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Online shipping surges, a record volume of packages right now overwhelming the system. Will your Holiday Gifts make it under the tree in time . And good morning, america. Happy friday. Two weeks until christmas. I got to tell you im feeling good this morning. A got a lot of shopping done yesterday. Wow. That is important. Good for you. Youre lucky because im like a third of us, i wait till the last minute. I havent bought anybody any gifts yet. You might not want to do that this year because of the big alert from u. P. S. And fedex. Theyre behind right now. Christmas in january. Whoo no, no . All right. We have a lot of in us to get to. Well begin with some Severe Weather battering the northwest hit by that tornado and torrential downpours triggering mudslides and flooding. The storms moving east and aditi roy is in battleground, washington, where dozens of homes were damaged by that twister. Good morning to you, aditi. Reporter good morning, amy. Im standing right in the path of that tornado that tore through this town. Take a look at the pies and piles of debris on the ground here. The winds were racing up to 10 miles an hour, 36 homes damaged in this town appropriately called battleground. Wow reporter tornadoes, flooding, landslides, Power Outages and lots of hail, the Pacific Northwest in weather mayhem. A huge boom and like the tree came shooting through the window. Reporter this dramatic scene captured in battleground, washington. Straight up ripped every limb off that tree. Reporter watch as a Home Security camera catches this backyard being ripped apart. This morning, people are cleaning up after a confirmed tornado went ripping up trees and shredding them. Dozens of homes and structures damaged. This highway shutting down for hours after a landslide sent boulders onto the road. I dont think anybody thought it would be this bad. Reporter two confirmed deaths in the storm. A woman trapped under a falling tree and another who drowned driving through the floodwaters. And in portland, the coastline getting battered. Rains buckling roads, trees uprooted. Reports of cars, you know, in water, water over the roadway people trapped in cars. Reporter transportation is a mess. A state of emergency has been declared in 13 oregon counties. The storm now headed east. This area expected to see a second round of wet weather over the weekend. Amy. All right, aditi, thank you. As you just heard aditi say its on the move and ginger moving right into the middle of the country . It will and will bring severe storms there. Lets start with its slapping the coast. You could see waves 20 to 30 feet till in some of those Northern California coastal areas in oregon but it goes to Southern California as do the wind advisories right through arizona and new mexico and then that storm moves through the rockies tonight and im worried aboutage daing wind and isolated tornado from wichita to just west of dallas on saturday and then it moves east on sunday but i got to tell you out in front highs from likelyhicago to new york city, im going to detail that if you do me a favor and stick around ill show you how warm we get. Now to the rising terror fear here in america. A new poll shows that almost half the country thinks an attack is very likely to happen in the next few months, the highest anxiety since the days after 9 11 and it is fueling Donald Trumps surge to the top of the polls. Abcs jon karl tracking that story from the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning, george. While trump was slammed by critics for his proposal to temporarily ban muslims from coming into the United States his supporters have not wavered. In fact, his standing in the polls is as high as ever, but one of his major rivals is now privately questioning whether he has the judgment to commander in chief. In New Hampshire overnight donald trump brushed off protesters as he received the endorsement of a new England Police union. Weve had a pretty interesting couple of days. We have people talking, i will tell you that. Reporter all the controversy and news on terrorism over the past month seems to have given trump a boost. Back in late october, there were signs he had starred to fade, since then hes jumped 13 points in that same poll. But trumps number one rival in iowa, senator ted cruz is touting an endorsement from a key evangelical leader. I believe the extraordinary leader that we need for these extraordinary times is u. S. Senator ted cruz. Reporter cruz has steadily gained support from social conservatives in iowa, one poll this week showed him leading trump there for the first time. Now hes taking on trump behind the scenes, the audio obtained by the New York Times from a closed door fundraiser cruz questions if trump and ben carson have the judgment to be president. Who am i comfortable having their finger on the button . Now, thats a question of strength but its also a question of judgment. And i think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them. Reporter cruz explained why hes avoided any public criticism of carson or trump saying he hopes to gain their supporters and escape trumps attacks. So my approach much to the frustration of the media has been to bear hug both of them and smother them with love. Reporter but even while trump continues to ride high his proposal to temporarily ban muslims from entering the country is unpopular. In a new wall street journal nbc poll 57 of americans oppose it, only 25 support it and republican primary voters are split on it. Less than 40 , george, support it. Donald trump, we thought he would be going to israel after christmas. Now thats been canceled. Reporter thats right. He had been scheduled to go to israel and meet with Benjamin Netanyahu but yesterday trump abruptly canceled that trip, george. The cancellation came after trump said he rejected i mean after netanyahu said he rejected trumps comments on muslims. Trump said hell visit him when hes president. Reporter with characteristic modesty. Thanks very much. Much more sunday on this week. Now to the investigation into the terror couple in San Bernardino. The fbi expanding its search. Authorities now looking in this pond for clues. They believe the killer may have gone there after the massacre and were also learning more about syed farooks childhood friend Enrique Marquez and his secret double life. Abcs matt gutman has been in San Bernardino covering the story from the beginning. He joins us now, good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, amy. The fbi tells us theyll be scouring this lake for days, gives you a sense of how important this site is to them, it also gives our first hint of where that terrorist couple may have been in that black hole of time, the three hours between the shooting rampage and the time they were gunned down by police. This morning, for the first time were learning the likely whereabouts of that terrorist couple in the hours after they thread this shattered Conference Room and before the roadside shootout which left them dead. Is it possible they were here. Its possible they were at this park. Reporter the fbi believes the couple may have come here to dump evidence. Perhaps devices with digital data. Divers crisscrossing the murky water to salvage even the smallest evidence from the lake bed. The lake just 2 1 2 miles from the site of that shooting. This as authorities expand their investigative web, federal authorities now saying farook and his neighbor, Enrique Marquez, who supplied the militarystyle weapons used in last weeks massacre, allegedly began planning but later abandoned a terror plot in 2012. There had been some arrests immediately adjacent to that right in their area that really caused them to rethink it. Reporter those arrests also in 2012 before the founding of isis, four men from riverside, california, the same town farook and marquez lived in. This morning, marquez is still in fbi custody but not under arrest. His mother talking to reporters for the first time telling us shes heartbroken. And shocked to learn her son isnt who she thought he was. Family members say they never knew the former punk rocker converted to islam or that he married a chechen woman who just emigrated to the u. S. His wife one of two chechen sisters, the other married farooks brother. Now, in that merck, the fbi hopes to find some sort of digital data, perhaps a hard drive that could give them an idea of where the terrorist couple planned to attack next, who, if anyone, directed them and critically whether or not they had accomplices either overseas or in the u. S. Who planned another attack. George. Yeah, so much to untangle. Thanks very much. Were going to turn to that terrifying new alert detailing how isis followers can slip undetected into the u. S. The group now has the ability to make Fake Passports that look just like the real thing and brian ross here with this exclusive report. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, george. The u. S. And other countries are on high alert for isis attacks, american authorities are warning the terror group is now producing its own authenticlooking passports almost impossible to detect. Authorities say as isis swept through major syrian cities last year, it was able to seize at least two government Passport Printing machines similar or smaller than this one used by the british government. If isis has been able to acquire legitimate passports or machines that could create legitimate passports, this would represent a major Security Risk to the United States. Reporter a Homeland Security investigation bulletin sent to Law Enforcement in the last week and obtained by abc news showed examples of suspect passports and said isis may have boxes full of blank passports. The bulletin warned that individuals from syria with passports issued in these isis controlled cities or who had passport blanks may have traveled to the u. S. The director of the fbi first revealed it publicly in testimony. They are concerned they have the ability, the capability to manufacture fraudulent passports. Which is a concern in any setting. Reporter several of the fraudulent passports have already been discovered in europe, most notably in the paris attacks when authorities said one of the suicide bombers used this forged syrian passport to come into europe as a refugee. And now this morning in switzerland authorities are searching for as many as six possible isis terrorists, the u. S. Provided intelligence to the swiss about a possible attack and americans traveling to switzerland have been warned the threat level especially in geneva has been raised. Quite specific. Exactly right. Thanks very much. Thank you. Now to a different type of terror. This one aboard a runaway commuter train in boston. It left the station with no one at the controls and it barreled through four stations for nearly ten minutes before it was finally stopped. That operator has now been placed on leave and abcs linzie janis is in braintree, massachusetts, with that story. Good morning, linzie. Reporter good morning, amy. During those few minutes passengers say they didnt know what would happen to them. Some worried theyd crash into another train. Others trying to stop the train themselves. This morning, a boston train operator is on administrative leave as investigators try to figure out what caused his packed commuter train to drive off without him. What happened today is unacceptable. Reporter Authorities Say just after 6 a. M. Thursday David Vasquez got off his train to deal with a signaling issue. Seconds later the train taking off grazing him as it left the station. I have a motor person that was operating one of my trains. Hes got a lower right leg laceration. I need emts and fire here. Reporter the runaway traveling nearly six miles blowing through four station stops. It was flying. It was flying. A guy trying to open the doors, he even tried to break one of the windows because he goes, i dont know whats going on. I just warrant to get out of here. Reporter passengers on board that train say they started to panic realizing there was no one inside the operators booth. Some tried to get inside. Others attempting to pry open the exit doors. Transit crews scrambling to move other trains offer the track and cutting power to the third rail. All the lights went off and everything just stopped. Reporter the train finally coming to a halt after nine terrifying minutes. Investigators say theyre now focused on operator error as the cause questioning that operator with 28 years experience. George. Hard to imagine that could happen. Linzie, thanks very much. A new headline now about those hoverboards everyone is talking about. You see how easy for some of them to catch fire. Now airlines are banning passengers from taking them on board. Abcs linsey davis here with that story. Good morning, linsey. Reporter file this under the category of hot, hot, hot. A lot of people will be unwrapping these gifts for the holidays but getting them home, that might be the problem. Its the toy that is tping Christmas Wish lists. The hoverboard, but some of these hot new rides are getting a little too hot. Holy cow. Reporter reports of hoverboards catching fire like these put airlines on high alert during the height of the Holiday Travel season. Big names such as american, united, jetblue and delta are all banning the twowheeled machine making sure an incident like this doesnt happen up in the sky. Hoverboards are powered by lithium batteries which have concerned airlines for years. The faa putting on this test showing the potential dangers of lithium batteries in a shipping container, a Chain Reaction explosion and fire. And while the government mandates 160 watt hours limit aboard an aircraft many of these must have new items surpass that wattage posing a potential hazard risk and on the ground, more hoverboard bans, overstock. Com stopping all hoverboard sales thursday saying customer safety is always our top priority. These concerns dont seem to be hurting sales one bit. Ebay has said its selling a hoverboard every 12 seconds but some parents may be rethinking their purchases right about now. Wow. My twin, thats what they want. Their number one are they going to get it . You cant say anything about that right now. After reports last week, i dont know. If i want to get them one i better order it now because everybody out there, big alert from fedex and u. P. S. An estimated 1. 5 billion packages will be shipped this Holiday Season and the companies are overwhelmed with more deliveries arriving late. Abcs Rebecca Jarvis is here with that. Rebecca. Hey, michael, good morning. I was going to say you need to get on that right away if youre going to get your twins those hoverboards because we are seeing growth in online sales up 14 over the holidays already and that means delays for deliveries. tis the season to shop online but will those Online Purchases arrive in time to be placed beneath the tree . Thats the burning question as both u. P. S. And fedex posted lower than expected on time delivery rates in the runup to christmas. According to ship matrix on time delivery rates for u. P. S. And fedex are both down from this time last year. A primary reason for the delays, a surge in online sales over the thanksgiving holiday weekend. Consumers spent an estimated 4. 5 billion online on thanksgiving and black friday alone. Overwhelming the Delivery System reminiscent of christmas 2013 when high volume, insufficient staffing and bad weather created a backlog in deliveries at u. P. S. Thousands of packages ordered online that year failed to arrive before their promised delivery dates. I was expecting the gifts to get here. Nothing is going to be under the tree. Reporter thanks, u. P. S. , for ruining christmas wrote one consumer. Does a promised delivery date not mean anything to you . Upsfail. Could this be another disappointing christmas . Its still early, but experts advise better be safe than sorry. And order early and when possible, have a backup plan in place. That backup plan might be a coupon for the gift sometime in the future. U. P. S. And fedex tell me the vast majority of packages are arriving on time but the key here is getting things sent early, even though you can wait until the last minute, this year is going to be the busiest ever for deliveries because there are so many online orders. Everybody figured out how to do it. Print it up and wrap it with a bow saying its coming. Maybe ive done that before . Yeah. 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What he is saying as he fights charges he betrayed his country. And racism charges at the citadel. Photos of cadets in white hoods sparking outrage at that Military College. Well talk about all the fallout this morning when we come back. Stay with us. From the big gifts that mean a lot, to the little ones that mean everything. Get the perfect gift for everyone and share wonder on christmas day. Walmart. Aa song thats life song thats life song thats life song thats life thats life. You diet. You exercise. And if you still need help lowering your blood sugar. This is jardiance. Along with diet and exercise, jardiance works around the clock to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. It works by helping your body to get rid of some of the sugar it doesnt need through urination. This can help you lower blood sugar and a1c. And although its not for weight loss or lowering systolic blood pressure, jardiance could help with both. 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Check out our record high, 68 degrees. Well get close to it. Near records expected saturday, sunday as well. Have to keep an eye on clouds, though. Rain showers will hold off until monday. A little bit cooler middle of next week. Reporter on the friday morning ride rear tied up in oxon hill on the capital beltway, a life look at national harbor. Inner loop, we have crash that is backing us up all way to branch avenue. As a matter of fact, our express lanes are closed. 