Mor knockout. Mike tyson down for the count because of a hoverboard. What his littlee girl said to him right before and what hes saying now about the wipeout seseen around the house. I get knocked down but i get up again youre never going to keep me down good morning, erica. Greatt to h have world news tonight anchor dav muir here with us. And mike tyson, hes probably still feeling that. The fall that woke up america. His little girl says right beforehand, dad, dont fall. Oh. Anyway well get into all this coming up. Looking live at times square outside, the crowd gathered for ggd morning america but soon to be gathere f new years eve. Security preparations are under ahead ahead ofof the big rockin new years eve. Rivever right now which could rise to record levels and millions could face major flooding and in missouri they ha declared a state of emergency. Our rob marciano is there with the very latt. Reporter missouri besieged by historic and dangerous floods. The governor calling in the national guard. Businesses drowning underwater. This gas station in union barely recognizable. Department stores, hardware stores, just a few feet f f fm tototal obscurity. In west a lchltlton 17 feet above the normal level. The rain we received in excess of a foot has caused river levels not only to rise rapidly but to go to places theyve never been before. Reporter the water affecting major roads and highways. Route 141 shuhut dn forhe forereeable future and interstate 44 shut down, as well. Suburban neighborhoods evacuated. Brutal. We went working to get everything out and didnt get it reporter frantically sandbagging. Well all get through it. Reporter a state of disaster not seeeen in over 20 years. We had weeks notice beforor that i iwas going toet bad but this time it popped up in two days. Reporter this water p plant stopped operating sending sewage into streams and rivers. We expect this plant will be flooded completely before the event is over. Reporter its not just missouri. All ovever the south residents are reeling fromhese deaeadly storms. In southern georgia fastmoving rivers have taken out roads. That dark roadway and bridge you see behind me, that is interstate 44. This chunk shut down for the foreseeable futurend many rivers across the state. Fld warnings posted. Many will go right through the new year and now have flash flood watches issued for georgia and the carolinas with a wave of moistu coming up over that area. Very saturated ground so its not going too take mh for those areas to floooo this water coming up extremely territory for this river. What makes this different, you usually haveay if not weeks to prepare for a flood. This happened quickly and people have had to move fast. We cannot forget so many have had such a roughholiday. Thanks so much. We move on to your voice, your vote. The r re for the white house and 2016, donald trump wrapping up his attacks on hillary and now bill clinton as the candidates both battle for New Hampshire in the primary before they even potentially face each other. Abcs vignocchi cecilia has the latest. Reporter good morning to yoyou. Donald trump turning a fight about sexism into open warfare on bill clintons past. No stranger to tabloid headlines himself trump says his own indiscretions are fair game too. It is abouto get even uglier. Overnight donald trump opening up the doors to his private plane trump force one. Try not to crash the woodwork. Watchhe ceiling. Reporter o opening u attacks on Hillary Clinton. She has a major problem, reporter the gop frontrunner has the gloves off when it comes to her husband too. Were going to go right after the president , the expresident d well see how it all cops out and i feel very confident that itll come out ve well for us. Reporter now trump is naming names. S. E first candidate to drop the m word in the 2016ace foror the white house. Butut theree certainly a lot of abuse off women and you look at whether its Monica Lewinsky or paula jones or many of them. Reporter on theampaign trail in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton not even uttering her rivals name. You see, i happen to think america is great. Reporter rusing to answer any questions about him. How quickly things change in an election year. The trumps and clintntons go w way back from the golf course to that wedding, but the brash billionaire now sayayshat invitation was a business move. As aworld class businessman you have to get along with everybody. Eporter e even though he wroteen 2008 hillary would make a greatat president or Vice President before a crowd trumpmp sangng a different tune. Believe me, women, if its got to be a woman, which im all in favorf someday, it shouldnt be hilla. It shouldnt be. He is not holding back. The next attacks could come i the form of tvad, truru says hell spend at least2 million week in ads just as this primary season kicks off. He says if someone attacks him, he will, quote, attack them very hard with the ads. I think this is just beginning. All politics as we know. You got to wonder what American Voters t think when they see the wedding a few years back with the clintons smili with donald trump. Im curious, president clintnt on the trail, does he touch trump . He will be campaigning for the first time by himself for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire on monday. Donald trump has an event just if bill clinton is going to go there monday is probably the time. I dont t think theyll be golfing this