martha?martha: and i would imagine those people are going to try to answer the two absolutely right point-on questions that you asked. are you going to change your gears here and is there a cap, is there a limit. thanks very much, kristin. good to see you today. let's bring in mark morgan, border protection acting commissioner. good to have you with us today. i'd like to start by, you know -- i heard senator cornyn said there was no plan on the biden administration's part. if you go back to the campaign, it appears that there was a plan and it was articulated directly by then candidate biden. let's watch. >> people should have to get in line. but if people are coming because they're seeking asylum, they should make their case. >> these people deserve to be heard. that's who we are. a nation that says if you want to flee and fleeing oppression, you should come. >> martha: you should come said joe biden. you know, you wonder why we're seeing what we're seeing. he said we should see a surge to t

martha? >> martha: thanks, mike. now outside the hennepin county courthouse, matt finn who has been watching this unfolding live inside. matt, good afternoon to you. >> good afternoon, martha. the first witness testified today that after she dispatched police to the george floyd scene, she was able to view his arrest from a nearby surveillance camera. she was distraught by what she saw that she called the sergeant and said you can call he a snitch but i think you need to check this out. in an opening statement, george floyd and his drug use became a central role on both sides. the defense is painting floyd as a criminal drug abuser that took a lethal amount of a combination of drugs while in police custody, a speed ball. floyd resists arrest and ended up on the ground because three officers could not contain floyd. the prosecution says george floyd died because former officer derek chauvin kept his knee on his neck for about nine minutes, even as floyd was insisting he couldn't breathe and bystanders were insisting f

>> hi, martha. we're getting more information from the arrest affidavit by the boulder police department. as you can imagine, it paints a terrifying and chaotic situation that unfolded here yesterday afternoon. witnesses reported that the suspect shot someone inside a vehicle outside the grocery store and he was also seen shooting another individual standing over this person, shooting several times. one of the victims, the first officer on scene, eric talley on the force 11 years before his last heroic act running in to the danger. he leaves behind a family of seven children. >> we can never thank officer talley or his family enough for their sacrifice. but we will not forget it. many are alive today because of the actions of eric talley and other first responders and their bravery is a blessing to us all. >> also killed, 61-year-old kevin mahoney. his daughter tweeting i'm heart broken to announce my dad, kevin mahoney, was killed in the king soopers in boulder, colorado. my dad represented all thi

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"the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. this is "the story." how close are we really to the end of covid? look at this "new york post" headline. america is getting closer to normalcy. it's absurd to paint it any other way. as of today, we have three vaccines now, we're not even a year since the virus hit the united states. the johnson & johnson vaccine will go into arms tomorrow. so which shot is the best one for you? which one gets you back to your life? the doctor behind that vaccine joins us in a few moments. also here on "the story," former dna john ratcliffe is here. iran now back in the fold makes demands on the biden why house. what they want and how their leverage has changed. he will talk about security in his home state of texas. children crossing the border without their parents. and does he still expect we'll see indictments from john durham who is sit down as the u.s. attorney but continues as special counsel. we will can him about that. first up, cpap, former president trump r

martha?ve recordings of the interactions and that will come out as this continues to be investigated. aishah, thanks very much. joined by alien gunther. thanks nor being here. good to have you here. >> how shocking "i'm not going anywhere, darling?" >> martha: yeah. what did you think of that? >> i thought that that was unbelievable. rather than shut your mouth. instead, number 8 comes forward and you're still acting very cocky. you know, i remember when spitzer was client number 9. the governor said that he should resign the next day. we have number 8 coming forward, number 8 coming forward. for the good of the budget, for the good of new york state during a very, very volatile time, you know, we have people dying of covid, we have people that need immunizations. it's time that we have leadership that will bring us to some sort of peace. i'm just -- i'm astounded. >> martha: i can tell. i can tell. a lot of people have the same reaction when he throws in the "darling" in the end. something t

