Major payday while his female costar got less than 1,000. And overnight, facebook makes a huge change affecting billions of users. What youll see more and less of in your news feed. Good morning, america. Great to have paula here. We hope all of you are well at home. We want to get right to that growing firestorm ignited by vulg gar comments by President Trump about allowing immigrants from africa and haiti into america. Abc news policy is not to repeat the profanity which, of course, trump critics have called racist and unamerican. We will talk more about that later. First jon karl is tracking all the latest fallout from washington. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. Just as the president seemed to be making progress on a bipartisan immigration deal, he blew it all up with a vulgar insult that has struck many as blatantly racist. The president s vulgar slur came during an Oval Office Meeting with congressional leaders trying to hammer out an immigration deal. Multiple sources tell abc news the president grew angry when he was a developing deal would include protections for immigrants from african countries and haiti. Why are we having people from blank countries coming here, the president demanded. Referring to haiti and african countries with a profane slur adding, why do we need more haitians . The president suggested the u. S. Should bring in more immigrants from countries like norway. The white house did not deny the president made the remarks. Responding with a statement saying, President Trump is fighting for Permanent Solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation. But news of the president s crude insult drew bipartisan condemnation. This remark by the president of the United States smacks of blatant racism. His comments do not represent america. Listen, this does not help at all. Reporter the first haitianamerican elected to congress, mia love called on the president to apologizing saying his comments are unkind, divisive, elitist. Jeb bush tweets, i hope todays comments were discuss a crass and flippant mistake and do not reflect racism. On the very first day of his campaign, he insulted mexicans. Theyre bringing drugs, theyre bringing crime, theyre rape i haves and some, i assume, are good people. Reporter in august he responded to violence at the flee joe nazi rally in charlottesville by saying there were fine people both among the protesters and the white supr e supremeists. You also had people would were very fine people on both sighs. Reporter the president s latest outburst came after he brought democrats and republicans together for a constructive meeting at the white house tuesday urging a deal to provide legal status to the socalled d. R. E. A. M. Ers, undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children. This should be a bipartisan bill. This should be a bill of love, truly it should be a bill of love and we can do that. Reporter before yesterdays outburst it appeared that a deal was imminent. Now thats in doubt. Members of congress from both sides of the aisle were in attendance at yesterdays meeting when the president made his controversial remark and so far no comment from any of them. And now the president is up and tweeting, saying, quote, the socalled bipartisan daca deal presented yesterday to myself and a group of republican senators and congressmen was a big step backwards. Wall was not properly funded. Chain and lottery were made worse and the u. S. Would be forced to take large numbers of people from high crime dot, dot, dot, so, george, i have to say this is coming as white house officials have said to me that they still believe that a deal on this is possible and, indeed, likely to happen but this certainly does not look like a president ready to strike a deal. People ive talked to on capitol hill much more pessimistic. Stand by. Well bring in cecilia vega our senior White House Correspondent and matt dowd, we should say we reached out to everyone in that meeting yesterday. No one agreed to come on the show. But, cecilia, first things first, weve seen the bipartisan reaction here in the United States. Democrats and republicans condemning the president , alarm overseas. Reporter and this is what the world woke up to, george. Just, you know, south african Ruling African NationalCongress Called this extremely offensive. Take a look at what the former president of haiti said. He said, quote, totally unacceptable. Uncalled for. Moreover it shows a rack of respect and ignorance never seen before in the recent history of the u. S. By any president. Enough is enough. What is being said at home, blatantly racist, vulgar, unamerican. That is the resounding response of this from both parties right now. Yeah, both parties right now and i have to say as we said were not reporting the word right now. I think thats a mistake. I dont think its right to censure the president or sugar coat it by how he revealed the word and i want to bring that to you right now. This has alarmed so many overseas right now and here in the United States. Youre seeing the kind of reaction we saw in the charlottesville comments by the president. Well, it should alarm everybody. George, everybody in this conversation today, most of the people at the studio today and almost everybody on the other side of this camera is a son or daughter of an immigrant. Im the great great grandson of patrick dowd, an immigrant who came here with no money who same words were used about his country and uses about latinos, asians, the same thing. This is a pointed remark and the only thing i can think of, only one other guy like donald trump who came from queens and its archie bunker and the only difference between the two of them is donald trump is president , has more money, but probably less class than archie bunker. Jon karl, meantime, at this moment there are some in the white house, they havent denied that the president used the word and some even arguing