Ways to wear it. How to rock a 20 dress on any type of date. Cheap, easy looks to boost your dating game in the new year. I really, really, really like you the bachelor is back. Our exclusive sneak peek behind the scenes of peters First Group Date. The romance, the drama, the contenders, all that and more as were saying good morning, america. Hey, good morning, america. Welcome to our second hour. Its our first second hour of the new year, isnt it . Yes. Oh, yes, it is. Big first second hour of 2020. No pressure, but were all counting on it. Dont mess it up. Well try not to. Up ahead, whats the best credit card . An interesting question for everyone planning to travel in 2020. Credit card tips you need to hear. How to maximize your points so you can minimize your expenses. And right in time for the busiest Online Dating day of the year, in case you didnt know, weve got dating advice to make 2020 your best year of romance yet. All of us married people will give you dating advice. Exactly. Good luck. Buckle up. Youll want to stay tuned for that. Yep. All that is coming up. But we do have a lot of news to get to. Were going to start with the iranian reaction to the u. S. Drone strike that killed their military commander and abcs senior Foreign Correspondent ian pannell is on the ground in beirut with much more. Ian. Reporter yeah, good morning, dan. From a country, a region bracing itself for what many feel is an inevitable iranian retaliation, thousands of mourners have been gathering on the streets of baghdad today chanting death to america also calling the u. S. And israel the great satin. Now they came out to pay their respects to rahne general Qassim Soleimani who was assassinated in that drone strike thursday together with a senior Iraqi Militia commander. The Iranian Ambassador to the United States just the latest iranian official to threaten that there will be vengeance against america. Meanwhile, a u. S. Intelligence assessment says iran will almost certainly retaliate overseas against u. S. And israeli officials and interests and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff telling abc news that when they were evaluating this, the risks of inaction exceeded the risk of action. Now, this comes as the u. S. Is sending 3,500 more troops to the middle east, the order coming after President Trump said soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel. So the expectation now is not whether iran attacks, but when will iran attack, although the feeling is that nothing is likely to happen just yet until soleimani is buried in his hometown. Eva. All right, ian pannell for us. Now to the weather and a storm system making its way up the east coast bringing heavy rains and the risk of flooding rob is tracking it all for us this morning. Good morning, rob. Hi, good morning again, eva. This is what happened yesterday in columbus, mississippi, after two days of rain. Two feet of water in this neighborhood there. A lot of rainfall across parts of alabama and georgia in through the carolinas too. Snow across parts of des moines, iowa. Maybe eight inches in some spots. Were going to get that combination with these two systems phasing together for the eastern third of the country. Weve got this front that will push through the east by tomorrow morning. That will eventually clear things out, but until then, much of the east coast will see rain today. Maybe some gusty thunderstorms down across the southeast and then a couple of clipper systems that will come through late tomorrow and another one during the day tuesday that could bring snow and this looks more potent so well have to monitor that for some of the more highly Populated Areas for the potential of seeing some white stuff. Thats a check of whats happening nationally. Well talk more about the weather later. Back to you guys. Back to you guys. Thanks, rob. How ricki lake got candid about her hair loss on gma. How her bravery is empowering other women with the same experience. Quite a story. If youre struggling to stick to new years resolutions already, how to break bad habits and embrace the good ones so we can all start 2020 a little healthier and happier. Plus, weronly two days away from an explosive new season of the bachelor. And we have an exclusive look behind the scenes of pilot peters First Group Date. You dont want to miss this. Headed for the open door for the open door headed for the open door egg and your choice of sausage, jacks or now chicken,cracked are just 4 bucks. Served all day, so theyre not just for early birds. Great cause i was out raging last night. snores get my 2 for 4 breakfast jack deal while you can. Egg and your choice of sausage, jacks or now chicken,cracked are just 4 bucks. Served all day, so theyre not just for early birds. Nice cause i was spinning till like 4 am. snores get my 2 for 4 breakfast jack deal while you can. Welcome back to our second hour. A lot of fun this morning. Today is the busiest day for Online Dating of the whole year so we brought in a dating expert to help to see how dateable you are in 2020. That is coming up but weve got big news today. Yeah. Our friend, janai norman, its her birthday. Its her birthday. Happy birthday. Yes, yes, yes. Were Gonna Party Like its your birthday. Oh, man, rob. Did he ruin your birthday . My birthday is ruined. Im sorry. . Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. My gift to you on my birthday is pop news. Well take it. How about that . Ill do my job for my birthday. We begin this morning with cameron diaz starting off the new decade with a new title, shes a mom. The actress taking to instagram to share that she and husband benji madden are now parents writing happy new year from the maddens. We are so happy, blessed and grateful to begin this new decade by announcing the birth of our daughter, raddix madden. She has instantly captured our hearts and completed our family. Now, the thing is, dont expect a photo of their little bundle of joy. Diaz explaining, quote, while we are overjoyed to share this news, we also feel a strong instinct to protect our little ones privacy so we wont be posting any pictures or sharing any more details other than the fact that shes really, really cute. Some would even say rad. The notoriously private couple tied the knot back in 2015, amazingly to kick off a new decade. A lot of people who do that. You included. That is true. Wont find the kids face on social media. Some prefer to use our kids on social media so we can get more likes. Its working for you. Slam dunk. Creating decades of resentment. Exactly. Hell love it. Okay, next we all know that taking the perfect picture with a selfie stick can be a royal pain. So why not get a royal to help you out . Thats exactly what one couple in canada did. They were out on a hike new years day trying to snap a selfie when a very kind stranger came along and offered to take the picture for them. This is the picture. Thats when those hikers realized the person taking their photo was the duchess of sussex herself. Duchess Meghan Markle joked about taking a better photo than the selfie stick possibly could and prince harry reportedly said no pressure. The royals wished the hikers a happy new year and were on their way. Harry and meghan were in canada with meghans mother and baby archie. Its a little bit backlit. Come on. A sweet gesture to start the new year. In the bushes. Oh, my goodness. Now to a fantastic story. A viral you know that viral disney character challenge thats taking over social media. We even did it on gma earlier this week. You probably have seen your friends using the filter. You hold it and put it in selfie mode, take a video with the filter and it answers the question, what disney character are you . Whit, which one were you . I was maleficent. There you go. Robin williams daughter, zelda, decided to take the filter for a spin and look who she got. It was perfect. Okay. Its going through there. Just wait for it. Of course. She got the genie. Her dad famously voiced the genie in aladdin and zelda posted that video to twitter where its gone viral getting millions of views and making everyone get emotional calling it divine intervention and a lot saying her laugh at the end was like getting a brief glimpse of robin again. Absolutely. Kind of sweet. It is. Just a reminder of how many lives he touched. Yeah. Okay. Now to a heated debate about breakfast sparked by ice cubes. You guys, get ready for this. Yeah, ice cubes. It all started when kiss front man gene simmons tweeted out these photos asking his followers, anyone else put ice cubes in their cereal . What . Yeah, exactly. No, nobody does that. Simmons showed off the ice cubes floating in a bowl full of oreos and frosted mini wheats which is a whole other debate. Twitter melted down with many reacting in horror including his own son tweeting 30 years watching him do this. This is my life. In the name of journalism and getting both sides of the story, one person made a good point. Whoever thinks its odd that gene simmons puts ice in his cereal is forgetting that he used to breathe fire. Good point. Good point. Yeah, right. Simmons says he does it to keep his milk icy cold but it all makes sense. But is he eating it that slow that it gets warm . That was my question too. Dont you keep your milk in the fridge . I think there are two sides to this debate. Like if you have whole milk and want to water it down a little bit i like a little ice in my milk. Water it down . Get 2 . Okay. I know. Im sure america wants to hear more of this compelling debate but we are going to move on. I do need to follow up with rob offline about this. Well take it on Facebook Live or Something Like that. We do want to get to our gma cover story. Its an important one here. After ricki lake opened up about her hair loss journey on gma how other women feel empowered by her decision to go public. Our diane macedo is here with more on that. Diane, good morning. Whit, good morning. Ricki lake says she opened up about her battle with hair loss to free herself and to help others. Well, now others are speaking out telling ricki in their own word, mission accomplished. This morning the overwhelming response to ricki lakes revelation in this series of pictures that revealed her secret 30year struggle with hair loss. Lake posted overnight on facebook writing, the outpouring of love i am feeling is lifting my spirit higher than i ever thought possible. Im deeply moved by all of the personal stories youre choosing to share. Were all brave, and were all in this together. That comment comes just hours after her interview with robin roberts. Do you feel like in a sense a weight has been lifted from you . Oh, my gosh, yes, i do. I feel like im finally i can finally be truly me. I actually i dont think i look that bad. You dont. I like my head. Reporter her candor prompting a flood of messages from women like stacy now feeling empowered. Theres a Huge Community of us that support you and each other, and we look forward to hearing more from you, so my hair is off to you. Reporter another writes, dear ricki, you are not your hair. You have a squad of baldies behind you. Rock that baldness in confidence. And instagram influencer danny austin who struggles with her own hair loss is weighing in. When i watched the ricki lake segment today, i was so excited. I dont know if people will want to watch the girl with the wig but it was just crazy, the response that we got whenever we did. Reporter austin candidly revealed her own struggle to her more than 400,000 followers. This past summer. I feel embarrassed. Reporter like ricki, dani said the move helped her gain support empowering her to normalize talking about hair loss. Finally kind of being myself rather than feeling like i have to be this, you know, instagram perfect version of a blogger. Reporter and provide levity for others. And ricki lake says she has no clear cause for her hair loss attributing it to a combination of factors, but now that shes opened up about it, she says she feels liberated, free, brave and beautiful. And, guys, based on the massive response, it sounds like shes opened the door for many others to feel the same. Yeah. Thats great. Offering a lot of people a chance to connect with each other too online. Theyre all talking