B and FAA are investigating now to the race for the White House and angry protesters confronting President Biden it came as he visited the crucial swing state of Michigan trying to convince voters that the economy is looking up as we await the monthly jobs report this morning ABC's M win is in Washington with more M good morning good morning Allison the tensions surrounding Biden's visit to Michigan highlights the big challenge for his campaign in a state he won last time by only 3% President Bi
den was met by Pro Palestinian protesters the moment he landed in Michigan a key Battleground State home to the largest Arab American community in the US b b what do you say protesters gathered last night in a parking lot across the street from Biden's rally waving free Palestine flag earlier protesters even facing off with police in riot gear the White House says senior Administration officials will travel to Michigan later this month to hear from Arab Community leaders angry over Biden's suppo
rt for Israel in its war against Hamas meanwhile Biden met with Auto Workers yesterday touting his record on the economy we now have in large part because of you and organized labor the strongest economy in the whole damn world we do we do in the whole world inflation's coming down but a new National poll shows Biden losing to former president Trump 49 to 45% the Gap grows even wider in a potential matchup with Nikki Haley and Biden faces more challenges on Capitol Hill the house passed a tax cu
t bill this week with bipartisan support but it faces opposition in the Senate Republican senator Chuck Grassley says he won't support the bill because it would make Biden look good and a bipartisan deal to address the Border crisis is being finalized in the Senate but is Dead on Arrival in the house according to speaker Mike Johnson even though the text of the bill hasn't been released yet and the text of the bill could be released as soon as today Andrew right we'll keep an eye on it m thank y
ou defense secretary Lloyd Austin has apologized for how he handled his prostate cancer diagnosis keeping his condition and hospitalization a secret from the president and the public he tried to explain his actions to reporters yesterday I was being treated for prostate cancer the news shook me and I know that it shakes so many others especially in the black community it was a gut punch and frankly my first instinct was to keep it private one in eight American men will get prostate cancer one in
six black men will get it so you can count on me to set a better example on this issue today and for the rest of my life Austin's actions are under investigation on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon we turn now to Jennifer Crumley the woman whose son fatally shot four students at its Michigan high school she's on trial for manslaughter accused of ignoring her son's pleas for help she took the stand yesterday and said there's nothing she would have done differently here's ABC's Andrea for G Jenni
fer Crumbley the first mother in the US to be charged in a school shooting committed by a child took the stand and defended her parenting skills you never would think you have to protect your child from harming somebody else that's what that's what blew my mind I just that was the hardest thing I had to to stomach is that my child harmed and killed other people she and her husband are accused of making a gun accessible at their home and ignoring their son Ethan's mental health needs but Crumbley
says she didn't think her son needed help to despite the prosecution pointing to Ethan's Journal which included entries like my parents don't listen to me and I have zero help from my mental health problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school did you ever believe that your son needed mental health treatment therapy counseling anything no I mean there's a couple of times where Ethan expressed anxiety over taking test um anxiety about what he was going to do after high school whether it wa
s colle uh military so he expressed those those concerns to me um but not not to a level where I felt he needed to go see a psychiatrist did you ever deny him or say no I'm not going to take you to a mental health professional did he ever ask you no Crumbley denied having a role in buying or storing the gun and shifted responsibility to her husband adding I don't think I'm a failure as a parent the day of the shooting staff at the school met with the crumes and were shown a picture Ethan had dra
wn of a gun with the words the thoughts won't stop help me the world is dead my life is useless his parents declined to take him home that day Crumbley says she thought it would be better for him to stay at school he later used a gun from his backpack to fire at students I've asked myself if I would have done anything differently and I wouldn't enough if you could change what happened would you oh absolutely I wish he would have killed us instead prosecutors will cross-examine Jennifer Crumley t
his morning her husband goes on trial next month Andrew Allison Andrea thank you turning now to the weather California is preparing for another big storm this weekend officials open the Waterway to this Dam north of Sacramento trying to limit flood damage and in Southern California flooding closed some roads especially around Long Beach let's check your Friday forecast good morning our Southwestern storm is making progress East and we're going to see some Gusty strong thunderstorms in Oklahoma a
nd Texas late Friday afternoon into the evening at night those storms move East through the Gulf Coast and by Sunday we'll have some disruptive thunderstorms in Florida but then we turn our attention back to the Southwest look at this another stronger storm moves into California and the West late Saturday night through Sunday and into Monday we're going to see between 8 and 12 Ines of rain in the Foothills north of LA and multiple feet of snow in the ER I'm meteorologist Jeff [Music] Cornish com
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fish founder Darius Rucker has been arrested police near Nashville say the singer was booked on misdemeanor drug possession charges it's unclear what led to the arrest but Rucker was also cited for expired registration suggesting he was pulled over by police new details overnight about the group of migrants accused in a vicious attack on police officers in New York's Times Square some of the suspects released without bail authorities in New York are searching for more suspects most believed to b
e Asylum seekers in connection with this attack on two New York City police officers the officers were patrolling outside a migrant shelter when a scuffle broke out the group of migrants Kicking and punching the officers running off with their phones reprehensible cowards you want to know why our cops are getting assaulted there's no consequences and we must change this end of story six people have been arrested but police believe at least 13 were involved New York's governor was asked whether t
he suspects should be deported get them all and send them back we don't you don't touch our police officers we don't touch anybody and this morning outrage growing over why several of the suspects were set free without bail authorities are investigating whether four of them then hopped a bus to California using fake names the New York mayor's office Furious this is an absolute Abomination but they should not be back out on the street based upon what they did the city has struggled to cope with t
he arrival of nearly 200,000 Asylum seekers in the last 2 years police say arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 migrants for various crimes but activists warn against penalizing an entire population of migrants legally in the US seeking Asylum the officers were not seriously injured in that attack All-Star tight end for Baltimore Ravens is being hailed a hero for his actions on a cross country flight Mark Andrews was flying to Phoenix when other passenger suffered a medical emergen
cy a doctor and nurse tried to help and Andrews who has diabetes offered his testing kit suggesting her blood sugar might be low and it was and she recovered in time to walk off the flight Andrews called the flight crew the doctor and the nurse the real heroes absolutely coming up a big city power outage blamed on what else a raccoon also ahead one year later we hear from people still afraid to return to their homes after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine oh IO the clock is ticking th
at urgent search for those five people on board the missing submersible carrying tourists to the wreckage of the Titanic what happened to the submersible Titanic still fascinates people today what is the lesson of Titanic listen to the warning it was almost as if the Titanic claimed five more victims was there any warning before the submersible actually imploded fatal dive to the Titanic Thursday night at 87 Central on ABC Whenever Wherever news breaks it's so important to always remember that l
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sands were in the dark and now we know why officials say a raccoon made contact with some equipment at a power station the outage lasted 3 hours the CDC has issued a critical warning about a highly addictive supplement known as gas station heroin its real name is Neptune's fix and it's now being recalled doctors say it may be contam contaminated with chemicals found in synthetic cannabis which have been linked to hallucinations seizures and brain swelling lawmakers have called for a Crackdown bu
t the FDA does not regulate dietary supplements tomorrow marks one year since the toxic train derailment in East palistine Ohio which forced the evacuation of thousands of people as President Biden prepares to visit this month ABC's Alex bche spoke with residents afraid to return 12 months later this morning investigators releasing new images of the balls of fire erupting after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine Ohio one year ago tomorrow days after the crash the rai
l operator Northfolk Southern conducted a controlled release of vinyl chloride a cancer causing toxin from five of the rail cars hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes and now one year later many are still afraid to return I don't feel comfortable going back home I'm still hearing all the people that went back home that regret going back home dozens of families were relocated to hotels paid for by Norfolk Southern but that program runs out next week the EPA insists the air and t
ap water is safe but some residents aren't buying it now I've had a migraine almost the entire duration since the derailment Christa Graves lives just over a mile from the derailment site she says the smell of chemicals still permeates her home and says she recently found chemical Sheen in her basement and then there's Wayne and laal Connell after the derailment they both tested positive for vinyl chloride Weeks Later Wayne was diagnosed with breast cancer Wayne do you think your breast cancer i
s linked to that derailment I can't say for sure but it seems awful coincidental since the derailment Norfolk Southern says it's invested more than aund million in the local economy including millions in direct payments and beautification projects the railroad operator and the EPA have also collected 45,000 samples and insist the town is safe I I very much feel confident this area is safe um I can tell you I've been here from you know the the very beginning here and I'm not having issues but des
pite these measures there's also frustration here at a lack of action in Washington to pass new rail safety measures I'm angry towns have been wiped off the map for less than this Alex pet ABC News East Palestine Ohio Alex thank you the NTSB says the derailment was caused by an overheated wheel bearing at Advocates also cite a lack of safety features like sensors and say more workers are needed on large trains to something lighter coming up why you should include shrimp at your Super Bowl party
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[Music] time to check the pulse beginning with your Super Bowl menu what's on it and how much is it going to cost some snack prices are slightly higher than last year but not shrimp so you may want to serve up a big platter now that prices are down 6% thanks to an over Supply shrimp for everybody all right how about another Thrifty known option at Super Bowl parties chicken wings both the fresh and frozen variety are a big bargain compared to last year but you'll have to dig deeper for chips the
y cost at least 5% more this year o bummer next the luckiest teachers in America 30 current and former staffers from a middle school in Kentucky won a million dollars in the Powerball lottery the group has been pulling money together for years 14 years and they've been playing the same numbers they bought the winning ticket at Kroger and one member of the group found a creative spot to hide the ticket until they were ready to claim the prize I thought if somebody breaks and they are not going to
pick up a math bom yeah you play the lottery knowing you have a chance and then when it happens you think there's no way this is true split 30 ways they each got about $24,000 after taxes not a bad Bounty next it's Apple's first entirely new product in a decade the much anticipated Vision Pro headset goes on sale today Apple says it's compatible with more than a million apps One reviewer said using the $3500 device is like swiping around on your iPhone if your iPhone was strapped to your face i
n apple executive spoke to our Will Reeve about customers being able to try it out in a few dozen Apple Stores the best part about giving these demos is watching those reactions and I will say it's awe it's Wonder uh sometimes we' had some people cry it is a really transformational experience see how close you get more than 200,000 headsets have reportedly been sold since pre-orders began 2 weeks ago and finally want to know how long your dog will live take a look at his or her nose a new study
finds a long nose could mean a longer life for your Pooch British researchers found breeds with flatter faces had a shorter life expectancy than those with longer snells they not sure why but they say some breed related differences may play a role top headlines next it's lunchtime in America so what are we serving up well how about everything you need to know you know that sounds pretty good your health your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends and of course good f
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Hulu checking more top stories authorities say several people were killed last night when a small plane crashed into this mobile home park in Clearwater Florida they did not offer a specific number of victims the FAA says the pilot had reported engine failure prosecutors in New York are considering a perjury charge against Donald Trump's former Finance Chief they believe Alan weiselberg may have lied during testimony linked to the Civil fraud case against the former president weiselberg is on pr
obation after serving time for tax evasion an advertising agency will pay $350 million to settle a lawsuit over its marketing of Oxycontin and other opioids critics say publist health Bear some responsibility for the crisis which has killed thousands of people much of the money will pay for programs to fight the opioid epidemic today's weather showers on the west coast but heavier rain for the Southwest snow in the Rockies storms in Texas and Oklahoma but warm in the Midwest and finally my favor
ite story The Owl flying around New York for an entire year Danny new has the story of Flo 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 while 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 every day with sightings of Flo he's just so so beau
tiful 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 since fla has 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 if New York City has a rat population problem so bad and even hired a rat Zar is Flo the r
eal rodent eating superhero our city needed he's a superhero for sure guys one recent estimate claimed that there are about three million rats in New York City and there's only one bird for the job guys there he is have a great day and a great [Music] weekend right now on America this morning a plane crashes slamming into this mobile home park in Florida The Inferno spreading through several homes multiple people killed we'll hear from Witnesses President Biden facing protesters in Michigan angr
y over his support for Israel in its war with Hamas Biden's message as new polls show him trailing Donald Trump and Nikki Haley the mother of the boy who fatally shot four students at his High School takes the stand at her manslaughter trial the first mother ever charged for a child school shooting by Jennifer Crumley insists she did not fail as a mother the new warning about so-called gas station heroin found at convenience stores the alert from the CDC one year after the toxic train derailment
disaster we're back in East Palestine Ohio residents explaining why they're still afraid to return to their homes and later why you should put shrimp on the menu at your Super Bowl party this year from ABC news in New York this is America this morning Good Friday morning everyone I'm Andrew Denberg good morning I'm Allison kic in foran we begin with that deadly plane crash in Florida authorities have been combing through the wreckage of a mobile home park set a blaze after the crash last night
plane just crashed into a a building here overnight authorities could confirming multiple people were killed after a small plane crashed into this mobile home park in Clearwater Florida is there anybody else in this house no I think massive Flames pouring out of the homes firefighters rushing people to safety around 700 p.m. the single engine plane radioing Mayday to the Clearwater St Pete Airport reporting engine failure before disappearing from the radar about 3 miles north of the runway the s
ite of that mobile home park uh we heard a loud noise which we thought was like a motorcycle going by and then a few seconds later there was a big boom shook the house shook the windows we went around the corner we could see the flame shooting like 50 feet in the air with a big plume of smoke it didn't even look like there was a house left there firefighters rushing to the scene finding four mobile homes on fire the plane lodged inside one of them I can confirm that we have several fatalities bo
th from the aircraft and within the mobile home firefighters were able to evacuate the three other homes quickly putting out the Flames overnight there was still no official IAL word on how many people were killed the NTSB and FAA are investigating now to the race for the White House and angry protesters confronting President Biden it came as he visited the crucial swing state of Michigan trying to convince voters that the economy is looking up as we await the monthly jobs report this morning AB
C's M win is in Washington with more M good morning good morning Allison the tension surrounding Biden's visit to Michigan highlights the big challenge for his campaign in a state he won Last Time by only 3% President Biden was met by Pro Palestinian protesters the moment he landed in Michigan a key Battleground State home to the largest Arab American community in the US b b what do you say protesters gathered last night in a parking lot across the street from Biden's rally waving free Palestine
flight earlier protesters even facing off with police in riot gear the White House says senior Administration officials will travel to Michigan later this month to hear from Arab Community leaders angry over Biden's support for Israel in its war against meanwhile Biden met with Auto Workers yesterday touting his record on the economy we now have in large part because of you and organized labor the strongest economy in the whole damn world we do we do in the whole world inflation's coming down b
ut a new National poll shows Biden losing to former president Trump 49 to 45% the Gap grows even wider in a potential matchup with Nikki Haley and Biden faces more challenges on Capitol Hill the house passed a tax cut bill this week with bipartisan support but it faces opposition in in the Senate Republican senator Chuck Grassley says he won't support the bill because it would make Biden look good and a bipartisan deal to address the Border crisis is being finalized in the Senate but is Dead on
Arrival in the house according to speaker Mike Johnson even though the text of the bill hasn't been released yet and the text of the bill could be released as soon as today Andrew or we'll keep an eye on it m thank you defense secretary Lloyd Austin has apologized for how he handled his prostate cancer diagnosis keeping his condition and hospitalization a secret from the president and the public he tried to explain his actions to reporters yesterday I was being treated for prostate cancer the ne
ws shook me and I know that it shakes so many others especially in the black community it was a gut punch and frankly my first instinct was to keep it private one in eight American men will get prostate cancer one in six black men will'll get it so you can count on me to set a better example on this issue today and for the rest of my life Austin's actions are under investigation on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon we turn now to Jennifer Crumley the woman whose son fatally shot four students at
its Michigan high school she's on trial for manslaughter accused of ignoring her son's pleas for help she took the stand yesterday and said there's nothing she would have done differently here's ABC's Andrea Fuji Jennifer Crumbley the first mother in the US to be charged in a school shooting committed by a child took the stand and defended her parenting skills you never would think you have to protect your child from harming somebody else that's what that's what blew my mind I just that was a ha
rdest thing I had to to stomach is that my child harmed and killed other people she and her husband are accused of making a gun accessible at their home and ignoring their son Ethan's mental health needs but Crumley says she didn't think her son needed help despite the prosecution pointing to Ethan's Journal which included entries like my parents don't listen to me and I have zero help for my mental health problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school did you ever believe that your son nee
ded mental health treatment therapy counseling anything no I mean there's a couple of times where Ethan expressed anxiety over taking test um anxiety about what he was going to do after high school whether it was College uh military so he expressed those those concerns to me um but not not to a level where I felt he needed to go see a psychiatrist did you ever deny him or say no I'm not going to take you to a mental health professional did he ever ask you no Crumbley denied having a role in buyi
ng or storing the gun and shifted responsibility to her husband at adding I don't think I'm a failure as a parent the day of the shooting staff at the school met with the crumbles and were shown a picture Ethan had drawn of a gun with the words the thoughts won't stop help me the world is dead my life is useless his parents declined to take him home that day Crumbley says she thought it would be better for him to stay at school he later used a gun from his backpack to fire at students I've asked
myself if I would have done anything differently and I wouldn't have if you could change what happened would you oh absolutely I wish he would have killed us instead prosecutors will cross-examine Jennifer Crumley this morning her husband goes on trial next month Andrew Allison Andrea thank you turning now to the weather California is preparing for another big storm this weekend officials open the Waterway to this Dam north of Sacramento trying to limit flood damage and in Southern California f
looding close some roads especially around Long Beach let's check your Friday forecast [Music] good morning our Southwestern storm is making progress East and we're going to see some Gusty strong thunderstorms in Oklahoma and Texas late Friday afternoon into the evening and night those storms move East through the Gulf Coast and by Sunday we'll have some disruptive thunderstorms in Florida but then we turn our attention back to the Southwest look at this another stronger storm moves into Califor
nia and the West late Saturday night through Sunday and into Monday we're going to see between 8 and 12 Ines of rain in the Foothills north of LA and multiple feet of snow in the Sierra I'm meteorologist Jeff Cornish coming up a country music star under arrest in a drug case also ahead the outrage after migrants accused of attacking these New York police officers are released without bail and the NFL player who came to the rescue during a midair emergency the ticking that urgent search for those
five people on board the missing submersible carrying tourists to the wreckage of the Titanic what happened to the submersible Titanic still fascinates people today what is the lesson of Titanic listen to the warning it was almost as if the Titanic claimed five more victims was there any warning before the submersible actually imploded fatal dive to the Titanic Thursday night at 87 Central on ABC whenever wherever news breaks it's so important to always remember that lives are changed here in L
ondon in Buffalo you've all Texas edin BR Scotland reporting from Rolling Fork Mississippi Ukrainian refugees here in warong we're heading to a small community outside of Mexico City getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime we'll take you there stream ABC News live week nights wherever you stream your news only on ABC News live national forests are good places to get away but sometimes bad things happen in good places it's the stuff of nightmares all I could see was thei
r feet sticking up my knees went weak this is a human skull we were definitely against the clock how many more victims are out there wild crime Blood Mountain now streaming only on Hulu why do you so many people start their day here from ABC News this is start here to be in the know and get a different take on the day's top stories a lot of news today so let's get into it listen now to the Daily News podcast honored with four Edward R murl Awards and see why the New York Times calls it a news po
dcast worth listening to start here ABC News make it your daily first listen now that's a part of the story I bet you didn't see coming wherever you get your podcasts start here I'm Aaron kerki in Rochester New York wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live Houston we have a problem what's being called an accidental release of fire suppression foam caused this mess at Bush Intercontinental Airport crews are trying to keep the chemicals from seeping into nearby wat
erways Hy and the Blowfish founder Darius Rucker has been arrested police near Nashville say the singer was booked on M meor drug possession charges it's unclear what led to the arrest but Rucker was also cited for expire registration suggesting he was pulled over by police new details overnight about the group of migrants accused in a vicious attack on police officers in New York's Times Square some of the suspects released without bail authorities in New York are searching for more suspects mo
st believed to be Asylum seekers in connection with this attack on two New York City police officers the officer officers were patrolling outside a migrant shelter when a scuffle broke out the group of migrants Kicking and punching the officers running off with their phones reprehensible cowards you want to know why our cops are getting assaulted there's no consequences and we must change this end of story six people have been arrested but police believe at least 13 were involved New York's gove
rnor was asked whether the Suspects should be deported get them all and send them back you don't you don't touch our police officers you don't touch anybody and this morning outrage growing over why several of the suspects were set free without bail authorities are investigating whether four of them then hopped a bus to California using fake names the New York mayor's office Furious is an absolute Abomination that they should not be back out on the street based upon what they did the city has st
ruggled to cope with the arrival of nearly 200,000 Asylum seekers in the last 2 years police say arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 migrants for various crimes but activists warn against penalizing an entire population of migrants legally in the US seeking Asylum the officers were not seriously injured in that attack All-Star tight end for Baltimore Ravens is being hailed a hero for his actions on a cross country flight Mark Andrews was flying to Phoenix when another passenger su
ffered a medical emergency a doctor and nurse tried to help and Andrews who has diabetes offered his testing kit suggesting her blood sugar might be low and it was and she recovered in time to walk off the flight Andrews called the flight crew the doctor and the nurse the real heroes absolutely coming up a big city power outage blamed on what else a raccoon also ahead one year later we hear from people still afraid to return to their homes after under the toxic train derailment in East Palestine
Ohio with so much at stake so much on the line more Americans turn here than any other newscast ABC News World News Tonight with David M America's number one most watched newscast across all of [Music] [Applause] [Music] television you come and give it all to give it to me National Forest are good places to get away but sometimes bad things happen in good places it's the stuff of nightmares all I can see was their feet sticking up my knees went weak this is a human skull we were definitely agai
nst the clock how many more victims are out there wild crime Blood Mountain now streaming only on Hulu the ideal male physique is tall dark and handsome money can buy you a lot of things money can't make you taller right we're bring you behind the scenes of the newest cosmetic surgery as a man it's like man I wish I was taller we see men who are taller as the alpha I went from 5'9 right now wish shoes I'm 61 everybody's freaked out by it on the basis of what is called leg lengthen you only live
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ve a major power outage north of the Border in Toronto thousands were in the dark and now we know why officials say a raccoon made contact with some equipment at a power station the outage lasted 3 hours the CDC has issued a critical warning about a highly addictive supplement known as gas station heroin its real name is Neptune's fix and it's now being recalled doctors say it may be contaminated with chemicals found in synthetic cannabis which have been linked to hallucinations seizures and bra
in swelling lawmakers have called for a Crackdown but the FDA does not regulate dietary supplements tomorrow marks one year since the toxic train derailment in East Palestine Ohio which forced the evacuation of thousands of people as President Biden prepares to visit this month ABC's Alex B spoke with residents afraid to return 12 months later this morning investigators releasing new images of the balls of fire erupting after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine Ohio o
ne year ago tomorrow days after the crash the rail operator Norfolk Southern conducted a controlled release of vinyl chloride a cancer causing toxin from five of the rail cars hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes and now one year later many are still afraid to return I don't feel comfortable going back home I'm still hearing all the people that went back home that regret going back home dozens of families were relocated to hotels paid for by Norfolk Southern but that program r
uns out next week the EPA insists the air and tap water is safe but some residents aren't buying it now I've had a migraine almost the entire duration since the derailment Christa Graves lives just over a mile from the derailment site she says the smell of chemicals still permeates her home and says she recently found chemical in her basement and then there's Wayne and Lori oconnell after the derailment they both tested positive for vinyl chloride Weeks Later Wayne was diagnosed with breast canc
er Wayne do you think your breast cancer is linked to that derailment I can't say for sure but it seems awful coincidental since the derailment Norfolk Southern says it's invested more than $100 million in the local economy including millions in direct payments and beautification projects the railroad operator and the EPA have also collected 45,000 samples and insists the town is safe I I very much feel confident this area is safe um I can tell you I've been here from you know the the very begin
ning here and I'm not having issues but despite these measures there's also frustration here at a lack of action in Washington to pass new rail safety measures I'm angry towns have been wiped off the map for less than this Alex paset ABC News East Palestine Ohio Alex thank you the NTSB says the ailment was caused by an overheated wheel bearing Advocates also cite a lack of safety features like sensors and say more workers are needed on large trains to something lighter coming up why you should i
nclude shrimp at your Super Bowl party this year plus meet the group of teachers who just won the Powerball lottery it's lunchtime in America so what are we serving up well how about everything you need to know you know that sounds pretty good give it to me your health your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends and of course good food GMA 3 what you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon so join us afternoon for everything you need to know I love that why
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returned home plus tracking heavy rain wind and snow and a new storm on the way more Americans turn to the most watched newscast on television World News Tonight with David mure tonight a stalker hunting women a young mother vanishes another mother gunned down and then for minivan pulls up I'm the one that got away all new 2020 tonight on ABC at Boston Logan Airport I'm Gio bonitz wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live [Music] time to check the pulse beginning
with your Super Bowl menu what's on it and how much is it going to cost some snack prices are slightly higher than last year but not shrimp so you may want to serve up a big platter now that prices are down 6% thanks to an over Supply shrimp for everybody all right how about another Thrifty known option at Super Bowl parties chicken wings both the fresh and frozen variety are a big bargain compar to last year but you'll have to dig deeper for chips they cost at least 5% more this year o bummer n
ext the luckiest teachers in America 30 current and former staffers from a middle school in Kentucky won a million dollars in the Powerball lottery the group has been pulling money together for years 14 years and they've been playing the same numbers they bought the winning ticket at Kroger and one member of the group found a creative spot to hide the ticket until they were ready to claim the prize I thought if somebody breaks in they are not going to pick up a math bom yeah you play the lottery
knowing you have a chance and then when it happens you think there's no way this is true split 30 ways they each got about $24,000 after taxes not a bad Bounty next it's Apple's first entirely new product in a decade the much anticipated Vision Pro headset goes on sale today Apple says it's compatible with more than a million apps one viewers said using the $3,500 device is like swiping around on your iPhone if your iPhone was strapped to your face in apple executive spoke to our will reev abou
t customers being able to try it out in a few dozen Apple Stores the best part about giving these demos is watching those reactions and I will say it's awe it's Wonder uh sometimes we had some people cry it is a really transformational experience see how close you can get more than 200,000 headsets have reportedly been sold since pre-orders began 2 weeks ago and finally want to know how long your dog will live take a look at his or her nose a new study findes a long nose could mean a longer life
for your Pooch British researchers found breeds with flatter faces had a shorter life expectancy than those with longer snells they're not sure why but they say some breed related differences may play a role top headlines next the clock is ticking that urgent search for those five people on board the missing submersible carrying tourists to the wreckage of the Titanic what happened to the submersible Titanic still fascinates people today what is the lesson of Titanic listen to the warning it wa
s almost as if the Titanic claimed five more victims was there any warning before the submersible actually imploded fatal dive to the Titanic Thursday night at 87 Central on ABC Thursday you know it's going to be a party when Zara Larson lights up the morning morning in a live GMA [Music] concert Thursday only on Good Morning America's concert series sponsored by Planet Fitness why do so many people start their day here from ABC News this is start here to be in the know and get a different take
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ws live Prime we'll take you there streaming free on ABC News live all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show of America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you I hug you yes so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show checking top stories authorities say several people were killed last
night when a small plane crashed into this mobile home park in Clearwater Florida they did not offer a specific number of victims the FAA says the pilot had reported engine failure prosecutors in New York are considering a perjury charge against Donald Trump's former Finance Chief they believe Alan weiselberg may have lied during testimony linked to the Civil fraud case against former president weiselberg is on probation after serving time for tax evasion an advertising agency will pay $350 mil
lion to settle a lawsuit over its marketing of Oxycontin and other opioids critics say publist health Bear some responsibility for the crisis which has killed thousands of people much of the money will pay for programs to fight the opioid epidemic today's weather showers on the west coast but heavier rain for the Southwest snow in the Rockies storms in Texas and Oklahoma but warm in the Midwest and finally my favorite story The Owl flying around New York for an entire entire year Danny new has t
he story of flacko 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 UR Asian eagle owl back but One does not simply capture the mighty Flo he's got a near 6ft w
ingspan can fly more than 30 miles 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 every 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 Dam 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 problem so bad it even hired a rat Zar is Flo the real rodent eating superhero our city needed he's a superhero for sure guys
one recent estimate claimed that there are about 3 million rats in New York City and there's only one bird for the job guys there he is have a great day and a great weekend [Music] right now on America this morning a plane crashes slamming into this mobile home park in Florida The Inferno spreading through several homes multiple people killed we'll hear from Witnesses President Biden facing protesters in Michigan angry over his support for Israel in its war with Hamas Biden's message as new pol
ls show him trailing Donald Trump and Nikki Haley the mother of the boy who fatally shot four students at his high school takes the stand at her manslaughter trial the first mother ever charged for a child school shooting by Jennifer Crumbley insists she did not fail as a mother the new warning about so-called gas station heroin found at convenience stores the alert from the CDC one year after the toxic train derailment disaster were back in East Palestine Ohio residents explaining why they're s
till afraid to return to their homes later why you should put shrimp on the menu at your Super Bowl party this year from ABC news in New York this is America this morning Good Friday morning everyone I'm Andrew denber good morning I'm Alison kic in for Ranna and we begin with that deadly plane crash in Florida authorities have been combing through the wreckage of a mobile home park set a blaze after the crash last night plane just crashed into a a building here overnight authorities confirming m
ultiple people were killed after a small plane crashed into this mobile home park in Clearwater Florida is there anybody else in this house no I think massive Flames pouring out of the homes firefighters rushing people to safety around 7 p.m. the single engine plane radioing Mayday to the Clearwater St Pete Airport reporting engine failure before disappearing from the radar about 3 miles north of the runway the site of that mobile home park uh we heard a loud noise which thought was like a motor
cycle going by and then a few seconds later there was a big boom shook the house shook the windows we went around the corner we could see the flame shooting like 50 ft in the air with a big plume of smoke it didn't even look like there was a house left there firefighters rushing to the scene finding four mobile homes on fire the plane lodged inside one of them I can confirm that we have several fatalities both from the aircraft and within the mobile home firefighters were able to evacuate the th
ree other homes quickly putting out the the Flames overnight there was still no official word on how many people were killed the NTSB and FAA are investigating now to the race for the White House and angry protesters confronting President Biden it came as he visited the crucial swing state of Michigan trying to convince voters that the economy is looking up as we await the monthly jobs report this morning ABC's mwin is in Washington with more M good morning good morning Allison the tension surro
unding Biden's visit to Michigan highlights the big challenge for his campaign in a state he won last time by only 3% President Biden was met by Pro Palestinian protesters the moment he landed in Michigan a key Battleground State home to the largest Arab American community in the US b b what do you say protesters gathered last night in a parking lot across the street from Biden's rally waving free Palestine Flags earlier protesters even facing off with police in riot gear the White House says se
nior Administration officials will travel to Michigan later this month to hear from Arab Community leaders angry over Biden's support for Israel in its war against Hamas meanwhile Biden met with Auto Workers yesterday touting his record on the economy we now have in large part because of you and organized labor the strongest economy in the whole damn world we do we do in the whole world inflation's coming down but a new National poll shows Biden losing to former president Trump 49 to 45% the Gap
grows even wider in a potential matchup with Nikki Haley and Biden faces more challenges on Capitol Hill the house passed a tax cut bill this week with by partisan support but it faces opposition in the Senate Republican senator Chuck Grassley says he won't support the bill because it would make Biden look good and a bipartisan deal to address the Border crisis is being finalized in the Senate but is Dead on Arrival in the house according to speaker Mike Johnson even though the text of the bill
hasn't been released yet and the text of the bill could be released as soon as today Andrew we'll keep an eye on it m thank you defense secretary Lloyd a has apologized for how he handled his prostate cancer diagnosis keeping his condition and hospitalization a secret from the president and the public he tried to explain his actions to reporters yesterday I was being treated for prostate cancer the news shook me and I know that it shakes so many others especially in the black community it was a
gut punch and frankly my first instinct was to keep it private one in eight American men will get prostate cancer one in six black men will get it so you can count on me to set a better example on this issue today and for the rest of my life Austin's actions are under investigation on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon we turn now to Jennifer Crumbley the woman whose son fatally shot four students at its Michigan high school she's on trial for manslaughter accused of ignoring her son's pleas for
help she took the stand yesterday and said there's nothing she would have done differently here's ABC's and here for G Jennifer Crumbley the first mother in the US to be charged in a school shooting committed by a child took the stand and offended her parenting skills you never would think you have to protect your child from harming somebody else that's what that's what blew my mind I just that was the hardest thing I had to to stomach is that my child harmed and kill other people she and her hu
sband are accused of making a gun accessible at their home and ignoring ing their son Ethan's mental health needs but Crumbley says she didn't think her son needed help despite the prosecution pointing to Ethan's Journal which included entries like my parents don't listen to me and I have zero help for my mental health problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school did you ever believe that your son needed mental health treatment therapy counseling anything no I mean there's a couple of tim
es where Ethan has expressed anxiety over taking tests um anxiety about what he was going to do after high school whether it was College uh military so he expressed those those concerns to me um but not not to a level where I felt he needed to go see a psychiatrist did you ever deny him or say no I'm not going to take you to a mental health professional did he ever ask you no Crumbley denied having a role in buying or storing the gun and shifted responsibility to her husband adding I don't think
I'm a failure as a parent the day of the shooting staff at the school met with the crumbles and were shown a picture Ethan had drawn of a gun with the words the thoughts won't stop help me the world is dead my life is useless his parents declined to take him home that day Crumbley says she thought it would be better for him to stay at school he later used a gun from his backpack to fire its students I've asked myself if I would have done anything differently and I wouldn't have if you could cha
nge what happened would you oh absolutely I wish he would have killed us instead prosecutors will cross-examine Jennifer Crumley this morning her husband goes on trial next month Andrew Allison Andrea thank you turning now to the weather California is preparing for another big storm this weekend officials open the Waterway to this Dam north of Sacramento trying to limit flood damage and in Southern California flooding closed some roads especially around Long Beach let's check your Friday for [Mu
sic] forecast good morning our Southwestern storm is making progress East and we're going to see some Gusty strong thunderstorms in Oklahoma and Texas late Friday afternoon into the evening and night those storms move East through the Gulf Coast and by Sunday we'll have some disruptive thunderstorms in Florida but then we turn our attention back to the Southwest look at this another stronger storm moves into California and the West late Saturday night through Sunday and into Monday we're going t
o see between 8 and 12 Ines of rain in the Foothills north of LA and multiple feet of snow in the Sierra I'm meteorologist Jeff [Music] Cornish coming up a country music star under arrest in a drug case also ahead the outrage after migrants accused of attacking these New York police officers are released without bail and the NFL player who came to the rescue during a midair emergency whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the grou
nd in Ukraine reporting from Leon Maine the scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere from the scene of that deadly missile strike in Dena Ukraine reporting from the earthquake in Turkey in Rolling Fort This Tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii from Charleston South Carolina on the 2024 campaign Trail in Iceland let's go traveling with the president in Mexico City wherever the story from the front lines from Southern I
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ow that sounds pretty good your health your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends and of course good food GMA 3 what you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon so join us afternoon for everything you need to know I love that tonight a stalker hunting women makes me shudder a young mother vanishes a series of apparently unconnected crimes another mother gunned down oh my gosh what you do with this and then a silver minivan pulls up and he reaching for the
gun and jumped out of the car I'm the one that got away the murderer in the minivan I get goosebumps to think what they found only new 2020 tonight on ABC reporting from the US Mexico border in California I'm Jaclyn Lee wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live Houston we have a problem what's being called an accidental release of fire suppression foam caused this mess at Bush Intercontinental Airport crews are trying to keep the chemicals from seeping into nearby
waterways Hoody and the Blowfish founder Darius Rucker has been arrested police near Nashville say the singer was booked on misdemeanor drug possession charges it's unclear what led to the arrest but Rucker was also cited for expire registration suggesting he was pulled over by police new details overnight about the group of migrants accused in a vicious attack on police officers in New York's Times Square some of the suspects released without bail authorities in New York are searching for more
suspects most believed to be Asylum seekers in connection with this attack on two New York City police officers the officers were patrolling outside a migrant shelter when a scuffle broke out the group of migrants Kicking and punching the officers running off with their phones reprehensible cowards you want to know why our cops are getting assaulted there's no consequences and we must change this end of story six people have been arrested but police believe at least 13 were involved New York's
governor was asked whether the suspects should be deported get them all and send them back you don't you don't touch our police officers you don't touch anybody and this morning outrage growing over why several of the suspects were set free without bail authorities are investigating whether four of them then hopped a bus to California using fake names the New York mayor's office Furious this is an absolute Abomination but they should not be back out of on the street based upon what they did the
city has struggled to cope with the arrival of nearly 200,000 Asylum seekers in the last 2 years police say arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 migrants for various crimes but activists warn against penalizing an entire population of migrants legally in the US seeking Asylum the officers were not seriously injured in that attack All-Star tight end for Baltimore Ravens is being hailed hero for his actions on a cross country flight Mark Andrews was flying to Phoenix when another pas
senger suffered a medical emergency a doctor and nurse tried to help and Andrews who has diabetes offered his testing kit suggesting her blood sugar might be low and it was and she recovered in time to walk off the flight Andrews called the flight crew the doctor and the nurse the real heroes absolutely coming up a big city power outage blamed on what else a raccoon also ahead one year later we hear from people still afraid to return to their homes after the toxic train derailment in East Palest
ine Ohio whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Leon main the scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere from the scene of that deadly missile strike in Dena Ukraine reporting from the earthquake in Turkey en Rolling Fork This Tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii from Charleston South Carolina on the 2024 campaign Trai
l in Iceland let's go traveling with the president in Mexico City wherever the story from the front lines from Southern Israel outside the Gaza Strip in Beirut from the FBI reporting from the nurses on the picket line here at 10 Downing Street in London streaming live to you wherever the story is wherever the story is wherever the story is we're going to take you there you're streaming ABC News live ABC News live you're streaming ABC News live ABC news live streaming free everywhere America's nu
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tuff of nightmares all I can see was their feet sticking up my knees went weak this is a human skull we were definitely against the clock how many more victims are out there wild crime at Blood Mountain now streaming only on Hulu all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you I hug you yes so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the
what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show a major power outage north of the Border in Toronto thousands were in the dark and now we know why officials say a raccoon made contact with some equipment at a power station the outage lasted 3 hours the CDC has issued a critical warning about a highly addictive supplement known as gas station heroin it's real name is Neptune's fix and it's now being recalled doctors say it may be contaminated with chemi
cals found in synthetic cannabis which have been linked to hallucinations seizures and brain swelling lawmakers have called for a Crackdown but the FDA does not regulate dietary supplements tomorrow marks one year since the toxic train derailment in East Palestine Ohio which forced the evacuation of thousands of people as President Biden prepares to visit this month ABC's Alex B spoke with resid afraid to return 12 months later this morning investigators releasing new images of the balls of fire
erupting after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine Ohio one year ago tomorrow days after the crash the rail operator Norfolk Southern conducted a controlled release of vinyl chloride a cancer causing toxin from five of the rail cars hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes and now one year later many are still still afraid to return I don't feel comfortable going back home I'm still hearing all the people that went back home that regret going back home
dozens of families were relocated to hotels paid for by Norfolk Southern but that program runs out next week the EPA insists the air and tap water is safe but some residents aren't buying it now I've had a migraine almost the entire duration since the derailment Christa Graves lives just over a mile from the derailment site she says the smell of chemicals still permeates her home and says she recently found chemical Sheen in her basement and then there's Wayne and lorri oconnell after the derai
lment they both tested positive for vinyl chloride Weeks Later Wayne was diagnosed with breast cancer Wayne do you think your breast cancer is linked to that derailment I can't say for sure but it seems awful coincidental since the derailment Northfolk Southern says it's invested more than $100 million in the local economy including millions in direct payments and beautification projects the railroad operator and the EPA have also collected 45,000 samples and insists the town is safe I I very mu
ch feel confid this area is safe um I can tell you I've been here from you know the the very beginning here and I'm not having issues but despite these measures there's also frustration here at a lack of action in Washington to pass new rail safety measures I'm angry towns have been wiped off the map for less than this Alex paset ABC News East Palestine Ohio Alex thank you the NTSB says the derailment was caused by an overheated wheel bearing Advocates also cite a lack of safety features like se
nsors and say more workers are needed on large trains to something lighter coming up why you should include shrimp at your Super Bowl party this year plus meet the group of teachers who just won the Powerball lottery all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you I hug you yeah so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would
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C News app download it now it's lunchtime in America so what are we serving up well how about everything you need to know you know that sounds pretty good your health your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends and of course good food gma3 what you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon so join us afternoon for everything you need to know I love that me inside that pen is a slice of human brain I've never seen a place like this in my life oh my god look [M
usic] wow wherever news breaks it's so important to always remember that lives are changed getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime we'll take you there streaming free on ABC News live reporting from Iowa on the 2024 campaign Trail I'm Mary Alice parks wherever the story is we'll take you there you're watching ABC News [Music] live time to check the pulse beginning with your Super Bowl menu what's on it and how much is it going to cost some snack prices are slightly high
er than last year but not shrimp so you may want to serve up a big platter now that prices are down 6% thanks to an over Supply shrimp for everybody all right how about another Thrifty known option at Super Bowl parties chicken wings both the fresh and Frozen variety are a big bargain compared to last year but you'll have to dig deeper for chips they cost at least 5% more this year o bummer next the luckiest teachers in America 30 current and former staffers from a middle school in Kentucky won
a million dollars in the Powerball lottery the group has been pulling money together for years 14 years and they've been playing the same numbers they bought the winning ticket at Kroger and one member of the group found a creative spot to hide the ticket until they were ready to claim the prize I thought if somebody breaks in they are not going to pick up a MTH yeah you play the lottery knowing you have a chance and then when it happens you think there's no way this is true split 30 ways they e
ach got about $224,000 after taxes not a bad Bounty next it's Apple's first entirely new product in a decade the much anticipated Vision Pro headset goes on sale today Apple says it's compatible with more than a million apps One reviewer said using the $3500 device is like swiping around on your iPhone if your iPhone was strapped to your face in apple executive spoke to our Will Reeve about customers being able to try it out in a few dozen Apple Stores the best part about giving these demos is w
atching those reactions and I will say it's awe it's Wonder uh sometimes we've had some people cry it is a really transformational experience see how close you can get more than 200,000 headsets have reportedly been sold since pre-orders began 2 weeks ago and finally want to know how long your dog will live take a look at his or her nose a new study finds a long nose could mean a longer life for your Pooch British researchers found breeds with flatter faces had a shorter life expectancy than tho
se with longer snouts they're not sure why but they say some breed related differences may play a role top headlines next this is ABC News live the crush of families here in Poland at Refugee centers in Putin's Russia on the ground in Ukraine close to the front line from the capital destructive Cat 4 story along I Boston is in the Bulls let's go ABC News live America's number one streaming news anytime anywhere streaming 24/7 straight to you for free thank you for making ABC newsline America's n
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your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends and of course good food GMA 3 what you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon so join us afternoon for everything you need to know I love [Music] that checking more top stories authorities say several people were killed last night when a small plane crashed into this mobile home park in Clearwater Florida they did not offer a specific number of victims the FAA says the pilot had reported engine failure prosecuto
