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WPVI Good Morning America January 5, 2017

Seen all week. 2yearold saving his twin from a falling dresser now critics are calling it a hoax. What theyre saying about that dresser and the camera. The family is here, live, answering those questions right here on Good Morning America. And good morning, america. Boy, that video is still tough to watch. There are a lot of people online raising questions about that. The family is here live for us. Also this morning, 35 states from california to vermont on alert for Winter Weather. Take a look, conditions near denver right now, this is along i25. Then, Mammoth Mountain in california. Already a lot of snow, theyre expecting 20 feet of fresh powder over the next week. Of course, if youre a skier thats great. If youre not, not so much. All that weather is heading our way. The forecast from ginger coming up. Well begin with the latest on on the election hacking. Donald trump becomes president in just 15 days. Now reports hell be shaking up americas intelligence agencies. Abcs chief Investigative Reporter brian ross here with what we know right now. Reporter the wall street journal is reporting that the Trump Administration plans to shake up americas intelligence agencies. Sending more spies into the field. Theres been no comment from the Trump Transition Team this morning. It comes as they prepare to deliver their classified findings to president obama on what they say is russias role on the hacking. And it will be presented to President Trump tomorrow. Officials tell abc news has converted into a security room. No Electronic Devices are allowed inside. Including trumps mobile phones. Well be watching for afterwards. We have seen president obama take action against russia. This will be the full report from the intelligence agencies. The u. S. Intelligence community is unanimous about the role of the russians. This report is meant to back that up. Answer trumps skepticism. Key details will remain classified unless trump as commander in chief decides to reveals them. The most Sensitive Information coming from u. S. Spies and u. S. Electronic intercepts. Reveal a direct role of russian president putin and how the russian moved the emails to the wikileaks website. If you dont have all the details, the sources and moth odds convincing. To reveal too much would help the russians shut down any spies or electronic intercepts. Brian ross thank you very much. As president obama and president elect trump prepare for those breefgs, a battle is under way on the Affordable Health care act. Republicans are vowing to repeal and replace. Our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce has more. Shes there in washington for us. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. Republicans have made obamacare their top target. Theyre taking steps to roll it back. Unclear what they plan to replace with it. 15 days left in house, president obama is stepping up his efforts to preserve his legacy. After a Health Care Showdown on capitol hill. This morning, the big question, whats in store for the millions of americans covered by obamacare. Thank you. Reporter the president huddling with democrats in a lastditch effort to save his signature law. A highstakes battle. More than 20 Million People are covered by obamacare and more than 11 million at risk of losing their coverage. Lower the Health Insurance without growing the size of government. Reporter mike pence vowing take action day one. Why still no plan to replace it. We have a plan to replace it. Plenty of ideas. Youll see as the weeks and months unfold reporter the president elect aware of the potential political con consequences is warning his party. Tweeting, republicans must be careful in that the democrats owen the failed boim karr disaster. Saying it will fail of its own weight. Be careful. Theyre promising to phase it out slowly. Reporter with the gop still mauling the replacement, they have a message for the republicans. You break it you buy it. Despite being adamant that obama care has to go, parts of the plan that trump wants to keep, including not denying coverage based on preexisting conditions. Mary, we saw that Bernie Sanders brought an interesting prop. This is how Bernie Sanders retweets. He printed out trumps tweet out on a giant board. Robin. Mary, thank you. Lets talk about this more with jon karl. You saw Bernie Sanders there on the floor, donald trump tweeting again this morning, saying that the dems led by Chuck Schumer know how bad obamacare is here. Youre starting to see some trepidation by the president elect on the kind of changes might be coming. Yesterday, he tweeted that they should let obamacare fall on its own weight. This is potentially perilous politically. Lot of disruption if you repeal obamacare and they dont want to get the blame for that and democrats want to make sure they do get the blame. The repeal of obamacare as is currently, would cause real cuts in medicaid which donald trump said he wasnt for. Donald trump has specific and consistent on