Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America Weekend Edition 20

Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America Weekend Edition 20160409

You cant start a fire and canceled concert. Bruce springsteens surprise move refusing to play in North Carolina to protest the states bathroom bill. The big reactions overnight from fans and celebrities who stand behind the boss. Messages just keep getting clearer hey, good morning. Paula is off this morning. Very happy, though, to have cecilia vega in the hot seat. Thanks for joining us. It is a hot seat. It is. Well make her suffer all morning. Also coming up, donald trump trying to get his mojo back. Thats right. After that crushing loss in wisconsin and with a giant primary right here in new york looming, is trump now shaking up his Campaign Staff . Also, all eyes on colorado this weekend where the fight for delegates is in overdrive, and ted cruz seems to be leading the pack. So much happening on your beat, politics, this morning, and throughout the many, many months to come. Full reports from the campaign trail in a few minutes. Were going to start here, though, with winter in april. Its winter. What is going on outside . We have a socalled clipper system moving across parts of the great lakes bringing frigid temperatures to the midwest this morning, rain and snow too. This as the northeast braces for a blustery cold sweep, and rob is tracking it all right here from central park. Hey, rob. Hard to believe, cecilia, that were now into april and were dealing with another snowstorm and chilly temperatures here in central park. Its clear for now, but tomorrow may be a different story. Check out this video coming in to us from threatt dough, ohio, where the snow is coming down yesterday and still is this morning piling up on some of the streets making for a slick go and around the great lakes from wisconsin and down through pennsylvania is where we expect to see the most amount of snow there. But everybody well into the deep south going to see chilly temperatures. We have freeze warnings and watches posted across probably about a dozen states, not only today and tomorrow as well. Check out numbers as well for air temperatures. And this does not include the wind. Indianapolis, 29 degrees. Right now 37 in nashville and the freezing mark in d. C. And tomorrow morning were looking at even colder temperatures, so april temps are going to be very, very chilly and the Snowfall Forecast with this next clipper system, more or less a dusting west of i95. Maybe higher accumulations in through the interior areas but certainly a nuisance snow and pretty unusual, dan, for this early in april. Were certainly paying the price now. Yeah, i find it all very disappointing. Cook back inside and well discuss it further. Thank you. To the breaking news overnight. The accused murderer who escaped from a Psychiatric Hospital captured after days on the run. A community on edge now finally able to exhale and abcs jim avila is on the story from spokane, washington. Jim, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, dan. A collective sigh of relief here in the Pacific Northwest as this dangerous and unpredictable fugitive is find hiding in a pile of leaves, dehydrated and cold giving up without a fight. Overnight authorities capturing escapee anthony garver. We developed a game plan starting last night and kept that game plan in motion. Reporter garver, a psychiatric patient at Western State hospital outside seattle, is accused of murder, was last seen at the Psychiatric Hospital on wednesday at 6 00 p. M. By 8 50 that night a Security Camera shows the fugitive buying a greyhound ticket in seattle. Early thursday morning he arrived in spokane and traveled to his parents home. At 3 30 in the afternoon his parents report him to law enforcement, but when they arrive garver was already gone. At 8 15 friday night after canine units were alerted to a scent near garvers parents home, authorities moved into the area where they found him dehydrated, unarmed and in need of medical attention. We found him hiding under a pile of debris. Reporter garver, a dangerous psychiatric patient and accused murderer seen in this Surveillance Video meeting his alleged victim in a mcdonalds. Authorities say he later gagged her and stabbed her 24 times. State officials reveal friday a third patient has gone missing from that same Psychiatric Hospital. That patient left the facility wednesday with an escorted group but he didnt return. His whereabouts are still unknown. But it is garver authorities feared the most, a survivalist, the local sheriff calls a domestic terrorist and theyd feared he had access to heavy weapons. He had threatened federal judges before. This morning hes being treated for dehydration at a local hospital, and hell be sent back to that psych ward. Cecilia. Okay, jim, thank you. We do want to turn now to the battle for the big apple. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders ramping up the attacks ahead of new yorks primary. Some harsh words on both sides over who is and is not qualified to be in the oval office and abcs mary bruce is here with more. Mary, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. This is Bernie Sanders home turf born and raised here but its also Hillary Clintons adopted home state and the candidates are battling to prove who is more new york. A homecoming for Bernie Sanders. The brooklyn native rallying supporters on the street where he grew up. Thank you all for coming out to my Old Neighborhood. [ cheers and applause ] reporter with a big contest here just ten days away, the Democratic Candidates are in a new york brawl for the 247 delegates at stake. The like the meat. Reporter Hillary Clinton is also reminiscing remembering her time as a new york senator and the good grub during a trip to