good morning. reporter: good morning to you. president trump says calling these families is the hardest thing he has to do as commander in chief, but this morning, he has responding to the backlash as one of these phone calls is at the center of a very ugly political fight. president trump made good on his promise to call the grieving families of those four special ops soldiers killed during a siege in niger but this morning his message to one grieving widow is sparking backlash. president trump told the wife of army sergeant la david johnson, quote, he knew what he signed up for, but when it happens, it hurts anyway. that s according to florida democratic congresswoman frederica wilson who says she listened to the call on speakerphone. this is a soldier who gave his life for his country. he is a hero. reporter: the call came just as myeshia johnson was on her way to the airport for the arrival of her husband s remains. pregnant with their third child, johnson laid her
please welcome david letterman. and the late night legend s big return. david letterman back on stage for the first time since retiring. it s so good to see famous people again. i missed wearing makeup. jimmy kimmel one-on-one with his idol. we do say good morning, america. how about that moment last night, david letterman making that big return, michael. makes you feel good to see david letterman out there first time on the late night couch before leaving. big evening for jimmy kimmel. he says he feels about letterman the way most people feel about beyonce. i don t think he s shaved since he was off the air. some proposing a bipartisan deal to restore funding for obamacare. the president sending mixed messages as he faces questions about the phone call he made to a widow of a fallen soldier. cecilia vega starts us off. reporter: he said it s the hardest thing he has to do as commander in chief but now it s this phone call to this widow that you just mentioned
cleared these letters. another word, there doesn t seem to be a problem with them. i do not know what s inside of them. obviously, fbi is there. there checking it out and trying to find out what is inside the letters. also, as far as the individual is concerned, is a person of interest. apparently, according to our folks here, he didn t do anything really wrong. they just want to talk to him. later on, we re told we will get a piure and description. we will have much more on this later on. caught on camera, pair of robbers. the broward broward sheriff s office says they made an explosive threat at two restaurants and a convenient store. carey codd is live with more on the tape and how they did it. reporter: investigators say this couple appears very they want them caught. this is a picture of the note an employee gave to an employee at denny s. it says, really sorry, empty the register as quickly and calmly as possible. we have guns and gas bombs. this video shows aan and
i want to show you how thing were looking despite my camera being just a little fuzzy this morning. i m seeing a little bit of congestion. quickly looking at our maps, letie see what this commute means for you this morning. if you re traveling northbound here at loild boulevard, that s wre that accident scene is reported. obviously not affecting travel speeds. so great to have this real time data. one other thing to get to, if you re traveling off of u.s.-1 southbound we have reports of a crash there. this one just popping up on my system literally five minutes ago. as soon as i get some additional information, i ll get it out to you. now to a story you saw first right here on local 10. former parent arrested, accused spending money supposed to be collected. ben kennedy live this morning on the campus of this hollywood school. ben, parents are world happened here. reporter: good morning. some parents say they kind of heard what was going on. others had no clue. it s kind o
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