george michael and's name is up there -- george mccullen's name is up there. we are about to embark on the restoration of the executive statehouse. the executive statehouse is a portion of the statehouse that faces state street and includes the governor's office and all the various offices related to the offices of government. if you are walking by today, you would notice there are many windows that have been boarded up. there are lots of work crews, as well as barriers, all in preparation for the restoration of the executive statehouse, which is set to begin sometime this summer. i always feel the new jersey state capitol is a working building. it is not as monumental as some of the other state capitals are. but as soon as you enter the building, you get a sense that this is a working building. as i mentioned, i finish you walk in, off of a major thoroughfare, you are greeted by the lieutenant government's office. as you enter the building, you get this sense of change. in different architects over 16 major construction projects. you can see how eclectic the

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they are saying — look, they won the manchester, george michael mayoralt and liverpool decriesively. are in despair. they think the party is heading to a heavy defeat next month. jeremy corbyn headed to manchester this afternoon to celebrate andy burnham victory, but the new mayor, well, he was otherwise engaged. on this historic day we decided to take a look at the five lessons we've learnt from today. the people of britain have spoken. the political ground has shifted and britain is on course for a realignment in next month's general election. butjust what have we learnt from the multitude of elections across great britain? crowing by ministers has been banned by number ten. they have little doubt that theresa may's decision to call an early general election will pay off. strange to think thatjust a few weeks ago some ministers were wondering whether her gamble was really that wise. now, ministers are drawing parallels with margaret thatcher's landslide victories in 1983 and 1987. she triggered those contests a few days after success in the local elections. theresa may had no such

. >> reporter: in prince george's county, michael quander, wusa9. >> they are working around the clock to track kelly down. >>> ff honor national police officers on the national mall. and matt yurus is there with a live preview. matt? >> reporter: thank you debbie. the nation's top cop and others are expected to honor 394 fallen officers. 143 of them have died in 2016 alone from traffic incidents from being killed in the line of duty. from other illnesses related to the jobment it also merits mentioning 75 of these deaths of the overall number are related to illnesses from rescue efforts dating back to 9/11, 2001. you are seeing folks filing in behind me. these are the family members of the fallen officers. all the chairs you see around, they are for those family members, you will notice small candles on each seat. it is for the vigil expected to take place a little after the ceremony kicks off, the general public is encouraged to attend. they can stand all al washington monument. we have speakers. there is large screens. to everybody can get a little taste of the action. you will noti

they have an exclusive interview with george michael's partner for 20 years, talking about the deathies on breakfast this morning. the conservatives, labour and the liberal democrats or made key policy pledges ahead of the general election. meanwhile, french voters go to the poles today in the final round of the country's presidential election. also coming up on the programme, can you tell the difference between the song of a thrush, a robin, a black cab ora blackbird? new thrush, a robin, a black cab ora blackbird ? new research thrush, a robin, a black cab ora blackbird? new research says that most of us cannot. we will get some tips on how to spot some of our most common birds. i can tell the difference between them by looking at them but i am not sure about the birdsong. i think that defeats the object, doesn't it? we will test your knowledge as well and viewers at home as well. louise, is the bird whether this morning? it is. it is quite why actually. a little more straightforward than yesterday. we are seeing some clear skies through the night. across the north—west there is a

. >> george michael. >> and the other half of wham. >> we have to go to go wham !ou like the fog bank. >> i live out at the east bay. >> one more day of 90s and then we cool things down fog is not high enough but it will get there. maybe light breeze later there are hints of that i think we peaked it out yesterday. antonio daly semi that summer think fog 49.6 nothing measurable, yes, in a summer pattern. we are in spring but low clouds and fog favoring the coast 50s, 60s there. and 70s, 80s around the bay. i want 80s and 90s and land there are hints and locations cool down. san francisco 66, 51 average 65, 5185 9043 the record high. low cloud deck 50s on the temperatures and 40s and low 60s won't take long for inland temperatures to warm ridge of high pressure goes out for one day and it breaks down 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s. 7:31 am what you have, sow? >> slow traffic on monday. at some point during the summer we may see a drop off and we may not but right now full strength in the toll plaza including carpool lanes. cars are driving through. slow traffic

