pak, the former mtv news correspondent sitting down with her one-time colleague, our very own chris connellysharing her experience growing up asian in america.p♪ what's w confident ♪ >>> it's time for a crash course in "oprahdemics," more than a decade after she signed off the air a deep dive into her show that changed daytime tv forever. >> you get a car. you get a car. you get a car. >> as we say, good morning, america. ♪ complicated ♪ >>> i love oprah so much. you know that's the reason i eat dessert first before dinner. >> really? >> because oprah's show says it keeps you young. >> okay, all right. i can get behind that too. >> duly noted. >> good morning, america, on this memorial day weekend. so many people on the roads and the airports. they're filling up to prepandemic levels. that's as some spots are cleaning up after severe weather rolled through like in bedford county, virginia. we'll have more on the holiday travel. that is ahead. >>> more on that, first, we begin in texas where just four days after that mass shooting at robb elementary school in uvalde, we're getting a clearer p

for "good morning america" chris connelly, abc news, new york. >> she will certainly be missed. now talk more about mental health especially as today, the 1st of may, the beginning of mental health awareness month. >> she was very open about it and it haunted her all the way into her 70s. a reminder there is help out there for people who need it. >> absolutely. >> we'll have more on that coming up later on this morning. >>> still ahead on "gma" amber heard's turn on the stand could come tomorrow in that blockbuster lawsuit brought by her ex, johnny depp. what we can expect next in the case. >>> and allergies or covid? as the sneezing season takes off, how you can tell the difference between a spring irration and a potentially severe illness. we'll be right back. i'm always up for what's next, even with higher stroke risk due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin i'll go after that. eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk better than warfarin and has less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis has both. don't stop taking eliquis w

. >> reporter: lauderdale county district attorney chris connelly says he worked with vicky nearly everyhose 17 years and described her as the most reliable person at the jail. >> i would have trusted her with my life. i really would have. i thought that much of her. >> reporter: while the u.s. marshal says that they are dangerous and could be armed, a warning from a woman who is in hiding after she says that she was targeted by casey white in that home invasion. >> if she is still alive, get the hell out. run, run, run as far as you can. >> reporter: the sheriff tells me that they have been beth getting good leads thanks to all the media attention. he also tells me that he does not believe the fugitives are still in alabama. it turns out the public was not supposed to know about the getaway car, that 2007 ford edge suv. in fact, it was an unnamed police agency that accidentally leaked this information on social media. so now the assumption is that casey white and vicky white have abandoned this vehicle and are now in a different getaway car. am with ara walker, florence, c. >>> and ther

legacy and over the years we were blessed to have her join us here in the studio at "gma" and now chris connellyng beautifully and speak her mind candidly by sharing her music, she uplifted hearts. by sharing her story she may have saved lives. ♪ i will stand by you ♪ >> a lot of mothers and daughters out there, we see ourselves in you all. >> reporter: singing alongside her talented daughter wynonna, naomi judd brought sunshine and sweet harmonies to the judds' music. ♪ ♪ i love the slide of a steel guitar ♪ >> reporter: it was naomi's grit and gumption offstage that gave her and wynonna the chance to hit country's biggest stages and turn it loose. >> i was so desperate to get us out of our poverty and i knew the only way out of kentucky when i had no education, barely got a high school diplomacy -- -- diploma because i gave birth to her. >> that was quite an education. >> reporter: years of deprivation followed and naomi becoming a nurse at 29 and lobbied much of nashville before slipping a tape to a grateful patient's father. ♪ ♪ oh, baby, hold me tight ♪ >> reporter: in 1983, they were a bre

they were at the london premiere with tom cruise and this morning, chris connelly is there at the famousod morning, chris. >> reporter: hey, good morning, cecilia. yeah, for 40 years no one has packed more people into movie theaters like this one than tom cruise has, and now, thanks to the need for speed, he's fixing to do it again. ö6 years since his groundbreaking flight, maverick's engines are back on and clear for takeoff. tom cruise and "top gun: maverick," the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 blockbuster "top gun," soaring into theaters memorial day weekend after months of pandemic postponements. g-forces are expected to shatter the box office. >> the critics are raving about "top gun: maverick." sources are telling us that you're looking to maybe up to $100 million over that three-day weekend. >> reporter: full-throttle frenzy thursday at the london premiere. the 59-year-old cruise walking the red carpet with william and kate. earlier this week at the cannes film festival greeted first with a flyover and then a five-minute standing "o" after the screening. ♪ i went to the danger zo

chris connelly has a look back on his iconic roles and the touching tributes. >> as far back as i couldember i always wanted to be a gangster. ♪ >> reporter: as real-life mobster henry hill, ray liotta impeccably portrayed an organized crime up-and-comer who craved that wise guy swagger alongside robert de niro and joe pesci in "goodfellas." his passage into mafioso privilege shown in a first date scene with lorraine bracco, a single superb shot to the strains of "and then he kissed me." ♪ and then he kissed me ♪ >> reporter: liotta's intensity enough to make them nervous. [ laughter ] the 1990 film would earn liotta made man status in the movies as it followed up his work as shoeless joe jackson in the baseball saga "field of dreams." his co-star kevin costner remembering liotta's incredible legacy and this incredible real moment caught on screen. scores of films would follow before liotta was reported to have died in his sleep at 67 thursday while on location in the dominican republic. news of his untimely passing spurring more tributes from his colleagues. lorraine bracco writing tha