[Music] tonight the US Strikes Back us officials confirm that the military has begun a wave of air strikes on Iranian backed militants in Iraq and Syria as retaliation for a deadly attack that killed three US soldiers [Music] Plus as a humanitarian crisis is underway in Gaza a French warship turned field hospital is ushering in the desperately wounded good evening everyone I'm Stephanie Ramos in for lindsy Davis thanks so much for streaming with us we're following those stories and much more inc
luding closing arguments in the unprecedented trial of the mom charged in connection to her son's deadly school shooting prosecut saying his parents did nothing to prevent the tragedy the defense saying parents cannot be held responsible for everything their kids do we didn't just hand him a gun as a here you go son plus he was a football player turned iconic actor with Unforgettable roles in Rocky and the Mandalorian tonight we remember Carl Weathers and from the streets of the Bronx to the Par
is Olympic Games this black history month we are honoring the Pioneers that aided in the evolution of break dance but we begin with breaking news the US military has begun a wave of retaliatory air strikes against Iran bucked militants in the Middle East US military aircraft including B1 bombers flown from the United States struck more than 85 Targets in seven separate locations in Syria and Iraq late this afternoon the White House has vowed to retaliate for the deadly Stone Throne strike that k
illed three American soldiers and wounded at least 47 others at an American base in Jordan last weekend President Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined the families of the Fallen for today's dignified transfer at Dober Air Force Base can Biden strike a balance to send a clear message to the militants but avoid triggering broader fighting in the region we'll get into that in just a moment but first ABC's Mary Bruce at the White House Tonight the powerful retaliation the US had promised unleashin
g a major Counter Strike on ironback militants in Iraq and Syria a direct response to the Drone attack that killed three American soldiers and injured more than 40 on a remote US base in Jordan the US saying the air strikes began at 400 p.m. hitting 85 Targets in seven locations inside Iraq and Syria including command and control operation centers and intelligence hubs taking out Rockets missiles and attack drones belonging to militia groups groups and their Iranian sponsors who facilitated atta
cks against us and Coalition forces the US dropping more than 125 Precision Munitions from multiple aircraft including B1 bombers that flew from the US President Biden tonight saying this is the first wave of a response that will continue at times and places of our choosing and warning the United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world but let all those who might seek to do us harm know this if you harm an American we will respond notably none of today's st
rikes hit Iran directly the president remains concerned not wanting to start a wider War just hours before a powerful reminder of the weight of these decisions the president performing one of his most solemn duties as commander-in-chief witnessing the dignified transfer of the three service members killed in Jordan one by one their flag draped cases carefully carried across the tarmac the president placing his hand over his heart alongside the first lady and defense secretary Austin honoring the
Fallen 46-year-old Sergeant William Jerome Rivers who wanted to serve his country since he was a little boy enlisting at the age of 34 Sergeant Briana Alexandria Moffett following in her mother's footsteps joining the military on her first deployment her mother calling her the their hero and Angel Briana turned 23 just 9 days before she was killed and 24-year-old Sergeant Kennedy Landon Sanders a beloved youth basketball and soccer coach in her hometown of Way Cross Georgia Sanders volunteering
for deployment so she could travel the world the president meeting with their families earlier in the day and tonight the heartbreaking moment that Soldier closing the door the bodies of the Fallen now on their final journey home such a moving and emotional moment there at do Air Force Base let's get right to Mary at the White House Mary what are you learning tonight about how long this retaliation will last and and what's still to come well Stephanie the White House is making it clear that thi
s is just the beginning spokesman John Kirby saying this began tonight but it does not end tonight we expect this to play out over the coming days hitting many more targets now the White House says they believe these strikes were successful that they will degrade and disrupt these militias but again they are emphasizing their goal here is to stop these Relentless attacks on US service members not to start a war with Iran Stephanie Mary Bruce there for us at the White House thank you so much Mary
thank you joining us now is ABC News contributor Colonel Steve ginyard thank you so much for your time big picture what do you make of this round of strikes yeah Stephanie uh obviously the president picked targets here that he felt would not further influ inflame tensions in the region would not bring the US in a direct confrontation with uh with Iran and the question now will be is is it enough is it enough to stop the uh the strikes on US service personnel and these remote outposts uh I think
we can also expect in the coming days uh if not hours to see strikes on the houthis in Yemen so the the way that the president picked targets here it was intended to at least deter those uh militia inside of Iraq and and Syria from going after US troops and not inflaming the situation further yeah and let's see if that holds what do you think is the best case scenario and and worst case scenario best case is probably that these militias stop attacking US troops I mean we've seen that they've ma
