State address. Lawmakers and aides rushing to his side. Get him to the ground. What his family is saying about his condition this morning. Note 24 karat and magic in the air on hollywoods biggest morning. Kicking off oscar madness. Very, very exciting. La la land hoping to sing and dance to oscar gold. Hidden figures, moonlight. And fences looking to erase the memories of last year. Even deadpool trying to crash the party. The Oscar Nominations live right here on gma. We do say good morning, america. This is always a fun, fun morning. Weve got the Oscar Nominations coming up. Of course, a lot of eyes are on la la land. Oh, yeah, a lot of good movies la la land being one of these great movies out there. I know theyre waking up hoping theyll get calls this morning about some nominations and also this morning were getting our first look at the obamas on vacation. There they are. Looks like they were very relaxed as they head to sir Richard Bransons island. Good to be expresident. Not bad. Could you imagine the stress relief when youre out of office. New president hard at work. Packed first monday in office. Our Political Team is covering every angle from his battles with the press to his First Executive actions. Lets start with cecilia vega at the white house. At that congressional meeting overnight the president repeated false claims about the election. Reporter yeah, george, he says that he lost the popular vote because of all the millions of illegal votes that were cast, george. This is a claim that has been flatly debunked. The cameras were rolling for President Trumps First Official white house meeting with congressional mr. President. Reporter but they werent there when he repeated a false claim. Sources telling abc news the president said he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because millions of illegal ballots were cast. President trump has made the claim before and Fact Checkers have roundly debunked it. As trump settles into his new role so too does his staff. Its just remarkable what got down in the first day. Press Secretary Sean Spicer facing the cameras again after his much criticized first performance this weekend. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. Reporter this time a different tune to abcs jonathan karl. Is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium and will you pledge never to knowingly Say Something that is not factual. It is. Its an honor to do this and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. There are certain things that we understand when we come out but our intention is never to lie to you, jonathan. Reporter kicking off his first full week with a packed schedule. Well sign three memorandums right now. Reporter starting by signing a flurry of new orders from a federal Government Employee hiring freeze to a ban on foreign aid to groups who provide Abortion Services, a policy first imposed by Ronald Reagan that has been reinstituted by every republican president since. And making good on a Campaign Promise to pull out of a major trade deal with asia, the Transpacific Partnership. Great thing for the american worker, what we just did. Reporter now so far no comment from the white house on those false election claims but this is not the first time donald trump has raised this issue right after his win. He tweeted, millions of people voted illegally, again, that is about the popular vote. He is saying why he lost it. Again, another big day at the white house. President trump meets with auto american jobs this morning, robin. All right, cecilia and there are new developments for President Trumps cabinet nominees. More pushback expected today as tom price heads back to the hot seat. Overnight another one of trumps candidates was confirmed. Mike pompeo. Mary bruce joins us from the capitol. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, day five of the Trump Administration and the president has just three confirmed cabinet secretaries. The latest overnight congressman pompeo for cia director, they are picking up the pace but there is still a logjam here on capitol hill as democrats raise ethical concerns about many of trumps nominees and that is expected to continue today as they take aim at nick mulvaney, the president s pick for budget director now under fire for his own finances after he failed to pay taxes on his nannys income. This is the kind of thing thats taken down nominees in the past but this morning the question is just what kind of impact does it compliement. Robin. Mary, there does seem to be good news for the administration concerning the president s selection for secretary of state. Seems like he has cleared a hurdle there. Reporter yeah, rex tillerson, the former exxon ceo has cleared a major hurdle now that republican senator marco rubio is finally on board. Rubio had raised concerns about tillersons ties to russia. He says he still has reservations but didnt want to create an unwarranted political controversy by blocking him. Tillerson could now be confirmed as soon as next week, robin. Well see if that happens. Thank you. More on this from jon karl. Jon, you were pretty tough, pretty direct questions to sean spicer yesterday. What you got back is kind of a mix of concessions and combativeness. Reporter yeah, but it was a clear reset. Sean spicer went into this Briefing Room over the weekend because President Trump was upset and wanted him to come out here and deliver a tongue lashing at the press. He did that. It did not go over well. He refused to so when he came out here yesterday for his First Official briefing, there was a little bit of humor and there were critically some concessions and did acknowledge some of the information he