martha? >> martha: thanks, bryan.e where they say they will investigate the claims that meghan markle bullied two assistants so terribly that they quit. meghan and harry will not be involved in the investigation. jonathan hunt reporting live from los angeles. >> the bullying allegations published in the london times. a former member of the staff said that meghan left an assistant shaking and in tears and she quit. buckingham palace said they were concerned and would look into the allegations and added "the royal household is a dignity at work policy in place and does not tolerate bullying or harassment in the workplace." harry and meghan sat for an interview with oprah. it will air sunday in a promo clip. meghan fired a warning shot at the palace or "the firm" as insiders call it. >> i don't know how they could expect that after all of this time we would still just be silent if there's an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us. >> so what do the britts make of it all? we turn to my mo

martha? >> martha: thanks very much. me now, a mother representing two of the families in the lawsuits. great to have you today. what drove you to the point that you said i'm going to use my tools as an attorney and as a mom to fight this in court? >> martha, it was watching my own daughter struggle with the virtual-only learning platform. she has an iep. but nonetheless, in the beginning of the year, she was happy to try going back to school. she logged on every day. then steadily declined to the point that around thanksgiving, she started showing school refusal and refused to log on. i was told by her doctors that it's caused by high levels of anxiety. from the school refusal, everything just got worse for her. she started showing signs of depression. you know, ordinary signs like won't change out of her pajamas. hard to get her up in the morning. gives, you know -- doesn't want to leave the house, not interesting in doing things outside the home. i saw her constantly decline. >> martha: we've seen so many kids go thro

>> martha: thank you. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum live in new york. breaking now on "the story," the queen responds to meghan and harry. we go live to london for coverage. yesterday piers morgan said this. >> what meghan markle the saying is the queen is a racist. that is a disgusting and untrue allegation to make. >> martha: today he got shouted down for it on the set of his program "good morning britain." >> you continue to trash her. >> i'm done with it. >> martha: he stormed off the set. we learned that he has quit the show. all that with palace insiders in just a moment. first, back here at home in america, the numbers at the border are staggering. 100,000 apprehensions in february alone. one border patrol agent telling fox news that we can't catch them and release them fast enough. "the new york times" now referring to migrant children in custody along the border in jail-like facilities and held longer than legally allowed. border officials fear that march could be more of the same and republicans are now urging the president to call this a nati

. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum live in new york. moments ago, president biden put vice president kamala harris in charge of solving the crisis at our southern border. it's a big job and it's now hers. he took no questions that were shouted at the end. so no mention of the conditions where thousands of children are being held and what they plan to do about that. there's no doubt the story is untenable for the biden administration. their former posture of it's not a crisis or the border is closed, those ideas came from jen psaki and alejandro mayorkas. that is changing now out of very clear necessity. facilities are overflowing and there's no end in sight to the flow to the southern border. here's some of the sights and sounds breaking today that tell the story including border patrol agents, our cameras encountered, that were so strained that they could not stay awake on the job. watch this. >> there's some people that crossed the border over here that are wanting to turn themselves in. >> it's a huge problem. i'm not going to preten

martha? >> martha: jacqui, thanks very much. now with the court side of this story, new developments there this afternoon. mike emanuel has more. hi, mike. >> good afternoon. the supreme court hearing arguments today over an arizona election law that says voters must cast their votes in person at the proper precinct. it also limits who may deliver someone's ballot to the polling place. there was conservative skepticism about rolling back voting restrictions. >> doesn't matter that harvests hasn't resulted in fraud in arizona. how many elections does it need to affect? >> to be clear, arizona already has allow prohibiting fraudulent ballot collection. what this law does is criminalizes neighbors helping neighbors deliver ballots. >> i spoke with a founder of a group making voting more convenient. >> we're concerned that that -- those laws is creaing making it more difficult for voters. in 2020, there was good communication for those to vote by mail, et cetera. >> republicans focused on winning control of legislatures to craft ele

martha, back to you. >> martha: thanks, steve.udd is president of the national border patrol council and an active agent for 25 years. things very much for being here with us. i want to first get your reaction to what president biden said about how the trump administration, as he sees it, lowered the number of available beds and places to hold unaccompanied minors and now they're working to build that back up. >> so my understanding and i've got a lot of friends in ice, my understanding there were plenty of bed space when trump left office. he built up the bed space with ice when he took office. there were less bed space when obama was in office than when trump left office. so he built that up. i hope something will fact check him on that. >> martha: here's a piece found from the news conference on migrants crossing the border. let's watch this. >> would you have tried to do this when donald trump was president? >> definitely not. >> so did you come here because joe biden was elected president? >> basically. basically. >> martha:

. >> martha: spring is coming. thanks. i'm martha maccallum live in new york. here's "the story" right now. the president of mexico reportedly refers to our president biden this way. "they see him as the migrant president, so many feel they're going to reach the united states." many teachers say biden, please let us in. peter doocy will join us with a take on what happened in the briefing room. and a surprise signature from the president adding $2 trillion to the already $4.4 trillion that are part of the biggest spending project in united states history. where is that money going to go? dan henninger writes that as soon as the bill is signed, covid is over. we'll talk about that when he and jason riley joins us. prince william speaking out about his brother's accusations. a royal insider that has more on harry and meghan with brand new response to the latest from prince william on this story that everybody is paying attention to. first, it is the case that caught the attention of the entire country. it's celebrated the black lives matter movement. third degree

. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum in new york. "the story" begins with building pressure at the southern border with adults around children crossing in huge numbers. the administration visited there this weekend to do some investigating. their investigations left open a lot of questions. >> there's no transparency. >> we're all committed to allowing cameras in to these facilities but we want to figure out the best way to do that. >> why not at least say yes, our message is received or we need to work on getting the message out? >> i'd say it's clear -- >> journalists are not -- >> why did the president make the visit himself? >> i don't have anything on his schedule. >> martha: also today, piers morgan is back today with some brand new insight in to prince william's fiery action to harry and meghan's stunning interview with oprah. we will have more from buckingham palace. a pill to treat covid? dr. marty makary on the beginning of the end of this pandemic in so many ways across this country. good news. lots to get to this hour. fi

martha? >> martha: thank you, bryan. bryan llenas in new york. my next guest has been calling on governor cuomo to resign a month now. she calls for an investigation into the covid death scandal at the nursing homes a year ago. let's bring in nicole from new york. good to have you with us, congresswoman. you have been out in front on this issue. what is your feel as a new york politician for where this is headed for the governor right now? >> i have to tell you, the democrats in new york have for the most part stuck together and now with this avalanche of them calling for his resignation, i feel the end is near. i feel that i have been alone a long time that when i said the way the governor mishandled the nursing home was wrong and criminal and needed to be an investigation. after that, we learned his own chief of staff admitted there was a cover-up, the attorney general had come up with a report saying he underreported the number of deaths and the patients put in the nursing home. after that he threatened a state legislature of his own party. i

martha? >> martha: it's enormous. thanks, peter doocy. joining me now, larry kudlow from "kudlow" on the fox business network and former economic adviser under president trump. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> martha: i want to start with a flashback sound bite from joe biden. i think that the reason that americans like the idea of a infrastructure plan is because they imagine that it would solve this problem. watch this. >> if i blind folded someone and took them at 2:00 a.m. to the airport in hong kong and said where do you think you are, they say this must be america. it's a modern airport and then took you to la guardia, you think you're in a third world country. >> martha: people think infrastructure, even a trillion dollars, we're going to have great shining airports, going to look like the jetson's, no potholes. is that we're getting here? >> nope. >> martha: good to have you here. thanks. >> what you're getting is -- you're getting a green new deal but really getting a new new deal. that's not what people bargain for. every

martha? >> martha: good news. thanks very much, blake.istration hasn't said much yet about how they plan to confront the growing threat from china. we've learned today the first high level discussions between the two countries will happen next week in alaska. we'll speak with secretary state or anthony blaine ken. the secretary state is being pressed on plans to deal with that china issue and the dominance. watch this. >> china uniquely has an ability militarily, diplomatically, economically to undermine the international rules system that the united states has devoted so much effort to building. it does advance the interest and values of our people. >> martha: what will this administration do about that? that is the question. mike pompeo only on "the story" next. stay with us. feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin. and 24-hour relief from symptoms caused by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. try claritin cool mint chewabls for powerful allergy relief plus a cooling sensation. live claritin clear. was that your great-grandmother, ke