de public declarations uh within Iraq that they will not will not do this anymore we've seen uh reporting that the irgc has moved out most of their headquarters and some of their senior folks have been moved out of Syria uh and out of uh Iraq so that would be best case if they took the took the message the president was trying to send here by uh understanding that they are not going to tolerate attacks on US troops any any longer uh worst case would be that this would lead to further attacks and
it would re lead to further us retaliation so at this point the US is sort of playing whack-a-mole but hoping that these strikes just tonight were which were so uh so much more uh in number and more targets were hit that uh that this will stop the attacks on US troops yeah we'll see if that message was received Colonel ganard as an army reservist I know the American Military always has targets always has a good sense of where militia groups are around the world and their activity would you agre
e this strike didn't take long to plan uh I think it took a couple days Stephanie and remember that the White House signaled that there would be some sort of Retribution they said very publicly that they were going to hold Iran responsible for these attacks because they were uh supporting the groups that are actually conducting the attacks but I also think that that gave the Iranian militias and some of the irgc time to leave uh the areas where we knew that they were operating and so what happen
ed is you had a couple days where these troops would disperse which made it much harder on those uh on the intelligence side who were T who were looking to be able to Target these groups appropriately so we sort of gave them a couple days to get away and move their position uh it will be uh interesting when daylight comes to see whether these attacks were in fact successful and whether they were just hitting empty areas absolutely Colonel Steve Gard T us thank you so much for your time really ap
preciate your insights thanks Stephanie next night closing arguments have ended in the unprecedented trial of Michigan mother Jennifer Crumbley the first parent to be charged in a child's deadly school shooting Crumbley was on the witness stand again today the prosecutor grilling her on what she did and did not do to prevent her son's attack we'll have legal analysis in just a moment but first ABC's Trevor alt has the story from the courthouse tonight the fate of the first parent on trial for th
e their child's deadly school shooting will soon be in the hands of a jury Jennifer Crumbley charged with those four unprecedented counts of involuntary manslaughter the prosecution claiming she was too wrapped up in her own hobbies and extramarital Affairs to pay attention to her son's cries for help she has done the unthinkable and because of that four kids have died in their closing argument prosecutors telling the jury this case is about what crumbly knew and did not do she walked out of tha
t school when just the smallest smallest of things could have saved could have helped hanana and Tate and Madison and Justin the first thing I want to do crumb's defense attorney countering claiming the prosecution Cherry Picked evidence to turn the jury against her slamming piles of pages on the podium you don't have to like her it's important to set aside your opinions of her the defense arguing this case is very dangerous for parents in this country saying Crumbley was a hypervigilant mother
but her son was a skilled manipulator at this point in the trial I am asking that you find Jennifer Crumbley not guilty not just for Jennifer Crumbley but for every mother who's out there doing the best they can who could easily be in her shoes and Steph the jury will be back here Monday morning they'll be given instruction on the charges and then they'll deliberate Jennifer crumble already spent 2 years in jail if she's convicted she could face up to 15 years in prison for each count Stephanie
thank you so much Trevor let's bring in Kimberly Wy a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and ABC News contributor Kim thank you for joining us tonight what is your takeaway from the prosecution's questioning today well they got to what we expected which is essentially to paint her as not just a reg a negligent mother mother but a recklessly negligent grossly negligent mother to the point where she caused these deaths Stephanie that's the big thing here this is not just about
child neglect this is is she responsible for those four uh murders really by her son that but for her actions those people would still be alive today that's a big stretch frankly for the prosecution which makes this such a landmark case across the country when we're all reeling uh and numb frankly from such a scourge of gun violence over the years certainly are now this case is in the jury's hands now what will they need to consider well again the standards Beyond a reasonable doubt we're talkin
g about Liberty here we're talking about someone going to jail for many many years and so they're going to have to say uh ask themselves as the defense said is this something the mother could have prevented teenagers can be difficult you know she was doing her best maybe not the best mother ever um but was she so negligent that she should be put in prison for these deaths uh and I think for the defenser have to worry that the jury's just not sympathetic to her and they could say you know she he
