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making news in america this morning, president trump's message to america in his first state of the union address. >> i call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground. >> a speech promising unity but did he deliver? we fact check his top statements plus how the speech broke with tradition and what appeared to response. stocks slide. this morning the new investigation into apple, the big amazon health care partnership in the works and the concern about interest rates today. all rattling wall street. hotel standoff. tensions boil over as a wanted man turns to violence throwing a microwave out the window. the standoff lasting nearly 40 hours. why a fight over a cat may be to blame.
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plus, the milk that's most nutritious. a new study reveals the healthiest nondairy alternative. >> orange you glad they got these thieves? a load of trouble for these fruit bandits. a woman claims this peacock is her emotional support animal. will the airline let it fly? emotional support peacock. that's a new good morning. we start off with president trump using his first state of the union address to call for unity. >> the president focused on the economic boom and his tax cuts saying there's never been a better time to live the american dream. now, the speech triggered or st >> the president's statement on the national anthem was the most retweeted line of the night followed by his comments on immigration and the violent ms-13 gang. serena marshall has the reaction from capitol hill.
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serena, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the economy was the president's number one priority. he also talked about infrastructure and threats to national security. one thing he stood clear of, however, the russia investigation. >> the president of the united states. >> reporter: walking into a joint session of congress, president trump seeking to unify a divided country. >> we all share the same home. and the same great american flag. >> reporter: in his first state of the union clocking in at nearly an hour and a half he focused on the economy, his legislative victory, tax reform. >> this, in fact, is our new american moment. >> reporter: his plans for fixing the infrastructure -- >> america is a nation of builders. >> reporter: and offer of bipartisan shinkansen. >> i'm extending an open hand to work with members of both parties. >> reporter: something he will
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need to pass his priorities like immigration reform. most not open to the mess's pressage at times remaining stoic. >> i don't think there's anything said the democrats would have stood up for. >> reporter: several democrats boycotted the speech. democratic women and black, solidarity with the me too movement. >> so i don't think the democrats came away thinking that he really put out any kind of olive branch. >> reporter: the democratic response coming from massachusetts congressman joe kennedy, grandson of bobby kennedy. >> this administration isn't just targeting the laws that protect us, they're targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. >> reporter: pushing back on the president's picture of unity. a few things missing from his speech, his usual targets of his ire, the russia investigation and news media and didn't take any direct swipes at democrats and the president also did not talk about that campaign promise that mexico is going to be
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paying for that border wall. kendis, diane. >> but it was quite a lengthy speech at an hour and 20 minutes. serena at the capitol, thank you. the president did manage to stick to the script last night but clearly many were wondering if he stuck to the facts. so many people turned to a nonpartisan fact checking website for answers that it crashed just six minutes into the speech. abc's mary ellis parks tell us how he fared. >> reporter: president trump has been known to flay footsie with falsehoods and be lax with the facts from time to time but during the his state of the union address he mostly stuck to his strident prudent talking points. the one big exception, immigration where the president painted a grim picture exaggerated what we know to be true and made some dubious claims. >> under the current broken system, a sickle immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives.
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>> reporter: in fact, today's citizens and green card holders can only petition for immediate family members, not an unlimited number. and there was this -- >> in recent weeks two terrorist attacks in new york were made possible by the visa lottery and chain migration. in the age of terrorism, these programs present risks. we can just no longer afford. >> reporter: that was mostly spin. the two men involved in those attacks did come to the country legally through those programs but seem to have been radicalized here in the u.s. years after they arrived. he said the tax cut was the largest in american history. that's false. he also said the u.s. was now an energy exporter, though the country has been for a long time. he did correctly take credit for having confirmed the largest number of circuit court judges.
