Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20170501 : vimarsan

Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20170501

Also breaking overnight a budget breakthrough. Congress agrees to keep the government open but no funds for President Trumps border wall as the president talks tough on north korea with qualified praise for their leader. Obviously hes a pretty smart cookie. And a promise to use military force if necessary. I need some good news and baby, oh, baby. The brandnew photo of Princess Charlotte released just hours ago to celebrate her second birthday taken by her mom princess kate as she gets ready for her biggest role yet in her aunt pippas wedding. I need some good news baby give it to me and we certainly say good morning, america. How adorable. You just want to pinch her cheeks. I know and the palace released that photo. Just released it of Princess Charlotte and it is rare you look at the young royal. You dont see her that much. Looks a lot like her big brother. Well get back to that later, but right now, we have breaking news this morning. Big deal in congress overnight, and terrible storms tearing through the south. You can see the damage right there in texas. Yeah, rob is on the scene for us. Well have more on that in a moment. First, we want to get to that other big breaking story. That mass shooting in california. A gunman opening fire at an apartment complex. Abcs matt gutman is there on the scene for us in la jolla. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, robin. That shooting happened at a pool about 150 feet in that direction you can see the officers down there and the mobile command unit. Eyewitnesses say a white male had a beer in one hand and a gun in another. A large caliber pistol. He started mowing people down, all of them people of color. This lasted for minutes. Gave him enough time to reload, even taunt some of his victims until police finally took him down. The shooting erupted at 6 00 p. M. During a pool party at this upscale apartment complex in affluent la jolla, california. Three people down, the suspect is reloading his gun in the pool area. Reporter according to police the woman killed and six of the seven others injured were africanamerican. The other victim was a latino male. The shooter, a 49yearold white man named pete selis. His motive not known but witnesses say selis sat calm with a beer in one hand and a gun in the other as he sprayed bullets at the 30 partygoers at the pool. A lot of people screaming and about a minute later another round of six or seven shots, more people screaming. Reporter residents frantically scrambling to safety as calls to 911 began pouring in. He is sitting in a lawn chair. He is telling people to leave. I heard what sounded like fireworks. I wasnt sure what it was and then i smelled smoke and i turned around and i heard people screaming and running. Reporter a Police Helicopter reached the area first where it spotted the shooter reloading his weapon. Three officers arrived on the scene with guns drawn and confronted the man. The suspect pointed the gun at our officers and our three of our officers fired on the suspect. Reporter he died in that hail of bullets shortly thereafter. According to the l. A. Times he filed bankruptcy in 2015 and listed his occupation as a car mechanic with two children and a stepson. You can see crime scene investigators still working the scene. Selis lived here at the complex but police say they dont have a concrete motive yet and they are going to investigate whether or not this was a racially motivated crime. Robin. All right, matt, thank you. Now to the deadly storms hitting the center of the country. Tornadoes and flooding destroying homes and injuring dozens. Lets take a look at the scene from the sky in canton, texas where a massive ef3 tornado tore through the area, and lets go right to abcs rob marciano who is there. Good morning, rob. Good morning, michael. These were deadly tornadoes, four of them to hit this area. The one that hit here, 140mileanhour winds ripping apart this building which was preparing to host a prom when there were 20 people inside. They crammed into two small bathrooms and a closet which would save their lives. This was all part of a massive system still plowing across the country. We got a baby. Call 911. Reporter in texas it was a race against time as neighbors turn into heros. The harrowing event to rescue an infant and a 2yearold from a car flipped over, rapidly filling with floodwater. The severe storm responsible for at least 14 deaths and heartstopping scenes like this. There is a tornado crossing the road right in front of us. Reporter overnight, millions in the path of that deadly Spring System as it marches east. In illinois, raging floodwaters responsible for this chilling call. 8yearold child swept into a drainpipe. Reporter the boy, miraculously rescued 50 feet downstream with no visible injuries. We got him in this pipe. Reporter in missouri the governor declaring a state of emergency. Residents being evacuated there. In arkansas weve got our work ahead of us. No doubt. Reporter cars and roads no match for this storm. The heavy rain triggering a massive deep south deluge. Some areas in the south accumulating nearly a foot of rain in just the last three days. This morning, residents in texas left picking up the pieces. Looks like someone took a broom and just pushed it over. Reporter the rustic barn in canton was set to host prom night. I ran in and said we got to get covered. Its going to be a direct hit. Reporter the venue nearly reduced to rubble. The only thing left standing, this storage closet. Unbelievable to see no building left except where we were located. Not a single one of us was hurt, scratched. God was with us, no doubt on that. Another