time. No more wedding invitations either. Thanks so much. Now to neweweareve andnd major security preparations under way right now for celebrationscross the country. With recent attacks from San Bernardino to pariris, authorities are notaking any chances and abcs phillipena is here in times square where m more than a Million People are expected to join the bigiggest party of the year. Goodorning to you, phillip. Reporter amy, good morning. Just this week authorities in belgium arrested two men accused of a holiday terror plot and with a Million People expxpected here in times square on new years eve, officials are going to Great Lengths to make sure everyone stays safe. This morning, security is rampingp for new years eve celebrations across the country. Here in new york k city, officials expectct about a million revelers packing into 20 city blocks in times square tomomorrow night. Ththreats, but they arent taking any chances. We have a constant threat analysis stream were constantly reviewing, but, again, we are not aware off any threat at this time that we deem credible to this event here in times square. Reporter 6,000 heavily armeded Police Officers will be deplployed. More than any other time in the citys history. Helicopters, camera radiati detectors and checkpoin will help monitor the crowds along wi bombsniffing dogs and 500 elite counterterrorism officers. New years eve in new york city will be the safest place in the world to be. Repte in pasadena the annual rose parade is also gearing up for the unprecedented security after the San Bernardino attac earlier thihis month. More than two dozen federal agencies joining forces with police to protect the 700,000 people expected to attend. The vegas strip on high alert with more than 300,0000eopl police are asking partygoers to leave bags and strollers at home. Here in timimes square, the bomb squad and a unit specializing in chemical and biological threats will sweep hotels, theaters, construction sites and parking garages and about 20,000 smartphones were handed out this yeyear that will allow officers to quickly transmit information on anyotential threats. David. All right, phillip,hanks so much. We turn to two cities on edge this morning. Demonstrators protesting in chicago and cleveland over police shootings. In cleveland, activists now calling on cavalier star lebron james for support. And he did respond overnight. Abcs t. J holmes this morning with the latest. Reporter from the streets of downtown cleveland. Across the state o ohio to cincinnati. All Rahm Emanuels got to go. Reporter to the front door of chicago mayor r rahm emanuel. Demonstrators express unarmed africicamericans by police. A small but determined grovp braved blustery cold overnight in cleveland. You should be ashamed. Reporter upset after a grand jury refused to indict two officers in the killing of 12yearold tamir rice. Some are turning to lebron james for help pushing the nojusticenolebrbr and calling on the cleveland native to sit out games in prost. Lebron still played last night in denver but spoke out after the game saying, what we want more than anything is prayer and the best for the family, for anyone but for me to comment on this situation, i dont have enough knowledge about it adding, this i issue isigger than lebron, its bigger than me. Meanwhile, in chicago, protesters are demanding mayor emanuel step down. We have to bring our message to Rahm Emanuels doorstep because i guess he didnt hear us. Reporter chicago on edge after two recent highprofile Quintonio Legrier and his neighbor bettie jones were killed by Police Responding to a domestic disturbance call. His father broke down on cnn. Continue to stand there and request a ambulance assistance or somee policessistance to assist my son because i know hetill alive. I see him moving but no one would reply to help my son or miss jones. Reporter meanwhile, the attorney for timothy ehmann, the officer who shot tamir rise told abc news the protesterers have been framing this narrative all wrong. It was not about race. His client had no idea o way of knowing the gun tamir had was fake. More protests scheduled here today, david. T. J. , thanks. Amy. All right, now to a scary landing at seattles airport. The faa investigating an alaska airlinines plane that misseddhe runway and landed instead on t taxiway. Abcs Kayna Whitworth has more on what went wrong. Reporter this morning, an Seattle International airport. Alaska 27, change to runway 16 center. What happened to lead a flight to land on an active taxiway instead of a nway . Its a very serious thing enou have an airplane taking offr landing in the wrong place. Reporter the 737 was flying from chicago t seattle earlier this month. Alaska 27, maintain 5,000 to establish localizer. Reporter the faa telling abc news thelight was origilly cleared to landn a certain runway. When the crew was offered another runway for efficiencyy purposes something went wrong. The faa telling abc news the crew agreed to andcknowledged the clearance but landed on the aid jase sent taxiway. The danger is not landing on a long strip of concrete. The danger is actually that somebody else might be on that taxiway. Reporter pilots are trained to know the different mkingngs on runways and taxiways a andhen you l lk athis its clear t t the taxiways inyellow. John nance was an Alaska Airlines pilot for 20 years and has lded at Seatac International airport hundreds of times. Theyre going to h have to ask a lot off questions about what the crew was thinking, what they were looking at what was going on in the cockpit, et cetera, two qualified pilots just dont make thi mistake for no reason. Rorter for good morning america, Kayna Whitworth, abc news, los angeles. Tnk goodnesss no one was hurt. Runway is always the better option. Yes. Good point, david. Thank you. My deep thought for the morning if aviation expert david muir, ladies and gentlemen. Now we want to get to the real expert, dan harris over here for the other headlines. G good morng. We want to start with the two earthquakeke that hit the west cotover night. The first was a 4. 