today is tuesday, may 17th. or as arnold schwarzenegger calls it, father s day! in a statement arnold said i am truly sorry there are no excuses and i take full responsibility for the hurt i have caused. then he said, but enough about jingle all the way let s talk about arnold kept the secret the last ten years. ten years. do you realize we found bin laden before we found arnold s love child. how does that happen! arnold schwarzenegger had this child ten years ago. told his wife maria about it at the time but told her this long to figure out what the heck he was saying. what? the tv writers had so much
not going to be kept private, obviously at this point and they re speaking out this morning. that s right. we ve got new details on the confession from schwarzenegger that he fathered a child, a long time family staff member more than a decade ago. today s new york times reports the child is a boy, about 14 years old, and his mother is working in the schwarzenegger s home while she was pregnant. at the same time the paper says schwarzenegger s wife maria shriver was with the youngest four children. released a statement saying this is a painful and heartbreaking time. as a mother my concern is for the children. i ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and heal. i will have no further comment. isolating herself appeared at the taping of oprah winfrey s farewell show in chicago. jessica yellen has been following the story and she talks about shriver s empowered woman who knows what she wants next. reporte . there s a lot
the stunning details ahead on this american morning. and good morning, everyone. it s tuesday, may 17th. welcome to american morning. i m christine romans. i m kiran chetry. ali velshi is off. glad you re with us. up first the startling confession from arnold schwarzenegger this morning. los angeles times reporting the former governor has admitted he fathered a child out of wedlock with a former member of his household staff. schwarzenegger says it happened more than a decade ago and he only told his wife, maria shriver, after he left office earlier this year. casey wian is live in los angeles this morning. good morning, casey. i guess now we have the reason for the announcement recently the two were splitting after 25 years of marriage. yeah. sure seems pretty clear now. arnold schwarzenegger was a controversial figuring during his two terms as governor of california. now that he s out of office and reportedly trying to revive his acting career he s become the subject of s
years. police already defusing one bomb on a bus on this american morning. and, good morning to you. it is tuesday, may 17th. my first visit on the couch at 8:00 since i was off. we ran through it yesterday. it worked out just fine. so everything is safe here, thanks. we are glad that you are with us this morning. we woke up to some shocking news. that is right. it is a shocking confession by the former governor of california. the los angeles times is reporting that arnold schwarzenegger has confessed to fathering a child out of wedlock with a long-time member of his household staff. it happened over ten years ago. he didn t tell his wife until just a few months ago. casey live in los angeles, any more comments from the schwarzenegger camp about this? no, we haven t heard anything from the schwarzenegger s camp. since he left the governor s
this morning on world news now, mississippi rising. even more floodgates are open to prevent a disaster in louisiana s major cities. but that means other louisiana towns of course will have to be sacrificed as the raging river water is diverted. it is tuesday, may 17th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m peggy bunker. and i m rob nelson. the small town of butte larose is one the first sacrificial lambs in all of this. people there have had several days to collect their belonging, literally say good-bye to their homes and also move of course to higher ground. what some are calling a slow-motion disaster as they watch those floodwaters slowly rising. very tough. times to collect their things but it s got to be devastating