rs in New York are considering a perjury charge against Donald Trump's former Finance Chief they believe Alan weiselberg may have lied during testimony linked to the Civil fraud case against former president weiselberg is on probation after serving time for tax evasion an advertising agency will pay $350 million to settle a lawsuit over its marketing of Oxycontin and other opioids critics say Public's health Bear some responsibility for the crisis which has killed thousands of people much of the
money will pay for programs to fight the opioid epidemic today's weather showers on the west coast but heavier rain for the Southwest snow in the Rockies storms in Texas and Oklahoma but warm in the Midwest and finally my favorite story The Owl flying around New York for an entire year Danny new has the story of flacko 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 tryin
g 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 a
bsolutely 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 every 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 Flo has proven to clearly be flying around and finding food just fine th
e 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 problem so bad and even hired a rat Zar is Flo the real rodent eating superhero our city needed he's a superhero for sure guys one recent estimate claimed that there are about 3 million rats in New York City and there's only one bird for the job guys there he is have a great day and a great weekend [Music] it's Friday Febru
ary 2nd and the White House is ready for Retribution we start [Music] here sources say the Pentagon has its marching orders and will launch a series of strikes they want to find Targets that are significant that will hurt those militants but is Iran on the list of targets Martha Raditz is in the Middle East with the latest the mother of a school shooter makes her case are you a failure as a parent I don't think I'm a failure as a parent at what point do parenting decisions make you culpable in a
murder and life is a game of inches I went from 5'9 with without shoes I'm like 5'11 and a half give or take but would you go under the knife to get taller from ABC News this is start here here I'm Brad [Music] milky as of this morning it's been 5 days in counting since a drone strike claimed the lives of three American troops the first US military deaths since this conflict in the Middle East began and he looked at me and he said I'm sorry miss Ma but ban was killed disappo in a drone attack w
hen you have a deadly strike like this it Demands a response resp but what kind of response and against whom after all while this appeared to come from militant groups in Iraq and Syria they are directly sponsored by Iran who pays for our soldiers lives well after 5 days of waiting it now appears the US has a plan for retaliation apparently it's no longer a case of if but when and where ABC's Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha radit has made her way to Jordan where these troops were kille
d in the first place Martha you've been speaking of sources what should we expect to happen here I I think you can expect a multi-tiered multicountry multi-target retaliatory strike I think it's going to be very different from what we have seen in the past few months but in many ways very the same president has made his decision about responding um options were presented to him he made his choices and uh and his decisions and uh and we're going to and we're going to move out they'll go after the
se militia groups where they can find them certainly the ones they believe have been responsible for these attacks and and try to take them out and carefully as the US tries to do avoid civilian casualties I think that is number one uh they do not want to kill any civilians according to sources I have talked to President Biden has deep misgivings about going after Iran itself all we've heard from the president from the administration for months is these are Iran backed militias these are Iran ba
cked militias but they don't want this war to escalate but if you look at the map it really already has the conflict has escalated we've got fighting in the Red Sea we've got fighting on the northern border of Israel and we certainly have seen in Iraq and Syria these militias targeting Americans American forces well over 165 times well and Martha on one hand it's only been a few days right it's been less than a week since this happened on the other hand it's so significant the first American Ser
vice member deaths in this entire conflict in the region we're battling with so many of these iran-backed proxy groups the question has kind of been why has it taken so long to strike back I mean what's your sense I I think this is one of the major reasons why this is so different the US always has Target lists they probably knew pretty quickly exactly who is responsible for this strike but they want this one to be different it needs to be significant it needs to be unambiguous it needs to actua
lly cost Iran something because they don't want one big show of force or one little pin prick strike they want to find Targets that are significant that will hurt those militants in manyways and that takes time and it takes coordination this is one of the most remote parts of Jordan Syria is just behind me about 2 miles Iraq is off to my left you know Brad we traveled up to the border of Syria and it is the most remote area it is it is seriously like a moonscape up there there are a few little V
illages they want to make sure especially this time because deterrence frankly has not worked that these targets are significant enough that it will hurt the militants or at least slow them down or at least avoid for some American forces more significant attacks on them that's why it takes so long they just want to be certain and have this mean something yeah and Martha I mean since you've been in the region and since you've been talking your sources what have we learned about the attack in the
first place because we say Iran back militants but like you said the Pentagon probably knew early on more specifically who this group was I mean do we know at this point which militant group this was was and how they Carri this out one of the first things they had was physical evidence they had the parts of that drone so you had forensics and they have now determined that it's a particular type of drone uh made in Iran the Pentagon sent out pictures of those weapons showing they were from Iran t
his this is a a show that they put on TV Brad I talked to the Iranian foreign Minister uh just a little over a week ago and and he denied that they ever provide weapons for these things but they clearly do the US has seen it I've seen displays of those weapons myself so they know that that drone was made in Iran essentially they know where they believe it was launched from it was clearly either Syria or Iraq because that according to officials of the countries that were going to go after and pos
sibly Yemen as well so that attack that drone coming uh it's it's very sad to say but we also know that the air defenses at that base did not catch it they thought that it was a US surveillance drone and that's one of the reasons that drone that iranian-made drone got through and these groups all have different names but they are essentially under one umbrella who are basically just militants who are going after Americans who are going after Western forces they want US forces out of Syria out of
Iraq and this is also how they're trying to get them out of there right and and and that mistake as far as we can tell it was a mistake of of of not shooting down that drone when they had the chance of course now we see the aftermath of that right three dead American Service members dozens injured and now uh potential strikes coming their way in the Middle East all right Martha Ritz they're in Jordan right now thank you so much thank you Brad [Music] can you raise your right hand you swe orir t
estimony about I do yesterday in Michigan the mother of a school shooter took the stand not in his defense but in her own stting your name it's Jennifer Crumbley Jennifer Crumbley the mother of Ethan Crumbley who killed four classmates and injured several others has pleaded not guilty to several unprecedented counts of involuntary manslaughter if convicted she would be the first parent ever held responsible in this way after a mass shooting but prosecutors say her actions were just that egregiou
s ABC's Trevor alt has been on the scene in Michigan covering this Trevor what did she say well first of all Brad she says that she was horrified at what her son did she made that very clear that she's still having to come to terms with the fact that her son harmed people killed four of his classmates in fact she explicitly said I wish he would have killed us instead do you believe you are the victim here um I don't want to say that I'm a victim because I do not want to disrespect those families
that truly are the victims on this um but we did lose a lot she also is adamant that she was not aware of the many red flags that the prosecution has laid out leading up to this shooting so much so that she says when she looks back on how it all unfolded she doesn't think she would do anything differently uh which is going to strike a lot of people as a pretty wild thing to say given she's on trial for involuntary manslaughter her and her husband the first parents in American history to face th
ese kinds of charges after a child commits a mass shooting are you a failure as a parent I don't think I'm a failure as a parent but at that time essentially what we saw in court yesterday just from her defense attorney questioning her Brad is that they took a long time establishing the relationship of her as a mother they had a lot of photos of family trips that they went on over the years and him growing up and then talking about about how they have a little bit less photos as he gets older be
cause teenagers are just that age she describes herself as caring and attentive they talked about times that she would take her son to the doctor I trusted him and I felt like I had an open door and he can come to me about anything and then we kind of get into the area where her story splits from the stories that we have heard from the prosecution over the past week and a half as they've laid out their case mainly over what should these parents have been aware of leading up to this shooting I di
d not go through his text messages um I didn't have a reason to she says that he had no point asked to go to therapy and that at no point did it seem like he was having any kind of Mental Health crisis that would require her to get help Brad well yeah Trevor I'm trying to figure out how much of this is sort of about gun safety and taking responsibility for the guns that you own that your childood and how much of it is just about parenting techniques like is it illegal to not be proactive with yo
ur kid about about stuff like this I guess right and that's exactly why this case is going to be extremely difficult to get a conviction because you have a defense attorney who readily admits her client was not a perfect parent and made a lot of mistakes I think that your the Crux of your question of parenting versus gun safety and how they intertwine could be largely divided among how the two parents are being tried so Jennifer crumble is up first her husband James crumble is going to get tried
for the same crimes uh in March her trial is largely about parenting and missing warning signs and while they did talk about the weapons the fact that the parents bought the gun for their son we do know that the dad James Crumbley actually made the purchase and on the stand yesterday Jennifer Crumbley made a point to say it wasn't her area to make sure the guns were secure that fell to her husband of course we now know that gun he was able to get access to it and the two other weapons that the
parents had that were found at home by investigators and investigators testified they were kept in a gun safe with the code 0000 I imagine that is going to be hit even harder by prosecutors in the husband's trial what I think you're going to see today when it comes to cross-examination of Jennifer Crumbley and I think it could be quite brutal is hammering her over and over about her son's cries for help about him writing in his journal my parents won't listen to me five can you read this passage
please in this one the shooter writes I want help but my parents don't listen to me and I can't get any help the shooter writes I want to shoot up the school so badly prosecutors are going to take this woman this mother who testified for hours yesterday about how she cared for her son and ask her in front of the jury how did you miss this and they believe the fact that she did miss it is so grossly negligent that it is Criminal bread right the the difference between being an imperfect parent as
the mother's claiming versus essentially being a danger to others the father like you said he's on trial later this year we'll see what happens in both of these cases Trevor alal in Michigan thanks so much thank you [Music] Brett so back in the day I was on the dating apps like you do and I listed my height as 5'9 which is a tiny tiny FIB okay I'm closer to 5'8 5'8 and a quarter but you never adjust your height down right in our society guys always want to be taller and this gets reinforced eve
rywhere from the '90s when I was growing up from my man skilo hello I wish was a little taller wish was AER to just last year from Olivia Rodrigo to how we talk about pop psychology but there's nothing you can change about your height or is there how tall were you 5'9 that's the average height for an American male I'm not average I don't like to be average this week on impact by Nightline ABC's Asen Singh went behind the scenes of a growing industry leg lengthening surgery and unlike so many oth
er cosmetic surgeries this one is absolutely dominated by men who wish they were a little bit taller Asen is with us now Asen leg lengthening surgery really this is a thing yes Brad it is the new kind of viral sensation where men are actually able to get taller they are literally adding inches to their uh femur and tibas in order to be able to achieve that uh tall dark and handsome look that has been sought after for so many decades and Brad I got to say I'm guilty of it too I'm 5'11 but you kno
w I'm telling people I'm six feet but but wh why why would you go to the lengths of getting surgery like would you talk to people who got this procedure what did why this is a real issue of insecurity amongst a ton of males in our society and it comes from this perception that tall people are more successful tall people have a lot more of an easier time it contributes to your conf confidence you're romantic your dating life you have to try harder you have to dress better you have to make more mo
ney you have to do something better because just having the height Advantage is like Paramount we spoke to individuals who are who had gotten the surgery who are about to get the surgery and we met two really interesting gentlemen who are could not be more different Brad I went from 59 with without shoes I'm like 5'11 and a half give or take you have Hugo Ramirez he's a a businessman who who works between Miami and Houston and he is very much emblematic of the Cosmetic Surgery life I mean I just
did my face you just did your face yeah I just my face what' you do I had a jaw implant and Chin implant and I had them replaced it and then I had him T my neck this guy's gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of surgery and procedures done all over his body not limited just to his height it's the biggest rush is that what you get from New is the biggest rush ever what was it about being taller than the respect I had to earn my respect people are taller they don't have to earn the respe
ct I mean you could be an idiot and be tall and you get respect on the other hand we have Jerry who's this uh travel nurse in in Mobile Alabama and you see the more practical side of the surgery today I measured in at uh 55 on the do he's been under aage height his whole life and this is something that has weighed on him heavily he says that it is affected his dating life it has affected his confidence you know sometimes I want to reach stuff in the aisles of a Walmart he just can't cuz you're s
hort and you got to get on your tippy toes and I feel like it's sometimes embarrassing this is a procedure that he has saved up um in order to be able to get done so this surgery set me back uh I believe is around $775,000 just to be able to get to average height which is 5'8 5'9 in the United States is something that this procedure allow someone like Jerry to realize okay so how does it work right like what the actual surgery involves if you're adding length to your bone does that mean like you
're breaking your bone to do this yeah so there's this doctor uh Dr Kevin W pad in Las Vegas you know so the concept of limb lengthening has been around probably 75 80 years uh and we've been applying it to Pediatric deformities in kids with short legs or even in traumatic patients who might get into an accident one leg ends up shorter or deformed he runs Lim Plastics and it has become sort of the leader in offering leg lengthening surgery as an elective cosmetic surgery all right morning Jerry
how are you doing how you doing Dr good all right how you feeling good good ready to get this started when we connected with Jerry and he was looking into getting this leg lengthening surgery he decided to go with Dr Debbie pad we use your own natural bone that you have and what you do is you just you know you implant a device into the hollow part of the bone um and then you create a small break into the bone and then that device responds to remote control that the patients use to slowly lengthe
n the bone uh as they kind of proceed that nail can lengthen approximately 3.2 in and that's where you get your gain of height from yeah we're all set I think the room's all set up uh and we're ready to go all right all right let's just get you back there so we followed Jerry to Las Vegas um as he's about to undergo the surgery we we're all the way with him into the operating room follow follow the tip foot down when you're watching the surgery you definitely hear that hammer uh cracking away at
the bone in order to create the the separation but he claims that it's just creating a small perforated uh uh dotted line similar to that on a paper towel and then they're creating a small break in the bone and then he just puts a rod in there it's going to be a touch more X-ray and then for uh up to 30 to 60 days he's increasing the patient's height by a millimeter and that Rod is basically growing and they just do it through an app but when you're in there man you are are hearing that bone be
ing hammered at and it it is intense it is intense wait yeah it does sound it sounds not just intense it sounds like violent right like are I mean are there health risks to this Asen when you're messing like with your own bone structure yeah they're definitely are health risks that are associated with a procedure like this because first of all when it comes to it being an elective or a cosmetic procedure is relatively new these are still risky procedures and risky tools and many of them still ne
ed to be removed after the L length has completed which of course is another surgery with its own risks and benefits and our own drct Daran Sutton really breaks down that these guys are getting these procedures done but we don't know what the next 5 10 15 years of their bodies are going to look like they can include damage to nearby structures for example damage to muscles damage to ligaments and tendons and even permanent nerve damage the the recovery process for a procedure like this is defini
tely intense it takes weeks if not months for the patients to get back on their feet they're limited to Walkers they're going through intense rounds of uh of physical therapy and all types of recovery processes to just to be able to walk normally again I do know physically it's going to be very demanding on me but um nervous now just because I'm so set in stone but when it comes to the critics and people sort of questioning whether or not a medical professional should even be offering this proce
dure Dr D really points to the life-changing moments that he thinks he's providing to his patients when you look at it from my perspective and you see these patients and you see the impact it is it has on these patients and you see how much it improves their lives and you see these patients you know they just seem so so grateful for it and on the other side they just seem so happy that they under underwent the surgery it's one of the most rewarding surgeries I do it's bizarre though asan because
like you want to ask like is it really so bad to be short or average height is that really so detrimental yeah Brad I don't think it is that bad to be short in fact I think right now it is cool to be a short King you look at guys like uh uh Dave Franco Timothy Shalom even Kevin Hart man he's the biggest man in Hollywood right now it is hot to be short it is cool to be a short King that said I'm not rushing to get my legs reduced anytime soon I don't like to be average I want to be beyond what I
could be mhm and Brad you won't believe this when we sat down with Hugo and he had just finished his intense monthlong recovery process he said he still wants three more inches do you have a goal like is there an end a Finish Line 63 honestly 6 I know I could go to 64 yeah what's your dream height U 63 would be the my dream height wow oh my gosh okay so like the short King hashtag not having an effect on everyone uh asan sing with this incredible piece on impact by Nightline that's also streami
ng on Hulu right now asan great reporting thank you thanks Brad really appreciate you everyone loves an Underdog Story but what about an underbird story now are you a birder bill you seem to know a lot about birds like what how did you get so invested in this story well uh I'm not a burer per se uh but uh I do like celebrity type Birds that's ABC's Bill Hutchinson talking about what's perhaps become New York City's most famous Fugi Flo the owl is a Eurasian eagle owl and what's rare about him is
he is believed to be the only Eurasian eagle owl on the loose in the Wilds of North America and the interesting part about Flaco is his story starts with a crime until last year Flo the owl had lived his entire life in the Central Park Zoo but exactly one year ago today someone cut a hole through his cage and uh he just walked out of the cage walked through the hole that was cut into the mesh lining of his cage and uh bolted into the Wilds of New York City Flo has become a Bonafide celebrity in
Manhattan birders watch him pop up in various trees but he started spreading his wings further soon he alighted on the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue and that just shocked people drew a crowd also drew the NYPD who who um didn't seem to really know what to do with him at first and they put out some caution tape to sort of coordin him off so that people couldn't get close to him and then they put a cage out on the sidewalk thinking I guess that he was going to Just Surrender that didn't happen of cour
se Flo flew away and over the last year he started exploring other parts of town he gets around he's been uh not just in Central Park but down in the Lower East Side he started to uh Roost or perch in private Gardens on um Terraces uh on people's window Ledges oh my God you're so beautiful so beautiful I was in my kitchen and I have my phone in my hand and I look over to the window and there's an L one of the reasons he's flying in these wider and wider circles is he's likely looking for a mate
what he doesn't know is there's no mate out there for him he's the only one of his kind in this part of the world scientists had worried that this along with the fact that he' never hunted in the wild would put him at risk but instead after a year on the loose Flo's thriving they pretty much gave up on capturing him maybe two weeks after he escaped right now they've decided just to let him be a free bird he proved them all wrong very quickly actually he uh he was able to adapt to his new environ
ment in a free world and learn to catch Rats on his own and uh New York City has a very really bad rat problem so anything that could exterminate that is as a welcome in New York the following has steadily risen not just from New Yorkers but around the world people have been sharing videos of Flo's location sightings of him he's even become a muse for writers photographers and artists our reporter Bill Hutchinson has painted a series of flco portraits these vividly colorful depictions of the owl
in various scenarios with construction workers and Fifth Avenue Shoppers I think people like the Underdog Story and he he was the underdog definitely cuz nobody thought he could survive out there and he did and he showed resilience and that sort of enamored him to people's interest in cheering for him to be free one of my favorite honorary New Yorkers is the author eie white he wrote about animals you probably know Charlotte's Web eie white once said about New York that people born here take th
e city for granted the commuters give it a sense of restlessness but then there are The Outsiders the transplants the ones who came here roaming the city in quest of something bigger those he said give the city its passion that's where I think has rallied people around flocko of course if you were to ask him about his Celebrity Status he'd probably just play it modest and say who me I was blown away by Bill's portraits by the way you can see them in his story on ABC news.com just look for his re
porting on the oneyear anniversary of Flo's Freedom start here is produced by Kelly TZ Jen Newman Brenda Selena Baker via arenson Cameron shavian Anthony Ali meline wood and Tara gimble Ariel Chester is our social media producer Josh Cohan is director of podcast programming I'm our managing editor Laura mayor is our executive producer thanks to Leia Brown John Newman and Li cessi special thanks this week to Jonah Haskell Chris Barry Dana schaer lion Caldera Eric Strauss and an flarity I'm Brad m
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Biden's message as new polls show him trailing Donald Trump and Nikki Haley the mother of the boy who fatally shot four students at his high school takes the stand at her manslaughter trial the first mother ever charged for a child school shooting by Jennifer Crumbley insists she did not fail as a mother the new warning about so-called gas station heroin found at convenience stores the alert from the CDC one year after the toxic train derailment disaster we're back back in East Palestine Ohio r
esidents explaining why they're still afraid to return to their homes and later why you should put shrimp on the menu at your Super Bowl party this year from ABC news in New York this is America this morning Good Friday morning everyone I'm Andrew diber good morning I'm Allison kic INF for ran and we begin with that deadly plane crash in Florida authorities have been combing through the wreckage of a mobile home Park set a blaze after the crash last night plane just crashed into a a building her
e overnight authorities confirming multiple people were killed after a small plane crashed into this mobile home park in Clearwater Florida is there anybody else in this house no I think massive Flames pouring out of the homes firefighters rushing people to safety around 700 p.m. the single engine plane radioing Mayday to the Clearwater St Pete Airport reporting engine failure before disappearing from the radar about 3 miles north of the runway the site of that mobile home park uh we heard a lou
d noise which we thought was like a motorcycle going by and then a few seconds later there was a big boom shook the house shook the windows We R around the corner we could see the flame shooting like 50 ft in the air with a big plume of smoke it didn't even look like there was a house left there firefighters rushing to the scene finding four mobile homes on fire the plane lodged inside one of them I can confirm that we have several fatalities both from the aircraft and within the mobile home fir
efighters were able to evacuate the three other homes quickly putting out the Flames overnight there was still no official word on how many people were killed the NTSB and FAA are investigating now to the race for the White House an angry protesters confronting President Biden it came as he visited the crucial swing state of Michigan trying to convince voters that the economy is looking up as we await the monthly jobs report this morning ABC's M win is in Washington with more M good morning good
morning Allison the tensions surrounding Biden's visit to Michigan highlights the big challenge for his campaign in a state he won last time by only 3% President Biden was met by Pro Palestinian protesters the moment he landed in Michigan a key Battleground State home to the largest Arab American community in the US b b what do you say protesters gathered last night in a parking lot across the street from Biden's rally waving free Palestine flag earlier protesters even facing off with police in
riot gear the White House says senior Administration officials will travel to Michigan later this month to hear from Arab Community leaders angry over Biden's support for Israel in its war against toas meanwhile Biden met with Auto Workers yesterday touting his record on the economy we now have in large part because of you and organized labor the strongest economy in the whole damn world we do we do in the whole world inflation's coming down but a new National poll shows Biden losing to former
president Trump 49 to 45% the Gap grows even wider in a potential matchup with Nikki Haley and Biden faces more challenges on Capitol Hill the house passed a tax cut bill this week with bipartisan support but it faces opposition in the Senate Republican senator Chuck Grassley says he won't support the bill because it would make Biden look good and a bipartisan deal to address the Border crisis is being finalized in the Senate but it's Dead on Arrival in the house according to speaker Mike Johnso
n even though the text of the bill hasn't been released yet and the text of the bill could be released as soon as today Andrew we'll keep an eye on it m thank you defense secretary Lloyd Austin has apologized for how he handled his prostate cancer diagnosis keeping his condition and hospitalization a secret from the president and the public he tried to explain his actions to reporters yesterday I was being treated for prostate cancer the news shook me and I know that it shakes so many others esp
ecially in the black community it was a gut punch and frankly my first instinct was to keep it private one in eight American men will get prostate cancer one in six black men will get it so you can count on me to set a better example on this issue today and for the rest of my life Austin's actions are under investigation on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon we turn now to Jennifer Crumley the woman whose son fatally shot four students at its Michigan high school she's on trial for manslaughter ac
cused of ignoring her son's please for help she took the stand yesterday and said there's nothing she would have done differently here's ABC's Andrea fuii Jennifer Crumbley the first mother in the US to be charged in a school shooting committed by a child took the stand and defended her parenting skills you never would think you have to protect your child from harming somebody else that's what that's what blew my mind I was just that was the hardest thing I had to to stomach is that my child har
med and kill other people she and her husband are accused of making a gun accessible at their home and ignoring their son Ethan's mental health needs but Crumbley says she didn't think her son needed help despite the prosecution pointing to Ethan's Journal which included entries like my parents don't listen to me and I have zero help for my mental health problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school did you ever believe that your son needed mental health treatment therapy counseling anythi
ng no I mean there's a couple of times where Ethan expressed anxiety over taking test um anxiety about what he was going to do after high school whether it was College uh military so he expressed those those concerns to me um but not not to a level where I felt he needed to go see a psychiatrist did you ever deny him or say no I'm not going to take you to a mental health professional did he ever WR ask you no Crumbley denied having a role in buying or storing the gun and shifted responsibility t
o her husband adding I don't think I'm a failure as a parent the day of the shooting staff at the school met with the crumbles and were shown a picture Ethan had drawn of a gun with the words the thoughts won't stop help me the world is dead my life is useless his parents declined to take him home that day Crumbley says she thought it would be better for him to stay at school he later used a gun from his backpack to fight at students I've asked myself if I would have done anything differently an
d I wouldn't have if you could change what happen would you oh absolutely I wish he would have killed us instead prosecutors will cross-examine Jennifer Crumbley this morning her husband goes on trial next month Andrew Allison Andrea thank you turning now to the weather California is preparing for another big storm this weekend officials open the Waterway to this Dam north of Sacramento trying to limit flood damage and and in Southern California flooding closed some roads especially around Long
Beach let's check your Friday [Music] forecast good morning our Southwestern storm is making progress East and we're going to see some Gusty strong thunderstorms in Oklahoma and Texas late Friday afternoon into the evening and night those storms move East through the Gulf Coast and by Sunday we'll have some disruptive thunderstorms in Florida but then we turn our attention back to the Southwest look at this another stronger storm moves into California and the West late Saturday night through Sun
day and into Monday we're going to see between 8 and 12 Ines of rain in the Foothills north of LA and multiple feet of snow in the Sierra I'm meteorologist Jeff [Music] Cornish coming up a country music star under arrest in a drug case also ahead the outrage after migrants accused of attacking these New York police officers are released without bail and the NFL players who came to the rescue during a midair emergency whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal su
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y as a man it's like man I wish I was taller we see men who are taller as the alpha I went from 5'9 right now with shoes I'm 61 everybody's freaked out by it on the basis of what what it's called leg lengthening you only live once so go for it the big business of getting tall now streaming on Hulu I'm Rob Marciano reporting from steambow Colorado where the Avalanche danger remains High because of this it continues to snow here you're streaming ABC News live Houston we have a problem what's being
called an accidental release of fire suppression foam caus this mess at Bush Intercontinental Airport crews are trying to keep the chemicals from seeping into nearby waterways Hoody and the Blowfish founder Darius Rucker has been arrested police near Nashville say the singer was booked on misdemeanor drug possession charges it's unclear what led to the arrest but Rucker was also cited for expire registration suggesting he was pulled over by police new details overnight about the group of migran
ts accused in a vicious attack on police officers in New York's Times Square some of the suspects released without bail authorities in New York are searching for more four suspects most believed to be Asylum seekers in connection with this attack on two New York City police officers the officers were patrolling outside a migrant shelter when a scuffle broke out the group of migrants Kicking and punching the officers running off with their phones reprehensible cowards you want to know why our cop
s are getting assaulted there's no consequences and we must change this end of story six people have been arrested but police believe at least 13 were involved New York's governor was asked whether the suspects should be deported get them all and send them back we don't you don't touch our police officers we don't touch anybody and this morning outrage growing over why several of the suspects were set free without bail authorities are investigating whether four of them then hopped a bus to Calif
ornia using fake names the New York mayor's office Furious this is an absolute Abomination but they should not be back out on the street based upon what they did the city has struggled to cope with the arrival of nearly 200,000 Asylum seekers in the last 2 years police say arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 migrants for various crimes but activists warn against penalizing an entire population of migrants legally in the US seeking Asylum the officers were not seriously injured in
that attack All-Star tight end for Baltimore Ravens is being hailed a hero for his actions on a cross country flight Mark Andrews was flying to Phoenix when another passenger suffered a medical emergency a doctor and nurse tried to help and Andrews who has diabetes offered his testing kit suggesting her blood sugar might be low and it was and she recovered in time to walk off the flight Andrews called the flight crew the doctor and the nurse the real heroes absolutely coming up a big city power
out outage blamed on what else a raccoon also ahead one year later we hear from people still afraid to return to their homes after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine Ohio whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Leon Maine the scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere from the scene of that deadly missile strike in Dena Ukraine reporting from the earthqua
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the story is we're going to take you there you're streaming ABC News live ABC News live you're streaming ABC News live ABC news live streaming free everywhere America's number one streaming news tonight a stalker hunting women makes me shudder a young mother vanishes a series of apparently unconnected crimes another mother gunned down oh my gosh what did you do with this and then a over minivan pulls up and he reaching for the gun and jumped out of the car I'm the one that got away the murderer
in the minivan I get goosebumps to think what they found all new 2020 tonight on ABC national forest are good places to get away but sometimes bad things happen in good places it's the stuff of nightmares all I could see was their feet sticking up my knees went with this is a human skull we were definitely against the clock how many more victims are out there wild crime Blood Mountain now streaming only on Hulu all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and Americ
a needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you I hug you yes so what will you be watching Saturday's on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show a major power outage north of the Border in Toronto thousands were in the dark and now we know why officials say a raccoon made contact with some equipment at a power station the outage lasted 3 hours the CDC has issued a
critical warning about a highly addictive supplement known as gas station heroin its real name is Neptune's fix and it's now being recalled doctors say it may be contaminated with chemicals found in synthetic cannabis which have been linked to hallucinations seizures and brain swelling lawmakers have called for a Crackdown but the FDA does not regulate dietary supplements tomorrow marks one year since the toxic train derailment in East Palestine Ohio which forced the evacuation of thousands of p
eople as President Biden prepares to visit this month ABC's Alex bche spoke with residents afraid to return 12 months later this morning investigators releasing new images of the balls of fire erupting after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine Ohio one year ago tomorrow days after the crash the rail operator Norfolk Southern conducted a controlled release of vinyl chloride a cancer causing toxin from five of the rail cars hundreds of people had to be evacuated from th
eir homes and now one year later many are still afraid to return I don't feel comfortable going back home I'm still hearing all the people that went back home that regret going back home dozens of families were relocated to hotels paid for by Norfolk Southern but that program runs out next week the EPA insists the air and tap water is safe but some residents aren't buying it now I've had a migraine almost the entire duration since the derailment Christa Graves lives just over a mile from the der
ailment site she says the smell of chemicals still permeates her home and says she recently found chemical Sheen in her basement and then there's Wayne and lorri oconnell after the derailment they both tested positive for vinyl chloride Weeks Later Wayne was diagnosed with breast cancer Wayne do you think your breast cancer is linked to that derailment I can't say for sure but it seems awful coincidental since the derailment Norfolk Southern says it's invested more than 100 Mill million do in th
e local economy including millions in direct payments and beautification projects the railroad operator and the EPA have also collected 45,000 samples and insists the town is safe I I very much feel confident this area is safe um I can tell you I've been here from you know the the very beginning here and I'm not having issues but despite these measures there's also frustration here at a lack of action in Washington to pass new rail safety measures I'm angry towns have been wiped off the map for
less than this Alex paset ABC News East Palestine Ohio Alex thank you the NTSB says the derailment was caused by an overheated wheel bearing Advocates also cite a lack of safety features like sensors and say more workers are needed on large trains to something lighter coming up why you should include shrimp at your Super Bowl party this year plus meet the group of teachers who just won the Powerball lottery all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America ne
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e Apex Summit in San Francisco wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News [Music] live time to check the pulse beginning with your Super Bowl menu what's on it and how much is it going to cost some snack prices are slightly higher than last year but not shrimp so you may want to serve up a big platter now that prices are down 6% thanks to an over Supply shrimp forever everybody all right how about another Thrifty known option at Super Bowl parties chicken wings both the
fresh and frozen variety are a big bargain compared to last year but you'll have to dig deeper for chips they cost at least 5% more this year o bummer next the luckiest teachers in America 30 current and former staffers from a middle school in Kentucky won a million dollars in the Powerball lottery the group has been pulling money together for years 14 years and they've been playing the same numbers they bought the the winning ticket at Kroger and one member of the group found a creative spot t
o hide the ticket until they were ready to claim the prize I thought if somebody breaks in they are not going to pick up a mathbook yeah you play the lottery knowing you have a chance and then when it happens you think there's no way this is true split 30 ways they each got about $24,000 after taxes not a bad Bounty next it's Apple's first entirely new product in a decade the much anticipated Vision Pro headset goes on sale today Apple says it's compatible with more than a million apps One revie
wer said using the $3,500 device is like swiping around on your iPhone if your iPhone was strapped to your face in apple executive spoke to our will reev about customers being able to try it out in a few dozen Apple Stores the best part about giving these demos is watching those reactions and I will say it's awe it's Wonder uh sometimes we've had some people cry it is a really transformational experience see how close you can get more than 200,000 headsets have reportedly been sold since pre-ord
ers began 2 weeks ago and finally want to know how long your dog will live take a look at his or her nose a new study finds a long nose could mean a longer life for your Pooch British researchers found breeds with flatter faces had a shorter life expectancy than those with longer sells they're not sure why but they say some breed related differences may play a role top headlines next in mcac one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces on the planet now I'm starting to get very excited if we manage t
o climb incord it'll be the biggest first descent we've ever done oh my God so scary ultimately what's at stake with climbing this is not what I signed up for is always your life Ro all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you H you yes so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Sat
urday on ABC News live my favorite show the ideal male physique is tall dark and handsome when he can buy you a lot of things money can't make you taller right we'll bring you behind the scenes of the newest cosmetic surgery as a man is like man I wish I was taller we see men who are taller as the alpha I went from 5'9 right now wish shoes I'm 61 everybody's freaked out by it on the basis of what is called leg lengthening you only live once so go for it the big business of getting tall now strea
ming on Hulu tonight a stalker hunting women makes me shutter a young mother vanishes a series of apparently unconnected crimes another mother gunned down oh my gosh what do this and then a silver minivan pulls up and he reaching for the gun and jumped out of the car I'm the one that got away the murderer in the minivan I get goosebumps to think what they found all new 2020 tonight on ABC checking more top stories authorities say several people were killed last night when a small plane crashed i
nto this mobile home park in Clearwater Florida they did not offer a specific number of victims the FAA says the pilot had reported engine failure prosecutors in New York are considering a perjury charge against Donald Trump's former Finance Chief they believe Alan weiselberg may have lied during testimony linked to the Civil fraud case against the former president weiselberg is on probation after serving time for tax evasion an advertising agency will pay $350 million to settle a lawsuit over i
ts marketing of Oxycontin and other opioids critics say publist health Bear some responsibility for the crisis which has killed thousands of people much of the money will pay for programs to fight the opioid epidemic today's weather showers on the west coast but heavier rain for the Southwest snow in the Rockies storm in Texas and Oklahoma but warm in the Midwest and finally my favorite story The Owl flying around New York for an entire year Danny new has the story of Flo 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 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 mile
s 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 REM 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 every 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 Gathe
r in Central Park to try and capture this rare magnificent bird enjoying some oh my gosh damn since flco has 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 problem so bad it even hired a rat Zar is flocko the real rodent eating superhero our city needed he's a superhero for sure guys one recent estimate cla
imed that there are about 3 million rats in New York City and there's only one bird for the job guys there he is have a great day and a great [Music] weekend it's Friday February 2nd and the White House is ready for Retribution we start [Music] here sources say the Pentagon has its marching orders and will launch a series of strikes they want to find Targets that are significant that will hurt those militants but is Iran on the list of targets Martha radit is in the Middle East with the latest t
he mother of a school shooter makes her case are you a failure as a parent I don't think I'm a failure as a parent at what point do parenting decisions make you culpable in a murder and life is a game of inches I went from 5'9 with without shoes I'm like 5'11 and a half give or take but would you go under the to get taller from ABC News this is start here I'm Brad [Music] milky as of this morning it's been 5 days in counting since a drone strike claimed the lives of three American troops the fir
st US military deaths since this conflict in the Middle East began and he looked at me and he said I'm sorry miss Ma but bana was killed this morning in a drone attack when you have a deadly strike like this it demands a response but what kind of response and against whom after all while this appeared to come from militant groups in Iraq and Syria they are directly sponsored by Iran who pays for our soldiers lives well after 5 days of waiting it now appears the US has a plan for retaliation appa
rently it's no longer a case of if but when and where ABC's Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha RIT has made her way to Jordan where these troops were killed in the first place Martha you've been speaking of sources what should we expect to happen here I I think you can expect a multi-tiered multi-count multi-target retaliatory strike I think it's going to be very different from what we have seen in the past few months but in many ways very the same president has made his decision about re
sponding um options were presented to him he made his choices and uh and his decisions and uh and we're going to and we're going to move out they'll go after these militia groups where they can find them certainly the ones they believe have been responsible for these attacks and and try to take them out and carefully as the US tries to do avoid civilian casualties I think that is number one uh they do not want to kill any civilians according to sources I have talked to president Biden has deep m
isgivings about going after Iran itself all we've heard from the president from the administration for months is these are Iran backed militias these are Iran backed militias but they don't want this war to escalate but if you look at the map it really already has the conflict has escalated we've got fighting in the Red Sea we've got fighting on the northern border of Israel and we certainly have seen in Iraq and Syria these militias targeting Americans American forces well over 165 times well a
nd Martha on one hand it's only been a few days right it's been less than a week since this happened on the other hand it's so significant the first American Service member deaths in this entire conflict in the region we're battling with so many of these iran-backed proxy groups the question has kind of been why has it taken so long to strike back I mean what's your sense I I think this is one of the major reasons why this is so different the US always has Target lists they probably knew pretty
quickly exactly who was responsible for this strike but they want this one to be different it needs to be significant it needs to be unambiguous it needs to actually cost Iran something because they don't want one big show of force or one little pin prick strike they want to find Targets that are significant that will hurt those militants in many ways and that takes time and it takes coordination this is one of the most remote parts of Jordan Syria is just behind me about two miles a rock is off
to my left you know Brad we traveled up to the border of Syria and it is the most remote area it is it is seriously like a moonscape up there there are a few little Villages they want to make sure especially this time because deterrence frankly has not worked that these targets are significant enough that it will hurt the militants or at least slow them down or at least avoid for some American forces more significant attacks on them that's why it takes so long they just want to be certain and h
ave this mean something yeah and Martha I mean since you've been in the region and since you've been talking your sources what have we learned about the attack in the first place because we say Iran back militants but like you said the Pentagon probably knew early on more specifically who this group was I mean do we know at this point which militant group this was and how they Carri this out one of the first things they had was physical evidence they had the parts of that drone so you had forens
ics and they have now determined that it's a particular type of drone uh made in Iran the Pentagon sent out pictures of those weapons showing they were from Iran this this is a a show that they put on TV Brad I talked to the Iranian foreign minister uh just a little over a week ago and and he denied that they ever provide weapons for these things but they clearly do the US has seen it I've seen displays of those weapons myself so they know that that drone was made in Iran essentially they know w
here they believe it was launched from it was clearly either Syria or Iraq because that according to officials of the countries that were going to go after and possibly Yemen as well so that attack that drone coming uh it's it's very sad to say but we also know that the air defenses at that base did not catch it they thought that it was a US surveillance drone and that's one of the reasons that drone that iranian-made drone got through and these groups all have different names but they are essen
tially under one umbrella who are basically just militants who are going after Americans who are going after Western forces they want US forces out of Syria out of Iraq and this is also how they're trying to get them out of there right and and and that mistake as far as we can tell it was a mistake of of of not shooting down that drone when they had the chance of course now we see the aftermath of that right three dead American Service members dozens injured and now uh potential strikes coming t
heir way in the Middle East all right Martha Ritz they're in Jordan right now thank you so much thank you [Music] Brad Square testimony about is I do yesterday in Michigan the mother of a school shooter took the stand not in his defense but in her own stting your name it's Jennifer Crumbley Jennifer Crumbley the mother of Ethan Crumbley who killed four classmates and injured several others has pleaded not guilty to several unprecedented counts of invol AR manslaughter if convicted she would be t
he first parent ever held responsible in this way after a mass shooting but prosecutors say her actions were just that egregious ABC's Trevor alt has been on the scene in Michigan covering this Trevor what did she say well first of all Brad she says that she was horrified at what her son did she made that very clear that she's still having to come to terms with the fact that her son harmed people killed for of his classmates in fact she explicitly said I wish he would have killed us instead do y
ou believe you are the victim here um I don't want to say that I'm a victim because I do not want to disrespect those families that truly are the victims on this um but we did lose a lot she also is adamant that she was not aware of the many red flags that the prosecution has laid out leading up to this shooting so much so that she says when she looks back on how it all unfolded she doesn't think she would do anything different ly uh which is going to strike a lot of people as a pretty wild thin
g to say given she's on trial for involuntary manslaughter her and her husband the first parents in American history to face these kinds of charges after a child commits a mass shooting are you a failure as a parent I don't think I'm a failure as a parent but at that time essentially what we saw in court yesterday just from her defense attorney questioning her Brad is that they took a long time establishing the relationship of her as a mother they had a lot of photos of family trips that they we
nt on over the years and him growing up and then talking about how they have a little bit less photos as he gets older because teenagers are just that age she describes herself as caring and attentive they talked about times that she would take her son to the doctor I trusted him and I felt like I had an open door and he can come to me about anything and then we kind of get into the area where her story splits from the stories that we have heard from the prosecution over the past week and a half
as they laid out their case mainly over what should these parents have been aware of leading up to this shooting I did not go through his text messages um I didn't have a reason to she says that he at no point asked to go to therapy and that at no point did it seem like he was having any kind of Mental Health crisis that would require her to get help Brad well yeah Trevor I'm trying to figure out how much of this is sort of about gun safety and taking responsibility for the guns that you own th
at your childood and how much of it is just about parenting techniques like is it illegal to not be proactive with your kid about stuff like this I guess right and that's exactly why this case is going to be extremely difficult to get a conviction because you have a defense attorney who readily admits her client was not a perfect parent and made a lot of mistakes I think that your the Crux of your question of parenting versus gun safety and how they intertwin could be largely divided among how t
he two parents are being tried so Jennifer crumble is up first her husband James crumble is going to get tried for the same crimes uh in March her trial's largely been about parenting and missing warning signs and while they did talk about the weapons the fact that the parents bought the gun for their son we do know that the dad James Crumbley actually made the purchase and on the stand yesterday Jennifer Crumbley made a point to say it wasn't her area to make sure the guns were secure that fell
to her husband of course we now know that gun he was able to get access to it and the two other weapons that the parents had that were found at home by investigators investigators testified they were kept in a gun safe with the code 000000 I imagine that is going to be hit even harder by prosecutors in the husband's trial what I think you're going to see today when it comes to cross-examination of Jennifer Crumbley and I think it could be quite brutal is hammering her over and over about her so
n's cries for help about him writing in his journal my parents won't listen to me five can you read this passage in this one the shooter writes I want help but my parents don't listen to me and I can't get any help the shooter rights I want to shoot up the school so badly prosecutors are going to take this woman this mother who testified for hours yesterday about how she cared for her son and asked her in front of the jury how did you miss this and they believe the fact that she did miss it is s
o grossly negligent that it is Criminal bread right the difference between being an imperfect parent as the mother's claiming versus essentially being a danger to others the father like you said he's on trial later this year we'll see what happens in both of these cases Trevor alt in Michigan thanks so much thank you [Music] Brett so back in the day I was on the dating apps like you do and I listed my height as 5'9 which is a tiny tiny FIB okay I'm closer to 5'8 5'8 and a quarter but you never a
djust your height down right in our societ guys always want to be taller and this gets reinforced everywhere from the 9s when I was growing up from my man skilo [Music] hello just last year from Olivia Rodrigo to how we talk about pop psychology but there's nothing you can change about your height or is there how tall were you 5'9 that's the average height for an American male I'm not average I don't like to be average this week on impact by Nightline ABC's Asen Singh went behind the scenes of a
growing industry leg lengthening surgery and unlike so many other cosmetic surgeries this one is absolutely dominated by men who wish they were a little bit taller Asen is with us now Asen leg lengthening surgery really this is a thing yes Brad it is the new kind of viral sensation where men are actually able to get taller they are literally adding inches to their uh femurs and tibas in order to be able to achieve that uh tall dark and handsome look that has been sought after for so many decade
