And swept away. A woman knocked off a cliff by a giant wave, falling 40 feet onto the rocks below right in front of her mom. How did she survive this vacation nightmare . And we do say good morning, america, on this thursday morning. Friday eve. And the gang is all here. And we cant wait for rve to see these parents of the newborn quintuplets. Danielle and adam. The first allgirl quints born in this country. They have six girls now. Wait until you hear what they say about trying to get a boy. We begin with the wild scene over washington. Florida poetle worker somehow lands that gyrocopter right there on the capitol lawn. An act of civil disobedience. He managed to expose a security vulnerability. Jim avila starts us off. Good morning, jim. Reporter good morning, george. He landed in the shadow of the capitol dome. Hes in a washington, d. C. Jail awaiting charges. It floated in. Past the white house. Down the washington mall. Over the monument. On a beeline for the nations capitol. An ultralight helicopter less than 500 pounds and carrying one passenger. This is not good, people. Reporter the gyroplane flying route through the nofly zone. Landing right on the west lawn of the capitol. 100 yards from the speakers balcony. Flown in protest by a former postal worker. Im going to violate the nofly zone. No one will get hurt. Im going land on the mall right in front of the capitol building. Reporter but it was an immediate threat. How does an inindividual in the air vase get that close. Reporter especially when the pilot, identified at 61yearold doug hughes from florida taken away in handcuffs, his gyrocopter checked out be a robot, and then cleared by the bomb squad. He made no secret of his plan to carry out a dramatic bold act of civil disobedience. He told family and friends about the plan intending to demand letters to Congress Demanding change in Campaign Finance laws. What he wanted to do was very brave and all that even if a little bit stupid. Reporter and when his family called the secret service a year and a half ago, he told the agents of his plans, too. He told the local newspaper, which made this vizdeo of hughes learning to fly the copter. All along emphasizing this was not terrorism, just a crazy stunt. Terrorists dont announce their flight bfrs they take off. Okay . Terrorists dont broadcast their flight path. No sane person could do what im doing. Reporter a protest mission he was willing to die for. He knew the risks. He knew he could die. He knew he could be arrested. He knew he could go and go to jail. But he was willing to do that. Reporter the secret service said in a statementover night they did investigate hughes a year and a half ago. But no one warned them of the impending flight on the day of. Lets get more from the Tampa Bay Times reporter who knew this was coming, ben montgomery. He called me up in my office. He said im going to commit an act of civil disobedience. Nobody will get hurt. I might get hurt. In that event, i need somebody to be able to tell the backstory. What did you start to do . That first meet lg he explained he had this plan. It sounded to me like a bunch of craziness. But, i thought, you know what . Im going to Pay Attention to this guy. If he has the wherewithal to carry this out, it could be an interesting story. You wrote me was a mix of paul revere and p. T. Barnum. Did you think he was sane . I thought he was very sane. Just sane enough to or just insane enough maybe to commit a federal crime like this. You get word hes going to pull this off. You go up to washington as well. If he had flown a foot or two higher he would have gotten killed. Did you feel any responsibility to tell the authorities this was coming . Look he said he was going to do this whether we were there or not. Um uh the authorities knew. He was interviewed by the secret service about a year before. Before he took flight. He announced his flight well in advance. He left from gettysburg. About and hour and half of flight time. What do you thing should happen to doug now . He would want people to not view the story as oh this is lax security on the part of the police. He was aiming for, we need to talk in a big way, as a nation about whether we want unlimited corporate spending in elections. He you know i think his message is kind of got. Lost in the past 24 hours. The idea that like theres big money in politics. And, he felt like this one the crumbleing of the democracy. We need to have a conversation about Campaign Finance reform. Not the conversation were having today. No its not. Were going to bring in pierre thomas. This incident is raising Big Questions about security at the capitol. Reporter good morning, robin. Law enforcement officials are concern that millions of dollars deployed after 9 11 was not good enough to detect this small aircraft. It was an utter security failure and sources say, a wakeup call. My sources have seen no evidence so that are that radar detected it. That gyrocopter traveled more than 50 miles to get to the capitol. It should is been seen. Is it technology or human failure to notice it was flying in . Reporter