Convicted felon with ties to the mafia. Brian ross here with the latest. Go big or go home and a huge morning for hollywoods biggest stars. Yep, awards season is under way. The biggest movies and tv shows of the year in the spotlight. Will Bffs Jennifer lawrence and amy schumer go headtohead . Who will go home golden . Good morning, america. Here we go. Award season is kicking off this morning with the golden globe nominations on the road to the oscars and, michael, do you have your speech ready for magic mike. Im getting my outfit together. Maybe with that movie i dont need an outfit. May be about that. That might guarantee the nomination. Guarantee a lot of thing, george, that we really dont want to go into. Okay. Well, well get to that in a right now donald trump still dominating the headlines. We have his rival candidate marco rubio standing by live. We begin with the fbis intense search for answers in that terror attack. The head of the agency says the killers were radicalized before they even met. Now the feds trying to unlock the secrets on their phones and computers. Abcs matt gutman starts us off in San Bernardino, good morning, matt. Reporter federal authorities, george, are telling us that the terror couple had Tashfeen Malik and syed farook not only tried to destroy their data but encrypted some, as well. No use that the use of encryption is part of terrorist trade craft. Reporter telling abc news they were only to crack some of their phones, computers and thumb drives. What did they salvage . Pictures of farooks phone of this San Bernardino high school with its 2500 students. Was it a target . Understand did they have other plans . Reporter what is clear investigators say plans were laid years before. Farook may have been radicalized in 2012. And by late 2013, farook and mall malik were exchanging their visions online. Talking about jihad and martyrdom before they were engaged and married. Reporter investigators checking whether they were a match made specifically for terror. At least in this one instance the jihadi websites and chat rooms prove to be a match making service. The fbi will now be looking to see if this pattern occurred elsewhere. Reporter and also looking to see whether malik was brought into the country on that fiancee visa to set up the sleeper cell striking mayhem when it activated. Of course, questions swirling about how Tashfeen Malik managed to get into the u. S. On that fiancee visa. If she had been fantasizing online about terrorism and jihad for at least a couple of years, whether or not other terrorist matchmakers managed to infiltrate their people into the country using that visa, as well. Robin. Thank you, matt. The investigation continues. Now to those deadly storms pummeling the Pacific Northwest. The governor of washington declaring a state of emergency, more than a foot and a half of rain falling in some areas and 12 states on alert this morning. Abcs Neal Karlinsky is in carnation, washington, where flooding and mudslides are ripping apart homes. Good morning, neal. Reporter robin, good morning. What a mess out here. This bridge is closed and with good reason. If we were to actually drive further down wed be under water. The water is going over the top of the bridge and this river just one of many causing all kinds of problems. This morning, Washington State under a state of emergency after a relentless series of storms has left parts of the Pacific Northwest swimming in floodwaters. Its crazy, ive never seen anything like this and happened so quick. Have seen rescues including pets, sinkholes and mudslides. Everything was shaking. Everything went black. Reporter near portland one woman drowned when they are car got stuck in this creek. And a tree fell on this house killing a 60yearold woman while she was sleeping. Outside seattle, the family inside this home barely escaped as an entire hillside crashed through their waterfront home. You can see where the hillside came down, it absolutely shredded the underside of this house here. Theres a car, it took trees down with it. Much of this house was actually pushed out and into the water. The truck went through the house. The truck went through the house. All of the brick wall got swept away. Reporter floodwaters have mostly swamped rural areas. A socalled Pineapple Express of warm, tropical moisture that blew in like a fire hose. The governor says the state of emergency out here actually covers storms that started ten days ago. It has been a really rainy month out here, robin. Leaving a real mess. Another storm taking aim at the Pacific Northwest, isnt that right, ginger. Thats it. Its been a series of storms. Very latest is hitting now. See that low pressure system circulating here on the satellite radar put together as it slams the Pacific Northwest today through tonight, here are some of the things youll see. The flood watches that stay intact from Northern California through coastal Washington State, the winter storm warnings and advisories that go for montana back to the sierra. One to two feet of snow and wind advisories, this is why. Gusts up to 30, 40 Miles Per Hour in some of the cities, gusts higher in some of the mountain areas and look at vegas by tonight, 