good morning, america. never again. the teen survivors of that florida school massacre march on the state's capitol in morning demanding action on gun control as president trump signals some change ahead of a meeting today with those affected by gun violence. taking a bullet for her students, the hero teacher who helped save lives as the gunman closed in. now speaking about those terrifying moments. >> came to my room and shot about four or five shots into my room breaking the glass of my door. >> how she shielded those teenagers she calls her kids. her story only on "gma." flooding danger. torrential rain sparking rescues from texas to indiana. as tens of millions face record heat from the midwest to northeast. dallas mavericks under fire.

a new report alleges sexual misconduct and now owner mark cuban is taking action saying he's embarrassed and has no tolerance. the new investigation this morning. and gold. team usa skiing their way to the top of the podium and how lindsey vonn pulled off an incredible comeback. and good morning, america. let's take another look at the big winners. there they are. jessica diggins, randall. >> the women's hockey team going for gold once again facing off against canada. more on that ahead but we'll begin, of course with those teens taking action marching on florida state capitol this morning. we're see them gathering getting ready to go right there in they are not alone. students all across florida

staging walkouts in solidarity and abc's dan harris is in tallahassee with the teens getting ready for their rally. good morning dan. >> reporter: michael good morning. coming to you from a civic center where the kids spent the night on cots eating breakfast behind me right now as you might be able to see. sooner's going to walk over to the state capitol where they have a long series of meetings with everybody from the speaker of the house to the attorney to the governor. when you talk to their kids their passion, pain idealism it's all palpable but it is already running head first into hard legislative realities here in this gun-friendly state. 100 young people carrying sleeping bags and pillows as they boarded buses on an extraordinary lobbying mission. just days after surviving one of america's worst school shootings. >> the first busload of parkland students have arrived and they're being greeted by a very large, enthusiastic and sympathetic crowd of local high school students. >> we're fighting for our

friends we lost and for the future of kids we're going to have. >> reporter: while on the road from parkland to tallahassee these young activists received some tough news. >> the motion is not adopted. >> reporter: florida legislators voted against even considering a ban on semiautomatic rifles some parkland students were in the gallery for the vote reacting with tears. >> the next step on someone with an assault rifle here in florida is going to be on them. >> reporter: as you know lawmakers voted against even considering a ban on semiautomatic rifles. what is your reaction to that. >> it was a big punch in the gut because the -- it'll be a week tomorrow since this happened and already there's another roadblock in front of us. >> this is something i think applies to everyone around the country. we don't -- we're not focusing on the students. las vegas, this has been an issue long present in our

country. >> has it been tough on you psychologically to go from surviving one of the worst school shootings in american history to diving into what is really a tough political fight where you're taking some criticism. >> it is a way of grieving i guess and i'm doing it for the two friends i lost because i know this is what they would have wanted. >> we were the ones who were locked in closets for hours not knowing if we were going to be okay like maybe we're not necessarily activists on the politics side but we know theism packs it can have on anyone's life. >> we're still waiting to wake up. i know for me this is the way that we're grieving. >> how confident are you really that your school will be the last shooting. >> we have an energy that's far from being over. we're going to keep fighting. >> we have the whole world backing us and supporting us. >> reporter: these kids are well aware, though that they do have detractors among pro gun activists who call them tools of the liberal left but on the

ground they received an enormous outpouring of support. for example, when they arrived here at the civic center and went to their cots to go to bed they found goody bags filled with snacks and homemade cards and notes from local teachers and students. michael. >> and, dan, it's possible that florida might step in on a state level if congress doesn't step up but has change on a state level worked in something like this in the past? >> reporter: so this is tricky and a little bit controversial any time you talk about gun control legislation but it appears from the numbers that states with tougher gun laws do have lower levels of gun violence, for example, in connecticut after sandy hook they passed some tough, new laws and gun violence did go down. critics say, though that may be because the overall crime rate went down. >> dan, i guess the sad commentary but these students we've seen all over the last week now getting smeared online. >> reporter: yeah so these kids are well aware of the trolling

that has been directed toward them. and some darker corners of the internet there are charges that these kids are actually actors are 0 quote/unquote crisis actors. these kids deny that. they're not super defensive about it and think it's absurd and even their senator marco rubio came forward to say it's flatly faust. overall when the kids look at their social media feeds which they do quite frequently they see an outpouring of support which gladdens them. >> president trump is now signaling his support for some modest new measures strengthening background checks a first step towards stopping those bump stocks. jon karl joins us now and the president is going to hear directly from some of those affected by gun violence today. >> reporter: he will have a listening session today with student, parent teachers including some of those affected by some of the worst mass shootings in america including columbine, parkland and newtown.

one week after the parkland school shooting and the growing calls for action -- >> president trump, please do something. >> reporter: we need them to take action and we want to see some progress. >> reporter: the president made a surprise announcement. >> moments ago, i signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. >> reporter: the president is directing the justice department to draft regulations banning so-called bump stocks. an accessory used in the las vegas massacre last october. but bump stocks were not used in parkland. overnight the president signaled his support for another modest gun proposal from capitol hill tweeting whether we are republican or democrat bemust now focus on strengthening background checks. meanwhile, sarah sanders is now walking back the president's tweet that suggested the fbi

failed to stop the florida shooter because, quote, they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign. the president doesn't really think that the fbi failed to stop the parkland shooter because it was too involved with the russia investigation, does he? >> i think he was speaking not necessarily that that is the cause, i think we all have to be aware that the cause of this is that of a deranged individual. >> did he mistweet when he said that. he's pretty direct. he says this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time to -- >> i think he's making the point we would like our fbi agencies to not be focused on something that is clearly a hoax in terms of investigating the trump campaign and its -- >>. >> reporter: president trump has often boasted about being the most pro-nra president ever and although he is looking at new gun restriction, those mentioned in the piece, he's also george

looking at proposals that would mean more guns in schools includeing arming more stevers. >> that have been endorsed by the nra. as you mentioned, the president pretty active on twitter yesterday including taking on rachel crooks one of the more than dozen women who came forward making sexual allegations against the president. >> reporter: essentially he called her a liar in a series of tweets and attacked "the washington post" for telling her story again and, george this comes just a week after the president's personal lawyer acknowledged paying $130,000 to buy the silence of somebody who said that they had an affair with the president. >> more fallout from the rob porter scandal. it's actually putting more pressure on jared kushner, the president's son-in-law because he doesn't have a permanent security clearance. >> reporter: yeah, one of the issues with porter was he had been operating under a temporary security clearance because he was never approved for a permanent one. that also affects jared kushner and i'm told he's not happy about the fact that he's been told that his clearance will be completely denied now for top

secret information. >> okay jon karl thanks very much. we turn to that latest indictment in the russia investigation. an attorney with connections to a former top trump campaign aide pleading guilty to lying to the special counsel. chief justice correspondent pierre thomas has more in washington for us. good morning. >> reporter: robin, good morning. this is the fourth guilty plea that special counsel bob mueller has made public. there's more evidence he's playing hardball with anyone in his sights. will be based attorney alex van der zwaan booked by the fbi accused of making false statements to the special counsel. the latest sign of the pressure bob mueller is putting on paul manafort and former top adviser rick gates. both indicted last october for allegedly engaging in a money laundering conspiracy and acting as unregistered agents for ukrainians with ties with the kremlin. >> mr. van der zwaan, why did you feel the need to lie?