s and Brad I got to say I'm guilty of it too I'm 5'11 but you know I'm telling people I'm 6 feet but but wh why why would you go to the lengths of getting surgery like you talk to people who got this procedure what did why this is a real issue of insecurity amongst a ton of males in our society and it comes from this perception that tall people are more successful tall people have a lot more of an easier time it contributes to your confidence you're romantic your dating life you have to try hard
er you have to dress better you have to make more money you have to do something better because just having the hide Advantage is like Paramount we spoke to individuals who are who had gotten the surgery who are about to get the surgery and we met two really interesting gentlemen who are could not be more different Brad I went from 5'9 with without shoes I'm like 5'11 and a half give or take you have Hugo Ramirez he's a businessman who who works between Miami and Houston and he is very much embl
ematic of the Cosmetic Surgery life I mean I just did my face you just did your face yeah I just my face what' you do I had a jaw implant and Chin implant and I had them replaced it and then had him tight my neck this guy's gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of surgery and procedures done all over over his body not limited just to his height it's the biggest rush is that what you get from New this is the biggest rush ever what was it about being taller than the respect I had to earn m
y respect people are taller they don't have to earn the respect I mean you could be an idiot and be tall and you get respect on the other hand we have Jerry who's this uh travel nurse in in Mobile Alabama and you see the more practical side of this surgery today I measured in at uh 55 on the DOT he's been underage height his whole life and this is something that has weighed on him heavily he says that it has affected his dating life it has affected his confidence you know sometimes I want to rea
ch stuff in the aisles of a Walmart you just can't cuz you're short and you got to get on your tippy toes and I feel like it's sometimes embarrassing this is a procedure that he has saved up um in order to be able to get done so this surgery set me back uh I believe is around $775,000 just to be able to get to to average height which is 5'8 5'9 in the United States is something that this procedure allows someone like Jerry to realize okay so how does it work right like what the actual surgery in
volves if you're adding length to your bone does that mean like you're breaking your bone to do this yeah so there's this doctor uh Dr Kevin W Pasad in Las Vegas you know so the concept of limb lengthening has been around probably 75 80 years uh and we've been applying it to Pediatric deformity and kids with short legs or even in traumatic patients who might get into an accident one leg ends up shorter or deformed he runs Lim Plastics and it has become sort of the leader in offering leg lengthen
ing surgery as an elective cosmetic surgery all right morning Jerry how are you doing how you doing Dr good all right how you feeling good good ready to get this started when we connected with Jerry and he was looking into getting this leg lengthening surgery he decided to go with doct Debbie Pasad we use your own natural bone that you have and what you do is you just you know you implant a device into the hollow part part of the bone um and then you create a small break into the bone and then t
hat device responds to a remote control that the patients use to slowly lengthen the bone uh as they kind of proceed that nail can lengthen approximately 3.2 in and that's where you get your gain of height from yeah we're all set I think the room's all set up uh and we're ready to go all right okay all right let's get you back there so we followed Jerry to Las Vegas um as he's about to undergo the surgery we we're all the way with him into the operating room follow follow the tip fit down when y
ou're watching the surgery you definitely hear that hammer uh cracking away at the bone in order to create the the separation that's but he claims that it's just creating a small perforated uh uh dotted line similar to that on a paper towel and they they're creating a small break in the bone and then he just puts a rod in there it's going to be a touch more exay and then for uh up to 30 to 60 days he's increasing the patient's height by a millimeter uh and that Rod is basically growing and they
just do it through an app but when you're in there man you are hearing that bone being hammered at and it it is intense it is intense wait yeah it does sound it sounds not just intense it sounds like violent right like are I mean are there health risks to this Asen when you're messing like with your own bone structure yeah there definitely are health risks that are associated with a procedure like this because first of all when it comes to it being an elective or a cosmetic procedure It's relati
vely new Caesar still risky procedures and risky tools and many of them still need to be removed after the L lengthening has completed which of course is another surgery with its own risks and benefits and our own Dr Darian Sutton really breaks down that these guys are getting these procedures done but we don't know what the next 5 10 15 years of their bodies are going to look like they can include damage to nearby structures for example damage to muscles damage to ligaments and tendons and even
permanent nerve damage the the recovery process for a procedure like this is definitely intense it takes weeks if not months for the patients to get back on their feet they're limited to Walkers they're going through intense rounds of uh of physical therapy and all types of recovery processes to just to be able to walk normally again I do know physically it's going to be very demanding on me but um nervous no just because I'm so set in stone but when it comes to the critics and people sort of q
uestioning whether or not Medical Professional should even be offering this procedure Dr D really points to the life-changing moments that he thinks he's providing to his patients when you look at it from my perspective and you see these patients and you see the impact it is it has on these patients and you see how much it improves their lives and you see these patients you know they just seem so so grateful for it and on the other side they just seem so happy that they under underwent the surge
ry it's one of the most rewarding surgeries I do it's bizarre though a because like you want to ask like is it really so bad to be short or average height is that really so detrimental yeah I don't think it is that bad to be short in fact I think right now it is cool to be a short King you look at guys like uh uh Dave frankco Timothy Shalom even Kevin Hart man he's the biggest man in Hollywood right now it is hot to be short it is cool to be a short King that said I'm not rushing to get my legs
reduced anytime soon I don't like to be average I want to be beyond what I could be mhm and Brad you won't believe this when we sat down with Hugo and he had just finished his intense monthlong recovery process he said he still wants three more inches do you have a goal like is there an end a finish 63 honestly 6 I know I could go to 6'4 yeah what's your dream height uh 63 would be the my dream height wow oh my gosh okay so like the short King hashtag not having an effect on everyone uh asan sin
g with this incredible piece on impact by Nightline that's also streaming on Hulu right now aan great reporting thank you thanks Brad really appreciate you everyone loves an Underdog Story but what about an underbird story now are you a birer bill you seem to know a lot about birds like what how did you get so invested in this story well uh I'm not a burer per se uh but uh I do like celebrity type Birds that's ABC's Bill Hutchinson talking about what's perhaps become New York City's most famous
fugitive Flo the AL is a Eurasian eagle owl and what's uh rare about him is he is believed to be the only Eurasian eagle owl on the loose in the Wilds of North America and the interesting part about Flo is his story starts with a crime until last year Flo the owl had lived his entire life in the Central Park suo but exactly one year ago today someone cut a hole through his cage and uh he just walked out of the cage walked through the hole that was cut into the mesh lining of his cage and uh bolt
ed into the Wilds of New York City Flo has become a Bonafide celebrity in Manhattan birders watch him pop up in various trees but he started spreading his wings further soon he alighted on the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue and that just shocked people drew a crowd also drew the NYPD who um didn't seem to really know what to do with him at first and they put out some caution tape to sort of cordin him off so that people couldn't get close to him and then they put a cage out on the sidewalk thinking I
guess that he was going to Just Surrender that didn't happen of course flco flew away and over the last year he started exploring other parts of town he gets around he he's been uh not just in Central Park but down in the Lower East Side he started to uh Roost or perch in private Gardens on um Terraces uh on people's window Ledges oh my God you're so beautiful so beautiful I was in my kitchen and I have my phone in my hand and I look over to the window and there's an L one of the reasons he's fl
ying in these wider and wider circles is he's likely looking for a mate what he doesn't know is there's no mate out there for him he's the only one of his kind in this part of the world scientists had worried that this along with the fact that he never hunted in the wild would put him at risk but instead after a year on the loose Flo's thriving they pretty much gave up on capturing him maybe two weeks after he escaped right now they've decided just to let him be a free bird he proved them all wr
ong very quickly actually he uh he was able to adapt to his new environment in a free world and learn to catch Rats on his own and uh New York City has a very really bad rat problem so anything that could exterminate that is as a welcome in New York the following has steadily risen not just from New Yorkers but around the world people have been sharing videos of Flo's location sighting of him he's even become a muse for writers photographers and artists our reporter Bill Hutchinson has painted a
series of flco portraits these vividly colorful depictions of the owl in various scenarios with construction workers and Fifth Avenue Shoppers I think people like the Underdog Story and he he was the underdog definitely cuz nobody thought he could survive out there and he did and he showed resilience and that sort of enamored him to people's interest and cheering for him to be free one of my favorite honorary New Yorkers is the author eie white he wrote about animals you probably know Charlotte
's Web eie white once said about New York that people born here take the city for granted the commuters give it a sense of restlessness but then there are The Outsiders the transplants the ones who came here roaming the city in quest of something bigger those he said give the city its passion that's where I think has rallied people around flocko of course if you were to ask him about his cele status he'd probably just play it modest and say who me I was blown away by Bill's portraits by the way
you can see them in his story on abcnews.com just look for his reporting on the one-year anniversary of Flo's Freedom start here is produced by Kelly TZ Jen Newman Brenda Selena's Baker via arenson Cameron shavian Anthony Ali meline wood and terara gimbal Ariel Chester is our social media producer Josh Cohan is director of podcast programming I'm our managing editor Laura mayor is our executive producer thanks to Leia Brown John Newman and Liz lesie special thanks this week to Jonah Haskell Chri
s Barry Dana schaer lion Caldera Eric Strauss and Anne flare I'm Brad milky see you next [Music] week you're watching America's number one streaming news live reporting breaking new exclusives keep streaming with ABC News live tonight a stalker hunting women makes me shudder a young mother vanishes a series of apparently unconnected crimes another mother gunned down oh my gosh you do and then a silver minivan pulls up and he reaching for the gun jump out of the [Music] car I'm the one that got a
way the murderer in the minivan I get goosebumps to think what they found all new 2020 tonight on ABC I have a point of contact they're expecting us this our secret world we have do you think we're going to be safe I don't know this is my pen inside that pen is a slice of human brain these are assassinations that people are going to be murdered there's really no telling what some of them will do I oh my God it's happening everywhere and anywhere [Music] Wow first thing in the morning there's a l
ot going on yet another avalanch warning that's up to catch you up with what happened overnight a dangerous ice storm is impacting the morning commute what's happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straightforward with some fun in between how does billionaire sound sounds good to me the Moose started chasing a dog first thing in the morning America this morning America's number one early morning news on ABC News live from Ameri
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the Michigan school shooter takes the stand in her own defense what she says about her husband and her actions as she prepares for cross-examination the plan for a multi-day multi-target attack in Jordan what we're learning about the president's plans to retaliate for a deadly attack on a US military base as the bodies of us Fallen Soldiers make their way home backtack storms are on the move which parts of the country will see wash outs this weekend and a life-threatening flash flood watch and
in ABC News exclusive as Apple debuse its brand new device what CEO Tim Cook is sharing about the Apple Vision Pro and the future of te we begin with Jennifer Crumbley on the witness stand the Michigan mom is on trial for involuntary manslaughter after her son killed four students at his high school now she's set to face questions from the prosecution ABC's Trevor alt has the latest Jennifer Crumbley the first parent of a school shooter to stand trial herself set for an intense cross-examination
that was the hardest thing I had to to stomach is that my child harmed and killed other people I wish he would have killed us instead crumblyy taking the stand in her own defense charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter prosecutors alleging she missed crucial warning signs that could have prevented the 2021 Oxford High School shooting in which her son killed four of his classmates I've asked myself if I would have done anything differently and I wouldn't have the crumbly parents bou
ght the weapon used in the shooting for their son Jennifer shifting responsibility to her husband when asked about securing the weapon I just didn't feel comfortable being in charge of that it was more his thing she said in several instances what the prosecution said were red flags were actually inside Family jokes like her son texting her that he was seeing demons or her laughing about him getting caught searching ammunition in class saying you have to learn not to get caught she also claimed h
er meeting with the school counselor the day of the shooting over these disturbing ing drawings was nonchalant he told us that he didn't feel um my son was a risk and actually gave him the option um if he wanted to stay at school or go home my son wanted to stay at school so we all discuss we all discussed that the prosecution resting its case Thursday with testimony from an investigator presenting what they found inside the shooters Journal he had written on 21 Pages how many reference the scho
ol shooting every single one on one page the shooter writing my parents don't listen to me on the next page the word help in bold black letters the ominous message I have zero help for my mental problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school and Diane the defense attorney wrapped up her questioning of Jennifer Crumbley yesterday afternoon so the cross-examination from the prosecution is now underway it could be a very fiery day in court Diane TR Al thank you and ABC News legal contributor B
rian buckmeyer joins me now for more on this Brian what stands out to you from crumb's testimony so far good what stood out to me was the pushing of blame to everyone as well as the the answers to some of the question did it appear like the prosecution was either sleeping or giving her enough Rob to kind of really Tire up on this cross examination I I'll give you an example at one point Jennifer Crumbley talks about going to the shooting range with her son leaving that gun inside of the truck in
the back she says that she knows that her husband James Crumbley put the the gun away safely first of all that's hearing uh she doesn't know if it actually happened but to just push the blame onto someone else and say you know what I just left it an open where my son could get it it's up to now my my husband to take care of things like that I think are going to come up on cross-examination and really haror so Brian what are you watching for as prosecutors that question her today the prosecution
had all night to prepare what I would expect is that after last night they got the transcript and I expect them to go line by line saying all right you said you didn't you wouldn't change anything how about this how about that how about this uh but what about this sign what about this sign why was this a joke to you I think they're going to really hold her feet to the fire in terms of missing these red flags and then her actions after the school shooting happened to show that she had a we call
consciousness of guilt that she knew that she did something wrong even though she took the stand and said I wouldn't change anything all right ABC News legal contributor Brian buckmire thank you and we will take that cross-examination when it happens right here on ABC News live meanwhile the new jobs report is out and is surprisingly strong the labor department says us employers added 353,000 jobs in January while the unemployment rate stayed at 3.7% ABC News business reporter Alexis christopher
us joins me now for more Alexis what is does this mean for the overall strength of the economy Diane this was a blockbuster jobs report when it came through I I was on my phone and I sort of like said is is this wrong you know I mean because it continues to show the resilience of the job market it underscores the strength of this economy even though we're all dealing with higher interest rates so let's break this down the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% where were the jobs added last month
professional and business services 74,000 jobs Healthcare retail government social assistance and Manufacturing so it was broad-based job gains last month and remember this is despite the fact that we saw thousands of layoffs in the month of January from big companies like Google Microsoft City Group another thing we always talk about every month wage growth stronger than expected average hourly earnings increasing 0.6% that was double the monthly estimate and if you look at year-over-year wage
s were up 4 and a half% more than the estimate of 4.1 % we know that higher wages could be inflationary so far the inflation picture has been pretty good right things have been cooling we'll get another report on inflation in the next couple of weeks but of course the talk now is what does this strong jobs report mean for the fed and interest rates it could mean that the Federal Reserve delays that first interest rate cut we were hoping it might come in March might come later in the year now the
reasoning behind cutting rates would be to juice the economy and to get us spending again we're doing that without the help of the Federal Reserve right now even in the face of higher interest rates so uh those who were hoping for lower uh interest rates in the coming months may have to wait a little longer because the economy especially the job market remains very strong all right ABC News business reporter Lexus Christoper is thank you you're [Music] welcome the 2024 race for the White House
is complicating two bipartisan deals in congress former president Trump is pushing Congressional Republicans to kill bipartisan Deals On the Border in taxes with some Republicans saying the deals could make President Biden look good meanwhile the president is hitting the campaign Trail making an appeal to union workers ABC News senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott is on Capitol Hill with the latest President Biden gearing up for a likely rematch with Donald Trump making a direct appea
l to union workers in Battleground Michigan we now have in large part because of you and organized labor the strongest economy in the whole damnn world outside the event dozens protesting Biden support for Israel Biden barely won Michigan in 2020 and polling shows him trailing Trump by several points in the state the bad border deal would be worse than no deal at all Trump is making immigration Central to his campaign now he's pushing Congressional Republicans to kill an emerging bipartisan deal
to address the Border but text of that deal hasn't even been released yet still many House Republicans say they'll vote against it Congressman Troy now says he doesn't want to do anything to help Biden's approval ratings it's really not about border security it's about trying to improve Joe's 33% approval rating you don't even need to see it you're a hard no I'm a hard no the president on Capitol Hill earlier that day remaining optimistic Mr President some House Republicans are calling the Bord
er deal a non-starter can you get it done Mr President are you doing enough to and it's not just immigration after the house passed the bipartisan tax bill Republican senator Chuck Grassley warned it would make Biden look good in an election year passing a tax bill that uh makes uh the president look good mail and out checks before the election means that he could be reelected all of it prompting frustration on both sides of the aisle they're saying the quiet part out loud that we're focused on
the next election how much does politics impact this in an election year between this impacts everything my goodness you can't get a resolution recognizing motherhood and apple pie without having politics come into it Diane we are learning this morning that Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have reached a deal on a major package that would include border security provisions as well as additional funding for both Israel and Ukraine the text of that legislation is expected to be released as
early as today that could tee up a vote in the senate for next week but with so many House Republicans lining up against that legislation it's unclear if it even has the votes to get passed Diane all right senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott thank you and President Biden is expected to attend the dignified transfer today of the three US service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan the White House says the president and first lady will meet with the families privately before the
ir loved ones remains are returned this comes as the Pentagon finalizes its plans to retaliate ABC News Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Ritz has the latest a somber return just hours from now the bodies of Sergeant Kennedy Sanders Sergeant Briana Moffett and Sergeant William Rivers will be arriving at Dober Air Force Base in Delaware there to meet them the families of the Fallen Soldiers and President Biden this as the US now finalizes its plan for its multi-day multi-target assault in
retaliation for the deadly drone attack in Jordan that took the lives of those soldiers and left at least 47 other service members wounded defense secretary Lloyd Austin taking questions for the first time since his hospitalization pointing the finger at Iran after forensics determined the explosive drone was Iranian made and launched by an Islamic militia group how much Iran knew or didn't know we don't know but it really doesn't matter because Iran sponsors these groups it funds these groups
they have a lot of capability I have a lot more a Us official telling ABC news that militants and their weapons in Iraq Syria and possibly Yemen all on the list of likely retaliatory targets the White House has been quite clear that it doesn't want to attack Iran directly and so they will go after the Iranian proxies the surrogates that are in the militias the intent will be to disrupt these militias to take out any kind of weapons that may be used to attack us basins again well that is the inte
nt a Us official telling me tensions at the White House are high with some Administration officials fearing the strikes could trigger the exact kind of escalation Administration is hoping to avoid Diane Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raditz thank you and rescue workers are on the scene of a deadly plane crash that set multiple homes on fire in Clearwater Florida the FAA says the pilot reported engine failure just before the crash now crws are combing through the wreckage ABC's Victor
Kendo is near the scene with the latest this fiery and deadly plane crash in Clearwater Florida is there anybody else in this house no I think they're all out plane just crashed into a a building here a small plane crashing into a mobile home park west of Tampa killing several people firefighters rushing to the scene The Blaze ripping through homes sending flames shooting into the night sky the FAA sing the pilot of the beachcraft Bonanza v35 reported engine failure just after 7:00 p.m. Thursday
he was having a mayday mayday mayday the call reporting the crash came in 8 minutes later report of a airplane crash that was above head the trailer at this location is now on fire firefighters arriving within minutes able to quickly put out the fires we could see the flam shooting like 50 F feet in the air with a big plume of smoke the house was fully involved in Flames um it didn't even look like there was a house left there we're just outside the mobile home park where the plane crashed no w
ord on how many people were killed multiple agencies will be investigating this including the NTSB and FAA Diane ABC's Victor Kendo in Clearwater Florida thank you and California residents are bracing for another round of heavy rain life-threatening flash flood watches are in effect for Santa Barbara and Los Angeles ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Z is tracking it all for us hi Ginger the National Weather Service is using the term lifethreatening for this next storm we could get months worth
of rain in just a couple of days and so February on average is the rainiest in California but we already saw Daily Record rain Long Beach flooded we saw that in Huntington Beach Studio City the trees over that's going to be a problem because you saturate the ground so much and then you just have continuous rain and that's with that next one so the current Storm's moving East but the next storm is moving in Saturday night through Sunday is when it starts and then through Monday the heaviest rain
and that's why you see that whole red area that's big big bear San Louis abiso Santa Barbara Malibu Los Angeles Anaheim Burbank all huge populations that could see landslides mudslides and just significant rain rainfall with major flash flood potential so timing wise Sunday morning is when the heaviest makes its way along that kind of southern coast the bar has definitely had had gotten slammed by that time um but really this is a bigger deal in Southern California because it doesn't just stop
at Sunday 7: a.m. through Monday you've got rain and then it still bullseyes right around Los Angeles at drive time so a lot of those Foothills into Burbank or Anaheim or you know a lot of the places closer to San Bernardino getting the heavy stuff but then you just keep adding rain and that's where it becomes a problem and even potentially Rivals one of the biggest in history which was February 1998 you can see some of the models trying to print out more than a half foot of rain that would be d
evastating to a lot of places there so we're watching this carefully the S Nevada above 6 7,000 ft going to pick up some of that snow of course and that's we'll have some wind with it too but the rain is going to be the headline going through the weekend and early next week Diane all right chief meteorologist Ginger Z thank you coming up what happens in Vegas will will not stay in Vegas the Super Bowl preparations are underway and they are bigger and better than ever what's being done differentl
y and how the crowds will stay hyped the whole game also ahead the spring break cracked down after years of growing chaos what Miami Beach is doing to control the unruly crowds this year whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground and Ukraine reporting from Leon Maine the scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere from the scene of that deadly missile strike in Dena Ukraine reporting from the e
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rever the story is we're going to take you there you're streaming ABC News live ABC News live you're streaming ABC News live ABC news live streaming free everywhere America's number one streaming news tonight a stalker hunting women makes me shudder a young mother vanishes a series of apparently UNC connected crimes another mother gunned down oh my gosh what you do with this and then a silver minivan pulls out and he reaching for the gun and I jumped out of the car I'm the one that got away the
murderer in the minivan I get goosebumps to think what they found all new 2020 tonight on ABC all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you I hug you yes so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show Super Bowl 58 is a little over a week away b
ut the part's already getting started this weekend in Las Vegas as fans and players begin to arrive the NFL is taking over Sin City along with people trying to get those rare tickets for the big game ABC's Wht Johnson has more Las Vegas is gearing up for a show unlike anything it's ever seen Super Bowl 58 from Superstars to super fans all about to descend on Sin City it's going to be Beyond anybody else's uh Wildest Dreams the defending Super Bowl Champs Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco
49ers heading to Vegas Sunday a week ahead of their second Super Bowl matchup on social media Chief's quarterback Patrick Mahomes jokingly comparing the trip to the comedy The Hangover but insisting it's all business I know it's Vegas and it's a lot of fun but for us it's it's a business trip in the true sense and we're going there to play a football game and both teams will be nowhere near the action before the big game staying in separate hotels 25 miles outside the strip but Las Vegas pulling
out all the stops preparing to welcome some 330,000 visitors a projected economic impact topping $600 million well we're obviously you know preparing a whole slate of official NFL Super Bowl events you know everywhere you walk in this city is going to be have a Super Bowl fever to it for those hoping to be among the more than 65,000 fans who will pack a legion Stadium the average price of a ticket is more than $99,000 the lowest resale price nearly $6,000 on StubHub they'll be rewarded not only
with football but entertainment for the first time ever a DJ will be rocking the stadium during the game Testo known as The Godfather of electronic dance music performing between quarters sending GMA this special message very excited to be part of the Super Bowl this year I can't wait to play in the stadium and bring the energy up during the game and let's not forget R&B icon usher in the highly anticipated halftime show I think for the you know over 100 million people who will see it for those
who know my music and know my legacy hopefully they will understand the Entertainer that I am and right now most of the ticket buyers are from California about 35% followed by people from Missouri and Kansas at about 11% and there are still some good seats available Diane all right Whit Johnson thanks for that coming up advocating for inclusion how one woman is helping hundreds of other women break into tough Industries like Motion Pictures photography and PR but first have a closet full of clo
thes but nothing to wear we have a new m method to help you declutter organize and fall in love with your wardrobe ing mccac one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces on the planet now I'm starting to get very excited if we manage to climb in cik it'll be the biggest first assent we've ever done oh my God so scary ultimately what's at stake with climbing this is not what I signed up for it's always your [Music] life tonight honoring the soldiers killed in Jordan as their bodies are returned home p
lus tracking heavy rain wind and snow and a new storm on the way more Americans turn to the most watched newscast on television World News Tonight with David mure from America's number one news comes the allnew ABC News app breaking news Incredible video faster smarter and customizable to your interests if you love being in the no you're going to love this experience the allnew ABC News app download it now tonight a stalker hunting women makes me shudder a young mother vanishes a series of appar
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listen now that's a part of the story I bet you didn't see coming wherever you get your podcasts start here reporting from the FBI I'm Pierre Thomas wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live welcome back it is time for Meo methods where I show you some of my favorite hacks to make life a little easier today I bring you a way to organizer closet to save you time and stress check it out we've all been there right you've got a closet full of clothes and yet I have n
othing to wear this was magnified for me after having kids I had a closet I could barely close yet I was always wearing the same thing perfect but I recently realized the problem wasn't my clothes it's the way I had them organized I used to organize my closet by category so there was a jackets and cardigan section a top section A pants section a skirt section and so on it made logical sense but putting together an outfit was like putting together a puzzle mixing and matching pieces trying to rem
ember what goes well with what and that also involves making a lot of micro decisions these days when I'm getting ready I don't have the time or bandwidth for that that'll work but lately I've started reorganizing My Closet by outfit and what I thought would just save me time has done so much more to do this in a big hul get some labels or Clothing Rack dividers so you can create sections move items like white and black tanks or jeans to the basic section because they go with just about everythi
ng Basics are also good items to put in drawers because you don't need to see them to remember them you're not going to forget to wear your jeans pieces that you would only pair with Basics go in the solo section so I love this cardigan but I only wear it with Basics like a white or black tank jeans or leggings so it's going in the solo section the goal is to get everything else in the outfit section take this top instead of just thinking oh that would look cute under a Blazer now I'm checking t
o see would I actually wear it with one of my blazers if I find a match I'm excited to wear these two items now live together in the outfit section if I find another top that goes well with that same Blazer that one lives there too repeat the same process with pants skirts even accessories now if something doesn't have a match you have a decision to make do you love it enough to buy something to go with it oh these would look great with a cropped black blazer order placed for cropped black blaze
r otherwise it's time to Let It Go thank you for your service this system helped me donate so many clothes but also ReDiscover pieces that I love but never wore like this skirt these pants this jacket and both of these tops now that they're organized into outfits I wear them all the time so my closet's less cluttered easier to navigate and full of clothes I actually wear babe let's go I've been ready for ages it takes forever as a bonus this is also help me buy less stuff and has made packing mu
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n warong we're heading to a small community outside of Mexico City getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime we'll take you there stream ABC News live week nights wherever you stream your news only on ABC News live first thing in the morning there's a lot going on get another Avalanche warning that's up to catch you up with what happened overnight a dangerous ice storm is impacting the morning commute what's happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what peop
le are talking about the migrant crisis fast straightforward with some fun in between how does billionaire sound sounds good to me the Moose started chasing a dog first thing in the morning America this morning America's number one early morning news on ABC News live welcome back to ABC News live first thanks for streaming with us you're looking at Jacksonville Beach Florida on this Friday and we have a lot of news to get to here's the rundown right now the bodies of three American Service membe
rs killed in an attack in Jordan are on their way home the remains of Sergeant Kennedy Sanders Sergeant Brian Moffett and Sergeant William Rivers will be arriving at do Air Force Base in Delaware this afternoon President Biden and their families are set to be there for the dignified transfer this as the US prepares to strike back at iran-backed militant groups in the Middle East a Us official tells ABC News militants and their weapons in Iraq Syria and possibly Yemen are all on the list of likel
y targets at least three people are dead after a fiery plane crash in Clearwater Florida firefighters rushed to the scene where a small plane crashed into a mobile home park west of Tampa the FAA says the pilot reported engine failure just after 700 p.m. last night the crash is now under investigation country music star Darius Rucker is facing misdemeanor drug charges after being arrested near Nashville it's un clear what led to the arrest but Rucker was also cited for an expired registration su
ggesting he might have been pulled over by police and on this Groundhog Day punk Satani Phil says an early spring is on the way the famous groundhog emerged from his burrow and did not see his shadow thousands gathered at gobler knob in Pennsylvania to see the legendary rodent make his prediction but experts say a coin flip may be more accurate groundhogs are not meteorologists and now to an AB news exclusive the governor of Connecticut is making a major announcement about his State's plan to er
ase medical debt residents who qualify will start to see debt Disappear by June with the state prioritizing single parents and lower income residents Stephanie Ramos sat down with Governor Ned Lamont to learn more about how it'll work in an unprecedented move Governor Ned Lamont of Conneticut announcing his state will be the first to wipe out medical debt for the thousands of people strugg struggling to pay their bills tell us why you're cancelling medical debt now and this is not something they
did because they were spending too much money this is something because that got hit with a medical emergency they should not have to uh you know suffer Twice first with the illness then with the debt medical debt is the number one source of debt collection in the US greater than credit cards utilities auto loans and other sources combined almost 20% of American households carry medical debt disproportionately impacting black and Latino families the state anticipating 250,000 residents will see
their medical debt cleared Lamont announcing he's leveraging a $6.5 million fund from the American Rescue plan Act of 2021 to cancel $1 billion in medical debt by working with a nonprofit organization that buys and eliminates debt at a fraction of the cost I think it's really important that people have a sense that they can start building wealth of their own for making that easier for people to do and the best way to start is eliminate the debt you got eligible families include those whose medi
cal debt equates to 5% or more of their annual income or whose household income is up to 400% of the federal poverty line for a family of four that's $156,000 a year and Diane there is no application process for those who want to participate in Connecticut it's automatic in cities like Chicago and DC who have cancelled debt the amount per household has ranged from $25 to six figure amounts Diane all right Stephanie Ramos thank you and Miami Beach is cracking down on dangerous Behavior ahead of s
pring break the city council is announcing new rules including curfews and closing beaches at 6 p.m. ABC's Victor Kendo has more chaotic spring break scenes on Miami Beach murders shootings fights and stampedes all of which the city desperately hopes to avoid this year Miami Beach is cranking down proactively a month before the rush city leaders promising significantly stricter rules to curb the notoriously unruly crowds an increased police presence with officers working 12-hour shifts vigorousl
y enforcing open container and noise laws implementing curfews suspending sidewalk cafes on famed Ocean Drive when necessary shutting down parking garages and parking lots we need to correct these issues we need to do it now and we're going to be very proactive um and if somebody thinks that we're doing too much well that means we're probably doing it right Mi Beach is currently under a state of emergency the city forced to declare states of emergency in recent years following fatal shootings th
at sent hordes of people scrambling partygoers clashing with police and a number of brawls breaking out on any given night spring break is what it is but it should not be impeding the functioning of of businesses in the area it should not not be uh impacting the quality of life of our residents spring break laws in effect across the state police telling the public people who violate the laws could face fines arrest even jail time and a criminal record that will follow you beyond spring break pol
ice will also set up DUI checkpoints they'll have license plate readers and reduce traffic down to one lane entering Miami Beach one commissioner saying they're shutting the door on spring break once and for all Diane all right Victor Kendo thank you coming up on ABC News exclusive as Apple debuts its brand new device what CEO Tim Cook is sharing about the Apple Vision Pro and the future of tech also ahead Usher dropped a new song overnight as Vegas prepares for a huge halftime show and we have
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e's first new device in years the era of spatial Computing is here with a hefty price tag of $3500 Apple's first spatial computer merges digital content with the physical world allowing users to navigate the space using their hands voice and eyes wow and GMA got a first look at one of the Apple Vision Pro spaces made available in a few dozen retail stores around the country when Apple Fans come in a space like this and get the device on what do you expect to see their reaction being well the bes
t part about giving these demos is watching those reactions and I will say it's awe it's Wonder uh sometimes we've had some people cry it is a really transformational experience like I'm so excited for you to try it because it really is deeply impacting and you can really feel like this is something really new and really exciting and I got to walk through the demo other users will be able to experience in select stores oh we're in a video they just blew a cake out right in my face wow you just s
aw your first facial video I did I feel like I must look pretty silly but I'm having a fantastic time the device is compatible with more than 1 million apps and over 600 spatial apps built specifically for it but some of the most popular apps including YouTube Spotify aren't available at the moment the Apple Vision Pro is not the first augmented or virtual reality headset available to Consumers and experts say it won't be the last I would expect to see a lot of competition a lot of response a lo
t of copying a lot of people trying to do what Apple's doing but in the long term we'll be able to slowly start to see a trend towards much smaller much more affordable versions of this wable computer on your face ABC's Will Reeve thank you and earlier on Good Morning America Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke exclusively to Michael Strahan about the Vision Pro at an Apple store here in New York City I I had an opportunity to try the the Apple Vision Pro how was it is the most amazing thing and is so hard
to describe to someone who hasn't experienced it yet it's magical it is absolutely magical but how do you how do you envision this being used by people in their daily lives oh I think it's going to be used in so many different ways because it's a it's a spatial computer and you know the the iPhone introduces to mobile Computing the Mac introduces to personal Computing this is the first spatial computer and people are going to interact with it in different ways some people will connect with it u
h with FaceTime and so forth some people will train on it surgeons will train on it um it's just the the number of use cases is like a computer yeah it's just enormous because there's over a million apps for it already it is a computer but it is a headset you truly you're so immersed in this world that you can create with this yes but it has a lot of groundbreaking technology what is that yeah yeah so we've been working on this for years and uh to get the gestures down there's a lot of artificia
l intelligence and machine learning built into the product to get hand gestures to get room mapping this stuff requires very deep machine learning and uh we couldn't be more proud of it you know we a company only has a few of these most companies have none and we've had the Mac the iPod the iPad the iPhone the Apple watch and now the Vision Pro it's one of those moments well I've had every one of those you named and I'm going to have one of these too it it you talked about you know your using yo
ur hands because it's a headset you wear it but you navigate it with your hands how how does something that I'm wearing on my face know what I'm doing with my hands well there's many cameras in it and uh we're always looking at the hands and they don't have to be out here and so it's not uncomfortable you can put them in your lap and you can select your with your eye you select the app that you want to open and with your hand opens it it's it's it is magical it really is I know that's a word tha
t we use a lot yeah but it is truly magical no no I I've done it so I can agree it's it's really just and it's very intuitive and very natural once you start using it doesn't take long to figure it out it works the way your mind works yes you know you don't really have to train to use it you put it on and you already know how it works it yeah just makes sense it just absolutely makes sense the big the big question for a lot of people at home would be the price it's $3,500 how long before it's mo
re accessible to your average customer well it's it's tomorrow's technology today is the way I think about it and it's packed with we have 5,000 patents on the product already and and so we really leaned into it and I'm hoping that people you know some people will pay for it by month some people will just buy it I talked to a lot of people out in the line they're just going to buy it yeah uh but you know over time who knows what will happen but we think we priced it for the right value today and
and there always there's going to be some critics who are going to say does this keep us discon connected how would you answer that I would say no because you don't have to immerse yourself you can uh augment your reality and so you and I can be sitting here having a conversation with the headset on and we can see each other's eyes but we can also see the screens around us and so it amplifies our our connection and and so that and that was a key design point for us we wanted people to be able t
o see each other's OD not get glazed over in a headset and it really is the made in what you you've come up with here and and like I said I had a chance to experience it the interaction with technology is unlike anything I've ever experienced oh I I I totally agree you know I I think about the first demos on this and they were many years ago and the rigs were enormous that that we were using to try to get a feel of the technology and it's one of those things it happens to to you and you know in
the moment that this is big yeah that this is huge and you just have to keep working at it to miniaturize it and uh get the technology down pth and we really feel proud of of today and the and delivering the product thousands of people have worked for multiple years to deliver this our thanks to Michael and Tim Cook for That interview meanwhile Bruce Springstein is paying tribute to his mother Adele who died at the age of 98 yesterday in an Instagram PO he shared the lyrics from his song The wis
h which was dedicated to the sacrifices she made to make his wishes come true World News Tonight anchor David M has more she was a fixture at so many of his concerts Adele Springsteen Bruce Springsteen's mother the fans knew when she was there Bruce would bring her up on stage to dance to Dancing in the Dark the crowd roaring the two even turning around and giving a little shake a hug and a kiss Bruce Springsteen revealing his mother's passing sharing this video of the two of them dancing along
with quotes from the song The wish which he wrote about his mother I remember in the morning my ha in your alarm clock rain I'd lie in bed and listen to you getting ready for work the sound of your makeup face on the sing Bruce Springsteen would often say it was his mother's love of music and dancing that influenced him early in his life renting him his first guitar when he was just seven she'd been battling Alzheimer's and her son would often talk about his mother's battle my mom is is 7 years
into Alzheimer's and she's 93 but dancing and the desire and need to dance is something that it hasn't left her remains an essential Primal part of who she is it's beyond language it's more powerful than memory and when she comes in the door we make sure there's music on the boss sharing that video the two of them dancing and about his mother he once said remember that the future is not yet written so when things look dark do as my mighty mom would insist lace up your dancing shoes get out on th
e floor and get to work our thanks to David mure for that story coming up advocating for inclusion how one woman is helping hundreds of other women break into tough Industries like Motion Picture films photography and [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] PR [Music] ing mccac one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces on the planet now I'm starting to get very excited if we manage to climb in CAC it'll be the biggest first desent we've ever done oh my God so scary ultimately what's at stake with cl
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tched newscast on television World News Tonight with David mure inside that pen is a slice of human brain I've never seen a place like this in my life oh my god look [Music] wow reporting from Cole Oklahoma I'm MOA langi wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] live [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back to ABC News live first this year's Oscar nominees are being celebrated for their increased diversity except in one majo
r area black women in technical roles now filmmaker Chris wrey is making it her mission to change that Eva Pilgrim has more I want a big life it's showtime time getting a hit show or movie on the screen takes a whole Army behind the scenes I kept hearing it continuously from people that they had never seen a woman they had never seen a black person they had never seen a black woman operator they knew it couldn't just be me in the union so Chris wrey went looking to see if she could find other wo
men like her the union that represents camera Crews on set aoi Local 600 has around 10,000 members after searching Chris found just 22 other black women why do you think it's important that we have the diversity behind the camera there's so much value in all the stories we tell being diverse I think what is entertaining what is exciting for people when they see a movie see a show is seeing something they haven't seen before so while we have that same diversity of Stories We Tell and people who a
re in front of the camera I think it's important to reflect that behind the camera and that's when she set out on a mission to help more women get jobs behind the scenes creating the group 600 black women women the very first weekend after I reached out the first 22 I put together a weekend of workshops but the really incredible thing was seeing everyone walk into the room I've never seen so many people who look like me and do what we do and all the volunteers we had all the instructors were jus
t moved emotional speechless we had people cry why do you think it was so emotional I think it was so emotional because we get to witness change that a lot of us didn't think we would ever see I think it's really special that we can do this for ourselves the group has now grown from 22 to 91 members I think there's not always a lot of support for black females to get the right training to be able to grow in this industry so I think with this group we're able to train each other with no judgment
that access to Technical Training a big part of The Sisterhood 600 black women hosting annual camera cookouts to teach members skills on the equipment they need to get jobs on set I felt that I had a safe space to learn these things when I was was able to go to that first cookout it was such an enjoyable situation because we were just there with each other no one was judging me it was only people that felt like my family just from the outset how has having that group helped you it's given me an
inner confidence that I didn't know that I had the group also helping those production houses that want to hire women of color on their sets find them I mean one more would be more one more would be two Malika Franklin is a digital imaging technician do get that comment a lot on set of oh my God you're a female oh my God you're black the only black female dit in the union because of this group I was able to find a mentee that I'm hoping will be the second black female dit and that is the goal wh
at are you hoping comes from all of this work you're doing my hope is to make film something that feels accessible to little girls who look like me I would love for film to feel like an approachable career for anyone who's interested I'd love people to know that there is support for [Music] them our thanks to Eva Pilgrim for that story and Usher has dropped a new song off his much anticipated new album coming out next week this is the eight-time Grammy winner is getting ready to headline Super B
owl halftime show ABC News contributor Kelly Carter caught up with Usher to see how he's preparing for the Big Show dancece the last night of your life the countdown to the Super Bowl and ushers halftime is on so you get the call from Jay-Z that this is actually happening took a minute you know it's kind of like an adrenaline high right you're like yeah of course but then you really think about it like wait a minute the work you got to do to do this is like it's a lot you know and I'm but I'm Re
ady the eight time Grammy winner revealing R&B is taking the spotlight to have R&B have the main stage at the Super Bowl is a major thing for me I think about what our country has you know kind of represented for black artist m you know having to at some point go through kitchens to even be able to perform for audience but they had to leave back through that same door you know fear for their lives as they went to the next state to do the same thing so I'm coming through the front door with this
one yeah I think about all of the R&B performers yeah who I carry in this moment and today a treat for fans the music video for Usher's new song ruin featuring his daughter sovereign for everybody leading up to the release of his first album in 8 years coming home there's some uh things that are are new special uh afro be and I'm a piano Vibes that you heard would ruined so much music that you have created has really soundtracked our lives for the last 30 years do you carry that pressure with yo
u I mean I put pressure on myself even if it were in comparison to another album or comparison to what somebody else is doing it's just because that's who I am I just want to make something that's going to move the needle Usher's teenage Sons Cino and naid weighing in so tons and tons of listening sessions with my kids you know uh giving me their opinions about what they think should have been on the album but um I think it's a a love letter in some way um and a reminder that no matter how far y
ou may go you will find your way back home [Music] eventually a career spanning three decades this Super Bowl performance will be another page in the Legacy I didn't start where I am now and I didn't get there by myself so everybody that has been a part of it I'm carrying them with me all of my fans my loved ones the people who you know may have felt like they have been forgotten they haven't I'm carrying you right with me when I walk on that stage that night Kelly Carter thanks for that and tha
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ee coming wherever you get your pocket CS start here tonight a stalker hunting women makes me shudder a young mother vanishes a series of apparently unconnected crimes another mother gunned down oh my gosh what did you do with that and then a silver minivan pulls up and he reaching for the gun and I jumped out of the car I'm the one that got away the murderer in the minivan I get goosebumps to think what they found new 2020 tonight on ABC ABC News America's number one news source traveling with
the president in Dublin Ireland I'm Mary Bruce wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live hi I'm Dio today on ABC News live first the mother of the Michigan school shooter takes the stand in her own defense what she says about her her husband and her actions as she prepares for cross-examination the plan for a multi-day multi-target attack in Jordan what we learning about the president's plans to retaliate for a deadly attack on a US military base as the bodies of
us Fallen Soldiers make their way home backtack storms are on the move which parts of the country will'll see wash outs this weekend and parts of Southern California under a flash flood threat right now but we begin with Jennifer Crumbley on the witness stand the m mom's on trial for involuntary manslaughter after her son killed four students at his high school now she's set to face questions from the prosecution ABC's Trevor alt has the latest Jennifer Crumbley the first parent of a school shoo
ter to stand trial herself set for an intense cross-examination that was the hardest thing I had to to stomach is that my child harmed and killed other people I wish he would have killed us instead crumbly taking the stand in her own defense charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter prosecutors alleging she missed crucial warning signs that could have prevented the 2021 Oxford High School shooting in which her son killed four of his classmates I've asked myself if I would have done an
ything differently and I wouldn't know the crumbly parents bought the weapon used in the shooting for their son Jennifer shifting responsibility to her husband when asked about securing the weapon I just didn't feel comfortable being in charge of that it was more his thing she said in several instances what the prosecution said were red flags were actually inside Family jokes like her son texting her that he was seeing demons or her laughing about him getting caught searching ammunition in class
