john muller is in for him. great to see you, john. >> great to see you, bianna, dan. good morning, everybody. we begin with a major bus crash. it happened in boston, three people seriously injured when an oversized bus packed with high school students slammed into an overpass last night. some were trapped for hours under the crumpled roof. 30 others suffered minor injuries. the students had just visited harvard university and were returning home to philadelphia. >>> new details this morning on the terrorist attack on the u.s. embassy in turkey. three people reportedly arrested in connection with the suicide bombing. the bomber, part of a leftist militant group, had spent several years in prison on terrorism charges but was released on probation. >>> a 3457b was tasered by police in front of buckingham palace this morning, holding a knife to his own throat. police swarmed up, and taking him in custody. the queen was not in the palace at the time. >>> well, hawaii could soon become a celebrity safe haven from the paparazzi. the majority of state senators there backing t

abc's john muller. >> reporter: staten island chuck he's a tough new york city groundhog.oins a four-legged ledgeon predicting who's going to disney land. it's groundhog day awaiting the forecast for punxsutawney phil. >> if you're like bill murray thinking that this is another groundhog day. think again. super bowl sunday is upon us. >> touchdown! >> reporter: so this morning, we asked the ultimate pig skin prognosticating question, can the groundhog predict the winner of the super bowl? for the answer, meet staten island chuck. he makes his home at the staten island zoo and in an "good morning america" exclusive, he's making his pick. but before we revealed the inside information that will have running to a las vegas sports book. if you're taking your cue from a monkey, they seem to be going heavy on the niners. same goes for the pick of the pups. this cool cat is betting on the baltimore. the porcupine likes the ravens. are we sensing a trend? it's all up to you, staten island chuck. the first set, the bait. now, the choice. 49ers or ravens. get ready for the play by pl

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john muller has the story. >> reporter: wearing handcuffs and a jail orange jumper, cathy bennett tradedool room for a courtroom. police say the elementary school nurse tried to help her friend, angela nolen, a kindergarten teacher, hire a hitman to kill nolen's ex-husband. they both worked at sontag elementary school. the school superintendent reassuring parents and students. >> these events, as we understand them, did not involve the schools or any students. and your children are as safe was we can reasonably make them. >> reporter: nolen is accused of paying $4,000 to an undercover police officer she thought was a hitman on tuesday. the job, to kill her 63-year-old ex-husband, paul strickler, father of their 7-year-old daughter. >> mr. strickler was very surprised. >> reporter: the attorney of the object of the surprise hit says his client had no idea. that divorce proceedings were ordinary with no red flags. and angela nolen had full custody of their adopted daughter. >> mr. strickler found out about the alleged plot the day ms. nolen was arrested. obviously, he was in shock and dist

. >> and i'm john muller in for rob nelson.e big awards were spread across a handful of blockbusters, including a major upset. >> abc's brandi hitt is live in los angeles with all of the highlights, including what happened on the red carpet, including what happened on stage. there is a lot to get to, brandi, and we want to hear everything that you have to tell us about this wonderful night out in l.a. >> what an exciting time here at the oscars. hollywood's biggest stars and some of the biggest films of the year were honored, which "argo," which took home the oscar for best picture. from high-end fashion on the oscar red carpet, to host seth macfarlane's red hot opening number. >> are you okay? >> i am now. >> reporter: where he first mocked his own dark sense of humor. then turned on his high class charm. it was an exciting kickstart to the 85th annual academy awards. "django unchained's" won best supporting actor and anne hathaway won her first oscar. >> it's just such an honor. thank you. >> reporter: this year's show was al

. >> abc's john muller has the story. >> reporter: no cheers, no pompoms, just words over a powerful. the former green bay packers cheerleader caitlin collins delivering a message against cyber bullying. she addresses her critics, holding written signs in a youtube video now gone viral. >> no matter how confident a person you can seem and appear, words hurt. >> reporter: she's talking about the hurt she felt after her photo was uploaded to a chicago bears facebook page. the caption, like if you agree the packers have the worst cheer leaders in the nfl. the photo attracted nearly 3,000 likes and hundreds of comments, many down right cruel. doesn't get any uglier. truly an eye sore. and another calling her fugly. she knew she had to respond to her critics. >> what can i do and what can we all do to make sure that this doesn't happen again? >> reporter: in her video, she asked video to take down the post. administrators on the chicago bears than page apologized to collins. she now hopes her message of kindness and anti-bullying lives on. >> kind of a second thought before they type thos