exactly. Some sources wondering if the copter was too small, flying too low, too slow to be detected. Normally norad would be on alert and fighter jets dispatched. That did not happen because apparently no one saw this aircraft coming in mile after mile. Robin . We turn to politic. The Clinton Foundation under fire for soliciting foreign donations. It announced last night it would stop taking most of them. Chris kri tooes is in new jersey. Clinton critics zeroing in on this question of foreign donations and possible conflicts. Reporter oh shes been hammered over this over time. The most controversy has centered on donations from foreign governments with bad human rights records, like saudi arabia which, on its own, has given millions to the Clinton Foundation. The clintons are always defended this. Now the foundation is going the way cut back its foreign donors. No more donations from countries with bad human rights records. Theyll continue to accept some foreign donations, only from allies a small list of six countries, including england and canada. And chris kri tooe hit the town meetings in New Hampshire, trying to catch a spark. Reporter he was, at one point, a possible frontrunner. Now he wants to come back one town hall at a time. He was up New Hampshire doing this yesterday. Hes back george on friday for yet another town hall meeting. Hes got a long way to go. Jon karl thank you very much. Now the former football star aaron hernandez, convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for killing odin lloyd. Its a dramatic downfall for a young man worth millions once one of the best players at his position. Mara Mara Schiavocampo is here with more on this. Good morning, mara. Reporter robin good morning. He had it all. But now will be in prison for the rest of his life. Jurors deliberated for 35 hours over 6 days. Concluding the onetime pro athlete was a coldblooded killer. Guilty of murder in the first degree. Reporter this morning, convicted of firstdegree murder. The 25yearold showing no emotion before falling into his seat. As hi mother and fiance sobbed he reportedly turned and mouthed the words, be strong. Just feet away the victims mother also crying. He was my strength. I love him dearly. Reporter the conviction is a stunning fall from grace for hernandez. Hernandez to the 12 yard line. Reporter a star tight end for a super bowl championshipwinning team. With a 40 million contract. And a lafvish mansion outside boston. Prosecutors say he threw it all away organize straiting the murder of his friend odin lloyd in 2013. This was just about a murder occurring. A brutal senseless murder. Reporter the prosecution had no motive or murder weapon. But claimed this security video from hernandezs home showed him holding a gun lyss than ten minutes after lloyds death. And that this box, later carried out by hernandezs fiance contained the murder weapon. Some of us got there for didnt reasons. Was ultimately reached the same conclusion. Reporter now 5 million of his assets are frozen. For now, at a prison, just one mile from the stadium where he was a star. And hernandezs legal troubles are not over. He still faces durable murder charges for a driveby shooting in 201. Fishlgs say he killed two men over a spilled drink at a club. Not over for hernandez. Thank you, mara. Amy has the mornings other top stories. Starting with the search for the passenger plane missing for more than a year now. Thats right. Crews looking for Malaysia Flight 370, which disappeared in march of last year announced theyll double the search area if they dont find the plane by next month. Its welcome news for the 227 passengerers families who feared authorities may gave up the search. Crews have found no trace of the plane. At home, the fbi sejing for a pair of bank robbers in the pittsburgh area growing increasingly violent. One suspect pointing a gun at a Bank Employees head. Authorities believe the suspects may have a military background because of how they hold their weapons. Theyre believed responsible for at least three robberies so far and have threatened to fire back at any police who pursue them. New details about the Police Officer in arizona who ran down a suspect with his patrol car. The officer was the subject of a lawsuit in his previous job with the new york police department. When he was accused of using excessive force, choking man during a park dispute. That lawsuit was settled. Meanwhile, Neal Karlinsky has more on why investigators insist the officers action on the street in arizona were in fact justified. Reporter the video is disturbing. A suspect intentionally run down by police. Oh reporter this morning, man who watched it all unfold right in front of his office tells abc news, he believes police did the right thing. You think this guy was a threat . Oh heavens yes. If they got into a gun fight, there would have been bullets all over the place. Reporter police say the video doesnt tell the story. The suspect wanted for a suspected threehour crime spree, allegedly robbing a 7eleven breaking into a church stealing a car. Allegedly stealing this rifle