4 cars involved on the inner loop jammed from camp springs to oxon hill with police investigation. You have to use the local leans to get by this accident activity. Here is a live lee at those delays from branch avenue. Interstate 95 northbound heavy, slow from norton to the fairfax county. Otherwise a nice ride toward the springfield interchange. Once you get to the capital beltway, off and on slowing into tysons, melanie. Reporter thank you. Police are investigating an assault near potomac yard, happened tin 3900 block of mount vernon avenue. Around midnight. Fairfax county police used a helicopter to search for a male suspect. No one was found. Victim was transported to a hospital with non life threatening injuries. There has been a second arrest in the shooting death of American University student matthew, andre dudley is charged with Second Degree murder. Math ah was fatally shot in august. He was not the intended target. You welcome back to gma. We are tracking that extreme weather from coast to coast. A state of emergency in washington, parts of oregon where a tornado touched down damaging dozens of homes. Rains have been triggering mudslides and heat could set records here in the east. Temperatures in the 70s this weekend. Look at that up on the board. Wow. Also right now that weather out west may have contributed to the crash of a medical helicopter in california killing all four people on board iluding the pilot, paramedic, nurse and patient. The ntsb is investigating that crash. Millions of people traveling the next few weeks, if you havent booked your ticket yet, dont do it today. A new study finds friday is the worst day to buy airline tickets. Prices are about 1 more than those bought theyve had enough. Were getting out of here. Have to wait till monday. Monday is the best day to do it. So to my family your tickets coming up monday. How one hero saved two lives in a matter of hours. Just a few minutes. We begin with the miysterios death of Kristin Cavallaris brother, michael. Michael cavallaris body has been found in utah two weeks after his car was discovered abandoned. Abcs Kayna Whitworth is in los angeles with more on this story. Good morning, kayna. Reporter yeah, amy, good morning. So, Michael Cavallari was found dead more than 700 miles from his home in california. Authorities saying this morning he was in a remote area of utah with just the clothes on his back. This morning, mystery shrouding the death of Michael Cavallari. The older brother of reality tv star kristin cavallari. The intense search effort taking a tragic turn around 10 30 a. M. Thursday when ground crews found the 30yearolds body in a remote part of grand county, utah, three miles from where he had abandoned this honda civic. It was rugged terrain, few scratches and bruises. Reporter this turn nothing a chilling mystery that started with michaels disappearance. Two weeks ago authorities telling abc news overnight he was found in the same clothing seen in these available images taken at a Convenience Store the morning after thanksgiving. The weather may have played a part of it that we dont know what his mental state was when he left the car. Reporter his remains transported to the medical Examiners Office for testing. Their focus pinpointing the time and cause of death. This just days after revelations surfaced about michaels arrest four days before he vanished. For making criminal threats to a woman who alleged he was lingering outside her home with a shotgun. He was released two days later. Growing up michael was always a troubled kid compared to kristin who is very business oriented anticipate levelheaded and drama was always following him. Reporter this morning kristin struggling to come to terps with her loss sharing a heartfelt tribute to michael on instagram posting this childhood photo of the siblings along with the caption, my heart is in a million pieces. You had such a good heart and will be forever missed. Im at a loss for words. At this point authorizes do not suspect foul play but adding that it could be six to eight weeks before they know the cause and exact time of his death. Amy and george. All right, kayna, thank you. Such a strange one. We have the controversy now over bowe bergdahl, the Army Sergeant who spent five years as a taliban prisoner after abandoning his post is speaking out publicly for the first time about why he left as he faces charges of desertion and a possible courtmartial. Abcs ryan owens has the story. Reporter who can forget that Young American soldier blinking in the sun as hes finally brought out of the darkness after five years of captivity. This morning, the voice behind those heartpounding pictures. Good grief, im in over my head. Reporter for the first time publicly Sergeant Bowe bergdahl describing the night he walked away from his remote army outpost in afghanistan in 2009. He says shortly after the sun came up, a half dozen taliban fighters spotted him. There i was in the open desert and im not about to outrun a bunch of motorcycles so i couldnt do anything. Against six or seven guys with ak47s. Reporter his account comes from phone conversations with this screenwriter released as part of the Second Season of the podcast. He claims he abandoned his fellow soldiers to draw attention to what he calls bad leadership in the army. He says another reason he walked away, to prove he could be like the movie action hero jason bourne. Yeah, so i had this fantastic idea that i was going to prove to the world that, you know, i was the real thing. Reporter critics say the Obama Administration should never have traded bergdahl who many consider a desertion for five taliban detainees at guantanamo bay. This morning bergdahl remains on desk duty at a texas army post. The military Still Deciding if the 29yearold should face courtmartial or if five years in taliban captivity is punishment enough. For good morning america, ryan owens, abc news, dallas. Okay, ryan, thanks very much. Dan abrams here with more. So far the military prosecutors recommended a light sentence. Like a probable cause hearing or preliminary cause hearing where theyve laid out the evidence, the prosecutors are saying, we think he should be charged with something serious like desertion and could face up to life in prison. They have this hearing and the lead military officer overseeing it, it seems, is saying based on everything ive heard i dont think there should be serious charges. But hes not the final word on it. It now goes up to the top general who is ultimately going to decide should it be anything from no charges at all to the more serious charge of desertion . But this general does tend to listen to the results of this. So how does this affect it . 25 hours on tape going public. Look, i think that the substance of what he said may not be as problematic for him as the fact that he said it. Our understanding is that what he said in these interviews is consistent with what he said in other places, that would be the only osproblem, inconsistent statements. If they are consistent the fundamental question is, is the general whos got enormous discretion to make the decision, does he go to trial or not . Is the general going to hear this interview and say, why is he doing this . Is the general going to get irritated at the fact that were watching to determine whats next here and hes doing hours and hours of interviews for the media. Especially when theres still a lot of anger out there. On the other hand a lot say hes already served five years as a presser of war. In theory that shouldnt be the question answered but you have to believe the military officials who are making these decisions are taking into consideration that this is someone who served a lot of time and if they believe him that he didnt literally go to turn himself over to the enemy, thats going to be i think a critical factor in determining how they move forward. Okay, dan abrams, thanks very much. 