. >> john muller, the author, thank you so much. >> thank you. .. thank you. that's very nice introduction. thanks to all as you, too, for coming. we are honored to be here. [inaudible conversations] >> i'm sorry. can you hear me now? okay. particularly nice to be here because they have written a book. a unfortunately the right of that disappeared a few years ago. the atlantic monthly where we began our careers and moved to washington. that was -- that was bad enough. that was bad enough. now i discovered that the bar was also a ameristar career along the way is gone, too. i went to dinner someplace. it wasn't the ritz. i said, where is the real roots? they said no, you mean the tosh. very unsettling. thank god the boston public library lives. makes it all the more grateful for us to be here. they cue. still, the hub of american culture. by the acoustics working now? okay. good. well, tracy and i, we worked on eight books together. this one was different i was simply describe, i read what he wrote. he wrote again and we talked some more. eventually the book be

for "good morning america," john muller, abc news, new york. >> just like in the movies. >> yep. >> justike in each and every movie. >> yes. >>> what have you got, sam? >> we're going to show you -- well, we started out with rough weather of late. how about a beautiful picture you sent us from capitola, california. won't you join me at the wall? this has gorgeous views of monterey bay. it's the best weather on the board. and it looks like an italian villa city. >> it sure does. >> it's just gorgeous. we salute you, capitola, california, and the rest of the great state. great stuff going on. 61 in san francisco. 67 at sacramento. even palm springs at 75. phoenix, you're a couple degrees above normal at 68 degrees. into the northeast, we're actually getting a little bit better. there was a light dusting of snow away from the coastline. big cities didn't get it. we're getting drier air. 46 in philadelphia. we'll say 42 in boston. >> little cold front drops into florida. but it's beautiful skies across the gulf coast today. we'll have more weather when we come back in a minute. >> thank you,

abc's john muller is here with the latest. john? >> reporter: investigators were initially unsure how christopher dorner died. did he kill himself? or did he perish in the smoke and flames? police believe dorner took a fifth and final life, his own. police laid out the arsenal of weapons christopher dorner used to kill four people in a revenge campaign against the lapd. it now appears the last life dorner took was his own. as the cabin he barricaded himself inside of, began to go up in flames. >> the information that we have right now seems to indicate that the wounds that took christopher dorner's life was self-inflicted. during the autopsy yesterday, the doctor who conducted the process concluded that the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head. >> reporter: police now confirm dorner was essentially hiding right under their noses for most of the manhunt. inside a condominium steps away from the command center near big bear lake. police also say they fired pyrotechnic tear gas in the other cabin where dorner made his

abc's john muller is at new york's pen station with that part of the story. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. travel in the northeast from new york to boston, points north of here, virtually nonexistent this morning. this is a true travel nightmare. things will slowly come back online as the day and the weekend progresses. but the key word will be slowly. let's talk about the trains at penn station. amtrak service still suspended between new york and boston. you can head south. you can't head north. there's massive power outages to deal with up and down the northeast. you'll hear me say this again. best thing to do, call ahead. let's talk about the roads. the whiteout blizzard conditions are gone. but the bans on driving, some of them remain in place. the roads are buried in snow this morning. it's about digging out and playing out throughout the northeast. the driving is treacherous. stay off the roads. let's talk about the real nightmare, the airports. 5,300 flights canceled due to this storm. the ripple effect of it will be massive. it'

. >> i'm john muller in for rob nelson. we have extensive coverage of the oscars as we run down hollywood's eye-popping fashions and seth macfarlane as host. just moments away from our live coverage from los angeles. >> a lot of surprises. people weren't expecting seth macfarlane to be the character that he was. >> he was edgy, he was all kinds of things. he was very funny. >> he brought a little bit of everything and i think he surprised a lot of people. >>> from movie fans to nascar fans. with a brand-new winner of the daytona 500, there are age-old questions about safety after that terrible accident on the track injured dozens of spectators in the stands. >> still can't believe it when i look at that video. >>> also this morning, the capitol hill budget showdown resuming in a matter of hours. can members of congress act on a budget cut going into effect this friday? >>> but first, we want to get to this. the big awards honored several different movies, including some surprise winners. >> and there was the fashion and the

abc's john muller spoke with the child's mother and joins us now. orning, john. >> reporter: anyone that's ever flown knows about crying babies. it certainly takes some patience. this case boggles the mind. a mother speaking out about the stranger accused of the unthinkable, calling an innocent toddler, in pain, a horrible racial slur and then hitting him. >> jonah started crying because the plane was going down. >> reporter: a choked-up jessica bennett reliving her pain. when a passenger on the plane allegedly called her 19-month-old son, jonah, the "n" word and then slapped him. >> the guy looked at me, and said [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the fbi say this is the guy, joe hundley, now charged with assaulting a minor. it all went down just over a week ago on a delta flight from minneapolis to atlanta. in row 28 of the plane. jessica and jonah had the aisle seat. hundley, the window. >> and he put his mouth into my ear and said it again. i had to push his face way from me, and i screamed. this caused a commotion with the other passengers. because they go

