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making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, security is stepped up on the los angeles transit system after a threat to a major train station. we have new details about the alleged target and phone call that kicked off the warning. searching for clues in that deadly oakland warehouse fire. a tearful vigil as more victims are identified and the new pictures from inside the building before the fire. joe biden is leaving the door open for a future presidential run. hear what he told reporters about 2020. caught on camera. a piece of ice becomes a highway hazard when it flies off a truck. good tuesday morning, i'm ryan smith in for kendis gibson. >> and i'm diane macedo. transit stations in los angeles
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start under a heightened security alert. >> they're investigating a threat against the universal city red line station, an area popular with tourists. an anonymous tip was phoned in from overseas about some sort of detonation that was to happen today at that station. it's left many commuters shaken. >> it's scary. never know like -- usually there's never a problem on the train. >> i know i won't be on the train tomorrow. i feel like it is a dangerous situation and threats aren't taken seriously and hear about it after the fact. >> los angeles mayor eric garcetti doesn't believe the threat is credible and advises people to go about their day and plans to ride it today as a show of support. overnight we learned the name of the ten more victims in that oakland warehouse fire from the bay area. >> just a few hours ago thousands gathered a few miles away for a vigil to remember the dead. that number is now up to 36 as three more bodies were pulled from the debris. >> authorities don't think
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they'll find more victims but they do say they can't be sure until the entire scene has been searched and talk of possible criminal charges in the case and lauren lyster joins us from oakland. what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, diane and ryan. the efforts to try to recover any more of the missing are going on into day five in what is the deadliest building fire in ten years in this country. dangerous conditions inside of that building have forced crews at times to stop their search but as you can see from the heavy construction equipment behind me they appear to be tearing down the front wall and their grim work continues. this morning investigators searching for the cause of the deadliest fire in oakland's history. the devastating blaze turning a friday night concert at this artist colony into an inferno. >> fire went up really, really quickly. >> reporter: firefighters tell abc news they believe it started on the fire floor in the back of this warehouse and new details
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continue to emerge about the conditions inside. these images showing the rickety staircase leading to the front door leaving virtually no way out. >> you couldn't have more than two people on that staircase before it was fall down and it was not only dangerous but it was disgusting. >> reporter: a long history of violation, complaints about blight and people living there illegally. now a criminal probe into the tragedy. >> the range of charges could be murder all the way to involuntary manslaughter and until we know what the evidence shows us, there may be other charges if the evidence presents that. >> reporter: the community monday night mourning the dozens of victims killed. most of those identified in their 20s and 30s, one, though, just 17. other local teens grappling the with the news. >> i was able to go with some friends to oakland to where it happened. we left some candles.
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we wrote some messages. i think that helped a lot. >> reporter: this morning, even in the very early hours just down the street at a memorial people had been stopping leaving flowers standing in silence grieving those 22 victims who have been identified. diane and ryan. >> lauren lyster, live in oakland, thank you. president-elect donald trump is off to fayetteville, north carolina, to personally thank thousands of supporters in a post-election rally and is expected to make for cabinet picks as he steps up his search for secretary of state. president-elect donald trump continues to indicate he might be open to changing his position on climate change. meeting at trump tower monday with former vice president al gore. >> had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. it was a sincere search for areas of common ground. >> reporter: gore also praised ivanka trump's commitment to a climate policy that makes sense. the president-elect who has sent
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mixed signals on the issue once called it a hoax but later said he's keeping an open mind. >> i found it extremely interesting conversation and to be continued. >> reporter: reports say trump's children are urging him to seize on 9 issue as a potentially defining issue for his administration. one of those children, ivanka, and husband jared kushner could be making the move to the nation's capital. sources tell abc news that the couple is exploring a possible move informally looking at hopes in the area. kushner has been a top advise story trump as the president-elect continues to work on the transition. and another one-time critic former out governor jon huntsman has been add to the list for possible secretary of state. >> there is an expanded list. i'm on it. i'm thrilled to be on that list. >> reporter: he continues to cause controversy upsetting china by talking to the president of taiwan, something no u.s. president has done in more than four decades.
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trump is taking calls from any foreign leaders but without any briefing from state department officials. >> i would recommend it but obviously that hasn't happened in a few cases. >> reporter: ben carson has accepted his offer to be the next housing and urban development secretary. trump says he's passionate about strengthening communities but democrats are slamming carson as unqualified. an emotional moment for vice president joe biden presiding over a vote on sweeping medical research legislation and senators took another vote to rename the cancer funding portion of 9 bill after biden's son who died last year. biden was in good spirits after 9 session and played coy with reporters about another bid for the white house. >> i'm going to run in 2020. >> for what? >> for president. so, what the hell, man. >> just to be clear were you kidding about running for president in 2020? >> i'm not committing not to
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run. i'm not committing to anything. i learned a long time ago fate has a strange way of intervening. >> biden would be 78 in four years if he ran and won. that would make him the oldest president in u.s. history. syria's civil war is front and center but russia and china blocked a resolution that would have demanded a seven-day truce in hard hit aleppo. that resolution would have allowed the evacuation of sick and wounded and cleared a path for much needed food and medicine. a.j. alexand alex marquardt shows out what is going on. >> reporter: incredible devastation and sound of heavy fighting. you can hear that small arms fire, the loud booms, this is just a few hundred yards away. >> alex is in a part of aleppo 2r0 controlled by syrian troops. dozens killed in just the past
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few days and some say it's the worst fighting in the four-year battle for control over the city. here at home parts of the south are facing a severe weather threat. strong to severe thunderstorms in the south packing damaging wind gusts, hail, possibly a few tornadoes. still ahead a whole new shopping experience. we have details on the new store with no cashiers and more importantly no checkout lines. breaking overnight a christmas parade comes to a frightening halt. people forced to run for cover as shots rang out. see what happens when a chuck of ice flies off a truck aimed at the car behind it.
