i am joined by former cia officer jack robins. jack, what do you make of all of this at this point?>> as i have been listening, i think my biggest interest at this point is if you can get these guys alive, you want them. the reason you want then is because if there is one cell, two cells, you don't know what kind of it and tell they have. you want to get access. what this special agent mentioned as well, and this is important to realize, we don't know if they have hostages. we are aware that at least previous ones were more than willing to blow themselves up. you are trying to protect your officers as much as possible. they are very well trained tactical officers. they know how to play. at the same time, they are very aware that they can bring them out alive, they want to. but they will not sacrifice their own people in the attempt to take them out. that is a pointless endeavor. they can wait. time is on their side. it's certainly not on the side of the guys in the building. >> if you can see in the mind of these guys, two to three people at this point. two to three men, two to thre

jack: the death of robin williams shocked many of his fans. today we get some perspective on what was really going on in the comedian's life as his widow speaks out for the first time. "you're watching local 5 news at 5 in hd with jack miller, stephanie angleson, we are meteorologist brad edwards. this is local 5 news at 5, we are iowa." jack it's a shocker of a story on capitol hill today. paid patriotism. a congressional investigation set to be released tomorrow details pentagon payments to dozens of professional sports teams and some members of congress are looking to ban the practice. megan hughes has details. whether a team is winning or losing- there's one sure way to get sports fans on their feet. give them a patriotic moment honoring our nation's troops. sot - sen flake: it's the most popular thing aside from the kiss cam out there i think but a congressional investigation has uncovered several apparent examples of the pentagon paying major league teams for these "patriotic moments." the say it's a defense department marketing and recr

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robin. >> thank you there, gier. >>> coming up, jack hanna is hehere live lping us celebrate "gma's" 40th birthday. it wouldn't be the same without that man right there. and some of our funniest animal moments ever. come on back with jackck. need it >>> "gma" at the cma awards, glory, ram. go here oh here we go >>> kind of aellow sloth right here helping u us celebre 40 years of "gma" with the man that's been here for just about all of them, our friend jack hanna, director emeritus of the columbus zoo that's so often brought that zoo to us. take a look. >> you did notice there is something on the back of your neck. >> yes. >> for more than 30 years jack hanna always brings it, the warm and fuzzy, the creepy-crawly taking "gma" to all new heights. >> don't move. >> they mark their territory by urinating. that's why you have a hat on. >> are you kidding me? come and go. >> we're just having so much fun over here. >> jack's a constant. >> get on the camel, diane. >> the more misbehaved the animals were in a spot, the funnier the spot was. >> this is a japanese -- [ laughter ] >> they're doin

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robin? >> all right, matt. thank you. joining us now, hanna corbett and jack konda. eyewitnesses where theyy managed to escape the theater. they're joinings from paris. great to see you this morning. jack, both of you were just eight rows fromhe stage. you were standing among a group of people when you hardeard the shots rining out. what did you do first? >> i snapped around to hear what like a loud p gun noise almost. and as soon as everyone started dropping to the floor, i think i did the same and pulled hanna down with me. we laid there for a few minutes, it seemed like an eteternity. weorked out what we needed to do to get out ofthere. >> jack pushed you down. sometimes people say it's best to play dead. but you thought it was best for survival to get out. any way you coululd? some people froze. thinking that was the best thing to do. pretend not the be aleve. we followed the crawling when the movement started, which seemed ageges ago. but, yeah, that's what we had to do. >> how did you think to do that? what was going on aroun you? when you wererawling g to safe

robin. we are so excited to have viola davis, matt mcgorry, jack falahee, aja naomi king, liza weil, charlie weber and alfred enoch and welcome. >> do people come up and talk to you in your character's name and use your real name, people on the street? >> yeah. >> yeah? >> we do sometimes. >> you get confused. >> sure, sure. >> viola, i know you've been asked this countless times but i'm telling you, the emmy speech was just something that's going to go down in the ages and even i love when you were telling kelly and michael the other day about your husband was a little scared this for a moment. >> i didn't know which way you were going with that speech. he said i was happy when you mentioned harriet tubman because you landed it. >> back around. >> hopefully it's going to bring some change. >> and, you know, your character is pushing boundaries. annalise is just been revealed to be a same-sex relationship. >> yes. >> you may have a love child, wes, from a previous relationship. >> well. >> i have to ask what's it like? we don't know yet when you get that script and you read it -- are you as

jack nicholson in the shining? [laughter] >> based on today's performance i would put you close with robin williams.ion is, that observation that must have presented a series of unique insights but a series of unique challenges professionally and personally for you to write that book because of it -- and to bush obviously caring for you to let you do it you seem to care for him so how did you balance those two? >> fabulous question. i struggle with that for more than a decade. the final test had to be, and this is why i worked to the last moment. special forces came to my house to get the manuscript. it was like "zero dark thirty" the literary version. people were coming in the windows. they were very patient in tribulation as st. paul says. i think that what i had to make sure of is in my heart and mind did i believe that i had, as close as possible as i could as a biographer and the truth about this man what he did? i believe i did. i'm confident in my heart that i have done that. the question you are raising is what worried me in more than a decade was would i be able to call them as i saw them?