saying you have to learn not to get caught she also claimed her meeting with a school counselor the day of the shooting over these disturbing drawings was nonchalant he told us that he didn't feel feel um my son was a risk and actually gave him the option um if he wanted to stay at school or go home my son wanted to stay at school so we all discussed we all discussed that the prosecution resting its case Thursday with testimony from an investigator presenting what they found inside the shooters
Journal he had written on 21 Pages how many reference the school shooting every single one on one page the shooter writing my parents don't leave listen to me on the next page the word help in bold black letters the ominous message I have zero help for my mental problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school Trevor alt thank you and let's bring in ABC News legal contributor Brian buckmire for more on this Brian prosecutors asked the judge to allow a text message into evidence that Jennifer
Crumbley apparently sent her attorney the night she was arrested now prosecutors say that text contradicts her testimony so what is does the judge have to consider here and how could that affect the case if this is allowed into evidence yeah so Diane one of the most important privileges we have in the criminal justice system is that of the attorney client privilege oftentimes people would ask me Brian do you know if your client did it and I would say yes but if even if they did I can't tell you
because what they tell me is privilege I can't wave that privilege by telling people what my client said but a client can wave that privilege by disclosing significant portions of that conversation to other people so when Jennifer Crumbley arguably goes up on the stand and says I was going to turn myself in in such and such way in such and such time because you being the defense attorney told me to the question now the judge has to De she that priv and can the prosecution now ask her questions
about the conversation that she had with her attorney to answer the question was she turning herself in or was she fleeing from prosecution Brian we heard in Trevor's piece that every page of the shooters Journal ref referenced the attack he also wrote my parents don't listen to me and he wasn't getting help for mental health issues is all of that enough for a conviction here I I don't think it's enough but it's it's close to that I I think you can be of two minds in this you can either trust Th
e credibility of what the shooter said that he did have these conversations with his mother and father and that their parents just ignored it or I've seen people say you know what teenagers lie they'll say one thing in their diary or one thing to another person but often times getting what that teenager feels what they think or what they're going through at that age they're not going to tell their parent and so I think it depends on what the evidence comes in how people believe the credibility o
f the defendant and the other witnesses as to whether or not those statements will be taken as true Brian what are you expecting to see from from prosecutors and the defense here to try to paint these clashing pictures the prosecutor trying to paint the picture of a mother who essentially neglected her son neglected warning signs and as a result is complicit in this shooting and the defense trying to paint the picture even through clumb herself of someone who now says she wished her son had kill
ed her instead and someone who had no idea that this was happening and was blind to this like many other parents uh may feel they are to several aspects of their children's lives why now di in this cross examination if I'm a defense attorney I'd be a little worried I mean I'll give you a little bit of a a piece of my strategy I try to never end a direct examination at the end of the day especially a big witness because what that means is the prosecution gets all night to read the transcript see
all the inconsistencies see where they can poke holes in my Witnesses and especially my client's testimony I expect a very fiery test uh cross- examination poking a lot of holes in what Jennifer crumblyy said and the inconsistencies that she may have put out there and then the defense to come back and try to rehabilitate her it's going to be a back and forth like a a ping pong match trying to see who's going to strengthen or weaken Jennifer crumley's credibility on the stand all right AB s news
legal contributor Brian buckmire thank you and we will take that cross-examination when it happens right here on ABC News live meanwhile President Biden is expected to attend the dignified transfer today of three US service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan the White House says the president and first lady will meet with the families privately before their loved ones remain are returned this comes as the Pentagon finalizes its plans to retaliate for that attack ABC News Chief Global Aff
airs correspondent Martha RIT has the latest a somber return just hours from now the bodies of Sergeant Kennedy Sanders Sergeant bana Moffett and Sergeant William Rivers will be arriving at Dober Air Force Base in Delaware there to meet them the families of the Fallen Soldiers and President Biden this as the US now finalizes its plan for its multi-day multi-target assault in retaliation for the deadly drone attack in Jordan that took the lives of those soldiers and left at least 47 other service
members wounded defense secretary Lloyd Austin taking questions for the first time since his hospitalization pointing the finger at Iran after forensics determined the explosive drone was Iranian made and launched by an Islamic militia group how much Iran knew or didn't know we don't know but it really matter because Iran sponsors these groups it funds these groups they have a lot of capability I have a lot more a Us official telling ABC news that militants and their weapons in Iraq Syria and p
ossibly Yemen all on the list of likely retaliatory targets the White House has been quite clear that it doesn't want to attack Iran directly and so they will go after the Iranian proxies the surrogates that are in the militias the intent will be to disrupt these militias to take out any kind of weapons that may be used to attack us Basin again well that is the intent a Us official telling me tensions at the White House are high with some Administration officials fearing the strikes could trigge
r the exact kind of escalation the administration is hoping to avoid Diane Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raditz thank [Music] you the 2024 race for the White House is complicating two bipartisan deals in congress former president Trump is pushing Congressional Republicans to kill bipartisan deals on the border and taxes with some Republicans saying the deals could make President Biden look good meanwhile the president is hitting the campaign Trail making an appeal to union workers AB
C News senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott is on Capitol Hill with the latest President Biden gearing up for a likely rematch with Donald Trump making a direct appeal to union workers in Battleground Michigan we now have in large part because of you and organized labor the strongest economy in the whole damn world outside the event dozens protesting Biden's support for Israel Biden barely won Michigan in 2020 and polling shows him trailing Trump by several points in the state the bad
border deal would be worse than no deal at all Trump is making immigration Central to his campaign now he's pushing Congressional Republicans to kill an emerging bipartisan deal to address the Border but text of that deal hasn't even been released yet still many House Republicans say they'll vote against it Congressman tro now says he doesn't want to do anything to help Biden's approval ratings it's really not about border security it's about trying to improve Joel's 33% approval rating you don
't even need to see it you're a hard now I'm a hardal the president on Capitol Hill earlier that day remaining optimistic Mr President some House Republicans are calling the Border deal a non-starter can you get it done Mr President are you you doing and it's not just immigration after the house passed the bipartisan tax bill Republican senator Chuck Grassley warned it would make Biden look good in an election year passing a tax bill that uh makes uh the president look good mailing out checks be
fore the election means that he could be reelected all of it prompting frustration on both sides of the aisle they're saying the quiet part out loud that we're focused on the next election how much does politics impact this in an election year between this impacts everything my goodness you can't get a resolution recognizing motherhood and apple pie without having politics come into it Diane and we are learning this morning that Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have reached a deal on a ma
jor package that would include border security provisions as well as additional funding for both Israel and Ukraine the text of that legislation is expected to be released as early as today that could te up a vote in the senate for next week but with so many House Republicans lining up against that legislation it's unclear if it even has the votes to get passed Diane senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott thank you and rescue workers are on the scene of a deadly plane crash that set mul
tiple homes on fire in Clearwater Florida the FAA says the pilot reported engine failure just before the crash now crews are combing through the wreckage ABC's Victor a Kendo is near the scene with the latest this fiery and deadly plane crash in water Florida is there anybody else in this house no I think they're all out plane just crashed into a a building here a small plane crashing into a mobile home park west of Tampa killing several people firefighters rushing to the scene The Blaze ripping
through homes sending flames shooting into the night sky the FAA sing the pilot of the beachcraft Bonanza v35 reported engine failure just after 7:00 p.m. Thursday he was having a mayday mayday mayday the call reporting the crash came in 8 minutes later report of a airplane crash that was above head the trailer at this location is now on fire firefighters arriving within minutes able to quickly put out the fires we could see the flam shooting like 50 feet in the air with a big plume of smoke th
e house was fully involved in Flames um it didn't even look like there was a house left there we're just outside the mobile home park where the plane crashed no word on how many many people were killed multiple agencies will be investigating this including the NTSB and FAA Diane ABC's Victor Kendo in Clearwater Florida thank you and California residents are bracing for another round of heavy rain Santa Barbara and Los Angeles are under flash flood threats as we head into the weekend ABC News chi
ef meteorologist Ginger Z is tracking it all for us Ginger the National Weather Service is using the term lifethreatening for this next storm we could get months worth of rain in just a couple of days and so February on average is the rainiest in California but we already saw Daily Record rain Long Beach flooded we saw that in Huntington Beach Studio City the trees over that's going to be a problem because you saturate the ground so much and then you just have continuous rain and that's with tha
t next one so the current Storm's moving East but the next storm is moving in Saturday night through Sunday is when it starts and then through Monday the heaviest rain and that's why you see that whole red area that's big big bear San Louis abiso Santa Barbara Malibu Los Angeles Anaheim Burbank all huge populations that could see landslides mudslides and just significant rainfall with major flash flood potential so timing wise Sunday morning is when the heaviest makes its way along that kind of
southern coast the baray areas definitely had had gotten slammed by that time um but really this is a bigger deal in Southern California because it doesn't just stop at Sunday 7: a.m. through Monday you've got rain and then it still bulls eyes right around Los Angeles at drive time so a lot of those Foothills into Burbank or Anaheim or you know a lot of the places closer to San Bernardino getting the heavy stuff but then you just keep adding rain and that's where it becomes a problem and even po
tentially Rivals one of the biggest in history which was February 1998 you can see some of the models trying to print out more than a half foot of rain that would be devastating to a lot of places there so we're watching this carefully the S Nevada above 6 7,000 feet going to pick up some of that snow of course and that's we have some wind with it too but the rain is going to be the headline going through the weekend and early next week Diane all right chief meteorologist Jin J thank you coming
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s reporter Alexis christoffers has more on that and your other business headlines Alexis what are you watching today watching that Blockbuster jobs report Diane because the job market remains surprisingly strong despite high-profile layoffs at media and tech companies employers added 353,000 jobs in January nearly double estimates while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% Job gains for November and December were also revised upwards meaning more jobs were added in those months than previou
sly thought the hiring boom was across many Industries including Health Care retail professional and business services and Manufacturing wages also grew more than expected up 4 and a half% compared to a year ago today's report could convince the Federal Reserve to delay cutting interest rates this year out of fear that the strong job market and wage growth could reverse progress on inflation Tesla is recalling more than two million Vehicles that's nearly all of its EVS currently on us roads safe
ty Regulators say the small font size for its warning lights on the dashboard makes it difficult for drivers to read increasing the risk of a crash Tesla says affected models will receive an over-the-air software fix the company's not aware of any crashes related to the warning light issue this is just the latest in a string of setbacks for the automaker in December Tesla recalled about 2 million vehicles to update its autopilot software and big news from Big Tech this week Apple Amazon and Face
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and the mother of the Oxford High School mass shoor is facing cross-examination in a Michigan courtroom Jennifer Crumbley took the stand for the first time yesterday in the historic trial defending against allegations that she allowed her son access to the gun used in the shooting and failed to recognize warding signs today she faces questions from the prosecution let's listen go on and meet people who meet certain tastes that you're looking for this is 429 and you had the app Adult Friend Find
er on your phone I do not believe I had the app on my phone it was found on your phone okay well I guess was on my phone okay and there were messages from you to other individuals correct de H I would object that this is going outside of the scope of the affair with Brian but I don't think the Court's ruling on opening the door was confined to just her extramarital affair with Brian M well I guess uh with regard to Mr was uh I determined that uh the defense opened the door I don't know but I det
ermined that the defense opened the door as to other she depicted herself as having one extra marital Affair for about a six-month period of time where she met with him one time a week that was our testimony yesterday we have evidence to the contrary and I think it's important this is going to get exciting I all right this all right well go ahead I won't delve too far a Jud really the St has been here a long time and I respect their time judge I'll be brief we might so Mrs scrumble I'm sorry thi
s is not a laughing matter Mrs Crumbley an Adult FriendFinder we see messages from you in at least of August of 2021 August the 4th 2021 okay okay and you don't dispute August the 10th of 20 2021 no August 11th 2021 no and more importantly November 21st 2021 no okay and more important than that November the 28th 2021 no okay you don't dispute that evidence was found in your phone I don't dispute it okay and you don't dispute that it wasn't just you and Mr milash meeting after work hours it was w
ith you and Mr milash arranging with under other individuals to meet after work as well um no I only met with Brian during work hours the time that we were at the hotel I was on business we did arrange for other people to meet us there so Sunday November the 28th you remember that day was the day after you took your son to the shooting range I I don't remember it you don't remember that day no two days before the high school attack no I don't remember what I did that day okay well you were prett
y specific in what you did on November the 27th with the firearm you remember that correct all right now November the 28th 2021 you spent your time arranging a meet up with somebody an adult friend finder I never met anybody with an adult friend finder a Meo oh okay I'm not just talking about the time that you spent physically with somebody I'm talking about the time that you spent and devoted your energy to setting that up okay and you agree with me it's not just the the time period at the Cost
co parking lot or the time period at the hotel or the time period on the trip correct that's the only time I met with people right but that's not the only time that you devoted your own personal time and energy and focus to that is it I guess I don't understand what you're asking okay well these these meetups didn't just happen by themselves you had to set them up correct you weren't driven there you weren't dropped off there you set them up as somebody else correct and that took your time and y
our energy and your focus to do so I don't believe it took too much time and energy now now you told this jury that when your son texted you that he was seeing demons and Bulls flying off the shelves that was in the spring of7 2021 you recall that evidence right correct you don't dispute that that was on your phone no you don't dispute that at some point you read those messages no and you don't dispute that your son said at least one time can you please text me back correct okay um you don't you
don't dispute that when you're at the Barn your other messages show that you can take pictures send pictures and receive pictures usually I'm at the barn if I take pictures and I try to send them they don't go through right away or I won't send them until I hit a spot where I actually have service so in exhibit 423 the Facebook message Chat between you and James the chat that you deleted there are a number of pictures that James sent to you from the barn of a horse in a conversation about that
particular horse you dispute that no okay and in fact dozens and dozens of pictures of the like I'm sure yes you're sure okay and those pictures were sent to you with a timestamp on that Facebook message Chat okay do you dispute that no no okay and then you responded in that same time frame do you dispute that no no so that conversation with that picture that was taken at the barn was occurring while one of you were at the barn I'm sure it was okay now you don't deny that your son wrote in his j
ournal that he asked his parents for help you don't deny that evidence that was admitted no I don't okay and you don't deny that he wrote in his journal that he now had access to the C hour I handun I do not deny that and you don't deny that the 6our 9mm handgun was in fact a murder weapon I don't deny that and you also don't deny that that gun was gifted by you and your husband to your son on November the 26th describe gift gifted how about when he posted on Instagram his new Christmas gift cor
rect and I explained yesterday that it was for him to use at the shooting range we didn't just hand him a gun as a here you go son it was something he could use and we went to the range as a family together you don't deny that in April of 2021 you described your son as being depressed I didn't describe him as being depressed I noticed that he was acting dep depressed you used the word depressed yes he was acting sad he was acting depressed okay and you know what depressed means it means a lot of
different things well to you it meant depressed and you wrote that right you don't deny in April of 2021 the evidence shows that your son told his only friend that he had asked you for help no I don't deny that okay and you also don't deny that he told his only friend that you laughed at him I did not deny that now yesterday you told us that you took those messages in the spring of 2021 which by the way is that the same time you started your affair with Mr milash around that time okay so in the
spring of 2021 when you uh sent those me or when you received those messages you indicated it was messing around it was it was messing around in your mind messing around that's where your testimony was yes okay even when he said can you please text me back I'm didn't see his text message so I didn't text him back even when your phone log show Miss calls he said again even when your phone log so miss calls from your son in that time period uh no now you said yesterday about these messing around
texts you agree with me that there's no indication in any text message either between you and your son or any Facebook message between you and your husband in any of those exhibits in fact anywhere in your phone that indicated that any of those messages were a joke no there weren't there weren't and we're talking about hundreds of messages between you and your son and thousands of messages between you and your husband correct and you don't deny that you never once never once took him to see a th
erapist or counselor no I did not you did not now You testified that actually Mr MOS testified um that you would meet during work hours and we've established that it wasn't just confined to work hours but you're were permitted to leave as you please correct okay and your boss actually testified that no problem if we need to time off correct if you have a family issue no problem you can go correct if you were sick no problem stay home correct okay um in fact you could work from home as an on an a
s needed basis correct in fact on November the 30th you didn't even ask your boss if you could leave you just told them you were leaving correct and you told them when you were coming back correct and you told them when you were coming back after receiving a phone call from the school asking for an immediate meeting correct cuz that was at what 10:05 a.m. around that okay now had you ever been called have CVM Please Mr BL have you ever been called yeah it takes some time for all three of them su
re I have a few more questions I can ask before we get to the okay go ahead have you ever been called to the school on an immediate basis before no have you ever been told that your son had suicidal ideation before I was never told he had suicidal Aviation before okay that's your testimony but you've never been called to the school once for a meeting I need to see you now no correct okay so even before you had made it to the school you had told your boss when you were coming back correct so you
already put a limit on that meeting not necessarily well you said I'll be back in about an hour okay right that's your words about an hour okay those were your words correct this is exhibit 74 do you see it no she doesn't it's not on here that's yes a minut is it can you see it yeah okay this was sent you so Sean Hopkins called you at 9:24 in the morning correct correct okay you called him back at 9:27 correct you had a 5minute phone call correct and then in that phone call he texted you the pic
ture with with it was drawn out they emailed you this original picture yeah he texted me the modified one and then later um emailed me this one later is 932 yeah like after I asked him for it you looked at it I did okay you told us yesterday you found it I think your quote was a little concerning what struck you about this originally um when I saw the modified one I was kind of angry at my son because we just talked about his missing assignments and geometry in his e the night before um then whe
n I got this one and opened it it was concerning um I honestly thought the the guy on there was a poor drawing of Batman the way the thing in the cat I thought it was a cape I didn't know you thought that was a cape I did I didn't that what you think of a gun I thought it was a gun yeah what about the fact that it is identical to the gun that you got him for Christmas a couple days before I mean honestly it just like it looks like a gun to me I didn't even notice well you took a picture of the g
un you post it on Instagram you know what it looks like I do but I didn't analyze it you saw Sergeant or special agent Brandon's testimony he described how it's identical and you told us yesterday how your son was a good drawer he was a very good drawer okay what about the thoughts One Stop help me did that ring out to you yes that was what was concerning to me blood everywhere and there's a bullet and actually you were the one who bought the bullets in November the 27th correct you later came t
o learn that those bullets were used in the shooting I did okay so you said yesterday it was a little concerning yet you told your husband emergency and all correct that's why I left to go to the school and I texted him and he wrote back my God WTF correct and then you told him he was distraught about last night correct distraught is an intentional word you chose correct it's not sad it's not a little anxious about school or his future it's not talking about a video game distraught has a meaning
correct and you chose that word to send to him correct so you went to that meeting and this was November the 30th of 2021 and at that point you'll agree with me that you knew prior to that day the November 26 purchase day that your son was wanting to get a 9mm that's you said yesterday yes I knew that they were talking about getting one cuz they rented it in the past and and and you knew that he had shot one in the past yeah okay you knew that a 9mm is significantly more powerful than a 22 I di
d not know that until I actually shot it okay well your dad took your son with James to the shooting range with they visited in July of 2021 correct and they talked about how powerful the 9mm was because they running one them okay I don't know if I don't know if I was part of that conversation but if it was it didn't register to me didn't register okay you knew in November 30 2021 date that your son's friend had been taken without notice to your son in correct you say I'm sorry incorrect or corr
ect correct correct and you knew that when his your son son's friend was taken your son was extremely upset he was upset yes he didn't go to school for a few days I don't remember that okay well if the school records show that he was absent for a few days after that would you deny that I wouldn't okay and would you deny that he missed school because he was so upset I don't know if he missed school because he was so upset or maybe he was sick I don't know okay now you told us yesterday and you ac
knowledged that that individual that child was like a second son to you correct so he was the only one that your son hung out with outside of school correct okay who did he hang out with inside the school um he named he named some names to me I've never met them before but he told me some group of kids that he sits and eats lunch with and he talks to in class did he ever visit their houses no did they ever visit your house no the only other peer to visit your house was this student who left the
state around Halloween 2021 at that time correct we're talking about that time in October in September in at least August July June May 2021 correct 2021 thank you now he left on Halloween and you knew that your son was playing to hang out with him on Halloween yes okay but his friend didn't show um we had texted I had texted um his friend's mom that day before trying to confirm if he was still coming over and that's when we found out that he was driven to Wisconsin and taken to that school okay
so you're telling us you found out the day before Halloween yeah okay so that didn't stop you and James from going to Halloween party at the barn um I don't believe it was on Halloween oh that's what Kira testified it was it was a Friday before Halloween if there was a picture with a date stamp on it would you deny it no okay and it didn't stop you from after you left that party without your son you went to another Halloween party we did and your son was home alone at that point yes MH so you t
alked to us a little bit about your son's hobbies in 2021 but in November of 2021 so we'll start with November the 1st 2021 you know that those Hobbies were nonexistent and I'll go one by one okay so you told us about bowling correct bowling wasn't the team wasn't in session that point in time was it no I think actually at that time he decided he didn't want to do bowling that year so he stopped bowling the sopore year he did and it wouldn't have been bowling season anyway I guess not now so one
one hobby you talked about yesterday that was an exist that was not in existence in November 2021 correct but we did still go to the bowling alley with him okay and you said that he worked but would you be surprised to learned that he only worked a few shifts post covid no not surprised at all okay so he wasn't at work every day no he worked um Tuesdays and Thursdays and sometimes Saturday mornings okay but not very often no not not very often a handful of shifts postco which of course marched
2020 is when things shut down he was working on a weekly basis and you knew that he didn't have any friends that's not the right way to put it I knew he had friends but no he did not have many friends you would never met another peer his age who he refers to as a friend he actually had friends that used to come over prior to 20121 that he was still in contact with we went through defense exhibits yesterday from 2019 to 2020 I'm talking about a 202 at least from the time period where he sent you
a message that he saw demons in the house right in 2021 the only friend that came to our house was the one that's on that was on the thing so you knew to be true in November of 2021 that he had no peer support I don't know what he had in school he told me he had friends in school that he talks to okay you ever you never met him though no okay and he didn't have any clubs at school he was a part of um no not that year so you told us yesterday yesterday that your son wanted to design video games c
orrect okay he wasn't in a robotics club or a coding Club at the high school he did take a coding class prior 2021 and he was in a robotics um after school activity in Middle School talking about in 2020 I'm telling you he's been in that before yeah now despite what you have called yourself as a Vigilant parent in a helicopter mom you never decided in at least November of 2021 to look at his phone no no okay um that's despite what happened in the spring of 2021 right what happened in the spring
of 2021 did not concern me okay okay now the one thing that seem consistent with your son to you at least is his desire to obtain a weapon is that right I don't I wouldn't say that no he had a consistent desire to obtain a weapon not to me he did not okay you didn't know about the 9 mm oh I knew about it okay you didn't know about the 22s I knew about them in in fact you posted on Instagram that he got himself a 22 correct in June of 2021 correct and from that time up until the November 26 21 pu
rchase he was wanting to get a 9mm I know him and my husband had discussed getting a 9mm I'm not part of those conversations but you knew about it I knew but not that it was he was so however you described it I said he consistently had a desire to obtain a weapon I know they I know they consistently talked about it correct okay they didn't just talk about this is a gun he talking about how he wanted the gun you don't deny that no in November 26 you said you weren't there for the gun purchase no
I was not okay but are you telling us you didn't know it was going to happen I did not know they were going to the gun store that day no okay but you knew that you were going to um eventually get him a 9 million no I did not know that okay so you're telling us that there was a surprise purchase to you it was surprised to me that they went to the gun store that day okay it was not surprising to me that they purchased a gun that day and it didn't upset you that they bought a gun not no it did not
it upset you that they cut into your Christmas tree shopping time but it didn't upset you that it bought a gun correct okay and you told us that it was in your words James's responsibility to take care of that gun correct now you don't deny that at least according to the cell phone evidence the photographic and video evidence you're the last adult to have possession of that gun correct okay um you were with him at the range on November the 27th correct you saw your son shoot the weapon correct y
ou saw him shoot the last practice round before the shooting November 30th at the range yeah yes correct you saw how he stood honestly that didn't mean anything to me at that time until this whole case came about and I've learned what a shooter stance is so he knew how to use the gun yes he did okay he's used one before in fact he showed you how to use the gun correct okay and The Stance he took you saw from the Oxford High School video was the same you saw that right I don't I don't know I I ca
n't compare it every not um but you entrusted this respons ability will you agree with me that owning a firearm involves a great deal of responsibility and Trust I do okay and you entrusted this responsibility to your husband James I did if you look at exhibit 423 that's the Facebook Chat thread between you and your husband it's pretty clear you didn't trust James with much would you agree or disagree depends on what you're talking about okay well you didn't trust him to get out of bed on time c
orrect you didn't trust him to cut the grass when it was time to cut the grass he would cut the grass when it got to a length I didn't like I didn't trust him you didn't trust him to update you on his whereabouts there's a reason behind that you didn't trust him to not turn off or turn on the ring camera in your home correct you didn't trust him to keep track of your son oh I trusted him to check my son in those messages that we'll see in exhibit 423 asking him where is your son over and over an
d over again does that signify trust or distrust to you that was when my son was walking home from school not that I did not trust my husband with my son okay and you didn't really trust your husband to hold down a job SS I didn't trust him to hold on a job he had a hard time holding down one after Co okay and in those messages you are constantly asking him about work how much money he's making and what he's doing to obtain employment correct okay but this is the person you entrusted with a dead
ly weapon I did why did you buy the Patriot defense runs where the oh those are the that's the ammo uh that was the ones my son told me to purchase I didn't know anything about it I'd asked him and he told me to purchase them so you told us you told the jury yesterday I think you repeat it again today that the gift was for target shooting know me correct okay yeah you bought 100 rounds of ammunition correct and you only shot 50 while you were there correct okay and those 50 at least According to
some statements you made throughout the investigation you put somewhere oh the the box of them yes I did I hid them now on November the 27th when you came home you posted pictures of the gun in targets to your Instagram account correct and then according to the location data your location data you left I think this only went well I don't know I must have yeah okay well you don't deny that I I don't deny it okay and and your husband James was gone all day according to his location data I think s
o yeah okay and you saw in the evidence that um in the picture you posted there's an ATF pamplet on handgun safety for children correct did you read that I looked looked at over correct now on exhibit 74 here I want to get back to this meeting FR exhibit 74 you don't deny that you could have left work for the day no I don't deny that okay and you don't deny that you didn't tell the school officials Mr Hopkins and EJ about the gun purchased on the 26th no we had stated that we went to the shootin
g range with my I went to the shooting range with my son on Saturday you didn't tell them that you had gotten him that Christmas gifts I didn't think it was relevant no you acknowledge that you never told Mr Hopkins and EJ that it wasn't just a friend but it was the only pure that you had ever met that had left I probably said his best friend you acknowledge that you didn't go home to look for that firearm after the meeting at the school we wouldn't have a reason to so that the answerers then yo
u acknowledge that no I acknowledge that okay and you acknowledg that you had already made plans for the nights to go to the barn yes I do okay and you acknowledge that you had the time to stop at your house before you went back to work I would have but I have a reason to now you had told us that you had never taken your son to any sort of mental health profession no okay but you know how to obtain that help correct in fact you have prescriptions related to that I do so it's not that you didn't
know who to call or how to call you didn't correct correct okay yesterday you talked a little bit about how you express emotion correct and in fact then Council asked you about your nerves when you testified but you can you can you're capable of emotion yes I am right okay um and in fact you had some explosive emotional fights with your husband what we did um and that was in the home that you shared correct okay and with your son you saw pictures of that home correct and you told us that your so
n was at an age where he wouldn't text you back I love you it wasn't a text me back I love you it's like imp passing like hey Ethan good night I love you well yesterday you told us that your son was at the age where he wouldn't text you back I love you that's those was yesterday yeah but more or less like just saying it in passing he didn't he he wouldn't say it back I say good night I love you and he did good night okay for him to text me that he loved me was abnormal abnormal correct okay but
you didn't respond to that text until 44 minutes later no I was in a meeting at work okay and um if you go through your entire face your entire text message thread between you two the word love pops up how many times do you think between me and my son yeah I have no idea okay um three okay the first is in reference to the game chess about a year before okay and the other two times are right before your son committed this act and after the shooting when you responding does that surprise you no um
I would just ask if there could be a foundation for the dates of those texts cuz I feel like we got just a few texts okay well I think I think he spec did you specify the date I did two t two of the times were um before and after the SHO any other time was about a year prior I can pull the DAT if Council will like it and I'm also wondering if what good data he's relying on is coming from Jennifer's phone where she deletes all their text or if it's coming from the shooter's phone cuz the prosecu
tion is asking questions I just don't know the foundation sure let me clear that one up um it's from your son's phone so there all the messages would be contained there you don't deny that that information would be accurate No I don't deny it okay now what time you told us that well she said he asked if the chess one was a year earlier and the um other two were um close in time the shooting the day of the shooting yeah I know those have been admitted in evidence do we know what's the question ok
ay but he's asking about the text overall which have not been admitted into evidence and I don't know that the text chain has all the texts there's no Foundation that what Mr Heath is looking in Cross examination if he asked that is that wrong would you would you argue with that that's what he's he's asking I mean there are people I know she's just she just doesn't know what hold on Council can't testify I you know there are people that and every conversation with all you yeah I'm like that okay
so and there are people who that right so he he is asking what's normal for them and would she be surprised that how many times that appear yeah I'm just asking I I get that and I get that it's not common I'm just asking this is argument AR whatever period of text this is from well you can redirect okay well she doesn't know what he's even basing these questions at it is inappropriate for councel to suggest to the court she or doesn't does not know she can say I don't know she can she can also
say I don't understand the question say that too if you don't if you Mrs K if you don't understand the question ask Mr PE to clarify it okay right all right thank you J now yesterday Mrs crumble you talked about going to planning mode yes okay um and that was in reference to council asking you about emotions and how you express emotions correct right so I want to talk to you about your planning mode and your priorities from the time that you were arrested okay now your your phone calls were reco
rded from the time that you were arrested in so now you know that you know that right you know that okay and your priority on your first phone call December the 4th of 2021 was on your animals and the cash recovered from the art studio do you deny that I don't deny it do you do you deny that it wasn't until 10 days later and 14 calls later that you even mentioned your son I was do you deny it or not I don't but I was under the impression that I couldn't mention him because I could get flagged at
the jail well you mention him in later conversations I did okay in fact in one a year later March 25th of 2023 you said he just needs to man up do you recall that I do not okay do you deny that you said it it sounds like something I would say in December of 2021 your concern was about a gofund me do you remember that no I do not I'm going to play this for you m Williams can you have the volume up please is this exibit this is impeachment judge not ask to help I know lawyer thees so I mean I'm j
ust I'm the W that okay that was between you you and your dad correct okay and you asked him said but go fund me to pay for the board of your horses I I I did yes you were concerned about other things related to yourself around that time weren't you um is this still planning mode I believe so okay and you were arrested December the 4th this is going to be December the 2 second oh oh for yeah okay can youle how many calories are in a baloney sandwich with white bre how many calories in bread yeah
American cheese with American cheese yeah mayonnaise on it mustard mustard and then peanut butter and jelly white okay so looking up right now your lunch and dinner is for the most part yeah other stuff my cereal now actual and I want make 140 2 still planning mode well I wasn't planning there no okay now we're talking about how you describe planning mode you describe that in context to statements you made to the police on November the 30th 2021 right that's that's the context you use the words
planning mode in relation to correct okay so you told us that your the last phone call on December 31st that was still you and in planning mode I want to make sure we an ACC accurate depiction what that is now here's one from January 15th 2022 no no no not not issue of that issue of know that that bank be always had issues with their online stuff and they had issues with you know just all kinds of stuff child the child deposit thing what did I a deposit $300 that child thing the government does
you know I know you know I have I just got I just got uh I I lost access only it's hard to see everything there then L access it took me I lost ACC like a couple days before Christmas okay is that still planning mode uh we were talking about filing my taxes if you played the whole thing you were asking about your child tax if you're still going to get that $300 my dad my dad was doing my income taxes for me now when we started um we confirmed that you understood the oath that you just took corr
ect and the same o you took yesterday correct okay and uh you don't deny that you had $6,000 in cash in your purse the night you were arrested no you don't deny that your purse with the cash enforc cell phone were in a plastic tote correct you don't deny that that plastic tote was contained in a different plastic tote correct you don't deny that your backpack with clothing items was found in a different plastic tote in a different area of that studio correct okay and um you don't deny that you k
new you had been charged with involuntary manslaughter correct in fact as early as December the 1st 2021 at 6:10 p.m. you were talking about how you're being charged with involuntary manslaughter that was what I was being told by a family that was texting me that's what the charges might be announced as correct okay and uh one is to Mr malash there's a text to your cousin um about you are being charged with involuntary man slau you don't deny receiving that no I don't that's Wednesday December t
he 1st correct right um and you sent your neighbor a message on Wednesday the 1st of 2021 6:55 p.m. that you are were reading they may charge us correct okay and December the 2nd 2021 you wrote they saying involuntary manslaughter correct you don't deny that no and of course you looked at different news articles about that uh the next day yeah and later on that day um and then you texted after all of these messages and news articles uh December the 2nd 2021 at 2 p.m we're you wrote that to Mr mi
lash correct okay and then you wrote uh announcing charges at noon on December the 3rd 2021 at 8:17 a.m. correct and you wrote that to Mr malash you wrote that to Kira you wrote that to your dad right okay so you don't deny any of that no okay now you told us yesterday that you popped for Zanax I did okay and your husband popped for XX correct you said he went to bed about 11:00 it was around that time okay and um the evidence that we have admitted show that you set your alarm for 6:30 a.m. and
6:45 a.m. I don't know if it was me who said it but it was set for that time okay and from the evidence it shows when it was set to correct okay and it was set a little after 11:00 p.m. okay correct yes okay so yesterday you said I want to say it was after 11: about going to bed I want to say it was after 11: maybe around 11:00 when we finally went to bed we both un prescribed xanx for anxiety and we each took four because we knew we were going to turn ourselves in the next day and we hadn't sle
pt in 4 days and we just wanted to sleep the question was okay so each took four your answer we did and the next question was okay so the next thing um the next piece of evidence we saw that was coming in that art studio do you recall that your answer I recall my husband screaming there's people with guns against in her face officers question what were you doing prior to hearing your husband screaming answer we were sleeping question okay were you aware that there was anything going on answered
I was not correct that's your testimony correct okay and you know when you say something that isn't true that's called a lie correct okay this is going to be exhibit 430 Council does have a copy is it the entire thread perfect no Jud oh than you Judes the court have a copy is this today's yes judge okay um any objection no okay Mrs Crumbley you knew the police were there 430 is admitted thank you J not until I woke up no not until you woke up correct okay now we heard testimony yesterday or thro
ughout the trial that 911 was called at 10:43 p.m. you recall that yeah I saw on the video correct okay and on the video the first officers arrived before 11:00 p.m. correct okay and either you you or your husband we couldn't tell from the video but you tell me is it you or your husband out there smoking that was my husband okay so your husband walks in shortly after the 911 caller walks in the building to call 911 correct that was on the video okay and officers arrived and then we've heard test
imony from Mr kurtley who had a studio there we heard testimony from Sergeant Henrik who's in The Fugitive apprehension team as well as Corporal Shaw with the Detroit Police SWAT team about the amount of officers there you recall that I do and you recall here in the testimony that corpal Shaw's team their SWAT team they actually used a 35lb steel Ram to bashing a door at the studio next to where you were at you recall that testimony I do okay and your testimony was that you were asleep when the
officers arrived yes I was okay but you had an alarm set for 6:30 in the morning on your phone and that phone was found powered off hidden in a tote containing a different tote in a place away from the bed correct you don't deny that no all right and there are certain messages in 4:30 I'm going to go through them with you this is actually to your Attorneys at the time you had two attorneys Marielle this is Jennifer's phone James and Jennifer are using Jennifer's phone now that's it December the
3rd 2021 6:04 p.m. do you recall that I don't but I don't I don't deny okay you don't deny okay your next message the other phone broke that's December the 3rd 2021 6:04 p.m. the response was when you can we would like for you to call us that was from either Miss Smith or at the time co-counsel marel L correct your response I'm sorry this is from Mario thank you Shannon is calling you both shortly at the top it says two and from I'll make sure I'm I'm I identify for the record from Shannon Marie
lle and I are going to come get you guys in the morning we do not think it will help to make a statement that you're coming back now or that it will be tomorrow a.m. we can say that we told everyone you were coming back and as of tomorrow a.m. you are back that's Friday December 3rd 2021 7:02 p.m. correct right okay so that's that's after James had already moved the car around and backed into the parking spot I believe so all right from Shannon we can show them that everything we said was going
to happen did happen that's Friday December 3rd 2021 at 7:02 p.m. right right your response okay that's a 7:03 p.m. from Shannon I'm going to drive home from my office right now and call you guys in about 40 to 45 minutes so I can get all the bond Factor information written down from Marielle and me that's Friday December 3rd at 7:36 p.m. correct okay your response okay we'll be waiting 7:37 p.m. Shannon I'm going to call in one minute that's at 8:54 p.m. that Friday night your response was okay
you recall I don't but I don't deny it but you don't dispute the record correct the next message you send was think we might have found don't know just heads up please check December the 3rd 2021 11:14 p.m. that was written but I do not believe it was written by me okay you don't remember well you just you told us you don't remember any of these text messages you just I read I read through it but um you don't deny that this was on your phone what we refer to as the burner or track phone correct
we were both we were both using that phone at the time because my husband's broke okay um and then you wrote in quick succession don't know 11:16 p.m. we might have been found 11:16 p.m. laying low 11:16 p.m. you don't deny that these are the records no I don't okay response from Shannon oh Friday December 3rd 2021 11:16 p.m. now we know from all of the objective evidence the testimony the video everything that the officers testified to they were unseen before 11:00 p.m. you don't deny that no
I don't you don't deny that there were hundreds of officers on scene I don't know how many were on scene okay how many did you see when he got pulled out of the art studio honestly I don't know it all happened so fast I knew there was more there was a few there was more than a few but not body C right okay I do want to make a point so everyone's aware this exhibit was just made invisible this morning correct okay so we actually just received it this morning and when you testified yesterday you d
idn't know this exhibit was going to come into evidence correct okay I want to talk to you now about the night before the shooting okay November the 29th 2021 you had testified that you got into a fight about grades with your son correct okay is that because you checked Power School yes okay during that fight did you lock your son out of the house we did not you don't deny that he was outside of the house he did he did walk out of the house he was upset okay okay you told us that you took his ph
one we did that's not true is it that is true we took the 29th 2021 your son filmed a 19-minute video while he was outside describing what he was going to do the next day what time was that taken 10:00 I don't know if he got it back I know he took um the shooting range away and we took his gun away so I don't know if he got it back okay now all of the times that you were at the barn there was nothing stopping you other than you told us he didn't want to go right correct there's nothing stopping
you on November November the 30th 2021 from taking him home correct nothing stopping you you know actually I want to go back to what you just said you took his gun away we took the shooting range away you said he took you took his gun away no I said we took the shooting range away your son could have been with you those three four five times a week when you were at the bar he could have yes your son could have been with you on those times when you were with either Mr milash or somebody else no i
n the week the week the week NS he could have been with you after school after work I wasn't with Mr milage at those times okay the other individuals then I wasn't with them either at those times according to I might I might have messaged people at those times but I was not with anybody at those times he could have been with you on the Halloween party he did not want to go was a bunch of little kids and on November the 30th of 2021 at 12:51 p.m. you could have been with him I could have yes and
you didn't no thank you um Mrs Crumley I just have two two areas of um questions for you um Mr keist played some recordings who were you on the phone with in those recordings my dad okay so you asked a couple of questions about calories and then what was the other one um the I guess the CH a child tax credit okay how often did you speak with your dad um during the summer it was every day um then went back to work it was just on the weekends they both they both teachers and how many how many hour
s a day did you spend do you spend with other people it sometimes it's none um sometimes it's when they walk by myself C I'll talk to them but I'm I'm locked down 23 hours a day I get one hour out by myself um I talk to my clergy lady um weekly so I see her um sometimes I talk to the church priest or I'll talk to my attorney but it's about the most human contact I get so I I guess one of my questions is when you do talk to people you talk about are there more conversations than the just those ri
ght there are okay and then um that night on um December 3rd going into the 4th um after 11 there was one phone being used is that right correct whose phone was being used it was it was my burner phone who was using the phone uh my husband was using the phone okay were you also using it um no I was using my other phone so he started use my burning burner phone I used the one with our regular phone number to do anything on okay so these messages are from the burner phone correct to myself and Mar
io correct so the ones at after 11:00 so at 11:17 or whenever these texts came what were you doing when I saw the video of my husband going to the car and having a cigarette I knew I was probably sleeping at that time because I did not let like us not being together after what happened to us on the 30th when the police came to our house so if he went out to have a cigarette it was most without me it was most likely because I was asleep okay when you when guns were in your face and we saw that in
the video before that had you been asleep yes are you absolutely sure about that I'm positive okay I have no further questions thank you I'm going to Excuse excuse you for about 10 minutes and we'll see where we're headed okay all right the mother of the Oxford High School Mass Shooters facing cross examination in a Michigan courtroom Jennifer crumble is taking the stand after testifying yes yesterday under direct questions from her attorney now she's facing questions from the prosecution this
all stems from allegations that she allowed her son access to the gun used in the shooting and that she failed to recognize warning signs and right now they're taking a quick break in the midst of that question but I want to bring uh our uh ABC News live Phil lipof and ABC News legal contributor Brian buckmire for more Phil yesterday we saw Jennifer Crumbley questioned by her own attorney today she's facing questions from the prosecution very different picture here absolutely and Brian said it w
as going to be I was sitting here watching uh the testimony with him yesterday and he said you just wait until they get to cross um and and now we're going to have another discussion about how short the cross was but you you heard the prosecutor get up and say hey you said this yesterday you said you were a good mom and you spent even a helicopter mom spent a ton of time with your your son and then he went well you spent this much time at the horse barn you spent this much time with the guy you
were having an affair with and then he brought up Adult Friend Finder she was talking to other people on this app to find people so he was trying to to to prove that that she was creating a false picture of the kind of mom she was uh Brian let's talk about the timing here Phil said it uh but this seemed pretty short for a cross-examination What's Happening Here is it done that's what I want to speak with I'll tell you the same thing that I texted Phil there is a stereotype that fritas are unable
to adjust mid trial that they walked in with a plan and walked out with the plan I would have thought that a prosecutor after hearing Jennifer crumley's testimony having the entire night to prepare for it would have adjusted added more focused on different areas of where she was potentially inconsistent and we would have a much more robust cross-examination but we didn't see that for the most part I saw a cross-examination that focused on you're not a good mother and I'm not sure how well that'
s going to resonate with a jury Brian they also seem to be trying to go after her credibility here pointing out inconsistencies about oh you said you took away his phone but your son was shooting videos that night oh you said you took away his gun now you're saying you just took away the gun range um they seem to be going after various areas of credibility including now that these text messages are allowed in between her and her attorney Jennifer crumble saying she was prepared to turn herself i
n but then apparently texting her attorney oh they found us uh and other little tidbits back and for that that the prosecutor's trying to say implies that she had no plans to turn herself in that she was on the Run what do you make of those Jabs if you will at her credibility does that go to prove a larger point that she can't be trusted in other areas of her testimony then I think it goes not only to her credibility but also goes to the point that if there were warning signs you would not have
seen them you were off taking care of your horse to the tune of $20,000 a year some of that money could have potentially gone to the shooter's Mental Health Resources or or help that he was clearly crying for if he was writing down the book or or talking about the help that he needed you wouldn't have caught it anyways because you were focused not just on the one uh extramarital affair but you're on a website looking for more people whether it be in Costco during the school day or some other tim