>> reporter: he pleaded guilty to making false statement about contact with gates who at the time was manafort's business part and admitted to destroying e-mails connected to his pr war that the two were involved in support ukrainian politicians backed by russia. the alleged activity by manafort and gates happened years before they were involved in trump's campaign but the special counsel is using the case as a high-stakes game of legal chess to squeeze both men who have each pleaded not guilty. >> high-stakes game. all right, pierre thank you. we move on to the new revelation over the tense nuclear standoff with north korea. mike pence was set with a secret meeting with them before they backed out at the last minute. details from martha raddatz. good morning martha. >> reporter: good morning, george. the vice president made headlines during his rip to the olympics for ignoring the north korean delegation including kim jong-un's sister who was sitting

right behind him in the ceremonies but it turns out pence has a pretty good poker face. the meeting with kim's sister and others had been secretly scheduled beforehand but just two hours before the meeting the not canceled blaming pence for the tough sanctions imposed on the north and his meeting with defectors. pence's office said this would not have been negotiating, just a face-to-face to tell the north koreans to get rid of its nuclear weapons, but the meeting had trump's blessing so clearly possibilities for talks going forward. george. >> on the most dangerous national security situation we all face martha raddatz, thanks very much. we turn to that new report about sexual misconduct rocking the dallas mavericks. the team now launching an investigation and abc's linsey davis is here with much more on all this. good morning, linsey. >> reporter: the dallas mavericks trending in the news not for their basketball prowess but alleged behavior off the court. a scathing report in "sports illustrated" describes a work culture that one former employee called a real-life animal house.

>> inside, taking it to the basket. >> reporter: the dallas mavericks, one of the most lucrative franchises in the nba. >> for three. >> reporter: led by billionaire owner ceo mark cuban known for his business acumen and sharp tongue on abc's "shark tank." >> there is no market at all that you have right now for retail. >> reporter: but according to "sports illustrated" this morning, the team that made cuba a house n a household name they said it was an open secret where they experienced everything from sexual harassment to domestic violence. after interviewing the employee the magazine says a pattern emerged of a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior alleged public fondling by the team president, domestic assault by a high profile of the online staff, intimidating responses from superiors and an employee who

openly watched pornography at his desk. a half dozen of the female former employees told "s. ifshgs" they were forced to look for careers outside the sports world because the work environment left them feeling vulnerable and devalued. mark cuban told "sports illustrated" this is all new to me. based off what i've read here we just fired our hr person. i don't have any tolerance for what i read. he went on to say he was involved in the basketball operations but other than getting the finances and reports he says he was not involved in the day-to-day side at all. i was supposed to be made aware if anything like this was going on but obviously i was quoted as saying when the me too movement emerged he said do we have a problem. he said he was told they did not. >> that's why that person has been fired. >> thank you linsey. to the winter games and vop vonn's remarkable comeback winning a bronze medal in the downhill in what may be the last time she does that race and team

usa winchning another gold medal and amy in pyeongchang. good morning. >> good morning to you. yeah, it was an incredible and a history-making moment on the cross-country course here. team usa's jesse diggins and kikkan randall winning gold in olympic cross-country earning the top spot on that podium by just 0.019 seconds and lindsey vonn earning her third olympic medal in what was most likely her final olympic run in her signature event. >> and down goes vonn one last time. >> reporter: lindsey vonn racing in what she says is her last olympic downhill competition earning bronze for team usa. the 33-year-old making history as the oldest female alpine skiing medalist ever at the winter games. >> vonn takes the final jump to the finish line. >> reporter: the starskier

sidelined in sochi with a knee injury racing for herself but to honor her late grandfather, his initials handwritten on the side of her helmet. >> i wanted to win so much because of him. but i still i made him proud. >> reporter: a tough nite on the ice for the united states. >> here we go. she needs this. >> bradie tennell kicking off the short program with an unexpected tumble. >> wow. shocking error. >> reporter: and mirai nagasu looking to repeat the triple axel she nailed last week. the third woman ever to land the move in olympic competition. >> she's setting up right here. nice curve. >> reporter: but on wednesday nagasu unable to complete the move still bouncing back to finish her routine. >> we are headed for overtime. >> reporter: medal hopes dashed for the american men's hockey team.

>> cannot score. >> reporter: after they were beaten by the czech republic during this dramatic shoot-out in overtime. >> the czech republic wins they will advance. >> reporter: but one american team still poised to take home the gold women's hockey. the united states hoping to end a 20-year gold medal drought preparing to face off against their fiercest rival to the north, team canada. >> are you guys ready for rye dengs? >> it's tough to put into words what you -- we literally have been training four years for this one game. >> but mentally are you ready to win gold? what do you say to yourselves. >> we played this game thousands of times in our head. i think we're very confident going into thursday. >> now, the rivalry between the u.s. and canada's women's hockey team spans decades. the u.s. will play for that gold medal for the third straight olympics. it's been 20 years since they've won that coveted medal and beat canada back in the 1998 games, the nagano games but canada has

won every gold medal since, guys, so so many hockey fans waiting for this. i got a ticket and so i'm going to be in the stands. >> i'm so envious. i love how that hockey team did so great. let's get to the flooding and >> yeah robin over 3 inches of rainfall. this in north dallas. rescue teams took her to safety and also tornadoes a couple weak ones in dallas county and johnson county doing damage there and more round two is going to be round three and four of heavy rain across this area of the country and cold icing across parts of texas oklahoma and it's record warmth. speaking of springlike cities brought to you by carmax.