buffalo. I ate more chicken wings and beef on wet than i can remember. Hope to get some before i leave. Reporter and on the view sanders passing a key test proving he eats pizza like a true new yorker. Now, show us how its done. Are you ready . Yes. Reporter after one of the nastiest weeks of the campaign, the candidates seem to be dialing it back. You may have heard senator sanders say im unqualified to be president. Well, seriously reporter clinton says sanders is qualified to be president. I will take Bernie Sanders over donald trump or ted cruz any time. Reporter sanders agrees, he will support clinton if shes the nominee. Now, despite how important new york is to this race, sanders will be heading overseas next week, cecilia. Hes received an invitation to the vatican. No word yet, though, on whether hell be meeting with pope francis. And some controversy over whether he really got that invitation or not. I was with him yesterday when he was walking through his Old Neighborhood in brooklyn, and he really wavered on whether he said Hillary Clinton was qualified to be president saying she was actually qualified and unqualified both in the same answer. This race, you know, is more nastier than ever, mary. And now Bernie Sanders talking about the possibility of a contested convention on this side too. Thats right. If Hillary Clinton fails to get a majority of those pledge delegates before the convention, the Sanders Campaign says he will, quote, 100 challenge her for the nomination, even if Hillary Clinton has more votes. Rough on both sides. Mary, great to have you here with us. And, dan, youve got more on the republicans. What an amazing year. Yes, lets talk about the republicans. Signs of stress emanating this morning from the campaign of the frontrunner. Donald trump, a big event canceled in california and a this morning, questions about a possible staff shakeup. Meanwhile, trumps chief rival ted cruz racking up the delegates in colorado this weekend and that is where we find abcs david wright. David, good morning. Tell us more about what exactly is happening in colorado this weekend. Reporter good morning, dan. Theres no question this is a tough patch for the trump campaign. Theyre just coming off that huge blowout in wisconsin where ted cruz took home 36 delegates, well, 37 delegates are at stake here in colorado. Theres no primary. Theyre chosen by regional caucuses, and here at the state Party Convention today, cruz is seriously outmaneuvering trump. Hes taken 21 of the 21 that have been selected so far, and todays delegates will be chosen by a process that looks like the political equivalent of speed dating. 600 people who want to go to the convention will have ten seconds each to make their case why they should go, and theres only one candidate who is going to be here today. Its not donald trump, its not john kasich. David wright reporting from colorado. David, thank you. Cecilia, over to you. Okay, now we want to turn to a big break in the case of a College Student found murdered on her university of texas campus. Police releasing this video of the teenage suspect. Thats him right there wheeling that was him wheeling a bike, and it helped investigators connect the dots and make an arrest. His family is speaking out this morning and abcs phillip mena is in austin with more on what theyre saying. Hey, phillip, good morning. Reporter cecilia, good morning. Haruka weisers classmates honored her with a dance performance here on campus last night, and this morning were learning more about the troubled teen who Police Believe killed her. 17yearold Meechaiel Criner accused of murdering 18yearold haruka weiser, a university of texas dance major, now in police custody. His bail set at 1 million and his sister speaking out telling our houston station ktrk exclusion skiffly that her brother had a hard upbringing and suffers from a psychiatric illness. He is slow on a lot of things but hes not slow enough to say im going to kill this person and take her purse and carry it with me. Meechaiel is not that crazy enough to do that. Reporter her classmates performing an emotional tribute to weiser. She was a brilliant dancer and shes going to be deeply, deeply missed. The subject was also in possession of a womans bike. Reporter according to an arrest affidavit, the suspect seen here in Surveillance Footage holding a small duffel bag matching the description of the one weiser had carried to dance class sunday, the night of her disappearance. Weisers body found in a creek two days later. Police taking criner into custody thursday morning. At this Youth Homeless shelter criner was arrested after a tip from firefighters who told police they encountered a teenager hours after the murder at the scene of a fire in an abandoned building. According to court documents, investigators believe that teenager resembled the suspect seen in the video and that some of the items found at that fire may have belonged to weiser including a shoe and a burned notebook with College Level coursework inside. We are very certain the suspect is in custody is the suspect responsible for the death of this beautiful young woman. Reporter state Officials Say criner was a foster teen who ran away last month. Meanwhile, police here are still trying to figure out a motive. Dan. Sad story in so many ways. Thank you, phillip. We have new developments this morning in the terror investigation in belgium. Investigators have captured a suspect who may, may be that mysterious man wearing a hat caught on camera moments before and after the deadly bombing at the brussels airport. And abcs Alex Marquardt is on the story now from belgium. Reporter this morning, the burning question, is the hunt for the socalled man in the hat over . [ sirens ] belgian authorities believe he could be one of the five men now in custody. Here a video of