e and so I think they're showing that her credibility but also her Focus was elsewhere in terms of the messages between the attorney what what I'm really shocked at and I'm surprised I didn't come in I've organized for my client to be turned in at a specific time to be arranged and what that is it's a process of talking to the client but also talking to the prosecutor who is also potentially talking to the detective I may have also call the detective myself so that everyone knows we don't have t
o have this situation so to me this seems like a misstep by the defense of not properly coordinating not only with their client but with law enforcement and the prosecutor as to when they're going to turn in because you can't organize turning your client in without actually talking to the other side Phil what do you make of what the prosecution is trying to prove here and what do they have to prove in order to get this guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt verdict that they're looking for well Brian ta
lked about it yesterday they have to prove that she could have foreseen this was going to happen and that's why yesterday there was a lot of talk actually her her attorney did more of it than the prosecutor did today today talk about that meeting at the school on Tuesday when she came in and she said in her own words she was concerned pretty concerned for the first time ever they need to show that that she could have seen this coming and I am not a legal mind but I watched every minute of this t
estimony along with Brian yesterday and Brian and I are texting here as this is happening and I'm saying I'm shocked you know this was about an hour of a prosecution Brian was prepared for this really robust cross you know you say you're a good m but you know all of these things how can you say you're a good mother how can you look at parents and tell them you did everything right she said she wouldn't have done anything different I would have thought that would have been the first question real
ly you wouldn't have done anything different look at the outcome but there was none of that today I think there's going to be a lot of conversation moving forward about how not robust that cross was Brian yesterday there was a very big focus on that meeting and throughout this trial there's been a big focus on that meeting a counselor calling the parents in what what two hours before the shooting to say you know I'm concerned about your son we found these drawings do you want to take him home an
d so on and the other the other big part of this seems to be the gun storage again a huge part of this case we didn't hear that much about that today under cross examination why I have to imagine the prosecution believes they have the information they need often times what we teach young attorneys is don't ask a question you don't know the answer to or if you already have an answer you can work with leave it alone don't dig any deeper uh the reason why I say that is ultimately this cross-examina
tion this direct examination it's going to be fuel for the closing arguments potentially later today if the defense doesn't have uh additional Witnesses and so maybe the prosecution says you know what I really liked her answer where she said there's nothing I would change so why would I go on cross-examination and dig a little deeper into that now stylistically I disagree I think there could have been some more that they could have flushed out thought there that would have been beneficial for th
em but in their mind they can think you know what I'll live with the answers that she gave on direct examination I don't want to have her try to clean it up on cross-examination by explaining it in a way that's better for her I'll take that and move on what did you make of her responses to the prosecutor saying her son's friend said you know that that her son had said he reached out to his mom for help and that you know she ignored him essentially and then calling on these texts between the shoo
ter here and his mother and his mother not responding to these you know essential cries for help from her son you know she's saying I didn't see these text messages and I thought he was messing around they're now calling them the messing around texts what did you make of of that defense and her response to that line of questioning this idea that her son was crying out for help and she was ignoring him I I mean I'm not a fan of it I mean we talked a lot about this yesterday with a Phil and now Di
ane you're with us because I I consider both of you guys super parents i' I've asked you guys for advice uh being a young father myself and I've always gotten great advice um in this situation I I think people looking at this as a parent are saying what am I to believe am i g to believe that this child was lying to their friend and then wrote this this kind of Manifesto to have in their bag to lie and set up the mother in some sort of orchestrated way to challenge her credibility because he migh
t have foreseen she'd be challenged by this in Landmark case or is the mother now lying about it today to cover herself either the shootter is as a mastermind in a way we never thought before or she the the Jennifer Crumbley is lying about not seeing these texts I think I know which one the J's going to lean to out of time but I want to quickly throw that back to you because despite all of that no parent wants to be blamed for all of the sins of their children right even my 5-year-old and my 2-y
ear-old I don't want everyone constantly saying oh well she fell cuz you weren't watching her or whatever obviously this is taking that to another level but how careful does the prosecution have to be to go down that road I think they've got to be remarkably careful in saying we're not just trying to demonize parents we're not just trying to demonize this one individual uh and I and I think they they kind of told the line a little here maybe that's why the cross-examination was so short but I th
ink the major thing that they should hang their hat on is it's not about missing the signs because yes you can miss signs yes you can be focused on your own life and and parents should have their own life go out see friends maybe not have extra marital Affairs but the rest yes but if there's a question mark as to the mental health of your child maybe you don't buy them a gun and I think that's the line that the prosecution can really put in the sand and say that's where they really messed up and
Phil really quick what's next yeah latest from the court from our team in court right now Jennifer crumble defense attorney has rested her case there are no more witnesses all she's using is Jennifer Crumbley she says she's prepared to go to closing arguments now now the prosecution says they need roughly a half hour to prepare for that so that was it wow that was it uh Brian Quick reaction to that I'm not surprised uh you put on the defendant first in a case like this I don't think there'll be
anyone else uh the prosecution wanting to to wait a bit I don't know are they going to change something new in their in their closing argument that they would have uh not had otherwise I think we're going to see come what maybe after the lunch break because we have a charge conference as well all right we'll be watching ABC's Phil Lipoff legal contributor Brian buckmire thank you both we'll be right back in mlac one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces on the planet now I'm starting to get very
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time getting a hit show or movie on the screen takes a whole Army behind the scenes I kept hearing it continuously from people that they had never seen a woman they had never seen a black person they had never seen a black woman operator they knew it couldn't just be me in the union so Chris wrey went looking to see if she could find other women like her the union that represents camera Crews on set ioi Local 600 has around 10,000 members after searching Chris found just 22 other black women why
do you think it's important that we have the diversity behind the camera there's so much value in all the stories we tell being diverse I think what is entertaining what is exciting for people when they see a movie see a show is seeing something they haven't seen before so while we have that same diversity of Stories We Tell and people who are in front of the camera I think it's important to reflect that behind the camera and that's when she set out on a mission to help more women get jobs behi
nd the scenes creating the group 600 black women the very first weekend after I reached out the first 22 I put together a weekend of workshops but the really incredible thing was seeing everyone walk into the room I've never seen so many people who look like me and do what we do and all the volunteers we had all the instructors were just moved emotional speechless we had people cry why do you think it was so emotional I think it was so emotional because we get to witness change that a lot of us
didn't think we would ever see I think it's really special that we can do this for ourselves the group has now grown from 22 to 91 members I think there's not always a lot of support for black females to get the right training to be able to grow in this industry so I think with this group were able to train each other with no judgment that access to Technical Training a big part of The Sisterhood 600 black women hosting annual camera cookouts to teach members skills on the equipment they need to
get jobs on set I felt that I had a safe space to learn these things when I was able to go to that first cookout it was such an enjoyable situation because we were just there with each other no one was judging me it was only people that felt like my family just from the outset how has having that group helped you it's given me an inner confidence that I didn't know that I had the group also helping those production houses that want to hire women of color on their sets find them I mean one more
would be more one more would be two Malika Franklin is a digital imaging technician I do get that comment a lot on set of oh my God you're a female oh my God you're black the only black female dit in the union because of this group I was able to find a mentee that I'm hoping will be the second black female dat and that is the goal what are you hoping comes from all of this work you're doing my hope is to make film something that feels accessible to little girls who look like me I would love for
film to feel like an approachable career for anyone who's interested I'd love people to know that there's support for them our thanks to Eva Pilgrim for that story and Usher has dropped a new song off his much anticipated new album coming out next week this is the eight-time Grammy winner is getting ready to headline Super Bowl halftime show ABC News contributor Kelly Carter caught up with Usher to see how he's preparing for the Big [Music] Show the countdown to the Super Bowl and ushers halftim
e is on so you get the call from Jay-Z that this is actually happening took a minute you know it's kind of like an adrenaline high right you're like yeah of course but then you really think about it like wait a minute the work you got to do to do this is like it's a lot you know and I'm but I'm Ready the eight time Grammy winner revealing R&B is taking the spotlight to have R&B have the main stage at the Super Bowl it's a major thing for me I think about what our country has you know kind of rep
resented for black artist you know having to at some point go through kitchens to even be would a perform for audience but they had to leave back through that same door you know fear for their lives as they went to the next state to do the same thing so I'm coming through the front door with this one yeah I think about all of the R&B performers yeah who I carry in this moment and today a treat for fans the music video for Usher's new song ruin feing his daughter [Music] sovereign leading up to t
he release of his first album in 8 years coming home there's some uh things that are are new special uh afro beat and I'm a piano Vibes that you heard would ruined so much music that you have created has really soundtracked our lives for the last 30 years do you carry that pressure with you I mean I put pressure on myself even if it were in comparison to another album or comparison to what somebody else is doing it's just because that's who I am I just want to make something that's to move the n
eedle Usher's teenage Sons Cino and Navid weighing in so tons and tons of listening sessions with my kids you know uh giving me their opinions about what they think should have been on the album but um I think it's a a love letter in some way um and a reminder that no matter how far you may go you will find your way back home [Music] eventually a career spanning three decades this Super Bowl performance will be another page in the Legacy I didn't start where I am now and I didn't get there by my
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re this afternoon President Biden and their families are set to be there for the dignified transfer this as the US prepares to strike back at iran-backed militant groups in the Middle East a Us official tells ABC News militants and their weapons in Iraq Syria and possibly Yemen are all on the list of likely targets at least three people are dead after a fiery plane crash in Clearwater Florida firefighters rushed to the scene where a small plane crashed into a mobile home park west of Tampa the F
AA says the pilot reported engine failure just after 700 p.m. last night the crash is now under investigation country music star Darius Rucker is facing misdemeanor drug charges after being arrested near Nashville it's unclear what led to the arrest but Rucker was also cited for an expired registration suggesting he might have been pulled over by police and on this Groundhog Day punks saton Phil says an early spring is on the way the famous groundhog emerged from his burrow and did not see his s
hadow thousands gathered at gobler knob in Pennsylvania to see the legendary rodent make his prediction but experts say a coin flip may be more accurate groundhogs are not meteorologists and now to an ABC News exclusive the governor of Connecticut is making a major announcement about his State's plan to erase medical debt residents who qualify will start to see debt Disappear by June with the state prioritizing single parents and lower income residents Stephanie Ramos sat down with Governor Ned
Lamont to learn more about how it'll work in an unprecedented move Governor Ned Mont of Connecticut announcing his state will be the first to wipe out medical debt for the thousands of people struggling to pay their bills tell us why you're cancelling medical debt now this is not something they did because they were spending too much money this is something because they got hit with a medical emergency they should not have to uh you know suffer Twice first with the illness then with the debt med
ical debt is the number one source of debt collection in the US greater than credit cards utilities auto loans and other sources combined almost 20% of American households carry medical debt disproportionately impacting black and Latino families the state anticipating 250,000 residents will see their medical debt cleared Lamont announcing he's leveraging a $6.5 million fund from the American Rescue plan Act of 2021 to cancel $1 billion in medical debt by working with a nonprofit organization tha
t buys and eliminates debt at a fraction of the cost I think it's really important that people have a sense that they can start building wealth of their own for making that easier for people to do and the best way to start is eliminate the debt you got eligible families include those whose medical debt equates to 5% or more of their annual income or whose household income is up to 400% of the federal poverty line for a family of four that's $156,000 a year and Diane there is no application proce
ss for those who want to participate in Connecticut it's automatic in cities like Chicago and DC who have cancelled debt the amount per household has ranged from $25 to six figure amounts Diane all right Stephanie Ramos thank you and Miami Beach is cracking down on dangerous Behavior ahead of spring break the city council is announcing new rules including curfews and closing beaches at 6: p.m. ABC's Victor Endo has more chaotic spring break scenes on Miami Beach murders shootings fights and stam
pedes all of which the city desperately hopes to avoid this year Miami Beach is cracking down proactively a month before the rush city leaders promising significantly stricter rules to curb the notoriously unruly crowds and increased police presence with officers working 12-hour shifts vigorously enforcing open container and noise laws implementing curfews suspending sewalk cafes on famed ocean drive when necessary shutting down parking garages and parking lots we need to correct these issues we
need to do it now and we're going to be very proactive um and if somebody thinks that we're doing too much well that means we're probably doing it right Miami Beach is currently under a state of emergency the city forced to declare states of emergency in recent years following fatal shootings that sent hordes of people scrambling partygoers clashing with police and a number of brawls breaking out on any given night spring break is what it is but it should not be impeding the functioning of of b
usinesses in the area it should not be uh impacting the quality of life of our residents spring break laws in effect across the state police telling the public people who violate the laws could face fines arrest even jail time and a criminal record that will follow you beyond spring break police will also set up DUI checkpoints they'll have license plate readers and reduce traffic down to one lane entering Miami Beach one commissioner saying they're shutting the door on spring break once and for
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Apple's new Vision Pro is now available to the public this is the company's first major new product in almost a decade ABC's will reev was the first person to experience the customer demo the Apple Vision Pro making its big public debut hitting the shelves as Apple's first new device in years the era of spatial Computing is here with a hefty price tag of $3,500 Apple's first spatial computer merges digital content with the physical world allowing users to navigate the space using their hands voi
ce and eyes wow and GMA got a first look at one of the Apple Vision Pro spaces made available in a few dozen retail stores around the country when Apple Fans come into a space like this and get the device on what do you expect to see their reaction being well the best part about giving these demos is watching those reactions and I will say it's awe it's Wonder uh sometimes we've had some people cry it is a really transformational experience like I'm so excited for you to try it because it really
is deeply impacting and you can really feel like this is something really new and really exciting and I got to walk through the demo other users will be able to experience in select stores oh we're in a video they just blew a cake out right in my face wow you just saw your first facial video I did I feel like I must look pretty silly but I'm having a fantastic time the device is compatible with more than 1 million apps and over 600 spatial apps built specifically for it but some of of the most
popular apps including YouTube Spotify aren't available at the moment the Apple Vision Pro is not the first augmented or virtual reality headset available to Consumers and experts say it won't be the last I would expect to see a lot of competition a lot of response a lot of copying a lot of people trying to do what Apple's doing but in the long term we'll be able to slowly start to see a trend towards much smaller much more affordable versions of this world computer on your face ABC's will reev
thank you and earlier in Good Morning America Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke exclusively to Michael Strahan about the Vision Pro at an Apple store here in New York City I I had an opportunity to try the the Apple Vision Pro how was it it's the most amazing thing and is so hard to describe to someone who hasn't experienced it yet it's magical it is absolutely magical but how do you how do you envision this being used by people in their daily lives oh I think it's going to be used in so many different w
ays because it's a it's a spatial computer and you know the the iPhone introduced us to mobile Computing the Mac introduced us to personal Computing this is the first spatial computer and people are going to interact with it in different ways some people will connect with it uh with FaceTime and so forth some people will train on it surgeons will train on it um it's just the the number of use cases is like a computer yeah it's just enormous because there's over a million apps for it already it i
s a computer but it is a headset and you are truly you're so immersed in this world that you can create with this yes but it has a lot of groundbreaking technology what is that yeah yeah so we've been working on this for years and uh to get the gestures down there's a lot of artificial intelligence and machine learning built into to the product to get hand gestures to get room mapping this stuff requires very deep machine learning and uh we couldn't be more proud of it you know we a company only
has a few of these most companies have none we've had the Mac the iPod the iPad the iPhone the Apple watch and now the Vision Pro it's one of those moments well I've had every one of those you named and I'm going to have one of these too it it you talked about you know your using your hand because it's a headset you wear it but you navigate it with your hand how how does something that I'm wearing on my face know what I'm doing with my hands well there's many cameras in it and uh we're always l
ooking at the hands and and they don't have to be out here and so it's not uncomfortable you can put them in your lap and you can select your with your eye you select the app that you want to open and with your hand open it's it's it is magical it really is I know that's a word that we use a lot but it is truly magical no I I've done it so I can agree it's it's really just and it's very intuitive and very natural once you start using it doesn't take long to figure it out it works the way your mi
nd works yes you know you don't really have to train to use it you put it on and you already know how it works it just makes sense it just absolutely makes sense the big the big question for a lot of people at home would be the price it's $3,500 how long before it's more accessible to your average customer well it's it's tomorrow's technology today is the way I think about it and it's packed with we have 5,000 patents on the product already and and so we really leaned into it and I'm hoping that
people you know some people will pay for it by month some people will just buy it I talked to a lot of people out in the line they're just going to buy it yeah uh but you know over time who knows what will happen but we think we priced it for the right value today and and there always there's going to be some critics who are going to say does this keep us disconnected how would you answer that I would say no because you don't have to immerse yourself you can uh augment your reality and so you a
nd I can be sitting here having a conversation with the headset on and we can see each other's eyes but we can also see the screens around us do and so it amplifies our our connection and and so that and that was a key design point for us we wanted people to be able to see each other's eyes not get glazed over in a headset and it really in the maing what you you've come up with here and and like I said I had a chance to experience it the interaction with technology is unlike anything I've ever e
xperience oh I I I totally agree you know I I think about the first demos on this and they were many years ago and the rigs were enormous that that we were using to try to get a feel of the technology and it's one of those things it happens to you and you know in the moment that this is big yeah that this is huge and you just have to keep working at it to miniaturize it and uh get the technology down path and we really feel proud of of today and the and delivering the product thousands of people
have worked for multiple years to deliver this our thanks to Michael and Tim Cook for That interview meanwhile Bruce Springsteen is paying tribute to his mother Adele who died at the age of 98 yesterday in an Instagram PO he shared the lyrics from his song The wish which was dedicated to the sacrifices she made to make his wishes come true World News Tonight anchor David M has more she was a fixture at so many of his concerts Adele Springstein Bruce Springsteen's mother the fans knew when she w
as there Bruce would bring her up on stage to dance to Dancing in the Dark the crowd roaring the two even turning around and giving a little shake a hug and a kiss Bruce Springsteen revealing his mother's passing sharing this video of the two of them dancing along with quotes from the song The wish which he wrote about his mother I remember in the morning my hair in your Li clock rain I'd lie in bed and listen to you getting ready for work the sound of your makeup case on the sink Bruce Springst
een would often say it was his mother's love of music and dancing that influenced him early in his life renting him his first guitar when he was just seven she'd been battling Alzheimer's and her son would often talk about his mother's battle my mom is is 7 years into Alzheimer's and she's 93 but dancing and the desire and need to dance is something that it hasn't left her remains an essential Primal part of who she is it's beyond language it's more powerful than memory and when she comes in the
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w or movie on the screen takes a whole Army behind the scenes they kept hearing it continuously from people that they had never seen a woman they had never seen a black person they had never seen a black woman operator they knew it couldn't just be me in the union so Chris wrey went looking to see if she could find other women like her the union that represents camera Crews on set ioi Local 600 has around 10,000 members after searching Chris found just 22 other black women why do you think it's
important that we have the diversity behind behind the camera there's so much value in all the stories we tell being diverse I think what is entertaining what is exciting for people when they see a movie see a show is seeing something they haven't seen before so while we have that same diversity of Stories We Tell and people who are in front of the camera I think it's important to reflect that behind the camera and that's when she set out on a mission to help more women get jobs behind the scene
s creating the group 600 black women the very first weekend after I reached out the first 2 too I put together a weekend of workshops but the really incredible thing was seeing everyone walk into the room I've never seen so many people who look like me and do what we do and all the volunteers we had all the instructors were just moved emotional speechless we had people cry why do you think it was so emotional I think it was so emotional because we get to witness change that a lot of us didn't th
ink we would ever see I think it's really special that we can do this for ourselves the group has now grown from 22 to 91 members I think there's not always a lot of support for black females to get the right training to be able to grow in this industry so I think with this group we're able to train each other with no judgment that access to Technical Training a big part of The Sisterhood 600 black women hosting annual camera cookouts to teach members skills on the equipment they need to get job
s on set I felt that I had a safe space to learn these things when I was able to go to that first cookout it was such an enjoyable situation because we were just there with each other no one was judging me it was only people that felt like my family just from the outset how has having that group helped you it's given me an inner confidence that I didn't know that I had the group also helping those production houses that want to hire women of color on their sets find them I mean one more would be
more one more would be two Malika Franklin is a digital imaging technician I do get that comment a lot on set of oh my God you're a female oh my God you're black the only black female dit in the union because of this group I was able to find a mentee that I'm hoping will be the second black female did and that is the goal what are you hoping comes from all of this work you're doing my hope is to make film something that feels accessible to little girls who look like me I would love for film to
feel like an approachable career for anyone who's interested I'd love people to know that there's support for them our thanks to Eva Pilgrim for that story and Usher has dropped a new song off his much anticipated new album coming out next week this is the eight-time Grammy winner is getting ready to headline Super Bowl halftime show ABC News contributor Kelly Carter caught up with Usher to see how he's preparing for the Big [Music] Show the countdown to the Super Bowl and ushers halftime is on
so you get the call from Jay-Z that this is actually happening took a minute you know it's kind of like an adrenaline high right you're like yeah of course but then you really think about it like wait a minute the work you got to do to do this is like it's a lot you know and I'm but I'm Ready the eight time Grammy winner revealing R&B is taking the spotlight to have R&B have the main stage at the Super Bowl is a major thing for me I think about what our country has you know kind of represented f
or black artist you know having to at some point go through kitchens to even be able to perform warful audience but they had to leave back through that same door you know fear for their lives as they went to the next state to do the same thing so I'm coming through the front door with this one yeah I think about all of the R&B performers who I carry in this moment and today a treat for fans the music video for Usher's new song ruin featuring his daughter [Music] Sovereign leading up to to the re
lease of his first album in 8 years coming home there's some uh things that are are new special uh afro be and N piano Vibes that you heard would ruined so much music that you have created has really soundtracked our lives for the last 30 years do you carry that pressure with you I mean I put pressure on myself even if it were in comparison to another album or comparison to what somebody else is doing it's just because that's who I am I just want to make something that's gonna move the needle Us
her's teenage Sons Cino and Navid weighing in so tons and tons of listening sessions with my kids you know uh giving me their opinions about what they think should have been on the album but um I think it's a a love letter in some way um and a reminder that no matter how far you may go you will find your way back home [Music] eventually a career spanning three dead es this Super Bowl performance will be another page in the Legacy I didn't start where I am now and I didn't get there by myself so
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mother of the Oxford Michigan high school shooter took the stand under cross-examination earlier pushing back on prosecutors arguments that she should have known her son was headed down a violent path and you also don't deny that that gun was gifted by you and your husband to your son on November the 26 describe gifted how about when he posted on Instagram his new Christmas gift correct and I explained yesterday that it was for him to use at the shooting range we didn't just hand him a gun as a
here you go son it was something he could use and we went to the range as a family together you don't deny that in April of 2021 you described your son as being depressed I didn't describe him as being depressed I noticed that he was acting depressed you used the word depressed yes he was acting sad he was acting depressed okay you know what depressed means it means a lot of different things well to you it meant depressed and you wrote that right now the case will soon be in the hands of the ju
ry let's bring in ABC's Trevor alt in Pontiac Michigan along with ABC's Phil Lipoff and ABC News legal contributor shaa lyd for more Trevor what's it like inside the courtroom today well as you might imagine Diane everyone is clearly paying very close attention and this was testimony and a cross-examination that we knew this entire trial it was building up toward and I have to say it went relatively quickly and there was no thunderous moment of Confrontation I think what that tells us is that th
e prosecution feels relatively confident in the trail that they've laid out of what they say are the many missw warning signs leading up to this shooting and the defense at the same time seems fairly confident in the fact that they put Jennifer Crumbley on the stand they think that she can make the case that she was an attent an attentive parent and that she wasn't negligent this moved very very quickly today which now puts us in a position where after these closing statements you could actually
have the jury deliberating today we could even potentially have a verdict on Jennifer Crumbley uh and these involuntary manslaughter charges as early as this evening Dian Trevor did you notice any reactions from the jury during cross-examination today at certain parts uh no very businesslike the entire time from the jury and what because this was a bit shortened there was some deliberation without the jury early in the morning that lasted at least an hour and then it was very rapid fire questio
ning for the course of the cross-examination with the jury they were all extremely attentive paying attention I'm kind of struck the the various age differences there seem to be a lot of young people that are on this jury but everyone across the board uh was paying very close attention there wasn't really a moment in the questioning that delved into the shooting specifically and how Jennifer Crumbley felt when she learned that her son had murdered four of his classmates which I think might have
opened up an opportunity where number one we would seen a motion from Jennifer Crumbley but it also could have elicited a motion from the jury the prosecution stayed away from that this was very businesslike it was about the days leading up to the shooting and whether or not she was an attened parent the jury certainly was paying attention and now they likely are having discussions about it today a sha what stood out to you from this cross examination as Trevor said it seemed very businesslike i
t was also short less than an hour I was actually very surprised that it was as short as it was and it did two things I think depending on juror it's going to either show that she was a sympathetic parent who just was not aware and didn't connect the dots but she also had moments where she was a little combative with uh the prosecution she wanted to debate what a gift was she wanted to debate what Depression was I think that doesn't bode well all the time with a jury because these are things tha
t people typically talk about and she used these words very clearly in her text messages so it definitely was a little bit of good for the defense in that it made her a little more sympathetic but I do think that her competitiveness on the stand didn't bode well Trevor what can we expect to hear in these closing arguments now well I think what you're going to hear from the prosecution is again hammering home that pattern leading up to the shooting what they say were a number of red flags buying
the gun for their son not getting the help he needed him writing in his journal that he'd asked his parents to take him to a therapist that they' laughed him off that they weren't listening to him and also the fact that Jennifer Crumbley as they say was grossly negligent that that she was spending half of her salary on her horses that she in the days leading up to the shooting the day after taking him to the shooting range she was then trying to find a number of Affair Partners on adult apps and
messaging that way basically saying that she didn't spend any time or really hardly any time with her son even though on the stand she and her defense attorney try to present her as an attentive and even a helicopter mom at times I think her defense is going to really key on the fact that this is an incredibly High bar for involuntary manslaughter she is not on trial for being even a bad mom this is about the fact that according to them school officials did not consider her son to be a threat t
o other students too I imagine they're going to say look you need to remember you're not judging whether or not she's a good mom involuntary manslaughter is a super high bar and this jury really could go either way with this decision all right Trevor alt and shaa lyd thank you both and President Biden is expected to attend the dignified transfer today of the three US service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan the White House says the president and first lady will meet with the families p
rivately before their loved ones remains are returned this comes as the Pentagon finalizes its plans to retaliate for that attack ABC News senior White House correspondent Selena Wang joins me now with more on that Selena let's start with this dignified transfer what can we expect to see today well Diane this is a very solemn ritual that honors those military troops who have died overseas and these overseas operations and today they will honor those three American troops the president will be th
ere and what is one of his most somber responsibilities as president which is to witness the return of those fallen soldiers and really underscores and reminds people of the weight of his responsibility and during this ritual he will be there along with the first lady and chairman CQ Brown as well as defense secretary Lloyd Austin now we are we will see this dignified transfer take place but we will not hear anything there won't be any audio captured we also won't see the trans transfer happen l
ive that is out of respect to the family members we also won't see the family members on camera trying to respect them during what is a very emotional and somber moment and take a listen to what the president said this week about these fallen troops they've raised Their Lives In Harm's Way They risked it all and we'll never forget the sacrifices and service to our country at the dozens of service members who were wounded and are recovering now the three troops that are going to be honored they a
re all from Georgia and I just want to read to you their names and ages they are Sergeant William Rivers age 46 specialist Kennedy Sanders age 24 and specialist Brian Moffett age 23 Sanders and Moffett are both poisly been promoted to the rank of Sergeant we know that the president he's going to be speaking with the family members before the dignified transfer takes place he has already spoken to them over the phone and we've learned that they all wanted the president to come that's not always t
he case sometimes it is contentious but we're learning the families wanted the president to be there the world is also closely watching to see how the US will respond to this attack in Jordan what are you learning about that well we're learning that us officials they are preparing for a multiphase strike that could hit Targets in multiple countries including Iraq Syria and possibly Yemen and we're told that these are intended to hit deliberate targets that were involved in executing that attack
in Jordan so this is trying to degrade those capabilities of these Iranian backed mil but the president he's been walking a very fine line on this the focus of his administration has been trying to avoid escalation here but there have been more than 160 attacks on troops in the region and so far the US response has not stopped them now we're learning that Pentagon officials believe that the strikes that they execute will be significant it will send a clear message but we're also learning that th
ere are fears from some us officials that this will lead to the exact kind of escalation that President Biden has been trying to avoid and Diane complicating all of this is the fact that there are these ongoing hostage negotiations to release hostages in Gaza there are fears that the US response could derail that all right senior White House correspondent Selena Wang thank you and a senior Hamas official says the militant group will respond very soon to a proposal that includes extended pauses i
n fighting in Gaza and phased exchanges of Hamas held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel meanwhile UK foreign minister David Cameron says Britain could recognize a Palestinian state after a potential ceasefire ABC News foreign correspondent James Longman is in Tel Aviv with the latest hi Dan yes it doesn't feel like we're very close to a deal at all uh and you got to remember there are layers of complexity here it's not just about the internal Dynamics in Israel when October 7th happ
ened Israel was on the cusp of normalizing its relationship with Saudi Arabia it would have been an enormous moment it would have meant that they would be allies together with the United States against Iran an it would have meant Saudi would get on with its economic development but uh this war in Gaza has meant that Saudi Arabia cannot uh do that and so it might be that as part of these conversations uh the Arab contact group that's Qatar Saudi Arabia Egypt who is in touch with uh Hamas this per
haps might have become part of the conversation uh on uh enacting or extracting more concessions from Israel and the west and that might be part of the reason why we've heard uh from Western governments this AA of recognizing a Palestinian State David Cameron has been repeating this the British foreign secretary over the last few days we know the state department is considering this as a policy not as a result of a peace process but perhaps as part of the conversation uh from the very start so y
es this is about getting those hostages out yes this is about ending the war in Gaza but there are wider geopolitical uh Dynamics at play here that may be complicating matters Diane foreign correspondent James Longman thank you come coming up tomorrow marks one year since that toxic train derailment in Ohio I'm Alex pet in East Palestina Ohio authorities tell us that this Village is on Pace to be back to normal by late summer still there are residents here that are telling us they're getting sic
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tracking it all for us hi Melissa hey Diane and the National Weather Service is this calling this second storm potentially life-threatening when it comes to flooding but first we got to talk about the first storm this one is moving out it's bringing some Mountain snow to parts of the Rockies and the Four Corners region and potentially some severe storms there to parts of Texas by later tonight so as this all pushes East it's going to also bring Heavy Rain to parts of the Gulf Coast I'm not as co
ncerned with flooding across the gulf in the Southeast because this one's a quick mover unlike the second storm that is on the way to California so let's time that one out for you now it's by Saturday night into early Sunday morning that the next round of heavy flooding rain is expected from San Francisco Bay Area all the way down to Los Angeles you can see there the radar just lit up for Sunday at 7 a.m. that Mountain snow piling up in the Sierra is another 2 to 5 feet expected there on top of
what fell from the previous storm and then by Monday morning it all pushes South Santa Barbara Los Angeles down to San Diego that's where I'm expecting the biggest flood threat and that's where they're talking about the potential for life-threatening flooding now this is the flood risk Sunday and Monday you could see here everywhere highlighted in red this is where we're expecting the highest potential for flash flooding and mudslides the weather prediction center has already said this is the se
cond highest risk that we're seeing here in Southern California for Sunday into early next week but anywhere there in yellow from Napa all the way down to San Diego could see flooding from this system the worst part about this storm is how slow moving it is and that's why some of these areas Diane could see 6 to 12 Ines of rain and if you think about it just this past storm earlier this week Saw 6 Ines with that one so we are just piling up the rain there and flooding issues are going to continu
e right through next week Diane all right ABC News Meteorologist Melissa Griffin thank you and residents of East Palestine Ohio are frustrated ated and still cleaning up one year after the worst train derailment in modern American history the community there is urging the rest of the country not to forget what happened there ABC News Alex pre has their story it's been one year since one of the worst train derailments in modern American history what caused it train deril the state of emergency in
Ohio after train derailment and massive fires 50 train cars derailed Northwest of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania some of them carrying Vinyl chloride it's still a very volatile situation long-term exposure to the chemical can lead to Chronic liver and kidney problems those in the red area are facing grave danger of death I've had massive headaches since it started want to reassure pennsylvanians that the process is proceeding as planned basically a mushroom cloud there's really no other way to describ
e it we are recommending that people in the community consider using bottled water if I was there right now I would drink that yesterday we didn't have the test result watch this just see that chemical my grandbabies that's why I bought this property so they could play in a gck and have a good time but I ain't putting them in it this year you see this wall of flames all over here I mean what's what's going through your mind um just Panic my son I needed to get him out I needed to make him safe g
et my animals the Flames just completely surrounded us this is where basically we have our meals or anything we need to microwave one year later Ashley McCullum and many of the people of East Palestine are living a life in limbo we've had holidays here we've had Christmas here this is basically what home is until we can get a new one Ashley her boyfriend her son Zayn and their two dogs have been living out of this Best Western a couple of towns over in a hotel room paid for by Norfolk Southern h
ow has that adjustment been it's been difficult you never have privacy her son's bed doubles as a play Space his stuffed animals stacked with his pillows if he wants privacy sometimes he'll even put a blanket over here and make like a little fort but her stay here may soon come to an end Norfolk Southern is ending payments to her hotel on February 9th and she says going back to East Palestine is not an option you would rather be homeless than move back to East Palestine some people might not fee
l the same but I I know what my body's telling me and some people might not have that same effect but I know that my body is saying do not be here displacement is only one of the symptoms this family has endured since last year's derailment the toxic cloud that came from it causing health effects Ashley says she and her family didn't have before rashing numbness and tingling in your mouth ear pain um blood in your ears hair loss and these are all symptoms you say you didn't have before that dera
ilment yeah I no was never sick now Norfolk Southern and the EPA insist that the air and water here is clean they've taken some 45,000 samples since last year's accident but there are still calls for more federal aid here President Biden is set to visit later this month Diane Alex pet in East Palestine Ohio thank you coming up have a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear we have a new moo method to help you declutter organize and fall in love with your [Music] wardrobe ing mccac one of the
biggest unclimbed rock faces on the planet now I'm starting to get very excited if we manage to climb in cite it'll be the biggest first assent we've ever done oh my God so scared oh ultimately what's at stake with climbing this is not what I signed up for is always your life tonight honoring the soldiers killed in Jordan as their bodies are returned home plus tracking heavy rain wind and snow and a new storm on the way more Americans turn to the most watched newscast on television World News To
night with David mure Thursday you know it's going to be a party when Zara Larson lights up the morning in a live GMA [Music] concert Thursday only on Good Morning America's concert series sponsored by Planet Fitness why do so many people start their day here from ABC News this is start here to be in the know and get a different take on the day's top stories a lot of news today so let's get into it listen now to the Daily News podcast honored with four Edward R murl Awards and see why the New Yo
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ideo faster smarter and customizable to your interests if you love being in the know you're going to love this experience the allnew ABC News app download it now I'm Matt Gutman reporting in Gaza City right next to alifa hospital wherever the news is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live welcome back it is time for maso methods where I show you some of my favorite hacks to make life a little easier today I bring you a way to organize your closet to help you declutter and fall back
in love with your wardrobe we've all been there right you've got a closet full of clothes and yet I have nothing to wear this was magnified for me after having kids I had a closet I could barely close yet I was always wearing the same thing perfect but I recently realized the problem wasn't my clothes it's the way I had them organized I used to organize my closet by category so there was a jackets and cardigan section a top section A pants section a skirt section and so on it made logical sense
but putting together an outfit was like putting together a puzzle mixing and matching pieces trying to remember what goes well with what and that also involves making a lot of micro decisions these days when I'm getting ready I don't have the time or bandwidth for that work but lately I've started reorganizing My Closet by outfit and what I thought would just save me time has done so much more to do this in a big Hall get some labels or Clothing Rack dividers so you can create sections move item
s like white and black tanks or jeans to the basic section because they go with just about everything Basics are also good items to put in drawers because you don't need to see them to remember them you're not going to forget to wear your jeans pieces that you would only pair with Basics go in the solo section so I love this cardigan but I only wear it with Basics like a white or black tank jeans or leggings so it's going in the solo section the goal is to get everything else in the outfit secti
on take this top instead of just thinking oh that would look cute under a Blazer now I'm checking to see would I actually wear it with one of my blazers if I find a match I'm excited to wear these two items now live together in the outfit section if I find another top that goes well with that same Blazer that one lives there too repeat the same process with pants skirts even accessories now if something doesn't have a match you have a decision to make do you love it enough to buy something to go
with it oh these would look great with a cropped black blazer order placed for cropped black blazer otherwise it's time to let it go thank you for your service this system helped me donate so many clothes but also ReDiscover pieces that I love but never wore like this skirt these pants this jacket and both of these tops now that they're organized into outfits I wear them all the time so my closet's less cluttered easier to navigate and full of clothes I actually wear babe let's go I've been rea
dy for [Music] ages and as a bonus this also helped me buy less stuff and it has made packing much easier which is my cryptonite and we will have on that note more packing hacks coming up on the next moo methods if you have a problem that you want me to tackle just let me know on Instagram at Dian redo and you might see us take it on for the next meedo methods Super Bowl 58 meanwhile is a little over a week away but the party is already getting started in Las Vegas as fans and players begin to a
rrive the NFL is taking over Sin City along with people trying to get those rare tickets for the big game ABC's Whit Johnson has more Las Vegas is gearing up for a show unlike anything it's ever seen Super Bowl 58 from Superstars to super fans all all about to descend on Sin City it's going to be Beyond anybody else's uh Wildest Dreams the defending Super Bowl champs Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers heading to Vegas Sunday a week ahead of their second Super Bowl matchup on social m
edia Chief's quarterback Patrick Mahomes jokingly comparing the trip to the comedy The Hangover but insisting it's all business I know it's Vegas and it's a lot of fun but for us it's it's a business trip in the true sense and we're going there to play a football game and both teams will be nowhere near the action before the big game staying in separate hotels 25 miles outside the strip but Las Vegas pulling out all the stops preparing to welcome some 330,000 visitors a projected economic impact
topping $600 million well we're obviously you know preparing a whole slate of official NFL Super Bowl events you know everywhere you walk in this city is going to be have a Super Bowl fever to it for those hoping to be among the more than 65,000 fans who will pack a legion Stadium the average price of a ticket is more than $99,000 the lowest resale price nearly $6,000 on StubHub they'll be rewarded not only with football but entertainment for the first time ever a DJ will be rocking the stadium
during the game Testo known as The Godfather of electronic dance music performing between quarters sending GMA this special message very excited to be part of the Super Bowl this year I can't wait to play in the stadium and bring the energy up during the game and let's not forget R&B icon Usher in the highly anticipated halftime show I think for the you know over 100 million people who will see it for those who know my music and know my legacy hopefully they will understand the Entertainer that
I am and right now most of the ticket buyers are from California about 35% followed by people from Missouri and Kansas at about 11% and there are still some good seats available Diane wit Johnson thank you and thank you for streaming with us I'm Diane Meo ABC News live is here for you any time with the latest news context and Analysis we'll be right back the ideal male physique is tall dark and handsome money can buy you a lot of things money can't make you tall right we're bring you behind the
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ttack in Jordan are on their way home the remains of Sergeant Kennedy Sanders Sergeant Brian Moffett and Sergeant William Rivers will be arriving at do Air Force Base in Delaware this afternoon President Biden and their families are set to be there for the dignified transfer this as the US prepares to strike back at iran-backed militant groups in the Middle East a Us official tells ABC News militants and their weapons in Iraq Syria and possibly Yemen are all on the list of likely targets at leas
t three people are dead after a fiery plane crash in Clearwater Florida firefighters rushed to the scene where a small plane crashed into a mobile home park west of Tampa the FAA says the pilot reported engine failure just after 700 p.m. last night the crash is now under investigation country music star Darius Rucker is facing misdemeanor drug charges after being arrested near Nashville it's unclear what led to the arrest but Rucker was also cited for an expired registration suggesting he might
have been pulled over by police and on this Groundhog Day punk Satani Phil says an early spring is on the way the famous groundhog emerged from his burrow and did not see his shadow thousands gathered at gobler knob in Pennsylvania to see the legendary rodent make his prediction but experts say a coin flip may be more accurate groundhogs are not meteorologists and now to an ABC News exclusive the governor of Connecticut is making a major announcement about his State's plan to erase medical debt
residents who qualify will start to see debt Disappear by June with the state prioritizing single parents and lower income residents Stephanie Ramos sat down with Governor Ned Lamont to learn more about how it'll work in an unprecedented move Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut announcing his state will be the first to wipe out medical debt for the thousands of people struggling to pay their bills tell us why you're cancelling medical debt now this is not something they did because they were spen
ding too much money this is something because they got hit with a medical emergency they should not have to uh you know suffer Twice first with the illness then with the debt medical debt is the number one source of debt collection in the US greater than credit cards utilities auto loans and other sources combined almost 20% of American households carry medical debt disproportionately impacting black and Latino families the state anticipating 250,000 residents will see their medical debt cleared
Lamont announcing he's leveraging a $6.5 million fund from the American Rescue plan Act of 2021 to cancel $1 billion in medical debt by working with nonprofit organization that buys and eliminates debt at a fraction of the cost I think it's really important that people have a sense that they can start building wealth of their own for making that easier for people to do and the best way to start is eliminate the debt you got eligible families include those whose medical debt equates to 5% or mor
e of their annual income or whose household income is up to 400% of the federal poverty line for a family of four that's $156,000 a year he Diane there is no application process for those who want to participate in Connecticut it's automatic in cities like Chicago and DC who have cancelled debt the amount per household has ranged from $25 to six figure amounts Diane all right Stephanie Ramos thank you and Miami Beach is cracking down on dangerous Behavior ahead of spring break the city council i
s announcing new rules including curfews and closing beaches at 6 p.m. ABC's Victor Kendo has more chaotic spring break scenes on Miami Beach murders shootings fights and stampedes all of which the city desperately hopes to avoid this year Miami Beach is cracking down proactively a month before the rush city leaders promising significantly stricter rules to curb the notoriously unruly crowds and increase police presence with officers working 12-hour shifts vigorously enforcing open container and
noise laws implementing curfews suspending sidewalk cafes on famed Ocean Drive when necessary shutting down parking garages and parking lots we need to correct these issues we need to do it now and we're going to be very proactive um and if somebody thinks that we're doing too much well that means we're probably doing it right Miami Beach is currently under a state of emergency the city forced to declare states of emergency in recent years following fatal shootings that sent hordes of people sc
rambling partygoers clashing with police and a number of brawls breaking out on any given night spring break is what it is but it should not be impeding the functioning of of businesses in the area it should not be uh impacting the quality of life of our residents spring break laws in effect across the state police telling the public people who violate the laws could face fines arrest even jail time and a criminal record that will follow you beyond spring break police will also set up du y check
points they'll have license plate readers and reduce traffic down to one lane entering Miami Beach one commissioner saying they're shutting the door on spring break once and for all Diane all right Victor Kendo thank you coming up an ABC News exclusive as Apple debuts its brand new device what CEO Tim Cook is sharing about the Apple Vision Pro and the future of tech also ahead Usher dropped a new song overnight as Vegas prepares for a huge halftime show and we have a [Music] preview tonight hono