saying there should be no cuts to Social Security and medicare, absolutely, that was the tweet that Bernie Sanders has blown up. Meantime, youre seeing some differences between donald trump and other republicans on his seeming to back up Julian Assange of wikileaks. Lot of republicans on capitol hill hoping after the intelligence briefing after tomorrow will find a way to endorse the findings. Yes, he wont endorse any finding that the election was swayed because of the hacking or because of the russians. A narrow finding that russians were responsible for the hacking his team prepares to do. Quickly on this possible shakeups in the Intelligence Community we dont know extensive thats going to be. Im told that this is real the proposal to change the Intelligence Community, to empower agents in the field, reduce some of the bureauca krshcbureaucacry is real. T jon, thank you so much. Okay, ganow to the winter blt moving in. Already hitting the waste. Neal karlinsky is in boulder, colorado. Good morning, neal. Reporter robin, good morning. Im only standing out here long enough to do this live report. Its painful. The thermometer is hovering around 1 degree. Predicting a foot of snow here in boulder. Based on what were seeing already, theyre getting at least that. Overnight, wild weather from coast to coast. Icy roads and freezing temperatures causing a messy commute in pennsylvania. In the midwest, a wintry mess. Whiteout conditions in michigan. Drivers in kansas city unable to get going. In the west, bitterly cold temperatures combining with squalls sending drivers into difference. In washington, rescue workers fighting frigid temperatures to rescue two 15yearold boys who had fallen through a frozen lake. One boy in the frigid water for nearly 30 minutes. Before being pulled out. He was not able to extract himself from the ice. Reporter in california, 10 to 15 inches of snow and driving rain causing concerns of flooding and mud slides. Driving in we saw a car in front of us spin out, do a full 180 degrees right in front of us. The driving conditions here are treacherous and going straight towards the southeast. Robin. All right, neal, airlines are preparing for delays and cancellations. David kerley has more on that side of the story. Reporter not only are the airlines are offering passengers a way to change their travel plans by offering these waivers. Not a blanket offer. But if you want to change your plans, the airlines wont charge you a fee. Here are the airlines. If you have a flight, the best advice check with that airline, see if where youre going will be affected by the storm. Guys, its going to be a couple of tough days of flying coming up this weekend. Okay, thank you, david. Lets get to ginger right now. Lot of white on that board. A lot of white and thats all the states. Look at this, its already snowing in parts of kentucky and tennessee. Winter alert stretching through california to the midwest. Atlanta, a couple of lows were watching. First one in the midsouth going to move here by tonight. Along the i95 corridor, philadelphia, baltimore, something to note for the trip home or trip to work tomorrow. Then, friday, noon, starting in the Northern Hills of alabama, georgia and then it wraps up by saturday morning, South Carolina and north carolina. This is all thanks to a lot of cold air, denver this morning, feels like 13 below with wind chills and a good thing they got this guy down. Look at this video, this is sparky the cat, he was up there for two days in the snowstorm. The Power Company came and were able to get him down. Two days. I was nervous because his nickname was sparky. I know. Happy ending there. Thank you, ginger. Turn now to South Carolinaened the latest on the dylann roof trial. Speaking to jurors directly for the First Time Since being convicted. Abcs steve osun systemi has the details. Reporter seen here practicing with the gun he used to kill refused to let his attorneys do their job. Acting as his own lawyer. In his Opening Statements he tried to explain to jurors why hes now going against all legal advice and refusing to plead insanity. Its not because i have a mental illness. The point is im not going to lie to you. Theres nothing wrong with me. Psychologically. In court, three people got up and left in disgust. Just too much for the families of the nine victims he murdered in the basement of this historic black church. On the witness stand the wife of the reverend leading the bible study explained how she and one of her daughters survived. They were down the hall, behind this door, calling the 911. In jesus name we pray. Amen. Reporter prosecutors say roof deference to die because he has shown no remorse and point to a journal he wrote after the murders. For the first time were hearing laughter filled the courtroom as the families of the victims tells the stories of the loved ones they lost. Not dylann roof whos staring directly in space. He plans to call no witnesses. Horrifying case, steve, thanks very much. Another shocking case out of chicago, a video streamed on Facebook Live. Shows a