Floor. All the outrage and fallout this morning. Murder mystery. Police discovering the body of that Ivy League Student who went missing over winter break. Now new clues about what may have led to his death and what were learning about the friend he was with just before he disappeared. And that abc news exclusive, Tonya Harding oneonone, now hitting the ice with our amy robach nearly 25 years after that incredible triple axel and that incident with Nancy Kerrigan. What shes dreaming of doing next on skates revealed first on gma. Good morning, america. And good morning, america. What a horrifying situation in california this morning. Lets look at those pictures right now. You see the deaf station right there. It is so widespread and the death toll is george and more than a dozen people are missing. Search and rescue teams and family members are still out there looking for their loved ones. 400 homes have been damaged or destroyed and many of those homes Still Standing wont have water for months. Our Senior National correspondent matt gutman is there again in montecito for us with the latest. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, robin. Hard to imagine but where im standing was a manicured lawn with stately oaks and i think you can make out that house in the back. It had been completely submerged by this sea of boulders here and when you see this and this Boulder Field goes on for about a mile downstream you can understand why search and rescue teams say they havent been able to reach every house that has been submerged and why they expect the death toll to rise. The crushing power of these debris flows. This was a toyota but it looks like it went through a compacter. This morning, chilling first vide mudslides. Close the door. Reporter Marco Farrell venturing outside as a motorist pulls up. The flash flood is right there. Reporter he sprints inside to warn his family. Wake dad up. Wake up reporter his fear justified. That series of debris flows sweeping away cars, debris reaching up to the second story of some homes, so far at least 17 lives lost with another 17 reported missing. It was very stunning to see the extent of the devastation. We realized that this is going to be a long and difficult journey for all of us. Reporter this morning, what remains is a landscape transformed and the desperate search for families. Josie. Reporter hayden was looking for hi mother josie. Later he would learn that she was one of the victims. I dont know why she didnt stay upstairs. Reporter on tuesday on that same street, glen oak, Robert Risken searching for his mother. On wednesday he was back with a search party of family and friends including rebeccas sister, teresa we gave her a ride to search with a professional team of rescuers. But Officials Say 500 members of search and rescue teams were picking through the debris including julie kirkpurcell and her dog zero. We saw them earlier squeezing through this window, zero perched on her shoulder and we met up with them again later. When you look at everything, 360 degrees from where we are, is it even possible, do you think, that somebody might have survived this . Possibly. Possible, yeah. Absolutely. Reporter with no water and no power, squadrons of helicopters had to airlift hundreds of residents stranded in an area called Romero Canyon which is still impassable this morning. Back on glen oaks street after a hayden and teresa started talking. Until that moment they were complete strangers. Now united in grief and buoyed by that embrace. And when you look around, robin, you can understand why one official told me montecito is largely back in the stone age. Theres no water, theres no power. Theres no gas here and the reason theres no water is because this debris flow severed the water main for this entire area. Its one reason they think that most of the community of montecito will have to evacuate. Robin. Still so unbelievable whats going on there. All right, matt, thank you. Michael. Were also getting a look at just how devastating the mudslides are from above. Abcs Kayna Whitworth flew over the disaster zone with the coast guard to see how widespread it is. Good morning, kayna. Reporter michael, good morning. Im here with the coast guard right now at point mugu. They were the first to respond to this disaster because they we t get up in the air. Now, in the 24 hours after the mudslides they assisted in some 29 rescues and when you look back here, this is the chopper that they used and back here thats where the rescue swimmers sits. Normally they assist in a water rescue but in this case theyve been dropping them onto the roof of peoples homes, now i went up with the coast guard yesterday and i spoke with a lieutenant who says this is the most impactful storm that he has ever experienced in his career. The landscape unrecognizable for people that live there and with so many people still missing, the coast guard will be very busy in the next few days with their search and rescue efforts. Michael. And, kayna, has the coast guard been using any new tactics during their search and rescue efforts . Reporter you know what, michael, after their first trip out they came back and they bought these. Its an ax. Youre familiar with that. But what they need these for is when they only can get on the roof of somebodys home and they need to gain access inside the home. Normally use in a hurricane situation. Michael. All right, thank you, kayna. I guess by any means necessary. Thats right. Get in to try to help rescue. To ginger now and that winter storm is causing all kind of devastation on the move, right . Right. As that energy heads east its now hitting cold air and this is what its doing to interstate 70 in colorado. This is silver thorn or near silver thorn. People slipping and sliding and unfortunately i think well see more of that. Then on the southern end of it, this is just west texas where the gusts were close to 70 miles per hour. This is a far stretching storm. A lot of states are involved here in the winter storm alerts and actually if i can have max, there we go, click ahead for me. From houston to dallas, oklahoma city, chicago has a winter storm advisory and then you start to get into the northeast because this thing will keep tracking to the east and watch as it times out. Its really friday into saturday where im concerned about not just snow but ice and im talking the type of ice that you slip and slide like over. Look how all that pink stretches from maine back to memphis. This is going to be a big one going into our weekend. Sure does. We go to the white house where President Trump is on a pr offensive in the wake of that blistering new book fire and fury. Taking to the cameras every day taking questions and taking aim at the russia investigation. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl has more on that and, jon, the big headline yesterday, the president is backtracking on his willingness to pete with special counsel robert mueller. Reporter yeah, george, back in june i asked the President Point blank if he would be willing to speak with mueller under oath. He said, 100 yes. Its something he reiterated again as recently as last weekend but when he was asked again yesterday, he said well see and he suggested there would be no need for an interview. George, there are two problems with his reasoning there. He said its been proven there is no collusion. Well, it hasnt been proven that theres no collusion. None of the committees have concluded one way or the other on that question and collusion is only one of the thi investigated. Another big one is obstruction of justice. The president up and tweeting again on the russia investigation this morning. He talked about it a lot in those answers yesterday calling it a democratic hoax. He really seems obsessed and determined to get his side of the story out as mueller keeps on doing his work. Reporter which is why it had seemed he actually was expressing almost an eagerness to sit down with mueller to tell it directly to mueller. Thats now in question. Perhaps because of the advice prosecutor his lawyers but again in those tweets hes talking about hillary clinton, talking about crooked hillary. About her emails which is really something extraordinary. Ive never seen a president a year later still talking about the opponent that he beat. Jon karl, thanks very much. All right, george, now to capitol hill where the clock is ticking to reach a deal on protecting d. R. E. A. M. Ers, the nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children. Our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce has more and, mary, there are some signs of progress this morning. Reporter yeah, robin, good morning. They are getting plan and in the Senate Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle tell me they are close to a deal. They are optimistic they could have an agreement here possibly by the end of the month. Now, the president has said he would sign onto whatever lawmakers can agree to, but now hes sending mixed messages demanding that any deal to protect d. R. E. A. M. Ers include funding for his wall, the question here on the hill is how do you define that wall . Republicans tell me they plan to deliver on some sort of a wall, but that could come in the form of more manpower, more barrier, boosted Border Security overall but not an actual physical new wall. Robin. All that yet to be determined. Meanwhile, yet another influential republican has announced his retirement and what does it mean for the midterms. Reporter 33 republican lawmakers announced they are not seeking reelection. Were seeing a real exodus of gop heavy hitters here, the latest california congressman darrell issa. Now, all of these exits come as the gop is facing a potential midterm elections and could make whats already expected to be a difficult Election Year all that more difficult. Robin. All right, mary, thank you. More on that from our chief political analyst matthew dowd and, matt, president s always lose seats in midterm elections, democrat president , clinton and obama lost a lot in their first midterms, of course, george w. Bush did as well but now youve got 19 retimes in the house, more than 30 open seat, its only january. One of several dire signs for the republicans. Yes, as ginger likes to point out when a weather storm is brewing theres indicators that tell us whats going to happen. Barometric pressure, precipitation levels, wind speed, the same is true when a political storm is brewing. And one of those key indicators is retirements and the retirements that have happened thus far especially in key seats around the country tell us a storm is brewing. The other indicator, george, is the president s job approval. The president tweeted this morning about a poll talking about the economy. It looks like we lost our satellite connection to matthew dowd. Sorry about that. Well move on. We will. We will move on to the outrage at a School Board Meeting caught on camera. A teacher handcuffed, arrested after asking why the superintendent got a raise but teachers did not. This morning, we are hearing from both sides and Abcs Steve Osunsami has the latest for us. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, robin. This has teachers across the country upset. The National Education association is holding a rally for this middle School Teacher today. Seeing one of their teachers manhandled and handcuffed in this video has people in this community outraged. This is really, really a pitiful situation. Im appalled and you should be too. Reporter it happened monday night. Deyshia hargrave had a simple question. Why is her local school board giving this guy, the suit, a nearly 30,000 raise when teachers like permanent raise in years. A superintendent or any person in a position of leadership getting any type of raise, i feel like its a slap in the face to all the teachers, cafeteria workers and any other support staff we have. Reporter in video from the meeting you see School Officials in abbeville, louisiana, asking her to leave saying this was time for Public Comments and not a debate. Is it against policy to stand . Sir, do not. Reporter but no sooner than she walked out what are you doing . Reporter the School Boards marshal had her on the ground in handcuffs and under arrest. Stop resisting. Reporter hargrave said she was just standing up for whats fair. I was always taught that whats right is right and whats wrong is wrong and when you see something, you should say its wrong. Reporter she says she will not be silenced. By sizes my voice theyve also taken away or tried to take away my First Amendment rights. Reporter both the School Board President and superintendent getting the raise are blaming t choices that got her arrested. Reporter but the superintendent now says he and the school board are getting death threats. There have been direct threats. You will die. People in your district will die. Reporter he does say he wishes things had turned out differently. What happened at that meeting should not have happened. Should not. Reporter a City Attorney is now refusing to charge the teacher and the city police point out that they werent the ones who arrested her and say it was instead a School Resource officer working for the school board. Robin. It still should not have happened. Should not have happened. Steve, thank you. Michael. We turn to those new developments in the mysterious disameerps of an Ivy League Student who vanished during winter break. Police have found his body in california in a park near his home and gio benitez is here with the latest and, gio, police are investigating this as a homicide. They are, michael. Good morning. Were learning new details about what his friend said happened. So this morning the mystery who might have killed this Ivy League Student. This morning a heartbreaking discovery for a california family. 19yearold blaze bernstein who suddenly went missing last week found dead in the brush around the park where he was last seen. His parents struggling to talk about it. We have had people do random acts of kindness and so many friends and family that have reached out to us. Reporter police say they suspect foul play and are investigating the death as a homicide. Bernstein left his home without telling his parents last week tuesday around 11 30 p. M. After snapchatting with a friend from high school who arranged to pick up the 19yearold upenn student and head to a local park. According to a just released search warrant obtained by the Orange County register, the sheriffs investigator questioned that friend who has not been identified. The friend told investigators that the pair planned to hang out and catch up, bernstein mentioning meeting another friend of theirs from high school but when they rea vehicle and walked off by himself. According to the affidavit the friend says he waited an hour for bernstein to return to the vehicle then tried to contact him on snapchat. When that didnt work the friend says he drove off to his girlfriends house, but returned to the park two hours later at 3 40 a. M. To look for bernstein again. Police say during their questioning the friend could not remember his own girlfriends last name or where she lived. Investigators noticed several scratches and abrasions on the friends hands which he claimed were from a fight club. He also appeared to have dirt under the fingernails. When asked about that he replied he fell into a dirt puddle. Investigators also noted the friend appeared to be breathing heavy, talking fast and visibly shaking. Investigators have now interviewed him several types and are calling him a witness, not a suspect. According to the search warrant police searched the friends rental car and detectives noticed hiking and camping equipment, a large plastic bibeau in the bac black belt on the passenger seat floorboard so no doubt here the investigation continues. Oh, absolutely. A lot of tough clues. Thanks very much. Back to ginger. I must start you out with a video thats maybe hard to watch because this is how i a lot of us fell and will feel in the coming days. This guy, oh, slipping and sliding comes out of the house from the sidewalk, hits the driveway, starts slipping and doesnt stop. Just a sheet of ice and then i was wondering if it was his wife or daughter. That is called love. That is called love. Well figure it out. We have a huge temperature roller coaster to go through in the 50s and 60s as of tomorrow and the bottom drops out, erie, pennsylvania, an airbnb temperature sunday morning, 8 degrees. It will be sub20 and the windchills will feel like 5 below in new york city so youre doing a big swing of some feels like 40 to 60 degrees. Thats right. Your local weather in 30 seconds. Overhead with the trailing cold front. This is rain we could really use. A majority of the area is under a moderate drought. Around one inch of rain is expected by saturday morning. Temperatures will fall by saturday morning into the upper 30s. The wet weather tapers off by m saturday and skies ll be blustery behind. It art off in the teens with ornin highs only barely rk. Ne week ezing ld with highs in the watching the potentiar a clippe bring snow chances dnesday. Stay withr team for up sure to catch stormwatch7 onair and online. We stream all of newschannel8. News and day mostly cloudy and milder. Pm showers. Nds se 5 hnight cloudy and mild. Scattered showers. Highs 5258 nds sse 510 mph yeah, lets just bring that video back one more time. Some questions i have, his wife actually videotaping it. I think its outdoor camera. He probably told her he fell and she went back and got it so the world can see. She said she couldnt stop laughing. All right. Because hes okay. Thats right, ginger. Coming up here caught on camera, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein slapped in the face at dinner. We have new details about that incident this morning. And the flu is spreading. The whole school shut down for days after 160 student