and ammunition from a walmart. When officers approached him walking with the loaded rifle. Stop. Dont been [ bleep ] do it. You dont want to do this. You dont want to do this. Reporter he didnt just ignore the police. He fired the gun. I think the Police Officer made off the, tough decision. It turned out to be the right decision. Reporter Security Experts say, horrible as it looks, the suspect is lucky the police didnt open fire. The officers actions were unconventional. But they were effective. Reporter his Attorney Says the circumstances dont justify the violent tactic. I think this are all courts of other things the police could have done. Reporter for good morning america, Neal Karlinsky, abc news, tucson arizona. The state of kansas in the spot light for it new crackdown on welfare spending. It bans welfare recipients from buying tattoos, concert tickets, and lingerie among other things. The goal is to get families off welfare. Critics say the limits are meanspirited. An explosive scene on long island new york. A man trying to kill bedbugs in his rental car. He doused the interior with rubbing alcohol. Moments later, he lit a cigarette. He survive sd his seconddegree burns. Wow. And finally, a woman who has a much better attitude about all of those pot hoels plaguing our treat streets than i do. Rather than angrily shouting at no one, like i do she used the power of positivity is to elicit change. When the city wasnt doing enough she decided to plant flowers in them. One by one, it exposed how many pot hoels were lurking. She got city als attention. The pothole patrol has been filling them one by one. I would like to see that happen in new york. Creative solution. A daring solution. To sit in the middle of the road. She would be really busy in new york. Thank you for the warning. Dont cross amy. I do it by myself all the time in the car. Another i amazing story coming up. One woman lucky to be alive this morning after a massive wave knocked her off the face of a cliff, dropping her on to the rocks below. It was all caught on camera. Oh my gosh reporter watch as the woman taking this cell phone video gets swept away by this massive wave off the coast of ireland. The wall of water sweeps her off the edge. Knocking her 40 feet down. Her parentsearby as their 21yearold daughter tumbles. The most terrifying moments of my life. My daughter shouting mommy, i look back shes not there. Reporter fortunately, a couple visiting the island sprang to action. Fashions a rope out of a jacket. At first, i didnt see it coming. I tried to run. The wave just pushed me off my perch. Reporter rescuing apu gupta. The water cushioned my fall. The impact wasnt as great as it could have been. I mean amazing story. Im glad shes alive. If youre ever standing on a cliff no one else is there, theyre all aiming a camera at you, dont be there. Run. Great up here. Storms down south . In southern louisiana. Dozens of severe storm reports. Huge chunks of hail. Trees going down. 60plusmileperhour winds. All through the gulf coast. The tree goes down. The damage this morning, will be a whole lot calmer. There are areas that have to watch out for severe storms. Anywhere from southwest kansas through amarillo. To houston austin san antonio. Youre all in the risk area today. Good morning, washington. A nice day to get going, temperatures cool in the suburbs with a lot of 40s on the map. 45 in manassas. Downtown, 54 degrees with a mix of sunshine and clouds. We will be a lot like yesterday with our sky cover but later in the day, the thicker the clouds will be. Stray showers possible south and west of town this afternoon. Temperatures see this picture . Salt lake city ten inches of snow. More snow than they had all season. Thats a weeping cherry tree. They are all happy and crying with joy because they finally got some snow. All right better late than never. Coming up, the shocking double life of a prominent heart doctor charged in a murder for hire plot. And ahead, Sofia Vergaras modern legal battle. 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We have the sunshine and a couple of clouds with a great sunrise. You can see nice color. 54 degrees is our temperature on the cooler side, especially in the suburbs. The dryer air working yesterday and continues to battle for moisture off to our south and west. This afternoon, a stray shower will be possible south and west of town appeared the rest of us should hold off on rental overnight or early tomorrow. It will be light and spotty, it will not rain all day and should give way to convict bc conditions for the weekend. 64 at noon and clouds at 5 00 with 67. A lot of problems on metro the issue for you and rosslyn. Green line everything is now moving well. All service has been written restored. You can see 390 five, traffic slowing, an earlier crash on the 14th street bridge. Now you can get through there. Heading into the downtown area ok on 295, lets take a live look outside, no wet roads to worry about. The 14th street bridge, early crash mixed in with congestion makes it heavy. 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