shouldn't have a gun you should have gotten him some mental health support and when she testified that in hindsight she wouldn't have done anything differently I you know I think that that maybe ra could have raised some questions in the juror's mind as to whether that's realistic when there are four people again children that are that are dead and Kim what about the father his trial is set for March could his trial kind of play out the same way sure I think part of the defense here was to point
to the father as the one responsible for the guns now just to be clear you nothing here is illegal about the guns he legally owned the gun uh the family owned the gun there wasn't any allegations here that under Michigan law uh they violated the law and so the bigger question for both of these defendants is really should it be parents that are held responsible for this problem or it should be the legislators who don't put in place uh protections for the public but she's going you know the defen
se in the second trial for the dad is going to have to get over this idea that he was um encouraging or negligent around giving him the gun training him on the gun making sure he didn't abuse the gun knowing that this kid was in some level of Crisis because as a Prosecuting prosecution demonstrated it was all over his personal notebooks and the school was concerned that he was going to take some some serious action but we've seen this before again uh Stephanie we've seen this before so this is a
watershed moment it's a liability now going to be shifting to parents to control uh their children when we're a wash in guns in this country all right Kim we'll see what happens whatever the verdict is this is certainly setting a precedent thank you so much for your time thank you now to the life-threatening storm on the way to California the second in a row fueled by an atmospheric river that first storm is now moving East after bringing record daily rainfall in Long Beach flood waters sweepin
g away cars now Santa Barbara and Los Angeles bracing to be the hardest hit ABC's senior meteorologist Rob Marciano is tracking it all for us tonight hey there Rob what more can you tell us well both of these storms Stephanie are really bringing Coast to Coast impacts that first one is now entering Texas it's brought heavy snow to the Rockies and now the severe weather and the storms are bubbling up across parts of Texas tonight uh between Dallas and Houston then on down I 10 on I20 during the o
vernight and through tomorrow Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia and then California those three states really during the day on Sunday going to be quite a mass not with just with damaging winds potentially and heavy potentially flooding rain there while that's coming down to the east what's coming ashore is the next wave and high wind warnings are up winter storm warnings and flood watches are back up with this next atmospheric River making landfall if you will Sun Sunday uh morning across N
orthern California look at a push of moisture more flooding rain coming in there the central coast and then eventually the southern coast late in the day after the front comes through heavy convective showers will only add to the rainfall and because of that we're looking at the potential of 6 to 12 inches of rain in some of the mountainous areas across Central and Southern California right on the coast there and because of that the National Weather Service is saying there's a pretty good likeli
hood of seeing some life-threatening flash floods and mudslides for a huge trunk of the the the California coastline in the Hills there Sunday Monday maybe even into Tuesday high impact storm Stephanie that's a lot to watch Rob thanks so much district attorney funny Willis the Georgia prosecutor who has charged Donald Trump with election interference acknowledging a personal relationship with a lawyer she hired but Willis argued there is no reason to disqualify her or her office from the case he
re's ABC's senior investigative reporter Aaron kerki tonight after weeks of mounting questions Fulton County district attorney fonny Willis acknowledging a romantic relationship with a special prosecutor she hired to lead her case against Donald Trump but in a new court filing Willis insists her relationship with that prosecutor Nathan Wade does not amount to a disqualifying conflict of interest requiring her to recuse herself Trump and two of his codefendants have accused Willis of improperly b
enefiting from hiring Wade who has been paid $650,000 over two years the district attorney is totally compromised the case has to be in church last month Willis suggested Wade was only under scrutiny because he's black I appointed Three Special counsel is my right to do paid them all the same hourly rate they only attacked one but at the time Willis did not acknowledge their romance today she did her Court filing included an affidavit from Wade confirming they developed a personal relationship i
n 2022 after he was hired Trump and his two codefendants claim Willis benefited from the money her office paid Wade saying he had taken her on lavish vacations but today Wade insisting the district attorney received no funds or personal financial gain from my position as special prosecutor Ain kki joins us now Aaron what would happen if Willis was disqualified it would throw the future of the case against Donald Trump and his codefendants into chaos if somehow fonny Willis is disqualified a stat
e agency made up of prosecutors would likely assign the case to a different a who is under no obligation to actually go forward so it would likely mean a big delay at the very least so far though there's no sense that Willis is going to be disqualified and no sign she would end up recusing herself on her own Stephanie we will wait to see what happens Aaron thank you so much the judge overseeing former president Donald Trump's federal election interference trial has formally postponed the trial w