gave over the weekend was not correct. He said it wasnt intentional and that he would always as you heard do his best to tell the truth from the podium. And you mentioned it right there. We know that President Trump was upset saturday. Thats why sean spicer came into the Briefing Room keeping a close eye on all this. Some reports he wasnt very happy after spicers briefing on saturday. Reporter yeah, it was like worst of both worlds for the press secretary. Certainly he didnt make any or build presses with the press and President Trump was not happy with the performance, some aides thought it shouldnt have been done to begin with but what we hear about yesterdays performance is that the president was quite happy with it. On the confirmation front it appears that the president is closing in on a Supreme Court nominee. Reporter thats right. What i am told there is one leading contender, neal a Circuit Court judge, 10th circuit, only 49 years old, would be actually, george, the youngest Supreme Court nominee in about 25 years, very somebody whos popular with conservatives and was confirmed for his current job unanimously by the senate back in 2006. That could be reporter im told that could come next week. The key he was confirmed unanimously last time because youre hearing some talk from the democratic leader shuck schumer of filibustering whoever the president puts up. That would mean they would have to get democratic votes to get it through. Reporter the white house believes it would be hard to filibuster gorsuch. Hes just not that controversial. But there are a lot of bruised feelings by the fact that, of course, Barack Obamas last nominee didnt even get a hearing. Okay, jon karl, thanks very much. Tomorrow night david muir will have the first interview with President Trump since the inauguration. That will air right here on abc at 10 00 p. M. Michael. All right, george, and now to that massive noreaster thats hitting right now bringing rain, wind and were going to take a live look at this flooded road in seabright, new jersey and also a point in boston where we find our own rob marciano, good morning, rob. Good morning, michael. Yeah, the rain is blowing sideways. Winds here to 50 miles an hour. The noreaster here in boston is certainly has arrived. The boats in the harbor are rocking and the waves splashing over this seawall but certainly has been the wind that has been the main driver of this damaging storm. Overnight, the northeast taking a pounding. Its scary. Its scary. Reporter ferocious winds turning fatal in philadelphia. Tearing a sign from this car lot then striking and killing a 59yearold man. In city center a huge chunk of this 1200foot mural toppling off a hospital wall. Just outside new york city, wind gusts reaching 65 Miles Per Hour. Ju dangerously dangling from a building. You can hear it as it slams against it sending people below scrambling to get out of the way. Crazy. Mes are starting to fall off over there. Reporter the roof ripped off this new jersey condo, parts of it landing on parked cars. Trees smashing onto houses from pennsylvania to new york. Three houses in a row one came down at about 5 00 a. M. We heard it and it woke us up. Reporter streeting flooding along the new jersey coast. The first noreaster of this season but the reality is and in a postsandy world extreme weather is a lot more common and its something that were constantly mindful of. Reporter certainly easy to be mindful when its in your face and you have to get to work. Coastal flooding and over 12,000 in the area without power. You can expect that to rise and in interior sections snow and sleet is piling up so school is closed and difficult to get around pretty much anywhere in new england or across the northeast if you do have to travel. Rob, you got to get back inside. Okay. To ginger right now. More on the noreaster and a storm coming to the midwest. Brandnew photo. This is long island. Water up to the wheel wells. The tide that just passed at high tide that passed. You can see wind gusts 4 to even 46 Miles Per Hour for providence, rhode island. Those numbers are going to stick around for much. The day. Raw, its going to be wet, ugly and saw the snow and sleet inland and take the timing this afternoon when everybody is going home, still not pretty in new york city. Certainly not through eastern connecticut, parts of boston overnight then we say goodbye by tomorrow and say hello to the next storm in the midwest. This is pictures out of arizona where you can see snow flying moving right there along i90 through the day tuesday into wednesday, a quick look at spencer, guys. This is how we all felt in the middle of the noreaster and will feel today. Its a great blowout. Nice. Thank you there, ginger. Now to a health scare overnight for the governor of minnesota. His annual state of the state speech. You see there his aides rushing in to help him. Abcs linsey davis joins us with more on the story and more importantly the latest on the governors condition. Good morning, linsey. Reporter good morning, robin. As you can imagine this caused quite a bit of panic in the statehouse chambers last night. The governor of minnesota was giving his 2017 state of the state address when he drank some water, tried to continue on with his speech and then simply collapsed. A frightening health scare monday night as the minnesota governor delivered his state address. After speaking for nearly 45 minutes, governor mark daytons words started to slur. But despite that awful cost reporter seconds later the governor collapses at the podium. Get him to the ground, please. Reporter bystanders rush to his aid. Lawmakers later adjourned for the night. I dont know if he is simply