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identified in this sinkhole accident in san antonio, texas. her body removed from 12 feet of water yesterday. the woman's family said she was driving to work when it swallowed her car. annual christmas parade in sanford, north carolina, was brought to a halt by multiple gunshots. police say at least two were hurt. one reportedly hospitalized in serious condition. another with a n nonlife-threatening injury after as many as eight shots fired. one suspect in custody and investigation ongoing. an atlanta father was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering his son by leaving him in a hot car. justin ross harris declined to speak on his own behalf when given a chance but maintained his innocent throughout the trial. >> callously walked away and left that child in a hot car in june in georgia in the summer to
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swelter and die. >> harris' attorneys are planning to appeal his conviction. the standing rock suit is calling for protesters to leave once they won a victory. the army corps of engineers denied a permit for it to cross under a rest sore but some protesters are vowing to stay worried that the army corps decision could be overturned in federal court. amazon redefined how we shop online. now the company is looking to redefine how we shop in person by doing away with checkout lines. it is testing out a brick and mortar grocery store called amazon go. the store's wireless network connects to customers' cell phones then automatically detects and charges for items as they walk out the door. that store is expected to open to the public early next year. that would be fantastic. when we come back, mistrial. the south carolina cop who shot an unarmed black man walks away
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after a mistrial declared in a murder case. >> a white former police officer was charged with killing an unarmed black man but the jury could not agree on a verdict and abc's steve osunsami has more. >> the court, therefore, must declare a mistrial in this case. >> reporter: the mistrial in this racially divisive case means that this former north charleston police officer will wake up in his own bed this morning. but still under house arrest and wearing a gps device on his ankle. >> until my family can see justice, no, there's no forgiveness. >> reporter: as the black foreman of this nearly all white jury was telling the works. >> reporter: in a statement this morning, the prosecutor says we will try michael slager again. >> i don't care how it looks, it's not over. y'all hear me. it is not over. >> reporter: steve osunsami, abc news, charleston.
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>> ♪ >> good morning everyone. i'm matt o'donnell. it is tuesday, 4:27 center city a.m. we're following breaking news. we learned overnight a new jersey state trooper who was hit in a head-on crash died from his injuries. wire live with the latest developments. one person is dead and another person who was walking home in the logan section was wounded by gunfire. taking a live look on sky6. that's the ben franklin bridge. we have a chilly start and then get ready for some more rain. it's coming. not just yet, though. meteorologist dave murphy is tracking that. we have much more, all coming up on "action news." don't go back to bed. >> ♪ or "star wars" fans. disney's "rogue one: a star wars story" will hit theaters in ten days in this morning we're
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getting a few hints of what we can expect from the movie's stars and its director. >> this is a new approach, modern approach to the world of "star wars." >> the force is strong. >> we can promise fans of "star wars" films that they won't be disappointed because a lot in it is familiar and we can promise people who don't care about "star wars" at all and haven't seen one of the movies this is a very cool intergalactic war movie. >> run, hide, plead for mercy, scatter your forces. you give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you can -- >> i people will love the characters. they're all so real, they're ordinary people, they have all their vulnerabilities and you're just going to invest in them and want them to do well. >> if you're really doing this, i want to help. >> it's a great film for those
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who love the genesis of "star wars," that episode 4 because our film happens just before so it's full of little like, yeah, homage to that film, to easter eggs here and there that fans will go nuts about. >> like my favorite "star wars" movies is you sit and watch and slowly get pulled in and a bit more and you get pulled in more and more and more and by the time it comes, those end credits and that classic music kicks in, i hope you'll feel goose bumps all over you. >> butterflies already. >> goose bumps. that's what's making news this morning. >> keep it here for "gma." have a great tuesday.
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>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morning. it's 4:30 a.m. on this tuesday december 6th. >> and we're following some breaking news. a new jersey state trooper killed in the line of duty. this morning we're learning more about the deadly head on crash. >> also breaking gunfire outside a laundromat hits two people including an innocent by that gland subway ride nears l.a. will see extra patrols as the fbi investigates a terrorist threat. >> let's turn to weather and traffic. meteorologist, david murphy and karen rogers, is that rain i hear banging on our back door. >> yes, it's on the way. not here yet for the morning commute

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