as originally set for Mark March the US District judge says she will set a new schedule for the case after an appeals court resolves the question of Trump's presidential immunity a three-judge panel in the Washington DC court of appeals is currently weighing Trump's efforts to dismiss his federal election interference case based on his claim that he has absolute immunity from prosecution for actions taken while serving as president a deadly plane crash in Florida right into a home outside of Tam
pa two people inside were killed as well as the pilot whose reported engine failure just beforehand ABC's Victor okendo is on the scene tonight dramatic video capturing this deadly Inferno after authorities in Florida say a small aircraft slammed into a mobile home park just west of Tampa killing the pilot and two people inside a house plane just crashed into a a building here police revealing shortly before the crash as many as nine people were inside that mobile home all of them leaving the re
sidents except the two killed the plane leaving Vero Beach for Clear Water around 600 p.m. Thursday the FAA says an hour later the pilot alone in the single- engine beachcraft Bonanza v35 reported an engine failure he was having a mayday mayday mayday tonight new CCTV video obtained by ABC News showing the aircraft as it plunged to the ground and moments later the fiery aftermath flames and thick orange smoke filling the night sky as firefighters raced to the scene to extinguish the blaze one ho
use engulfed three other homes also damaged today neighbors stunned could be anyone of us I cannot get over you know my husband and I were like in shock the NTSB and FAA are investigating tonight the chief of police says that their thoughts are with the three victims and their families and that this tragedy could have been even worse Stephanie such a tragic scene Victor thank you senators from both parties are signaling they have reached a deal on the border something we haven't seen in many yea
rs ABC's Rachel Scott is on Capitol Hill and Rachel we could see the details this weekend yeah we could see the details as soon as this weekend this is a long awaited compromise from Democrats and Republicans in the Senate it's the first time they've actually reached a deal in over a decade on border security and immigration so the final legislation could be released this weekend and the sen does want to move quickly on this with votes expected next week but it does face major challenges ahead i
n the house we know Donald Trump who wants to run on the issue of immigration in November he has been personally urging Republicans to vote against this compromise before they even have a chance to read the details of the bill and so tonight you have the leading Republican negotiators in the Senate they are urging their colleagues to wait to read this legislation before they decide how they will vote Stephanie we will see what that deal includes Rachel thanks so much the the nation's employers d
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tonight weather's family announcing he died in his sleep saying he was an exceptional human being who lived an extraordinary life he has left an inable Mark in is recognized worldwide and across Generations as a friend Carl Weathers remember tonight stand by my side this one last time certainly an exceptional person still much more to get to here on Prime coming up the growing concern about power steering losses in recent Teslas and what US Regulators are doing about it but next in our Prime Fo
cus aboard a hospital ship just off the coast of Gaza veteran military doctors share with aness delara how this war is different from any they've seen the first time I see this in in our context that there's a systematic attack on the Healthcare System I spent a night in each of the hospitals and you can you can hear the fighting very close you can you can hear the world shaking whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in
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a French military hospital ship docked near Egypt and is treating the critically wounded many of them children many of those children dealing with amputations ABC's anest delara was given rare access to the hospital ship and takes us on board in tonight's Prime Focus we do want to warn you some of these images are difficult to [Applause] watch the cries of children ringing out one calling for his mother Medics rushing to treat the wounded working to help save lives but in this unprecedented War
this is a hospital unlike any other just a few miles from the Gaza Border in Egypt's heavily restricted Sinai region we were given rare access to visit the de smood a French warship turned into a field hospital to treat some of gaza's most seriously wounded it's here we meet patients like 8-year-old Abdullah injured in the thigh and arm 16-year-old Ahmed who would shrapnel in his knee and Abdul Rahman also just 16 years old he was critically injured in the leg and head when he says an Israeli s
trike hit his home on Christmas Eve he survived the rest of his family did not over 27,000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war but nearly three times that number have been injured according to the Hamas run Health Ministry The War Began after hamas's October 7th attack in Israel killed 1200 people mostly civilians and about 250 people were taken hostage according to Israeli authorities very few Palestinians have been allowed to leave Gaza for treatment according to Egypt
