actress olivia munn, a friend of the victim's family, thanking the nypd and social media for helping identify the suspect. we're going to hear from the daughter of the victim plus the latest straight from olivia munn in our "gma" cover story. ♪ i'm blinded by the lights ♪ >>> as "gma" celebrates black history month yelp seeing a surge in values driven shopping. how to seek out and support black-owned businesses all year long. plus, we meet one woman leading the charge helping black women entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level. >>it ay-palooza. what to do with the simple ingredients you have waiting on the shelf. we have your go-to game plan for mouthwatering meals, serving up soup, pasta and casserole recipes the whole family will love. all that and more as we kick off the weekend saying good morning, america. ♪ let me be your motivation ♪ welcome to the second hour of "gma" on this saturday morning. what to watch this weekend? there's a lot including the return of an acclaimed tv drama that happens to be oprah's go to binge-watching show. we've got the inside scoop ahe

olivia munn, sam cheng, thank you. >> sam, we hope your mom continues to recover.r, down plays it. >> she's like i'm fine, i'm fine. thank you all for watching. >> we'll be back tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. velshi starts right now. >>> good morning. it is saturday, february 20th. i am ali velshi, coming to you live from birmingham, alabama where i will bring you fascinating an important conversations with activists and ordinary citizens on the front line of the battle for racial equality in this country from a city steeped in the civil rights struggle. we begin this morning with slow rolling crisis that continues this hour in texas where millions of fellow citizens find themselves in a dire situation, days into a winter storm that crippled the energy sector, brought out the worst in republican leadership. while power started to come back for most of the millions of texans struggling through freezing temperatures without it, there are still tens of thousands without power and the crisis is shifting from power to water. half the state's population does not currently have sa

sam cheng, olivia munn, thank you.hes for a speedy recovery and thanks so much for heightening awareness of all of this and bringing it to our attention. >> thank you guys. >> yes. thanks so much. >> take care, guys. >>> okay. we need some good stuff. a snow plow driver in indiana is being hailed as a hero after saving a little boy who wandered away from his home in subzero temperatures. david gurke was cleaning the streets when he spotted 5-year-old maddox pierce outside in his pajamas with no shoes, no hat and no jacket at 4:00 a.m. >> i immediately took my jacket off here and wrapped it around him and i put him in the truck. i called police dispatch. i've got the heat blasting in the truck. i'll keep him warm until we get help on the way. >> maddox told police he was scared he was home alone so he left for his grandpa's. now he did not know that his 14-year-old aunt was home and babysitting for him while his mom was at work. maddox's mom is extremely grateful that this ended so well. she also says she's bought sever

and a digital manhunt after the video was shared by actress olivia munn.cks these incidents says more than 2,808 incidents of hate have been reported since this pandemic started. i want to bring in my panel. richard liu, the author of a book called "enough about me" congratulations, my friend. >> thank you yasmin. >> welcome to you all. appreciate you joining me on this incredibly important topic. i want to start with you, congresswoman, and get your reaction to the story of that man. it was emotional even to listen to him recounting the fear and being flashed on a subway. his face -- you saw the scars there, after it happened. the nypd did not official low call this a hate crime. is that part of the problem? >> it is part of the problem. and let me say how outraged and heart broken i was to hear his story. his story is actually what a number of asian americans are experiencing all across this nation, most recently, and these attacks have been against many of the elderly in our community. they are unprovoked attacks. they don't even have anything to do wit

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viral video that you are looking at and a digital manhunt after the video was shared by actress olivia munne of many headlines about the disturbing violence against asian-americans. not everybody has a celeb writ activist behind them to help their case. according to stop aapi hate that started tracking violence in the wake of the covid pandemic and racist rhetoric around the virus those attacks are up 1900% in the u.s., nearly 3,000 firsthand accounts of hatred were reported starting in march from the end of last year and 7% of those accounts came from among the most vulnerabler asian-americans over 60 years old. joining me now noel cantana and russell jung stop aapi hate co-founder. thank you both for being with us. noel, good morning to you. >> good morning. good morning. >> so first of all, noel, thank you for joining us and i'm sure this is not easy, but if you could take us back to that day, you were on the subway, i understand, in new york. can you tell us what happened? >> yes, it was wednesday, wednesday morning, i'm about to go to work at 8:30 so it's about 8:00 something. i'm alre

we have munn more dangerous night. more pipes bursting, record lows and then warm up currently you can see it's frigid 34 degrees in houston. temperatures about 30 degrees colder than they should be as we continue to move and go through the forecast into tomorrow morning, i mean we're seeing record lows, shatter our records in many spots, not surprising we have snow on the ground it's a clear night, cold you almost expect it but that's where we're going to have additional problems it's not until the weekend that we see the big warmup. houston on sunday into 60s dallas by the time we get to sunday into the 50s. quickly melting the the snow and hopefully repair everything. and still not done the snow out there. we have 74 million people under winter weather advisories. we had another snowstorm del rio texas on the border of mexico had 10 inches of snow the snowiest day the in city history and even san antonio picked up another inch or two of snow and still snowing at this hour absolutely ridiculous. the storm in the nort

