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Hostage situation unfolding at this hour inside a bank. Several reportedly trapped inside. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. We begin with the urgent headline from puerto rico at this hour. A dam at imminent risk of failure, a lifethreatening situation. A Mass Evacuation under way. Some 70,000 people across the island. Catastrophic flooding and mudslides already. The governor saying its time to get people out. We begin with abcs rob marciano on the scene to get Tens ...

Pile. >> this is the top of the pile. you can be sure that the fbi and the office of security have dedicated resources to thoroughly investigate this as quickly as possible. so when you begin to see these stories about, oh, its procedural red tape, nothing to worry about, im not sure i buy that. it does seem like if these had been clearances that had been easy to give that had passed with flying colors they would have gotten them by now. >> thats where we end. garrett and nada, thank you very mu...

>> reporter: on "gma" david continued to press secretary of state rex tillerson about the us response. >> but if we see this detonation of an h-bomb in the pacific, what will the u.s. do? >> well, we will continue our efforts in the diplomatic arena but all our military options, as the president has said, are on the table. >> reporter: the two leaders themselves, trading a volley of insults. responding directly to trump, calling him "mentally deranged." the president branding the north korean di...

This simply is united states cannot allow it to happen. thats the way it goes. so youre going to talk about, are you going to be shooting it out of the sky? this is a whole different thing than just a test. we are waiting to see if president trump responds to this threat as this rally that begins momentarily and were awaiting that. jeff is "outfront" live at the white house. this is a big question, whether hes going to come out and up the rhetoric here. already today on twitter calling kim jong-...

Kim jong-un a madman, and retweets people who may or may not have the best twitter feeds, but its not for his critics or for the media, its for his base. and they love it. >> they love it. they love it, they love it. they feel like this is the first president in their lifetime that talks to them. >> exactly. and that you can be sitting in your doctors office or waiting for your oil change and you get a message from the leader of the free world at the same time the other leaders of the world do. ...

Parade, essentially unveiling its latest ballistic missile. this is tension with not only north korea but iran making a lot of world leaders, a lot of united states allies jittery as well on both sides of the aisle. >> dotard, a word 16 hours ago i had never heard of. im going to bring my panel in because it is a true coming together of global citizen. phil rubbing kerr white house bureau chief for "the washington post," megan murphy, editor and chief of bloomberg business week. brendan greeley,...

Should be that north korea needs to eliminate or deter their nuclear weapons. i kind of think what the possible deal there is something like iran. but the problem with a past deals with north korea was that they werent enforced by the international atomic energy agency. not good enforcement. but some with good monitors. i think a deal and exchange for food, fuel, lifting some sanctions, the way we did with iran, the international community makes some sense, tom. >> there are people opposed to th...

How would the u.s. take it out and would there be preemptive action? all of these questions at the moment completely unanswered because nobody knows what the north koreans might do. the president calling kim jong-un a madman. and kim jong-un, i want everybody to just have a look at what he had to say about president trump. the head of the regime, kim jong-un, saying, he, trump, is unfit to hold the perogativ of a supreme country, and i will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme com...