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>> ♪♪ >> good morning, i'm matt o'donnell. 7:23 on this wednesday february 21st and another morning of fog for some of us. let's go to karen rogers. >> that's right. and the fog is hit or miss as we look at this shot its not looking too bad. we've got another problem here matt. this is the ramp from the schuylkill eastbound to the boulevard northbound and we've got crews out here. they're blocking the ramp after reports of some questions about the structural integrity of the bridge in this area so this is a big deal. they're out here, they're checking it trying to see if there's a problem and what they need to do about it. this is the ramp from the schuylkill eastbound to the boulevard northbound and right now that's blocked. let's take another look here. this is the schuylkill past conshohocken. this big accident that created big delays off to the side but we see emergency workers here and eastbound traffic still jammed approaching gulph mills

to conshohocken. emergency workers still there slowing everybody down, matt. >> thank you, karen. dave murphy after the break with the accuweather forecast. >> ♪♪

>> starting out cloudy with some areas looking at some fog. take a look. temperatures mild in most cases almost 60 in philadelphia. 56 in wilmington. still 42 in allentown. this afternoon another record breaker. we're going to break out some sunshine, get a high of 76. there's a chance of a spotty sprinkle or shower, the best chance this evening. tomorrow big change. cloudy, cooler damp a high of 49 degrees periods of rain during the day and more of the same on friday. for the weekend a little bit milder but rain getting steadier on saturday afternoon in through sunday morning. matt. >> thank you david. the controversy over the philadelphia high school basketball player who wears a hijab while she performs on

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you get to decide what kind of king you're going to be. >> welcome back to "gma." "black panther" taking over the box office blowing past predictions taking in $404 million worldwide and all of that in just four days. >> uh-huh. >> and everybody wants a piece of it. everybody wants in including the atlanta airport tweeting this photo, a nonstop flight to wakanda riding the bags are packed. #wakandaforever. >> it was shot in atlanta so it's going to be a short flight but everybody is getting on that. love that. also right now survivors of that high school shooting in florida are taking their never again fight to the state capitol this morning holding a big rally to push for gun control and

meeting with lawmakers. and they're getting a lot of support from some big names. george and amal clooney were the first to pledge $500,000 and oprah and steven spielberg followed that same amount, to help them take their cause to washington. this afternoon president trump will hold a listening session with teach he and students impact the ischool shootings. >> a teacher was grazed by a bullet as she pulled her kids to safety. adrienne bankert spoke to her in parkland. good morning, adrienne. >> reporter: good morning to you, too. stacy is being called a here owe after her actions that took place during the shooting that helped at douglas high one week ago today, a title he's not comfortable with and says as teachers they often feel they didn't do enough. but what she did do is save lives ushering students into her classroom and shielding them with her body. just one week ago valentine's

day, creative writing taste stacy lapel's class was writing love letters when the fire alarm went off. as students filed into the hallway she heard gunfire. the killing had begun. >> i was about two feet away from high door and heard gunshots in the stair of well 20 feet from my room and kids were screaming and then running back towards me and towards the end of the hallway so i just went in this very strange autopilot mode where i pivoted on my feet and unlocked my door and the kids just pouring in my room. i don't know how many but i was putting them and getting them in and shouting at them to get this the room and suddenly saw the shooter. 20 feet from me standing at the helped of the hallway actively shooting down the hallway, just a barrage of bullets staring at him thinking why is the police here? he's in full metal garb helmet face mask. bull leproof armor shooting this rifle that i've never seen

before. i don't know when i decided it was the right time to close the door. i grabbed the handle with both hands and that's when i got nicked or grazed or whatever you call it. >> a bullet hit your arm. >> yes, i'm shouting at my next-door neighbor mr. beigel to close the door. he would just keep it open a little longer. he's all about the kid, you know, but he couldn't see the shooter. i had a good visual of him which is why i yelled at him to shut his door now. >> reporter: scott beigel among the 17 murdered on marjorie stoneman douglas' campus. >> i heard him shoot a barrage of bullets into mr. beigel's room and came to my door and shot about four or five shots into my room breaking the glass of my door. there is a rectangular piece of glass and heard him continuously shooting down the hallway and i never really knew when he left because we just thought he was still there. >> once you were inside the classroom you were with your students.

>> yes. >> covering them, kind of like a mother hen. >> yes, clutching -- i think i left fingerprints in one girl giving eye contact to other kids who were shaking and freaking out and mouthing it's okay it's okay. it was so quiet and hear helicopters outside far, far in the distance it seemed to me. police officers far, far in the distance. kids were screaming in the hallway for help. we're trained not to let anybody in the room and i would say a good 45 minces went by maybe an hour and when we heard the s.w.a.t. team come on the floor but i still didn't trust that it was them because they were bang on the door police let us in no one got out and then they just let themselves in and got us out and on the way house that's when i saw mr. beigel laying on the ground and i saw my students laying on the ground. i lost two students and other bodies and carnage ofare with. it was the most awful sight i've ever seen. it's like from a movie. >> how are you dealing having seen this and it being very very real? >> it's awful. you know i've never had to deal

with anything like this before. i'm a stoic person to begin with. i'm not the most emotional person and so when i sit and think and i pause about my two beloved students who were killed from that class, it's hard to live with because i loved them so much. like they were my kids. i've nover meadow since she was a tenth grader and took my class because she wanted to have me again, my creative and joaquin was like a son and called me mom and it's a heartbreaking -- >> what are you holding on to center you and keep you moving forward and waking up every day with hope. >> well, just that i survived and we survived and we have to move on. you can't sit there and cower. you still have a life and left on the planet for a reason. let's do what we're supposed to do and if we're not sure what that is we'll figure it out but we're alive. >> and we're all thankful that she's alive. her kid, as well who attend

school here and because stacey knew where the danger was and clear across campus. she didn't worry about them even in the midst of shooting but tell us joaquin mentioning calling her mom wrote a children's book in her class and she plans on getting it published. >> that would be some kind of a tribute. it's hard to imagine going back into that classroom but the students and teachers are preparing for it. >> yes, not into that particular building. there are talks to have that building completely demolished but in terms of returning back to staff class will return and the kids go back to normal class schedule next week but taste cia as told her students wherever we are no matter where the classroom is it will be home. >> adrienne bankert, thanks very much. >> we heard that from the principal. adrienne, let me ask you. you have spent quite a few days with those students and about to go back to school. just give us your impression of these young people. >> reporter: they are extremely intelligent. in fact i rode on the bus about an hour on their road to