that this may help him. Yeah, privately absolutely no denial whatsoever that the president said exactly this and i got to tell you, george, its striking, a lack of concern by those that we have spoken to at the white house about this. They think its just much ado about nothing and this is the way normal people talk. Its just hes not politically correct. Obviously thats not the reaction youre seeing in the real world. Of course, cecilia, this is not the first time weve heard comments like 24 from the president. Reporter no, day one, mexicans are rapists, among the staunchest supporters of the idea that president obama was not born in this country. The list goes on and on. Poke honor that, my africanamerican, he has called himself 9 least racist person but john hits the nail on the head. This was had behind closed doors and a lot would be embarrassed if Something Like this came out for the world to see for the most part here, the sores were all talking to seem completely unfazed and perhaps are a little happy that the media, they would say, is hypervent lating over a controversy like this one. Matt, unlike with charlottesville, it appears we are not not likely to get a clarification. Where does it go next . Well, thats a good question. I mean as i have a said before, george, donald trump is like wile e. Coyote. Every time you think hell have success he blows himself up. I would suggest to him the next time he goes back to new york, he take the boat ride over to the statue of liberty and read the words which says give me your tired, your poor, your husbandled masses of your teeming shore. Donald trump ought to read those words and take them to heart. On another subject the president making a lot of news late night tweet saying hes canceled his trip to great britain. Reporter yeah, he was supposed to be going next month. This is extraordinary. Hes saying hes not going because he is upset that the new u. S. Embassy in london was too expensive. More than a billion dollars and that the United States did not get enough money selling the old one. So he said he was being invited to cut the ribbon and he will not do that. Okay, jon karl. Thanks very much. Thanks, cecilia and matt. Paula. Quite a remarkable time in politics right now. We do want to move to that winter storm thats on the move. It caused those devastating mudslides in california. It is wreaking havoc on the midwest and now its roaring east with snow, heavy rain and strong winds and, ginger, the dangerous weather spans from texas to maine. Yes, and schools already closed this morning from memphis area up through indianapolis thanks to that pink on the radar or due to that, not thanks to it but look at this. The stretching wind advisories to the flood watches and warnings from connecticut and massachusetts back to texas and alabama. Overnight, weather whiteout. Howling winds at 40 Miles Per Hour. Plus, snow and freezing rain. The cold suck, thats for sure. Reporter this car in missouri losing traction on the inner state swerving across i29 with a fresh 2 to 4 inches doing a full 180 before coming to rest on the shoulder. Its real slippery out there. Reporter vehicles forced off the roads like this car in north dakota. Accidents in chippewa county, wisconsin, and for those still on the streets, a sea of white. Their only view as visibility dropped to near zero. Some needing an extra assist to get going. So what makes this tough is its not just snow from parts of m midmichigan say back through ft. Wayne and into misbut its snow plus ice. When that freezing rain comes down and hits the subfreezing air or surfaces and it freezes on contact and thats when you get that accumulating ice and thats what were concerned about even going into tonight. New york city, heavy rain and thunderstorms, raleigh could hear thunder overnight. The ice then moves east and if you have any travel plans from parts of eastern pennsylvania through interior new england, especially the higher elevations, very icy conditions on your saturday if youre driving around, guys. All right, ginger, we should Pay Attention to any warnings. Thank you very much, michael. Out west, rescue crews are still trying to find the missing in those mudslides. Take a look. Our local station kabc capturing startling before and after immanuals of a neighborhood in montecito, california, and our Senior National correspondent matt gutman is there and, matt, almost the entire city is facing a mandatory Evacuation Order this morning. Reporter thats right, michael. When you see those before and after pictures you can understand why. That order affects 10,000 people basically all of montecito and one of the major reasons for that are hazards. They are everywhere. We found in this morning. Want you to listen. Thats a gas main. It has been spewing gas here for i guess four days and you can tell how sticky this mud is. Most of montecito has become uninhabitable. The major freeway here has been closed down. Obviously theres no gas. Theres no electricity. Theres no water here and the major concern for search and rescue teams are those hazard, pitfalls. This is an affluent community and pools everywhere and spray painted that. The concern is searchers would walk in there and sink up to their necks so they want to clear this area of residents so they can continue to look for the 43 people still believed missing, michael. Matt, so many hidden dangers out there. What can you tell us about the continued search and rescue efforts . Reporter well, technically it is still a search and rescue effort. But practically it has become one of just a recovery effort. There are 17 known victims at this point. They range from the age of 3 to 89. Now, i want you to see the power of these mudslides, what they did to these vehicles on the beach just crushing them into small balls. And when you look at this you can understand why rescuers are saying to folks that theyre not going to be back here for at least