making news in america this morning, capitol hill showdown. fbi director james comey hours away from testifying in front of congress. what will he say about the president's wiretapping claims and russia meddling in the election? we're live in washington with the answers. fighting the fires. hundreds forced to evacuate as wildfires burn out of control. what investigators are saying overnight about a possible cause and where the fire danger remains high today. new this morning a family demanding answers after something video captures someone spraying poison on their child's slide? was it a random act or was that targeted can. caught on camera, a skier tumbling down the mountain. the dramatic video and rescue.

we do say good morning on this first day of spring, i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm adrienne bankert. diane is off today. we begin on capitol hill this morning where fbi director james comey will answer some questions today about russia's meddling in the u.s. election and about president trump's claim that former president obama wiretapped trump tower. >> sources tell abc news comey will push back against those wiretap claims. abc's janai norman is following the developments overnight. janai, good morning. >> reporter: kendis and adrienne, good morning. it is shaping up to be a busy week in the nation's capital. today fbi director james comey is expected to publicly debunk those explosive wiretapping claims and shed light on russia's alleged involvement in last year's election. fbi director james comey is expected to set the record straight about the explosive accusation of illegal wiretaps. even as the top republican and democrat on the house intelligence committee agree. >> was there a physical wiretap

of trump tower? no, but there never was. >> no evidence to support the president's claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor. >> reporter: the country's most powerful law enforcement officer will testify on capitol hill and it's already anticipated he'll officially undercut president trump's claim that president obama ordered wiretaps at trump tower, a charge that's left one republican committee member arguing trump should apologize. >> it never hurts to say you're sorry. >> reporter: last week trump doubled down and accused the british intelligence community of being involved. >> it's not just sorry to the president but also to the uk. it doesn't hurt and it takes away from the rest of his age a agenda. >> reporter: part of an investigation into how russia interfered with last year's presidential election and to address the lingering question of whether anyone on the president's team may have helped. an answer democrats and republicans may not yet agree on. >> i would characterize it this way at the outset of the

investigation, there is circumstantial evidence of collusion. there is direct evidence, i think, of deception. >> i give you a very simple answer, no. there's no evidence of collusion. >> reporter: and sources emphasize today's hearing is about much more than twitter rants from the president. the hearing's main focus how russia allegedly interfered in last year's election and whether any u.s. citizens helped the russian government. kendis and adrienne. >> abc news will have live coverage of the director's opening statement expected around 10:15 eastern time this morning. also in washington today, the first of four days of confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee neal gorsuch. >> the senate judiciary hearing will hear from the judge himself. the conservative hopes to replace justice antonin scalia who died 1 months ago. president trumpcriticized kim jong-un after the country tested a new rocket engine. it mashes a significant advancement in the north's capability.

the test came during secretary of state rex tillerson's visit to the region and president trump says he and his advisers met this weekend to discuss any threats. >> the meetings with north korea, he's acting very, very badly. i will tell you he is acting very badly. >> reporter: and north korea is saying this is for their space program, even china, north korea's ally appears to be losing patience with kim jong-un. secretary tillerson saying preemptive military action against north korea may be necessary. well, back to the capitol and new questions this morning about security threats at the white house after three breaches in eight days. new details surfaced about the most recent incident. police say a man acrested at a checkpoint near the white house is from virginia and was in a stolen car. he claimed to have a bomb but there was no explosives inside the car. also this weekend a person jumped over a bike rack barrier in front of the white house and you'll recall on march 10th while the president was there at the residence, a man entered the white house grounds after jumping a fence. overseas now and we're learning

some more details about the suspect in the paris airport terror attack. toxicology tests found traces of cocaine, marijuana in the suspect's blood. investigators say he stopped by a bar before firing a shot at traffic police. now, later he allegedly took a soldier hostage at the orly airport. fate lil a shot by two others on patrol. back in the states investigators believe the raging wildfire in boulder, colorado, was human caused. fire officials have ruled out a lightning strike. they say the fire started in an area popular with hikers. the flames have forced hundreds of people to evacuate and even more residents are on preevacuation notice. mark sandercot is one of the homeowners forced to pack up. he just moved to the area three months ago. >> i thought for sure we were probably going to lose the house. i grabbed my backpack, grabbed the mow essential things i thought i needed and some water and just left. i could see the flames up above