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back now with that bombshell report about usa swimming. alleging decades of sexual abuse affecting nearly 600 victims. many under the age of 18 years. the investigation by the southern california news group is now raising serious questions and abc's paula faris is here and, paula, they're saying they didn't do nearly enough. >> good morning. this report is claiming usa swimming executives and board members did little or in some cases nothing about predatory swim coaches. it even describes a culture where the abuse of underage swimmers was common and even accepted. >> has done it again. >> reporter: it's one of the most dominant sports with athletes like michael phelps and katie ledecky basking in gold but it's possibly bigger than any of its success. according to a report from the southern california news group published in the "orange county

register" the usa swimming organization failed to properly address claims of sexual abuse made by hundreds of alleged victims over the course of two decades. the report claims that since 1997 at least 252 coaches and officials affiliated with usa swimming have been arrested, prosecuted for misconduct with swimmers. >> i will say at no point was sean and my relationship consensual. >> reporter: former world champ and 2012 olympic team usa member ariana kukors says she was sexually abused as a teenager by a former u.s. national team coach sean hutchison. kukors said he began grooming her for a sexual relationship when she was just 13 and sexually assaulted her at 16. they first had intercourse when she was 18 and continued to have

a sexual relationship until she was 24. >> all of it started when i was 13 and so every level we got to was not something shocking. i didn't have any sexual experience. every step that he took me to along the way was a step he was preparing me for whether texting about it ahead of time and you know, asking for pictures. >> reporter: but hutchison says these allegations are false telling abc news he denies having a sexual or romantic relationship before she was old enough to legally make those decisions for herself and claims prior to that he did nothing to groom her. usa swimming became aware of rumors of an inappropriate relationship between hutchison and kukors in 2010 when she was 21 but kukors says she lied about their encounters when asked by investigators. >> i'm just so hopeful we can bring change to this. i hope the right conversations can start taking place and i'm struggling so hard to be right here and it's costing me

everything. to sit in this room right now and rip myself open. >> so raw and emotional. usa swimming tells abc news this is the first time they learned about these allegations while kukorss with a noon for and said both parties denied the relationship and the investigation provided no basis to conclude a code of conduct violation occurred but so many victim, almost 600 the youngest age 3. >> all right. thank you, paula. we'll bring in abc news contributor christine brennan joining us from the olympics there in south korea. always good to spend a little time with you, christine. we know what you said after the scandal with gymnastics. you said quote, probably the darkest stain in u.s. olympic history. what's your reaction to this report? >> oh robin. this is the one-two punch, isn't it? to have two sports with gymnastics and swimming and such popular sports and americans cheering about them and to hear this, i think this is absolutely

horrible and as bad, maybe even worse than gymnastics. >> with gymnastic after larry nassar we saw the entire board with usa gymnastics resign so what do you expect here christine? >> well i think they should all resign, as well. there's a new leader at the usa swimming as there at usa gymnastics but they have to. this story is so massive as paula was saying close to 600 alleged allegations against swimmers, young swimmers as young as 3. that's even more than the gymnastics story which horrified us for more than a week last month so i absolutely think, robin, they should all go. whether they will or not but there's going to be a lot of pressure put on them. there has to be. >> gymnastic, now swimming. two major sports with the olympics. do you think that others will be implicated? >> i think we would have to be naive, robin, to think this is

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>> firefighters say part of the three story building on the 900 block of pitman avenue collapsed. no word on any injuries. the fire also impacting the septa route 102 trolley line and here's karen rogers with traffic. karen. >> that's right matt. right now we're looking at police activity backing up traffic. this is the ramp from the schuylkill to the boulevard northbound. we can see police partially blocking this ramp. earlier they were on the schuylkill eastbound. now on the schuylkill westbound to the boulevard northbound. those delays are spilling out onto the schuylkill so it's a slow go. as you look at this i-95 approaching the delaware state line we see fog in this area. you can see the flashing lights there. we've got an accident causing issues all morning. jammed from ridley park to

approaching the delaware state line on i-95 here southbound heading towards wilmington an accident there. also in delaware still about 16 miles an hour route one southbound at north smyrna, an accident here has been jamming things up. still blocking the right lane matt. >> thank you karen. it's been another foggy morning and like yesterday morning it's been kind of spotty. here's dave murphy with the accuweather forecast. >> clouds for now and some cases some fog that's fairly thick. it's mild again. 60 in philadelphia, allentown now improving to 47 and this afternoon another record breaker. we're going to get a high of 76. we'll have some sun. slight chance of a shower through the day. i think there's a better chance this evening. and then tomorrow cloudy cooler and damp, a high of 49 with rain at times. cloudy with periods of rain on friday, 46 the high there. and then we improve to 59 on saturday and 61 on sunday. but yet another feature comes through and we wind up with rain on saturday, the steadiest of it should be in the afternoon and then at night and then in through sunday morning, sunday afternoon i'm expecting some

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good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. students demand action on gun control saying never again in the wake of that florida massacre. survivors confront lawmakers at the state capitol. stage walkouts at school. now oprah and george clooney joining the cause. where will the fight go from here? the rock star the father and the husband. chris cornell's wife vicky opening up since his death. what she's sea saying about the man behind the music and his struggle with addiction. >> what is your message about addiction. >> it's in all of our house, rich poor it has no racial boundaries. >> it doesn't discriminate. >> no it does not discriminate. hollywood heartbreak. what went wrong? new details about jennifer aniston and justin thoreau's separation.

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and demand action on gun control and want to go back to dan harris in tallahassee. hey, dan. >> reporter: george good morning. one week after surviving one of the worst school shootings in modern american history, 100 students from the dougglass high school in parkland florida, are in the state capitol of tallahassee and spent the night at the civic center sleeping on cots and eating breakfast and soon will walk over to the capitol where they will meet the speaker of the house to the attorney general to the governor himself and have specific legislative demand and want to beef up school safety and background checks to make it harder with people with mental health to get firearms and make it harder if not impossible for people to get hands on ar-15s used in their school. even before they come here though they've received a setback. yesterday legislators voted against even considering a bill that would have banned

semiautomatic rifles so the ideal imof these students running head-long into hard legislative ryal. >> it is an uphill fight. thanks very much. now to the olympics. team usa grabbing medals overnight thanks to comeback kid lindsey vonn. in a pair of cross country skiers that go back to amy in south korea and, amy she has one more chance at a gold medal. >> historic day, kikkan randall and jesse diggins becomes the first americans ever to medal in women's olympic cross-country. and then yes skiing superstar lindsey vonn racing in what was her last olympic downhill competition earning the bronze and dedicating the race to her grandfather who recently passed away but it was a disappointing night on the ice for team usa. bradie tennell kicking offer the ladies short program with an unexpected tumble there and then

mirai nagasu looking to repeat that triple axel she nailed in the team event last week well she was unable to complete that move again. and then in men's ice hockey hopes were dashed for the americans after they lost in an overtime shoot-out to the czech republic in the quarterfinals but one american team still poised to take home the gold women's hockey. they face off against their arch rival canada tonight, the two teams met earlier here in pyeongchang. canada winning 2-1 and canada has won every gold medal since the u.s. beat them back in 1998 in nagano. safe to say hockey fans everywhere will be watching that game tonight, michael, present party included. >> yeah i know. you've got the ticket. you let us know that before. just rub it in amy. you deserve it. have a great time. >> just in case you forgot. >> thanks for that. all right, we love this story because it's about love. richard gibbs and patty goddard met as cajun army volunteers devoting their lives to helping

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all right. back here on "gma." wonderful to have everybody with us on this wednesday morning and it's wonderful. hello, everybody. how are you? i was just taken by the front row from mississippi from the hub city. >> oh you should have seen this whole place. tom had this place going. [ cheers and applause ] >> and he's got a suit on today. thank you, tom. >> the best part -- [ applause ]

these two were busting a move to ♪ sexy and i know it ♪ >> do we have it on tape. >> no but there is another commercial break coming. >> encore. >> yes. >> but "pop news." >> yes, let's do it. hi everybody, good morning to you. tom, got to give it to you, looking great and good morning. we begin with queen elizabeth. she's never wavered in her fashion sense but that doesn't stop her from checking out the shows in london. her majesty making her fashion week debut on tuesday sitting next to the grand dame of all things stylish "vogue" editor in chief anna wintour at the richard quinn's fashion show and afterwhich she presented him with the queen elizabeth award for british design. 28-year-old quinn known for his eccentric and structural pieces favored by the likes of lady gaga and the queen. >> wow.