50mileperhour wind gusts. Wait till you see how big the waves will get. More than 30 feet in some places. Wow. Okay, thanks very much. We move on to donald trump. The attacks on the republican frontrunner not letting up, boxing legend muhammad ali among the latest to weigh in on his plan to ban muslims from entering the country and his too but poll numbers strong, some of his highest out in a brandnew poll and not backing down at all. Tom llamas is tracking the story. Reporter good morning. Its more than muhammad ali. Now the navy s. E. A. L. Commander who oversaw the bin laden raid talking about the dangers of his plan as reports show some muslims abroad no longer want to do business with trump. Overnight, donald trump separating himself even further from muslims world wide saying he doesnt need the help of arab nations to go after terrorists overseas. Now, would you cede that you need arabmuslim nations to help the United States defeat the jihad . Would you cede that . No, i dont but i do think it would be very helpful. Reporter this as trump claims his proposed ban on muslims coming to the u. S. Isnt about religion at all. This is about security. Its not about religion. We cannot allow people to come into this country that have horrible things on their mind. Reporter while Hillary Clinton telling voters, trumps plan is actually hurting the war on terror. Donald trump is supplying them with new propaganda. He is playing right into their hands. Reporter and boxing great muhammad ali who is muslim releasing this statement. I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted peoples views on what islam really is also weighing in, one of the worlds greatest terrorist hunters, retired navy admiral william mccraven. He oversaw the navy s. E. A. L. Operation that killed osama bin laden. Heres his take on trumps ban on muslims. When we get to that point then isis has won so we cant go down that path. We cannot restrict muslims from coming into the United States. Reporter so the big question, how is all of this affecting trump . Carolina. Guess what it shows, donald trump up 0 points. His biggest lead ever in South Carolina. Dr. Carson, senator cruz and essentially. This is trumps biggest lead in South Carolina since he started running and, second, this was conducted before and after his call to ban muslims from coming into the u. S. George. Okay, tom, lets talk to senator marco rubio right now, also running for president on the republican side. Welcome back. You called mr. Trumps proposal outlandish, offensive and unconstitutional. So why would you still support him if hes the nominee . Well, first of all hes not going to be the nominee. Im pretty confident of that so lets continue moving forward on this campaign where i think well nominate someone who has a chance to win in the general election. Thats what im going to focus on. Let me interrupt you. You say hes not going to be the nominee but at 35 not only in that poll but new the New York Times cbs poll has him at 35 . I know, george, but youve been following politics for a long time and most of the people that are leading in december very rarely win in january and february and march when these votes start to count so im not going to hyperventilate aboutle pos and not do what the media has fallen into, we had a paige terrorist attack on u. S. Soil a week ago yesterday and all the talk you charging the newscasts are dominated by this plan thats never going to happen. This will never become the law of the country, what donald trump is proposing. Lets focus on the things we can do something about, which is how these people in San Bernardino carried out this attack and the others who are out there perhaps even within the homeland even as i speak that are attempting to carry out similar a tacks so we need to refocus back on the important issue of terrorism, particularly as it applies to attacks here in the homeland because this is a growing threat and were not spending nearly enough time focused on that. On that issue secretary clinton is making the argument the whole gop field is cut from the same cloth. Watch this. Exact narrative that jihadists want to advance. That we are at war, not with barbarists, violent murderers, but with an entire religion. This is a grave mistake. Your response . My response is that there isnt a place on earth where america is stronger or safer after Hillary Clinton was secretary of state or barack obama has been president. Ask me. Ask them. What part of the world today is safer or more stable and america stronger after seven years of clinton and obama in charge of our Foreign Policy . So she really has no credibility to talk about these issues. The truth is that there are elements within islam that are radicalized and that believe that it is their obligation and duty to kill or enslave anyone who does not agree with their interpretation of their faith. We node to confront it for what it is, an Ideological Movement that attempts to enslave and kill people that do not agree the sooner we realize that the better our strategy to confront them is going to be. He cannot be contained. They must be defeated. Senator ted cruz is coming on strong and new polls put him ahead in iowa and says we need to