ian officials just a few dozen [Music] daily [Music] doctors telling us half of the patients they've treated are kids one and two are amputees often because of infected [Music] wounds the infection is like uh when we were in Nasser like 50% of the patient got infected wounds so the majority of them uh and then it's very difficult to treat especially when the infection reach the bones it's it's it's extremely difficult to treat and we don't have the capacity so we lose patients uh we lose patient
like this we're shown the various facilities set up aboard the de mood Burns board a resuscitation room a whiteboard outside the two operating rooms lists recent patients all of them are miners okay so he's saying this is used to uh scan people as they come in and they're trying to make sure that there are no uh hidden wounds that that we can't see many also suffer from PTSD they report having nightmares and reliving horrific scenes after first being treated here some of the patients who are th
e most critically wounded and might need additional care are then loaded onto these helicopters and you can see this one here has been outfitted with a stretcher it has all sorts of medical equipment on board and the patients are then ear lifted to Cairo hospitals you have a a medical team that is sitting here taking care of the Wounded but these Valiant efforts just a drop in the ocean the vast majority of injured Palestinians in Gaza treated in what Doctors Without Borders describes as catastr
ophic conditions majorities women and children and then you ask how come it's a war it should be uh there should be much more man in edge of combat because normally the war is is between soldiers we meet the group's head of Palestine Mission Leo K in Cairo having just returned from two weeks in Gaza he describes overcrowded and understaffed hospitals in dire need of medical supplies patients treated on the floor no anesthetics to ease their pain you can hear people screaming everywhere because a
ll this dressing requires in normal time you will do it under anes you will put them to sleep and you will change the dressing especially for the burns beyond that he says the communications blackout means injured Palestinians often can't call for an ambulance while the fighting near hospitals and the recent storming of the alifa hospital by Israeli forces means both patients and healthcare workers fear approaching which should be a safe haven the IDF has said it is only targeting Hamas accusing
the group of deliberately using civilians as human Shields and hospitals to launch operations from which Hamas denies us intelligence has backed Israel's claims that Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups are using hospitals in the Gaza Strip and other medical facilities for military activities and holding hostages uh it's the first time I see this in in our context that there's a systematic attack on the Healthcare System I spend a night in each of the hospitals and you can you can hear t
he fighting very close you can you can hear the wall Shak Naser itself hasn't been targeted by an a strike but all the vicinity of Naser is targeted and people are scared so people leave people getting out or in and this is why they buried bodies inside n hospital yesterday and before yesterday there's a cemetery just 100 meters away from the hospital but people are too scared to walk to the cemetery and currently Naser is full of patient which are critical patients running with 20% of the medic
al staff so I let to imagine how it's impossible for the patients to uh to to recover uh and we expect that many of them will die because of this because they don't have the proper the proper Health Care back on the de mood patients pleading for the war to [Music] [Music] end [Music] Abdul Rahman won't be able to walk for another four to 6 months and he's got a long road to recovery ahead but says he looks forward to going back to Gaza once he's [Music] healed the bodies of his mom and grandfath
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safety information difficult to read which could increase the risk of a crash vehicles with the problem are going to get a free over-the-air software update almost every model is affected the S the X the 2017 through 23 model 3 the Y and the Cyber truck the FDA met today to address the growing evidence of racial disparities in pulse oximeter performance research has shown the devices which help monitor a patient's blood oxygen levels give less accurate readings and patients of color running the
risk of missing low blood oxygen levels in those patients an FDA panel gives a series of recommendations including improving subjective and objective assessment of skin pigmentation including self-reported race and ethnicities and clinical studies and tightening accuracy in the readings as much as possible a Children's Hospital in Chicago says it's investigating a cyber security matter amid an ongoing Network outage that has impacted phones email and internet services Lorie Children's Hospital s
ays the outage has impacted its main hospital as well as its outpatient centers and primary care offices WLS reports that emergency services have not been impacted but that some elective surgeries and procedures had to be cancelled lur said it was working with law enforcement to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and was establishing a call center to address the needs of its patients families and Community providers thousands of people in Connecticut may be in line for a financial Lifesave
r under a program being rolled out by Governor Ned Lamont the new initiative will eliminate more than $1 billion dollar in medical debt for Connecticut residents lamad telling ABC news that many are saddled with huge medical bills through no fault of their own this is not something they did because they were spending too much money this is something because they got hit with a medical emergency the program will primarily Target families or residents below the poverty line and those whose medical