>> thanks, martha.er for team rubicon and its mission to ramp up to 500 vaccination sites in rural and underserved markets. for every one person that is giving out vaccines it takes 10 people behind the scenes. that's where we can help. we can make our financial contribution with team rubicon and activate our employee volunteer network, dental partners across the u.s. and financial representatives to partner and be side-by-side with team rubicon at these sites. >> martha: talk to us about the volunteer efforts out there as team rubicon puts this together and how can people get involved? can they? >> everyone can play a role in communities across the country. one of the common misnomers when it comes to distribution of vaccinations is people think they have to be a medical professional. the reality as chris outlined so many different tasks need to be met from greeting people as they come in to setting up cones if it is a mobile distribution site to watching people after they get the shot to see if they a

. >> martha: thank you. good afternoon. i am martha maccallum. we have a unique show for you on this friday, a special event on the devastating impact covid-19 has had on america's teenagers who were robbed of their school experience. i sat down with parents from across the country who suffered the loss of a child by suicide. they are speaking out because they want you to understand what can happen and how to look for the potential signs. they want to make a difference for other families. that's why we are having this conversation. that's just ahead here. we have breaking news first to get to at this hour. almost 20 republican senators are at the southern border. they said lack of media access forced them to see the situation for themselves. this comes after president biden promised border transparency but we have seen little of that so far. the president has no immediate plans to head the border where the bigle policy crisis of his young presidency is playing out. two separate groups of lawmakers are there. democrats wrapping up a press conferen

it is not -- >> it's not a real issue, martha. >> martha: oats not a real issue? study after study. nobody is faking it to vote. that's something conservatives say when they whine to lose. >> martha: why would you be concerned about voter verification. chris, why would you be concerned about it then? you should have zero concerns if what you just said is true. matt? >> if we have representation -- >> i would like to address this. in north carolina there is actually a republican operative who was convicted of voter fraud. everybody acknowledged it. it can't just be voter fraud when a republican does it. in the state of nevada clark county threw out -- let me finish. clark county threw out one of their county commission races, 1/7 of the vote because the all-democratic county commission said there were so many voter irregularities they couldn't come up with an explanation. jim acosta admitted to me there was illegal voting. the question is can both sides come together and say we should do everything possible to minimize the incidents of illegal voting. what you are

>> not at all, martha. the first group of people that president biden brought to the white house was ten of my friends, ten republicans, to see their ideas. they came out with a proposal, he thought we needed to do a lot more, that's his prerogative and i support him, but with that we had a lot of input from republican friends all through this process, a lot of the changes that we made that were brought into this process came by working with my republican and democrat colleagues together. there were about 20 of us they worked continuously. they had a tremendous amount of input. they just couldn't get there at the end. the president encouraged them to be involved all the way through. he spoke to them all the way up to the end, so i know that. i know in his heart and he'll continue to reach out, that's just who he is. >> you know, political rope that they're outside influence has cast a shadow over the senate since the day the democrats captured their 50/50 majority, they're talking about this, they're talkin

please don't follow me in. >> martha: l.a.' support from a convicted killer. this prisoner bragging about the new rules could set him free. >> monday night right here in the facility, right here in this facility, white lightning, boom! celebrating us going home on george gascon. >> martha: thank you, george gascon. judge jeanine a mother slamming that same as her son's killer was granted parole. >> to have to sit there and go through it me and my family did to. i should not have to fight this hard for the justice given to my son. it should not be like this. the judge does not care. >> martha: so heartbreaking. i spoke to one of them too appear they feel like justice was done but now it's being undone. >> judge jeanine: what is happening in california and what we are going to see happen around the country with these new, progressive das as they call themselves. these are individuals who are not about crime and punishment and deterrence. they are about forgiveness. this guy in particular where the d.a. has roles to play at a paro