about it. Lets check in with rob for another check of the weather. How are you doing . This may be too late to ask. Are you good with being on Good Morning America right now . Okay, good. We got folks from texas, north carolina, from florida. Did i miss any spots . Syracuse. Syracuse, new york. Sweden. Sweden . Yes. Welcome. [ speaking Foreign Language ] thats about all i got for you. Oh, i want to show you some pictures of some snow in killington. Just drive four, five hours from here and you can shred it up on the mountain in South Central vermont. A couple of inches of new snow there and breckenridge, boy, theyve had a great year so far. And this is just cool video of Just Cruising down the mountain. Thats what we do in january in the states. Good morning. Here is a look at sfo. You can see the clouds and sun out there. Still a few sprinkles this morning and partly cloudy this afternoon. Looking at near freezing temperatures tonight. Highs today, once the clouds thin out this afternoon, 59 in o oakland. 62 in san jose. A cold night tonight. Were dry and sunny with cold mornings through monday. Next chance e e e e e e e e e e thank you, robert. E e e e e it is new years resolution time. So many of us come roaring into january with so much hope but by the end of the month sadly many of us will find ourselves off the wagon and beating ourselves up. This morning, therefore, were going to tell you about a new approach based in science that promises to make habit change more sane and more successful. Its 10 30 on a thursday night. Im watching tv with my wife, and suddenly im in a moment of peril. Im not even hungry, but a Little Monkey mind is whispering, dude, lets get involved with that delicious bag of pretzels in the kitchen. Reporter many of us deal with that monkey mind. Our relentless, instinctive mindless mode which often has us gobbling up food, screen time and consumer goods instead of doing the things we need to do to take care of ourselves. But habit change is hard. Many of us end up on a treadmill of trying and failing and trying and failing. It reminds me of this video my wife shot of our cat tobey chasing his tail. So i took my concerns about my mindless eating im going to take a bite of that. Reporter to health psychologist, kelly mcgonagle, author of the joy of movement. How is this behavior creating suffering in your life right now . One is dont like the way i look in the mirror. Two is my pants dont fit the way they used to and ive noticed that im uncomfortable. Reporter kellys approach to habit change is different. She starts by asking a deep question, what matters most to you . My approach to habit change is to really get to know the part of yourself who wants the best for yourself. Reporter kelly got me to realize what matters to me not how my pants fit but the fact that when i overeat i feel badly and dont have enough energy for my family and my colleagues who i really care about. Another tip from kelly, instead of signing up for rigid rules when changing your habits, try having a mindset of experimentation. We have to figure out how will this fit in my life. The only way to figure it out is things that get in the way and learn from it. Reporter as Thomas Edison is reputed to have said, ive never failed, i just tried 10,000 things that didnt work. A final recommendation from kelly, meditation, the practice can help you boost your selfawareness so that when an urge arises, you can see it clearly rather than acting it out blindly. This is also called surfing the urge. Instead of trying to suppress the wave of desire, and this can apply to food or shopping or diving into a twitter hole, you actually tune in to all the painful sensations, and that curiosity helps you surf it. So, i tried it. I just let it pass, and it was kind of amazing to watch the wave crest and then pass, and then i didnt feel a desire anymore. Great information, dan. And its really interesting. You talk about incorporating a new habit into your life but its hard to actually follow through with that. It is. It is. But it requires some key ingredients like the three es we see here. This comes from kelly mcgonigal. The first e, make it easy sorry, make it about your environment so have an environment that supports your new habits. Maybe leave your sneakers out if you want to remind yourself to go running or maybe put a picture of your kids next to them as a reminder of why you want to go running. The next e is about easy. As i was mentioning before, she talks about something called the tenminute rule. So maybe just exercise for ten minutes or meditate for ten minutes and you can shave that down to the fiveminute rule or the oneminute rule. Start small. Build from there. Baby steps. Baby steps, exactly. Heres the third e. And it is make it enjoyable. Youre almost certainly not going to do something if you dont like it. So pick a kind of exercise that you actually like doing. If youre going to eat healthy, make delicious food. Speaking of easy and enjoyable, if youre wanting to do try to get a meditation habit, you got a challenge. Were all going to participate in this challenge. Very excited about this. All right, so the 10 happier app is offering this free challenge. Its a 21day meditation challenge. The goal is to meditate for at least a minute on 15 out of the 21 days. Find the app wherever you get your apps. If you sign up for the challenge, you can friend me, whit, eva, janai, even rob. How did you convince us all to do this . A little bit of bribery and also blackmail. You can track our progress. We can track yours. I expect by the end of the 21 days rob will be levitating like Luke Skywalker in the final scene from that star wars movie. Im excited. Its been a challenge since you started this to begin meditating regularly so this will be the year. Hopefully we can do it and not embarrass ourselves. Speaking of zen, the bachelor. Yes. Thats zen, right . Wont stress you out at all. Bachelor nation, the bachelor new heartthrob pilot pete is flying onto our screens and Abbie Boudreau with an exclusive behindthescenes sneak peek at the First Group Date of the season. Good morning, abb