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kendis, diane. >> all right, our thanks to maryalice parks for the fact check. three of the moments from the state of the union that got our attention, the first lady melania trump broke with a long tradition by riding in a separate motorcade to the capitol. first ladies usually arrive with the president. arizona congressman paul gazar asked for anyone to be arrested without legal citizenship. and the congressional black caucus wore african-style clothing to protest his reported comments referring to african countries as expletive holes. the white house says it has no plans to release a secret memo on the russia investigation and has ordered a full review before making a decision but the president was overheard telling a republican congressman that apparently he is 100% in favor of making the document public. the memo written by republicans reportedly accuses the fbi and justice department of improperly use of surveillance. democrats say it's an attempt to
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discredit the russia probe. meanwhile, special counsel robert mueller is negotiating to interview the former spokesman for president trump's legal team. mark corallo stepped down, some say, because of concern some in the president's camp were looking for negative information about mueller in an effort to find political conflicts of interest. we've now learned that false missile warning in hawaii this month that set off panic across the state was even more serious than we thought. investigators say the workers who sent the alert actually thought the drill was real. in fact, he had a history of believing that practice alerts were real. it happened twice before. that worker has now been fired and the state's top emergency management official has resigned. we turn to wall street where concerns about higher interest rates have been driving stocks lower this week. the federal reserve's announcement is due today. meanwhile, apple is facing some new scrutiny. the justice department and the
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s.e.c. are investigating whether the company bro it slowed down older iphones. apple says it only slowed down the phones to prevent battery issues. and insurance stocks are down after amazon announced a health care partnership with berkshire hathaway and jpmorgan chase. it's to provide health care for their workers free from profit-making incentives. time now for a look at your weather on this wednesday morning. warm, dry windy conditions have fire crews on alert in oklahoma. a raging grass fire north of oklahoma city burned at least one home along with several cars and forced evacuations in the area. a burn ban was issued for more than half of the state. looking at today's highs, the northwest won't get out of the 50s. the southwest is going to stay warm. temperatures are above normal in the midwest and northern plains. 44 in chicago today and it'll be more seasonable today in the
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northeast. 34 in boston. coming up, a legal victory for o.j. simpson. also ahead a man throws a microwave during a nearly 40-hour standoff with police. why the whole fight may be over a cat. harvey weinstein's new response to our exclusive interview with actress rose mcgowan.
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we're back with images of a man hanging out of a hotel window in minneapolis during a nearly two-day standoff with police. when he went back inside police cleared the way for a gas canister to be fired into the room. a s.w.a.t. team eventually crashed through the door and arrested the suspect after an ordeal that actually lasted some 38 hours. just before his arrest, he threw
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that microwave that you see there through the window. police say he expressed anger about someone stealing his exotic cat. but details on the dispute are still unclear. bowman will be charged in minnesota. also facing charges in arizona in what's being described as a white collar crime. three people have been killed after a helicopter crashed into a home in southern california. crews in newport beach tried to pry open the wreckage as they searched for the victims. four people were on board that helicopter. two we another person on the ground. a person of interest in october's las vegas massacre has been identified by mistake. douglas haig was revealed when a judge's staff failed to improperly redact his name. he sold ammunition to the vegas shooter. the first and only time they met. o.j. simpson has scored another legal victory. a judge in los angeles has denied a request by fred goldman to force simpson tosh he makes autographs. goldman wanted that money seized
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to help pay simpson's $70 million wrongful death judgment. but the judge ruled goldman cannot identify who is paying simpson. tough times for one of america's most harley-davidson is closing its factory in kansas city amid slumping sales. about 800,000 workers will lose their jobs. it comes as the company announces plans to build an all electric motorcycle by 2020. all right. when we come back the big name nfl quarterback being traded. also ahead, from soy to almond, which nondairy milk is the healthiest. what stormy daniels told jimmy kimmel about her reported affair with donald trump. rheumatiod arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate.
