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KGO Good Morning America April 10, 2017

Leaving the 22yearold bruised with a concussion. Did the officer use Excessive Force . Why police say the video does not tell the whole story. 24 karat magic in the air and magic at the masters. Sergio garcia is your champion. Sergio garcia taking home his first major win. 18 years in the making. The missed putt that almost cost him the title. The High Pressure sudden death playoff leading to the moment hes finally earned that coveted green jacket. He saw all of the cup with that one. Oh, but it was worth the wait. So happy for Sergio Garcia. You know, this is a guy that joined the tour back in 1999. Im pretty sure when he joined he was hoping for this moment. An incredible, exciting playoff there in the masters, and even justin rose, another great golfer he beat was happy for him. It was a real class act, 74th time the charm for sergio. Well get back to that. A lot of big political stories. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson heading to moscow for meetings that promise to be tense after the u. S. Strike on key russian ally, syria. And new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sworn in today after that bruising nomination battle in the senate. At the white house chief of staff Reince Priebus trying to broker peace between steve bannon and Jared Kushner. Their clashes have upset the president. He wants it settled. First we want to get to deadly terror attacks targeting two Christian Churches at the start of holy week. Isis claiming responsibility for the attacks in egypt that killed at least 44 people, injured more than 100. Our chief investigative correspondent, brian ross, is here with the latest. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, robin. The palm sunday terror attacks in egypt are raising fears this morning of what could be next from isis at the beginning of a week of great religious significance around the world as jews mark passover and christians prepare for the holy week of easter. The choir was singing when the bomb went off. The cameras in the church knocked out, but the sounds of chaos and screaming could still be heard. Isis was quick to claim responsibility for the two suicide attacks on christian coptic churches in egypt. More than 40 worshippers were killed and at least 100 more wounded. Surveillance shows the bomber at the Second Church in alexandria as he first tried to enter the church gate without going through the metal detectors. As the guard points him back he detonates his suicide bomb vest. Leaders around the world deplored the palm sunday attacks with pope francis at the vatican asking god to convert the hearts of those who spread terror, violence and death. So in the wake of thursdays strike reporter in the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson told george on this week that defeating isis remains americas foremost goal in syria. Our priority is first the defeat of isis, remove them from access to the caliphate because thats where the threat to the homeland and to so many other homelands of our Coalition Partners is emanating from. Reporter in sweden in the aftermath of the friday truck attack in a stockholm shopping district that killed five there are reports that the suspect now under arrest had been under investigation for possible ties to extremist groups including isis. And in oslo, norway, this morning after a police robot was brought in to detonate a possible terror bomb, authorities are trying to determine if there is an isis connection to the alleged bombmaker. A 17yearold russian who was seeking asylum. Law enforcement authorities this morning are paying close attention to what isis had to say after the egypt attack, that more bloody attacks are coming targeting what they called the crusaders, christians from the west. So, police here in the u. S. Extra vigilant. Indeed. More fallout from u. S. Air strikes in syria. The base hit by americas cruise missiles is up and running and assad is bombing the region again as russia and iran says the u. S. Crossed red line and they will, quote, respond with force to any further u. S. Attacks. Abcs Alex Marquardt is covering it all from beirut. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning, george. Thats right. Assad regime very quick to show what little damage had been done to that base in the u. S. While continuing to carry out bombing runs on rebel areas and assad and his friends warning they will not allow the United States to be the only superpower in the world. A defiant message this weekend from the assad regime. New images of syrias russian made fighter jets taking off on the Al Shayrat Air base less than 24 hours after the u. S. Navy pounded it with 59 tomahawk cruise missiles. On sunday, an unprecedented joint warning from syria and its russian allies. Iran and hezbollah saying the u. S. Crossed red lines and from now on we will respond to anyone including america if it attacks syria. Satellite imagery revealing the extent of the strike which included destroying around 20 planes but not the bases runway. The airfield quickly back up and running amid reports of continued bombing on rebel areas including that town where tuesdays chemical weapons attack took place. President trump ordered the targeted strike late thursday to punish the Syrian Regime for allegedly using a nerve agent that killed more than 80 people. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson who will visit moscow this week on sunday questioned russias complicity in the chemical attack. I hope that russia is thinking carefully about its continued alliance with Bashar Al Assad because every time one of these horrific attacks occurs it draws russia closer into some level of responsibility. Reporter now questions about the administrations actual syria policy after the president long argued that isis was the main priority. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley now talking about regime change. In no way do we see peace in that area with assad as the head of the Syrian Government and we have to make sure that were pushing that process. Reporter so high stakes for tillersons visit to russia this week where he will meet with his counterpart. Unclear whether he will be meeting with russian president vladimir putin. Russia warning that this u. S. Strike has already taken the abysmal u. S. russia relationship to a new low, robin. Alex, thank you. The u. S. Facing tensions with north korea sending an Aircraft Carrier strike led by the uss carl vinson toward the korean peninsula. The carrier is over 1,000 feet long, has more than 60 aircraft, and around 5,000 personnel and lets bring in martha raddatz. Lets listen to what National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster had to say about the deployment of the Carrier Strike group. North korea has been engaged with in a pattern of provocative behavior. This is a rogue regime that is now a Nuclear Capable regime and president xi and President Trump agreed that that is unacceptable. What must happen is the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. It does seem to send a strong signal. Reporter it does. That carrier was originally headed for australia but this was seen as a prudent move given that north korea is about to test another Nuclear Weapon and it continues to make advances in its longrange missile program. This shouldnt be read that the u. S. Is about to make a preemptive strike on those missiles but this does send the message to kim jongun. And the timing of this is especially relevant given the action we just took in syria and the fact that chinas president was just in those meetings with President Trump where they both agreed that north koreas behavior has to change, robin. Lets turn back to syria for a moment because we heard the secretary of state talking with george over the weekend and he pretty much said its up to the people of syria to decide the fate of their president , president assad but then you have the u. N. Ambassador, nikki haley, seeming to take a more forceful stance and said we have to make sure we see a leader who will protect his people and assad is not it. Bit of a mixed signal . Reporter you know, i think these statements seem to send different signals and yet i dont think you can parse the words of this administration in the same way as previous administrations or you can assume at this early point they have an overall Strategic Policy there but in this case i would listen to Rex Tillerson who seems to be saying again that getting assad out is not the priority here and if you look closely at haleys comments shes not saying getting him out is the responsibility of the u. S. They want to push him but rather what the administration wants to see happen, robin. Good points as always, thank you, martha. Tillerson clear on no change in military strategy right now in syria. Were going to get the latest on that power struggle inside the white house. Top strategist steve bannon has clash ready trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner. A political battle thats irritated the president and ordered them to bury the hatchet and our chief white house correspondent, cecilia vega with the details. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter work it out is the order from the president after a week of working on diplomacy abroad he is now home trying to broker a peace deal between two of his top aides. President trump landing back at the white house and right there with him, chief strategist steve bannon. The show of a united front comes after days of west wing tumult. Bannon and the president s soninlaw and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, feuding over a growing ideological divide. Bannons nationalist views clashing with the kushner, it got so bad bannon reportedly told kushner youre a democrat. And in the middle of it all, President Trump, sources tell abc news the president intervened telling his two aides to, quote, work it out. A lot of people close to trump are concerned that he does hasnt been able to lay claim to a major accomplishment yet and some people are pointing fingers about why thats the case. Reporter after that maralago summit with chinas leader, chief of staff Reince Priebus organized a facetoface meeting between bannon and kushner. The drama falling on the heels of bannon losing his seat on the National Security council. An overhaul approved by the president and endorsed by kushner. Sources tell abc news bannon was so angered he threatened to resign but bannon called that claim absurd. The president s National Security adviser also denying reports that bannon was demoted. This is not as significant as it appears and steve bannon provides the president with advice on a broad range of issues and will continue to do so. Reporter note that meeting between bannon and kushner, we are told by a source was an attempt to smooth things over and start to move forward on the president s agenda. Thats not the only drama happening in the trump white house. There could be another shakeup to come. Much speculation about the president s chief of staff. Thats right. Reince priebus. Thanks. Lets bring in john avlon with more. Look at the three personalities. Reince priebus, establishment republican, Jared Kushner is a democrat, before this year. Steve bannon the altright populist. This is more than a personality clash and represent three different visions for the trump presidency. And three different political strains at war with each other philosophically, and that bleeds all over the personality. The big picture, you know well, dumbest thing you can do in politics is get into fight with the family. Its never going to win so you have