>> inaugural award. who knew the queen and lady gaga share a little something. also in "pop news" this morning, do not mess with the u.s. curling team. you thought it was all just pushing, sweeping but you can only push to a point or they'll sweep you right under the carpet. kirstie alley found that out the hard way when she declared she didn't mean to be mean but watching curling is boring. the curling didn't appreciate that comment. >> neither did they back here. >> they tweeted back to her who starred in the "look who's talking movies" writing, we're not trying to be mean either but your movies weren't exactly riveting theater. >> what! drop the curling thing, drop the stone. >> you know you have to set some -- >> they have a point. she backed down and wrote i'll give it another chance. my son loves watching team usa and they responded, we knew

you'd come around. allow us or our good friends to show you and your son the ropes sometime and maybe they'll even try watching "veronica's closet" so it will all work out. movies do a little curling. >> no i appreciate -- i don't think you need to be doping for curling. >> okay. >> but i think it's really hard. those stones weigh a lot. >> you're pushing them. >> i appreciate it. i think it's amazing. >> take as i lot of work. u.s. curling team i'm not messing with you. kirstie found out the hard way. i'm not going there. now, how about a lost and founding father story. a lock of hair believed to have come from the head of george washington discovered in an envelope labeled washington's hair written in 18th century cursive tucked inside a book in union college, another clue, that book a 1793 almanac that

belonged to eliza hamilton's father and thanks to lin-manuel miranda that we all know this, the right-hand man to general washington and it may have to rear hair-say. scientists say dna testing -- thank you very much. try the meat loaf. time to say dna testing could destroy it altogether and just don't want to take the chance at this time hoping that science will improve and they'll be able to save the follicle. here's a fun fact for you. contrary popular belief george washington did not wear a wig. i found out his hair was all -- that was all his in all those pantzings and was a headred and powdered his hair white because that was the look in the time of the 1700s when he was -- he was just working it people. work it. >> that's a lot of work. >> you know what i'm thinking too, nobody looked in that book for a long time. >> no. >> george washington's hair. >> that's a clue.

i'll keep you posted on that. >> great "pop news" as always. we go now to our "gma" cover story. we are learning new details about jennifer aniston and justin thoreau's split and the factors that could have led to it. abc's eva pilgrim is here with all of that good morning, eva. >> reporter: good morning. this felt like it came out of nowhere. we were so happy for jen thinking she finally found true love. there was no word of trouble. but now that the two are done the long distance relationship turned marriage was reportedly a struggle even in the beginning. it was the valentine's day breakup we never expected. this morning, new details emerging about what possibly led to jennifer aniston's split with justin thoreau. the new issue of "people" magazine reporting that the two's clashing lives and personalities may have doomed the marriage. aniston mostly in l.a. thoreau 2400 miles away in new york. >> she loves the l.a. life because she can hide here more.

in new york you're much more public and she couldn't get used to that lifestyle and justin loves new york. >> reporter: sources telling "people" time apart didn't help strengthen their bond and that thoreau always acted more like a single guy. he went out with his single friends and sometimes would have very little contact with jen for days. the couple reportedly facing hurdles from the beginning. "people" magazine saying early in their relationship. the two wanted to have a baby hoping to start a family together. >> unfortunately having a baby just did not work out for them and while they were sad and disappointed, of course it's not something that consumed them. >> reporter: "people" says the couple went to therapy, trying to make it wok and for months aniston was still hoping they could work things out until last week when justin took a private plane from new york to l.a. the two deciding to jointly drop their bombshell announcement together. >> jen and justin didn't just suddenly give up on their

marriage. they tried for months to make it work. she also has a great life. wonderful friend a ton of projects in the works and she's staying busy. >> just makes you a little sad. jen said before she isn't a fan of dating fining it awkward and unpleasant but seems to be a big believer in falling in love and finding someone to spend her life with. that new issue of "people" hits stands today. >> all right, good morning guys again. your "gma" moment. good morning north america, this seven-year-old noah in his backyard doing a spinning lacrosse style slam into the net. get the hose out and make a rink in the backyard. that has since melted they tell me this morning so it's more of a grass hockey sort of thing but it gets you in the mood for the olympic. the women play canada tonight. [cheers and applause] >> u.s.a., u.s.a. here's a look at your u.s.a. forecast

locally. >> we are dry on storm tracker but we do have some fog around putting drizzle on the windshield. slow it down if it's thick. head outside we have center city and you can see some low lying cloud cover obscuring the tops of the buildings. clouds a little thicker in that suburbs. this afternoon more record warmth. sun comes back a high of 76. best chance of showers today would actually be later this evening and then cloudy cooler and damp tomorrow. rocker chris cornell, the soundgarden front man died in may of last year from an apparent suicide. now this morning his wife vicky is speaking on camera for the first time giving us a glimpse into the man behind the music and what happened that fateful night. ♪ black old sun won't you come ♪ ♪ and waltz away the rain ♪

>> reporter: his powerhouse voice inspiring a generation but to his wife of 13 years chris was so much more. we just know him as this rock legend. tell us more about the type of father and husband he was. >> the kids were his everything. as soon as he got offstage he was a regular dad. he was just all in. >> reporter: but the proud father of three also battling private demons. for years struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. vicky says he sought treatment and by 2003 he was sober. but it wouldn't end there. >> approximately a year before he died he he was prescribed a benzodiazepine to help him sleep. he had torn his shoulder. he complained that you know that the pain in the shoulder was waking him up. in retrospect i learned it's not supposed to be given to anybody in recovery. if you have to give it they have to be closely monitored and should not be given for more than two to three weeks so he

relapsed in a seven-day period he took 20 something pills and in a nine-day period 33. >> reporter: in march chris reaching out to a close colleague for help writing in an e-mail, would love to talk had relapse. >> he had really delayed speech. he was forgetful and there were moments where i thought there was like some confusion. ♪ >> reporter: less than two months later he would play his final show. >> he was off pitch. he forgot words. he walked offstage. chris cornell doesn't do those kind of things of the he's not that kind of a rock star. >> people must have been wondering what's going on here. hours later chris passed away. >> my children woke up and that was probably the most tragic thing you could ever go through. >> reporter: the medical report ruling the cause of chris' death asphyxiation.