martha, would you vote for him? >> martha: don't you think they kind of speak in a similar manner?all i have to say. >> greg: your point about bill hemmer is well taken. they have a good kind of mood, they are always in a mood, jesse. what is that mood? >> jesse: i don't know what it is but i want some of it. listen, if he runs i'm all for it. i don't know if he is a conservative, liberal, i just like his attitude and his leadership skills. i think it would make a good governor. >> greg: he claims he is a radical centrist. >> juan: you know, california is the one that has elected a movie star governor a few times and then texas is always bragging about how californians are moving to texas, so maybe now texas will elect its own movie star as governor, i don't know, i don't know anything about him, i don't know who he be running against but celebrity seems to count a lot. >> greg: i found his memoir to be quite moving and he's actually an extremely intelligent individual, never mind being an actor. >> katie: is matthew mcconaughey is getting greg gutfeld to admit some emotions about

but today it is martha's turn and we couldn't be more excited. let's join in the conversation. >> welcome to this book interview with author and friend of mine, martha maccollum of course anchor of the story on fox news and this is her book unknown valor. it's an amazing read that came out in february of 2020. the paper book is out and available now you will want to check this out. this is the subtitle a story of family, courage and sacrifice from pearl harbor. i love books and i read every one of this. it's one of the books that stayed with me the most that i've read in the recent years. >> guest: thank you. and thank you for talking with me. we love to talk about books and you were so helpful to me when i was writing this book. in fact you were the first person i gave it to and she was so kind she went through it right away and came back with some notes. you are absolutely the person everybody would want to do that because you are so thoughtful. >> let's go back to set the stage for everybody. how did you decide to write this book and the perso

so as many of you know, if you are george and martha washington fans, you know that martha washington burned what she thought was all of the correspondence between her and george and there's two surviving letters, but elizabeth happened to find a bundle of letters in this desk. so she she finds this bundle of letters that is from martha to george and it's all wrapped up in washington's in washington's handwriting and she writes to washington and this is very much their funniest exchange. she says that she's found a bundle of love letters from a woman written in the most solemn sanction and she teases him and and says that she doesn't open them, but she she wants him to know that she has them and then she very quickly goes. i'm just kidding. they're from martha washington and so it's a very cute cute little exchange and that's the same letter where she's very poignant about using the desk, but then washington writes back so after he got to mount vernon is when he got the letter from her so he ends up he ends up writing her back and he actually also writes to her he said as he promised

has martha encountered a doppelganger? is janos just pretending not to know her?their relationship, carefully conjuring every detail so even i believe it happened? horvat has cited truffaut and kieslowski alongside hitchcock as influences, although strangely, the emotional tension of her film reminded me at times of the superb french thriller tell no—one. impressively, horvat manages to keep all the narrative options open forfar longer than should be credible. with martha and janos playing an unspoken game of cat and mouse as they follow each other through a city whose distinct districts seem to mirror and map her internal conflicts. part ghost story, part love story, this playfully mysterious film is a joy to watch, with stork drawing us deep into martha's kaleidoscopic world while horvat toys expertly with the tricks of memory and the mind. you can find it on curzon home cinema. this sunday the 21st is world down syndrome day. on thursday, the brilliant british movie my feral heart starring steven brandon had its terrestrial and network premiere on bbc four, and

>> martha: a great question. on the other side. >> on a related know have you decided if you run for president in 2024? >> president biden: my predecessor needed to. my predecessor, oh god, i miss him. no, the answer is yes, my plan is to run for reelection. >> do you think you'll be running against former president trump? >> oh come on, i don't think about it. i have no idea. i have no idea if there will be a republican party, do you? >> martha: there is a lot there, ari, what stood out to you? >> how silly the question was. you have a chance to ask actual meaningful questions of the president at a news conference, first news conference and ask about an unknown and uncontrollable event for 3 1/2 years down the road. i found it predictable and silly the washington usual stuff. in terms of his answer, what about joe biden's whole soul being for unity and then he goes i don't even know, do you, if the republican party will be around? he is so derisive for his critics. the problem with joe biden. the only line peopl

