Vehicles before exiting with a weapon. The officers fired striking and killing the individual. No officers were injured. Reporter the tbi is continuing to investigate the shooting here. The mayor of fmemphis is appealing for calm, asking people not to react until they know the facts. It will be another tense day in memphis today. Thank you, martin. The american president invited russia and any other Foreign Intelligence Service to attack the 2020 election. He announced from the oval office that if russia has dirt on his opponents, he would be willing to listen. Your campaign this time around if foreigners, russia, china, have information on an opponent should they accept it . You might want to listen. Theres nothing wrong with listening. From the oval office itself in an interview with abc news. What message does it send to russia . If your Vladimir Putin do you think twice about attacking the next election . Why would it . The president said he would not necessarily tell the fbi if russia came to him with dirt or information. This puts him at odds with Christopher Wray, the fbi director. Donald trump, jr. , who organized the meeting with the russians returns to capitol hill for more testimony. Hope hicks, Longtime Donald Trump aide, will testify next week before a House Panel Investigating her former boss. Will the white house exert executive privilege to keep another witness from cooperating . Joe johns has the latest. Reporter thats a great question. Well see what the day brings. Look, the president made a lot of stunning statements across the course of his political career. In the trump hall of fame, some of the stuff goes right up near the top especially given the totality of the circumstances, all we know about the 2016 campaign and all that we know about the Mueller Investigation. If somebody called from a country norway we have information on your opponent. Oh, i think i would want to hear it. Reporter President Trump making a stunning admission telling abc news hes willing to accept damaging information from a foreign power about political rivals ahead of the 2020 election instead of immediately informing the fbi. I think maybe you do both. You might want to listen. Theres nothing wrong with listening. Reporter the president shutting down the idea of russia or china providing material about his opponents is against the law. Its not interference. They have information, i think i would take it. If i thought something was wrong i would go maybe to the fbi. When somebody comes up with opo research, lets call the fbi. The fbi doesnt have enough agents to take care of it. Reporter mr. Trumps words clashing with his own attorney general. If a Foreign Intelligence Service, a representative of a Foreign Government says we have dirt on your opponent should they say, i love it, lets meet, or contact the fbi . If a Foreign Intelligence Service does, yes. Reporter and the fbi director who issued this warning last month. If a member of any campaign or public official is contacted by a nation state or anybody acting on behalf of a nation state about influencing or interfering with our election thats something the fbi wants to know about. Reporter trump strongly disagrees. This is somebody that said we have information on your opponent. Oh, let me call the fbi. Give me a break. Life doesnt work that way. The fbi director says that should happen. The fbi director is wrong. Reporter on capitol hill, democrats outraged by President Trumps readiness to cooperate with foreign adversaries. Donald trump made it clear hell engage in unethical and unpatriotic actions, go up to the line thats legal and it looks like he crossed that line many times. Reporter 2020 hopefuls igniting a fire storm from the campaign trail. Its outrageous. The guy just doesnt understand the job and cant do it well. Reporter former Vice President joe biden tweeting this isnt about politics. Its a threat to our National Security. Senator Bernie Sanders weighing in saying hes not shocked. I think we have a president who neither understands the constitution of the United States or respects the constitution. Reporter what do the rules say . One of the controlling federal regulations prohibits foreign nationals from directing, dictating, controlling or directly or indirectly participating in the decisionmaking process of any electionrelated activities. Just a reminder, the Mueller Report did establish that the Trump Campaign made contact with the russians but did not determine whether the president committed a crime. Back to you. Joe johns at the white house. Its stunning to see any president of the United States in the Oval Office Speak the words, i think i take it, when asked if he was handed information from a foreign country on a political opponent. Particularly after the past three years. If you liked the past three years youre going to love the next four. If the president is reelected. He says from anybody. Russia. Does that mean china . Venezuela . Does it mean iran . He brought up norway. He has a norway fetish. He said any country. The president announced hes basically a laundromat for stolen information. This is an issue when the president says it from the oval office. Well talk more. We cant let this one slide by. Something i wish i had let slide by. From last place to lifting lord stanleys cup, the st. Louis blues are the stanley cup champions for the first time ever. Coy wire has more. Good morning. Im sorry for your boston team, but i know even you appreciate this. The underdogs have their day. Dead last in the nhl in january. Rallying to do something no other blues team had done before them. Crazy scene in boston. Aly raisman and Julian Edelman hyping up the fans. 1200 miles west in st. Louis, fans selling out the blues arena with thousands more watching from inside bush stadium, home of the cardinals. The blues deliver. Ryan oreilly deflecting a puck in. Taking control of the game. From there, goalie jordan binnington, rookie, unreal. 32 saves after starting the season in the minors. Blues win for the first time in their 52 history. They are stanley cup champs. Ryan oreilly matches the great Wayne Gretzky with goals in four straight stanley cup games winning mvp honors. John, alisyn, look at this moment for 11yearold super fan laila anderson, battling a rare immune disease. Shes there celebrating on the ice with her team. She got special clearance from her doctors in st. Louis to travel to boston for the game. Blues players say shes been an inspiration all season long. Shes hugging, kissing, crying, smiling. Thats what its all about. You introduced us to laila yesterday. We are so happy for her. Thats a wonderful thing she got to do. Such a beautiful moment when her mom surprised her. She didnt believe it, broke out in tears and then it happened. Coy, maybe someda a boston team will win something and boston fans can celebrate. Yeah. You guys are doing all right, john. Well hold on for the moment. Also breaking overnight, explosions on two ships in the gulf of oman a month after four ships were attacked nearby. A live report next. Announcer new day is brought to you by ibrance. Corey is living with metastatic Breast Cancer, which is Breast Cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. Shes also taking ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr her2 metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. Patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. 