an apparent suicide in his system seven different drugs that report saying drugs were not a contributing factor. vicky and many in the medical community say there's more to the story. >> he wanted to be there for his family, for his children he loved his life. he would never have ever left this world. >> and you believe it was the addiction that led him to do what he did that night in taking his life. >> i don't think that he could make any decisions because of the level of impairment. >> reporter: the events of that night still weigh on vicky. >> people saying can't blame yourself. i'm trying not to. but there were signs. >> you can't blame yourself, vicky. you relapse after cancer. i had a relapse and nobody questioned it. why is it when you have an addiction, which is an illness, why is it any different? >> you think addiction is a

choice. and it's not a choice. >> what is your message about addiction? >> it's in all of our houses. it's in rich poor it has no racial boundaries. >> it doesn't discriminate. >> no it does not. and i think that if there was less stigma around it more people would speak up. there's just so much labeling that comes with it and my husband was the furthest thing from a rock star junkie. he just wasn't. he was the best husband, the greatest father. ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ >> reporter: just three months after his death, toni his youngest daughter on stage with one republic at our summer concert series a moving tribute to her dad and his good friend lincoln park's chester bennington who also took his own life soon after chris' death.

that's your girl. to be able to get that presence where does she get it. >> from her daddy. ♪ hallelujah ♪ >> we wish vicky and her children all the best and appreciate her being so open with us. more on that but we do have breaking news so let's pause so our stations can join us. >> announcer: this is an abc news special report. now reporting, george stephanopoulos. >> good morning, for those of you just joining us of the billy graham has died at the age of 99. preacher one of the most important spiritual figures. known as a friend to presidents and met with every american president starting with harry truman all the way to barack obama. he was a key figure in reviving the american evangelical move many, the first christian to preach publicly behind the iron curtain and in communist

countries after world war ii and drew huge crowds. dan harris takes a look back at graham a man who brought inspiration and comfort to so many. >> there are thousands of you that god has been speaking to. >> reporter: for more than half a century billy graham brought the word of god to millions. >> return to your faith in god. christ is going to come back. >> reporter: his influence reached every corner of the globe and all the way to the white house. a long way from the north carolina dairy farm where he grew up during the great depression. graham found his calling at age 16 when a traveling preacher came to town. >> i went back night after night and one night i began to realize that there was an emptiness in my life. >> the lord jesus -- >> reporter: soon he was filling revival tents and expanding into radio and television. his message was for everyone regardless of race years before it was the law he insisted his

audiences not be segregated. >> i don't know what your religion or racial background or cultural background it make no difference. >> reporter: he first went to the white house in 1950 with an audience with president truman. it did not go well but hit it off with president eisenhower and became to be known as the unofficial white house chaplain and befriended and vouched for jfk helping him overcome anti-catholic prejudice. he stuck with johnson through vietnam and nixon through watergate and offered his prayers and counsel to every commander in chief through the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st. >> presidents need comfort that faith gives and billy graham was a great dispenser of comfort for me and barbara and our family. >> and he just talked to me. never at me never in a

condemnatory way. it was amazing. >> reporter: president george w. bush even credited graham with helping him quit drinking and turn his life around. >> god loves you. >> reporter: all the while graham continued to preach with crusades across america and around the world. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: unlike fellow evangelist jerry falwell he steered clear of abortion and the culture wars preferring a gospel that would unite. >> we need to trust in god and we need to put our faith had him as a nation. >> reporter: there were however, moments of controversy. he was caught on a nixon white house tape talking about jews having a advantage manyhold on the media a comment he said he deeply regretted lighter. he lived a simple life in north carolina with ruth his wife of 64 years who died in 2007.

>> the greatest need in the world today is a transformation of human nature to make us love instead of hate. >> reporter: at the time of his final crusade in 2005, he told abc news he looked forward to the day he would meet god in heaven. >> i'll say to the lord why did you choose me? i came from a farm i never dreamed that i'd be preaching to people in different countries and i'm going to ask the lord why did you choose me? because i believe i was chosen. >> reporter: to billy graham only one opinion mattered. >> i want to hear one person say something nice about me and that's the lord when i face him. i want him to say to me well done. my good and faithful servant. >> billy graham a towering figure in america as we said one of the major evangelical figures of the last century. his influence stretched for so long and want to bring in dan

harris who did that piece and remind everybody, of course billy graham's influence lasted for so long but he was such a towering figure in the middle of the last century. >> reporter: a towering figure not only in politics but in american culture. you know he really put evangelicalism on the map in many ways and his crusades were watched, attended by hundreds of thousands of people and watched by millions more on what was then the relatively new technology of live television. but, again, it was politics where he had this repeated influence being, you know, known as the pastor to presidents and speaking with them at their darkest hours, often and almost always those conversations were confidential. we don't even know what kind of support he was giving. >> yeah nonpartisan in his approach and befriended republican and democratic presidents alike and as you

pointed out, his message was always to unify. his son franklin graham still active as a preacher. also in politics taking a somewhat different path. >> reporter: yes, franklin graham has been quite a bit more polarizing and i think it's safe to say more associated with what's known as the religious right or conservative christians and has become embroiled in over the years more than a few public controversies. his dad really tried to stay away from that and wanted to be seen as and i believe was seen as largely above the fray. >> evangelist billy graham has died at the age of 99. we'll return to our regular programming. for many of you that is "good morning america." first of all a complete wrap-up tonight on "world news tonight" with david murashov. >> announcer: this has been a special report from abc news.