ring the soldiers killed in Jordan as their bodies are returned home plus tracking heavy rain wind and snow and a new storm on the way more Americans turn to the most watched newscast on television World News Tonight with David mure Thursday you know it's going to be a party when Zara Larson lights up the morning in a live GMA [Music] concert Thursday only on Good Morning America's concert series sponsored by Planet Fitness goodes on [Music] myit just a little bit Brea just a little bit smile li
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ct in almost a decade ABC's will reev was the first person to experience the customer demo the Apple Vision Pro making its big public debut hitting the shelves as Apple's first new device in years the era of spatial Computing is here with a hefty price tag of $3500 Apple's first spatial computer merges digital content with the physical world allowing users to navigate the space using their hands voice and eyes wow and GMA got a first look at one of the Apple Vision Pro spaces made available in a
few dozen retail stores around the country when Apple Fans come into a space like this and get the device on what do you expect to see their rea action being well the best part about giving these demos is watching those reactions and I will say it's awe it's Wonder uh sometimes we've had some people cry it is a really transformational experience like I'm so excited for you to try it because it really is deeply impacting and you can really feel like this is something really new and really exciti
ng and I got to walk through the demo other users will be able to experience in select stores oh we're in a video they just blew a cake out right in my face wow you just saw your first facial video I did I feel like I must look pretty silly but I'm having a fantastic time the device is compatible with more than 1 million apps and over 600 spatial apps built specifically for it but some of the most popular apps including YouTube Spotify aren't available at the moment the Apple Vision Pro is not t
he first augmented or virtual reality headset available to consumers and experts say it won't be the last I would expect to see a lot of competition a lot of response a lot of copying a lot of people trying to do what Apple's doing but in the long term we'll be able to slowly start to see a trend towards much smaller much more affordable versions of this wable computer on your face ABC's Will Reeve thank you and earlier on Good Morning America Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke exclusively to Michael Stra
han about the Vision Pro at an Apple store here in New York City I I had an opportunity to try the the Apple Vision Pro that wasn't is the most amazing thing and is so hard to describe to someone who hasn't experienced it yet it's magical it is absolutely magical but how do you how do you envision this being used by people in their daily lives oh I think it's going to be used in so many different ways because it's a it's a spatial computer and you know the the iPhone introduc to mobile Computing
the Mac introduced to personal Computing this is the first spatial computer and people are going to interact with it in different ways some people will connect with it uh with FaceTime and so forth some people will train on it surgeons will train on it um it's just the the number of use cases is like a computer yeah it's just enormous because there's over a million apps for it already it is a computer but it is a headset and you are truly you're so immersed in this world that you can create wit
h this but it has a lot of groundbreaking technology what is that yeah yeah so we've been working on this for years and uh to get the gestures down there's a lot of artificial intelligence and machine learning built into the product to get hand gestures to get room mapping this stuff requires very deep machine learning and uh we couldn't be more proud of you know we a company only has a few of these most companies have none we've had the Mac the iPod the iPad the iPhone the Apple watch and now t
he Vision Pro it's one of those moments well I've had every one of those you named that I'm going to have one of these too it it you talked about you know your using your hands because it's a headset you wear it but you navigate it with your hands how how does something that I'm wearing on my face know what I'm doing with my hands well there's many cameras in it and uh we're always looking at the hands and they don't have to be out here and so it's not uncomfortable you can put them in your lap
and you can select your with your eye you select the app that you want to open and with your hand opens it it's it's it is magical it really is I know that's a word that we use a lot yeah but it is truly magical no no I I've done it so I can agree it's it's really just and it's very intuitive and very natural once you start using it doesn't take long to figure it out it works the way your mind works yes you know you don't really have to train to use it you put it on and you already know how it w
orks just makes sense it absolutely makes sense the big the big question for a lot of people at home would be the price it's $3,500 how long before it's more accessible to your average customer well it's it's tomorrow's technology today is the way I think about it and it's packed with we have 5,000 patents on the product already and and so we really leaned into it and I'm hoping that people you know some people will pay for it by month some people will just buy it I talked to a lot of people out
in the line they're just going to buy it yeah uh but you know over time who knows what will happen but we think we priced it for the right value today and and there always there's going to be some critics who are going to say does this keep us disconnected how would you answer that I would say no because you don't have to immerse yourself you can uh augment your reality and so you and I can be sitting here having a conversation with the headset on and we can see each other's eyes but we can als
o see the screens around us and so it amplifies our our connection and and so that and that was a key design point for us we wanted people to be able to see each other's eyes not get glazed over in a headset and it really is the made in what you you've come up with here and and like I said I had a chance to experience it the interaction with technology is unlike anything I've ever experienced oh I I I totally great you know I I think about the first demos on this and they were many years ago and
the rigs were enormous that that we were using to try to get a feel of the technology and it's one of those things it happens to you and you know in the moment that this is big yeah that this is huge and you just have to keep working at it to miniaturize it and uh get the technology down pth and we really feel proud of of today and the and delivering the product thousands of people have worked for multiple years to deliver this all thanks to Michael and Tim Cook for That interview meanwhile Bru
ce Springsteen is paying tribute to his mother Adele who died at the age of 98 yesterday in an Instagram PO he shared the lyrics from his song The wish which was dedicated to the sacrifices she made to make his wishes come true World News Tonight anchor David M has more she was a fixture at so many of his concerts Adele Springstein Bruce Springsteen's mother the fans knew when she was there Bruce would bring her up on stage to dance to Dancing in the Dark the crowd roaring the two even turning a
round and giving a little shake a hug and a kiss Bruce Springsteen revealing his mother's passing sharing this video of the two of them dancing along with quotes from the song The wish which he wrote about his mother I remember in the morning my in your alarm clock rain I'd lie in bed and listen to you getting ready for work the sound of your your makeup case on the sink Bruce Springsteen would often say it was his mother's love of music and dancing that influenced him early in his life renting
him his first guitar when he was just seven she'd been battling Alzheimer's and her son would often talk about his mother's battle my mom is is s years into Alzheimer's and she's 93 but dancing and the desire and need to dance is something that it hasn't left her remains an essential Primal part of who she is it's beyond language it's more powerful than memory and when she comes in the door we make sure there's music on the boss sharing that video the two of them dancing and about his mother he
once said remember that the future is not yet written so when things look dark do as my mighty mom would insist lace up your dancing shoes get out on the floor and get to work our thanks to David mure for that story coming up advocating for inclusion how one woman is helping hundreds of other women break into tough Industries like Motion Picture films photography and [Music] [Applause] [Music] PR [Music] why do so many people start their day here from ABC News this is start here to be in the kno
w and get a different take on the day's top stories a lot of news today so let's get into it listen now to the Daily News podcast honored with four Edward R ml Awards and see why the New York Times calls it a news podcast worth listening to start here ABC news make it your daily first listen now that's a part of the story I bet you didn't see coming wherever you get your podcasts start here tonight honoring the soldiers killed in Jordan as their bodies are returned home plus tracking heavy rain
wind and snow and a new storm on the way more Americans turn to the most watched newscast on television World News Tonight with David mure I have a point of contact they're expecting us this our secret world we have do you think we're going to be safe I don't know this is my pen inside that pen is a slice of human brain these are assassinations of people are going to be murdered there's really no telling what some of them will do in in oh my God it's happening everywhere and anywhere [Music] wow
all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you hug you yes so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show right now there's just so much happening in our world so much at stake at the start of every morning making of it all that's not always so
easy and that's where we come in Good Morning America we want you to know every morning we're right here and we got you reportings from Monteray Park California I'm Robin Roberts wherever wherever the story is we're going to take you there you're streaming ABC News [Music] [Applause] live [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back to ABC News live first this year's Oscar nominees are being celebrated for their increased diversity except in one major area black women in technical roles no
w filmmaker Chris wrey is making it her mission to change that Eva Pilgrim has more I want a big life it's showtime getting a hit show or movie on the screen takes a whole Army behind the scenes they kept hearing it continuously from people that they had never seen a woman they had never seen a black person they had never seen a black woman operator they knew it couldn't just be me in the union so Chris wrey went looking to see if she could find other women like her the union that represents cam
era Cruz on set ioi Local 600 has around 10,000 members after searching Chris found just 22 other black women why do you think it's important that we have the diversity behind the camera there's so much value in all the stories we tell being diverse I think what is entertaining what is exciting for people when they see a movie see a show is seeing something they haven't seen before so while we have that same diversity of Stories We Tell and people who are in front of the camera I think it's impo
rtant to reflect that behind the camera and that's when she set out on a mission to help more women get jobs behind the scenes creating the group 600 black women the very first weekend after I reached out the first 22 I put together a weekend of workshops but the really incredible thing was seeing everyone walk into the room I've never seen so many people who look like me and do what we do and all the volunteers we had all the instructors were just moved emotional speechless we had people cry wh
y do you think it was so emotional I think it was so emotional because we get to witness change that a lot of us didn't think we would ever see I think it's really special that we can do this for for ourselves the group has now grown from 22 to 91 members I think there's not always a lot of support for black females to get the right training to be able to grow in this industry so I think with this group we're able to train each other with no judgment that access to Technical Training a big part
of The Sisterhood 600 black women hosting annual camera cookouts to teach members skills on the equipment they need to get jobs on set I felt that I had a safe space to learn these things when I was able to go to that first cookout it was such an enjoyable situation because we were just there with each other no one was judging me it was only people that felt like my family just from the outset how has having that group helped you it's given me an inner confidence that I didn't know that I had th
e group also helping those production houses that want to hire women of color on their sets find them I mean one more would be more one more would be two Malika Franklin is a digital Imaging technician I do get that comment a lot on set of oh my God you're a female oh my God you're black the only black female dit in the union because of this group I was able to find a mentee that I'm hoping will be the second black female dit and that is the goal what are you hoping comes from all of this work y
ou're doing my hope is to make film something that feels accessible to little girls who look like me I would love for film to feel like an approachable career for any one who's interested I'd love people to know that there's support for [Music] them our thanks to Eva Pilgrim for that story and Usher has dropped a new song off his much anticipated new album coming out next week this is the eight-time Grammy winner is getting ready to headline Super Bowl halftime show ABC News contributor Kelly Ca
rter caught up with Usher to see how he's preparing for the Big [Music] Show night [Music] the countdown to the Super Bowl and ushers halftime is on so you get the call from Jay-Z that this is actually happening took a minute you know it's kind of like an adrenaline high right you're like yeah of course but then you really think about it like wait a minute the work you got to do to do this is like it's a lot you know and I'm but I'm Ready the eight time Grammy winner revealing R&B is taking the
spotlight to have R&B have the main stage at the Super Bowl it's a major thing for me I think about what our country has you know kind of represented for black artist you know having to at some point go through kitchens to even be able to perform for audience but they had to leave back through that same door you know fear for their lives as they went to the next state to do the same thing so I'm coming through the front door with this one yeah I think about all of the R&B performers yeah who I c
arry in this moment and today a treat for fans the music video for Usher's new song ruin featuring his daughter [Music] Sovereign leading up to the release of his first album in 8 years coming home there's some uh things that are are new special uh afro be and amap piano Vibes that you heard were ruined so much music that you have created has really soundtracked our lives for the last 30 years do you carry that pressure with you I mean I put pressure on myself even if it were in comparison to an
other album or comparison to what somebody else is doing it's just because that's who I am I just want to make something that's going to move the needle ushers teenage Sons Cino and Navid weighing in so tons and tons of listening sessions with my kids you know uh giving me their opinions about what they think should have been on the album but um I think it's a a love letter in some way um and a reminder that no matter how far you may go you will find your way back home eventually a career spanni
ng three decades this Super Bowl performance will be another page in the Legacy I didn't start where I am now and I didn't get there by myself so everybody that has been a part of it I'm carrying them with me all of my fans my loved ones the people who you know may have felt like they have been forgotten they haven't I'm carrying you right with me when I walk on that stage that night Kelly Carter thanks for that and thanks to you for streaming with us I'm Diane Meo ABC News live is here for you
anytime with the latest news context and Analysis you can always find us on various streaming services the ABC News app and of course on abcnews.com the news never stops we'll be right [Music] back [Music] in mcac one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces on the planet now I'm starting to get very excited if we manage to climb in CAC it'll be the biggest first desent we've ever done oh my God so scary ultimately what's at stake with climbing this is not what I signed up for is always your [Music]
life tonight honoring the soldiers killed in Jordan as their bodies are returned home plus tracking heavy rain wind and snow and a new storm on the way more Americans turn to the most watched newscast on television World News Tonight with David mure Thursday you know it's going to be a party when Zara Larson lights up the morning in a live gmma [Music] concert Thursday only on Good Morning America America's concert series sponsored by Planet Fitness why do so many people start their day here fro
m ABC News this is start here to be in the know and get a different take on the day's top stories a lot of news today so let's get into it listen now to the Daily News podcast honored with four Edward R murl Awards and see why the New York Times calls it a news podcast worth listening to start here ABC News make it your daily first listen now that's a part of the story I bet you didn't see coming wherever you get your podcasts start here from America's number one news source comes the allnew ABC
News app breaking news Incredible video faster smarter and it can customize to you and your interests if you love being in the know you're going to love this experience what all the buzz is about experience the allnew ABC News app download it now reporting on Capitol Hill I'm Devon dwire wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News [Music] live right now on ABC News live back on the stand closing arguments set to begin in the trial of Jennifer Crumbley the mother of that
Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley what happened today as she faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter plus the bodies of our fallen American soldiers making their way back home we are honoring these Heroes as President Biden plans retaliation for that deadly attack on a US military base and the economy going strong adding 353,000 jobs in the month of January what it means for inflation and your money coming up good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips our top story this hour is d
efinitely the testimony that's wrapping up now in the historic involuntary manslaughter trial against Jennifer Crumbley closing argument set to begin at any moment after that Michigan mom was was back on the witness stand today this time for cross-examination by the prosecution crumbly answering questions about her son Ethan's upbringing his troubled life in school and also an alleged obsession with guns and what ultimately led him to shooting and killing these four students at Oxford High Schoo
l in 2021 crumbly insisting on the stand it was her husband James who was responsible for buying and storing that gun that their son used the two are the first first pair of parents in the US to be charged in school shooting committed by a child the father's trial begins next month and we'll be following that as well leading us off is our Phil lip off along with our legal contributor and managing partner at the Cochran firm shaa ly so Phil let's just talk about what we have heard this so far it
started early this morning we are hearing a lot of Jennifer crumb's personal life and then they did really delve into drawings and text messages and just more details about the evidence some of the evidence that we saw from the very beginning yeah we did hear a lot of that specifically yesterday on Direct today the cross-examination I think what surprised a lot of folks and shaa can speak to this as well uh is that the cross was relatively quick it was about an hour maybe a little less than an h
our and it was very clinical the prosecutor got up asked questions eventually got into text messages between uh crumbly and her attorney as the police were looking for her that was a bit of a thing this morning before we even got into testimony but I think two things stood out one that the cross was that short and that it wasn't say as robust as a lot of legal experts were expecting it to be and two uh that Jennifer Crumbley was a little bit standoffish at times even with the definition of a ter
m uh you know like depression uh that was interesting and we'll see how that plays out to the jury so shaa what do you make of how the prosecution uh framed its cross-examination it was very clinical I mean he went in he he just hit through his questions and he just one by one I was actually really surprised that he didn't even address any of her concepts of just how much attention would you really pay you know looking into more conceptual topics I was surprised he didn't get into that but he ju
st hit the main topics he did it very efficiently and very quickly I was very surprised at how quickly he got through that cross-examination so shaa did you notice that um Jennifer did continue to deny uh having a role in buying or storing that gun and instead you know completely shifted all of that responsibility over to her husband um Can her defense really proved that you know it's not something that can be proven that's why they put her on the stand she is going to talk about what her relati
onship was like in the home with her husband whose duties these things were and she absolutely shifted the blame to the husband which is likely why they wanted separate trials and got them because what she's essentially saying was the husband's responsibility now how that bodess is really going to depend on the jurors do they feel that that is enough can it be that it is only on one parent and that this particular parent the mother in this case can have seen all of these things and not put them
together to be concerned enough to had you know make different actions with what happened with the school not take him home not investigate further so Phil what do you think we can expect during closing arguments what are you going to be looking for or listening closely to uh well we're going to be looking to see how both sides frame who this woman is and who she was as a mother to a a young man who went in and killed classmates with a gun that the parents provided to him of course her defense a
ttorney painted her yesterday as this mother who spent a lot of time they even called her a helicopter mother uh at at times that she she was a little too overprotective but then today we heard about a woman who was having an affair and who was spending some time on uh you know adult websites looking for other people to interact with spending a lot of time with her horse uh spending less time with her son and ignoring some red flags that the the prosecution said were right there uh in her face a
nd it's going to be a decision of what you know who the jury which mother the jury sees in front of them Phil shaa thank you both so much uh we'll continue to follow this of course and dip in live once again uh as questioning begins also happening this hour honoring America's Fallen President Biden set to attend the return home of three US troops killed in Jordan the dignified transfer at do Air Force Bay set to get underway in just a short time from now first lady Jill Biden also defense secret
ary Lloyd Austin both set to be there as well with the present this afternoon those three Army reservists were killed in a drone strike on Sunday our senior National policy reporter an FL joins us now just to talk about um today's solemn event yeah so what we're expecting to see Cara is a c17 arriving with the remains of these three Fallen Soldiers uh we expect that they will be arrive uh shortly if they haven't already we know that the president and the um his wife have already arrived there at
do Air Force Base um he will be joined by the defense secretary uh Lloyd Austin and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown um we expect that that this VIP group will have access they can walk up to the to the sometimes they'll open up the rear of the c17 they'll be able to have a private moment and then we'll see these remains transferred in flag draped cases to a special vehicle so the Pentagon says and I know someone's trying to get a hold of you there by phone I don't kno
w if you need to uh to turn that down or let them know this was really bad timing over a very very serious event so I'm sorry about the ringing going on right now but um you know we're also not only talking about um this event that will happen at Dover and and paying final respects and honoring our fallen but the Pentagon uh also says it's finalized its retaliation plan for that deadly drone attack in Jordan um and that is supposed to happen at any time at any moment at any day do we know anythi
ng more about that well what we know is we've been speaking with officials for weeks now they've been saying you know they've had these skirmishes with these iran-backed militants and they said you know if one of our own is to be hurt that would change the equation and that's exactly what happened on Sunday when there was an enemy drone attack at a remote base in Jordan we had these three Fallen Soldiers so now what we're seeing is the military is planning for a more serious more substantial res
ponse than we've seen in the past we have seen the US strike these iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria and in in Yemen around the Red Sea uh they say to that they're expecting a much more substantial response it's going to play out over several days multiple countries but the exact details the when where and how th those remain very classified and officials here are very tight lipped about that right now Cara all right well we'll prepare for uh for anything at this point and FL thank you so
much and can anything slow down the American economy the US adding 353,000 jobs in in January way above what analysts were expecting December and November we're also um talking about the unemployment rate also which remained steady at 3.7% our business correspondent leis christofer has joins me out to talk about it all so uh I guess let's break down the numbers here and what does it tell us about the economy today Kira this was a blockbuster report and I'll tell you what it surprised me and it s
urprised a lot of Wall Street Pros as well because despite higher interest rates and despite all those really high-profile layoffs we saw early in uh January the economy added a whopping 353,000 jobs that was more than double or about double what economists were expecting the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% and when you dig a Little Deeper you find out that wages also grew and that's what's a little bit Troublesome at least for the Federal Reserve in this report because we know that wages
if they are moving ahead too quickly can be inflationary so we saw wages uh grow uh 6% month over month 4 and a half% uh year over-year so overall a very strong jobs report that continues to sort of defy expectations Cara jobs report uh within what sectors so again it was a nice broad-based array of jobs that were added last month we wanted to break some down for you because the numbers are pretty impressive professional and business services adding 74,000 jobs we also saw uh retail uh adding a
number of jobs I think it was 45 5,000 Healthcare month after month we see those jobs added there 70,000 jobs government and Manufacturing as well so again it's not just pockets of the economy that are growing it is the fact that we are seeing this job growth happen across a diverse array of Industries and of course our favorite question I always ask you at the end of every segment like this Alexis what does it mean for interest rates and the FED yeah it's well look we ask it be for good reason
I mean everybody wants to know and and those people who were hoping that mortgage rates would come down and those record high credit card interest rates would come down they're going to have to wait a little longer because a lot of economists I spoke to after this report today said it is so strong it will probably give the FED reason to delay its first interest rate cut in about four years Kira all right Lexis appreciate you thank you so much bet well millions of people are on alert this weekend
ahead of that major storm expected to slam California the National Weather Service is warning this could be a life-threatening situation as as well parts of California expected to get months worth of rain in just a couple of days and then there's Heavy Rain triing flash flooding still in California from a separate storm yesterday in the higher elevation snowfall in the Sierra Nevada creating dangerous travel conditions Meteorologist Melissa Griffin is tracking all the extreme weather so time it
all out for us Melissa well Kira this first storm already dumped half a foot of rain in parts of Southern California and now we're tracking yet another one behind it but let's talk about the first one first because let's see where it's going we have Mountain snow across the Rockies winter storm warnings in effect here for 1 to 2 feet of snow and then it's the severe storm threat in Texas that's for later tonight just west of Dallas and Houston you're going to see this all sliding East heavy rai
n moving across the Gulf Coast right through the weekend so looking like a wet weekend in the Deep South and the southeast but I'm not too concerned about flooding because this one's a quick mover unlike the next storm making its way into California you can see the timing here it's Saturday night into early Sunday we're more flooding rain is on the way from San Francisco all the way down to Los Angeles you can see that very heavy rain there across much of the State of California and more snow fo
r the mountains several more feet expected and by Monday morning it all pushes South Los Angeles to San Diego that's where you're expecting to get the worst of the flooding from this system and the National Weather Service is warning that this could be potentially life-threatening flooding look at the area highlighted in red this is the second highest level for flooding that the national Service issued so lifethreatening flash flooding possible the risk for mudslides this is from San Louis ofo S
anta Barbara down to La into San Diego but much of California could see carot 6 to 12 inches of rain this weekend oh wow all right well stay tuned we'll track it Melissa thank you so much and coming up a deadly plane crash sets multiple homes on fire what we're learning about those moments just before the crash whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Leon Maine the scene of a horrific mass shoot
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st followed by the defense you'll remember this Michigan mom is facing four accounts of involuntary manslaughter after her son Ethan Crumbley shot and killed four students at his high school back in 2021 it was Jennifer Crumbley and her husband that gave their son that gun you the truth and telling the truth sometimes means showing you things none of us want to see some of us don't agree with some of us don't like but I believe that that's my job we don't pick or choose the very best things beca
use I believe that you should have the truth and I believe that it's not my job nor is it right to sanitize what happened in that school that day because if we don't tell you exactly what happened then you don't know all the facts and you don't know what the truth is my job here our job that I believe we have done is to meet our burden to prove that Jennifer Crumbley is guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter the burden is high I told you that during jury selection but we embrace it an
d I believe that we have met that burden it means that you had to sit and listen to a lot of very emotional things a lot of emotional people people who sometimes aren't emotional but we're emotional for this because what happened on that day every single person in that building had never experienced anything like that in their entire lives and I hope to God they never do again so you did see a lot of people including law enforcement become overwhelmed with the emotion of it all that's not a show
that's just how that was that's how it felt that day and every day after so I want you to know that there was no picking and choosing the very best evidence to give you there was no filtering things out that didn't help our case I showed you everything and I called witnesses to the stand to say things I knew you probably wouldn't like but I just my job is to give you all the facts but my job is also to prove Beyond a reasonable doubt that Jennifer Crumley is guilty and I believe we've done that
the defense also has an important job to Advocate and argue for their client and they decide how they want to do that and of course the judge plays an important role her job is to call balls and stripes when two sides disagree to make a ruling and then to tell you what the law is and she's going to do that as soon as we conclude here and then there's your job your job is to decide what the truth is what really happened what are the facts and then take those facts and find that find the the trut
h and apply law the judge is going to give you instructions about the law but I want you to go over what you now what you now know and I want you to think about it and we're going to go over some of the evidence but I also want to remind you that you're allowed to use your own observations and your own insight and if there's something that you notice from the witness stand that I didn't say you you you should rely on that we can't can't possibly tell you every single little thing and sometimes s
ometimes ladies and gentlemen the most important things of the things that don't get said the most important things are the way the victim or the witness spoke the way they answered a question and I encourage you to rely on your own perceptions of that I want to start out by talking to you about the elements of the crime in invol manslaughter she is charged with this case is based on two theories you're going to have all this in their Jury Room but I'm hopefully I'm going to explain it so well y
ou will have no questions um these are uh dependent on on two specific theories one is the gross negligence in the performance of a lawful act and that that gross negligence caused death and in doing so the act that caused death defendant acted in a grossly negligent manner the second is the gross negligence in failing to perform a legal Duty one I have to prove that there that she had a legal duty to to the victims two she knew of the facts that gave rise to the duty three she willfully neglect
ed or refused to perform that Duty and her failure to perform it was grossly negligent to human life and then four the death of the victims was directly caused by defendant's failure to perform this Duty causation the judge is going to instruct you maybe more than once and I'm going to say it that there may be more than one cause of death and it's not enough that the defendant's acts made it possible for the death to occur in order to find the deaths of Madison Baldwin Tate Mir Hana St Juliana a
nd Justin chilling were caused by the defendant you must find Beyond a reasonable doubt that the deaths were the natural or necessary result of the defendant's actions you heard the evidence that the defendant shot son shot Madison bwin Tate Meir Hana and Justin and as previously noted there may be more than one cause of death and defendants Acts or inactions need not be the sole cause of the harm in order to find that the death of Madison Tate Hana and Justin was caused by the defendant you mus
t also find Beyond a reasonable doubt that her son's Act of shooting some these four individuals was reasonably foreseeable now you look at that all of that that I have to prove and it seems a lot it seems like it's going to take a pretty strong Pace to prove that it's going to take some pretty egregious facts some unique egregious uncomprehensible facts and that's what we have here gross negligence means more than just careless it means willful disregard the results to other others that might f
ollow from an act or failure act in order to find that the defendant was grossly negligent you have to find the following three things one that she knew of the danger to another she knew there was a situation that required her to take ordinary care to avoid injuring others and second that she could have avoided injuring another by using ordinary Care Third that she failed to use ordinary care to prevent injury and a and to a reasonable person it would have been apparent that the result was likel
y to be serious injury I told you I have two theories they're both we're Prosecuting and charging based on two theories they're both based on a legal Duty what's a legal Duty in Michigan a parent has a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to control their minor minor child to prevent that child from intentionally harming others or prevent that child from conducting themselves in a way that creates an unreasonable risk of bodily harm to others we talked about there's two alternate theories eith
er both of those theories if proven are sufficient to establish the crime of involuntary manslaughter it's not necessary that you all agree on which theory has been proven and as long as you all agree that that we've proved at least one of those theories Beyond a reasonable doubt you can find our guilty I want to take you through the testimony uh and and I again I I'm not going to get into every single detail of these test each of these Witnesses testimony because I know that you were listening
and you were writing um you heard from Molly dno Molly was a teacher in the school that day she was in room 224 and she saw the firearm when it was raised shoulder height pointed directly at her and what she noticed was there was no orange tip you also heard her say that she locked Eyes with Jennifer crumble Thum as he was taking that stance you heard her testify that she jumped to the right thank God just in time because the shot in her shoulder that she sustained was only inches from her heart
the next W witness you heard from was Christy Gibson Marshall who's an assistant principal at Oxford High School I don't think there's one one of us that would disagree that Christy Gibson Marshall did the most most dangerous thing she could do and she did not follow the protocol it's probably one of the most courageous things I've ever seen she walks she walked to the shooter she saw a student on the floor and then when she finally came face to face with the person who had shot this student sh
e didn't move she just stared at him and he he didn't shoot her she testified that she knew him she was his principal in middle school and she just couldn't believe that he would do something like that because she knew him when she was in Middle School when he was in Middle School you saw the this the video of that day and what happened and he just kept going and even after he left and she had no idea where he was going she didn't go hide anywhere she didn't keep herself safe she bent down to re
nder Aid and assistance to that student and when she rolled him over she realized it was Tate we all know that she didn't and wasn't able to say Tate we heard from Cammy B who sold the celtech and the daringer to James in June of 2021 she also sold the 9mm six hour to James with the shooter present on November 26th the day after Thanksgiving she testified that James came in and pointed right at the Sig and said he's had his eye on it she walked us through the process of purchasing a firearm she
talked about the trigger lock statement provided to James upon purchase and the T lot provided with November 2021 and that gun purchase next we heard from Special Agent Brett Brandon who's sitting right here you heard that when he was informed about the aord shooting he left so quickly that when his partner came back his chair was still spinning and he raced and drove up there as fast as he possibly could because it was very it was very much his own community you heard he went right in and he fo
und Lieutenant Willis and he said do you know where the gun is and do you know where it came from and do you need help and so he was responsible for finding out where that gun came from which he did he was also responsible because he chose to be and watched the surveillance of the video and helped to prepare search for war and you heard him testify that as soon as he saw that surveillance video the one thing that stuck with him is this is not an inexperienced shooter this is a shooter that knows
how that is proficient with a fire room knows what he's doing taking shots a lot of people wouldn't and what he did was start going to gun ranges and asked people to say because what he was thinking was who taught that kid to to shoot he must have been to a range and he was right and that's how the investigation led to where Jennifer crumley's Son learned how to handle a firearm that eventually resulted in killing four students in Oxford High School can you go back to it special BR also testifi
ed that the and and showed the purchase and and we showed you each one of those guns he testified that there is a distinction between a daringer of ptech and then the 9 mm and what he really what we really heard from him was that that 9 mm is a much more dangerous gun it causes more damage to whatever it hits the bullets are a larger caliber and it's a very dangerous weapon he he showed you what comes with every gun purchase which is the ATF pamphlet he read to you about the warnings there's a r
eason they put it in every single fund purchase and it's sole purpose is to protect kids from gun violence deaths he talked you about what a trigger lot is a and the and the trigger lck statement he showed you the inst Instagram post that's Unforgettable we don't have to really argue about whose gun that was Jennifer Crumbley told us whose gun that was she told us when she posted on social media it was his Christmas present and she told you in this trial that weapon is not just that weapon it is
the defendant son's gun it was gifted to him and not only was it gifted to him she bragged about it on social media before the shooting especially to Brandon also introduced all of the surveillance and the the videos of the on the shoot the shooting range and you got to see with your very own eyes the [Music] training and the the preparation that the shooter ultimately used to kill four of his classmates we all saw that we actually saw the last day he was practicing to kill four of his classmat
es and there was only one person with him ladies and gentlemen and her name is Jennifer Crumbley and I want you to to remember that video and I want you to remember the look on his face when that target comes back in and he looks at it and he's smiling special agent Brandon also introduced the worksheet you've seen the worksheet a lot I bet you that worksheets burned in your your memory and I wouldn't even have to show it to you but what what special agent Brandon testified to and showed you is
that that wasn't just a picture of any gun it was a it was a picture of his gun which was the murder weapon and he showed showed you the details and we're going to talk about that later and next we we heard from uh Ed rosi we we now just call him Ed because he works for the Secret Service um and he testified for an entire day and he he had a lot of information but he also really couldn't help himself from becoming emotional and I I I know that you're going to remember this but what an extraordin
ary thing that's just not seen very often he sat right there and he took you through every single action of the shooter and every single death from his memory and he told you that he could do that because it's burned in his brain these are seasoned law enforcement this is an a they hate showing emotion he probably will never forgive me Lieutenant Willis tells me all the time how much he really hates I would object uh to my opening it's my closing what a witness tells her all the time that's not
evidence okay I'll move on nobody likes doing that nobody likes doing that but it tells you something about what it was like that day and and despite what any anybody will tell you it is about the shooting is there are four counts of involuntary manslaughter it's very much about the shooting because the shooter learned how to shoot and was given the murder Weapon by his parents and this parent is sitting here today on trial okay you'll be able to review the evidence it was a lot but he talked to
you about what cell phone um extractions are and because of the cell phone extractions we have a mountain of evidence that you saw and yes it's a lot of data but you know what else it is it's telling you exactly where the defendant was who she was talking to what she did what she didn't do and and you can't hide from that she tried there's a lot of deleted messages which are not coincidental I don't think I I don't think any of you believe that but I'm I'm going to tell you why they're not coin
cidental uh he also talked to us about and showed you the messages between Jennifer Crumbley and her son the messages between Jen her son and his only friend he introduced the voicemail that Jennifer Crum crumbly received the night before the shooting about looking up bullets true Pam fine didn't tell her to call back that's true and she didn't call back because she didn't ask for a call back we all know what she did do with that information what she did do with that information is she texted he
r son searching bullets and we all know the the phrases that we'll never forget did you show him your gun this is the day before the shooting did you show him your gun and the shooter responds no my God LOL I'm not mad you just have to learn not to get caught K penck has testified that she knew Jennifer Crumbley she testified about the amount of time that Jennifer Crumbley and James Crumbley spent at the barn she testified about all the money they spent at the barn why is this important ladies a
nd gentlemen it's it's it's not it's not to show you that somebody's a bad person for liking horses they're spending a lot of money on horses it isn't and it's and it's not to say that somebody should spend every waking hour that they're not at work at home with their teenager that's that's not the purpose of this evidence the purpose of this evidence is to show you what Jennifer Crumbley cared about the most and what she was doing and where she was when her son learned to be a killer kir will t
ell you that she referred to her son as an oopsy baby and said he was weird she rarely saw him uh and that even after the one friend was taken away abruptly with no notice they they still went to the barn even at night and left him by himself which is absolutely normal to leave teenagers at home by themselves unless unless that teenager is showing signs of mental crisis and that teenager has lost the only person in the world that he has and then she she told us that when she got the worksheet te
xted to her that day by Jennifer crumblyy she was very concerned she was alarmed and in fact she said bring them to the barn and you also heard from the saw from the text messages that Jennifer Crumley said he can't be alone we know now that decision that that statement she she knew he couldn't be alone she didn't decide to stay home with her son that wasn't an option she'd have to take him to the barn where she herself testified he didn't want to go you heard from two people who were at that me
eting that day Sean Hopkins and Nick e ja I'm going to tell you right now that this is not an argument as that the school did everything they should have done I'm not going to say that I'm not going to tell you that I like everything they testified to I'm not going to tell you that I think it was okay they didn't look in the backpack I don't think it was but this is about Jennifer crumley's actions and any attempt to make it about what these two individuals did or didn't do like it or not who di
d not have any of the information that was so so jarring it's about what she knew and what she didn't say Sean Hopkins testified that he was concerned enough that he called Jennifer Crumley and her first response is can you call his dad eventually he get he he emails her both copies of the worksheet the original worksheet and the worksheet that was um scrubed on and she eventually comes to the school but before she comes to the school she texts her husband emergency emergency along with I'm very
concerned and James tbat WTF they're concerned for the first time she testified ever they're called to the school in the middle of the day and they have that worksheet Sean Hopkins is going to tell you that calling parents in the middle of the day and asking them to get a kid help is a pretty drastic action and that he did in fact do that and he gave them the list of places to call he testified that when they entered the room Jennifer crumblyy didn't greet her son Jennifer crle didn't hug her s
on Jennifer crle didn't engage with her son at all in the entire 11 minutes she was there and we know she wasn't going to be in that school very long cuz she'd already told her boss she'll be back by 12:00 or 12:30 doesn't leave a lot of time to for the meeting at school it's a 20-minute Drive Sean Hopkins will tell you that what he felt mostly in that room for the shooter was compassion he didn't want him to be alone and he felt really bad and and he also knew Mom and Dad decided no I we can't
take it we have to go to work they said that in front of their kid he knows very well what they do he knows his dad works for door Dash he knows his mom and her and her ability to work flexible hours she worked at home but they left she did not hug him goodbye she did not greet touch or even acknowledge Him and we know now from her testimony we know why she was mad she was mad at him she didn't she she did not think that he should have done that and she thought this was a disciplined thing and s
he was very angry we heard from Nick e he's the Dina student he also testified and corroborated what Sean Hopkins told you which is that the meeting was called they were concerned about a mental health issue they told Mom and Dad he needs um he needs Services here's a list of the services and they they defend the general probably seemed irritated by it in fact when she walks into the room she doesn't sit next to her son she goes back here and stands and that meeting ended with with her saying ar
e we done here they're consistent about that Nick EJ testified he didn't think there was any risk I don't like what he said and I knew he was going to say it but it's not my job to put Witnesses up here and only say things that I want them to say that helps my case it's my job to present evidence that's the truth because you have to know the truth Sergeant Joseph Bryan is the first law enforcement that had contact with Jennifer Crumbley and her husband right after the shooting and you saw the in
terview in the substation and you saw the demeanor of the defendant I I want you to remember something it wasn't even an hour it was around an hour after the shooting took place she's on her cell phone she's looking to see if it's on the news she said we also know that there were deleted messages we don't know when she deleted them but we know there were messages deleted after the time of the shooting from the time that the phones were were seized later that night he asked about the gun and you
heard what she said what they both said it was hidden it was hidden she read the text message oh he said he loved me and she reads a text message and then she said I texted him I love you back it was 49 minutes later that she texted I love you back and it was after she already knew that he was the shooter she doesn't say what the text after that is she leaves that out the text after that is Ethan don't do it she doesn't say well we were at the school but we he was also caught searching bullets t
hat night the night before she doesn't say that and I told them don't worry about it you just have just don't get caught she doesn't say that they had just purchased the weapon and it's not secure what do they say the very first time they are asked about what Jennifer com asked what where was this gun the very first time what did she say it was hidden she does not say there was any locking mechanism at all and neither does James it was hidden you're at the police station your son's in the Next R
oom you know the murder weapon was the weapon you just purchased for him and when you're asked where it was you say it was hidden we also heard from Andy Smith who was Jennifer's boss he testified she could have absolutely gone home she works from home and and there's flexibility that they have kids that come to work that the meeting that she wanted to get to was not in any way mandatory and he testified about some very bizarre Communications he testified that as soon as she left he got a text s
aying uh my son the bullets are gone the gun is gone he he must be the shooter oh my God those those were deleted by Jennifer Crumbley we don't know why I think there's a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest why which is those are statements you don't want on your phone and then not 3 hours after her son shot and killed four people and he's already in custody and it's already clear that he is probably never ever ever going to be out of prison for the rest of his life she's texting Don't Jud
ge Me based on what he did I need my job her explanation for that she was in planning mode the next witness is Amanda Holland who testified that she came back to the to the uh work that day she had the work sheet um Andy Smith also said she she before the shooting occurred she was down she was sad I feel like a failure as a parent I feel like a failure as a parent this is before the shooting and she also tells Amanda about this and she tells Amanda he can't be alone so I'm just going to take him
to the barn tonight we can get to it a little bit later I guess what's really hard to comprehend is how before the shooting just based on the meeting and what she knows and the drawing she thinks she's a failure of the parents but she sat right here and said after all she doesn't really think she was a failure as a parent and that's after she knows everything that happened detective Adam Stoya executed the search warrant at the defendant's home I want to make it really clear Jennifer family is
not being charged with involuntary man because she has a dirty house that's absurd and you can see pictures so we can prove that she didn't have her house clean I don't care if her house was clean or not and I don't think you do either those pictures are shown to you because that is where the shooter lived and it's where she lived and you saw his two bedrooms there was barely a place for him to sleep the testimony shows he had no no person in his life after that friend left he was not in a club
he was not in sports he wasn't working when I see those photos what I think is yeah two rooms that were completely filthy Dusty covered with clothes everywhere but then I think what that is where he spent 99% of his time it's where he ate Thanksgiving dinner just days before the shooting the search War photos were also shown to you so you could understand where these guns were stored we have a pretty good idea that the celtech and the daringer were in What's called the gun sake the lock was 0000
0 but we know that they were kept there what do we know about the S this the Jennifer crumley's son's gun we know that there was a box on the bed and the ammunition next to it this is the Box this is the box I'm sorry this is the the thing can get the other I'm going to show you in a minute this is this is the Box the which was found this cable loot inside of it where she kept the other guns no I'm sorry is that the box or the C is that the box for the safe this is the Box what the box it was i
n the kitchen in a cupboard in in the car but the empty box was in the kitchen right um I don't um what it's this is my closing argument and I would just like to finish please sure can you tell us what exib number it is yes it is 35 go ahead this was found in the kitchen inside is the cable Lo this was found on the end of the defendant's bed special agent Brandon showed you what it's like to open this up and close it can you hear that CL it's not an easy thing so what this this is laid out on th
e defendant's bed and the bullets are right next the box of the ammunition is right next to it empty the story one of the one of the stories that is told by Jennifer crumblyy is he must have come in there when they were sleeping cuz she was in that bed all night long and they left after her except that the ammunition was in the Box taking it out and leaving the Box while your parents are sleeping doesn't make a lot of sense and it it doesn't make a lot of sense that this was taken the weapon was
taken out of this case with no one hearing while they were sleeping and you are allowed to use your own Common Sense he also testified about the search warrant he testified where this cable walk was found and he testified where where the case and the box was found and he testified where the gun stfe was found it was not unlike what Jennifer Crumbley alleged stored separately from the ammunition it was actually right next to the ammunition in a gun save the other two bonds with a combination 000
0 0 Sergeant pesy arrives at the scene doesn't know anything about the crumblies doesn't know that they've already been to the substation doesn't know that they were at the school that day he's there and was asked was ordered to be there to uh keep the house safe while they are waiting for the search warrant and in doing so he needs to keep the defendant out of a house she goes in the back of the car and you saw the video she now tells Sergeant P peski she actually never really looked closely at
that worksheet now that she looks at it it might be disturbing we know that's not the truth the question is why she lying she says that the 45 caliber gun used at the school and tells he asks it was was and and tells them no it was a 99 mm the other is a 22 I think she said that they had a fight the night before with her son over Graves and she says so we told him no gun rage no phone those are his trigger points ladies and gentlemen that phone was never taken away from her son we know that we
know that because he had it the night before and he had it at the school we know that because when Jennifer Crumbley was asked about it and asked when did you take this phone away we know that he made that video in that shed about the school shooting with his phone at 10:00 he the the the gun was the phone was never taken away why is she saying that I don't know then she says my biggest fear was that he turn the gun on himself and when he asked her do you ever keep guns in your car here's what s
he did shove her head it's not what she says here today next we heard from Bob patelis who processed the scene and you saw those pictures and they were hard to see he told you that there were 32 fired carture casings he collected all that evidence took all the photographs and and recovered the murder weapon Lieutenant marsan was also at the school that day and he testified that he picked up the phone and saw the scen screen and saw that the last text was Ethan don't do it from Mom he executes se
arch warrants for all of the devices and the home and sends a team including officer peski to to to secure the house before the search warrant is executed which is what they do he testified that when he went into the house he finally got there and he needed their phones and he testified that Jennifer crumblyy said no I don't want to give you my phone I'm not giving you my phone she finally relents because her husband says they're going to get it either way and then she doesn't want to give the p