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Were back now with those charges of racism at the citadel. Eight cadets suspended from the Military College after photos of them wearing white hoods were posted online. Abcs t. J. Holmes is here with that story. Good morning, t. J. Reporter good morning, robach. Whats wrong with this picture . Some will tell you nothing. Whats wrong with dressing up as ghosts . Others say give me a break. And point to this picture as just the latest evidence of insensitivity and racism on the storied citadel campus. This morning, eight cadets at the citadel, a Military College in south carolina, are suspended after this photo surfaced on social media showing them lined up in their barracks dressed in similar attire to that of the ku klux klan. The cadets were reportedly singing Christmas Carols as part of a ghosts of christmas past skit but others see reminders of the souths racist past. The schools Minority Alumni Association calling the pictures disgraceful. In the video somebody does say its not what it looks like, theyre ghosts. Not white supreme sifts. Reporter this 19yearold says she first saw video of it on snapchat, took a screen shot and posted it on facebook. Even if they were supposed to be dressed up as ghosts as soon as you realize thats what you look like, you should have changed outfits or not post it on some sort of social media in the first place. Reporter the university is investigating. The schools president calls the images offensive and disturbing saying they are not consistent with our core values of honor, duty and respect. But many around campus arent so quick to judge. It was clearly a joke but when its a military school and youre sort of held to a higher standard. Reporter the citadel the latest college to make headlines for racism on campus. This november the president at missouri resigned after students protested the schools handling of racial incidents. In march two students were expelled at a fraternity kicked off the university of oklahoma campus after this video of a racist chant went viral. And the citadel here, guy, especially, amy, you know this spending the time you did in north carolina, here we go again. Several incidents even one in 86 where the fbi investigated because other guys are dressed up white hoods in klan history at that military institution dating all the way back so especially insensitive. How no one stepped in. So many opportunities to say, wait, guy, were doing something stupid. This is a different generation, freshmen in this picture, you know, guys 18, 19, maybe they dont understand the racial insensitivity. Theyll find out very quickly. The incredible story of the officer who saved not one, but two lives in one day. Stay with us. Looks like some folks have had it with their Airline Credit card miles. Sometimes those seats cost a ridiculous number of miles. Or theres a fee to use them. I know. 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Reporter starting cpr to keep her alive. I got her breathing again, shes trying to get some air. Reporter shes rushed to a hospital but his day isnt over by a long shot. Just a few hours later on his way home dispatch advise theres a child choking. Reporter a baby only nine days old. Schuman just a few houses away. Got her to cry a little bit, which calmed me because as a parent myself i know if youre crying youre breathing and that was a good sign. Reporter schuman is remarkably humble about saving two lives. It was just another day on the job. Reporter but for being in the right place at the right time twice good job saving that girl yesterday. Thanks, man. Appreciate it, buddy. Reporter a lot consider him a hero squared. For good morning america, Clayton Sandell, abc news, denver. We all need him to hang out with us. What did you do today . Exactly. Congratulations to him. When we come back at the top of the hour why you may actually be parking all wrong. 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The only rides youll get taken on at carmax are the ones you take yourself. But just in case that absolutely 100 percent perfect choice. Turns out to be. Less than perfect. We give you five days to change your mind. Sorry. Back here on gma, the absurdly big waves on the oregon coast from central oregon, you can see that thing crashing into the coat. You can see more of that. Look, 30 plus foot waves anywhere in White Seattle downu to Northern California. That moves to the good morning. We want to get an update on the weather. Here is jacqui jeras. Reporter a great day to look forward to on this friday. Rounding out the work week, temperatures way above average. That patchy fog north of town, everybody else doing good. Skies will be partly cloudy to mostly sunny, temperatures in the middle 60s. Check out our record high, 68 degrees. Well get close to it. Near records expected saturday, sunday as well. Have to keep an eye on clouds, though. Rain showers will hold off until monday. A little bit cooler middle of next week. Reporter well, on the capital beltway, we are tied up in prince georges county. Headed toward the Wilson Street bridge, that crash between i295 on the inner loop and Wilson Street bridge continues to block a couple of lanes in our express lanes. You have to use the local lanes to fet through. Were looking at very, very heavy delays. This is the capital beltway in brach avenue, your delays back to pennsylvania avenue, over an hour fromsville morning side to the forestville morning side to the Wilson Street bridge. George washington parkway, no issues, traveling through arlington and a live look at the beltway through the American Legion bridge. Not as complicated on this side of the beltway. It is jammed through mcclain from the george town pike to the clara barton parkway. Back to you. Anchor thank you. Today, investigators will resume their search for a fire victim in anrundle county. One killed, a second missing after the fire broke out early thursday morning. It happen in the 1200 block of old camp meade road. No word on what trigaled the deadly fire. The University Board of reagents will vote on the name of its football stadium. School president is recommending that bird stadium be changed to maryland stadium. The name bird was a tribute to the schools former president who was a segregationist. You can get more news, weather and traffic on good morning washington on news channel 8. Hope you have a great friday. Enjoy the nice weather good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. We have a parenting medical alert. Potential breakthrough for diagnosing concussions in kids playing sports. Dr. Besser here with the simple test that could change the game. Holiday shopping alert. The eye opening new story that reveals most of us are parking the wrong way at the mall. How to be safe before hitting the stores. The holiday divorce hitting paws over the cats and dogs. Why mandy moore is asking for spousal support from her rock star ex to take care of all their pets and how she says its hurting her career. Drag me down the force is strong with lupita. Oneonone with robin and what shes very vrieling about her star wars right here as we say good morning, america. And daymond john here doing some judging on gma. Thats right. Three moguls in the making will try to beat that clock live. The pitches that will heat up your morning. Make you look better and organize your life. I need some organization and Something Else i need, im so excited about star wars right now. I think we all are especially this super fan actually turnichg a special star wars ice cream and we all get to taste this ahead coming up. As fresh as it can be. Plus, some tips this morning about dating online and heres one, dont use a flash when taking your profile picture. Eyes red, i dont know. Well tell you more coming up. But now amy with the morning rundown. The big story this morning, fbi divers returning to a lake in Southern California searching for potential evidence linked to the San Bernardino shooters. Syed farook and his wife as agents try to determine if that couple was planning an even larger attack. Farooks friend who bought the rifles used in the rampage remains in fbi custody, but is not under arrest. Meanwhile, an urgent warning from u. S. Authorities. They say isis is now producing its own authenticlooking passports using printing machines like this one stolen in syria last year. And since the attacks in San Bernardino and paris, donald trump has been surging in the polls. He brushed off protesters last night as he was endorsed by a police union in New Hampshire. But a new poll shows primary voters are divided on trumps proposal to temporarily ban muslims from entering the u. S. With less than 40 supporting that ban. And if youre planning to hit the mall this weekend, there is a new warning about safety in those parking lots. Nearly one in every six Car Accidents in this country actually occurs in a parking lot. Abcs david kerley joins us with some tips on saving time and a lot of trouble. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, amy. If youre like me this is the way you park in a parking lot. You nose into a parking spot. Well, believe it or not, aaa is telling us weve been parking the wrong way for a long time and need to change our habits. tis the season of packed malls and mall parking lots which can be dangerous, cars backing out. Aaa says this morning most of us are parking the wrong way, 75 of us pulling into a spot, the problem, we have to back out and that can be dangerous for pedestrians. Every year drivers backing out of a parking space or driveway kill more than 200 people and injure 15,000. So im going to try to back into this space. And this youre telling me is the right way. This is the right way to park. Backup cameras and sensors can help drivers but aaa says its tests showed that the technology doesnt always work. In its tests systems failed to detect passing vehicles 30 of the time and passing bicycles 40 . Understand your car but never let the technology replace you being a safe driver. I see somebody right here backing in just like you want them to do. Its great. See, we can do that. Reporter that was marie backing in. You do this all the time. Well, i do it most of the time i would say. You know, its just a good idea. Reporter of course, this time of year, finding a parking spot can be the challenge. Experts say the best tip is to take the first open