>> martha, it takes time. we all know what happened to that 13-year-old girl in the prior administration. she was turned away, and turned into the desert of mexico or sent back to the very country from which she fled by reason of fear or persecution. we are addressing the needs of that child now. when i say it takes time, i mean it because we're dealing with a dismantled system, and we did not have the ordinary, safe, and just transition from one administration to another, and so we are executing on our plans. we have dispatched fema, to assist hhs in building additional capacity to address the needs of children, and to move those children through to their sponsors in the united states, to shelter them in the way that they deserve, and that their needs require. that's what we're doing. when people speak of, well, you knew of this, plans aren't made at 20,000 feet. plans are contracts, personnel, policies, training, procedures, all of the elements of operations that were entirely dismantled, and taking care of

both sides need to be taught. >> martha: i looked back at some images he did for advertisements. i can see why some would be questionable. they're not a way to depict people today. as you point out, this is the 1930s, the 1940s. between the wars and during world war ii that these -- that a number of these depictions

than any -- coming from martha griffin that is a lot of praise. >> martha was one of the influential numbers from the 1960s to the 1970s, she represented a michigan district, she has got a lot of experience before shiver comes in congress. she's a lawyer. serves as a judge in michigan and she is elected to the house in 1954. she comes in in 1955 and she'd two very quickly moves into positions of influence. she is the first woman after a number of women in congress have campaigned with the speaker to get a seat on the very exclusive committee, the tax committee. from that position she really we in on a lot of issues affecting women monetary. she's probably best known as the mother of the equal rights amendment. every year she reintroduced equal rights amendment which has a history in the house, in congress going back to 1923. and the bill was just stuck in the judiciary committee and never came out. >> she was a lawyer by training. she was very critical of the supreme court. she did think that the supreme court was never going to decide a case that would make women truly equal with me

>> martha, thank you. martha's full one-on-one with secretary austin, his first broadcast interview, sunday morning right here on abc's "this week." >>> meantime, pope francis is in iraq tonight moving forward with his historic trip amid these tensions. there is unprecedented security, and ian pannell is there again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, pope francis in iraq amid unprecedented security. francis foregoing his usual popemobile, instead protected by a huge cordon of heavily armed troops. iraqis ignoring orders not to line the streets, instead coming out to cheer. i come as a pilgrim of peace, he said. he was taken by armored car to the church where isis suicide bombers killed 48 worshippers in 2010. during his three-day trip, he'll come here, to the christian town of qaraqosh, once overrun by isis militants. isis drove the christians from this town, and desecrated this ancient church, using it as a firing range. archbishop ammar will greet the pope. he was the first to re-enter the church after isis

>> all right, martha raddatz live in washington. martha, thank you. >>> now to the coronavirus here in the u.s., and the alarming numbers. new cases now rising by at least 10% in at least 20 states. and president biden, of course, now saying 200 million shots in his first 100 days. pfizer tonight starting a new trial on young children. one research doctor calling it quote, a big step towards herd immunity in this country. the numbers tonight. 87,092,000 people have received at least one dose. that's more than 33% of adults now. also tonight, new york governor andrew cuomo under fire again. this time, accusations that he put his own family at the front of the line for covid testing early on in this pandemic. the governor's response tonight. here's abc's victor oquendo now. >> reporter: tonight, as the country tops 30 million cases of the coronavirus, infections on the rise. in 20 states, case averages are climbing more than 10% in the last week. >> she's going to count for me, okay? >> one, two, three. >> reporter: it comes as pfizer

let's bring in martha raddatz tonight. this is a delicate balance for the biden administration. obviously they must protect troops as they try to restore the iran nuclear deal? >> reporter: delicate is exactly the word. the iranian backed militias not only want the u.s. out of the middle east, there are some factions that don't want iran to renegotiate the nuclear deal with the u.s. the fear of these tit for tat attacks is that they escalate, or that one side or the other overreacts bum secretary austin is keeping a close eye on all that and trying to find the right balance. >> martha's full one-on-one with secretary austin, his first broadcast interview, sunday morning right here an abc's "this week". >>> meantime, pope francis is in iraq moving forward his historic trip amid tensions. there is unprecedented security, and ian pannell is there again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, pope francis in iraq amid unprecedented security. francis foregoing his usual popemobile, instead protected by a huge cordon of heavily armed troops. iraqis ignoring orders not to line the streets, inst

