making news in america this morning, the jfk files. revealed. overnight historians poring through thousands of previously secret documents about the kennedy assassination. what we've learned. ceo busted. on the same day president trump announces a health emergency, a billionaire drug company's ceo is arrested accusing bribing doctors of overprescribing painkiller. ashley judd with a surprising message. >> he kept coming back at me. >> as another scandal explodes and two more actresses coming forward. new this morning, we hear from the boaters stranded at sea with their dogs for nearly five months. >> i have tears in my eyes as i say this, it was incredibly

emotional. >> hear how they survived and finally rescued. plus, robots in aisle three. the new idea at walmart. ♪ daydream believe ever a fine conventional thought on daydreaming. why you might want to let your imagination run wild. ♪ cheer up sleepily jean ♪ daydeem believer >> it is a friday. >> such a good song. we are loving it. good friday morning to you all. we'll start things off with the highly anticipated release of the jfk files and the last-minute scramble to keep some under wraps. >> president trump ordered the national archives to publish nearly 3,000 documents reeled to the incident. some files remain sealed at the request of the fbi and cia further fueling conspiracy theories and arlette saenz has more on what the files reveal. good morning, arlette.

>> reporter: hey, good morning, kendis and diane. 54 years later there are still so many questions about the assassination of president john f. kennedy. these 2800 new documents are a treasure trove of information for historians, investigators and even conspiracy theorists. thousands of documents shed new light on the far-reaching probe into the assassination of president john f. kennedy. in dealey plaza on november 22nd, 1963, the 35th president sat as an open target for assassin lee harvey oswald. >> president kennedy has been shot. >> reporter: one memo from 1964 says investigators looked into claims oswald was an fbi informant and determined he was not. another shows a deposition of a former cia director richard helms. he was asked about charges the cia was involved. and if there was information that shows, quote, oswald was in some way a cia agent. the document then cuts off.

two days after he killed jfk -- >> there is lee harvey oswald. sdmres's been shot. >> reporter: oswald was gunned down while in police custody. the sequence of events fueled intrigue and doubt. that same day, fbi director j. edgar hoover dictated a memo insisting doubt be put to rest and wanted, quote, something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. the release was 25 years in the making after congress passed a law calling for the release of all federal assassination-related records by yesterday. experts say the documents could show if oswald was tracked during his trip to mexico city seven weeks before the assassination and whether he spoke of his plan. the documents also could hold clues to one big question, did oswald act alone? >> i would like to think that these documents would be a final answer realistically, that's never going to happen. >> reporter: president trump bowed to pressure from the fbi

and cia to withhold thousands more of these documents due to national security concerns. the cia says they have about 18,000 more documents that will eventually be released pending further review. diane and kendis, people are definitely going to be diving into those in the coming months. >> yes, of course, a best siller there, arlette. and the other big story on the korean peninsula. defense secretary james mattis has arrived in the demilitarized zone that separates the north and south. speaking with north korean soldiers just yards away, mattis said our goal is not war. but he said the trump administration is committed to compelling the north to accept nuclear disarmament. >> behind me to the north an oppressive regime that shackles its people denying their freedom, their welfare and human dignity in pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means of delivery floored to threaten others with catastrophe. we made clear our mutual commitment to a diplomatic solution to address north

korea's reckless outlaw behavior. >> mattis will meet with his south korean counterparts some. it is laying the groundwork for president trump's trip next month. the opioidcrisis and the fallout to declare a health emergency. his announcement came as the billionaire ceo of a drug company was arrested on thursday. he's accused of using fraud to sell a narcotic 80 times more power fowl than morphine. president trump declaring a public health emergency. calling opioids the worst drug crisis in american history. >> it's time to liberate our communities from this scourge of drug addiction. we can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. >> reporter: his declaration means patients in rural areas can reach doctors and obtain prescriptions to treat addiction by phone or the internet. and it lives bureaucratic red tape allowing more funding for treatment centers in all 50 states but the president stopped