michael cohen for president trump. good evening, gentlemen. first to you about the breaking news that now -- i'll go to you, george -- that michael flynn will provide some documents to the house or to the senate intel. >> i'm not a lawyer, although i play one on television. we have a real one here. how optional is this, i'd like to know? when congress subpoenas things, you're supposed to give them up, not say mother may i, or please. second, this is an example of where we're going to get overlapping jurisdictions here because you have mr. mueller just gearing up for what will be a comprehensive investigation that is going to run up against conflicting subpoenas and maybe conflicting grantsf immunity. this could be a mayor's nest. >> you're a lawyer, real white house counsel and president obama's. what does michael flynn, what is he obliged to do? let me ask you about michael cohen, president trump's personal lawyer? >> he certainly can take the position, lawyers may take the position that requests are overbroad. he may make other efforts to narrow what is demanded of him. eventually he faces congress's determination one assumes to enforce the terms

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controversy from her time in the george bush administration from her connections to the prison at guantanamo and interallegations at guantanamo. another candidate is judge michael garcia. he's an appeals judge in new york state and a former federal prosecutors and ins commissioner from the george w. bush era. that's three. and then the fourth candidate who was reportedly being considered to run the fbi is senator john corneyn of texas.

with the greats ofjim callaghan, david lloyd—george, michael foot and michael howard ail hailing fromcountry has a strong political landscape. let's talk a bit more about that. we can see the wales rugby team bashing a ball around. we arejoined with oui’ a ball around. we arejoined with our first a ball around. we arejoined with ourfirst guest on a ball around. we arejoined with our first guest on the sofa from uk ina changing our first guest on the sofa from uk in a changing europe. wales is an interesting example of how the debate rages around the build—up to the general election because, there's more eu funding in wales than anywhere else in the uk yet wales voted to leave. it's hard to explain that really isn't it? it is ha rd to explain that really isn't it? it is hard to explain. also remember that 60% of welsh exports go to the eu so wales is tightly bound into the eu market. it's a picture you see across a lot of the country, people voted partly out of frustration with what they saw as a politics that wasn't working, as well as irritation with the eu. that's why wales, along w

as nbc michael george reports, the new homeowner made it her mission to deliver the message. >> reportera love letter never delivered, lost since world war ii. until this week, when melissa fay and her father al found it while renovating her new home. >> then i reached up and pulled it out there. i handed it to my son-in-law, you could see it was old. >> reporter: the letter had fallen through the cracks. >> if fell down, laid down flat neither there. >> and there the letter sat for 72 long years. it's a love letter from 1945, from a pregnant woman named virginia to her sailor rolf christopherson who was serving overseas with the norwegian navy. >> she wrote, i love you, rolf, as i love the warm sun. and that's what you are to my life, the sun about which everything revolves for me. >> it was really sweet to see that long distance love. you didn't have texting and e-mail back then. >> reporter: melissa decided to find virginia and rolf and deliver their letter. she posted for help and in just two hours, they helped her track down rolf's son in california. >> he couldn't believe that i re

michael leiter. he was the director of the national counter-terrorism center from 2007 to 2011, during both the george w. bush and obama administrations. and, alexander meleagrou- hitchens, research director of the program on extremism at the george washington university. michael leiter, i want to start with you. the british intelligence agencies seemed a little concern the name of the bomber was leaked by u.s. officials hours before british authorities made that public. is that significant? >> i think it is, hari. as an investigator, you really don't want to release information until you have a purpose in doing so, and as the british were clearly investigating other elements of this attack, or at least trying to determine whether there were additional people involved or potential follow-on attacks, it makes good sense those investigators might want to keep that name behind the green curtain until they found use in disclosing it. it's unfortunate that information was disclosed, but, unfortunately, in this era of 24-hour news, keeping these investigates classified is obviously a challenge on both sides

