janai norman for us live from d.c. thanks, janai. >>> former new york city mayor rudy giuliani has joined president trump's legal team saying he hopes to negotiate a quick end to the russia investigation. giuliani is a former u.s. attorney and the president's longtime friend and supporter. he tells "the washington post" he has high regard for special counsel robert mueller and says he's advised the president to allow mueller to do his job. >>> thousand to the other story developing overnight. the ambush killing of two young sheriff's deputies in northern florida. police are trying to determine a motive for the brazen attack at a chinese restaurant. sergeant noel ramirez and deputy taylor lindsey were just eating lunch when investigators say a gunman opened fire through a window killing them both. >> after 26 years of doing this, nothing prepares you for senseless deaths. >> reporter: in an emotional news conference, sheriff bobby schultz called the shooter a coward and described sergeant ramirez and officer lindsey as t

abc's janai norman has the latest. good morning, janai. >> reporter: diane and kendis, good morning. president trump is blaming democrats for letting down dreamers and at the same time he's looking to ramp up efforts to stop illegal immigration. president trump on twitter took aim at democrats declaring daca is dead. >> i can tell you this, and i say this to daca recipients, that the republicans are with you. >> reporter: but it was the president who ended the protections for dreamers and then later rejected a deal from democrats in exchange for billions to build his border wall. >> we had this great opportunity. the democrats have really let them down. it's a shame and now people are taking advantage of daca and that's a shame. >> reporter: now the president is pushing for legislation to crack down on illegal immigration and wanting to make it more difficult to obtain refuge in the united states. the sharp shift in tone coming on the heels of this "fox & friends" segment about a caravan of migrants on their way to the

. >> abc's janai norman is in washington where president trump paid tribute to mrs. bush ordering flags lowered to half-staff overnight. janai, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and as you can imagine, so many people expressing condolences to the bush family on social media, and her husband, former president george h.w. bush, is said to be heartbroken. the two of them married longer than any other presidential couple in american history. she was an american icon, matriarch of a political dynasty. >> i hated it when anyone criticized my brilliant husband, and i was furious when they criticized my son. >> reporter: one of only two first ladies who was also the mother of a president, barbara bush was fiercely loyal and quick-witted. >> and speaking of glamour, i want you to look at me very carefully. >> reporter: and humble, at times even more popular than her husband. >> i, george herbert walker bush. >> reporter: as first lady, famous for her candor known for telling it like it is and using her position to promote literacy. in recent years barbara bush had been

abc's janai norman has the latest on both stories. janai, good morning. >> reporter: diane, good morning. the focus of the president's weekend tweets included attacks on the media, the special counsel and reports his longtime attorney would flip. president trump is standing by his longtime lawyer and fiercely loyal fixer, michael cohen. >> i will do anything to protect mr. trump. >> reporter: cohen is the subject of a criminal investigation. "the new york times" reporting he may cooperate with federal investigators leading the president to lash out tweeting, sorry, i don't see michael doing that despite the horrible witch-hunt and the dishonest media. >> why is the president, though, talking about the notion of michael cohen flipping if the president didn't do anything wrong? >> you have to look at everything the president said about michael cohen and the fbi raid. he's defending someone who he's worked with and known for a dozen plus years, dana, who he thinks is being treated unfairly. >> reporter: a source telling abc news, quote, m

that's janai norman for us live in d.c. thanks, janai. you can hear comey in his own words during an exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos sunday night at 10:00, 9:00 central here on abc. >>> we are learning more about the investigation into the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen, including conversations he had before and during the 2016 campaign. sources tell "the washington post" cohen often recorded those conversations using digital files and would repeat -- reportedly replay them for colleagues. "the post" says trump's allies are concerned the recordings may have been scooped up in the fbi's raids on cohen's apartments and offices. this all comes amid growing questions about hush money paid during the presidential campaign and whether payouts were used to influence the election. the latest allegation involves a former doorman at trump's world tower and his own uncorroborated salacious story involving trump before he was president. >>> abc news has learned that president trump has already signed off on pardoning a key

diane and kendis. >> that's janai norman for us live in d.c. anks, janai. >>> breaking overnight a massive power outage on puerto rico. the entire island and its 1.4 million american citizens residents are right now are living without electricity. the cause, an excavator knocked out a high voltage line. the same subcontractor was blamed for an outage last week. puerto rico's governor is pushing for a new company. the blackout did not affect though the major league baseball game that was played in puerto rico. the stadium ran on generators for all 16 innings until the twins beat the indians, but look at this, the stadium provided the only light for miles. >> wow. >>> and most of oklahoma is under a state of emergency facing an historic wildfire threat. the state's two largest wildfires have burned through more than 500 square miles with the largest fire only 3% contained. more high winds are expected today before rain moves in by the weekend. >>> in the meantime, hawaii is bracing for a second round of torrential rains and flash floods in kauai.