one of the dramatic arrests on friday shot from a neighbors window. Police pinning the man on the ground, his hands behind his back, then dragged away. The biggest arrest, mohamed abrini, a 31yearold belgian also tied to novembers paris attacks. He was seen two days before at a gas station with paris attacker salah abdeslam. Today authorities investigating whether hes the infamous man in the hat from the brussels airport. New video released by police this week showing the suspect casually walking away as suicide bombers detonated their explosives in the departure hall. Those attackers and bombs came from this brussels apartment. A virtual bomb factory and abrinis dna was found inside. The man in the hat was spotted by surveillance camera again almost an hour after the airport attack, his coat gone, looking like hes on the phone. Its just before the bomb at the Maalbeek Metro station goes off at 9 11 a. M. Now belgian authorities also trying to figure out if a suspect they have in custody osama k. Was at the metro station with the suicide bomb ever. He was also seen buying those bags used in the airport attack. This is the first time belgian authorities have acknowledged a second suspect at the metro station. The man they have in custody was suspects believed to have gone to syria to join isis and made their way back to europe. Dan, cecilia. Alex marquardt, thank you. A lot of other news this morning and for that lets get it over to ron claiborne. Good morning to you, dan, cecilia, rachel. Good morning, everyone. One of the fbis ten most wanted fugitives is behind bars in mexico this morning. Mexican Police Capture Brenda Delgado in the city of toreon on friday. She was one allegedly the one being behind the murder of dr. Hatcher. Her two alleged accomplices were custody in the u. S. In a retrial a tennessee jury found former Vanderbilt University student cory batey guilty of raping an unconscious woman in 2013. Batey was one of four players accused in the highprofile case. They are accused of assaulting the vanderbilt coed in a dorm room. Batey and one of his teammates were found guilty but the judge declared a mistrial. A tile to spell brace. Spacex touched down on planet earth. Its the first time the 260foot rocket completed its journey. They launched it from the Cape Canaveral air force station in florida sending a cargo capsule to the International Space station including an inflatable habitat that could house astronauts an a mission to mars. And a deadly Chain Reaction crash in miami that left one woman dead and sent seven others to the hospital. A security video showing a city dump truck crossing into a busy intersection and then plowing into the taxi. You see it there. The female passenger in the cab was killed and ten vehicles were involved in that incident which is under investigation. And in sports, can golfer Jordan Spieth do it again . Last were masters champ holds a onestroke lead heading into todays third round of the masters. He had a rough day on friday including a fourputt for a double bogey on the 5th hole. Rory mcilroy was moving up one back of spieth. Meanwhile golfer, Henrik Stenson posting a picture on instagram with his 2yearold daughter allegedly trying to let the air out of spieths car in the parking lot. The caption, dont worry about spieth, daddy, he will be late for his tee time. Stenson is seven strokes offer the lead so i guess the joke is on him. And finally, heres an unusual way to make an employee meeting a little more interesting. Set a Guinness World record for the largest human mattress dominos. Thats 1,200 workers rat a georgia based that is cool. It is cool. Why . Because you can. And they say they did it on the first attempt. Yeah, why. What are we going to do here . Wow. Were doing that later. Nobody told you that. You didnt get the memo. They didnt tell me that. That was part of the deal when you came on today. Nobody heard. True. True. Hopefully. Well, rob is rob, we might hurt you because of this weather. What is going on . We had a nice wild winter across at least the eastern half of the country and now its a little chilly start to april. Now were paying for it. Holding you personally responsible. Ron is going to run in a race at about 9 00. Minnesota yesterde it was coming down. One report out of wisconsin, 11 inches. Not messing around there. John deere. You cant do farming with the snow on the ground. Lets take you out west beneficial rains coming into Southern California and northern california. Youll get rain today. Kind of a stuck pattern one of the reason we have the cold in the northeast. They will take it, its good stuff for them. It wont be too heavy at one time. Were not looking for flash floods or mudslide threats. Windiy across parts of texas, 77 degrees in houston. Matches breezy again today. Tomorrow chillier, as a matter of fact theres a freeze warning out probably frost on the augusta greens to start the masters. Thats what looking nationally, heres whats shaking locally. Reporter good morning, everyone, im meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. The dividing line is west of the Delaware River rain south and east, snow north and west. The center city skyline, the clouds are increasing and they lowering and thickening and well see the precipitation move in. Accumulations stay mainly on grassy surfaces, turning much colder overnight tonight. In detroit played, yeah, and didnt go well for the yankees. Rematch. Its a long season. Rob is talking about tying you to a mattress and putting you in the central park reservoir. You cool with that . You cool with that . He theresened me with plus a pair of cement slippers. Oh, my goodness. Thats how we do it in new york. Its love. Thank you, rob. Now to rachel with the rookie baseball play named trevor story whose

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