carpet bomb isis. Says i dont know if sand can flow in the dark but were going to find out. Would that be part of your strategy, as well . Well, were going to increase air strikes but you cannot defeat isis estimately from air strikes. There is to the a single military official active or inactive that says we can defeat them simply from the air. It must be a coalition of which the bulk is made up of sunni arab, the kurs are doing a great job in the kurdish areas. We should empower christians to defend themselves in their areas and their families but the bulk of that ground force needs to be arab sunnis that reject ideologically and defeat militarily isis and they will need our help. We will have to increase the number of special operators to call in the air strikes and need for logistical and intelligence support from egypt, the saudi arabia, jordan and the uae, other kingdoms immediately impacted by isis presence in the region but they must be defeated on the ground. We will not be able to defete them from the air simply. Thanks for your time. Thanks. Now to chicago. Hundreds of protesters taking to the streets last night demanding that the mayor and president obamas former chief of staff rahm emanuel resign. The latest fallout from the teenager who was shot to death by a police officer. Abcs alex perez has the story. Reporter this morning, apology im sorry. Reporter falling on deaf ear hundreds of protesters demanding he resign. Who got to go . All rahm emanuel. Reporter overnight frustrated demonstrators taking to the streets. We are calling for the emanuel. Reporter emanuel under scrutiny for weeks after the release of this dash cam video showing an officer shooting later died. Video city attorneys fought to keep under wraps. I own it. I take responsibility for what happened because it happened on my watch. Reporter since the dash cam in the case at least two other videos of Police Misconduct have been made public. The normally combative mayor choking back emotion as he described a question a young man who has had runins with the law asked him. Do you think the police would ever treat you the way they treat me . And the answer is, no, and that is wrong. And that has to change in this city. Reporter but the emotion for some not enough. The political theater surrounded around today is so disingenuous. Reporter protesters vowing to keep the pressure on and emanuel insists he will not resign and says his newly created task force will have concrete solutions for the end of march. Robin. All right, alex, thanks. Amy with the other top stories. The fbi arrested a minnesota man accused of supporting terrorists in syria and iraq. The 20yearold somaliamerican apparently helped a group of men trying to leave the u. S. And then join isis. And the man accused of gunning down three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood declared himself guilty in court. Robert dear called himself a warrior for the babies. His lawyer says dear may not be mentally competent to stand trial. Well, the middle class is no longer the economic majority in america. Middle class americans now make up just under half the population. 49. 9 according to the pew research center, compare that to the early 70s when the middle class made up 61 of the population. Well, an explosive crash in alabama, a truck carrying chemicals hit another truck bursting into flames but remarkably both drivers are okay. And that is a look at the news. Back to you guys. All right there. Thank you, amy. Michael, tis the season. tis the season to get red carpet ready. Yeah. Its award seasons kicks off this morning with the golden globe nominations and abcs Chris Connelly has a look at all the movies and tv shows that could be big winners. Give me some good news. Reporter how will the show look without its golden girls . Gravity nominated for best film. Its the story of how George Clooney would rather fleet float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age. Reporter taking over for amy and tina, a familiar if controversial favorite. Now the Hollywood Foreign press have warned me if i insult any of you or cause any controversy whatsoever, theyll definitely invite me back next year, as well. Reporter Ricky Gervais returns s s as americas favorite bffs poise to square off against musical comedy. Jennifer lawrence for joy. What teams do you like. St. Louis arches. Reporter amy schumer for trainwreck. Everyone will be interested in this. Reporter spotlight expected to make front page news with a nomination for best drama and possible nods for Michael Keaton, mark ruffalo and Rachel Mcadams as investigative journalists. Yet to come to a theater near anyone but the revenant should hunt down a best actor namm nation for Leonardo Dicaprio. Tv, the globes love bustasic news shows. Dont be surprised to see mr. Robot earning early kudos. Remember, its the Golden Globes. I dont feel rejected. Reporter pretty much anything can happen. Surprises, snubs and actors getting good news while still in their sleepwear all just a few we love those calls when we wake them up, dont we, chris. Pretty loose. Always have fun that night. Globes. Maybe because alcohol is served. 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