[ applause ] got to say welcome back to "gma," everybody. great to have you with us on this hump day. wednesday morning. thank you all so much. >> and as we wait for george to come back upstairs he was down for that special report about the breaking news billy graham dying at the age of 99. really an influential figure transforming religious life here in america. so we will have much as george said we'll have much more on "world news tonight with david muir" and continue on with "gma" and have an incredible 14-year-old taylor richardson who was just 9 when she launched a go fund me page to raise money for space camp.

now she is on a new mission to send hundreds of young girls to see "a wrinkle in time." raising $20,000 and counting. taylor and her mother latonya, they're joining us from florida to talk all about it. we can tell that you want to be an astronaut one day. we can tell by what you're wearing there. congratulations on what you're doing and just tell us why you decided to do something like this. >> well i wanted to do the wrinkle in time campaign because in my opinion representation matters and i wanted all girl especially girls of color to know they can be whatever they want to be when they grow up and also can struggle and have flaws and still be successful in life. >> you've done similar things in the past, haven't you? raising money, tell us about that. >> well i did start a hidden figures campaign to send over a thousand girls there and i did that because i didn't know about the story with the hidden

figures and katherine johnson and i feel like that history needed to be shared with the rest of the world so i started my campaign. >> good for you. >> latonya, you must be a proud mom but your daughter she's accomplished so much at a young age. did you always know she'd make such a big difference? >> well i've always felt that taylor was going to make a difference. at the age of 9 she went to space camp and being the only black girl at space camp she came home and said mom, we need to do something about this. so she's been very active and advocating for s.t.e.m. since she was 9 years old. [ applause ] >> yes. we heard taylor's mom mention space camp and see the outfit so taylor this is obviously a passion and i understand it started at a young age inspired by a book. >> yeah i was inspired by an

out biography, the first african-american female astronaut who went into space and after reading about her struggles with racism being a girl also if she can do it so can i. >> hey, latonya what is your secret? >> oh gosh. a village. i'm a single mom and we just have so many people helping us here. not just in jacksonville but all over. and the quote is true. it takes a village and we have a very strong village here in jacksonville helping taylor. >> taylor i can see on your face you had an answer to that as well. >> me? >> yes. >> yeah well i did. i just was thinking about all the people who helped me along the way because i was bullied when i was younger and i didn't really have many friends my age so it was always adults helping me coming over to the house with my homework and putting

groceries in the refrigerator and always supporting me when i was little so i guess it does take a village to raise a child. >> that's awesome. and, taylor what is your young message for all the other young girls out there who have these dreams and aspirations? >> i just would say, never be limited by the people's limited imaginations which my idol said but always work hard and get an education and just be the warrior you truly are. >> you're living proof of that, sweetheart and i tell you what because of all your hard work we are going to have you visit us here in new york city at "gma" and we're going to have you meet one of the women with "a wrinkle in time." >> oh, my gosh. >> are you serious? >> yeah we are. >> oh, my gosh. >> we love surprises here. that's how we roll so we'll have a lot of surprises when you and your mom come up and visit us

real soon but bless your heart, both of you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, thank you. next exciting. we have an olympian on top of the world, the first american to medal in the men's single luge. please welcome chris matthew dowder. mazdzer. >> oh, my god. >> nice to meet you. robin, robin. >> congratulations. >> congratulations. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> good morning, america. >> wow. >> first of all we got to say congratulations. you're a historymaker. you're the first -- >> it still hasn't sunk in yet. i don't think it has, no.

i just love the sport of luge. i love what i do and that hasn't changed at all so it hasn't set in. it truly hasn't. >> how do you become a luger when you're little? >> it's easy. i mean you start to put sledding -- like luge is ultimate sledding so it's very easy transition. but to your sledding hill. you take your flexible flyer and go as fast as you can down the hill and then you move to the luge track. >> on your back going down. >> i know. [ applause ] >> yeah it's easy. >> you have been so cool in recognizing all that came before you. all the men and women who were in the sport and you to be the firstt one in men's luge but have been very respectful of your predecessors. >> it's taken generations, this isn't just like i started out and a couple of years later i have this. there's 33 other men who have gone through this for the u.s. and that's -- that takes lives. like i started when i was 8. i'm 29 now. that's 21 years so there's 33

people have given their lives so -- it's a full commitment and it feels really good to come back and be like we finally -- we have it. >> >> what's the hard effort thing about going down the track. >> the ice is pretty hard. the ice is pretty hard. the hardest part is staying relaxed relaxed. when you come out and know you're an inch away from the wall. if you tense up that will send the slide into a skid so you have to be completely relacked when you know you're out of control. that's the hardest part. >> you must meditate or something. [ applause ] >> i don't know. that is -- luge is kind of like my meditation. it's a minute where it's 100% focus where you don't hear or feel anything else so when you're going down it is kind of like a meditation. >> so the internet has a massive crush on you. i don't know if you guys -- you have to go online. you're everywhere. we wanted to know what's

something we don't know about you but we should? >> well i would say i'm always up for a challenge. i really like challenge, whatever that is. >> i think we know that. >> i guess so. >> that's pretty amazing. >> you have a challenge for some people. >> yeah absolutely. so, i have been a mentor for kids through this nonprofit called classroom for champions. >> what makes this so special, typically athletes will go to a school and talk in front of kids and our message will stick for a couple of days or weeks but if we're not there to reiterate it kind of gets lost. this allows us to become involved with classes and every month we're doing a video on perseverance or diversity and we're talking about these great topics and we always challenge the kids. whether that's not to help out with their community or if it's just to talk about how they persevered so they can grow and

i always give a challenge and right now i have a challenge for people where i'm matching or i hope to match -- i donated $5,000 from this medal's winning and trying to get other people to match that. and i try to get in this program a couple of years ago but i couldn't because they didn't have the funding and i feel this is a way that i can make a difference in kids' lives and i want to spread that however i can so my challenge is to see if people can match that. we've already raised about $30,000. >> how do we do it? >> yeah. you go to classroomchampions.org and it's right there. >> please. [ applause ] >> we have our champion right here we'll see you in 2022 by the way back at the olympics again. enjoy and let it soak in. coming up, the great brooke shields is here coming up.

>> same old, same old. >> rachael: from the '60s to the '70s to the '80s, she will pull off

>> how about this? how about this? does it not feel like -- you look like you're melting out here. where are you from. >> birmingham. >> birmingham alabama. dozens of records yesterday. just up the road from birmingham. there's memphis tennessee home of graceland beautiful. daffodil flowers blooming across much of the southeast. more records expected 70's

atlanta, maybe 80 in raleigh. maybe 80 in d.c. don't get used to it. it's still february. time now for a look at your local forecast. check it out. >> all right rob we're dry on storm tracker6 live double scan. we might have drizzle on the windshield from fog here and there. today's high 76. sun coming back. this looks like another record today and then some showers tonight cooler tomorrow. look at these beautiful bows. a bedazzled bow. how old you are. >> 9. >> beautiful 9. how old you are. >> 8. >> 8 and 9. i love it. beautiful stuff. this weathercast is brought to you by boost high protein. love some of that too. michael, back up to you. >> rob, thank you so much. i'm here with someone, she does it all. brooke shields. [ applause ] author, model. business woman and actress who's had roles on at least five

