A governor falling at the podium in the middle of delivering his state address. Lawmakers and aides rushing to his side. Get him to the ground. Get him to the ground, please. What his family is saying about his condition this morning. 24 karat magic in the air and magic in the air on hollywoods biggest morning. Kicking off oscar madness. Very, very exciting. La la land hoping to sing and dance to oscar gold. Hidden figures, moonlight. And fences looking to erase the memories of last year. Now the stars of some of the biggest films are joining us for the Oscar Nominations right here on gma. We do say good morning, america. This is always a fun, fun morning. Weve got the Oscar Nominations coming up. Of course, a lot of eyes are on la la land. Oh, yeah, a lot of good movies out there. La la land being one of these great movies out there. I know theyre waking up hoping theyll get calls this morning about some nominations and also this morning were getting our first look at the obamas on vacation. There they are. Looks like they were very relaxed as they head to sir Richard Bransons private island. Good to be expresident. Not bad. Could you imagine the stress relief when youre out of office. You can see it. New president hard at work. Packed first monday in office. Our Political Team is covering every angle from his battles with the press to the push for his cabinet nominees, to his First Executive actions. Lets start with cecilia vega at the white house. At that congressional meeting overnight the president repeated false claims about the election. Reporter george, President Trump says that he lost the popular vote because of millions of illegal votes that were cast. This is a claim he has made before and it is one that has been flatly debunked. The cameras were rolling for President Trumps First Official white use meeting with congressional leaders. Sources telling abc news he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because of millions of illegal bam ets were cast. President trump has made the claim before and Fact Checkers have roundly debunked it. So trump settles into his new role, so too does his staff. Press Secretary Sean Spicer facing the cameras again after his much criticized first performance this weekend. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. Reporter this time a different tune to abcs jonathan karl. Is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium, and will you pledge never to knowingly Say Something that is not factual. It is. Its an honor to do this, and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. There are certain things that we may not fully come out but our intention is not to lie to you, jonathan. Reporter kicking off his first full week with a packed schedule. Well sign three memorandums right now. Reporter starting by signing a flurry of new orders from a federal Government Employee hiring freeze to a ban on foreign aid to groups who provide abortion services, a policy first imposed by Ronald Reagan that has been reinstituted by every republican president since. And making good on a Campaign Promise to pull out of a major trade deal with asia, the transpacific partnership. Great thing for the american worker, what we just did. Reporter now no comment so far from the white house on those election claims. Some in the room is say that donald trump made these comments in jest but he has made the comments before, tweeting after the election that millions of people voted illegally. In the meantime, it is another busy day at the white house. The president is meeting with Auto Executives and he will be talking about american jobs. Robin . All right, cecilia and there are new developments for President Trumps cabinet nominees. More pushback expected today as tom price heads back to the hot seat. Overnight another one of trumps candidates, mike pom way yoe, was confirmed. Mary bruce joins us from the capitol. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, day five of the Trump Administration and the president has just three confirmed cabinet secretaries. The latest overnight congressman pompeo for cia director. They are picking up the pace, but there is still a logjam here on capitol hill as democrats raise ethical concerns about many of trumps nominees and that is expected to continue today as they take aim at mick mulvaney. The president s pick for budget director now under fire for his own finances after he failed to pay taxes on his nannys income. This is the kind of thing thats taken down nominees in the past but this morning the question is just what kind of impact does it have in current political climate. Robin. Mary, there does seem to be good news for the administration concerning the president s selection for secretary of state. Seems like he has cleared a hurdle there. Reporter yeah, rex tillerson, the former exxon ceo has cleared a major hurdle now that republican senator marco rubio is finally on board. Rubio had raised concerns about tillersons ties to russia. He says he still has reservations but didnt want to create an unwarranted political controversy by blocking him. Tillerson could now be confirmed as early as next week, robin. All right, mary, thank you. Lets get more on this from jon karl. Jon, you were pretty tough, pretty direct questions to sean spicer yesterday. What you got back is kind of a mix of concessions and combativeness. Reporter yeah, but it was a clear reset, george. Sean spicer went into this Briefing Room over the weekend because President Trump was upset and wanted him to come out here and deliver aongue lashing at the press. He did that. It did not go over well. He refused to take questions. So when he came out here yesterday for his First Official briefing, there was a little bit of humor and