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WJLA Good Morning America February 6, 2015

Oh wont you stay with me will sam smith rock the music world and score a major upset with a grammy . Stay with him. And good morning, america. Award season is here. Music on tap this sunday night with the grammys. Cant wait for that. Also talk about award season we have a huge i mean humongous announcement concerning the oscars. You dont want to miss that. Thats coming up. Right to this deep freeze. Ginger boy, temperatures plunging all over the east coast. This morning were waking up here just above zero. There are windchill advisories from West Virginia to maine. If you have exposed skin it can become dangerous if youre out there for some time. Numbers, 9 in louisville. 5 below, buffalo. The core of that is right in new england. Burlington feels like 20 below. Caribou, 23 below and boston with all that fresh snow on the ground theyre hearing about a new snowstorm and yes, there will be one. Saturday and sunday and sunday night through monday and early tuesday we deal with it throughout the northeast. Connecticut, rhode island up through massachusetts, i think the heaviest snow is going to be just north of new york city. Doesnt mean it wont snow in new york but i wanted to time this out for you and show you what were looking for as far as snow totals. A lot of that upstate new york western new york sees some of the heavier stuff vermont, New Hampshire and maine. West of boston is where the foot plus goes. Robin, we certainly have a messy monday coming into tuesday. So were setting this pattern. It is february. All right, ginger, thank you. To the latest in the transasia plane crash, at least 35 people killed, 8 still missing. Authorities in taiwan revealing what took place in the final seconds before the plane went down. Abcs david kerley has the latest for us and joins us. Reporter its the black boxes and they are very telling with one engine down the pilots apparently shut down the good engine. The final moments of the transasia flight its clear the turboprop just doesnt have enough power before clipping a bridge and crashing into taipeis river . Why, trouble with one engine but a possible fatal mistake. Looks like they may have shut down the wrong engine. We are collecting factual information. Reporter this morning, that blockbuster revelation from the black boxes of what happened in the cockpit. Just five seconds after the atr72 takes off the crew notices something wrong. Ten seconds in an engine warning light, the right goes to idle and more than 30 seconds into the flight the pilots pull back the throttle on the left engine the good one and try to restart it. Its essentially a glider. Reporter that as more survivals come to light including the cab driver and Hamish Macdonald saw the aftermath. You can see where the wing smashed into it. The forensic investigator told us that if the car was any further forward or any lower to the ground it would probably have been destroyed or potentially flipped right over. Reporter cab driver and passenger survived. 15 people in the aircraft. Now, the taiwanese have been prompt in releasing this information but theyre not drawing any conclusions. The Investigation Continues but, george it is appearing as if their pilot error was a significant factor in the crash. Okay david, thanks very much. Well turn to a new measles scare in another major city. Five babies from a Daycare Center contracted the disease. At least ten more may have been exposed. Abcs chief health and medical editor dr. Richard besser tracking it. Good morning rich. These babies were too young to be vaccinated and around the country officials this morning are facing the challenge of convincing some parents that vaccination is more than a personal decision. This morning, more measles fears spreading across the u. S. This day care at a chicago suburb announcing thursday that five infants in their program have been diagnosed with the virus. Up to ten other infants are at risk and in quarantine. These are children that are probably not vaccinated because they are many of them are under the age necessary to receive their first vaccination. Reporter Major Medical groups like the cdc trying to convince parents that childhood vaccinations not only protect their children but everyone elses babies from the infectious disease, as well. In the last decade rumors of a tie between autism and vaccines led parents in 19 states to legally opt out of vaccines for personal plaintiffs. Those rumors now discredited. Autism speaks the countrys preeminent science and Advocacy Group sayingrsday vaccines do not cause autism. We urge that all children be fully vaccinated. Mississippi, no opt out provisions. They have a 99 kindergarten vaccination rate and has had no cases of measles since 1992. Compare that to california where more than 17,000 parents refuse vaccinations last year alone. Its vaccination rate just 92 with 99 measles cases since december. California resident chess said she hads rather her son from the measles than the vaccine supply dont see any reason to inject you know unknown toxins into his system. This doesnt seem necessary to me. This measles vaccine has been used for decades and found to be safe and effective and that wonderful thing bit, it protects not only the person receiving it but also those like the babies in this day care who are too young to be vaccinated them themselves themselves. And leads to the question how could it get into the Daycare Center . From a day care borkkarcare worker or an older sibling. When these workers come back theyll require that theyre all fully vaccinated. And so many questions out there. Youll