on the base of the flat irons and it was a scary moment. >> the national guard there has been called in to help fight the fire. it is only 50% contained. the fire danger remains high for several states including colorado. days of record high temperatures and dry weather are creating perfect conditions for wildfires in parts of new mexico, texas and kansas. well, it sure feels like the start of summer even as spring gets under way this morning. today's highs in the middle of the country, 91 in oklahoma city, nearly 80 in st. louis. and mid-50s in chicago. now, those warm temperatures hit the east coast tomorrow, 60s in d.c., mid-50s in new york city. 70s and 80s in the south and boston will be enjoying a little of it 50s tomorrow. another sign out of boston as grounds crew get the major league baseball parks ready. >> the snow is melting away soon. crews in boston spent the weekend thawing the ground at

fenway using heaters on the warning track to help the melting process. >> the red sox home opener is two weeks from today. but who's counting? >> wray? >> a lot of folks. >> it's spring. spring is in the air. still ahead a major shakeup at uber. why the president is leaving months after starting. plus think this morning, kim kardashian speaking out about that robbery for the very first time. >> are they going to kill us? and i was just like crying and like tell them i have babies. >> her emotional firsthand account, what she was thinking while bound and gagged. >> and police call it unheard of. poison sprayed on a child's slide. what the family is saying after seeing the surveillance video.

there is now a $12,000 reward in the search for the suspect in a firebombing attack in baltimore. now police say this man that you see here threw two molotov cocktails in a row house. two teenagers were killed and six others injured including a child. but in an audio recording posted on facebook last night a man identifying himself as the suspect says he did not do it. the speaker's identity, however, has not been confirmed. >> a lot of people paying attention to this. a manhunt under way for a teacher accused of abducting a 15-year-old girl. elizabeth thomas was last seen a week ago. police believe she is with her former instructor tad cummins. investigators say cummins may have decided to take thomas after being spotted earlier this year allegedly kissing the teen in his class. >> the frantic search

intensifying for a missing tennessee teen and her former teacher, accused of kidnapping her. authorities now sending out a nationwide alert. >> we really miss you. i miss you. please, please come home. >> reporter: school officials confirming that 50-year-old tad cummins was 15-year-old elizabeth thomas' health science teacher. the teacher now accused of having an inappropriate relationship with the teen, a claim he denied seen 7:30 march 13th in a restaurant in columbia, tennessee. >> they planned this for some time before disappearing with elizabeth. >> reporter: detectives say they tracked them to decatur, alabama, before the trail went cold one week ago. and this morning authorities believe the two are still in the u.s. but may have changed their appearances. much more on the story later on "good morning america." uber needs to do a pickup. this time another president. after only six months jeff jones

resigned saying his beliefs and approach differed with the company's. he's the fourth executive to leave in the last month. jones reportedly found uber's problems were greater than he realized. they include charges of sexism, sexual harassment and a toxic work culture. >> on to entertainment news. "beauty and the beast" cast a spell on movie theaters this weekend. the live action remake of the animated classic from disney, our parent company, scored the biggest opening ever by a family friendly film. say that five ties fast. the biggest debut brought in $170 million and that's just stateside. >> wow. >> what were you going to say. >> very impressive. i think it's 350 million globally, yeah. a muppet with autism will soon be welcomed. julia will make her debut april 10th. part of storybooks for more than a year and the show spent years consulting organizations,

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about kim kardashian's terrifying ordeal at the hands of armed robbers in her paris hotel room. >> in gripping raw detail, the reality star opened up for the first time about that fateful night. >> i'm not going -- i know how these things go. >> kim kardashian west recounted for the first time publicly what was the toughest night of her life. >> i was laying in bed like should i wash my face. i'm so tired and ten minutes i was dozing and heard pounding up the stairs. >> reporter: that noise two robbers dressed as police officers, the reality show star was in paris last october for fashion week inside her lavish hotel room all alone when the thieves made their way in. >> he was telling me, ring, ring, ring. he goes give them your ring. so, okay, it's on the table, you know and i said while i'm being tied up i'm like are we going to die? are they going to kill us? and i was just like crying and

like tell them i have babies. >> reporter: her ordeal not over yet. >> he duct taped my face and my mouth to get me to not yell and grabs my legs and i had no clothes on under and pulled me towards him and i thought, okay, this is the moment they're going to rape me and i fully mentally prepped myself. >> reporter: the suspects did not. they eventually left her tied up in a bathroom and ran for the exit. the "keeping up with the kardashians" cameras rolling as she returned to new york city and then this moment, a reunion with her oldest child. kim telling kanye she wanted to be brave for the children. >> did you miss me so much? >> yes. >> how much? >> and robbers did steal millions in jewelry but french police we should point out arrested ten people in connection with this case in january. an investigation is under way