spot you see. And look near less Popular Stores or use this mathematicians theory, pick an aisle with at least ten cars on each side and wait. Within newspaper minutes, he says, someone will come out and leave. This model, it works like surefire. Reporter so if you find it once again the advice from aaa and were going to do it right here is to back into this space and you can use this technology, the cameras can be very helpful in helping you find the lines and know how far to go back but as aaa said, its not always the best technology, doesnt always work perfectly so the advice is drivers need to be alert whenever youre backing into a space like this one. Amy. That was impressive, david. Yes, remember, always like george said both hands on the wheel. Peoplely some exciting news from one of our colleagues at yahoo. Ceo Marissa Mayer has given birth to identical twin girls. She has said she plans to only take two weeks of maternity leave. She and her husband also have a 3yearold son so mom and twins are doing well and i wish her the best. She has a 3yearold son and only taking two weeks. I mean, ginger, sounds like fun . Im going to take a little more than two weeks. You do that. Nothing against it. Good for her but, yep, im gone. Lets go to michael. Ginger, you deserve it. Now heres a look at whats ahead on the gma morning menu. A medical game changer. The new concussion test that can help parents and kids everywhere. Also, singer mandy moores divorce dispute over her pets. Now shes demanding spousal support. Plus, oscar winner lupita nyongo, oneonone with our Robin Roberts talking about star wars, lets you in on all the secrets. Were spinning and riding this bike into the weekend making star wars ice cream with my girl jackie. All that coming up live on gma in times square. Thank you, jackie. I would love to have some of this. Its called the dark side. The s of hep c. Or wonder. Whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients. Whove had no prior treatment. Its the one and only cure thats. One pill, once a day for 12 weeks. 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Up to 3. 8 million sportsrelated concussions every single year and now there may be a new way to quickly diagnose them. Abcs paula faris here with that. Theres so much pressure for athlete, michael, you can attest to this to return to the game after the big hit. The hope is this objective blood test will change the culture and in doing so make sports much safer. This morning, a potential breakthrough through diagnosing sportsrelated concussions. Especially for so many parents who are concerned about their children suiting up. Repetitive head trauma chokes the brain. Reporter theyre even the subject of will smiths major Motion Picture concussion. The cdc reports that nearly 250,000 kids under age 19 were treated in Emergency Rooms across america for sportsrelated injuries resulting in a concussion or traumatic brain injury diagnosis in 2009. Our brains are developing even up to the age of 18 into the early 20s. Those repetitive hits could lead to chronic neurodegenerative changes and its important they engage in sports and be healthy. Reporter now medical company quanterix is developing technology that will change the game. We are applying Rocket Science to blood testing. Reporter the company developing machines that will identify a concussion in less than an hour using a simple blood test identifying proteins that show brain trauma. So a finger prick could tell you the answer in 20 mens whether that athlete has experienced a concussion. Reporter their research is backed by the nfl after winning funding from the leagues head health challenge. Having an objective test could change the culture of the game. Reporter the Company Hopes to have these tests ready as soon as next year and doctors say this technology could make a great impact on sports sidelines. This is promising and requires more validity and trials in order to make sure its actually going to be useful. In the clinical setting, as well as on the sideline. Reporter that vision is that one day they will be able to administer a fingerprick blood test on the sideline and determine whether that player should go back in the game and how severe the concussion is and definitely positive signs and a possible breakthrough. Paula, thanks very much. Dr. Richard besser here right now and as paula said a lot more testing to be done on this. Also some, you know, concern about parents right now, their kid can have a concussion and they have no idea. Its hard. A really young child theyll tell you if they have a headache or dizzy or blurred vision. But a high cool or College Athlete they want to get back in that game. Having an objective test has a lot of value. You know, a blood test would be terrific, the science there is really, really too soon to know. Right now they use a simple test thats effective. Yeah, the standard testing requires a medical professional but theres a simple eye test that many people are using called the kingdevic test. When you have a hard hit to your head you have trouble reading along lines and following text and so they administered this card where you just simply read numbers for about two minutes across and they compare it to how fast you read them before the season started. And it can be very useful in diagnosing a concussion even if the child doesnt want you the coach used to look at you to see if you had that glassy look. The coach wants you back in there so theres a conflict of interest so having something objective would be useful. Youll take questions all morning on twitter and facebook. Post your questions on gmas facebook page. Now to michael. Thank you, george. Now to that unusual hollywood divorce battle. Singer mandy moore asking for spousal support from ryan adams for their pets. She said caring for their cats and dogs is even hurting her career. Abcs Mara Schiavocampo has the story. Reporter fighting like cats and dogs, more Like Fighting over cats and dogs. Its a hollywood divorce tale with a twist straight out of a movie. Mandy moore seeking spousal support from ryan adams to take care of pets. A total of eight cats and dogs that the couple shared during their marriage that she says shes sfruging to support on a salary she claims is a quarter of adams. Its becoming overwhelming to take care of all the animals. Reporter the actress and singer who burst on to the pop music keen in 19 999 with this. Im missing you like candy j. T. Reporter appeared in films like because i said so married in 2009 after just a onemonth engagement. Reporter adams, a singer songwriter most recently known for his cover of taylor swifts album 1989 nominated for multiple grammy awards. In Court Documents obtained by People Magazine moore says although i love our pets it is overwhelming for me to take care of all eight of them all the time. I was even forced to cancel a prior work engagement because my housekeeper was ill and unable to stay with our pets. She has a lot she would like to accomplish with her career but she has to stay at home with the animals and she needs his help financially in order to do that. Reporter fans of moore are no stranger to her love of her fur babies thanks to the many instagram photos. This one of her pooch joanie with the adoring caption, so grateful for her unending love. In addition to support for their pets, moore is also seeking traditional spousal support since filing for divorce from adams almost a year ago. For good morning america, Mara Schiavocampo, abc news, new york. All right, thank you, mara. Now amy, over to you. All right, michael. Thank you. Its time now for sell a shark. Im here with daymond john from, of course, shark tank and we have our three entrepreneurs getting ready for their time trials, very exciting but before we get to that i want to ask you, we all know from watching your show that the first step for an entrepreneur is that pitch, that great pitch. Absolutely. Social media is a very powerful tool, as well. Explain. 100 . You know, back in the days i had to run out in the street and find people. Right now you can touch the entire world with certainly media and get proof of concept and get feedback, talk to your customers directly and its free. Its free. Thats the best part. A very good tip. We now want to see who is vying for the chance to pitch daymond their revolutionary idea. Entering shark stadium, tom medwin inventor of the best morning ever mug. Shelby mckee, creator of key sock, the first invisible no show knee high socks. Nice. And scott kosmach, inventor of thread stacks, a filing system for your clothes so we want to see how much time you think you need to sell a shark, two entrepreneurs who need the least amount will move on to our pitchoff so write down your number of seconds right now. Ready to reveal. Everybody turn it over. 5, 5 and 6. Oh, so im so sorry, we are going to have to ask scott to leave. Maybe come back later. In the meantime, now all right. All right. We have tom and shelby. Always feel a little bad about that. All right, tom and shelby moving on, tom, are you ready. I am ready. Well put five seconds on the clock. Im making sure youre ready to go. Fully get to experience your five seconds. So five seconds on the clock. We got it. Ready, set, sell a shark. The best morning ever mug keeps coffee hotter for longer and fun surprise function, doughnut warmer. Yummy, yummy. Nice. All right. Shelby, are you ready to go . Yes. Lets put five seconds on the clock for shelby. Ready, set, sell a shark. These socks are the firsto show sock on the market. No blisters. Nice. Very cool. Tell me what you think of the pitches. Both the pitches are great. Both the pitches are nice, short and concise. I get it. Its a tough one. I have to make a decision right now. It is decision time. All right. Well, i mean i dont think anybody else in the world loves doughnuts more than me, but you know what, thats probably used at home or on the run but that is something that i think every woman needs so im going to go right there, thats it. Nice. Shelby, there is your shark trophy. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you. Absolutely. Amazing. All right and we want to thank our entrepreneurs for joining us. We appreciate it. You did an excellent job and stayed close to time and we want to thank daymond john, of course, shark tank airs at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on abc. Head right over to ginger. Look at this group of everybody here. I love they only had five seconds. You guys rocked it. How about we talk about the forecast. Its nice out here, isnt it this morning. It is gorgeous. Happy birthday, by the way, julie. And look where else it was gorgeous. About 15 to 20 degrees above average in wheeling, west virginia, they were golfing enjoying that warmth and southsouthwest flow will continue. Records potentially on the east coast for this weekend but, look, behind it, the rain and some places heavy rain so well be talking about that as we go through saturday and sunday in the plains. Y cloudy tmostly sunny y skies. Todaday ghs in the m mid 60s. Omorrow 68 sunday a few clouds and 67. Rain n returns mondayith h a few showers and sliightly olerer temperatures for the middle of next ek. Near record highs the next w days wh partly i am loving the signs out here. The five c sisters and youre celebrating your 30th. I am. You said dirty 30. Dirty 30. Hey. Is that what you call it . How about we get some pop and start popping with michael. Thank you, ginger. We miss you. Come on in here and have a seat. This is pop news, everybody. Lets kick it off with giselle bundchen. A supermodel. Actor, producer, good will ambassador for the United Nations and a mother of two. Thank goodness thats it because im running out of breath. This morning were seeing her like weve never seen her before. It turns out shes also a musician. What . In a new chanel commercial its not fair, right . Shes giving us a tiny taste of her singing and her guitar playing talents. Lets take a look and listen. Oh now that commercial was filmed at her house on the east coast and she strolled around even making a blanket look chic. You know what i like. How you said guitar. You got to get down with the guitar. Wow. Ive actually done karaoke with her. Shes actually that talented. There is nothing she cant do. Annoying for the rest of us mere mortals. Theres one more thing. There has to be a tape of that somewhere. No, there was no camemeras. We made sure. You will not see that on any news outlet. One thing you will see out there right now is the force is with you this morning and youll see star wars ice cream. Now, its being churned by bicycle. Churn it by the bicycle in times square. Jackie from ample hills creamery pedaling away with more stamina than a stormtrooper. Go, jackie and right now well all be enjoying the dark side. The name of one of these limited edition flavors. Which one is this . The dark side. Its dark chocolate. Ice cream with espresso fudge brownies, coco crisp both pretty good. You like the light side. The light side. Thats marshmallow ice cream with crispy and cocoa clusters. I like all of the sides. I cant talk and eat this so i feel like im at a disadvantage. All of this was dreamt up in a galaxy not so far away actually in brooklyn they came up with this. If you want to buy your own pint theyre available for sale online and they can ship them to you anywhere in the u. S. Its good. I like to mix them together. I just did that too because sometimes i want a little bit of both sighs. A little dark side, a little light side. A medium side. Thats what im talking about. Theres a reason were listening to boogie shoes. Oh boogie with you i think your baby is dancing in there. Seriously. A teenager from wichita, kansas, shes a shooin for meeting her charity goal. This charity goal to collect 2,000 pairs of shoes and Kim Kardashian was at home late night breastfeeding her baby and she saw the plight of this young lady and she went out on social media. She went out and said help me find Amelia Flores who is collecting all these shoes for a charity called soles4souls. Kim reached out to her and donated 1,000 pair of shoes. Wow. Which was already half the goal of amelia to collect 2,000. We were skyping with amelia right now. Amelia, how are you. Good. Ho you are you . Were hear you are a big fan of kim and kanye. How did you feel when you found out kim wanted to help you out. Did you really believe it was Kim Kardashian reaching out. I believe she was trying to find someone to give the shoes to but i didnt think there was anyone that could be me. Well, you know, im sure youre flat it is you but you received a ton of shoes. Oh, yes. You receive add a thousand shoes from kim and kanye and a lot from the community so where are you storing all these shoes . Right now theyre in my room. Yeah. I have got a big pile of shoes. I hope you have a big room to collect 2,000 shoes. Initially you set out to coll t collect,000 shoes. You already met that goal so next year whats the next deal for shoes. Well, im still collecting shoes through march 1st and now my new goal is 25,000 pairs of shoes. Wow. If i collect im sorry. But congratulations. Im sorry to cut you off. I didnt mean to do that but 25,000. Im going to send you some out of my closet. I have plenty i dont wear so id be grateful to send those to you. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Congratulations on your goal. Soles4sou soles4souls, everybody. Ill eat my ice cream. Thank you. Coming up cant wait to see Lupita Nyongos top secret star wars character. This is really good. Isnt it . Oh, yes. Anchor breaking news a fatal accident on the inner loop of the beltway. We know one person is dead, 3 others are injured. Lets get over to Angela Foster in the traffic center. Reporter as for right now, the local lanes remain closed. The local lanes were using but through lanes, express lanes are closed on the inner loop approaching Wilson Street bridge. After i295. Local lanes carrying at the traffic on the inner loop. You can see traffic is starting to filter through just a pit but here are the delays. Were stopped on the inner loop all the way back to ritchie marlboro road. This is st. Barnabas at branch avenue, barely moving. It will take an hour and a half on that stretch to reach the Wilson Street bridge. With this very serious accident activity. Else where, we are dealing with crash clean up on the George Washington parkway, looking good on our other interstates. Bc northbound, crash at spout relationship blocking one lane. Jacqui jeras has a look at our forecast now. Reporter a great day to look forward to on this friday. Rounding out the work week, temperatures way above average. That patchy fog north of town, everybody else doing good. Skies will be partly cloudy to mostly sunny, temperatures in the middle 60s. Check out our record high, 68 degrees. Well get close to it. Near records expected saturday, sunday as well. Have to keep an eye on clouds, though. Rain showers will hold off until monday. A little bit cooler middle of next week. Anchor thank you. Our top stories, Alexandra Police investigating an assault, a block away from 4mile run. It happened in the 3900 block of mount vernon avenue just after midnight. Fairfax county police came in with their helicopter overhead to search for a man, so far, no one has been found. The victim was taken to the hospital. There is no word yet on his or her condition. You can get more ne ive lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people. We are getting so close now, only one more week until star wars the force awakens. In fact, theres so much excitement that some fans have already started lining up to see it. We have this to say, its going to be a long week. Of good weather. Right here, yeah. Lining up here, as well. Robin recently sat down with one of the movies stars, oscar star lupita nyongo. Lupita nyongos role in star wars the force awakens has been kept so under wraps that we barely know what her character looks like. Weve had glimpses of her on the poster, we think, and in one of the trailers we think we do know her name maz am i getting that correct. Thats correct. We have heard her