take them again on twitter. All morning. Thanks very much. Thousand to that deadly commuter train disaster outside new york city. New details about the final moments before the crash including a 911 call for help and questions about how that mother of three got stuck on the tracks. Abcs linsey davis is on the seen in hawthorne, new york, with the latest. Good morning linsey. Reporter good morning, robin. You see the southbound train passing through right now and investigators plan to be here for several more days. One top priority determining the circumstances that caused ellen brody to drive her car on to these Railroad Tracks and they plan on looking at her cell phone records. Was she perhaps distracted. Also the fact this was a new car for brody, if that may have played some role. As investigators carefully comb through debris and pieces of third rail inside the devastated interior of this metro north train new details are showing up. Report of an explosionen 0 the tracks. Reporter including possible clues into the mystery of how he will ellen brody drove onto the track. As the driver right behind her, rick hope watched the whole horrifying ordeal. First he says the gate came down and he saw her get out of her car. He describes what happened next to gannetts low hub website. She walks and gets back in the car, slight hesitation and then moves forward and at that instant the train came. Reporter Officials Say there was an dent that night on a nearby highway which diverted traffic to this road with the Railroad Crossing but investigators say lights would have been flashing that they found no problems with any of the warning signals. The lights at the crossing the flashing lights illuminated and a few seconds later as designed the crossing arm activate activated. Reporter in an interview with steven small, the engineer he saw the driver drive on to the track and activated the brake and sounded the horn for four seconds. It was too late. It could not stop in time. He was later credited with helping passengers off the train. Thank god he sprung into action. Ma i wish i could have saved more he said. Reporter ellen brody, the mother of three, will be laid to rest this morning. Robin. All right, linsey thank you very much. Well go to amy with the other top stories that are developing and happy birthday amy robach. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. I appreciate that. That means a lot. Good morning to you and everyone else. We begin with questions about the security of turbotax a program used by millions of americans this tax season. This morning the state of minnesota has stopped accepting tax returns filed on turbotax because of what officials call potential fraud. They say some users logged into the site only to find a return had already been prepared in their name. Similar cases have been reported in 19 other states. And china may be to blame for the massive data breach at anthem, the countrys second Largest Health insurer. The cyberattack which compromised the personal information of up to 80 million americans is similar to the work of chinese hackers. The breach is evidence of the growing cyberthreat against health care companies. Experts say many are unprepared. President obama is preparing to ask congress to authorize military force against isis. New video shows warplanes from jordan bombing isis Training Centers in syria. Jordan has promised this is only the beginning of its campaign against the terror group. A possible truce in eastern ukraine. The government and prorussian rebels have agreed to form a socalled humanitarian corridor allowing civilians to flee the fighting. Today european leaders are in moscow presenting a peace plan to president putin. And a big headline overnight. Debate is raging about an nba tars comments to a female referee during last nights game. Chris paul was slapped with a technical foul after questioning a call made by Lauren Holtkamp one of the leagues two female officials. Paul called her ruling terrible and ridiculous and said this might not be for her. Many critics calling that remark sexist. And a nasty crash for bode miller just back from his hiatus. He crashed after hooking his arm on a gate. Happened during a race in colorado. He suffered a hamstring injury requiring surgery. But then he later tweeted this picture calling the surgery a success. Thumbs up there. Finally, speaking of thumbs up, giving that to another photo. Touching moment of human kindness that shows a teenager who just bought a necktie at target and a worker he just met who showed him how to put iton. A shopper snapped this picture as the teen was heading to his first Job Interview at the chickfila restaurant down the street. Other employees then gathered to give him advice on what to say during the interview telling him how to give a strong handshake. Some were tearyeyed as they sent him off and so this morning we decided to wake up the manager of that chickfila im not kidding and say did he get the job . Were waiting. Well find out next week. The application is in review. Fingers crossed. You got me a little tearyeyed. He asked for a clipon tie and said they didnt have one and then they he didnt know how to tie a tie. Someone showed him. It is a good story. Good luck. Thank you. Turn now to that controversy surrounding Brian Williams. He has apologized after veterans criticized for falsely claiming he was on a helicopter in iraq hit by a rocketpropelled grenade. David wright is here with that story. Good morning, george. This controversy threatens to tarnish the reputation of americas number one news anchor. Its a war story, Brian Williams has told time and again in various forms but soldiers there