ainslie's wife, george michael, who has moved with him to bermuda with her 10—month—old daughter ands against the wall, he will respond the only way he knows how, win on the only way he knows how, win on the water. it's a costly venture, though, rookies bar have spent £110 million on this dream, £6.5 million of that is taxpayers cash to help them build their portsmouth hq but for ainslie, the trophy would be priceless. personally and for eve ryo ne priceless. personally and for everyone in this team i begin would be the biggest achievement if we can pull this off, if we can win the america's cup for britain, look at our sporting maritime heritage, it's the one thing that's missing, it would be huge. mild-mannered out of the water, ruthless on it. this night of the realm is a man on a mission. natalie pirks, bbc news, bermuda. absolutely stunning. great pictures! still to come this morning: we've got the official figures on how the economy's doing. steph has been crunching the numbers in the west midlands for us this morning. good morning to you and good morning, everybody. it's a glo

no, no, open, no problem. >> george was kind enough to share video of michael break dancing. he had different moves but he did a great robot running the movie. i don't know -- is it in the movie? did you see it. >> the robot run? i'm not sure. i was running. >> did you guys watch the movie? >> good. >> yeah, the robot run. >> that's something probably a lot of people didn't know about michael. anything else you can share about a different cast member that people at home might not know about. >> wets his bed. [ laughter ] >> they knew that. >> yeah. >> so we want to do quickly this -- we usually do lightning rupdzs. we're calling it the frightening round. because the movie was just that. so, quick as you can first, you know, knee-jerk reaction. jussie, something no one knows about your cast mates, go. >> billy is literally, a good thing, billy is like the nicest person, best dad. he would fly from australia to new york likeve see his son which is crazy. >> thank you. >> he's a really good guy. i would love to say something shady or funny. but that's -- >> amazing. [ applause ]

dan balz and michael sheer white house correspondent for "the new york times" and tim murphy former fbi director and fran townsend who served a served as counterterrorism adviser to george w. bush. michae michae michael shear, what has been added to the story today? >> one is we discovered today that just days before his firing, jim comey the director of the fbi requested additional resources to conduct the sprawling investigation into russia meddling in the u.s. election and possible contacts with trump advisors. that generated additional intensity behind the democratic calls for an independent prosecutor. them raising the question among democrats and other critics as to whether or not it provided one more motivation or one more reason for president trump to fire the fbi director. suggesting perhaps he was trying to stall or delay or hamper the investigation. that's where we are today. we know what happened, the director got fired. we really don't know is why. we have the white house explanation, he wasn't doing a good job and it was about the hilary e-mails but there's not a lot people in washington who fully believe that. even some republicans who issued calls if not

say about the candidates or qualifying of a positive reactions to some of the names, george bush turnpike judge michael garcia who was the u.s. attorney here in the southern district here in new york, a famously over saw these eliot spitzer's case caught up with prostitutes and alex fisher, she's considered as a well respected and highly qualified attorney now. andrew mccabe is kind of an interesting guy. he's a career agent. the problem with mccabe is he had some political history that would be a problem for him. his wife has ties to the democratic party. he had some controversies several months ago when he was at the white house and he's talking about the investigation when the white house asked the fbi to knock down some of these reports, he was there, he was present and word was he basically was telling the white house, oh, none of this is true. it is going to be interesting to see what's happening here. today maybe we'll get some indication of who and which way they are leaning. >> all right, shimon prokupecz, thank you very much. >>> the world's largest christian college to relish being an outsid

michael, george. >> laughed out loud when you showed it. >> and the audience went hmm. >> big no, right> no? [ laughter ] >> i feel you. all right. well, how about lara and some "pop news," everyone. [ cheers and applause ] >>> thank you, rob. >> you got it, lara. >>> good morning, everybody. time now for "pop news." and there is a new shark in the water. da, da, bethenny frankel joining the line up for guest sharks on "shark tank." the reality star, you know her from "the real housewives" then became a massive entrepreneur previously won our version of "gma" "shark tank." i can't remember that. what? >> it was disputed. it was a tie. >> between you and -- >> you took the victory but it actually was a tie but i digress. >> it was totally -- >> just let it go. >> i want to point out that was three years ago. >> at least. >> i lost. >> there was that too. >>> she's now on board for the real deal of the show, the founder of skinny girl took to twitter saying, i guess i am a shark after all and those aren't the only big names on deck. former yankee alex rodriguez taking a swing at the role.