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What we know is the ships, according to the captain of one of them was struck by some sort of shell, thats how he described it. One was an oil tanker. One was transporting chemicals. The captains of both ships decided to abandon ship. The iranian navy said they have rescued 44 people, that they are now on an iranian island nearby, that one of the people is injured and receiving medical treatment. This appears to be a significant es la indication over the attack on four commercial vessels a month ago off the coast of the united arab emirates. Why do i say it appears to be an escalation . These ships were on the move. They appear to be targeted by missiles of some kind. That previous attack on the four ships, the ships were at anchor. They were stationary. They appeared to be attacked by mines placed on the ships overnight. The u. N. Announced the results of their investigation into what happened to the ships. They said a state actor was involved. Both the United States and the saudis said that iran was involved. Their suspicion will fall on the iranians again. The Iranian Foreign minister saying this looks very suspicious. This is a troubling development. Thank you very much for the reporting. Democratic president ial candidates pouncing on Bernie Sanders after his defense of democratic socialism. Ryan nobles is live with the latest. What are they saying . Despite the criticism from his opponent opponents, bernie s excited for the fight over democratic socialism and argues it is the best way to beat donald trump. I believe in a democratic socialism that works for the working families of this country. Reporter Bernie Sanders has embraced the democratic socialist moniker for decades. Now some of his 2020 rivals are pushing back on the vermont senator. Frontrunner joe biden challenging sanders ideology wednesday saying, quote, things have changed in a way that needs to be turned around. It doesnt require socialism and it doesnt require some fundamental shift. It requires sort of reordering capitalism to make capitalism work and save it. Sanders insists hes prepared for the backlash. I do understand that i and other progressives will face massive attacks from those who attempt to use the word socialism as a slur. Reporter doubles down wednesday. In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights. And that is what i mean by democratic socialism. Reporter still, moderate democrats in the race worry the sanders rhetoric is too divisive. When bernie says its either trump or democratic socialism thats a false choice. Reporter former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper expected to give a speech to rebuff sanders today, a tactic that didnt go over well at californias Democratic Convention last month. Socialism isnt the answer. I was reelected reporter sanders laid out a vigorous defense for the policy stances calling for an individuals right to a living wage, health care, education, affordable housing, Clean Environment and a secure retirement. They may hate democratic socialism because it benefits working people. But they absolutely love corporate socialism that enriches trump and other billionaires. Reporter sanders lamenting if they want to defeat donald trump, democrats need to embrace his vision, something the president has consistently slammed. Nothings free. Youre paying for it. Other people are paying for it. There is nothing free. Theyll destroy this country. Well be another venezuela. Reporter sanders speech comes as his polls dwindle to Elizabeth Warren. Despite her tough regulatory policies she stands second to biden in a new nevada poll while sanders has dropped to third. Today is the day to qualify for the first democratic debate. This is the group of candidates that will make it in the first debate. Three candidates announced will likely not make the debate including steve bullok, wayne nessan and seth bowl ton. Were not sure which candidates will appear which night. Ryan, thank you very much. Were getting disturbing details in the shooting of red sox legend david ortiz. Police in the Dominican Republic say it was a murder for hire. The question is who was behind it and why . We have more. Patrick, what have you learned . Reporter it sounds like a chilling plot. Police presenting some of the suspects yesterday, at least six they say they have captured, one who is still on the run. One of the people they say they have behind bars now is the alleged shooter. They show the pistol he used to shoot david ortiz and videos taken from the scene of the shooting that showed a coordinated attack. There were several cars in the area that the shooter and the motorcycle get away drivers were conferring with some of their colleagues, fellow hitmen, before carrying out the shooting. The incredible thing here is what it all costs. 400,000 dominican pesos is less than 8,000. We have been hearing life is cheap in the up to date. Even for a millionaire famous baseball player, thats also the case. Still, of course, what was the motive . Why were so many people involved . There are a lot of questions. Thank you for your reporting from the ground there. Police and protesters facing off in hong kong. Now the founder of a messaging app thats popular with protesters claims china tried to sabotage the protests with a cyber aattack. Ivan watson has the latest. Whats happening . Reporter good morning, alisyn. The scene is much calmer today, compared to the tens of thousands of demonstrators we saw yesterday clashing with riot police. Instead here outside the headquarters of the City Government you have maybe several hundred people. Youve got a Christian Group here singing songs in front of barricades where the police are on guard. We have seen demonstrators calling the police dogs saying go back to china, this is hong kong. You are unpatriotic. There are tensions. Around a hundred people have been hospitalized. Demonstrators and police and scenes of teargas and clashes on wednesday here. There were tropical rainshowers. Maybe that calmed things down or maybe people are just exhausted from the tension and clashes yesterday. For now, the discussion of the controversial extradition legislation thats supposed to take place in this Legislative Council has been postponed for the time being. The government doesnt show sign s and neither do the demonstrators. Telegram, which many of the protesters used to organize, they say they were being hacked from ip addresses in Mainland China yesterday. For the time being the test of wills continues though fortunately we are not seeing the violence repeated anywhere near the scale we saw on wednesday. John and alisyn . Thank you for watching that for us. We appreciate it. Turn away if you are afraid of heights. Look at this. Should i turn away or look at it . Both. Youre right. Thats a mixed message. Im told there are cracks in the floor of the glass viewing platform of the willis tower, known to those of us more than ten years old as the sears tower. A protective coating has some minor cracking. Doesnt look minor. Any cracking 103 stories up isnt minor. We are told no one is in danger. The willis tower skydeck attracts 1. 5 million visitors each year. You will notice no one is using the platform. You dont want to walk out on the cracks 130 stories up . Shrewd tourists there. Our next guest says President Trump is a counterintelligence threat to the United States of america. She calls him a laundromat for stolen information. 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