john muller is here with all the details. john, what a terrifying fall. >> reporter: it is one of the scariest moments in sports. america's golden girl of the slopes will have reconstructive surgery on her knee back here in the u.s. her father told the associated press, she is mad at the way things turned out. she landed in a clump of ice crystals. and that caused the fall. now, the surgery and rehab, as she races that clock for the 2014 olympics. she is leading at the top. and it's about to go horribly wrong. watch in slow-motion, as the blazing lindsey vonn, launches 500 feet down the course. she loses her balance in the air, catches her right knee on impact and slams face-first into the slope. it doesn't look any better in real-time. the american olympic gold medalist and four-time world champion laid on the snow for 12, long minutes. finally air-lifted off the austrian alps to a hospital. >> she sustained an injury to her right know. and in addition to that, suffered a tibial plateau fracture. >> reporter: translation, her

abc's john muller is here with her story. >> reporter: the viral video this former cheerleader craftedhe blueprint response to cyberbullying. she turned the tables on her haters. a college cheerleader, living her dream in 2009, chosen to perform for the green bay packers. but, now, four years later, that dream almost turned into a nightmare. caitlin collins, blitzed in an online attack. this picture posted, like if you agree the packers have the worst cheerleaders in the nfl. thousand clicked like. many posting shockingly vulgar comments about her looks. >> it's hard to brush it off. no matter how confident a person can seem and appear, words hurt. >> reporter: now collins is fighting back against cyberbullying in a powerful and unique way. ♪ you raise me up >> reporter: armed with only a ins fragsal and some handwritten cards, she shows the words that were the comments. doesn't get any uglier. truly an eyesore. >> i went to bed. woke up in the morning. it was everywhere. >> reporter: this morning, the youtube video has gone viral. now approaching 1 million views in just five days. cre

abc's john muller is here with that. >> reporter: the teens that made the video consider themselves entertainersy they were only trying to be funny. but is it a prank that's gone too far. look at the video. and be on guard at the supermarket. it is a shocking mix of flying milk and flailing lips. it's all phony and it's the latest internet smash called gallon smashing. it's the creation of three teens from virginia. two brothers and a cousin who consider themselves actors. they spoke via skype to the cable show "right this minute." >> nobody got hurt. >> reporter: the fake dramatic falls and spills are only half of it. the other half, duped supermarket shoppers and workers, struggling to help the struggling boys. and many seem to find it hilarious. more than 3 million hits in less than a week. >> that's funny. >> reporter: but not everyone's laughing. >> look at that. look at that. i can't understand that. >> reporter: gallon smashing, by no means, the first or the only controversial youtube prank to go viral. a few years ago, it was fire in the hole, where youtube users shout fire in the hole,

. >>> a memorial service will be held for steven muller who was the president at johns hopkins from 1972 to 1909. it will be at the con-- 1990. it will be starting at 3:30 and the public is invited. >>> a collection of world war ii items will be auctioned off in new york. they include the original iwo jima monument that is valued between 1.2 and 1.8 million dollars. >>> to have you enjoy tequila today is the -- if you enjoy tequila, today is the day to make a margarita because it's national margarita day. don't eat the worm. >> that's what you have to say. >> they are tasty warm cold. >>i don't know why i am on camera i haven't been drinking. >> now offering a tip on how to celebrate. come on in. >> all right. >> how is it going? >> good. >> you like margaritas? >> yeah you do. have one if you want. >> it might seem like we are but we are not. we want to talk about the weather because it's going to be a story especially on the road. it could be slick for people. >> exactly. so that's the biggest thing he. -- thing. we will start off with sleet which is ice and it starts out in a differen

[inaudible conversations] >> here with john muller, first book out.e all know a lot about frederick douglass, but you focus on the last 18 years of his life. why is that? >> many people know him as an abolitionist, statesman, advocate for women's rights, imu he was so much more than that. his last 25 years he spent in washington, d.c.. he moved here in the late -- early 1870s, children all lived in washington at that time. his children, louis, charles, frederick, jr., well respected in washington with positions, and washington was the place to be with reconstruction, first class of black congressmen, black senators, and they were prom innocent, but frederick douglass was the most prominent black man in washington. there was a call to start a newspaper, and frederick douglass, with the experience with the north star and a leader of the black press, they wanted douglass to help found the paper and finance it. douglass was reluck at that particular time, but he eventually came around, and on january 13th, 1870, the new era was launched, and that really b