george w. bush and michael zeldin former federal prosecutor and robert mueller former special [ inaudible ] atment. >> good morning. >> late in the day we heard the white house denying that their attorneys or that donald trump's attorneys were looking into preparing for any possible scenario of impeachment. so, michael, if, indeed, you know, trump's attorneys are to the looking into or researching impeachment or even if they were, what would be some of the discoveries they're trying to make? what would be some of the answers they're trying to get as they probe? >> well, they have to figure out first what acts the president undertook that could give rise to an article of impeachment in congress. so was he aware of or did he any any way collude with the russians, did he obstruct or endeavor to obstruct justice. those are the sort of crimes, if you will, that they'll be looking into to say, what are the facts that give rise to a crime like that and if there is a factual predicate for that, what are the impeachment articles that could be drafted and what might we do to defend ourselves against it.

are and shirley jackson and jamal jackson the life of the american and visionary michael, crazy in george here with the life of black-and-white. in their group -- jim the winner is is a ruth franklin [applause] the zero works of literature are of his bone showing as the lottery that appeared in the new yorker in 1948 it was the perfect piece of americana that ideal day than is the story of barbarism with eerie resonance so this compassionate and authoritative biography between her vexed marriage, her children, her mother and anxiety that placed her at the center of literary and domestic midcentury america and in this extraordinary biography she made this piece that jackson should be considered as an underappreciated feminist hero and the important writer. groth franklin. [applause] >> i am to use superstitious direction have prepared be very anything so this will be very short so thanks for offering maya book in this way i am sold pleased and thrilled that shirley jackson is getting this recognition also thanks to my agent who has been my steadiest and most enthusiastic champion the best

george. >> okay, martha raddatz. let's go over to michael. >>> thank you, george. we change gears and now turn to extreme storms that are slamming the heartland overnight. tornadoes in oklahoma and wisconsin damaging more than a hundred homes and forcing emergency rescues. abc's clayton sandell is on the scene at elk city, oklahoma, with more. good morning, clayton. >> reporter: hey, michael. you can see this neighborhood is absolutely devastated. first take a look here. this is a big, heavy dumpster that came flying in from somewhere. if you look at the garage of this home, all the walls have been collapsed by the power of this tornado. this is just 1 of more than 100 homes here severely damaged or destroyed. this morning, severe weather havoc in the heartland. >> look at it. >> reporter: overnight, more than 25 reported tornadoes touching down from texas to wisconsin. one causing massive damage to this oklahoma neighborhood. at least 50 homes destroyed. another 50 damaged. >> she is moving. that's all i know. >> reporter: firefighters pulling victims from the wre

. >> michael, you know this. georgeause you've done advance as well, he's a terrific advance guy, director of white house advance. he created all of the rallies last year in the campaign. he's probably been hard at work in the last few weeks putting a book like this together. this is hundreds of pages long with every site diagram and scenario that they're going to face. you're right, you don't do a nine-day trip first, beginning with a 15-hour flight. you go to vancouver, go to mexico city. this time i think you had to get it started at some point. for trump i think he will get comfortable with the opulence of the trips, get comfortable with the presidential and royal suites like at the ritz-carlton in riyadh. maybe he will say this is better than hanging out in the west wing all day. >> hey, josh, quickly, i hope you can see it on this monitor. look at this guy with a full head of hair, that would be me, doing advance for one vice president george herbert walker bush back in the '80s. what do you think? >> well, we all

michael. >> i am here with denis leary, robin, and george. say hello, denis. >> hi, guys. >> gearing up for our big firefighter challenge heading to salute our boldest and bravest and i'm going t it on live tv and you don't want to miss it, but -- >> you don't want to miss it. >> yeah, i'm a little scared but -- >> i'm not scared. >> he's not scared because i'm the one who has to do it. he'll commentate the whole thing. you know what, i'll throw it back to you and see you in a little bit. >> i guarantee you we won't miss that. >>> news out of washington, hours away from the big vote and their new bill to replace the obamacare act has enough support to pass the house. >>> president trump will sign an executive order relaxing restrictions on political activity by churches and charities making good on a campaign promise and heads to new york this afternoon, his first trip back to his hometown since the inauguration. >> first to capitol hill where the health care vote will get under way. the republicans making some major changes overnight. adding