say thats not how they remember it forcing williams to apologize. I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago. Reporter on nbc nightly news wednesday Brian Williams corrected a story he ran last friday night. I want to apologize. I said i was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by rpg fire. I was instead in a following aircraft. Reporter that story paid tribute to a soldier whose platoon williams claimed saved his life at the start of the iraq war when williams and his team were embedded with u. S. Forces. The news anchor took his old war buddy, now retired to a new york rangers game. Ladies and gentlemen, during the iraq invasion u. S. Army command Sergeant Major tim turpak was responsible for the safety of Brian Williams and his nbc news team after their chinook helicopter was hit and crippled by enemy fire. Reporter a heartwarming reunion spoiled after nbc posted the story to its Facebook Page. Sorry, dude i dont remember you being on my aircraft Flight Engineer Lance Reynolds wrote in the aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we landed to ask me what hadhaed. Mike okeefe even called Brian Williams a liar. Our colleague Brian Williams is back in kuwait city after a close call in the skies over iraq. Reporter in 2003 williams initial reports were vague about whether his helicopter was hit. But his dateline version has this detail. On the ground we learned the chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky. Reporter over the year however, his story has changed. On alec baldwins radio show. Did you think you would die . Briefly. Sure. Reporter and on David Letterman two of our four helicopters were hit by ground fire including the one i was in. No kidding. Rpg and ak47. Reporter there are conflicting accounts by chopper piles who flew him and his crew. The controversy as been trending for two daysys. Brianwilliamsmisremembers. Late night comedians are starting to weigh in too. Williams said the helicopter part was true but it was a coin operated helicopter outside of a chuck e. Cheese. Reporter nbc news has had no comment beyond williams onair apology for last fridays piece. On last nights broadcast no mention at all of the story. Still, a lot of Unanswered Questions out there and we should note that stars and stripes magazine broke this story picking up comments from the nbc Facebook Page. Thank you. Now to a new mexico man who thought he won the jackpot and was told dont ging it just yet. See, this was a misprint on the ticket and was told, no he didnt win. With more than 500,000 on the line he is fighting back. Take a look at this ticket. See that speck. That is what stands between one man and more than 500,000 he believes is his. He won. He matched the same 1, the number 1 on the top of this ticket. Reporter 65yearold john wines, a retired sheing and airconditioning technician thought he hit the jackpot on his ruby 7 ticket. You can see it here. According to the rules, for every number 1 or 2 he is supposed to win the prize for the amount underneath. The new Mexico Lottery has decided theyre not paying it. But the lottery claims it is a jack not pointing this out. Officials told wines thats an error on his ticket making his win invalid. We believe the statute is very clear that the game is about matching numbers. He matched those numbers. They need to pay or basically theyre cheaters. Reporter but instead of trying his luck again at the lottery wines is now looking for luck in court suing the new Mexico Lottery for 55 500,625 what he believes it is worth. While lottery officials told us they cant comment on the litigation its not just about the fortune to be had but make sure this misfortune doesnt happen to anyone else. Yeah so we say hes not whining. No. Hes got a good case. Seems like he does have a great case. Well be watching. We certainly will but now well watch the west coast, ooh. Theyre going to get hammered with rain. Especially northern bay. Let me take you to some of the areas going to be concerned about this. Not just all of that rain but wind advisory talking sustained winds 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour. Gusts to 60 Miles Per Hour. Thats why you see the orange on the map back that parts of the rockies. It is the Flash Flood Watch i want to focus in on because, again, north bay up through Northern California theyve got the sandbags out. This is a big, big concern when you can see locally over a foot of rain in the coming days. You say, well in a lot of places this is great news farther south. We wish we could push some of it further south. The one on101 and santa rosa has to look out. Record High Temperatures could be broken in denver and rapid city 67 and 64. It is cold this morning, what a beautiful sunrise underway temperatures are 18 degrees and the windchill is 13. It will be slow to warm up throughout the morning hours, 28 by 10 00, just above the freezing mark by noon with sunshine all morning and a couple of clouds rolling in with High Temperatures near 40 degrees and if that is too cold for you we have 50 now, amy, i did send you a gift. Its just got there a little late. See, you were in phoenix and its 83 today. Youre going to do it respect you . Happy birthday. Somebody really sent her a gift. Just tweeted my freshman Year High School yearbook page. Well have to share that. Also coming up on gma, three members of the coast guard involved in a deadly shootout. The explosive incident under investigation this morning. And an abc news exclusive. The wife of a former Deputy White House counsel tells her dramatic survival story the night her husband tried to kill her. 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