Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20171129 : vimarsa

Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20171129

Together as her family pleads for her to come home. Let somebody know youre safe. The fbi now joining the investigation. And save the date. Prince harry and Meghan Markle planning a may wedding at st. Georges chapel. The newly revealed photo showing a young markle at buckingham palace. What the young princess will have to go through to get ready for the big day just six months away. We do good morning, america. And there is a lot of breaking headlines this morning. People are concerned about that north Korean Missile test and the idea that a missile could reach all the way to here in new york or washington, d. C. So concerned that hawaii is actually going back to those siren warnings that they havent used that they used during the cold war. The defense secretary said this was their highest test yet. First that big break in the tampa serial killer case. Police arrested this 24yearold at a local mcdonalds now charged with four murders. Abcs Victor Oquendo is in tampa with more on how they caught him. Reporter a coworker at that mcdonalds alerted a Police Officer telling him donaldson had a gun on him. A huge relief for the people in the neighborhood living in fear for nearly two months now under Constant Police patrols but now a suspect is in jail. I am pleased to announce that tonight we will be making an arrest in the seminole ights murders. Reporter its the news residents in that tampa neighborhood have been waiting for. Police arresting a suspect in the case, 24yearold Howell Donaldson iii facing four counts of first degree murder. Our affiliate capture the moment he was taken into custody outside a local mcdonalds where he works. Thank you for having the courage to step forward and doing the right thing. Reporter police receiving a tip about aan with gunrom one of hiscoworkers. Ir fst of all he td my boss to hold the gun. He told him to hold his book bag for him but said donthe book bag. And so sheent in the book bag and said she found a gun and after finding the gun she called the please. Reporter Peabo Johnson said he worked there two or three months and when police respoed they tack manied him to the ground. Its kind of crazy that he was here with us the whole time. Reporter the arrest comes 51 days after the first murder when Benjamin Mitchell was gunned down, since then monica hoffa, Anthony Naiboa and Ronald Felton were all killed as they walked alone at night or early morning. The surveillance videos of the suspect the only clue. Justice will be served then the process will occur when this individual rots in hell. Reporter for nearly two months the neighborhood on edge, police saturating the area now hoping they can breathe a sigh of relief. Im just so overjoyed that the men and women of tampa bay and all over florida have taken care of this and handled this appropriately. Reporter all along police thought that the killer may virginia lived in the Seminole Heights neighborhood but according to the police report, donaldson says he has no affiliation with the area. There are till so many questions here and no word on a motive. George. That is a mystery. Thanks very much. Earlier i spoke with tampas mayor bob buckhorn and police chief brian dugan. Mayor, we heard you say in the piece goodness has won so the people in Seminole Heights are now safe . Yeah, we think so, george. This was a good night last night thanks to the work of the Tampa Police Department and all of our partners and chief dugan. The folks in Seminole Heights we think can rest comfortably this individual is in custody and the process stars moving. And, chief, you did get some extraordinary help from the public. Yeah, it was just a phenomenal response from the public. You know, we received over 5,000 tips but, you know, more importantly we got the right one yesterday. Somebody had the intestinal fortitude to step up and give us the bit of information we needed and bring this to a halt. You know, its been 51 days since the first murder and, you know, its day one of the healing process to kind of help these families this this community put their lives back together. The bullet casings match and the cell phone seems to put the suspect in the area. Any sense of why he did this, chief . No, you know, were still struggling with that. We have a lot of Unanswered Questions, you know, now the work really starts trying to put everything together. Were going to have to do more interviews and look for more information from the public. What they know about him and what he where hes been the last, you know, 51 days and we dont we have so many still Unanswered Questions. But i think the big thing is we now have a neighborhood that can enjoy their holidays. Mayor, it did put the entire neighborhood in a state of siege. That neighborhood stood with us, they stood with the police department, they knew that we collectively were going to solve this together and they deserve a lot of the credit for taking care of our officers who were out there for 51 days but really having the backbone to stand up in the face of evil and saying not on my watch. Chief, have you had the chance to speak with Howell Donaldson. Yes, i speak with him a little bit last night after the interviews and he was pretty nonresponsive, you know, wasnt angry, it was a very subdued, strange behavior in my opinion, but, you know, whoever does Something Like this, theyre, you know, lord knows whats driving them. Is he admitting he did it . He has not admitted to it. He admitted he owns the gun. Thank you very much for your time this morning. Congratulations. Thank you, george. Thank you. Definitely a big sigh of relief. Now to the new threat from north korea testing a powerful missile they say is capable of carrying a Nuclear Warhead and could reach the entire u. S. Mainland. The u. N. Security council calling an emergency meeting and President Trump promising, quote, we will take care of it. Our chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz has the latest. Shes there in washington. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, robin. North korea had not launched a missile in well over two months. The longest pause since donald trump became president but kim jongun has now come back with a roar. Overnight north koreaen tv gleefully announcing the test of a new type of missile which kim jongun says completes its nuclear force. The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile stayed airborne nearly an hour hurling into space 2800 miles higher and longer than any missile ever tested by the North Koreans before crashing down in the sea of japan. This test launch was aimed vertically but if the North Koreans tilt the angle horizontally the icbm could potentially reach all the way across the continental u. S. President trump briefed while the missile was till in the air. I will only tell you that we will take care of it. It is a situation that we will handle. Reporter until that happens, preparations are being made in hawaii. [ sirens] reporter an attack Warning System not used since the cold war will now be tested once a month. And unsettling sound to say the least. This comes after stronger sanctions, shows of military force and the designation as a state sponsor of terrorism and while President Trump says he will take care of it, it is unclear how he will do that in the face of growing defiance, robin, from kim jongun. Thats right. And it is also something that we heard that there were passengers on commercial flights who said, martha, they actually saw flashes of light. Reporter exactly, there are reports that during that Missile Launch several commercial airliners saw a flash, of course, north korea gives no warning of its tests so commercial airliners would not know until they saw it. Okay, martha, thank you. Robin, more breaking news. We have just learned that Nbcs Matt Lauer has been fired. You see him there because of reports of inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace according to a statement from chairman andrew lacko announced moments ago. An emotional Savannah Guthrie saying it just came in. I want to read more. He said on monday night we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by matt lauer. It represented a clear violation of our companys standards and they terminated his employment and say its the first complaint about his behavior in over 20 years hes been at nbc news but says they were also represented with reason to believe it may not have been an isolated incident so were just learning this right now and have much more. When savannah and hoda were there and savannah, you know, she applauded her colleague very brave of a colleague, i mean, matt lauer is an institution there and for this brave colleague to come forward with these allegations was something that just this week. Shocking. Were going to move on to President Trump. He is focused on capitol hill pushing hard to pass a tax reve shutdown. The deadline is nine days away. There you see h posing wit empty chairs after Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi refused to attend a white house meeting after a critical twe. The president s tax plan got a bill boost passing a Key Senate Committee and will campaign in missouri for it ahead of more votes later today and want to bring in cecilia vega for morw. The president seemed pretty optimistic the tax plan will pass with more changes. Lets look at mitch mcconnell. More complicated. Think of sitting there with a rubiks cube trying to get to 50 and we do have a few members who have concerns and were trying to address them and we know we would not be able to go forward until we get 50 people satisfied and thats what were working on. Well, i dont know if you ever tried to do a rubiks cube. I have not pulled one off. That is not a clear vote of confidence from the majority leader there. Theyve got a long way to go. This vote was a big boost for republicans. There are still at least six senators on the record having voiced concerns. You know this, the republicans can only afford to lose two votes here. They have a lot of wild cards here. White house says they still think they can get this done by christmas but in a sign of perhaps how much work they know they still need to do the president hits the road today and is going to missouri and trying to still sell this. They have a long way to go. A long way to go but have momentum on that. Not so much on avoiding a government shutdown. The gulf of democrats wider than ever. The clock is ticking, december 8th the government runs out of money then this stunt yesterday with the president sitting there between two empty chairs, chuck and nancy as he likes to call them didnt show up because they were furious he taunted them with this tweet. The republicans need the democrats. They need their votes in order to pull off to avoid the shutdown. They dont have the votes there. The president was asked yesterday if he believed they could avoid a government shutdown. Would he blame the democrats if, in fact, there was one. He said absolutely i would blame the democrats and then an aide tells us theyre working to avoid this. More reports out of the white house that the president is now questioning whether its his voice on that access Hollywood Tape and bringing up again this whole issue of whether or not president obama was born in the united states. Theres no proof that this is