martha? >> reporter: david, law enforcement knows the capitol remains an attractive target for extremists, which is why the capitol police want to keep some portion of the 5,000 national guard in place until mid-may and the secretary of defense said last month that if lawmakers need protection, the guard stands ready to provide it. and a capitol security review will recommend adding roughly 1,000 new capitol police and replacing this razor wire-topped fence with mobile and retractable fencing so the capitol grounds will still have what they call an open campus feel when the threat level is reduced, but we are definitely not there yet. david? >> all right, martha raddatz with late reporting. thank you, martha. >>> and now to the alarming allegations tonight against a former maryland police chief and the stunning surveillance. police say these are images of him pouring fuel on a home, setting it on fire as people were sleeping inside. and tonight, that former police chief is now accused in at l

kianna, josephine, and martha?ective entered the coordinates. >> and every intersection for the -- that date and time that they gave me, franc cano came up. >> wow. >> for every single intersection. >> it was -- it was -- i was shocked. >> reporter: but something about that man, franc cano. he had a buddy. and lomeli had run into them both. >> i mentioned, "you know, i do know that he has a friend -- that's steven gordon." >> reporter: steven gordon. he'd done time for molesting a minor and later for kidnapping. he and cano were inseparable, apparently. once again, detective lomeli pulled up the gps coordinates. she checked the place martha was last seen in santa ana, and? no gordon. not there. but when she checked locations for kianna and josephine, sure enough, there he was. so why not at that first location? she checked the record and discovered that at that particular moment, gordon wasn't on a gps monitor, but he was wearing one at the other three places, and so was cano. the electronics made it absolutely obv

they know how important it is, martha. >> martha: there's no doubt about that. is that, you know, when you look at essential workers, all of them went back in one way or another and this group did not. the reason that they did not is because the unions really prevented it. we see what is happening in the story in seattle that we just heard. parents have learned a lot more about the school system. they learned how the unions functions and learned about charter schools and catholic school options around learned what the kids are learning. they've been looking at it. in all honestly, it's raised a lot of questions about what they're learning and how their school operates. obvious lividly, you know, there are so many wonderful teachers. i'm the product of a teacher, the sister of a teacher and i give them a lot of credit. the fact of the matter is, if you're in a certain age group or risk group, there's accommodations to figure out so you don't have to go back. the majority of teachers are not in that age group. most of them are young and healthy. it's unfortunate t

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martha, good morning to you. of course, you've covered many wars, armed conflicts all over the world for years, but the pandemic is something entirely different here. how would you characterize the significance of the military's role in the way secretary austin is approaching it? >> i think it's extremely significant. there's really nobody better at logistics, which i've seen in conflict zones all over the world than the u.s. military, they can deploy quickly to these areas to help get those shots into arms. they can organize, from the national guard to active-duty military. i've been across the country, i've seen upclose what they do, it's a very important contribution to fighting this pandemic and of course, the military is also fighting it within, they have very strict protocols, secretary austin's mask was right there on the desk. we were about ten feet apart. they're very strict about it. there's masking in the military, they've had a few outbreaks but pretty well under control over the past year in the mili

. >>> also ahead this morning, martha, martha, martha, she's helping us revive our homes and our spiritsyone that video. okay. >> go, al, go. >> look forward to that. >> this is a story we're doing >> apparently. surprise to all of us. >> yeah. >>> in a few minutes on the "3rd hour of today," guys, jill martin has an entire half hour of deals to get you organized, have a little fun, and to treat yourself, as well. >> okay, good. >>> we'll have really big things next week on "today. hoda is sitting down with george clooney. >> oh, nothing oh, nothing. oh, my gosh, it's going to be a flirt-a-thon family, fatherhood, approaching a milestone birthday, the big 6-0. hoda is just chitchatting with george >>> carrie underwood is going to perform. for our women's history month series, special stories about granddaughters jenna and i talked to lucille ball's and eleanor roosevelt's -- you did why did i say i? i have the pandemic -- >> it's friday >> because you are hoda. >> it is hoda. >> were you supposed to read that >> i don't know. jenna sat down with eleanor roosevelt's granddaughter, and i s

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