debt payments are more than 5% of their annual income a team of marine inspectors from the Coast Guard made a wild Discovery at the Port of Houston recently members of the Coast Guard Sector Houston Galviston heard barking and scratching from a shipping container in a stack only to discover a dog that has been trapped inside for at least a week the Coast Guard said the dog Connie was taken to an animal shelter for care and is now safe and sound he's the owl that's been flying around New York Ci
ty for a whole year the story of Flo has captivated New Yorkers since he was let out of his enclosure in 2023 ABC's Denny new has this story that it's a bird it's a plane it's oh it's an actual bird but a world famous one that you can't usually find in North America well right now A group of dedicated bird lovers are trying to get an owl back to its home it was one year ago today that the legend of Flo was born when a group of vandals left a hole in his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo at first
authorities tried to get the Eurasian eagle owl back but One does not simply capture the mighty Flo he's got a near six foot wingspan can fly more than 30 m an hour and despite spending his first 13 years in captivity has a knack for the hunt do you think that it helps that of all places he's in the city with rats oh it absolutely helps so what's so remarkable is that Flo picked up this intricate skill on his own David Barrett here runs a page on X called Manhattan bird alert and updates it eve
ry day with sightings of Flo he's just so so beautiful frequently folks around New York will find Flo on their window sill and photographers often Gather in Central Park to try and capture this rare magnificent bird enjoying some oh my gosh damn since fla was proven to clearly be flying around and finding food just fine the zoo has since called off the search but said it would be monitoring him but a year later here we are this video is from last night and if New York City has a rat population p
roblem so bad it even hired a rat Zar is Flo the real rodent eating superhero our city needed he's a superhero for sure hope you got a good look if you're in New York City look out for Flo he's out here living his best life our thanks to Danny new moving on now to a really cool series on the surface Echo a Marvel series on Disney plus is about a deaf teen who returns to her hometown where she comes to terms with her past and connecting with her Native American Roots behind the scenes indigenous
people like director Sydney Freeland are leading the storytelling creating more representation earlier this week I sat down with actress Dee Jacobs who plays Bonnie the cousin of the lead character who's on her own Journey as well sweet all right so Echo it is so historic on so many levels the series features the first Marvel show centered on a deaf Native American amputee superhero I've never seen anything like [Music] this how does it feel to be a part of something so special it feels really i
ncredible I mean I've been a fan of the MCU for like so many years and and have always wanted to be a part of it and then to be able to be in a show like Ekko working with a loac Cox who has become a legend in her own right is honestly great and even though it is about like a deaf indigenous amputee that like even though we might look like we're checking these boxes I think ultimately the series is really about family and is a a gritty crime Noir family drama and and is ultimately just like a re
ally good story when you first found out that you got this role what was your reaction what went through your mind oh my gosh I mean it was like I really wanted it and it was a really long process to get it uh I think it was kind of like a typical process of the MCU where even though the character I play at Bonnie is fictitious and she wasn't in the comic books prior to it and so there were auditions and the added element of learning ASL on top of it and making sure that I was able to sign some
scenes with aqua and make sure that we had good chemistry and really read as these as these cousins who are so close that they're more like sisters that's really awesome so you mentioned your character Bonnie tell us a little bit more about her Bonnie is really full of heart she is so incredibly close with Maya Lopez and when Maya's ripped away to New York City Bonnie is heartbroken she's lost her cousin and when Maya comes back into town the version of Maya that Bonnie sees in front of her isn'
t necessarily recognizable she's somebody who isn't the light-hearted cousin she knew she's a killer she is someone who is now wanting to be Queen pin and so I think there's a lot of Reckoning for Bonnie happening and and a lot of mourning who her cousin was but also reminding her and and bringing her back into the community and what family and unconditional love really looks like yeah we could definitely see it so in the series there are indigenous people in front of the camera and also behind
the scenes how important was that to have that type of environment on set it was incredible to be able to have a project like that I mean I come from an indie film Sydney Freeland comes from an indie film I think so many of the people behind the camera some of the writers we are all from our communities and never thought we would have an opportunity to have a project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and and so yeah just being able to look around especially on the historic sets with like the firs