dehydrated. All i do know is that minnesota needs to get behind our governor tonight and say a few prayers. Reporter the g to take a spill ahead of the speech nearly toppling over but lawmakers say hes known to be a tough old bird. As everybody in minnesota knows former goalie so hes suffered hits before and comes back. Reporter this wasnt the first time the governor who turned 70 this week has fainted in public. Last january dayton was taken to the hospital after fainting at a political event. This time the governor walked out of the capitol. Emts joined him later at his home. His son eric tweeted thanks to well wishes and noted the governor was doing a very advanced puzzle with his grandson hugo adding that has to be a good sign. We hope so. The governors chief of staff says its back to business for the governor today expected to present his budget later on this morning. As to the cause of the collapse, the Governors Office isnt saying. Robin. Hope they find out. All right, linsey, tnk you. To amy now with the mornings other top stories starring with news interest that avalanche in italy. Thats right. The death toll from that avalanche that buried a hotel in central italy last week is in the rubble bringing the death toll to 14. But 15 people are still missing and this morning a rescue helicopter with six people reportedly on board crashed near another ski resort in that same region. Back here in this country a me megamerger in the Health Insurance was blocked. A judge ruled the deal mean aetna and humana would drive up prices. Snapchat has been cleared in a distracted driving lawsuit. A georgia couple injured in a crash claimed the social media companys socalled speed filter encouraged the other driver to speed. A local judge disagreed saying snapchat is immune from such lawsuits. And federal agents near boston have found 20 million in cash hidden under a mattress in a Money Laundering case. They say all of those bills stuffed inside that box spring were proceeds from a pyramid scheme. And finally, some money guitar stuffed in a mans pants. Surveillance video showing this guy at a music store stuffing a 1700 guitar down his pants. You can barely see the hidden guitar as he makes his escape even though it was a full sized electric guitar. He is still on the run. He got away with it. It struck a sour note for the employees. Its okay. Its okay. There are so way ways to go with that. I went with the clean version. Is that a guitar in your pants or are you happy to see me . Got away with it. Oh, wow. Everybody, so much excitement for the Oscar Nominations. In an hour well know who is going for the oscar gold and abcs Chris Connelly, he joins us now and good morning, chris. Good morning, michael. Thats right the academy marshaling a host of past nominees to roll out the Oscar Nominations in a year but weve got the same old anticipation. Who is in . Who is out . And how big will this morning get for the little musical that could . I got the blitz. Yes. Reporter it might be the Early Morning but it figures to be magic hour for la la land which could sing, play and sashay its way to double figure Academy Award nominations with an outside shot at tying the record of 14 oscar nods. After a 20nomination whitewash in the performing categories last year leads to the oscar so White Movement expect at least five people of color to get the academys call for acting this year with fences viola davis and Denzel Washington. Standing in the same place for 18 years. Ive been standing with you. Reporter and moonlights Mahershala Ali strong contenders. Middle of the world. Reporter not everyone will wake up happy. A logjam in best actress. Meryl, amy, stars who shine this time of year. This article will bring you a great deal of attention. Reporter vying for spots with dazzling work from lovings ruth negga. I dont know what youre saying. Reporter Hidden Figures taraji p. Henson. Its because we wear glasses. Reporter and Rupert Murdoch of elle. Isabelle huppert. Deadpools felt the love from the producers and writers guild. The academy can nominate as many as ten films, surprises are likely. Speaking of which, could the once disgraced mel gibson crash the best director category for hacksaw ridge . Im going to get you home. Reporter will arrival earn its share of nods . No, thats a proper introduction. Reporter and could best song put a singing ryan gosling live on stage on oscar night. City of stars theres so much that see so sweet. La la land might earn two best song nominations including emma stone. It could be a big showdown in the bestson category. Cia, stevie wonder, you have shakira up for something and if Justin Timberlakes number from trolls gets nominated an all New Mickey Mouse Club reunion. Wow. 90s in the house. Ryan and justin together again. Could it be . Getting a little emotional just thinking about it. Right there a little tear. You are the man, chris. Pleasure to be here. Mid 90s in the house. Ginger, rain, rain everywhere. Speaking of los angeles, look at this, fullerton, california, south and east of them but plenty of rain over the weekend. Things will be drying out. Thats what they were doing, jet skiing. Put them away because things will dry out slightly. Drying afternoon sunshine today mostly cloudy with a slight chance of an early shower. Pm partly sunny. Highs 4649 tonight mainly clear and cold. Winds nw1015 wednesday mostly sunny. Nice highs 5659 cold start tuesday with isolatd coming up well take you inside one of the toughest jobs in washington. Whats really going on behind the scenes of those famous white house briefings. I think i should know. We got the Oscar Nominations coming up. Thats right here on gma. ve s ew, really . Oh,