there were critically some concessions and he did acknowledge that some of the information that he gave over the weekend was not correct. He said it wasnt intentional and that he would always as you heard do his best to tell the truth from the podium. And you mentioned it right there. We know that President Trump was upset saturday. Thats why sean spicer came into the Briefing Room. Hes keeping a close eye on all this. Some reports he wasnt very happy after spicers briefing on saturday. Reporter yeah, it was like worst of both worlds for the press secretary. Certainly he didnt make any or build any bridges with the press and President Trump by all reports was not happy with the performance, some aides thought it shouldnt have been done to begin with but what we hear about yesterdays performance is that the president was quite happy with it. On the confirmation front it appears that the president is closing in on a Supreme Court nominee. Reporter thats right. What im told is there is one a Circuit Court judge, 10th uch, circuit. He is somebody who is only 49 years old and would be actually, george, the youngest Supreme Court nominee in about 25 years, very somebody whos popular with conservatives and was confirmed for his current job unanimously by the senate back in 2006. That could be reporter im told that could come next week. That could be key, the fact that he was confirmed unanimously last time because youre hearing some talk from the democratic leader shuck schumer of filibustering whoever the president puts up. That would mean they would have to get democratic votes to get it through. Reporter the white house believes it would be hard to filibuster gorsuch. Hes just not that controversial. But there are a lot of bruised feelings by the fact that, of course, Barack Obamas last nominee didnt even get a hearing. Okay, jon karl, thanks very much. Tomorrow night david muir will have e first interview with President Trump since the inauguration. That will air right here on abc at 10 00 p. M. Michael. All right, george, and now to that massive noreaster thats hitting right now bringing rain, wind and dangerous flooding. Were going to take a live look at this flooded road in seabright, new jersey and also a point in boston where we find our own rob marciano. Good morning, rob. Good morning, michael. Yeah, the rain is blowing sideways. Winds here to 50 miles an hour. The noreaster has certainly arrived in boston. The boats in the harbor are rocking and the waves splashing over the sea wall so coastal flooding certainly an issue but the wind has been the driver of this damaging storm. Overnight, the northeast taking a pounding. Its scary. Its scary. Reporter ferocious winds turning fatal in philadelphia. Tearing a sign from this car lot then striking and killing a 59yearold man. In city center a huge chunk of this 1200foot mural toppling off a hospital wall. Just outside new york city, wind gusts reaching 65 Miles Per Hour. Just look at this scaffolding dangerously dangling from a building. You can hear it as it slams against it sending people below scrambling to get out of the way. Crazy. Pieces are starting to fall off over there. Reporter the roof ripped off this new jersey condo, parts of it landing on parked cars. Trees smashing onto houses from pennsylvania to new york. Three houses in a row one came down at about 5 00 a. M. We heard it and it woke us up. Reporter and streets flooding along the new jersey coast. The first noreaster of this season but the reality is and in a postsandy world extreme weather is a lot more common and its something that were constantly mindful of. Much. Reporter pretty easy to be mindful of the storm when its in your face and youve got to get to work. Wind chills are below freezing, even with this rain. Weve got over 12,000 people without power and we expect that number to climb. Inland youve got snow and sleet piling up and schools are closed. A tough, tough commute for millions today. George . Rob, you got to get back inside. Okay. To ginger right now. More on the noreaster and a storm coming to the midwest. Brandnew photo. This is long island. Water up to the wheel wells. The tide that just passed at high tide that passed. You can see the wind gusts 24 to even 46 Miles Per Hour for providence, rhode island. Those numbers are going to stick around for much. The day. Raw, its going to be wet, ugly and saw the snow and sleet inland and take the timing this afternoon when everybody is going home, still not pretty in new york city. Certainly not through eastern connecticut, parts of boston overnight. Then we say goodbye to this storm. By tomorrow and say hello to the next storm in the midwest. This is pictures out of arizona where you can see snow flying there. Now its moving right along i90 through the day tuesday into wednesday, a quick look at spencer, guys. This is how we all felt in the middle of the noreaster and will feel today. Its a great blowout. Nice. Thank you there, ginger. Now to a health scare overnight for the governor of minnesota. Mark dayton collapsing during his annual state of the state speech. You see there his aides rushing in to help him. That was quite a scene. Abcs linsey davis joins us with more on the story and more importantly the latest on the governors condition. Good morning, linsey. Reporter good morning, robin. As you can imagine this caused quite a bit of panic in the statehouse chambers last night. The governor of minnesota was giving his 2017 state of the state address when he drank some water, tried to continue on with his speech and then simply collapsed. A frightening health scare monday night as the minnesota governor delivered his state address. After speaking for nearly 45 minutes, governor mark daytons words started to