asscode up she doesn't want to give the phone up but the most important thing that Lieutenant marsman said is when he described how he had to identify the body of Hana in Madison that day Dave HRI is retired but he's the former sergeant in charge of the F fugitive apprehension team we call fat and his job his only job when he was doing that is to find people who have felony warrants and haven't show haven't turned up he has a lot of ways to figure that out but he was asked to find Jennifer and J
ames Crumbley to make sure they turn themselves in but one of the other primary goals he has is that they turn themselves in safely and she was given every opportunity to do that and she did not I want to talk to you about something the judge is going instruct you instruct you that you can consider flight it's not an element to the crime I don't have to prove that they fled the reason we introduce this evidence is she's going to instruct you instruct you that you can use that as a sign of consci
ousness of guilt what do you do if you know you've do done something wrong you can you can use that to show consciousness of guilt and we're going to get to it but I believe we have shown that Beyond a reasonable doubt he's going to tell you that the defendant with her husband immediately began to uh avoid detection because they're pulling cash out they're pulling cash out of their son's bank account they're pulling cash out of their bank account where's their son during this time he's at Childr
en's Village being arraigned with his court appointed lawyer where they had the opportunity to go see him where they opportunity to go to that arrangment and they did not because they never even went they they fled their house and went to a hotel and then they ended up at an extended stay and that is where they ultimately left one of the Kia backed into a parking space he's going to tell you that he eventually did apprehend the defendant you've heard a lot about that and he's going to tell you t
hat there were hundreds of law enforcement officials on the scene when she was apprehended Luke ctle I know you will not forget him uh coincidentally knew a lot about cars and coincidentally pulled into that parking lot right about the time and coincidentally had just seen the the The Wanted poster he called it with a description of the cars and and a photo of the defendant and coincidentally thought maybe that's the car and he watch the video where he goes around and he sees the license plate a
nd he plays it cool and and and slowly walks into the building and then makes the call the 911 he describes to you how within minutes police officers arrived and then it swarms of of law enforcement arrived SWAT the Marshals uh ATF the sheriff's department Detroit uh PD all sorts of law enforcement show up immediately he also testified that the unit where the where Jennifer kley was actually found was very close to his and it faced the parking lot and the whole wall was Windows and it was on the
first floor and he's going to tell you that the whole parking lot was lit up with law enforcement lights Sirens all kinds of things next we heard from Captain Corporal David Shaw and he testified that once he got there they took a 35 lb Ram to breach the door which was right outside the unit where the defendant was found we heard from Brian m also didn't love a lot of things he has to say but you deserve to know the truth and the truth is like it or not this is who Jennifer crumblyy spent her t
ime with and she told him that morning the gun's in my car and I'm afraid my my son's going to do something stupid before the shooting the same day you also learned that although their Facebook C in general was always deleted post after the uh shooting it remained except she deleted not unsent relying your own memory about what that testimony was those were not unsent messages they were deleted and you heard owski tell you that but these are the two that were deleted on the run again and were Wi
lliam career testified what was found in the the uh the building and the r Studio where Jennifer Crumbley was found you saw the photographs you learned that there was six a little over $6,000 in cash you learned where the phones were found and the cash and the purse in the plastic tub in another plastic tub with a lid on it far away from Far feet away from where the mattress was and there other were he learned all those PHS were off he also testified what else was found booze orange juice ice an
d avocado bananas socks blankets and that is the room where the where Jennifer Crumley was ultimately apprehended you heard from lieutenant blis who was the officer in charge who told you what it was like in the school that day he described the autopsy protocols that were done and how each of those kids died and where they were shot he told you that both Justin Schilling and Madison bwin were shot at in a contact Mo which means the gun was either very close or actually touching your head he show
ed you the video of the shooting and again this is not this is not to incite emotion the video of the shooting shows Jennifer Crumbley son taking a stance he clearly knew how to take and was trained to take and you watched his demeanor and the calculated cold way he proceeded through through those hallways looking for people to shoot you saw uh the surveillance of how he ultimately surrendered walked out after executing Justin Shilling laid the gun on a wastepaper basket made it safe took the ma
gazine out and surrendered he show you and introduced the bank records that show you what they were doing after charges were either very soon coming and after they were announced and he showed you an in car video of Jennifer Crumbley and her husband who just a few hours after the shooting embraced kissed whatever happens I love you don't say anything to the police one of the elements we have to prove is what a person using ordinary care would have known about whether or not there was a situation
that they needed to exercise ordinary care so the defendant's knowledge about her son matters but it's two different stories it's what she knew before the shooting and it's what she know what she said she knew after before the shooting she she tells Kira my son's weird she always refers to him as an oopsy baby she tells am Amanda Holland he's lonely he's hearing things around the house sometimes she says I'm a failure as a parent the message to her her son's friend's mother he's kind of depress
ed in April she texts that and then the messages from her son the messages in March about he's seeing things things are flying off the table now she wants to tell you that was just a joke but I don't I think you really need to consider whether a 15-year-old boy is going to text could you at least answer me or rep in my text as a joke and we know there were no replies there were missed calls he called her there were no replies and she told us why he was just messing around but after the shooting
in the in car we hear her say he's never been in trouble he's never done anything he's never done anything wrong he's a good kid also in Inc car I never even thought like he would have any mental issues like I never that he never he never exerted any type of anger he's never exerted anything he's just like one of those mellow laidback kids in the substation he's not never done anything he's never done anything bad after the shooting to to Brian M he's never done anything wrong Jennifer probably
has said a lot of things about that drawing in that meeting at the school she sent the drawing to James as I and Kira and Andrew as I said before with the call now emergency she told Cara he couldn't be left alone she tells Andy he's to get she needs to get him counseling and she tells Amanda that she uh the drawing was really scary she agrees after this is what she says in the substation the school nobody see didn't seem worried about it and he said that my son's more than welcome to stay at th
e school or he could go home and I really wish we I really wish we had taken him home in the Inc car she said I didn't even look at that closely now that I I do uh when I was at the substation I looked at it closely which we know is not true um I looked at them closely and they're a little disturbing well they're very disturbing cuz look what he just did and then to Malo she says the school was very nonchalant but the paper they showed me had all of the things scratched out that's just not true
it's just not true and you don't have to believe me because you have evidence it's not true and you heard it the statements about the gun are also numerous she said we've heard her Testify the gun was in her car we know that she's acknowledged that she drove to the gun range there was no lock on the gun when she drove there she turned with the gun there was no lock on it but she said James locked the gun when he got home she didn't see him do it she testifies at trial James is responsible for th
e bun in the sub station though when asked where the gun was hidden in the incar interview James flew home and he's like I I had the gun hidden and I told him where I hid the bullets he asked whether she kept the gun in her car she shakes her head no and she tells V after the next day we had the string lock on it it came with in the case everything was secured not loaded bullets stored separately oh my God oh my God oh my God that is not what she says in this Sub Station Jennifer kley begins dis
tancing herself from her own responsibility of about the gun you heard her testify that they wanted to get the gun it was my son and my husband my son did a lot of research on the gun I guess I was um guess when I was shopping she doesn't say she didn't know she doesn't say that she didn't approve she says it itally interfered with going to get Christmas trees that was what she was upset about and she said it's James's responsibility however as I've shown over and over at the substation and in t
he car it's we it's we take them to the range we it's our hobby we go to the gun range that's what we do we just got on this gun sitting here today it's all Jam's fault it's not hers and then of course the statement that we don't really have to question who whose weapon it was Jennifer Crumbley post Ethan and James Crumbley both got handguns this week testing them out at the range that's in June the evidence really shows that the shooter owned two guns but for sure she acknowledges M Sunday test
ing out his new Christmas present you heard evidence that was presented to you about the journal that was found in the bathroom by the shooter's backpack right the bathroom that he exited and started shooting I have zero help for my mental problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school next slide first off I got my gun it's an SP 2022 Sig sour 9 mm this shooting is tomorrow I have access to the gun and the am I am fully committed to this so yeah I'm going to I'm going to prison for the rest
of my life and many people have are about have about one day to live one of the things I want you to ask yourself when you go back in that room is why why after hearing that there's an act to situation we are going to continue to of course follow the trial here of Jennifer Crumbley the mother of the convicted shooter in that high school Mass shooting in Michigan carried out by her son Ethan Crumbley we will follow um all closing arguments and take you back uh as things develop but right now mor
e breaking news from do Air Force Base our heroes are finally coming home what you're watching now is what every military family fears the loss of their son their daughter their spouse their loved one while serving our country this is the dignified transfer of our three US soldiers who were tragically killed in that drone strike in Aman Jordan President Biden you see there also first lady Jill Biden next to them also is Joint Chiefs of chairman CQ Brown and defense secretary Lloyd Austin they me
t with the families and now they're showing their respect while we see all of this on camera we just want to let all of you know uh that are watching along with us here that it is being fed into us with no volume and that's on purpose it's out of respect for the families uh of course on one of the hardest days of their lives we're just going to take a moment moment of silence and uh just watch uh this moment in time and just remember uh what these three individuals uh did for our country and the
y lost our lives lost their lives for our country you may remember that they um were all serving uh on the 718th engineer company uh it's a US Army reserve unit that was based out of Fort Moore Georgia and the three individuals that you will see or not uh see either or other as they paying their respects is Sergeant William Rivers 46 of Carolton Georgia specialist Kennedy Sanders 24 of Way Cross Georgia and specialist Brianna Moffett 23 of Savannah Georgia we're just going to pause for a moment
again if you're just tuning in you're watching the dignified transfer at do Air Force Base uh there in uh Dover Delaware this is when the president of the United States uh and the first lady uh first arrived we're not watching this live that's part of the protocol but this is what we're it's called tape turnaround is what is what uh we refer to it as um but these uh this happened just moments ago okay it said moments ago so this is now live okay so we were watching um I see this it's wrapping up
and they're leaving now okay thank you so much so these are actually live pictures because the president uh and the first lady came to to to to be there um as the aircraft the C5 Galaxy arrived um carrying the bodies of the three service members that we lost in Aman Jordan uh you'll remember it was Sergeant William Rivers 46 of Carolton Georgia also specialist Kennedy Sanders 24 of Way Cross Georgia and specialist bana Moffett 23 of Savannah Georgia and there's very strict protocol uh for these
transfers and you'll see we're sort of getting um the live feed and those pictures we showed you some on tape uh we showed you the president first lady uh leaving there um but it's a solemn event um there is no live coverage of the family um of those three transfer cases that are brought home uh and there's no filming or photography of any of the family members or live mics it's a very um quiet respectful uh moment for the family uh as their loved ones finally uh come home and the three individ
uals that lost their lives you see here Sergeant Kennedy Sanders Sergeant Banna Moffett and also Sergeant William Rivers just to tell you a little bit about them and I don't know if we want to show um even the the moments uh within the last 20 minutes or so where there we go thank you so much um where you see uh you can actually see one of um the cases uh draped with the American flag um and just to tell you a little bit about these three mfet had just turned 23 it was nine days um uh before uh
moffett's 23rd birthday that she was killed she had joined the Army Reserves in 2019 but also worked for a home care provider to cook clean and run errands for people with disabilities and then we also told you um about Sanders 24 years old worked at a pharmacy while studying to become an x-ray technician also coached children's soccer and basketball she had volunteered uh for the deployment because she wanted to see different parts of the world that's what her parents um had told us and then um
finally Sergeant rivers that you see there the third picture on your screen he was 46 years years old he went by Drome he joined the Army Reserve in New Jersey in 2001 and served a 9-month tour in Iraq in 2018 again uh Biden didn't speak the first lady didn't speak the defense secretary nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs didn't speak uh when a dignified transfer happens it's a very mournful um ritual and um it's been come it's not a common thing we don't see this very often as the US withdrew
from conflicts abroad uh most notably the war in Afghanistan uh that war that lasted two decades um we haven't witnessed dignified transfers like this I can remember the war in Iraq I'll never forget the first time um we carried one of the dignified uh transfers live and it was heartbreaking because it was uh many more members uh of our military that came home that one day that I remember in particular today it was three of our service members that were over there in Aman Jordan when that drone
killed them as they were based there at Tower 22 for more let's bring in our chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce she's at the White House also our senior National policy reporter and flarity at the Pentagon um Mary these are never uh never easy to talk about to witness um but I I love the respect that that they pay just to the families um it's it's it's very private even though we are getting a little bit of a glimpse into the reality um of what happens uh in areas of conflict and we can
see now um those three Heroes uh being uh carried through as the president the first lady and our leaders within the military pay uh their final respects as they come home it's um it is Solemn to watch indeed Mary it's hard to watch and and quite frankly you can I think see the weight of this moment the grief there on the president's face on the face of the first lady look this is without a doubt one of the hardest and frankly most gut-wrenching things that a president does um we know he spent
uh we believe roughly an hour earlier today speaking with the families of the Fallen he he spoke with them by phone earlier in the week essentially asking their permission to attend this today to allow us to see a portion of this um and certainly Joe Biden is someone who is familiar unfortunately with grief uh you know we heard him referencing that when we got to see a glimmer uh of the phone call that he had uh with specialist uh Kennedy Sanders family when when the president was on the phone w
ith them informing them that they were you know postumus promoting her to Sergeant and offering his condolences and the president then referencing you know obviously he knows what it's like to have a child serve his son served in Iraq and he also knows what it's like to lose uh a child although obviously under very different circumstances and I think you just see the weight of this I mean and you have to remember all of this comes as the president is very much weighing what comes next in this fi
ght how to respond to these Relentless uh attacks by Iranian backed militants you know we and the world are are watching to see how he will respond we have been braced and told that it will likely you know play out in multiple stages over multiple multiple strikes but you know you have to think that this is what weighs on the president when he considers these kinds of decisions this is the real consequence uh of the decisions you know that he makes going forward and so I think um you can only im
agine what's going through his mind right now but first and foremost he is there uh as commander-in-chief he is there uh as consoler-in-chief he is there to you know support these families and of course to send a message of support on behalf uh of the entire nation and it's a risky move uh what the president is is considering here he says indeed they will retaliate um but will that retaliation trigger a deeper and more deadly war with Iran and its proxies I mean he's he's it's a fine line here M
ary and we even heard National Security Council spokesman Jane John Kirby um say at the beginning of the week that we don't want a wider war with Iran we don't want a wider war in the region but we've got to do what we have to do and so um the world awaits as to exactly uh what the president is going to do you know there were talks it wasn't off the table there could be an attack inside Iran now the discussion is um will it be surgical strikes against just Iranian linked assets outside of Iran w
e still don't exactly know what's going to happen but there are a lot of options on the table Yeah and look this is exactly what this Administration what this president has feared uh since uh October since the the Hamas attack in October and since we started seeing all of these Relentless attacks by these Iranian backed militants there have been more than 150 of these attacks uh and now we have seen of course unfortunately that three Americans have died more than 40 Americans wounded uh in this
drone strike in Aman Jordan and the challenge before the president and and yes you are absolutely right they have not ruled out they could possibly strike inside of Iran though we are told the president has deep misgivings about that because what he is faced with is how to stop these attacks how to finally send a message that these Iranian backed militants have to stop these attacks without starting another War without escalating this even further and it is something that this Administration has
uh been deeply concerned about since the moment that this uh initial conflict started and now we are here and what what comes next and whether what the president does whether whether what he decides to pursue is going to be enough to stop this without escalating things further that is the central question and the central fear quite frankly here at the White House and an FL you're there at the Pentagon and I'm sure it's um it's quite busy and the conversation of what exactly this retaliation wil
l look like and what these strikes uh will look like um as we watch uh these three Heroes uh come home um and as the shot sort of pans over uh to that aircraft to that C5 gal Galaxy that brought them uh home it's an even closer shot where you see um two of the the cases they again they're not referred to as coffins they are not cassets they are transfer cases they are what are used to transport are Fallen uh here to Dober Air Force base after a service member has then been identified and prepare
d for return to his or her family then he or she will be placed in a casket and transported to his or her final resting place again um these are uh the bodies um of our three service members that were serving in a m Jordan um I don't know if we are able to bring the pictures up um so we can see them actually as they they are uh being moved but you will see the members there of uh the Army taking Sergeant William rivers and also Sergeant bana Moffett and also Sergeant Kennedy Sanders um home to t
heir families and of course we will follow um every bit of that and just lift up what they've done for us and serving our country so an I I'll take it to you and what's the word at the Pentagon uh today and could we see some type of action now that these three have been brought home yeah Kira as I was walking in this morning into the Pentagon building I did see those helicopters take off of course carrying the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown the defense secretary uh Lloyd Austin t
hose two wanting to attend this ceremony uh we were told that secretary Austin has spoken privately with the families as well just as the president has and you know that these events um these tragedies really weigh on these officials because they know that the decisions that they make daytoday really decide and impact these families these are real lives and and you know when we talk to them privately uh you know they they make that very clear that these are tough decisions that they make day-to-
day they do not take these these things lightly and I've seen that across administrations Republicans and Democrats um it is all the same these are very very tough tough days to go to do Air Force Base now we do know that uh the Pentagon has said that a retaliatory strike can occur at any time they're not giving us details on when and where they say that that is highly classified uh but they say that these uh attacks on the US base will not go um forgotten that that the US will respond and they
say that the response will be more substantial they say to expect uh multiple targets to be hit uh possibly multiple countries and that this will unfold over several days so Kira we are expecting um quite the response as us officials have told us from the beginning uh you know once you take an American Life in these countries we've had 165 attacks probably more than that at this point in Iraq and Syria alone in addition to the attacks on the Red Sea they say that once the American lives are lost
that changes the calculation Kira and and just to just kind of back track a little bit and talk about Tower 22 where these three were serving there in Jordan um out in the Jordanian desert near the Syrian border just what their mission was um and what happened that night yeah Cara this was an engineering um unit a reservist unit that was based in Georgia they were there as mostly support um so you know a very remote base as you say what we've been able to determine at this point was that uh a U
S drone was due back it was a surveillance drone that had been in the area it was due back to this base in Jordan um around the same time that the enemy launched a drone that was able to make it through so we don't know exactly you know exactly what happened but we do know that there was some confusion on the base uh confusing that enemy oneway attacked drone with the US drone and perhaps letting it through because they thought it was one of their own and and confusing that enemy uh drone with a
friendly drone so you know really a heartbreaking scenario I've had several officials tell me here it was simply a lucky shot uh that they've been attacked as I said 165 times in Iraq and Syria um but this one seemed to make it through um and then of course the concern at the White House you know they they have made it clear they will respond but many aids to the president being deeply concerned about widening this war about uh creating more problems more tension in the region um they do not wa
nt to tip the United States into a war and just to give a little background you know just backtracking to to the terrorist group Hamas attacking those innocent people back at that Music Festival on October 7th you know the Middle East has become a Tinder Box uh since then Israel vowed to dismantle Hamas carrying out raids in Gaza uh as more than a 100 hostages still remain captive there held against their will by Hamas then we witnessed some temporary ceasefires even the release of some hostages
um but the attacks continued uh and so as the US pressure on Israel and Hamas to try and reach some type of agreement and then came that Spike and attacks in the Red Sea that triggered a us-led bombing campaign against the houi rebels then came this deadly drone attack that killed our three army soldiers injuring 34 others there uh in Jordan and as we've been talking about the president vowing retaliation what exactly will that retaliation look like the Islamic resistance in Iraq has claimed re
sponsibility for the attack on these three uh soldiers that you are seeing uh right now uh that group an umbrella group for Iranian linked militias and that's when we heard the president say that we that we have to consider some type of retaliation John Kirby saying we don't want a wider war with Iran with Iran we don't want a wider war in the region but we've got to do what we have to do um and and Mary this this um could really change the dynamic of what's happening in the Middle East right no
w I mean the president and and even those from secretary Austin uh to the Joint Chiefs of Staff have talked about how we don't want a wider conflict um and and there's been pressure on the US to try to contain the violence and the attacks uh that we continue uh to see so um um if indeed there is some type of retaliation against Iran or these iran-backed militias who knows what could happen um across the globe if that indeed uh were to take place yeah this is an incredibly delicate uh intense sit
uation and look President Biden is under immense pressure he has vowed to respond for this attack he has vowed to to to to stop essentially uh these horrific Relentless attacks by these Iranian backed militants the question is how do you do that in a way that gets the message across but doesn't doesn't further escalate and widen this conflict uh the president has has met you know twice already this week with his National Security team he has been in the situation room he has been carefully weigh
ing his options which have run the gamut they have not ruled out uh striking inside of Iran and certainly some are urging the president to do just that uh as an was mentioning we do expect this response to be different because of course this attack was fundamentally different you have three American Service members who have died more than 40 Americans wounded because of this attack that necessitates a different kind of response and that is exactly what this Administration is promising we just do
n't know what exactly that looks like and whether it is going to be enough to change the calculus of these groups and to get them to finally back off these attacks because so far uh the efforts that the US has made to retaliate in Yemen to retaliate against these groups uh hasn't been enough clearly to stop them will this finally do the trick we just have to wait and see K and then separately Mary there were the two Navy Seals that died during that January mission to board the unflagged ship tha
t was carrying elicit Iranian made weapons to Yemen um that happened previously to the deaths here uh of these three uh army soldiers um and just as as we continue to to watch uh the pictures here where you can actually see I believe um that is the final image of all three of the soldiers uh and their bodies that have been um respectfully brought to uh that van and then will finally uh be home with their families um it's Sergeant William Rivers 46 years old went by Jerome he joined the Army Rese
rve in New Jersey back in 2011 and he served a 9-month tour in Iraq in 2018 also saluting Sergeant Kennedy Sanders 24 worked at a pharmacy while studying to become an x-ray technician coached children's soccer and basketball she had volunteered for this deployment because she wanted to see different parts of the world that's what her parents said so common for the younger members of our military I can't tell you how many families have told me that that a lot of these young men and women want to
join at an early age they may not have figured out exactly what they want to do when they graduate high school but they know the military gives them an opportunity to see the world and experience things that they never have had a chance to experience including uh serving our country in the in the way that they do and as that door closes um the final uh member of our military that will be brought back uh to her family as well Sergeant bana Moffett who had uh turned 23 years old just nine days bef
ore she was killed there at Tower 22 out in the Jordanian desert she joined the Army Reserves in 2019 also worked for a home care provider to cook clean and run errands for people with disabilities and and just listening to the the backgrounds and the details of these three individuals that served our country um it tells the story of so many of the young men and women across our globe that are taking on this Dangerous Mission do to do whatever it takes um to show respect for their country and re
spect for all of us yeah I think that's exactly it Cara you said it so well I mean I've always been so impressed traveling with the military in the past that uh these people are so devoted to what they're doing and and as you saw the the transfer cases being moved into that vehicle those were enlisted personnel uh you know obviously not a job that anyone would want but something that needs to happen and they did it uh you know as you mentioned with such uh respect which I think everybody appreci
ates and you know the nation watching this uh just you know heartbroken I think by seeing such Young people uh devoted to Public Service um to have their story end that way you know I I know that the families really would like um for for the country to pause and to reflect on that um because it is an important story well and Ann I think it's moments like this and how these moments are carried out on television with the protocol and the rules um you you don't see the family members you do not see
their cars you do not see um their grief you don't hear anything but these pictures and and what goes into how they stand how they bow their heads um how as we see right now how we watch the procession so carefully put together uh you don't have to hear anything you don't necessarily need to see those families but you do see the bodies in those cases with the flag draped over over them quiet nobody saying a word um it it it really brings home um the impact um on all of us yeah I think that's ex
actly it and also you know to see this is not a political event we did see the president he did not speak he met privately with the families beforehand um we know that the defense secretary Lloyd Austin was there we know that he has spoken also with the families uh we saw him there with cane um he had been hospitalized last month he is still recovering he says he's still doing physical therapy uh we also saw CQ Brown the chairman General uh chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff so the president'
s top military adviser um the top uniformed officer in the country paying his respects uh to these sergeants belonging to an engineering unit reservists all from Georgia it was very touching moment Cara it was a touching moment and now uh as they make their uh way to their final resting place um Mary the the president and um each key member of his cabinet there next to him uh from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the defense secretary they have some big decisions to make uh some would say the
y've already decided what they're going to do but this needed to happen today before any type of retaliation took place you have to respect uh the fact that um we won't see some type of movement until um the members of our military uh receive this moment uh like they should um and now the question is uh when will we see uh the outcome of what happened here and the US response and the message the president is going to want to send to Iran to Iran backed militia to those that come after our men an
d women that serve our country and car you have to imagine it's moments like this that weigh on the president as he makes these kinds of decisions because when you are commander-in-chief you know it is people's lives who are on the line and this is why this Administration is I think weighing this decision so carefully they are acutely aware of what could happen if this situation is allowed to escalate if this war does widen further um and you know to to have that decision happening that decision
-making process happening as the president is there to today at do to witness this solemn moment to pay tribute to these fallen heroes and to meet with their grieving families um it really is sort of a remarkable uh Confluence of events and you know we have been you know told the president is going to respond respond robustly uh we just aren't sure exactly when that response is going to come and what exactly it's going to look like as an said earlier we know uh we have been told it is likely to
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n ABC and good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips our top story this hour we continue to follow the closing arguments that are underway right now now in the involuntary manslaughter trial against Jennifer Crumbley the defense set to begin their final statements after the prosecution gave their initial closing arguments moments ago uh proceedings are currently on break we will take you back to court as soon as it resumes as you know this is a historic trial it's nearing the end after days of te
stimony from a number of witnesses including Jennifer Crumbley herself the Michigan mom was back on the witness stand today answering a lot of questions during cross-examination she was asked about her son Ethan and his upbringing his troubled life in school also this alleged obsession with guns and also what ultimately led to him shooting and killing these four students at Oxford High School in 2021 crumbly insisting on the S on the stand rather that it was her husband James that was responsibl
e for that gun um for buying it for storing it it for hiding the ammunition the gun that their son actually used in the shooting and as you know the two here they're the first pair of parents in the United States to be charged in a school shooting committed by a child um Jennifer's husband there James Crumbley his trial actually begins next month once Jennifer's wraps up the trial just resumed so we're going to take you back live inside the courtroom and let's listen in now the first thing I wan
t to do very quickly is talk to you about the burden approv in the state of Michigan there are different burden of proofs depending on what kind of a case it is when people sue for money and say I've been injured or I was failed by by the school even there will be civil lawsuits and the burden of proof is a preponderance of evidence that means it's about a 50/50 standard and if you have 50% of the evidence that's the burden of proof for civil when the state thinks it's important to take away a p
erson's children the burden goes up and the burden has to prove more evidence and that specifically is clear and convincing evidence that it's correct for the state to be taking away a person's children now the highest burden in this country is in a criminal case and that is beyond a reasonable doubt and the reason I'm telling you about the differences in the burdens is because in a criminal case if you have just one Reasonable Doubt about the case you must vote not guilty and so this is my post
er just showing Beyond A Reasonable Doubt is guilty but there's many many other options if you think it's likely probable possible not likely those are all not guilties you have to be sure Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and later as I go through my closing I am going to tell you the reasonable doubts that the defense believes exist in this case for you to look at the other thing I have to ask you to keep in mind is that in the jury instructions and I think you've been told this throughout trial the d
efense does not have to prove or do anything like judge Matthew said we could sit at the table and play chess the whole time call no Witnesses cross-examine no Witnesses provide no evidence because we have no burden to prove a thing however in this case you obviously saw the defense present Mrs Crumbley who took the stand so that she could give you some context Beyond parts of the evidence that were confusing when the prosecutor was introducing in bits and pieces and the problem in this case is
that we can all agree everything can be seen different in two ways first of all when you look back in hindsight with 2020 Vision when you look back in hindsight it is easy to say this could have been different that could have been different this would have changed and the other Circumstance the second one that makes a huge difference is when you get full context around the evidence that is being used and in this case the prosecutor has cherry-picked little bit bits of evidence out of mountains o
f evidence to put in front of you with no context to explain what they're doing and when you get cherry-picked bits of evidence it's easy to reach wrong conclusions now during jury selection it felt like the prosecutor was asking you questions in giving more of a campaign speech than a jury election proceeding and i would support suggest to you that at the end of the day the only judge although Miss McDonald mentioned she's been a judge and was a judge several times during her jury selection the
only judge in this courtroom that matters is Judge Matthews and the only other people whose judgment matters are the 12 of you who will collectively decide this cas case the rest of us don't matter my opinion doesn't matter Miss McDonald's doesn't matter the opinions of everyone in this audience doesn't matter the media and all of the people who think they know everything behind keyboards at home commenting about what they think the evidence in this case has shown so during this case it's obvio
us real life is messy and complicated and during this trial I will openly admit that I'm a lawyer who messes up I get thrown off when I'm surprised by something I feel like I get overwhelmed when information is coming at me quickly I say I'm sorry a lot evidently there's a Tic Tac channel of me saying I'm sorry through this whole trial and all I'm saying is that I'm human I am a human being and so is Mrs crumbly and that's what this case is about she's not a perfect person or a perfect parent I'
m certainly not a perfect person or a perfect parent and I'm certainly Beyond A Reasonable Doubt bad with technology which is why you're not going to see me touch that laptop so during this trial I have stood before you and Sh you all my flaws and I embrace them and they are a part of what makes me human and so has Jennifer crumbly she got on the stand and talked about every nook and cranny of her life things no one else in the world knew in her family among her friends and she wanted you to see
the whole truth the entire truth and nothing but the truth on everything where she had to show you that she has made immoral decisions to have an affair that she has made decisions you might not make to have another person involved in the affair now we didn't get too far into the details but it was enough for you to know that Mrs Crumbley got up there and literally stripped off her armor let the prosecution cross-examine her and show you what happened in her messy life and I say that with all k
indness because I'm a mess too I saw a meme about a week ago that said I'm trying to be a mom trying to get exercised stay hydrated get enough sleep text everyone back and not lose my and I've got to be honest as a mom a working mom on most days I'm lucky if I'm fit for human contact I'm lucky if I've taken a true shower and didn't just grab a handful wipes and scrub off the best I can on my way running out the door putting on my makeup as I drive to court in my car because my life is not perfec
t and no one's is and during this trial you may have concluded that you don't like me that you hate me that's fine I am just asking that your opinions about me as a person and if you're one of the people who plans to make a Tic Tac about me that you won't hold those opinions against Jennifer Crumbley and will Judge Jennifer crumb's case based on the evidence about her and her family and if you hate her or don't like her or agree with things she's done that's okay too you don't have to like her y
ou are not expected to go hang out with her when this is all over after trial you don't have to decide if you want to go to her house you don't have to have Thanksgiving with her but when you're looking at the evidence in this case it's important to set aside your opinions of her or take your opinions of me and supplant them on Mrs crumblyy now when I took on this case pretty early on I realized I am Jennifer Crumbley and I could be here accused and sitting in her spot very easily now in my hous
e we don't have guns I don't have guns but I do have children and actually I have an oopsy baby my fourth one I did not want four in four years but that's what I was blessed with I say I'm abundantly blessed and I have kids that seem to have no issues and at the the end of the day they're good kids they go to school we have no discipline problems we have arguments here and there just like every family does I have a son that wants to hang out with me very rarely but I have no belief that any of m
y four children would ever harm anyone else and while I don't have a gun I have a large Butcher Block on my counter with big knives that I use when I cook and I enjoy cooking and at the end of the day my kids could just as easily grab a knife without me knowing it and without me having it on my radar and walk out the door of my house and go play with their kids the other kids on my BL granted they live farther down my BL I'm in the middle of nowhere and my son could kill somebody with my butcher
block knife that I would have never expected to happen and if you saw the text messages that my husband and I exchanged on a daily basis throughout this past year and even years before it would be so easy for me to be in her seat with my kids aidem monitor assignments I don't look at their phones I have no reason to my son plays a lot of video games my son's online talking to a bunch of people as he's playing a lot of video games even though he has a cell phone I don't go through it and look at
his messages every day and as he gets older I do know he's interested in girls if he starts receiving nude pictures of a girl on the cell phone I own but let him use and gave him for his birthday when he turned 11 should I be held accountable for receiving child pornography if a girl sex to over some inappropriate pictures if my son decid Ides he's going to send some pictures back and takes a new picture of his bits and pieces that's a 20-year felony am I then responsible because he sent a pict
ure of his penis over to some girl so not only taking the picture a 20-year felony but then we've got a seven-year felony for sending it over can every parent really be responsible for everything their children do especially when it's not foreseeable and this clearly was not foreseeable to Mrs crumblyy because there's no one in the world including Mrs crumble who would have let a school shooting happen and let what happened on November 30th take place not only ruining the lives of so many famili
es and victims and taking the lives of four young people but also ruining her own son's life and ripping his life right from her as well she would be the first person on the planet who would have never let that happen in a million years so this case is a very dangerous one for parents out there it just is and it is one of the first of its kind luckily however this is a case where the prosecution cannot meet its burden of proof and thankfully it's a case where truly Mrs Crumbley does have a defen
se and this isn't just one of those stretched cases where a parent is liable for what their child has done now the judge is going to tell you that you have to if you find Reasonable Doubt in this case you must find the defendant not guilty and the law says You must have a reasonable doubt not three reasonable doubts not five reasonable doubts not 10 if you have a single Reasonable Doubt you must vote not guilty for Mrs Crumbley and when it comes to Reasonable Doubt each of you can have a separat
e reason to have doubt in this case you don't have to agree on what the doubt is and for that reason what I am going to do is show you all of the doubt that the defense believes exist in this matter some of them may speak to one juror some of them may speak to another but at the end of the day if you have just one your vote in this case must be not guilty so the first place the defense finds Reasonable Doubt is in the fact that the prosecution is so desperate to prosecute this case that they adm
itted a mountain of evidence that quite frankly was unnecessary now they say to you they needed to show you they needed to prove the manner of death we stipulated that four people died we stipulated that it was the most horrific set of facts you could ever imagine we stipulated that what happened to Molly Darnell and Christy Gibson Marshall was horrible but this prosecution putting that evidence on was designed to inflame you and make you emotional strike your sympathy and get you to hate Mrs Cr
umbley which by the way has been very effective for most of the media most of the public and for anyone who has seen information put out by this prosecutor in this case a second Reasonable Doubt comes from the P fact that we know and the evidence in this case showed context is key and that was clear when detective wowski took the stand and said you get better decisions when you have more evidence in test testified that in a former hearing he messed up because he didn't have the video from before
the one he saw so he believed the parents arrived at the school together and subsequently when given more context showing more video from further beforehand he could see they actually arrived in different cars met and walked in the building together and at the end of the day the more context you have the more accurate you can be when and Mos testified another example came about where the prosecution had him testify that Mrs Crumley said to delete his messages clear your cache and I'm thank I'm
so thankful that the rest of the world sent me emails that I don't know how to pronounce cache because now I do and when Brian ended up seeing the messages before clear your cache and after clear your cache he he realized oh she wasn't asking me to delete messages she wanted me to refresh my web browser to see if the Facebook had actually deactivated and so that was proof again that when you have more context you're more accurate and the problem the prosecutor is in this case is they have very l
ittle conf or context for the very little evidence they've submitted there's also no context around some of this little bits and pieces of useless evidence like Jennifer crumblyy saying that her son was an oopsy baby I call my son that so what does that mean I hate my son does that mean I I would be okay if he went and killed a bunch of people and or if he committed suicide no calling your child an oopsy baby was designed to try to make her look bad with no context having Amanda Holland come in
a coworker who's not a friend to Jennifer Crumbley and has been interviewed by law enforcement to tell you her advice and she should go have a mother Sunday with her teenager so irrelevant when she's faced with raising tlers every day when I heard her advice I thought yeah right I have three teenagers I almost have a fourth and in personally Not only would they rather do anything else than spend a day with me I'd rather do anything else and we do spend time together but that's not their first pr
iority when they get to pick what they're going to be doing it does not mean she loved her son any less if she ever told a witness my son is weird and part of what made me realize I could be in Mrs crumbly shoes is I have sent my text I have sent texts to my husband saying our daughter is is a psycho today on the way to school last week she's crying she doesn't have people to sit with at lunch I texted him she's a nutcase I don't know what to do I don't know how to handle this I don't have time
for this my other daughter is complaining about her lights flickering in her room I texted my husband this starts like this sounds like a case the start of a case my husband works for my office he's actually my office manager so he knows about the case he went in room and figure it out in 5 minutes it's because when she flips her blow dryer on one of our plugs makes the lights flicker so this ghost that you would read about in my text messages which by the way I did not respond to despite the fa
ct that it's on our six family six-person group chat was taken totally would be taken out of context and make me look like I don't really care that my daughter is crazy I also got text one day we have no food in our house I am absolutely starving you are the worst mother ever and you know what I did I ignored it she was mad we didn't have the right kind of chicken ramen when we have 80 not 85 I like the number 85 when we have four other flavors of ramen and there's about a hundred other things s
he can eat and I knew she's not going to starve to death but taking out of context it makes me look like a neglectful mother but if you know all the circumstances and you know the relationship I have with my daughter I knew it was an overdramatic stupid point so when you see messages from Mrs Crumbley son saying will you at least call back those are so out of context and when I'm driving home from court every day I'm getting messages will you at least call back and I don't because I know know wh
at they want is for me to run through the McDonald's drive-thru and bring everyone a Coke I do stop and get myself a Coke but I am not getting a round of drinks every day for everyone and I've realized it's easier to not answer the phone so you can find Reasonable Doubt from the context that the defense did actually provide and when Mrs crumbly got on the stand and explained to you her understanding of ghosts and dishes flying and laundry flying that is evidence and that is something that can cr
eate Reasonable Doubt to hear what was really going on even if you believe the prosecution's dates about what was going on it's not strong evidence it's very misleading and I'm going to go through what it does show there are three sets of dates involving Mrs Crumbley all for March of 2021 the first time is March 8th and 9th they in introduced exhibits including text messages on the 8th Where Mrs Crumbley starts off asking is he home yet is he home yet I don't want him to do anything stupid I'm s
ure you all remember those then they introduced evidence on March 9th that she went to the barn that day with her husband on the night then they introduced EV evidence and I will give them credit they put together quite a case although it's it's really not important that there was a picture of the horse taken at the barn that day that the data supports there was a picture of the horse taken at the barn that day and that there was GPS tracking information supporting that she was at the barn that
day okay fine so on March 8th and 9th there's concern that Ethan's I'm sorry the shooter the Mrs crumley's son is making weird comments and on the ninth she goes to the bar and she takes some horse pictures that's all that shows pretty minimal next they went to March 16th through 19th which was broken up into a million exhibits that quite frankly were out of order threw me off my game helped create these beautiful Tic Tacs and I'm going to tell you what they show now these ended up all being adm
itted as exhibits but I'm going to go in order of what they show there was a text thread in exhibit 855 which if you want to look at it you can where Jennifer Crumbley said I'm going to get drunk and ride my horse this was on March 17th St Patrick's Day a lot lot of people have a cocktail on St Patrick's Day that does not make her a mother that would be negligent or grossly negligent to her child there's text messages from the day before Where Mrs crumbly son is saying some things about now the
house is haunted some weird just happened now I'm scared I got some videos a picture of a demon it's throwing blls I'm not joking it up the kitchen I'm going to outside for a while can you at least text back on that day Mrs Crumbley didn't text back but their own exhibit okay which is exhibit 83 so the numbers do bounce around so we go from 85 to 86 to 83 show that within an hour of the shooter making these ghost comments she did call him specifically she called him back at 7:24 and they had a 1
9c phone call if it was 19 seconds it most likely was I'm on my way home we'll talk when I get home so then the state in order to make it seem like they've really really got some proof here they admitted exhibits 87 which show on the 17th on St Patrick's Day James was on a horse they showed people's exhibit exhibit ada8 confirming the metadata that James was on a horse they showed a picture 89 of Jennifer on a horse that day metadata to prove she's on the horse that day a picture another picture
number 91 of James on the horse a different picture the metadata approve James is on the horse a picture of Jennifer with her horse in exhibit 93 and again the metadata to support the picture was taken out at the barn and sent and that these people talked about these horses okay so fine that's on the 17th of March you're going to have access to all this evidence if you want to see it then they introduced exhibit number 86 which is where their son says the house is haunted this is on the 17th th
is is the day where he says can you text back this is the day where I already showed you the exhibit she called him she didn't text back but she called him and then they show a couple texts from a few days later on the 19th where it's obvious from the messages the crumblies had had an argument with their son the night before he was upset to have his phone and things taken away that Jennifer crumbly gave him a melatonin to go to sleep she should have only given him a half it's in the messages but
she gave him the whole thing and it knocked him out and he slept in the bed their bed that night and when he woke up the next morning James described him in the text messages as he woke up looking like he had way too much to drink last night complaining about a headache Jen says well he was really worked up and out of control so I can see why talking about his behavior during the fight all I know Jennifer says he needs to eat go to work work hard not complain and he can get his stuff back she t
estified that getting his stuff taken away is his trigger it's what makes him go get upset she says you respond and I didn't get it James says Jesus yes he said said let me ask you a question why am I in your room that's when they talk about the Melatonin she says oh my God James says I really thought you were giving him a Xanax last night Jennifer says does he seem better no Mel Aon it James says I know so obviously he's joking Jennifer writes but he hasn't had one before so I should have only
given him half James writes will he's doing his school says his head's hurt so he took Tylenol Jennifer asks is he okay to work James says yeah does he remember what he did James finally says dude I'm working I'm on a demo right now I haven't talked to him he's doing school and that's really the extent of the conversation so fine so one day they get in an argument and I'll tell you what those kind of arguments in a heartbeat could have me sitting in her chair the final date that the state claims
Mrs Crumbley had knowledge about back from March of 2021 are exhibits 96 through 100 and in 96 starts off with their son saying I'm picking up the room I cleaned until the clothes started F flying off the wall this stuff only happens when I'm home alone I pick the clothes back up though and that's the important part of those texts on the 20th we know on that date cuz the people proved it no pun intendant but they beat a dead horse that at 97 it's picture of Jennifer at the barn we've got the me
tadata showing Jennifer was at the barn we've got another picture on 99 showing Jennifer was at the barn and exhibit 100 Jennifer was at the barn big deal Jennifer is at the barn their son is saying goofy stuff Jennifer gave you the context they had an ouija board for a couple months after Christmas of 2020 he and his friend are playing with the Ouija board they ultimately lost interest they stopped doing it Jennifer admitted you one day to mess with them she turned the power off in the house tu
rned the circuit off to mess with them she mentioned a time where James pretended he was getting electrocuted she didn't know what to do she's screaming trying to kick him see if he's electrocuted Ethan is laughing taking a video of the whole thing this family played together they had fun they did what families do the prosecution just had zero context because they had tunnel vision that she was doing something wrong and was grossly negligent and they were hellbent and convincing you that was the
case so the other thing that you can find as a reasonable doubt in the case is the lack of evidence in the case as a whole the prosecution has made very serious claims and when you really look at it they have very little evidence so what they've shown to you and I have it in these folders are these dates in March 2021 which by the way are 10 months before the shooting even took place they're before it would have I it's unreasonable to expect that things that happened in March of 2021 are an ind
icator that 10 months later their son's going to do something something it would be very different if every week there's something going on up until up until the shooting but there's not because if there was the prosecution would have brought that in and showed you every horrible thing that was happening to show you their son was being ignored and they don't have the evidence so what they did provide and what was admitted this is exhibit I believe 423 he these are all the Facebook messages betwe