voice. Take a listen. I have lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people. I see your eyes. I know your eyes. And we know her eyes, lets hear it for oscar winning actress lupita nyongo, everybody. Joins us back here. Thank you. On good morning america. Thank you. I saw you because like the rest of us y havent seen the entire film, so when you see clips like that youre like the rest of us hanging on everything. Yes. How has it been keeping everything so secretive . Easy. You just dont say anything. We do know your character is a pirate. Thats been out there. So thats okay, right . Uhhuh, uhhuh. And that your eyes have different types of powers, do they not . Hmm. By the way your eyes are looking at me right now well take that as a no comment. Ill say the eyes are important to this character. Uhhuh. But were you familiar with the franchise, with the films . I was, yeah, i grew up watching star wars. It came on tv when we werent in school on Public Holidays so i always related with it being time off from school and we only had two channels in kenya when i was growing up so everyone watched star wars. I didnt know people who didnt know about star wars. But thats the beauty of this one, i hear because i havent seen it but what we hear it does blend the old with new characters and motion capture. Tell people what that is about and was that liberating for you. You know, it really was. It was about an opportunity to do something that wasnt limited by my body. Especially after doing a film that was so much about my body and so its an opportunity to play in a different Playing Field because you get to be a totally different thing and, yeah, so i would get covered in dots every day and id have these cameras on my head with l. E. D. Lights shining in my face so i had like my own spotlight everywhere i went and so it was really interesting. I hear that so many involved with the film, they wanted your input. They wanted the input from the cast. Yeah. How was that. It was a very collaborative process and maz, when i signed on to play maz she was still evolving and i was excited about the opportunity to be a part of that evolution which was interesting and rewarding. We get to see you doing all these different types of roles and it must be, you know, you love your craft and to not be pigeonholed in any way has to really speak to you and what it is that you want to do. Yeah, im really interested in having a career thats diverse and, you know, and experiencing things i havent experienced before and learning new things, i think thats when im most engaged with what im doing. And we have seen that you have been eclipsed, a little broadway thats been off broadway but coming to broadway in february. Are you excited about that. Yes, yes, we just finished our run just this sunday at the Public Theater and that was such a rewarding experience. Its an incredible play that an actress wrote from walking dead and its about these liberian women at wartime and its funny and its intense and its a really exciting african story. [ cheers and applause ] lupita is so interesting. She is. She is great and star wars the force Awakens Opens nationwide next friday. All right, so we move on now because we have gathered all the top experts in the country on dating online. Were going all of them. All of them. Weve got it covered and give you the secrets to finding love. An insiders lesson about what to do and what not to do in the often confusing world of Online Dating from a new abc news documentary swiped. I think ive been on every dating app known to mankind. Okcupid. Tangle. How about we. Of course, everyone tried tinder at one point. The list goes on. We know between 2009 and 2011 that Online Dating was the second most common way someone met their romantic partner. 96 of the decision to swipe right is based on what your photo. Whats a turnon is when youre like playing a guitar, youre with your dog, youre hiking and showing off that youre active and things you like to do. If you use a flash on your photo you look seven years older than if you dont. You really want to have three photos. One is you want to have a great head shot you smiling. Body shot and wild card like your silly photo. Im molly. I date online. Tinder, hinge and mumble so im getting ready to go meet zach so his first picture is definitely like a professional actors head shot but every other picture is him goofing around which is so my type . We do know what people judge somebody by, their teeth, their grammar and their selfconfidence. Do you play hockey. I used to play hockey. Clearly i dont have the build of a hockey player. Do you have all your teeth . Your teeth say a great deal about your health, your grammar says a great deal about your amount of education and, of course, your selfconfidence tells a good deal about your emotional stability. All right and thats all on hulu. Com. Also on hulu check out the golden globe nominated comedy cash wil which follows a fictional brother and sister through their own Online Dating roller coaster. Are you ready to walk away. I am. We have to do weather and talk to our new friends. So beautiful out here. Well head into the mid60s. Now where it is much colder and loving the snow, in the cascades and sierra. Mt. Hood meadows opens this weekend, actually today and got fresh snow. How nice. Youll get more through the weekend. Cloudy to mostly sunny skies. S. Todayay highs in the mid 60stomorrow 68. Sunday a feww clouds and 67. Rain returns on monday with a a few showers and slightly cooler teeratures for the middle of next week. Near record i want you to know amy wanted me to push her away. I have great news for this weekend, mary poppins is coming back to network tv for the first time in 13 years. Thats right. The Wonderful World of disney presented by target bringing you mary poppins. Who doesnt love that movie . Heres Dick Van Dyke sharing some of his favorite memories of filming it. I loved it when we were doing the i love to laugh with uncle albert. All hanging by wire, of course, 30 feet in the air and the first day, the crew broke for lunch and began to leave. Julie and i had to say, excuse us, hello. You can watch mary poppins saturday night at 8 00, 7 00 central. You love mary poppins. I love mary poppins. Im telling you, we all love it. How about we move on to our series baby oh baby and prove that everything new is old again. Ive been thinking about this. Do i do cloth diapers or disposable . A huge choice and parents are thinking about it too. Take a look. In the 1950s, cloth diapers were all the rage but now theyre making a big comeback. Even vogue writing about them calling cloth diapers the latest trend in millennial parenting. A lot of new moms love these new cloth diapers because they come in bright colors and cute prints and so its almost just a fashion statement. Christie and jamie decided to use cloth diapers on their 4monthold son killian. Youre using cloth dpiepers. Im sure people say to you thats crazy. We decided to do it because its cheaper than using disposable diapers, good for the environment. Reporter these might even be helping mother earth. Every year in the United States 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills. This is all his diapers, all in one style. This is the inserts that are all part of the diaper. Okay. So when it washes this helps it all get agitated and get very clean. After he goes, you just throw the whole thing in the hamper. And then what i do when its time to do the laundry, i take the whole bag out and just put the whole thing in the wash. Reporter the diapers range from price from 15 to 25 bucks and while that might seem expensive they can save you money in the long run. Cloth diapers are incredibly cost efficient. If you use disposable diapers youre going to end up spending around 2400 per kid. If you use cloth diapers you end up spending around 600 per kid and you can use those same cloth diapers with all your other kids, as well. And everybody out here wanted to know if it smelled. It didnt. I promise you. We want to thank our sponsor baby oh baby, ddrops, of course, you made all this happen. You can follow along on my pregnancy journey at goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo so, cloth, disposable. Theyre like cloth, disposable. The top ways to be smarter this weekend, the women from the skimm are here. Go nowhere on gma. Baby oh baby is brought to you by baby ddrops, the sunshine vitamin in just one drop. We are back now with the cocreator of the skimm, a popular daily newsletter making it a lot easier to be smarter breaking down everything from politics to pop culture and how millions start their mornings including reese witherspoon, oprah and even the first lady, keefe carly zakin with us. Such a cool, readable, understandable way and one of the headlines you begin with and all have been talking about is chipotle. Yeah, its been a rough few weeks. You have been talking about it a ton. An e. Coli thing and in boston the norovirus with over 100 people. Stock not been doing well. Yesterday the founder and coceo said im sorry and by the way