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from iowa is recognized for one munn. >> thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the gentleman. mr. speaker, americans are crying out tonight for targeted relief and instead this bill sends money straight to speaker pelosi's pet project in california, the bay area rapid transit silicon valley phase 2. how insulting to the frontline workers who still have not received a covid-19 vaccine. to the mom trying to pay rent while her small business is in danger. what about the e.r. docs an nurses treating kids rushed in for mental health crisis. this is washington's pork spending at its worst, the kind the speaker puts in for herself. my amendment would take away he $140 billion subway carve out and put it toward supporting mental health programs for students. we've seen increasing rates of depression,ing an sy and other mental health challenges from our kids who have been trapped behind screens for a year now. if we adopt the motion to recommit tonight, we will instruct the budget committee to reconsider my amendment which would put students over su

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. >> reporter: but sam and his friend, actress olivia munn posted these images captured by witnessesou can learn to not b afraid and not just bury your own pain, you'll see that there are so many people in a world that want to help us >> reporter: deputy inspector stewart lou heads the asian hate crime task force in 2019 nypd recorded three hate incidents against asian americans. in 2020 it jumped to 27, an 800% increase >> reporter: as i understand it the task force doesn't actuallyd build the community policing relationships. should the task force take a more active role in the community? >> i would love to do that, and i think it should be done. but the task force is comprised of detectives who are already assigned to squads all over the city so we don't have the proper resources. >> reporter: two detectives try to break down language and cultural barriers. they say building trust in the communities they serve resulted in 20 arrests last year. [ speaking foreign language >> we will help you. do not be afraid do not fear of retaliation don't worry about the language barrier or immi

and those who are not regular riders of munn, and if you had bundles like that and you did something -- not so much to target taking away every single neighborhood space, but you have a pass where you have unlimited parking at meters and other -- you know, not in a neighborhood restricted parking, but other parts of the city for $1,000 a year. there are creative ideas. we look at the success of the computer technology and it's all about subscriptions, people subscribe. and most of us have a million subscriptions that we pay for, whether or not we use them, and it's much easier for the cost of doing business. i know tons of people who say, oh, i just budget that i'll spend a thousand dollars a year on street cleaning, and it's crazy they think that way, but if people think that way, could we get them to proactively, maybe you pay for a pass that you only get -- like, you can get five street cleaning tickets and not have to pay for them, but, you know, in the beginning -- i'm trying to think creative. but we could look at these approaches and some of which might be less controversial b

and those who are not regular riders of munn, and if you had bundles like that and you did something -- not so much to target taking away every single neighborhood space, but you have a pass where you have unlimited parking at meters and other -- you know, not in a neighborhood restricted parking, but other parts of the city for $1,000 a year. there are creative ideas. we look at the success of the computer technology and it's all about subscriptions, people subscribe. and most of us have a million subscriptions that we pay for, whether or not we use them, and it's much easier for the cost of doing business. i know tons of people who say, oh, i just budget that i'll spend a thousand dollars a year on street cleaning, and it's crazy they think that way, but if people think that way, could we get them to proactively, maybe you pay for a pass that you only get -- like, you can get five street cleaning tickets and not have to pay for them, but, you know, in the beginning -- i'm trying to think creative. but we could look at these approaches and some of which might be less controversial b

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from iowa is recognized for one munn. >> thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the gentleman. mr. speaker, americans are crying out tonight for targeted relief and instead this bill sends money straight to speaker pelosi's pet project in california, the bay area rapid transit silicon valley phase 2. how insulting to the frontline workers who still have not received a covid-19 vaccine. to the mom trying to pay rent while her small business is in danger. what about the e.r. docs an nurses treating kids rushed in for mental health crisis. this is washington's pork spending at its worst, the kind the speaker puts in for herself. my amendment would take away he $140 billion subway carve out and put it toward supporting mental health programs for students. we've seen increasing rates of depression,ing an sy and other mental health challenges from our kids who have been trapped behind screens for a year now. if we adopt the motion to recommit tonight, we will instruct the budget committee to reconsider my amendment which would put students over su