into a bizarre crime scene. a family says someone sprayed poise on their child's slide and it shows a man walking through their yard spraying the substance on the slide and believe it was weed killer because it did kill the grass nearby. now, as far as they know it was a random act. they've turned the case over to police. also a legendary nfl wide receiver revealed he is fighting als. dwight clark the former san francisco 49ers says football may have caused his illness. clark is best known for the iconic play now simply known as the catch during the 1981 championship game against the cowboys. clark says he first experienced symptoms in his hand two years ago. and an incredible fall down a mountain is captured on a professional skiers's helmet cam. russian skier ivan malakhov competing in austria and started off all right then one mistimed turn causes him to lose control. he can be heard gasping and grunting in pain as he tumbled

down the steep slopes taken to the hospital and remarkably says he's okay. nothing broken. >> all right. so we go to france now where a suspected thief gave police the big break they wanted. he wasn't hard to find because he was stuck half in and half out of this window. >> goodness. >> police say he made the hole with a hammer while trying to rob that jewelry store. the fire department was called in to help free him before he was arrested. >> so he just couldn't get through the hole that he broke with a hammer. >> no. he needed a bigger hole. >> okay. we'll leave it there. it began with 68. now the ncaa men's basketball tournament is down to tweet 16. >> three of the top sides in the semis though north carolina almost didn't make it. the tar heels scored the final 12 points against arkansas to wipe out a five-point deficit in the final 3:30. >> cardinals lost to managering

in in a rematch of the 2013 collapse game. >> and wolverines head coach john beilein took the postgame celebration to another level just minutes after the big wayne. he grabbed a supersoaker and let loose on his players. >> i have to say, i once did that for my brother's birthday and brought them in and doused him. it was one of his favorite memories. >> i bet. up next in "the pulse," the march madness moment going viral this morning and the memes behind the crying kid. >> oh, great escape. the twins partying all night long. if you've got a life, you gotta swiffer

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re's noncall and they lost to gonzaga and can read his lips saying this is so bad. >> and see it in his eye, as well. the moment is leading several memes now including this one where he's joined, of course, by the crying jordan. crying northwestern kid joins the class of champions before him including last year's kentucky band girl. >> the pick low player. i have to say it's hard to see kids crying about anything. you know they're taking it to heart. that kid is probably going to grow up to be a coach himself. >> yeah. it is. and the kid is actually the coach's son. one of the coach's sons so you can understand it. >> the family affair. now to another sports moment going viral. >> a soccer player in south africa's premier league being interviewed after a game and thanked his fans and other people as well. >> and i appreciate my fans also my wife and my girlfriend i mean my wife, yeah, sorry to say, i'm

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>> hello, good morning, i'm matt o'donnell, it is 4:27 a.m., mud, rain is coming. guess what's next on "action news" monday morning. septa release this video showing a brawl at a center city subway station. fire inside an elevator inside a center city apartment building forces people on the street. sky6 live hd there's a half moon out there, and spring arrives in about let's say two hours, meteorologist david murphy has the workweek forecast from accuweather. are we going to melt the snow or what? it is all next. by attacking an alleged robber. it was all captured on surveillance cameras. >> the store owner says he refused to be afraid knowing he had to protect his wife and son

who were also in the store. nicole estefan from our boston station shows us. >> reporter: a frightening scene unfolds inside of a new bedford convenience store. all of it caught on surveillance. >> his knife is long. and he trying to hit me. >> reporter: wessam was closing up the store when this knife-wielding man walked in demanding money. >> she said, no, she's screaming, no. we won't give you anything. >> i said, a lot of -- >> he says the store is his lifeline, his wife battling lung cancer. so, he chose to fight. >> when he started to take the cash register from here, i get -- i get my pet and i start to hit him. >> reporter: the masked man runs out and mohamed follows him. >> he have knife. what he want? he want money or your life. no more scared. you have to fight. >> reporter: a fight that may

have been full of danger. but mohamed's family says they are grateful. >> i'm very proud of my father. he protect us. right? aren't you proud of him? >> yes. >> some very brave folks there in massachusetts. >> proud to say daddy took care of business. goodness. >> yes, he did. an interesting back and forth there as well with that crook. in the meantime, we should point out spring does arrive today. >> spring has sprung. >> early this morning here in new york city, folks cannot wait. it's going to have temperatures in the 50s tomorrow and then it drops. so, enjoy your springtime. >> enjoy the sunshine.

>> good morning everyone it is 4:30 a.m., monday, march 20. >> here's what we're following, cell phone video captures a brawl at a septa station, authorities are looking for the people involved. a fire breaks out in an elevator at a center city condo building overnight sending residents out of their home. a blockbuster hearing on capitol hill on wiretapping and russian interference of the russians in the election. >> let's