george w. bush administration, and judge michael garcia who works in the court of appeals in new york city. so a lot of work in the president to do before he heads out on a big overseas trip. >> thank you so much. so this whirlwind questions, contradictions, doubts and answers swirling around the white house this week starting with the dismissal of the fbi director james comey. and then ending with president trump publicly threatening comey in a tweet. jeff zeleny has the latest. >> reporter: president trump adding new fuel to the fire today in his escalating fight with the fbi. making a veiled threat on twitter to james comey. the president saying the fired fbi director better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. stunning words from the commander in chief directed at the nation's former top law enforcement official. the man who was leading an investigation into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russian operatives before being fired tuesday. the president refused to answer the question he raised himself in an interview ton

there's the old story about michael dukakis says to george mcgovern how long does it take to get over it and mcgovern says something like i'll let you know when it happens is this weigh being particularly hard on her because of the russians and because of comey and because she won the popular vote? >> i think she's actually dealing with it in a very responsible and deep way in many ways. i think personally i believe she would have been an incredibly good president at a time when the world is as complicated as anything i've ever seen and she is somebody, as i said at the time that was most experienced, better ready to be president than anybody it, and i think that she is dealing with it in a responsible way. i think she has taken some down time. i'm very glad she did a review. i'm looking forward to seeing all of it and that she's writing a book and i look forward to reading the entire thing. >> we want to look at the problem with north korea and whether you think president trump should meet with kim jong-un. we'll be right back. stay with us. will be that one... rogue... cloud. get he

i have wendy sherman, former undersecretary of state and michael allen who advised president george wush on the national security council. good to see you. >> good to see you, too, brooke. >> wendy, let's talk about expectations. you said president trump will have to listen well and pay attention to the nonverbal cues. why do you say that? >> because the attention has a shorter attention span than he might like and when he meets with the gulf coordinating council in riyad but also presidents and heads of state from all of the muslim nations, lots of coalition member who is are helping in syria and in yemen in the fight against counterterrorism, he actually has to listen and sometimes it's a long process and the expectations for this president are incredibly low. i think everybody will have a great sigh of relief. he's the president of the united states. we have serious national security issues in every one of these stops and he has to really rise up to the occasion. >> point taken. here's some context. and michael, you know this. this is a president who, especially during the campaign

anywhere in san sebastian with juan marie arzak is like walking through chicago with michael jordan or washington d.c with george beloved and respected. >> anthony: you're like elvis. you're like elvis presley. [ laughter ] ♪ >> anthony: why do the basque unique among their neighbors obsessively insist on such high quality ingredients for everything? >> arzak: it's always been about seasonal products, grown close to here. >> gabriella: people have a passion for food here. >> anthony: why here? >> arzak: i don't know. >> anthony: it's always been this way. >> gabriella: until about 80 years ago there wasn't a lot of this stuff written down. >> arzak: there weren't any books written in basque or anything. everything was from mouth to ear. >> gabriella: right in here. ♪ >> anthony: nice. oh, okay. yeah i figured we're not walking by here. >> anthony: ganbara, my favorite place. i come here every time like a heatseeking missile. >> gabriella: this is where you'll find juan marie on every sunday. >> anthony: this is the first place anyone ever brought me in san sebastian. >> gabriella: really? >> anthony: yes. >> ant

george w. bush alice fisher, two judges, henry hudson of virginia, and also there judge michael garcia and frances townsend, she was the homeland security adviser to george w. bush, also worked in the doj under bill clinton. president trump does say it is possible he could make that pick, copick someone before he departs for his overseas trip on friday, but senator lindsey graham is selling the president keep politics out of it. >> i think it's time to pick somebody that comes from within the ranks or such a reputation that has no political background at all that can go into the job on day one. the president appoints a judge but the judge is loyal to the law. >> the president will be reading the reports and the recommendations from all of these interviews that are happening abmeet with a few candidates before making a selection. >> jessica thank you for the reporting, we're keeping an eye on the eight people especially right now. >>> joining us is fbi special agent thomas o'connor, president of the fbi agents association. your association, sir, we should let our viewers know has endorsed mike rodg