young man held captive and tortured. Abcs alex perez has the latest. We should warn you this video is tough to see. Reporter this morning, four suspects in custody for their alleged involvement of this disturbing video streamed via Facebook Live for the world to see. The video showing what appears to be a violent assault of 18yearold africanamerican teenagers holding hostage a white man who Authorities Say suffer from Mental Health challenges. Restrained with duct tape covering his mouth. At one point, the attackers making a threat to President Trump. Police spotted him disoriented wandering the west side of chicago. They saw this individual was in distress and in crisis. Reporter they have yet to release the names of the suspects. But describe them as two men and two women. Its sickening. It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that. Ive been a cop for 28 years and i have seen things that you shouldnt see in a lifetime. But its still amazes me how you still see things that you just shouldnt. Reporter police now questioning the suspects and investigating whether the incident is a possible hate crime. If the facts guide us in that direction well certainly charge them appropriately. Reporter and Authorities Say the victim was treated at the hospital and released to his family. George. Okay, alex, boy, that officer said it, just sickening. Sickening indeed. Amy has other top stories. Theres report out this morning that Queen Elizabeth was nearly shot accidentally by one of her own guards at buckingham palace. One of the guards telling the times of london, said she was wandering the grounds at 3 00 in the morning. Buckingham palace is not confirming the story. The u. S. Military is ramping up its involvement in retaking the city of mosul in iraq. Some of those advisers have entered the city assisting iraqis going door to door to locate isis fighters. Back here in this country, developing story off the coast of louisiana, coast guard responding to a fire burning on an oil platform in the gulf, four people on that platform have been evacuated and rescued and no injuries have been reported. Timely some basketball fans got a chance to relive the Mariah Careys new years eve meltdown. The San Antonio Spurs mascot took to the floor in leotard and pretend to belt out her emotions. Someone cut you out his mike and then he stormed the court. Thank you, am j. Back to jirj, another Storm Brewing out west. Yes, this is going straight into central and northern 15 inches of rain some of the highest river levels they could see in more than a decade. Some of the snow, 6 feet, not a big deal, but wow, monday through tuesday. Local weather in 30 seconds. Reporter good morning everyone, Storm Tracker 6 live double scan shows dry conditions this morning. Step outside, some of us seeing early sunshine including down the shore, a pretty picture on sky6 live hd down in cape may, but its cold. Temperatures are in the upper 20s across the region, and windchills in the low 20s and teens. Heres the seven day from accuweather. Todays high, 35 degrees. Now, tonight probably between 7 00 p. M. And 9 00 p. M. , some of you will see the first snowflakes. Continues tomorrow morning, a coating to two inches. Of murden Beverly Hills. Why they say they did it. We have all seen this video, 22yearold twin saving his brother. Some saying its a hoax. The family responding right here on Good Morning America. Hey ramirez un poquito mas rapido, no . [instrumental music plays] [wheel squeaking] hasta luego, profesor [pumping of bike tire] [pumping of hospital ventilator] [wheel squeaking] Carlos Carlos dr. Brad needs to see you in room 3. [wheel squeaking] [heart monitor beeping] tell cardio right away i need a. Thdisney resort hotel. As magical as staying at a so imagine. Complimentary rides to and from the park. Even extra time with your family in the park. And right now, you can save up to 25 on rooms at select Walt Disney World resort hotels. So if youre not staying here, just think what you might be missing. [ crowd noisewhoa. 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An accident on the turnpike westbound is creating delays approaching fort washington. Jammed from bensalem to fort washington, at 7 30 ill do a Facebook Live well be talking about the accident and a few issues with mass transit. Snow beginning tonight, david murphy is next. Reporter cloud cover beginning to overtake the region. Some of us getting early sunshine, not helping much, take a look 29 degrees, breezes giving us windchills in the teens and low 20s. This afternoon, brisk and cold 35 degrees. Snow arrives this evening, between 7 00 p. M. And 9 00 p. M. And ends fast in the morning, a coating to two inches on the ground perhaps a little slick for the morning commute. Tomorrow, 4. Down closer to 0 for the weekend. Ducis rogers and jeff skeverski complicate what the eagles contemplate what the eagles should do in the upcoming envelope draft. Do you know how your laxative works . You might be surprised. Stimulant laxatives. 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