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trifecta, a super blue blood moon. a supermoon because is it appears larger than usual. it's a blue moon because it's the second full moon this month and total 00 lunar eclipse which creates a red blood moon, the trifecta has not been visible in the u.s. since 1866. the best viewing before dawn mountain time zone and westward. >> "gma" will have live coverage of it all over the place. we turn to hollywood and disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein firing back through his attorney after the latest allegations by rose mcgowan. >> the actress launched her book tour on "good morning america" yesterday. in her book she details for the first time her allegation that weinstein raped her in a hot tub inside his hotel suite at sundance back in 1997. she sat down with robin roberts. >> someone asked me who i would be if i was a character in "oz," i was like i would be the curtain, i would be the one that saw both sides that nobody noticed that was pretty and just to be used and discarded when
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they were done. i was the curtain but absorbed all information from both side, how to sell to the audience and both how to be sold. >> weinstein's attorney says weinstein has obtained a statement from jil messick, her manager and she described the encounter as consensual. the adult film star stormy daniels is apparently denying she had an affair with president trump but there are new questions being raised this morning. in a statement released by her publicist tuesday and authenticated by the associated press she says it never happened but on the jimmy kimmel live show, jimmy kimmel last night she appeared to call that denial into question saying she didn't know where the statement even came from and she did not elaborate. "the wall street journal" has reported president trump's lawyer paid daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about the affair which the president's lawyer also has denied. a staggering new figure may highlight the extent of the
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country's opioid crisis. a congressional investigation finds drug companies ship nearly 21 million pain pills over the last decade to a single town in west virginia that has a population of just 2900 people. >> wow. >> that equates to about 7,000 pills per each citizen. meanwhile, the fda is now trying to crack down on the abuse of anti-diarrhea drugs like imodium which contain a small amount of an opioid and they're asking them to sell them in smaller amounts. a new study takes a look at which milk is best to drink if you prefer the nondairy variety. researchers looked at almond, soy, rice and coconut milk and found soy was the healthiest choice overall when it comes to nutritional value and say soy contains essential nutrients not found in the other three. forget about milk. these thieves clearly favor orange juice. five people arrested in southern spain after stealing three
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viewers quickly noticed the corner of his mouth was a little shiny. was it drool or chapstick? >> many were wondering. now there is a twitter handle for joe kennedy's lips. if not us, who? if not now, chapstick. >> yes. true words. >> sorry, joe. all right, next to an ironic incident. a flight was forced to turn around because of a toilet problem. >> it happened on a flight from oslo to munich. the irony there were 85 plumbers on board that plane. >> 85. >> the toilet problem apparently needed to be fixed from the outside and so since the plumbers aren't trained to fly and fix toilets at the same time they had to turn around. they landed safely. well, some people need a hand to hold -- to make it through a flight. others need a peacock. >> yeah, a peacock. a woman tried to take the bird on the united airlines flight
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>> ♪ >> good morning everyone. it is 4:27 on this wednesday, last month in the january. i'm matt o'donnell. "action news" is coming up. philadelphia's top cop has a stern warning if there's reason to celebrate after the super bowl this weekend. president trump delivered his first state of the union address. we'll have details on the wide range of topics he covered. new from the overnight a car slams into an ambulance that was carrying a patient in north philadelphia. dave murphy has the forecast. karen rogers is on the lookout for any slick spots from the snow yesterday. it's all next on "action news." >> ♪ york. pennsylvania as well as parts of new england. finally this morning reaction to the president's state of the union speech. >> abc's tom llamas attended a watch party in the new battleground state of arizona
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and spoke with democrats and republicans. you teach at a school that likely has dreamers. that was a big portion of the speech giving a path to 1.8 million dreamers. when he said he would put them on a path to citizenship you told me you don't buy that necessarily, why? >> well. because, you know, people like to claim trump has a big heart when it comes to dreamers but the truth of the matter is he doesn't. if he did he wouldn't have repealed it to begin with. he set the community in a panic. i have students who can't concentrate because they're constantly having to worry, when i go home will my parents be there or not. >> you're a first generation immigrant but you like that americans are dreamers too. why? >> it's true. everybody that is born here, they all have dreams so why do they have to be legal to be a dreamer. everybody is a dreamer. everybody has a dream. even trump has a dream to be successful in his life. >> i think it's a label and what he did say we're all dreamers removes that label. i'm a dreamer. everyone in this room is a
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dreamer so why does it just have to be another group that's a dreamer. >> let's talk about the rip roaring economy. according to the president, this group over here was cheering like it was the super bowl. you guys were very excited about all the economic wins. >> i think the economy is roaring and you can give credit where credit is due. trump has taken unemployment to unheard of lows. the stock market to unheard of highs. the tax breaks that we're all going to see in the next month. >> did he do anything to unify america do you think in the speech? >> so i think there were a couple of things. one was the shall day you canned about giving crips a second chance. i think i saw people, everybody applauding to that and that definitely made me feel better. another thing was paid family leave and that's another thing that both i think everybody in . >> didn't ggood to see their perspective. >> thanks to everybody who covered the >> that's what's making news. >> stay with us for "good
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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 wednesday january 31st. >> here's what we're following for you. keeping the city safe. the top cop in philadelphia issues a stern warning letting people know plan to have fun for sunday's super bowl but don't push it. >> it was one of the longest state of the union addresses in history. details on president trump's address to the nation. >> another chilly day as we are treated t a rare lunar trifecta that is happening this morning when you step outside you're like wow, that moon is really>> it is. they had so many different ways, david and

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