look at the damage. You see how important it was for them to get to an interior room. Timing was on their side as well. If it hit an hour later, there would have been 80 teenagers inside this building which means all in all, it could have been worse here in canton. Michael. Michael. Thank you, rob. Were glad theyre okay. Lets go to ginger for more on where the system is heading next. There you go, ginger. Yeah, michael. You have to see this thing. That rotating cloud, the almost textbook look at it, the cold front attached and severe storms in mississippi and alabama this morning, or alabama itself, but look at this. Warnings and alerts from minnesota down through the Florida Panhandle where you can see gusts up to 35 miles an hour to flood watches that make their way into Northern New England in maine there and its that severe threat, michael. This is what im concerned about. Buffalo to pittsburgh, down into virginia, thats the enhanced area and the timing for this is starts afternoon, after id say 2 00 and, george, all the way through tonight the potential for damaging wind, hail, yes, even tornadoes in that region. Not over yet. Thanks very much. Were going to get the latest now from washington where the president started his second 100 days taking on the tensions of north korea, and says the u. S. Might be forced to strike their Nuclear Weapons and called kim jongun a pretty smart cookie. White house hoping for a Health Care Vote and President Trump says obamacare is dead and promises to guarantee coverage of preexisting conditions but that absent from the latest gop plan and congress is going to fund the government through september and mary bruce on capitol hill with the details. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning. A rare moment of agreement on capitol hill late last night. Republicans and democrats agreeing on a spending bill. Nearly 1 trillion to fund the government through september. Now, this ends any suspense over a Government Shutdown and delivers victories for both parties. Republicans are likely to tout a big boost in military spending, more than 12 billion, while democrats will be pleased they were able to hold off cuts to domestic programs including medical research and infrastructure but this catchall spending bill expected to pass later this week is the the first bipartisan legislative victory for the president during his administration. The other big one, democrats refusing to fund President Trumps border wall but there is money for Border Security. What will it cover . Reporter yeah, george. Perhaps whats more interesting than whats in the bill is whats not in the bill. There is no funding for the president s border wall. Now, this does include 1. 5 billion for Border Security but none will go to construction of a physical barrier despite the president s insistence that that funding be included. That fight over the wall will have to wait at least until the fall. Thanks very much. George, now to the growing tensions with north korea. President trump speaking out about the threat and coming under fire for inviting the president of the philippines to the white house as he tries to build alliances. Our chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz has more on that. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, robin. President trump had strong words for north koreas leader, but that invitation to the philippines president could create a firestorm of criticism for his human rights abuses. Tensions on the rise, President Trump responding to north koreas latest failed missile launch. Perhaps theyre just not very good missiles, but eventually, hell have good missiles. Reporter and on the possibility of a nuclear test. If he does a nuclear test, i will not be happy. Reporter with the uss carl vinson Aircraft Carrier now in waters near the peninsula, President Trump keeping the military option on the table if north korea obtains longrange missiles. It is a chess game. I just dont want people to know what my thinking is, so eventually he will have a better Delivery System and if that happens, we cant allow it to happen. Reporter and President Trump saying not to underestimate kim jongun. At a very young age he was able to assume power so obviously hes a pretty smart cookie. Reporter but President Trump facing new controversy this morning for inviting philippines president Rodrigo Duterte to the white house. Duterte has faced international criticism. His war on drugs, reportedly responsible for over 7,000 extrajudicial killings since his inauguration in june of 2016, but the administration defending the invitation. Does that mean human rights dont matter . Absolutely not. It doesnt mean human rights dont matter but what it does mean is that the issues facing us developing out of north korea are so serious that we need cooperation at some level with as many partners in the area as we can get. Reporter the real rationale for President Trumps invitation is likely about china. Duterte threatened to kick out the u. S. Military while aligning itself closer to china and President Trump wants to change that, george. Okay, martha, thanks very much. President trump celebrated his 100th day with a rally in harrisburg, pennsylvania, where he laid into the media as so many were sitting down at the annual white house Correspondents Dinner and our senior white house correspondent, cecilia vega has all the details. Cecilia, good morning. Reporter good morning. It was quite the split screen, journalists celebrating the First Amendment while the president at a rally bashing the media. It was the annual nerd prom. This time, minus the star attraction. Welcome to the Series Finale of the white house Correspondents Dinner. Reporter the noshow president went to pennsylvania instead, where he