abc's janai norman has details from washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president trump is largely blaming robert mueller and his investigation for bad blood between the u.s. and russia. and at this point the white house isn't saying whether the president intends to fire him. overnight "the washington post" reporting ousted white house chief strategist steve bannon is pitching a plan to undercut the russia investigation. according to "the post" the plan would include president trump firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, ceasing cooperation with special counsel robert mueller and exerting executive privilege. >> i don't have any personnel announcements. >> reporter: the white house said the president didn't intend to fire mueller or rosenstein but the tone has changed since federal agents raided the home, office and hotel room of michael cohen, president trump's personal lawyer. >> mr. cohen, why do you think they raided your office and hotel room? have you talked to mr. trump about a pardon? >> reporter: sources tell abc news those agents were lo

janai norman, abc news, washington. >> facebook is on a roll this year with publicity. >>> coming up.ets the disney treatment. >> next in "the skinny." >> next in "the skinny." >> next in "the skinny." disney treatment. >> next in "the skinny." ♪ skinny ♪ just give me "the skinny" >>> skinny's in the house. and it's monday morning, which means it's time to talk "american idol." >> who else is in the house? super fan, he's not embarrassed to be a super fan. >> last night on "idol" was disney night. it's like you combined my favorite things. betty white. >> you just checked all the things. you know me so well. there they are. so this episode was truly incredible. katy perry dressed like a disney princess, but her fantasy crashed and burned when she found out he may have a crush on another disney character. >> who is she! >> i thought i saw someone in the lounge. >> she's in the lounge! >> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> it got really aggressive. but the night also featured some much more pleasant moments, and snow white was able to channel her inner happy. take a look at this show-stopping p

janai norman has more. >> reporter: tonight the president is once again skipping the white house correspondents dinner instead opting to hold a campaign rally in michigan. >> you may have heard i was invited to another event tonight, the white house correspondents dinner. but i'd much rather be in washington, michigan than in washington, d.c. right now. >> reporter: it's been a busy week for foreign policy. president trump is taking a bow for the tentative agreement struck between the north and south korean leaders working towards an end to the decades long conflict. >> i think i have a responsibility. i think other presidents should have done it. >> reporter: the peace summit at the dmz setting the stage for president trump's meeting with him in the dumbing weeks. things are going very well. time and location be north korea is being seat. the president taking to twitter after losing his nominee for v.a. secretary dr. ronny jackson who withdrew his consideration following allegations of haraing behavior and overprescribing medications. writing, the secret service unable to confirm in fact, they

janay norman has the latest from washington. >> much of those memos are pretty similar to what we already heard him say about his conversations with president trump. despite a few new details, the president says those memos show no collusion or obstruction. we're hearing from james comey in his own words, in newly released copies of memos written while he was fbi director. in them comey details what he says were president trump's strenuous and repeated denials of being with prostitutes in moscow. rachel maddow asked comey about the memos, referring to when putin said he had some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. >> he told you he had a conversation with putin about hookers? >> yes. >> reporter: the memos were released as part of 15 pages of declassified material handed over to congress. trump wrote, james comey memos just out and show clearly no obstruction or collusion. >> those memos say comey had serious reservations about then national security adviser michael flynn, saying he had, quote, serious judgment issues. >>> rudy giuliani is joining president trump's legal team, hel

abc's janai norman has been following the overnight developments. she joins us now from d.c. good morning. >> reporter: diane and kendis, this was chaos in one of the safest cities in north america. that horrifying scene happened in one of the busiest sections of toronto leaving so many victims and witnesses behind. it was a dramatic ending to 26 minutes of pure panic. 25-year-old suspect alek minassian pleading with police to shoot him. >> i have a gun in my pocket. >> i don't care. get down. >> i have a gun in my pocket. >> shoot me in the head. >> reporter: moments earlier a terrifying scene unfolding in toronto. 26 minutes of pure panic from the first 911 calls. >> vehicle, personal injury intersection of yonge street and finch avenue. >> reporter: it was before 1:30 p.m., lunchtime when a white van was used as a murder weapon. >> it was just clear as day. just an ordinary day walking and just saw the guy get hit by a van. >> reporter: that van making it 16 blocks mowing down pedestrians for nearly a mile and a half. >> it's really bad out there. i couldn't believe what i

. >> abc's janai norman joins us now from washington where they should be talking about cherry blossoms. instead, they're talking about snow and sleet. she's smart. she's indoors. >> reporter: absolutely, guys. can you believe it? it's april 2nd. and here we are talking about snow. and lots of it. in places like nebraska and minnesota. here on the east coast, as you both know, we're facing the fifth major storm in as many weeks. it's a double dose of winter weather. a spring storm packing bitter cold and heavy, wet snow. >> so it's mother nature's april fool's to us. >> reporter: on easter sunday, snow blowers and slick roads across the plains and great lakes. chicago had its coldest easter in easily a decade. that spring system dumping nearly a dozen inches of snow and causing more than 300 car accidents in minnesota. the storm brought black ice to parts of wisconsin and created whiteout conditions along i-80 in nebraska. >> this time of year, we're pretty much sick of it. >> reporter: the northeast bracing for another round of spring snow. this, following four nor'easters in the last

here's janai norman. >> reporter: a new warning, tonight, if you're on facebook.mmers promising innocent victims big bucks, then duping them out of cash instead. >> i think they just wanted my money. >> reporter: suzette ganaway was thrilled to open this message telling her she won half a million dollars. >> i thought i was waking up rich tomorrow. >> reporter: the scammer had her full name, address, e-mail and phone number. insisting the fbi was involved and that the check would be delivered by fedex. >> it actually looks legit if you don't know any different. >> reporter: it wasn't until a man claiming to work for fedex called asking her for $350 in processing fees that suzette got suspicious. fedex telling abc news it "does not send unsolicited messages, or e-mails to customers requesting money." and while facebook does require a real name to join, the social media giant estimates there are as many as 60 million fake accounts on the site. we even found some impersonating facebook founder mark zuckerberg. facebook telling abc news it has "a dedicated team and au