michael allen was with the george w. bush white house for seven years. several national security policy and legislative roles. marcell, i'll start with you. the "new york times" editorial board wrote this, comey was fired because he was leading an active investigation that could bring down a president. what do you make of the administration's explanation, that comey was no longer effective? >> well, we don't know yet the president's true motivations for the firing. we know the case that's been made publicly. i hope in the coming days, the president will be asked directly about that so he can put those comments and those views on the record. but i do think there are some impressions that have been left with key parts of the public that, from a national security perspecti perspective, give me great concern. first is the chilling effect on potentially intelligence agents and fbi agents who now have to think twice about doing their jobs. secondly is internationally, there habeen an impression left of institutions in the united states melting down. thirdly, t

george h.w. bush. we have a full house. michael, yesterday was a pretty big day. do you think you can double down and give us another one you? >> i don't know. i guess the real story is how will the republicans respond? it looks like these letters that have gone out were signed by both parties. it didn't seem like yesterday the republicans had really changed their tone many regard to mr. trump in these investigations. certainly the idea that this letter went out is a sign of bipartisanship. and it remains to be seen in the days that come whether the republican there's push hard and ramp up these investigations. >> we just heard from the white house press secretary from sean spicer for two days in a row, they have done off camera audio only briefings. and this is after, we know that in speaking to erdogan, he said maybe some of these journalists sthog jail. there was talk that maybe we won't have these press briefings. the president is landing. he was giving the commencement speech. two days in a row, sean spicer not on camera. i miss him. >> the president is trave

washington post," michael shear, correspondent for "the new york times," and in new york, fran townsend who served as homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to president george w. bush. i am pleased to have all of them on this program. michael she are, what has been added to this story today? michael: a couple of things have been added. one is that we discovered today that just days before his firing, jim comey, the director of the fbi, requested additional conduct the sprawling investigation into in the u.s.ing election and possible contacts with trump advisors. that generated additional intensity behind the democratic calls for an independent prosecutor. obviously, then raising the question among democrats and other critics as to whether or not that provides one more motivation or reason for president trump to fire the fbi director, suggesting that perhaps he was trying to stall or delay or hamper the investigation. that is ultimately where we are today. we know what happened. the director got fired. what we don't know is why. we have the white house explanation. he wasn't doing a good job. it's about the hillary emails, but there are not people in washing

michael. >> thank you, george. >>> we turn to the massive wildfire as cross the southeast burning more than 5,000 acres and prompting those emergency evacuations in georgia and we'll go to ginger with more. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, michael. that 135,000 acres is just one of the more than 100 fires. the one you're looking at there seen from above as someone was flying in or out of jacksonville airport. just amazing numbers of florida and terrible conditions. this fire, stewart, florida, of course, up by the georgia line, schools are closed because of the smoke. here i-95 was closed for a time. now they've got this contained but pasco county closer to tampa, more than 2200iccers burning 70% contained. the land sea breeze gets those winds going. michael. >> thank you. >>> we move on to that high stakes election in france. this morning the european union is breathing a sigh of relief after emmanuel macron trounced marine le pen and he is now the youngest french leader since napoleon and terry moran is in paris. this 30-point win appears to be a decisive blow against a wave of angry

george w. bush administration, retired four-star general michael hayden.ppreciate you being here. >> thanks, jake. >> do you buy that this test means in the near future the north koreans will be able to hit the united states and regardless what should president trump be doing about this escalation? >> it depends on your definition of near. they have proven something in the last 48 hours, a real step function. if that thing had been suppressed, had gone other a normal trajectory, it goes out 2,800 miles, it can reach guam, but it's not intercontinental yet, and so the north koreans are -- here's the word i would use, jake. they are inexorably moving in the direction of a missile that can hit the pacific northwest of the united states with one of their own indigenously produced nuclear weapons. i actually think that is inevitable barring some dramatic change in course, and, jake, i don't know what causes a dramatic change in course. if that was obvious, several administrations would have already taken that course of action. i mean, the trump administration i