held a competing event with a competing message. They are gathered together for the white house Correspondents Dinner without the president. And i could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from washington spending my evening with all of you. Reporter President Trump marked his 100th day by taking direct aim at the media. And look at the media back there. They would actually rather be here. Reporter this morning, the white house is also taking another look at health care. After that failed first attempt at repealing and replacing obamacare, President Trump says the latest proposal will continue to protect people with preexisting conditions. Preexisting conditions are in the bill, and i mandated it. I said it has to be. We have were going to have lower premiums. This bill is much different than it was a little while ago, okay. This bill has evolved. Reporter the white house may be hoping for a vote soon but republicans on capitol hill say there is no Health Care Vote scheduled yet and they will not vote until theyve got the votes to pass this. One aide telling us at this point, there is no Health Care Vote scheduled so far for this week. Theyre going to keep trying. Thanks very much. Lets bring in our white house correspondent, jon karl, for more on this, and start with that health care bill, jon. The big Sticking Point is this question of preexisting conditions and the president says he wants to guarantee it but the bill before congress right now would allow states to charge people higher premiums. Reporter it sure would, george. The states would be able to basically waive that and allow Insurance Companies to charge higher premiums but the condition that they would have to provide an alternative coverage mechanism for those that are priced out of the market, but, george, the white house is confident, they say. They tell me this bill will pass the house, likely this week. There are still questions about whether or not moderates will support it, but i have talked to conservatives in the house and the senate who do say they like this bill better than what was up last time. Different situation in the senate but the house first. On the 100 days the president not quite giving up on this putting out a new ad, going to spend 1. 5 million to tout his accomplishments over the first 100 days and keep on bashing of the media. Reporter yeah. This is Something Else. A campaign ad 100 days into his presidency, the president as you remember, called the 100 days a ridiculous standard to judge him by but this touts his accomplishments and takes a whack at the media for not recognizing it. Meantime, on that media bashing, a lot of eyebrows raised yesterday. You were talking to Reince Priebus on this week and he suggested that President Trump was still looking at opening up these libel laws so he could sue over unfair coverage. Reporter this surprised me, frankly. He said they are looking into this, making it possible for the president to sue news organizations for bad coverage. George, he would have to do a constitutional amendment to actually pull that off. Not going anywhere fast. Jon karl, thanks very much. Amy is here with todays other top stories. Good morning, guys. We begin at Kennedy Space center right now where the private Space Company spacex is launching a classified u. S. Intelligence satellite. This morning. Five, four, three, two, one, zero. Liftoff. A sensor problem forced yesterdays launch to be scrubbed within 52 seconds left in the countdown. The company landed it lack on the launch pad. This is the companys fifth mission so far this year. But this is the First Mission if carried out for the u. S. Military. In the meantime, at least 27 people have been injured after an International Flight ran into turbulence. You can see the chaos in the cabin here just as the aeroflot jet from moscow was descending into bangkok. Three babies were among the people injured as they were thrown across the cabin. Witnesses report some people lost consciousness. Others injured their spines and broke their noses. The plane eventually landed safely. A strong earthquake shook parts of alaska registering 6. 2. Reported strong shaking and Power Outages but no major damage reported so far. Facebook is denying accusations that it tried to exploit emotionally Vulnerable Children to sell advertisements. An australian newspaper reports leaked documents show facebook used sophisticated algorithms to collect data on the emotional state of users as young as 14 and then targeted them for certain ads. Facebook says the research was only meant to understand how people express themselves. Youve heard of the fivesecond rule. You can decide whether it applies to this. A woman riding in the subway nodded off, let her pizza slide out of the box or didnt know it was happening. I will say, the pizza did not make contact with the floor. Just the paper did. A big question out there on the internet. Would you still eat that . No problem, absolutely. Agree. I would crush it. All right. A lot of smiles around here this morning. Not just for that story that we just saw, we just have to say a big thank you. We are truly honored. Last night we received the award, the daytime emmy for outstanding morning program. The winner of outstanding morning program, im checking, i dont want any mixups here, im a surgeon, after all. And the emmy goes to Good Morning America, abc. [ cheers and applause ] our friend dr. Oz and thats our l. A. Bureau chief David Herndon accepting the award. It is a great honor for people that you see here, for people you dont see behind the scenes. Angie and everyone in our control room and our viewers. You challenge us every morning to bring out our best and we appreciate it so much. Tha

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