphis and atlanta despite the rain and the upper 80s for the southwest. well, still ahead getting drunk on powder. the new product about to hit the market. also more on that breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. two police officers shot overnight during a rally. more information continues to come in to us. later, a tearful reunion looking tired and dirty but alive. two women safe after spending 24 hours in the wilderness.

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take a look at roads now. they should be fine in the detroit area this morning. look for problems in the deep south up into the ohio valley with wet roads and possible flooding. snow in the rockies. everywhere else it's a good day to put the top down and crank up that radio. >> right. if you're flying airport delays likeliest in new orleans and memphis. well turn back to that breaking story overnight. two police officers shot in ferguson, missouri. this happened at a rally celebrating the police chief's resignation. the latest top city official losing his job after harsh criticism from the justice department. one officer was from a nearby town. he was shot in the face and a county police officer was hit in the shoulder. both expected to survive despite their serious injuries. the county police chief says the officers were targeted. >> this is a very very very

dangerous environment for the officers to work in regarding the amount of gunfire that we have experienced up there. now, this evening, the only shots that we were aware of were the shots taken from across the street and, in other words, these police officers were standing there and they were shot. just because they were police officers. >> at least three shots were fired. no one has been arrested and police do not have a description of the shooter. more details as we get them. a teenager in washington state has been arrested in that attempted kidnapping of a child caught on camera. police say this video helped them track down the suspect. they say the 15-year-old lives in the same small town where the attempted kidnapping took place. because of his age police are not identifying the boy by name. in southern california emotional reunions for two young women missing in the wilderness. they had gone hiking. when they didn't return their families called authorities. in all they were missing for about a day. but they're safe now. one of their fathers was the one who found them.

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good morning everyone, it is 4:27, thursday, march 12. i'm matt o'donnell. two police officers were shot in ferguson missouri overnight. the violence erupted over the decision of the ferguson police chief to resign. frightening video shows a father smuggling his newborn daughter out of a hospital in a tote bag. running back will visit philadelphia today which kinds of has us scratching you our heads because the eagles just signed the running back yesterday. france. as abc's david muir tells us it

can happen anywhere. >> i guess what we do is drive around this circle here. >> reporter: who can forget that scene from national lampoon's "european vacation." >> there's big ben and parliament. >> reporter: chevy chase gets caught in the circle and can't get out. >> kids -- >> we know big ben. >> parliament. >> reporter: which brings us to that new headline you can't make this up. 50 tourists on a trip to the french alps but when the bus trip was over their destination looked more like this. the driver said he followed gps but went more than 600 miles off course ending up in the french countryside. hope they like wine. it's happened before. ♪ on a dark desert highway ♪ >> reporter: there was the cooper family from nevada who told us about their day trip to a museum in death valley. they followed gps too. >> turn left on california 190. >> reporter: they got lost instructed to keep turning around going down the wrong roads. three days in the desert.

out of gas, out of cell phone service. a california highway patrol chopper spots them. >> we saw their vehicle next to a road which were like, hey, is that a car. >> reporter: they found them. look at those smiles. many of you sending in your own gps nightmares. steven and his wife from orlando going to the grand canyon. >> we went off road following a dirt road next thing you know instead of being at the grand canyon we're at the grand canyon apartment complexes in flagstaff, arizona. >> reporter: it turns out chevy chase wasn't alone after all. the sun down still going around that circle. >> it's amazing. i cannot get left. >> reporter: david muir, abc news, new york. >> you can do what we did in the 1980s. stop at a gas station and ask a human being for directions. >> kind of novel concept these days. >> oh maps. that's what they were. >> that's what's making news in america this morning. see you on "gma" soon.

>> we're following a breaking story on thursday, march 123. >> two officers were shot in ferguson missouri outside police headquarters. we'll have a report just head. homeland security is looking into claims two secret service agents were drunk when they crashed into security barriers. birds in the nest. my oh, my. 4:30 let's go to david and karen for weather and