short of declaring a national emergency. instead calling it a public health emergency which means his action does not come with any additional federal money to address the crisis that kills nearly 100 people every day. >> when i would say to the president on that is, show me the money. the president's statement or words without the money. >> reporter: trump offering a personal story about his older brother who died of complications from alcoholism in 1981. >> he had a problem. he had a problem withlcohol. and he would tell me, don't drink. don't drink. >> reporter: the announcement comes as authorities arrest a drug company's ceo billionaire. he and others are accused of bribing doctors to overprescribe his drug. >> he didn't do anything wrong. >> if convicted he could face 25 years behind bars. several other doctors also face charges. police in tampa are asking the public to analyze new

surveillance video as they search for a potential serial killer. it shows a person wearing a hood running from one of the murder scenes. three people killed in that neighborhood in under two weeks. investigators are hoping someone can identify the person in the video based on their clothing and distinctive way he or she holds a phone. new questions about the $300 million contract awarded to a small company from montana to try to restore power in puerto rico. fema says it did not approve the contract with whitefish energy and has significant concerns. whitefish is based in the interior secretary ryan zinke's hometown. zinke is meeting today with president trump. now let's take a look at your weather. hot and dry conditions are fueling a wildfire sparked by a motorcycle crash in southern california's cleveland national forest. some evacuations are under way from nearby towns in riverside county and the season's first major snowfall has created whiteout conditions in parts of

minnesota. winter storm warnings and advisories in effect from the dakotas to the great lakes and a windy drenching rainstorm headed for the east coast this weekend exactly five years after hurricane sandy luckily, that level of storm is not expected. some big news this morning in the health care industry. coming up, the merge their could affect drug prices. also ahead, a 100-mile-per-hour chase. police officers were shocked when they saw who was behind the wheel. and why robots are coming to

police in ohio got a surprise when they found a 10-year-old behind the wheel.

his mom said he stole the family car for the second time this month. police say he hit 100 miles per hour as they chased him through counties, two different counties near cleveland. police eventually sur rounded him as he got back on the road. to that unsolved murder of a prominent lawyer this kansas city. tom pickert was shot after walking his kids to school and his wife heard a gunshot, went outside and found her husband. a spokesperson for the widow says she remains strong even as police search for the killer. >> when i thought was so remarkable when i talked to her on the phone is how strong her voice was. i could hear anger in her voice. i could hear concern for her children in her voice. >> there was a man spotted leaving the scene in a van which has now been recovered there. its registered to a man opposed pickert in a nearly $6 million personal injury case. police say that man is not considered a suspect. a health care industry me megamerger could be in the

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we're back with an incredible story of survival. two women and their dogs were stranded on a sailboat in the pacific ocean for five months. >> and now we're hearing from those stranded boaters for the first time. they're safe on board a navy ship. >> the journey got off to a rough start when their cell phone fell overboard their first day at sea. for months jennifer appel, tasha fuyaba and their dogs were alone after their engine broke around memorial day. they had set sail from honolulu in the spring headed for tahiti but with no engine and a broken sail rigging they eventually drifted 5,000 miles to a completely different part of the world and hit by three massive storms and survived two shark attacks. >> both of them, we actually thought it was lights out and

they were horrific. >> reporter: in one attack seven tiger sharks came at night slapping their tails against the boat. meanwhile the women kept using their marine radio to call for help but there were no ships within range until this week when a fishing boat heard their distress calls and the "uss ashland" was sent to pick them up. >> how are you doing? as a small navy boat approaches can you see the pure joy, clapping, huge smiles, even the dogs valentine and zeus seem excited. they survived thanks to having water purifiers on board and having a year's worth of food on board like oatmeal and pasta. tasha smiles from ear to ear and zeus and jennifer describes when they realized they were safe. >> it was actually quite mind-blowing and incredibly humbling. the women will stay on that navy ship until its next port of call. they're hoping to be reunited