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michael allen, special assistant to president george w. bush, reminding me what a pill i was in some meetings. joins me today with his great perspective. eli, i want to start with you, though, because this question of legal jeopardy is a real one. i mean, michael and i worked in a white house staff that came under investigation from special prosecutor pat fitzgerald looking into the leak of valerie plame's name and i didn't have clearance at the time that her name was disclosed so i was never wrapped up in it, but i ended up handling all the press around it because i wasn't. what is it doing to this white house -- i can't imagine this white house more paralyzed but is this serious legal question hanging over them? is it creating more paralysis? >> yeah, they seem spooked, just watchi ining sean spicer the la couple days, he doesn't want to answer questions or say anything referring reporters to we'll find out when the president says what he's going to do with the fbi director, refer the questions about the russia investigation to the outsi

globe" matt visor and senior political reporter for "usa today" and heidi and michael allen, former member of former georgeike jump in over to you because any minute we expect to see andrew mccabe, the new acting fbi director joining intel officials over on the hill. a live shot of that hearing room right now. the republican chair this committee does not want a special prosecutor. the democratic vice chair does. how is this thing going down? >> it was supposed to be a big marche marquee hearing. mccabe the deputy fbi director here. we're seeing senators come in and out of this hearing room getting red tee ady to begin th hearing. the controversy, the

michael. >>> thank you, george. we turn now to the deadly floods across the midwest. damaging hundreds of homes and forcing evacuations. now, more heavy rain is moving in and abc's alex perez is on the ground in eureka, missouri, with all the latest. good morning, alex. >> reporter: hey, good morning, michael. you know, this is supposed to be one of the main streets through downtown here, but take a look. it looks more like a river. the sandbags are in place but the big problem here, the rain has been relentless. here in missouri, the rising waters wreaking havoc for residents where flooding has claimed five lives. in eureka, the coast guard navigating streets overflowing with water by boat. the show me state already hit with at least 12 inches of rain and more expected to come this week. >> amounts are going to range from 1 to 3 plus inches over the next few days. >> reporter: the merrimack river at nearly historic levels. floodwaters damaging at least 200 homes so far and threatening to overflow into 1,500 others. the flooding leaving many stranded. officials closin

george. >> okay, kayna, thanks very much. michael. >> now to that chaos at ft. lauderdale's airport overnight. crowds erupts when spirit airlines canceled their flights. the police were called in to try to get the situation under control and abc's david kerley has the details. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, michael. it wasn't weather, it wasn't broken airplanes, spirit says it was some of its own pilots would caused this mayhem. the chaos erupting lauderdale's airport spilled into the overnight as passengers were stranded. it got so bad, spirit airlines called in police, officers taking several people into custody. the mayhem starting after 11 cancellations and 26 delayed flights. and the airline with the worst customer service and on time record blames some of its own pilots, spirit claiming its ongoing labor negotiations with the air line pilots association, saying in a statement to abc news, this is a result of unlawful labor activity by some spirit pilots designed to disrupt operations for our customers. >> i just think it's ridiculous. like

michael. >>> thank you, george. now to that breaking news.tandoff in new jersey lasting more than 24 hours between officers and a suspect. firing shots from this home killing at least one person and injuring three others. abc's gio benitez is on the scene in trenton, new jersey, with the rest of the story. good morning, gio. >> reporter: michael, good morning to you. police are negotiating right now with the suspect. we're hearing the negotiator say things like, i want this to end peacefully, and we have not tried to hurt you. they just want him to come out with his hands up. for more than 24 hours police in new jersey engaged in a deadly standoff with a man barricaded in this home. police say the suspect, tyleeb reese, opened fire on authorities who took cover behind cars in this residential neighborhood. just after 6:00 a.m. wednesday u.s. marshals on the fugitive task force serving a warrant at the family home when he reportedly opened fire. >> as the officers were backing out of the house under fire, suspect continued to fire during which