t CH tooman chafa or with Lok in the in the stickball scenes and and getting to see native people yes in front of the lands and as actors but also as creatives was was something that just made it feel that much more special and meaningful especially since we did it in collaboration with the cha nation and and made sure we were telling the story in tandem with them every step of the way it really makes a difference from taking it from the idea of what it means to be a native person to really us t
elling our own stories and and aspects from our own communities and cultures and and I think that's really beautiful so lle Gladstone just made history as the first Native American actress I'm sure you're aware and only fourth indigenous actress ever to be nominated for an Oscar when you hear that what does that mean to you I mean I think it's too F I think hearing that she's only the first Native American actress to be nominated for best actress makes me feel infuriated because I'm like we've h
ad so many talented actresses out there that like it's only now happening in 2024 that's like that's an outrage but also at the same time I couldn't be happier for Lily and also for the black feet community and for the oage nation I think that it's about damn time not that you're not busy at all but I I know you're you're in high demand you're you're doing a lot but what's next so what's next I have a movie coming out in the spring I had a film Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
last year it's called backspot and I've been working on that film for over six years now as a producer and I had a chance to film it last year it's a queer dramatic cheerleading film I act opposite Evan Rachel Wood in it and it's executive produced by Elliot paage and his production company Paige Boy Productions I used to be like a provincial champion gymnast which a lot of people don't know about me and I haven't really had a chance to explore physical roles like that or the character that I p
lay in backspot uh named Riley and a backspot by the way is like the bottom of the pyramid usually when people think about cheerleading they think about the flyer and the woman who's being lifted in the air and people don't think about who like the bases are who's the foundation of it and so we we kind of flip that on its head back spot in the spring come back come back and see us yes well congratulations on absolutely everything that you're doing you're doing a phenomenal job in representing a
community that needs that type of representation so kudos to you awesome thank you so much for having me so lovely to meet Dey our thanks to her for sharing her story you can stream the limited series echo on Disney plus as we kick off Black History Month we're celebrating the history of break dancing going mainstream 40 years ago breaking is now making its debut as an Olympic sport ABC's DeMarco Morgan has the story of its Evolution born and bred in the Bronx breaking or break dancing is one of
the pillars of hip-hop in the 70s this new style of dance was booming in New York City's predominantly Black and Hispanic Community Tony Mr wave Wesley is one of breaking's pioneers actually I started watching it in the 70s when I saw my Michael Jackson doing the robot and dance the dancing machine Tony remembers when breaket exploded on some of the city's toughest streets Webster projects was a very very dangerous project but when they played the music and they brought out their speakers it wa
s just calm everybody was drawn to the music legendary Crews like the Rock Steady Crew Dynamic rockers and Tony's crew the New York City Breakers helped breaking become big in 1984 and hit films like breaking that's good and beat street what I learned to do is not just wave but I learned to wave and vibrate at the same time and then I just go all the way down and come all the way back up today B boys and be girls are breaking all over the world I can tell you this about breaking the reason why i
t is global and in every city every just about every country you don't need need money you don't need to buy microphones what you need is willpower understanding of the dance and discipline and this August B boys and be girls will be going for the gold when breaking makes its debut on the biggest stage of them allall the Olympics in Paris this is Major for breaking and Hip-Hop in general because coming from nothing to being on a huge stage like the Olympics is like nobody could expect it one of
the leading hopefuls to make team USA's Olympic Squad Jeffrey Lewis AKA B boy jeffro Olympics was never on my mind when I started breaking I started breaking Just For the Love of it and the freedom of movement for jeffro being a b boy is more than just head spin and jaw-dropping mood it's one of those Sports where there's a lot of culture involved so you have to learn the cultural side of things too and for Tony watching young breakers like jeffro he says breaking's in good hands there you go oh
we had a whole lot of flavor and that respect is mutual he's so fluid in it like he looks like water that's pretty crazy he's the only one that's that's styled out Tony has this message for Team USA I would tell them absorb the moment understand where you're at and why and take a step back and gain insight and then take that insight help the youth in Breaking we have a model that's called Each one teach one so what was given to me I'm giv back to others and hopefully they give it back to the [M
usic] [Applause] next from dancing to a sport Breg dancing has really transcended so many generations our thanks to DeMarco Morgan for that story that's our show for tonight I'm Stephanie Ramos ABC News live is here for you all night with the latest news context and Analysis you can always find us on Hulu as well Roku Pluto TV and the ABC News app and of course abcnews.com have a good [Music] one
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