like were going to have the best Health Safety standards for food in the business so investors really like that and its kind of a game changer for the rest of the fast food industry. The power of an apology. Knew . I know. It works. Im sorry. Sometimes it works. Sometimes. If more people could try that. Well cue some music right now you make me feel like im in love again coldplay. Do you recognize it. Adventure of a lifetime his now song. Some big changes how we listen to music. Spotify. The streaming Music Service that is everywhere, how people are getting their music. Coldplays album came out on spotify today and did a staggered rollout so you can get the album out last week but its on spotify today. Thats because you might have heard taylor swift, not spotifys biggest fan, she and adele did not put their albums on spotify. They think they should be valued more as artists. So spotify has a bit of an issue. Swift fans dont want to shake it off. To get there spotify is looking rat an experiment of doing this free layer but also their premium layer and you can get premium artists on the people yul layer. Now its rumored but im hoping it comes true. They say did you hear about coldplay. Theres a big back story. Good to know. Also you all have admitted to me that you didnt go to colleges that are really like all about football. I have. I know. University of georgia, go, dogs but hacking the Heisman Trophy part of your newsletter and have an acronym thats funny. Like the double d cup. Stay with me for a second. So you got derrick henry, Deshaun Watson and Christian Mccaffrey soanyone trophy is the oscars for football. Youll know one of those names tomorrow. Remember the double ds. I think thats good to remember. You have a skimm pick what you need this weekend. This is an amazing one. President obamas Favorite Book of 2015 which should say something. Amazon rated it as one of their favorites and its like the affair. The story of a marriage over 30 years, they meet and not surprisesly the husband and wife have very different takes on their marriage. More interesting because its president obamas Favorite Book right now. I had a lot of questions about that. Im glad she said that. Want to dive in on that. You did the research, let us know. Well read all about it. Danielle and carly, thank you very much. We appreciate it. All right, coming up next on gma, ron howard dishes on working with cripples hemsworth and advice from tom hanks. Stay with us. Oscar winner ron howard has a new movie hitting the big screen today in thehe heart of the sea and i sat down to talk with him all about it. Find mister and ron howard joins us now. This movie is stunning. Thank you. Its spectacular. Watching it back now, i mean youre excited. Well, it was a big challenge. It was an exciting challenge and it sort of started with the fact that i didnt know that moby dick was inspired by real events but it was really the emotion of the story and the twists and turns of the drama of the true story that i think probably inspired me most to want to make it. Chris hemsworth, one of the stars of the film, he actually brought you the script. I did. I like him. A great work ethic, very talented. I was impressed. When he brought me this i felt like he was kind of born to play owen. So much of the cast had to lose a ton of weight to truly look like emaciated shipwreck survivors. Did you join them . Well, you know, just by the mere fact that you dont want to eat a bagel right in front of them you sort of i almost by osmosis you lose a little of the i think everybody tuned up. We were going for authenticity at every level. The actors knew it and they wanted to also honor the men that they were actually playing. Di read that you asked your friend tom hanks for some advice with this. I did going into it because i had never been around a situation where a big weight loss was demanded. It was part of the character and he had done it for castaway and before that philadelphia. He had good advice. It works. Any plan for another season of arrested development. A lot want to know. Mitch, the creator is working with writers now. Netflix is behind it. Twentieth century fox is behind it. That sounds like a yes. Its hopeful. What happened is the cast has become so frickin, you know, in demand and busy, everybody wants to do it, fans want it, so id be saddened if we didnt achieve it. I im the announcer, the narrator, i got to get back to that microphone. Ron howard, thanks as always for stopping by. In the heart of the sea is in theaters right now. Lets go to ginger. Oh, and, amy, we are so happy to be partnering with macys on their annual believe campaign that helps to bring joy to children with lifethreatening medical conditions and in honor of National Believe Day macys is now offering double donations, it all happens today, 2 instead of 1 to make a wish for each letter that santa gets dropped off at a macys or submitted online. Martine reardon chief marketing officer from macys is here to tell us more. National believe day. What is it all about . We are so excited about it. Its probably the pinnacle moment in our believe campaign where macys and makeawish grant almost 50 wishes across america in one single day. And its wishes from little children who just really want to have some joy in their life so eli from alabama, who wants to be a firefighter and natalie from california who wants to come to new york to see Holiday Shopping here and so many more, so its such a special day for the macys organization and the makeawish organization to grant these wishes and see the joy in all of these childrens faces. Its so easy to become a part of it, right . So easy, just go into any macys or go online. Write your letter today we give 2, we are hoping that we can raise another 1 million today so that macys can give 2 million to the Makeawish Foundation for this incredible campaign. So do it. Go find a macys. Put your letter to santa in this or do it online. Super easy to do. Thank you, martine, for being here. Reminder had can happen at any macys nationwide by the way, it just has to happen today so 2 instead of 1. We love it. Go to our website, goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo to learn more. And get to writing. Well be right back, everybody. What to buy, what to buy. What if we told you exactly what the hottest trending must have gifts are. Everyone is trying to get them. Right. What if we told you how to get them for a lot less. Thats what were going to do. Now i got your attention. Plus time for ugly sweaters. Holy smokes. Next week on good morning america. Hope you have a great weekend, everybody. Big week next week on gma. Will smith, jennifer lawrence, will ferrell all here live and baby next week. A week left. Last week of pregnancy. On this week on sunday, as well. Have a great weekend, everybody. Bye. Good morning. Breaking news right now, a fatal accident on the inner loop of the beltway, we know one person is dead. 3 others are injured. Lets get over to Angela Foster now in the traffic center. Reporter well, we are making a little bit of progress on the inner loop express lanes, squeezing by on the shoulder now just blocking 2 of those express lanes, local lanes carrying all the traffic on the inner loop, the big story now. Accident investigation and cleanup continues on 295, as you head closer to the on the inner loop from 295 to the Wilson Street bridge but the problem is the delays on the inner loop. Here is a live look now at the inner loop enbranch avenue, were looking at a drive taking you well over an hour, starting around central avenue. Jacqui jeras has a look at our forecast. Reporter a great day to look forward to on this friday. Rounding out the work week with temperatures way above average, that patchy fog north of town, everybody else doing good. Skies will be partly cloudy to mostly sunny today, temperatures in the middle 60s, check out the record high, 68 degrees. Close to it. Near records expected saturday and sunday as well. Have to keep an eye on the clouds, though. Rain showers will hold off until monday. A little bit cooler middle of next week. Anchor back that to breaking news, that fatal accident on the inner loop of the beltway, Jeannette Reyes has just arrived on the scene. Reporter we can tell you there is a lot of that congestion that Angela Foster was talking about. People on the outer loop really rubber necking. Thats why its been slowing down here. But take a look at the inner loop traffic. Its really just stop and go. The express lanes are not moving very much at all. So you want to try to avoid the area if at all possible. Again, one person is dead. Another with life threatening injuries, at this others still hospitalized this morning. You can tune its live with kelly michael. Today, Academy Award winning actress lupita nyongo. And from the drama, fargo, kirsten dunst. Plus, your comments and questions on another edition of the inbox. All next on live. [captioning made possible by isneyabc domestic television] and now, here are your Emmy Awardwinning cohosts, kelly ripa and Michael Strahan [cheers and applause]