slur. But despite that awful cost reporter seconds later the governor collapses at the podium. Get him to the ground, please. Reporter bystanders rush to his aid. Lawmakers later adjourned for the night. I dont know if he is simply dehydrated or what. I dont know. All i do knois tt minnota needs to get behind ougovernor tonight and say a few prayers. Reporter the governor seemed to take a spill ahead of the speech nearly toppling over but lawmakers say hes known to be a tough old bird. As everybody in minnesota knows, former goalie, so hes suffered hits before and comes back. Reporter this wasnt the first time the democratic governor who turned 70 this week has fainted in public. Last january dayton was taken to the hospital after fainting at a political event. This time the governor walked out of the capitol. Emts joined him later at his home. His son eric tweeted thanks to well wishes and noted the governor was doing a very advanced puzzle with his grandson hugo, adding, that has to be a good sign. We hope so. The governors chief of staff says its back to business for the governor today. Hes expected to present his budget later on this morning. As to the cause of the collapse, the Governors Office isnt saying. Robin. Hope they find out. All right, linsey, thank you. To amy now with the mornings other top stories starting with news from that avalanche in italy. Thats right. The death toll from that avalanche that buried a hotel in central italy last week is rising. Overnight more bodies were found in the rubble bringing the death toll to 14. But 15 people are still missing and this morning a rescue helicopter with six people reportedly on board crashed near another ski resort in that same region. Back here in this country a megamerger in the Health Insurance industry has been blocked. A federal judge has ruled the deal between aetna and humana would drive up prices. Snapchat has been cleared in a distracted driving lawsuit. A georgia couple injured in a crash claimed the social media companys socalled speed filter encouraged the other driver to speed. A local judge disagreed saying snapchat is immune from such lawsuits. And federal agents near boston have found 20 million in cash hidden under a mattress in a Money Laundering case. They say all of those bills stuffed inside that box spring were proceeds from a pyramid scheme. And finally, some money stuffed under the bed to a guitar stuffed in a mans pants. Surveillance video showing this guy at a music store stuffing a 1,700 guitar down his pants. You can barely see the hidden guitar as he makes his escape even though it was a full sized electric guitar. He is still on the run. He got away with it . It has really struck a sour note for the employees. Sorry for stepping on your line. Its okay. Its okay. There are so way ways to go with that. I went with the clean version. Is that a guitar in your pants or are you just happy to see me . Got away with it. Oh, wow. There is so much excitement for the Oscar Nominations. In an hour well know who is going for the oscar gold and abcs Chris Connelly, he joins us now and good morning, chris. Good morning, michael. When it comes to the Oscar Nominations, a lot of love for a lot of different movies but among those most featured, a tender story of heart break in the northeast, a young mans coming of age in florida, and that little movie musical that could cleaning up. Reporter la la land must be in la la land this morning. Is that going to happen every time . I think so. Reporter after receiving 14 Oscar Nominations, the most of any this year. Its very, very exciting. Reporr also tieing an alltime record for the most nominations, alongside all about eve and titanic. Ryan gosling sung his way into the best actor category. City of stars reporter and the films director nominated for direction along with best original screenplay. And its the current for best picture. In the best actress category, Natalie Portman for jackie. This article will bring you a great deal of attention. Reporter will square against meryl streep who received her 20th nomination. In the best actor category, Casey Affleck for manchester t the sea will take on Denzel Washington in fences. Unlike last year, a diverse assortment of actors and all manner of experience. Moonlight nominated 8 times for best picture. Best supporter actress for naomi harris and supporting actor. Hidden figures got a nomination for octavia sponsor. Best actor vee go mortensen. I was hoping my movie would get lucky and im really proud to be able to represent captain fantastic. Reporter Linmanuel Miranda. I was very surprised. Im beyond, beyond, beyond thrilled. Reporter if he wins, hell be the younger actor ever to win an egot. Offering the tantalizing possibility of ryan gosling singing live in the dollby theatre stage and Justin Timberlake performing his song. Thats right, two guys from the all New Mickey Mouse Club back in the 90s together again. Im excited. Robin . All right, chris. Thank you. Lets go to ginger now where theres a lot of rain out west. Ginger . Speaking of los angeles, fullerton, california, this is south and east of them but plenty of rain over the weekend. Thats what they were doing in california, jet skiing. Put those jet skis away because things are going to be drying out. Your legal weather in seconds. Good morning, im abc 7 news, meteorologist mike nicco e. Your highlights increasing sunshine and a dry afternoon. Grab the sun glasses. A slight chance of rain wednesday night into thursday. Warm and dry weekend sunshine. 60s are coming back. Today, 52 to 55. Watch out for black ice tonight, though. Fog in our north bay and ooeast bay coming up well take you inside one of the toughest jobs in washington. Whats really going on behind the scenes of