the altright furious at donald trump for contradicting some Campaign Promises and bannon under a lot of attack. Jared kushner representing what he calls the new york democrats, what bannon calls the new york democrats and Reince Priebus trying to hold it all together from the senate. One of your correspondents point out steve bannon could be in trouble outside the tent which is why he wants them to work it out. Lets look at Rex Tillerson, heading to moscow tomorrow morning. Key meeting right now as russia is now saying that the u. S. Is crossing red lines, but i was struck when i spoke with the secretary of state how much tougher he is being on russia, much tougher than weve seen from President Trump. One sign of just the corrects inside the trump camp. But the fact that he called out trump for trying to called out russia for trying to meddle in elections and europe and by implication they did it here is a direct contradiction of what trump has been saying about putin and russia up to this point. Much more hawkish line someone who had been seen as someone close to putin in the past. Saturday night live back taking on the politics. Lets take a look. I just had an amazing week. I met with leaders from china, egypt and jordan. Gorsuch was confirmed. The media is saying nice things and no one is talking about russia. Wow, what a difference just 59 tomahawk missiles can make. And the president did get bipartisan support from both sides of the aisle. The big question is what is the lingering political fallout and what lessons does the president take from this. Thats what is so unclear. No clear followthrough strategy beyond the one attack made, that strategic strike. Satire sometimes cuts to the heart of the truth. The president had a good week in terms of the pageantry of the presidency saw him with foreign leaders and take Decisive Action after that horrific clip of chemical weapons but now what is the followthrough and sustained lessons he takes, tbd. Thanks so much. Now to the Supreme Court. Judge neil gorsuch being sworn in this morning and abcs mary bruce has more on that. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. It has taken more than 14 months of bitter partisan fighting to get to this day. But this morning, neil gorsuch will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court. Hes here now for the first of two swearing in ceremonies. He fills the conservative seat left vacant by the death of Justice Scalia. Robin. It does, thank you. Amy has the mornings other top stories starting with a dramatic scene on a flight. Thats right. The video of it was posted on social media showing a man being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in chicago. The flight was overbooked and the Airline Reportedly asked for four passengers to voluntarily take another flight. He refused saying he was a doctor and needed to see patients in the morning and you can see that united then took matters into their own hands. A dramatic shootout with police in los angeles played out on social media. A suspect opened fire on officers in covina while streaming it on facebook live. Witnesses say he was taunting deputies to shoot him. He barricaded himself in a neighbors home before surrendering and thankfully no one was injured. A second victim of saturdays shooting at the equinox gym has now died. The gunman was a personal trainer who was fired from the gym and then came back to shoot his former bosses. And finally a lesson one gambler learned the very hard way. A man put 50 in a slot machine at the hard rock in ft. Lauderdale. He said, hey, to his friend, why dont you just push that button and take a spin for luck. She hit the 100,000 jackpot and all of a sudden, this might be shocking to you guys. They werent friends anymore. He did not get a dime because house rules say the person who presses the button or pulls the arm of the slot machine is the one who actually gets the winnings. Reportedly she offered to give him something but then things got really half . No and things got nasty and now theyre not talking. Yikes. I guess i dont blame them. Im with you on that. It was his 50. We werent that good of friends. Thats why i could do it. Thank you, amy. Now to that dramatic moment at the masters with Sergio Garcia taking home his first major title at 37 and t. J. Holmes, you got all the latest details. Hey, stra, we got to remember, this guy was the european tiger woods when he came on the scene as a golf phenom as a teenager. We didnt think it would take 20 years before his major victory count got up to one. And after so many years, once and for all, for sergio. Reporter golfs most famous bridesmaid finally became the bride. Sergio. Reporter Sergio Garcia first joined the tour in 1999. But 18 years later at the age of 37, he was still hunting for his very first pga major win, gaining a reputation as a man who gets very, very close, but no cigar. As the field at augusta win noted down to sergio and justin rose a nervousness swept through the crowd. Was the spaniard on course to blow it again after missing this putt down the final stretch at 16. 17. And on 18 to win it. No. He hung it out. A sudden death playoff ensued. But when rose sent his drive straight into the magnolias, garcia sat squarely in the drivers seat to win that green jacket. After so many years once and for all for sergio. Reporter sergios fiancee angela rushed to greet him set to marry in july. Many credit the 31yearold with helping sergios determination. Ah. Working his whole life to win a major. Gets engaged, going to get married, boom, hes a winner. I didnt know where you were going with that. That simple, guys. Really . I was a little worried. I saw that look on your face. Where are you going . Got to go quickly to rob marciano. So happy for sergio. Beautiful day in augusta. Not

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