two weeks and it could take months to dig out of all this. Michael. All right, thank you, matt. Made those cars look like nothing. So much devastation. We want to turn to the political scandal thats making national headlines. The governor of missouri who is considered to be a rising tar in the republican party, hes under investigation over an extramarital affair and allegations that he threatened his mistress. Abcs david wright is here with the story and, david, the governor has admitted to this affair but denying any criminal wrongdoing in good morning, paul lamp the city of st. Louis is now vowing to thoroughly investigate these allegations which the local prosecutor calls very troubling. The young governor insists he did nothing illegal. But thats not necessarily the relevant benchmark. Missouri governor Eric Greitens, a former navy s. E. A. L. And a rising republican star finds himself in the middle of a sex scandal. But most importantly im a very proud husband and father. Reporter accused of infidelity and blackmail, the married father of two now admits he cheated on his wife, prior to know announcing his run for governor. That admission comes after audio was released this week of a woman describing a sexual encounter she said she had with the politician in 2015. In the audio recorded by her exhusband secretly she claims greitens tied her up and blindfolded her. Quote, i saw a flash through the blindfold and he said, youre never going to mention my name, otherwise, there will be pictures of me everywhere. Governor greitens admits the affair but denies ever taking the picture or trying to blackmail anyone adding, any allegation of violence is completely false. It never happened. Its a human tragedy here, all of this stuff and it makes me sad and sick to hear about these kind of things. Reporter greitens is so ambitious that even before he became americas second youngest governor, he had already set his sights higher buying the internet domain Eric Greitens for president. Com. The choice in this election could not be more clear. Reporter he became a republican just . Time to ride the trump train into the governors mansion. Hes passionate about physical fitness and ran on family values. Playing up his image as a family man. But this sex scandal now overshadows all that. Violence, blackmail, all of that stuff, you know, thats a soap opera. We dont need any more soap operas in our missouri legislative. It caused him political donations and a whole lot of political capital. Many of the National Republicans who have been helping him get this far are now backing away. He was a real rising star. He was. Okay. Thanks, david. Now we are going to go to a major announcement from facebook. If you didnt notice, the overall of your news feed overnight theyre trying to enhance connections with family and friends and our chief business and Technology CorrespondentRebecca Jarvis is here. Billions of users will be affected by these changes. What is facebook actually trying to do. Its happening right now. So facebook is going old school. They are going back to their roots. It is flashback friday but flashback friday 24 7 because they want you to see your friends and family in your feed so theyre focusing on the baby picture, the puppy pics. Posts about your major life events and pushing aside some of that content that we spend more time passively scrolling through in the feed like articles and viral videos from businesses and brands, michael. Trying to condense everything to make it more interesting. And more personal to people. Why are they doing this now . Well, facebook has reached and faced a lot of criticism recently around what theyre doing, around what consuming facebook does to us as people. And theyve been making these changes and mark zuckerberg, the founder and ceo of facebook even talked about this early in the year saying we need to be better for society and we need to think about how were doing things in society. They believe based on their research that interacting with your friends and family and having these personal interacts on facebook can actually be good for your health. Good for your health. Good for your health, facebook. But were not about what could happen. These are happening. They are in process so people waking up this morning we looked at a number of our facebook feeds. Youll see stuff like friends and family, baby pictures and see more of that right away but its also something that will be a work in progress over time. Still throws me off to see my mom on facebook and my friends are like your mom commented to me on facebook. I like that. I dont. Thank you. Want to go to ginger right now. Spring here today in new york but the cold is coming. I was going to say you see gloveless folks out in times schools closed up to michigan, you know the cold is coming. The slips abbey turns on the highway all is from this, nearly 60 degrees in new york city, columbia, South Carolina 72. The cold setses settles in by sunday morning. These are actual air temperatures. Weekend getaway brought to you by carmax. All right, Storm Tracker 6 live double can shows we have rain popping through the region in the south and transitioning to the east and heavier shades of darker green mixed in. Its cloudy out there, some areas could see fog and some areas could be dense. Its patch. Slow it down if you see it. We have periods of rain, some of it could be heavy at times, 64. Temperatures crash overnight and were down in the 30s, freezing rain north and west overnight. Daughters claims of abuse and how shes portrayed in i, tonya. How fast with we recently had a heart attack. But we are not victims. We are survivors. We are survivors. We are survivors. And now we take brilinta. For people whove been hospitalized for a heart attack. We take brilinta with a baby aspirin. No more than one hundred milligrams. As it affects how well brilinta works. 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