different shows. that's just in the last past year. five different shows including "the adult swim cartoon," "mr. pickles." love having you here. >> thank you. >> you're one busy woman. how do you juggle it all? >> first of all, you know it's funny. it's feast or famine so you're either doing nothing or you're on four shows. i mean you know i'd like to say it's always like that but i think i was born a multitasker. it's amazing for me. i cannot not work. so just being on "mr. pickles" which is animated or "the middle" or "jane the virgin" or designing a line for qvc. i go where the water is warm and i keep treading. >> but you're not treading. you're like swimming olympic type swimming and doing great at everything. >> thank you. >> one thing it's "mr. pickles" a cartoon about a dog. >> it's a bad dog. >> you didn't quite understand

it when you first showed it to your girls. >> when you first do it notice she's rather well endowed. clearly typecasting and there too. so when they showed me they said you want to play it. my kids can watch it and i didn't see the entire -- the whole -- all the graphics so he's a bad dog and, you know i saw it and i was done and i didn't see it fully. i just saw my bit and mommy is on a cartoon and i show it and i press play and all of a sudden i was like, oh, my god. so for adults. >> we did find a morning show friendly clip. >> perfect. >> that we'll show right now. here is mr. pickles. >> son, it's time i teach you how to fight. stand up for yourself like a man. >> no. >> okay sorry. >> violence isn't the answer. i'm sure if i drive tommy over

there, we can work this out peacefully. >> but every time you drive my truck, it gets damaged. why don't you get your old bike from the barn huh? >> ugh. we're here. >> looking at that clip i would say do you think your character is the moral center of the show. >> she's the voice of reason within and she also is not fully aware of mr. pickles' antics but she does all the work in the house and does all the cooking and cleaning and does everything so she is sort of a very modern woman and she finds her voice and she's funny too but she definitely -- you don't want to pass her and she is the moral character. >> and another character "the middle," rita. >> there is no moral character. >> there is no moral character there. >> no. [ applause ] >> oh. you're back. you're back in the final -- the final season of the show. >> it's the final season. >> a lot of people are sad about

that. >> i'll miss the mullet. >> i was so happy they asked me back. rita has a lot of kids and she just keeps having kids. i don't know how and they start in diapers at about 8 years old and they -- we sort of find a different side to her by the end. she's not -- kind of had to reconcile hers thattiness but you sort of see how she got to the way she got and it's funny. >> i will tell you this you are an incredible actress because you are the nicest person. [ applause ] you really are. you really are. i love it when you're here. and season three of "mr. "mr. pickles" premieres this sunday on adult swim. brooke shields, everybody. coming up from "star wars" to - [narrator] look around. if our

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back now with one of our favorites, actor oscar isaac starring in an incredible sci-fi thriller called "annihilation" opposite natalie portman taking on another brand-new role father. congratulations. >> thank you. >> and thinking about you, 2017 was quite a year for you. not only fatherhood but also marriage and also this little movie. i don't know if you heard it. it's called "star wars." >> yeah. [ applause ] >> "the last jedi" you played poe. how has that been for you. >> huge thing to be a part of. just like anything we always find a way to complain about something after a while because we adapt and so it starts to feel like a job but then when little kids come to visit or you

just see their eyes go so wide when you're there and that just reminds you how special it is. >> you're an action figure. >> yeah. yeah. >> your son is going to really -- that ups your cool factor. >> i know i know. >> and for the rest of us it's pretty cool on the new cover of "gq" magazine. my man is on fire. >> that was a fun shoot. >> really was. and we notice that there's like a theater vibe to it and theater near and dear to your heart and just worked on "hamlet." >> that was in the summer and that up. did that at the public theater downtown and very intense production like basically four hours with two intermissions and that was really intense because my son had just been born very shortly before we started rehearsals so to kind of do that at night and to be home in the day. >> changing diapers? a tale of two cities, i like to say.

want to show everybody your latest project, though because it is a nail-biter. let's take a look. "annihilation." >> i don't know where it was or what it was. >> how is that possible? you must be able to tell me something. you vanished off the face of earth for 12 months. i deserve a better explanation than no explanation. >> it doesn't matter. >> yes, it does matter. trust me. it does matter. >> yes. >> how is it working with the wonderful natalie portman. >> amazing. she is an incredible person. not just what she does on screen but off screen. just a really inspirational figure. the film was directed and written by alec garland and did "ex machina" together. this is his follow-up to that and it's just a very -- you saw it. it's thrilling and horrifying and makes you think a lot and has so many layers to it.

>> yeah i can't get that night of sleep back. it was really fantastic and it's great to see you. please come back. >> thank you. >> congrats on "star wars." and a family now. adorable. congrats on the baby. "annihilation" is breathtaking in theaters friday. don't go anywhere. this winter in the state with more ski mountains than any other family fun reaches a new peak. so whether you're a speed demon or more of a snow angel, your winter chariot awaits. pick the best peak for your family getaway at iloveny.com

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"good morning america" is brought to you by liberty mutual insurance. thanks for watching. have a great wednesday, everybody. >> bye. >> ♪♪ >> hello everyone. 8:56 on this wednesday february 20's first. karen rogers is here with anup date to an accident she has been following. >> looking live at i-95. this is southbound not far

from the delaware state line an accident that was blocking the two left lanes now blocking one left lane. but the delay is just massive. if you're heading on i-95 southbound, usually it's about an eight minute ride to get from the blue route to delaware. now it takes about an hour. it's a huge delay. watch for this big jam from ridley park. new problem at walt whitman bridge westbound as you're coming into the city. disabled truck blocks the right lane. speeds about 22 miles an hour here. mass transit the route 102 trolley is still shuttle busing. also we're seeing 30 minute delays with the media elwyn line, matt. >> thank you, karen. taste of spring maybe even a taste of summer. here's meteorologist, david murphy. >> very similar to yesterday even a few degrees warmer later this afternoon matt. right now we're at 62 degrees in philadelphia. allentown has recovered to 50 at this point and this afternoon 76 for the second straight day we're looking at a record high. yesterday we did set the record with 73 but better today. later this afternoon and

especially this evening there's the chance of a passing shower. and then tomorrow things change, cooler cloudy and damp on thursday with periods of rain. a high of 49. just 46 under the clouds on friday. more rain possible. and for the weekend, highs around 60 saturday and sunday but matt, saturday afternoon in through sunday morning in particular there's going to be some rain. >> okay, thanks, david. coming up at noon police looking for the man responsible for a pair of violent home invasions in philadelphia. plus we are following the investigation into this destructive fire in delaware county. oscar isaac and katie nixon "live with kelly and ryan" is next here on 6abc. both of those guests will be on the show. i'm matt o'donnell. have a great wednesday. >> ♪♪

>> announcer: it's "live with kelly and ryan!" today, from the thriller "annihilation," oscar isaac. and star of the hit comedy "american housewife," katy mixon katy mixon. plus the latest high-tech products direct from the consumer electronics show. all next on "live!" ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] and now, here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> ryan: hi! good morning! hi hi. [cheers and applause]