not the president s voice on this access hollywood he apologized for it. Yes, outright apologized for it now the New York Times is reporting behind closed doors the president is really back to talking about conspiracy theories. He was the lead person out front on the Birther Movement claiming that president obama was not born in the united states. He eventually came around to it after many, many questions, years of questioning by reporters. He said that the president was born in the states but apparently is talking about this behind closed doors now. Confounding those who work for him creating his own reality. Thank you, george. Also this morning a possible clue in the search for that missing toddler in north carolina. The fbi is releasing these new surveillance images saying they could be 3yearold mariah woods who disappeared sunday night. Abcs Steve Osunsami has the latest. Rter take a look. These are the Security Camera images this morning that the fbi and local authorities are sharing ccernedhat the girl in thehoto might just might be 3yearold mariah wos. Police are asking for hel from anyo who can identify the woman carrying this child. They w walmart three hours after the girl olina disappeared. Priority number one is to find mariah. O right now is to find her, to bring her back and then to find out what happened. Reporter with helicopters in the air and volunteers on foot, investigators are looking for any trace of theng girl last seen sunday night. The fbi is sharing this asking been in contact with the family since sunday to come forward. I believe the police want to make sure that their story fits as theyre putting the puzzle together and connecting the dots. Reporter the girls mother said she said good night to her daughter 11 00 p. M. In their mobile home. Whatever you want, just bring her home, please. Safe and sound. Shes my baby. Shes my everything. Reporter an hour later her mothers boyfriend says the girl woke up and he told the 3yearold to go back to bed. The girls grandmother discovered she was missing the next morning. If somebody abducted this 3yearold maybe they knew how to get in. Maybe they had a key to the trailer. Thats the Unanswered Questions that need to be answered. Reporter the girls biological father who doesnt live in the home says he doesnt believe his daughter was abducted. Somebody just walked right up this there and grabbed a 3yearold out of the bed and she didnt cry, she didnt scream. Nobody hrd nothing . Four people in the house. Two adults and two kids and Somebody Just comes up and snatches the baby up and walks out . Reporter police point out that this girl needs orthopedic shoes to walk and those were left in the home directly behind me. That walmart is about an hour away from here and authorities underline that that missing girl might, just might be her. Robin. All right, steve, thank you. New details also in the royal engagement. Were learning when and where prince harry and Meghan Markle will say i do. Abcs Adrienne Bankert is in Windsor Castle, the site of next Royal Wedding. Good morning, adrienne. Reporter good morning to you too, robin. Londoners are thrilled at the news of this Royal Wedding to be held here at the queens country residence at st. Georges chapel. Meanwhile, were learning a little bit more about the bridetobe. A never before seen image this morning of a teenage Meghan Markle standing in front of buckingham palace. The childhood friend pictured with markle tells the daily mail who obtained it it was taken in 1996. The year before Princess Diana died coming on the heels of their first interview when they ld the bbc they enj learning about each others past. Ecause im from t states you donith and so while i now royal understand very clearly theres a global interest there. Reporter overnight new details about their future. Prince harry and Meghan Markle selecting st. Georges chapel for their upcoming ceremony set to take place in may. The royal family will be covering most of the cost. Gma got an inside look at the 600yearold chapel in 2005. Situated at the queens home at Windsor Castle. The venue more intimate than Westminster Abbey where wilam and kate wed for room of only onethird of their guest list. It was the place for prince edwards wedding. I got a strong nk to the queen. Newlyweds walk down the aisle markle who attended catholic cool in los angeles danced at in jamaica will be baptized b c. Markle is set to become a uk citizen, a process that could take several years. She will retain her u. S. But reportedly plans to go ition through the same process of applying for citizenship through a spouse just like else. And, you know, so many of us in america are excited at the idea of an american princess. The fact shes from the u. S. Hasnt even come up, they say here. Theyre just excited for harry. Back to you. Were excited for them both. Thank you. Well get back to you in a little bit. Now back to thats righ thats the only place youll find in the country. Detroit yesterday in the mid 60s. This is where we find stevens pass washington eight to 12inches of snow fell. Well see what this next storm up to 2 feet in parts of the cascades. Your local weather in 30 seconds. First though the sunny cities brought to you by carmax. Good morning, everybody. Have i got a day for you . Its a nice one. Lets take a look outside right now. Were seeing the sunshine over the ben franklin bridge live on sky6. Feels good. Although were in the 30s in the lehigh valley, were in the 40s in philadelphia and were heading up to 62. Breezy and mild today, lots of sunshine, temperatures more than 10 degrees above average. Tomorrow clouds and sun, a bit cooler, 55 with some showers overni

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