4 magnitude quake in southern california. It happened near San Bernardino at least 14 aftershocks have been reported and a 4. 9 magnitude hit near victctoria, british columbia. No reports of any significant damage. Also this morning, there are new concerns about oil and gas drilling in oklahomom after four earthquakes hit that state in thth shaking tuesday was enough to force mirrors off walls and bottles off store shelveve about 4,000 customers lost their power. Authorities in turkey say they have foiled a plot by isis in ankara. Police say they found suicide vests armed with bombs during a raid on a home there. Two suspectss now in custody. Y. And u. S. Military is accusingran of test firg rockets near american straights in the strait of hormuz. They came within 1500 yards reportedly of the uss harry truman. These actns wer called highly provocative and only gave 23 minutes notice. New tensionsith israel thismorning. The wall street journal reporting that the nsa spied on israeleli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu monitoring his communications with american lawmakers during the nucuclear negotiations with irann despite president obamas promise in 2013 to cut back on eavesdropping programs that finally, we showed you this at the top of t t show. Wel dig eper. Perhaps the most dramatic entry into the growing world of hoverboards. Mike tyson landing as you can see here flat on his back. Thisis looks really, really painful but tyson laterosted to twitter, quote, guy, im okay. The former heavyweight champ pointed t, during the incident he was actually riding his 7yearold daughters hot pink hoverboard. No word on when or if there will be a rematch. In our safety segment, he looks like hes stepping forward. Exactly what they said youre not supposed to do. At least he landed on the carpet. Always looking for the bright side. Thanks, amamy. I think it still hurt. We turn to the nfl and Peyton Manning now going on the offensive after an al jazeera report linking him t perfmanceenhancing drugs. Theyre now defending and smh as the latest. Reporter Peyton Mannings reps claiming that journalist is backckacking sometng she denies to us sayining her team raised questions comin from 27 hours of undercover recordings withharles sly who she says is the one who named manning. This morning, Peyton Mannings pr r firing back, former White House Press secretary Ari Fleischer saying the reporter on the dark side is now backtracking and retreating correcting her own reporting using this lines eviden. An extraordinary claim, it raised questions whether an american sporting hero, Peyton Manning, is linkedo performanceenhancing drugs. Reporr that reporter sitting down with us. Werere not alleging anything. Reporter denying fleishers claims sayaygtt charles slslys assertion, not her that Peyton Mannings wife ashley received the banned drugs on his behalf. Is it possible this hgh wasnt shipped to ashley, that Peyton Manning never had access . Answer to that. I dont know. Weve asked it. He hasnt answeredit. Reporter the al jazeera reporter saying her story raises questions, many of which she says still remain. Whatould you want to see to complete your reporting . Will you confirm tt during 2011 and over other periods of time human growthormone was sent to ashley manning, over what period, how mh did it cost, in what quantitities and why . Reporter now, the Guyer Institute at the cenr of this responng tol jazeeras claims thaha sly worked there in 2011, the year that manning habbed and saying he was a pharmacy student with an unpaid internship in 2013 with no patient responsibilities and no affiliation with their office before ththen. Amy and david. All right, the story is not going away. Ryan, thanks so much. Back to rob in st. Louis with the forececast for the country for n n years eve. Y, rob. Good morning again, vid. Yeah, i tell you at, most of going to be dry for new years eve, lets take a look at some of the cities you might be celebrating in. Happy camp, california, new hope, oregonon, celebration, florida, 71, nice there. Maybe some showers across the south, though and 35 deges a a fireworks in massachusetts. 25 in champaign, illinois, pop it if you got it. Times square ball drop, midnight breezy. Pect a small wave of energto pasass rough tomorrow that will yield some flurries and light snow with accumutions under half an inch. Were then on track for warmer weather later in the week as it looks like well start off 2016 with some better conditions. Todays high is 23 with light morning snow, then cloudy and cold weather. The low tonight is 15. Tomorrow well have a high of 23 with momo light snow. the snow is quickly thosese cities brought to you by macys. Not very warmere in valley park, missouri. Temperatures right around freezing. 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