with their boat at that point then they plan to sail on the boat back to hawaii. >> i won't be there with them. no thank you. well, another hollywood director facing a growing list of accusers. 38 women have now accused james toback of sexual is alt. the reporter who broke the story says more than 300 have now contacted him about their encounters. actress rachel mcadam and selma blair are now among the accusers. toback who received an oscar nomination for "bugsy" denied the nominations. ashley judd is sharing her details of her ordeal with harvey weinstein and sat down with diane sawyer explaining how he lured her to his hotel room 20 years ago and offered her a massage & thfked her to watch him shower. she fled after making a deal with him that she would give in to him when she won an oscar. >> am i prou of that, i'm of two minds, the part that shames myself, says no. the part of me that understands

the way shame works says, that was absolutely brilliant, good job, kid. you got out of there. well done. >> what would you say to harvey weinstein today? >> what i would say to harvey is i love you and i understand that you are sick and suffering. and there is help for a guy like you too and it's entirely up to you to get that help. >> judd says at the time she didn't feel powerful enough to come forward and didn't know if she would be believed. a 10-year-old with cerebral palsy could be the subject of a controversial deportation case in texas. rosa maria hernandez was brought to the u.s. illegally as a baby. now, her status was discovered at a checkpoint as she was on her way to getting emergency gallbladder surgery. homeland security will now determine whether hernandez goes back to her parents who are undocumented, as well. she's now in a refugee shelter in san antonio in the custody of border patrol agents. researchers have uncovered a

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president trump for nine months secretary of state rex tillerson probably does a little bit of daydreaming but apparently though he let it slip just how hard his job can be. >> tillerson recently insisted he's never considered resigning but during a visit to a park in geneva it caught his eye, this statue and prompted a joke. >> yeah, some days i feel like i need to do that. curl up in a ball. >> tillerson did not elaborate on the comment any further. >> which days necessarily. next a good day, jeff bezos, the last time we saw him breaking a champagne on opening a new wind farm. >> now poised to become the world's richest man. amazon stock spiked overnight thanks to blow-out earnings. >> the stock gained % which earned bezos nearly $7 billion. wow, if that holes today, he would be worth about 2 billion more than bill gates.

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4:27 a.m., october, 27. accuweather says enjoy the sun while it's lasts. the police say they are inching closer to solving the murders of two teenagers in south philadelphia. they have a person of interest in mind this morning. major theater company plans to sell movie tickets, it all depends on whether the film stinks or not. it's all coming up next on "action news," stay with us.wea warm and sunny in the west. rainy, coal and snowing from the great lakes to the gulf and expect some cooler conditions across the south today. well, finally from us the late night comics and their take

on the president's feud with members of his own party. >> here now your "friday funnies." >> it isn't what the president had for lunch today. a bowl of rice and two slices of cherry pie. he doesn't just ago like a child. he eats like a child. >> did you ever see like a crazy old guy yelling on his front lawn until like a crowd of people gather together and start taking pictures and, you know, yelling questions at him. well, today that lawn was 1600 pennsylvaniawell, i think the ps me more uncivil than i many. you know, people don't understand i went to an ivy league college. i'm a very intelligent person. >> i mean, nothing says i'm smart better than shouting it on your front lawn. i'm very smart.

you kid on the bike, i'm smart. >> jeff flake with an 18% approval rating in arizona said a lot of my colleagues have spoken out. really, they just gave me a standing "o." who wants to be the one to tell them people are required to stand when the president enters the room. >> trump sent three tweets about how the senators gave him a standing ovation. it's a big deal for trump. he hasn't seen 50 people cheering him on since his inauguration. >> flake, mccain and corker have called donald trump unfit for office. i mean up till now scientists, psychiatrist, human rights activists, world and religious leaders have also said it but eventually republicans did, as well. they're late. they're late to everything. they just found out about gangnam style. ♪ >> all right. colbert showing off dancing skill. >> that's the fuss for this half hour. that's what's making news in america? do stay with us and have a great friday. >> good morning everyone, it is

4:30 a.m., friday, october 27. >> we're following breaking news. police are trying to figure out if gunfire overnight is connected to the murder of two teens earlier this week in south philadelphia. historical buffs mull over hundreds of documents connected to jfk's assassination while other files are under review. it's a chilly start to our friday, hopefully the temperatures head north and get warmer. >> i think you might be on to something,