en James and Jennifer so when you look at those Facebook messages and consider and this includes the photographs and the GPS stuff that they're using this much compared to this much over the period between January 2021 and the shooting this is a very little little bits in time compared to the grand scheme of things and while the officer testified and played games with me that he's not sure this is the best evidence against mother you better believe if they had better evidence they'd be up here s
howing stronger and better evidence this is it ladies and gentlemen it's obvious from the evidence in trial and you may find it to be a reasonable doubt that the crumbly son was a skilled manipulator and they didn't realize it he's not sick he doesn't have a mental illness he's had no history of hallucinations he has never shown his parents signs of mental illness he certainly never showed signs of mental illness wanting to get a gun no parent would purchase a weapon if they believed their child
had mental illnesses and these are people that have had two other guns in the house for months where nothing ever happened with those guns they had no reason to believe that somehow this third gun was the thing that was going to make the difference the texts that the prosecution admitted as exhibit 101 were Tex between the shooter and his friend that we have not named the extent of these text messages saying goofy things like I told my dad to take me to the doctor he gave me pills to suck it up
it's at the point I'm asking to go to the doctor I'm having insomnia paranoia I'm calling 91 I thought about calling 911 but my parents will be pissed I don't disagree with the prosecution that these are alarming messages but clearly the shooter's friend isn't that alarmed cuz he's not texting back the shooter's friend knows there must be more going on because he doesn't tell Mrs crumblyy who is like and he's like a second child to her and we have no other context about these messages and if an
ything the evidence does not show that Mrs Crumbley ever saw these messages now when she sees them now she thinks that's crazy she likees know more context but you also have to know and another Reasonable Doubt you may find in this case is created when you compare these text messages that were sent that have alarming things between Ethan and his friend to all of the messages between them which are over 20,000 and what you would have to believe and what I would believe is that if the state had st
ronger evidence they would have paraded it up and we would have been seeing a lot more of these but instead they were admitted and you haven't heard the friend testify you haven't heard any context about these and all you can see and and really all the evidence shows is that there's no reason to believe Mrs crumblyy ever saw that I don't want to have another leaning tower of pza situation this this is an ABC News special report now reporting David mure good afternoon we're coming on the air with
word the US just moments ago began its retaliation campaign its counter strike against ironback militants the Biden Administration responding to the deadly drone attack killing three American soldiers at a remote base in Jordan a Us official telling ABC News at this hour the operation will evolve multiple targets over multiple days with American forces likely striking Iranian back militants in Syria in Iraq and possibly Yemen now we know of multiple targets hit so far in Syria no attacks are ex
pected within Iran the start of this military operation unfolding just moments after President Biden and the first lady Jill Biden joined families for the solemn dignified transfer of the Fallen at do Air Force Base the soldiers all from Georgia Sergeant William Rivers Sergeant Brianna Moffett and Sergeant Kennedy Sanders Sanders and Moffett posthumously promoted to Sergeant I want to get right to our chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha rits traveling she's reporting in from Jordan right n
ow Martha what have you learned the strikes have begun as you said David and they are tonight concentrating on Syria all of the strikes thus far have been in Syria that's what you and I have been talking about all week David that we thought it was Syria where they would focus now the Drone that struck this remote base uh in Jordan was launched according to us officials us officials from Iraq we do expect there will be strikes in Iraq but that hasn't happened yet as far as we know so what they ar
e going after in Syria are certainly the militants the Iranian back militants but also Iranian assets the Iranian revolutionary guard assets there they don't want to strike Iran itself but they want a significant and substantial hit on these militants they want these attacks to stop there have been more than 165 attacks on American forces in Iraq and Syria and of course as you know David there have been many many attacks in the Red Sea from Yemen as well and that is also a possibility that they
will strike Yemen we will see this over several days uh there are people who are concerned this could escalate the conflict but others and clearly this is the the decision that that President Biden made he believes this will send a strong message of militants and be a deterrence thus far they have not been deterred but this is supposed to be very different from the previous strikes it is a real show of force they say Martha RIT reporting from Aman Forest Martha thank you I want to bring in Mary
Bruce our chief White House correspondent Mary what do we know about uh the source of these strikes at this hour whether or not the US is acting alone whether or not we have allies in this and whether or not these initial strikes are actually directly from the US well David I have been told that these reports are actually not US military and not directly related to our response we are getting some conflicting reports here what we do know though is that the US has been considering this massive sh
ow of force as Martha was saying that this is a decision the president has been weighing extremely carefully uh we know he has had some deep misgivings about actually striking directly inside Iran despite facing tremendous pressure to do just that because of course the president here is trying to weigh how to make sure that this response is forceful that this response is different obviously because as the White House has said this is a fundamentally different situation given the fact that you ha
ve three US service members who have died more than 40 who were wounded in that strike in Aman how to send a strong message to finally stop these Relentless attacks by Irani Ed militants without starting another wider war and that has been the issue that the president is weighing most heavily and that is the big X Factor here David whether these strikes are going to be different enough to send that message loud and clear but so far the bid Administration not giving any indication that the US par
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n E said they hoped they could get him into counseling today but ultimately said he can stay at school and we'll give you 24 hour or 48 hours to get it situated all right so the prosecution keeps harboring on the fact that herping on the fact that Mrs crumblyy knew they had bought a gun and that the people at the school didn't this is Oxford Community Schools these professionals testified about how common guns are at the school so common and this kind of blew me away although I live out there th
at students are known to go to the gun ranges often that girls on homecoming wearing their short little party dresses they wear to the dance take photos before the dance holding their guns that kids go hunting on late start Wednesday before they go to school and the school has to give reminders to parents for people to leave their guns at home so this school that obviously has a strong gun culture going on that sees a student looking at bullets looking at a video game type thing with violence an
d seeing a gun drawn on a paper that these school officials knowing that community that they didn't ask if he had a gun when they carried the backpack down and did make a comment about how heavy it was although the comment evidently was made to a different teacher and I misunderstood and thought it had been made to the shooter so yeah Mr and Mrs crumblyy they didn't mention the gun but they did mention that they had been at the shooting range with their son and this is a community that is so int
o guns I can't even believe that these girls I always look at those pictures on Facebook and think oh my God how short are those dresses and these are girls showing their dresses with their guns in their hand they know this is a gun Community Reasonable Doubt can be find found from the fact that the biggest concern at the time was suicide and not homicide the worst case scenario that was presented would lead a reasonable Pur person to believe there was a possibility of suicide not homicide the p
rosecution seemed to also carry on about the amount of money and time that Mrs Crumbley spent on horses just because she spends money and time on horses doesn't mean she doesn't love her son and the fact that they have to stretch so much can create Reasonable Doubt and if you actually look at the exhibits the defense submitted you'll see that Mrs crumblyy said she has to get a second job to pay for the braces which are very expensive to put on her child's teeth she paid for her son to be a part
of a bowling team she paid for him to do other sports she she cared about her son just because she cared about horses and bought medication from them and and and had a horse hobby that's not any different than a dad who likes Golf and buys new golf clubs and has a membership to a country club and spends time there and spends money at the bar there on days they go golfing it's not any different to try to suggest that it shows the priorities where on horses and not their son is just garbage this i
s a son who had everything he needed and all kinds of opportunities in life a son they take camping and on vacation to Cedar Point not only do they take him they take a friend with them these are parents that clearly love their child they're sitting there playing board games with him spending time doing that that's all in the Facebook pictures that were admitted those are submitted to you as exhibits and you can take a look at them if you want to Bri Brian's testimony in this case absolutely cre
ates Reasonable Doubt when Brian M testified there's no question he was inconsistent and I would submit to you that after there was no reason law enforcement needed to interview him for two hours one hour and then 3 hours but over time the police certainly caught on the fact that the more you ask Brian the same question over and over and he realizes he's not giving the answer you like he changes it and while the prosecution tries to make it sound like well he didn't want his affair outed from th
e very beginning he told them he was having the affair with Mrs Crumbley that was not something that ever changed it wasn't until the third interview when they started talking about his pension talking about his job that he felt pressure he agreed with the word pressure and he agreed with the word word veiled threats although he did take it back later that the police wanted him to say something bad about Mrs Crumbley and I would submit to you that they probably did that to all of the Witnesses i
n the case but Brian MOS was the one who admitted to it and when Mr ke got back up there and asked him more questions and asked him more questions Brian got right back in line like he was supposed to and told them exactly what he knew they wanted to hear Brian is a terrible witness he said he had memory problems and quite frankly when he's testifying that he knows that the gun was in the car that day of the shooting we all know no one thinks that's true Mrs Crumbley testified and explained the d
ay the gun was in the car Brian's just wrong and when Brian testified that Brady was gone and he believed Brady died or committed suicide I would submit to the jury that Brian is is just an idiot and has no clue and that the truth is he didn't know the details about where the shooter's friend went he just knew he went away wherever he got that suicide idea from who knows the prosecution didn't show any texts or anything to support that but it's clear that Brian MOS has been put on a mission whic
h is you're coming into court you've got some things hanging over your head and we want you to to take a position against Mrs Crumbley and I would submit to you that if you read the 77 page exhibit that I got yesterday and went through in painstaking detail with you you can see that Brian MOS did not think of Mrs crumbly that way when he knew her and when he dealt with her and he testified the only places he got new information about her that made him think differently about his answers were fro
m law enfor ment and we from the media the media that we have talked about in this case repeatedly as being inaccurate Brian admitted that when the prosecution asked him and we've already talked about this to delete his messages when I went through the part about clear the cache Jenifer telling him clear the cache showed him the stuff before and after he realized it was just to refresh the page to see if Facebook had deactivated so giving him little bits of information is particularly dangerous
because he's not the sharpest and that's what the prosecution did they used him to their advantage to try to make it sound like they have this case and all these horrible statements against Mrs Crumbley and by the way when they presented evidence that Mrs Crumbley is deleting texts and keep making it sound like she de selects different texts here and there it actually sounds like Mrs Crumbley deletes all her texts as she testified that when people start flooding her with text she deletes entire
threads at a time who knows what she's deleting we saw her on her phone flipping through them super fast and the text ultimately that she deleted the prosecution did point out two of them in their closing they pointed out the texts about we're and we're on the run again but they didn't mention that she deleted two texts that are actually actually very exculpatory and helpful to her why would she delete some of the most helpful and exculpatory things she said those two texts are on page 42 and 44
if you want to see them in the 77 page exhibit in those two text confirm she calls it the string lack was on the gun she means the cable lack but she doesn't know enough about guns to say cable lack string lock was on the gun and the other deleted text that the prosecution didn't mention was when she said that the weapon had been locked the ammunition had been stored separately and that everything was not loaded there's no reason she would delete two messages that are that helpful to her she's
just a person who deletes all of her messages as she testified to you can find reasonable doubt that Mrs crumley's State of Mind is very obvious in statements she made after the shooting right away she's talking about how she had no signs to believe anything would happen at the substation interview it's on recording we watched it she tells the interviewer I had no signs there were no signs then when they ever in the car the squad car in the back she says to them again I had no signs in her text
message with Kira which was admitted she says there were no signs Kira says there probably were you just missed them with Brian MOS Mrs Crumbley says again there were no signs I would submit to you this is not some master plan Where Mrs Crumbley decides she's going to suddenly say there's no signs first of all there's no evidence of signs Mrs Crumbley knew about and second all of her immediate fast statements in a time of stress when right after she's had guns held to her face walking out the fr
ont door of her house she's saying there were no signs you might find and I know the prosecution takes issue with this one Mrs Crumbley was actually in fact a hypervigilant mother um she's the kind of mother who is going to her the friend's mom to chase down why he's having a Moody and kind of depressed day she's on power schools on the app multiple times a day checking for missing assignments she's emailing teachers about grades Christy Gibson Marshall the assistant principal who did do one of
the bravest things I've ever seen she testified she saw the shooter's face and couldn't believe it was him and the reason she couldn't believe it was him is because it was so unforeseeable Mrs crumley's hyper vigilance also comes when you look at how she takes him for medical appointments they at the urgent care because some little mole on his back changed colors when she's applying sunscreen I think of myself as a hypervigilant mother and I've never noticed any moles on my kids back and I must
need to go home and look because when I look at the actions of Mrs crumblyy she actually pays far more attention to that kind of thing and other things than I do I could easily be sitting in her chair when her son's experiencing headaches and medical issues she's at the doctor or doing virtual visits there's no reason to believe that's not true with the headaches they go through a whole process she gets a whole X-ray done of his head she takes him to the eye doctor to see if that's causing the i
ssue ultimately she pays and puts braces on his teeth then he's a bad brusher so she's going to the extent of getting the braces off his teeth so he can get the cavity fix 13 cavities I would go crazy on my kid and she's just doing each thing she needs to do as a hypervigilant mother and yes a hypervigilant mother can have a drink once in a while I'm a hypervigilant mother and I not only have a drink once in a while but sometimes I've been known to have two or three or maybe a bottle Reasonable
Doubt can be found from the fact that Jennifer Crumbley did her best as a mother while going to the shooting range is not her thing she's trying to find a way to bond with her son who has just had his best friend move away she took him camping took him on trips brought the Second Son along like I've already talked about she let him have pets he has the cutest little kitten you've ever seen in these Facebook pictures board game nights with him she's not neglecting him in any way and if anything s
he's going to the gun range for him not because she enjoys it you can tell how much she loves it when she gets up there shoots a couple shots and then just stands there letting him enjoy the activity he likes and I do the same thing for my kid he likes to go to skate parks I would rather do anything but go to the skate park but I sit there and watch and say oh that was amazing and all I hear is Mom watch this Mom watch this Mom watch this and I would rather do anything else but Mrs Crumley on th
at day is trying her best to bond with her child and have a relationship showing the pictures of the messy house was just not necessary and the prosecution explained to you they weren't trying to prove she had a messy house but much of it was just so unnecessary that I would suggest they trying to to make her look bad they do kind of make her look a little bit like a hoarder but if you saw Mi pictures of my house right now like a snapshot in time you'd be just as horrified I've been so busy gett
ing ready for this trial ready for all the fun we've had in the court and through these last few weeks I still have my Christmas trees up I was complaining to my husband the other day oh my God we SLI our Christmas trees up this is embarrassing and he said hey Shan we still have ceramic pumpkins up and I realized oh yeah all of our fall decorations are out too and right now I have piles of laundry all over my kids over Christmas break put together stacks of stuff I need to take to the Salvation
Army um I have donations of my own that need to go my house right now if they did a search warrant today would look just as bad as Mrs Crumbley and it's says nothing about me parenting my child if anything when I come home from work I make a deliberate decision all right listen I can run around this house for 3 hours and try to get as much as I can done or I can sit on my couch and watch old episodes of the Kardashians with my daughter and I believe my time is better spent hanging out with her w
atching trashy TV then cleaning up my house because I get a chance to spend time with her and Mrs Crumbley was the same kind of mom she was waiting until the holidays to have more time she said she was going to clean her son's room I would be screaming that I would make my son clean his room but regardless the project coming up was going to be to get those rooms in order but at that point in the year when the holidays are coming up and you're getting ready for all it and going through Thanksgivi
ng it does get to a point where you do have V is piling up and you're just trying to get through those last days of school to get to Christmas break there's Reasonable Doubt when you look at what Mrs Crumbley thought after the meeting with Mr Hopkins and Mr ejac the state of mind she was in and her thoughts and what she was thinking come in through her statements she thought everything was way less of a big deal when she left that meeting she thought leaving him in school with his friends was th
e better decision based on Hopkins saying pure support is a good thing she thought making him an appointment was sufficient within an appointment within 48 Hours was sufficient that doesn't even mean the appointment was going to be within 48 Hours Reasonable Doubt can be seen in the video when Mrs Crumbley first sees her son at the substation her reaction to seeing him in this complete state of disbelief as to what's going on is to look at him and say why why she doesn't look at him and say I kn
ew you were going to do this she doesn't look at him and say see I knew we shouldn't have bought that gun she says why why and when he says take care of Dexter she cannot believe that's her son and goes back into the other room with her husband and says what the he didn't even care and while the prosecution asked questions about well she's not sobbing and we hear sobbing and that's clearly James James is sobbing when you look at the video if you decide you need to see it Mrs Crumbley is dabbing
her eyes and wiping her eyes and fine she's not the crier some other people are reasonable doubts can come from the statements In the Heat of the Moment at the substation when Jennifer Crumbley is in a State of Shock trying to answer their questions she says he's never done anything bad this is after she's already she already has somebody saying you really should have a lawyer there she's still just talking about what the truth is he's never done anything bad one of the parents says he's a perfe
ct kid Jennifer Crumbley tells them the most of an issue he ever has is anxiety over tests Jennifer crumbly tells them everything was fine this morning in the statements Jennifer Crumbley made when she was in the car and doesn't even know yet if there has been fatalities she says he's never done anything she acknowledges he ruined lives today she says it's the first time I've ever seen him done do anything she says he's a good kid he's never angry he's mellow he's not what he looks like he's not
a monster and she's not a monster either she explains to them in detail when they ask he's never her had mental issues in those moments she can't even think straight about life around her she's worrying about a horse and her job and all kinds of random stuff and ladies and gentlemen when emergencies happen life doesn't just stop so the fact that she's able to function and think I still need a job I need some money I need a phone that works that doesn't mean she thought her son would terrorize a
nd kill people and shoot people at a school her reaction when she finds out there are fatalities was genuine and honest and she broke down crying although she does continue to keep answering their questions she explains why she feels like fatalities are different she explained that on the stand if she had shot people and injured them it was something they could at least deal with but a fatality is a fatality and can never be changed the prosecution's attemp to misconstrue Jennifer's entire demea
nor is a reasonable doubt in this case to show they don't have a strong case they keep saying she's not sad Jennifer explained she went into what can I do mod she did show sadness if you read the texts between her and Mr M she showed sadness in the way that she shows sadness and for these officers to to get up on the stand and say she didn't behave like the mother of a school shooter should behave is nonsense none of them have ever dealt with the mother of a child who a teenager who has just kil
led people and shot many others there isn't a right way in any handbook to say how you should or should not behave try to make her look selfish and callous goes right with that same thing how she reacts is how she reacts you see it on the screen it's really hard to pass judgment although these police officers did on how a person should react when the for the first time in their lives they walk out of their house and are surrounded with guns in their face or how a person would react to be woken u
p in the middle middle of the night on a mattress with police around them and above them with guns in her face so not only has anyone not been in the shoes of a school shooter and dealing with the kind of emotions that would come with that they also don't know and there isn't a standard reaction for how you behave when you're surrounded with guns in your face Jennifer's own statement provides reasonable doubt that she didn't think he would hurt other people she typed to him Ethan don't do it she
didn't say don't shoot people she didn't say don't hurt anyone she thought the only thing on her radar that could be possible at that point knowing there's an open shooter and he has a weapon was that he would kill himself Reasonable Doubt can be found in Jennifer's testimony Jennifer's testimony is evidence and at the end of the day whether you believe like hate however you feel about her testimony the defense didn't have to prove anything you still have to evaluate the pr secution case for wh
at it was however Jennifer Crumbley did take the in and that was not easy for her to give you additional conf context about what was going on in the shreds of evidence the prosecution cherry-picked and put pres put before you the only person who's actually been consistent in this case and you can find Reasonable Doubt from this is Jennifer she's consistent in what she says to police what she says to her husband about things and what she says to other Witnesses who testified you can find Reasonab
le Doubt in the fact that the police officers are very very biased in this case there is no doubt this is one of the most awful situation any one of them have ever been involved in but it's also very clear they have a narrative that Jennifer Crumbley is responsible and when they came in here and took that witness stand they were going to mess with me on questions that were so stupid like this ATS agent telling me he doesn't know if teenagers could lie everyone in the room knows a teenager could
lie that was a lowball just answer the question when you have an ATF agent that can't even get on the stand and answer a question that's common sense that should speak volumes that there's a narrative they've been directed to get out and they have an agenda and and that agenda ladies and gentlemen is not positive for Jennifer Crumbley making this big deal about money and cash that Mrs Crumbley took out is another Reasonable Doubt in this case Mrs Crumbley explained her dad had accounts Frozen sh
e didn't want her accounts to be frozen her dad put money in that day so she could take it out getting money out of the account that had her son's name on it wasn't done in any way to steal money from her son or show she doesn't care about him she's the one that contributes every week from her paycheck into that account and at the end of the day she wants cash because everyone in the world absolutely hates her she can walk in places and hand him a credit card hey Jennifer crumble is on that cred
it card the only option she had was cash she can't go in and start showing identification and things to get hotel rooms and the more cash she can use the better the less she has to risk that people are going to figure out who she is and remember the world was essentially showing its colors against her as she was receiving threatening messages in the days that followed that shooting on Facebook from other people in her emails in her Instagram everywhere they're so threatening her employer is maki
ng her shutdown accounts her friends people that have been her people for years don't want anything to do with her and don't want to be by her because she's that dangerous at that point in time so for her to want to have cash makes absolute perfect sense that's not a sign she's trying to flee and also if you're trying to flee you don't go around local Oakland County and areas surrounding it and carry around a syringe of horse medicine if you're in a flea you abort mission on the horses at that p
oint you're fleeing it's very obvious Jennifer Crumbley her intent was not to flee her intent is to stay safe her intent is to avoid threats her intent is to get this horse medicine to this horse which obviously can't happen if she please it's clear when she's at the art studio that she's not hidden very well she's outside smoking her husband's outside smoking we saw the evidence of the cigarette butts in the snow there's commercials commercial buildings around and businesses within that studio
she's walking around taking a tour of the studio with her friend who owns it and there's cameras all over the building obviously she's not trying to hide if she's going into a building where you can see security cameras right on the outside that would document everything that's happening that we ultimately got to see in this trial it's clear she's trying to stay the night in Detroit on November 3rd and didn't know where to go it's clear from the video she's dead asleep at 1:00 in the morning whe
n they're ultimately found and woken up to guns in their face she testified she took four Xanax and so did her husband we also saw evidence there was a liquor B bottle in the garbage and presumably she had a drink after 4 days of no sleep and not really eating one can only imagine how hard four Xanax and a cocktail might hit you so they make this big deal that there's text messages after 11:00 saying we might have been found well earlier in those text messages that were admitted by the prosecuti
on is exhibit 430 the first text says Mariel this is Jennifer's phone and Mariel was the other attorney at the time Mariel this is Jennifer's phone James and Jennifer James and Jennifer are using Jennifer's phone now next message the other phone broke and then there's a message to the crumblies when you can we'd like for you to call us that's at 619 then at 6:21 thank you Shannon's calling you both shortly then at 7:02 I text Mariel and I are going to come get you in the morning we do not think
it will help to make a statement that you're coming in or that it will be tomorrow morning all we can say as we've told everyone is that you're coming back and as of tomorrow you'll be back my next message says we can show them that everything we've said was going to happen did happen because the crumblies weren't running they just wanted to turn El in to a court and law enforcement got on the stand and told you that's something people commonly do it just didn't happen in this case at 73 the cru
mbly right back and we don't know if it's Jennifer or James because they're sharing his phone okay text to the lawyers let say Mariel Shannon lawyers who knows why they sent that I text I am going to drive to my drive home from my office right now I'll give you a call in about 40 45 minutes so I can get all of the bond Factor information written down for you for Mariel and me I'm asking for Bond information so we can go to the court in the morning I'm going to object there's a prior ruling she c
annot be a witness that was already already dealt with sorry I thought I was arguing off the evidence they admitted well you can arue out the evidence okay so they say at 7 37 okay we'll be waiting I'm going to call in one minute okay then at 11:14 on the phone that both of them have been using a text to send to the lawyers think we might have been found don't know just a heads up please check it's not for a couple hours that they're actually found but Mrs crumblyy testified she didn't send that
text and she was already asleep now after those text messages there's two more pages that are included in that exhibit so if you do end up taking a closer look at 430 which is totally fine just be aware that there's another thread that starts that's a repeat and I don't know why that is I just want to let you know um know that and I'm not sure why that exhibit is like that that was a new one we got obviously all today in the days after Mrs Crumbley and Mr crumblyy um are planning to turn themse
lves in we know they're planning to turn themselves in because exhibit a was admitted which showed they were trying to find a hotel in Auburn Hills and price line for December 4th and 5th in case they needed it for the weekend there's no doubts and I don't need to go on and on about this they were getting threats that was so clear at trial they were afraid to go turn themselves into a police station a police station where if they went there would likely be other inmates or bad people there and t
heir faces would be up on a TV because it was all over the state at that point they were terrified they wanted to go in through a lawyer reasonable do can be inferred from the fact that they set an alarm clock which was admitted by the prosecution showing that on Saturday they were getting up at 6:30 or 6:45 completely consistent with their plan to go to Novi for an 8:30 hearing this is also not James's trial I am not standing here suggesting that James is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a
ny way but it is important to find out to point out that James was the parent responsible for all of the storage of the guns Jennifer Crumbley barely knew a thing about them she would didn't object to them being in the house she didn't object to buying the gun that James and Ethan were interested in she didn't object to calling it Ethan's Christmas gift she was not responsible at all for the storage of the weapon it is misleading to suggest by the prosecution that that Sig sour case was open on
the bed and that it sat open like that all day with the ammunition box next to it it's very clear that when James and Jennifer Crumbley were on the phone during that seven-minute phone call Mr Crumbley was looking for the gun found the gun was missing asked Jennifer Crumbley where's the the ammunition pulled it out and set it on the bed it's not like that gun box that case was just sitting out there open at all times when law enforcement did get there find it on the bed even they moved it around
to the kitchen counter and other places while this is not uh James's case it is fair that Jennifer Crumbley would expect that he would have more flexibility in going to handle an issue at the school that is not unreasonable and does not make her a bad mom he's out in the Oxford Lake Oran Rochester area door dashing she's the one with a professional career supporting the family and paying all their bills and trying to keep her job which they may need to add the family on for insurance in this op
en enrollment period She shouldn't be diminished as a mother because she was going to let father go to the school and handle whatever issue there was now ultimately they went together but he's a door Dash driver she's trying to pay the bills she's the bread winner at that time he's in between jobs she shouldn't be dinged for that it's misleading for the prosecution to suggest there's been evidence in this case she keeps guns in the car she didn't say she keeps guns in the car when she was interv
iewed and if you really want to watch the interview you can Jennifer told law enforcement there was one time that gun was in the back of her car that one time was when James put it in the back of the car and she drove the car to the range her son and her had a experience at the range and she drove the car back home left the car locked with the gun in it so that when her husband got home he could put it away it is not true that she was driving around keeping guns in the car that is not what she s
aid to police as far as Mrs crumblyy knew there was a cable lock on the gun at all times she called it a string lock she testified that the key was kept in a separate place in one of the many beer steins they had she testified that she did know where the ammunition was she hid it in her drawer of jeans and she testified that things were locked and hidden separately and that Mr Crumbley was responsible for hiding the weapon if you are upset with how the weapon was hidden that's not your issue to
decide that's a future jury that will look at the case of James Crumbley you're here to look at the case of Jennifer Crumbley and consider what she knew she is not the person responsible for story ing this weapon I'm not trying to suggest she didn't know it was in the house but she is not the person putting the cable lock on and off or doing anything with a gun we saw her gun abilities when she went to the range and had to have her son show her everything about it it's a gross overstatement to k
eep saying that the gun was his gift it's very clear it was something bought for him to use at the shooting range something that may one day ultimately be truly just his but it's just like any of us giving our kids a laptop to use a cell phone to use a car to use a jet ski I have a friend that has kids they have snowmobiles nothing different it doesn't really mean the kids just have free access to all of that stuff it comes with conditions rules and parameters unfortunately this is a case where
the prosecution made a charging decision way too fast it was motivated by obvious reasons for political gain and media attention and we know that because on 111 when the shooter was arraigned the shooter was on zoom and so were the parents and the media was aware and when Mr and Mrs Crumbley were charged and there was a swear to at the court the media was all there but guess who wasn't Mr or Mrs Crumbley Mrs Crum testified she didn't even know there was going to be an an arraignment but the medi
a knew and then the prosecution came out with a big conference press conference announcing it I would submit that the plan was never to let the crumblies turn themselves in but to turn them into a big charade of looking like they're trying to flee when they absolutely weren't the prosecution and law enforcement have approached this case with tunnel vision from day one Brian M called it a Witch Hunt I would submit to you it was and once they charg these parents and the ATF Sheriff's Department bo
rder patrol Secret Service all US Marshals not Secret Service when all these agencies have gathered around and hundreds of people are looking for the rumblies it's really hard to say we made a charging decision a little too fast and in this case you heard evidence that much of the evidence from the case didn't roll in until after the parents were charged arrested and in jail to try to suggest having multiple phones as a sign of fleeing is just garbage I think everyone here clearly understands wh
y they bought burner phones and why they went and bought replacement phones with their phone numbers so they could use two figure Factor authentication to get into their accounts Jennifer Crumbley is seen in the police interview at the substation handing her phone to law enforcement when they're asking questions when the police tell her they want to take her phone for a search warrant she doesn't want to hand it over right away but it's not because she's trying to hide things it's because it's h
er only line of community communication she doesn't really understand how a search warrant works until her husband explains it all of her contacts are in the phone she doesn't carry around a little Diary of all the numbers although police do let her get the numbers out and it's the only way people can get a hold of her and she's been in touch with them non-stop as we can see when she's in the police vehicles and again although she's on her phone and there is a substantial amount of time where sh
e's looking things up communicating with people trying to get things done that doesn't mean she believed her son was a school shooter and had no emotions over what was happening the prosecution has painted her out to be a person who lacks remorse and I would submit to you that she would change everything if she could and when she looks back and says there's not a thing that she feels she could have changed that would have changed something you have to keep in mind that the suggestions by the pro
secution are just ridiculous giving him a hug that day in the counseling office was going to stop a mass shooting that's just ridiculous there is nothing to prove that that anything could have stopped a mass shooting when you're dealing with someone who is so manipulative and is a criminal and was a shooter in Cold Blood and pled guilty and took responsibility as an adult for his crimes finally my last Reasonable Doubt card is blank because I've tried my hardest to come up with all the reasonabl
e doubts the defense Sees In this case and like I said each of you need only one to vote Mrs crumbly not guilty but a lot of times jurors think of a reasonable doubt I miss because there's so much evidence and we've already established and I've admitted I'm not a perfect person and not a perfect lawyer so I put a blank card before you so that if you have a doubt I've missed you know you're not limited to what I've suggested or the defense is suggested you're welcome to come up with your own doub
ts on your own and if you decide you want to dive in and read the truth between Mr and Mrs crumble and everything they talk about you're totally more than welcome to those exhibits are all going back with you and what I'll tell you is is that you're going to find a lot of instances Where Mrs Crumbley is anxious asking where her son is where her husband is you're going to see a lot lot of horse talk you're going to see arguments between a married couple when I read them I they read just like my h
usband and myself um yelling and swearing at each other at times and then the next message says hey what do you want for dinner and then we just move on and that's just how life is um you'll see messages in here that will certainly make you blush when you read what Mr and Mrs crumblyy intend to do in bed that night you will read a variety of messages that show real life and real life between two married people that have a child and it should make no difference that they may use their H's name mo
re often than their sons and I'd also submit that every time you see them talk about when is he going to be home and what are we going to eat for dinner even if they don't use the words spelled e t an that's who they're talking about because there are only three of them in that house at this point in the trial I am asking that you find Jennifer crumble 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 for every
parent doing the best they can who could easily be in their shoes for every parent that has Snippets of text messages that could be read and make them look like horrible monsters for every parent that has fights with their kid on text message that also could make them look like terrible parents for every parent that's ever had a hobby and has not spent 247 with their child that should not be held against parents for any parent that's ever had an affair or spent time communicating on an affair t
hat says nothing about how much you care about your child or your expectation of whether or not they would commit a school shooting most people who have affairs would still not expect their child would do this I I do wish more than anything this case could bring Justice to the victims of the shooting the victims of the terrorism that took place that day and the victims of their families I wish more than anything it really could be a result that would be a Band-Aid to make everyone feel better bu
t it can't be first of all it brings back nothing for the people who have lost it certainly doesn't bring back any lives and if anything this this is not Justice this is not how Justice works this case does nothing for the people who have already lost everything many of those people sitting in the many of the people sitting in this courtroom and it does nothing to bring back the tragedy and the tragedy that unfolded on November 30th at this point in time the prosecution cannot prove that Mrs Cru
mbley avoided exercising ordinary care that would have saved lives the prosecution cannot prove that Mrs Crumbley was aware there was a danger that existed by her son that required her to exercise reasonable care they cannot prove that she was grossly negligent this is an AB BC News special report now reporting David mure good afternoon we're coming back on the air at this hour with new reporting on these us-led air strikes now underway retaliation against Iranian backed militants after the dead
ly drone attack on three US soldiers at a remote base in Jordan I want to bring in Louie Martinez who leads our Pentagon reporting team and he's at the Pentagon Louie what more have we learned about this us-led effort now underway David we've learned that there are from four officials that there been the start of retaliatory air strikes in both Iraq and in Syria uh this is in response to the deadly incident in Jordan at that base known as Tower 22 where three Army reservers lost their lives and
as many as 47 others were injured uh we understand that these strikes are targeting areas that belong to some of these militia groups that were believed to be responsible uh for those attacks that was carried out by a drone against the tower 22 base that led to so many of those casualties um but the officials telling us that the the strikes are underway hitting multiple targets and this is something that's going to be going on for multiple days that's something that we've been hearing from offic
ials throughout the week and another thing is that this is going to be multi-tiered one of the things that we've heard is that yes Iraq and Syria were definitely on a table as possibly as well as Yemen where Hui militants have been striking at commercial shipping lanes off of the in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aiden and Lou I know you and the team were reporting earlier from the Pentagon on initial air strikes that were confirmed there at the Pentagon you have learned additional reporting on
that that they were hitting some of the same areas some of the same militia groups uh being looked at perhaps targeted by the US unclear if that was the tip of the spear in this us Le attack or who in fact was behind the initial strikes uh that took place just moments before this all officially began that's right David we are told that there were air strikes underway in various locations that are affiliated uh with some of these groups that have carried out these attacks against us bases in Iraq
and Sy Syria um and it is unclear who carried out the air strikes spoken to multiple Pentagon officials uh who will not disclose who was Behind These air strikes but the reality is that there were air strikes um that were carried out in these locations as you said that targeted similar areas similar towns similar areas affiliated with those militia groups that are responsible for the more than 160 now 65 attacks against us bases in Iraq and Syria Louis Martinez at the Pentagon Louie thanks and
stay with us here I want to bring in our chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha RIT reporting uh from Jordan as she has been for several nights here and Martha what more are you learning at this hour about this broader us-led air strike how long this could last uh and the internal debate that led to uh how to go forward and which option the president chose there was a lot of internal debate and the fear and the fear is still there David they want this to be very significant but there are some
in the Pentagon who say this will probably deter these militant groups and others worry that it will trigger an escalation because these these Stripes according to officials will be different it will be a much more powerful show of force than we have seen over the last months and weeks uh going after the houes going after these militant groups those were really just storage areas and things that didn't seem to make much of a difference you and I have talked so many times over the recent weeks t
hat deterrent simply hasn't worked but this time you had a loss of life they had to respond in a different way and they have said for months that if an American was killed that was a red line so what I believe you will see according to officials I have spoken to is missiles into Syria missiles into Iraq and possibly into Yemen as well because all of those groups have been attacking US forces as Louie said there have been more than 165 attacks on US forces now I was up in the area in Jordan in a
very similar area to where Tower 22 is there are very remote locations let's just remind people that that drone approached that the air defense uh systems and people there thought it might be a us surveillance drone so that drone kept on going they do believe that drone was launched from Iraq so that is one big reason uh for strikes in Iraq but Syria there are uh Iranian Assets in Syria there are irgc the Iranian revolutionary guard inide Syria uh they have not and will not as far as we know fro
m Us official strike in Iran itself although you have heard again and again uh us officials saying these are Iran fact groups Iran is responsible but that was a red line to Joe Biden he did not want he had misgivings about going actually after Iran because he feared as many do that the war would escalate Martha rtis reporting on the president's concerns there about any kind of direct action against Iran which is why we're hearing so far these us-led strikes have been on Iraq and in Syria uh agai
nst these Iranian backed uh militias have been firing uh these drones throughout the region uh in recent weeks and of course uh the president decided to act in this way after the deaths of three American soldiers I want to show you images at home before we go to Mary Bruce here a short time ago the president and the first lady welcoming home uh the remains of those three soldiers uh the dignified transfer a very solemn ceremony Sergeant William Rivers Sergeant Brianna Moffett and Sergeant Kenned
y Sanders and as we have reported here Sanders and Moffet uously promoted uh to Sergeant we saw the president the first lady there the defense secretary there and I want to bring in Mary Bruce uh Mary as you know we we showed that phone call between the president and the parents of of these families uh and the soldiers who did not survive this uh of course talking about the loss of his own son who served this country and again the president this White House very concerned about the potential for
wider conflict here but making it very clear that he was going to seek Justice for these families and David there is no more powerful reminder of the weight of these kinds of decisions than what we saw today the president there witnessing the dignified transfer of the remains of these three US service members killed in this horrific strike in Aman Jordan and we know that this is a decision that weighed heavily on the president that he carefully considered his options meeting twice with his Nati
onal Security team this week huddling in The Situation Room going over and pouring over all of the options this is the scenario that the White House had been hoping to avoid for months as we have seen us service members come under these Relentless attacks from these Iranian backed militants and the president has faced a lot of pressure to strike Iran directly something as Martha noted we know the president has deep misgivings about but they made very clear that this strike was fundamentally diff
erent and so the response is going to be different too it is why we have been told to expect multiple strikes multiple targets over several days to play out the president trying to strike that really difficult balance of sending a strong message responding in a way that will finally he hopes stop these attacks without widening this war without starting another conflict David Mary Bruce Martha RIT Louis Martinez at the Pentagon my thanks to all three of you again us-led air strikes now underway t
he retaliation uh for those deadly drone attacks that killed three American soldiers so far uh the US LED strike targeting uh locations in both Iraq and in Syria our coverage will continue on ABC News live ABC news.com and of course I'll be back here with the entire team for World News Tonight I'm David M in New York I'll see you then this has been a special report from ABC News well welcome uh to this coverage of our continuing coverage of the retaliatory strikes as David Mir was just reporting
uh that the United States has apparently begun retaliatory strikes for the uh strike in the American Air uh base in Jordan a small Outpost I should say in northeastern Jordan earlier this week where three American soldiers uh were killed in that in that strike and today uh we get the reporting from our Pentagon reporter Louis Martinez that the retaliatory strikes of the United States have begun in Syria and apparently in Iraq expected as well so for more let's bring in AB news senior White Hous
e correspondent Selena wank Selena first uh what are you hearing there at the White House this has been uh obviously a busy day executing is the president at at Dover Airbase with the dignified uh Return of the Fallen Soldiers what are you hearing at the white house right now well Terry and that dignified transfer that the president attended just underscores how difficult and the weight of this decision that the president had to make he knew that he had to respond in a different way once when Am
erican troops were killed as a result of these Iranian backed militants in the Middle East there have been more than 160s of these kinds of attacks and the president has been laser focused on avoiding escalation but as you say now we're hearing these strikes have begun hitting in Iraq and Syria we're learning these are targeting places these are places that are that helped execute those attacks that led to the deaths of those three American troops but the president really striking a very difficu
lt balance of sending a more forceful message than before while also not wanting this to spiral and brought it into a wider War Terry all right Selena Wang thanks very much our White House correspond chief White House corespondent Mary Bruce joins us now live from the White House Mary this has been a very hard problem for the president uh with ever since uh the war between Israel and Hamas was launched the United States has been under attack by various iran-backed militias in that region the pre
sident trying to respond without widening the war now American blood has been spilled what do you think this response is going to do and will it actually accomplish what has not been accomplished so far will it deter further attacks well that is the big question right this certainly is the scenario that the White House had been hoping to avoid for weeks and months as we had seen you know us service members come under Relentless attacks more than 160 attacks by these Iranian backed militants sinc
e the uh Israel Hamas War began and the challenge is you know how does the president respond in a way that gets these militants to stop these attacks without broadening and widening the conflict and we know the president has come under tremendous pressure from some who say he needs to go straight to the source he should be striking inside of Iran our sources tell us that the president has deep misgivings about that fearing further escalation so the hope and what we have been told by officials he
re is that this response is going to be fundamentally different in part because of course now Americans have died and that strike in Aman was fundamentally different as well and that means the US has to respond in a larger bigger more robust way because as you note so far retaliatory efforts from the US clearly haven't done the trick haven't done enough uh to get the militants to stop their attacks so this is why you're seeing we are told you know this is going to be uh multi-level strikes in mu
ltiple locations over several days it's going to be a more robust response the big X Factor as you note though Terry is will it be enough right absolutely Mary Bruce at the White House thanks very much uh let's go to the Pentagon where abis news senior Pentagon reporter Louis Martin has been covering this Louie what can you tell us at this early hour about the strikes as Mary just told us that this is a series of strikes expected that really must seem different than what uh the United States has
been doing in the region for weeks now what what do we know about the the beginning now this particular day in these strikes Terry these are multiple strikes taking place in two countries simultaneously both in Iraq and in Syria they're going to Target locations affiliated with the resist of Iraq which is the group that the United States is blaming for being behind the Drone strike that killed those three Army reservers and injured 47 others now the targets that they were going to be striking a
re affiliated with those militia groups in other words as we've seen in the past uh they may have struck at a warehouse they may have struck at training uh sites um we can probably see more of the same but on a much bigger scale whereas and the previous air strikes in Iraq and Syria have focused on on individual targets these will be multiple targets taking place at the same time what we've heard is that this is going to be a multi-day effort um and that potentially Beyond just Iraq and Syria th
at we might also see air strikes within Yemen um so one of the things that I think you're trying to see the United States make the point here is that the United States has significant Firepower that the United States has a significant control of its assets and that they want to convey the message to these Iranian backed groups we we need to remember these are groups that are funded trained and equipped by Iran to get the message to stop with these attacks that's why you saw that tough rhetoric a
fter that deadly attacks indicating that the United States uh was sending a message to Iran and I think the message here is that these groups are being affiliated with Iran these are potentially there could be Iranian uh Iranians militants affiliated with the irgc that's the Islamic revolutionary revolutionary guard Corp that carries out these kind of missions of working with these militia groups throughout the Middle East that's what we might be seeing now all right thank you Louis Martinez at
the Pentagon the stakes are so high as Louie describes uh for the United States for the whole region so let's go now to AV News foreign correspondent Marcus Moore he is live from Aman Jordan the capital of the country where the attack on the Americans took place far uh to the Northeast and Marcus give us a sense of of the region right now of how you this is a tinder box at the best of times and here you have this major war going on between Israel and Hamas these attacks these constant drum beat
of attacks by iran-backed militias against US forces and international shipping and now uh what is expected to be a major US response how are people feeling are they concerned that this war will widen yeah Terry they are absolutely uh concerned these uh this retaliation coming at a time of of heightened uh tension and frankly anxiety for people here in Jordan but but across the region and uh uh tonight as we get word of the the retaliation underway in multiple locations uh at the same time and t
hat this will perhaps go on for for many days uh the tension that we have experienced here uh won't be going anywhere anytime soon and and certainly what we've heard from people here in the region is that they are very much concerned about uh the impact that this retaliation this operation will have on the potential for this conflict to continue to escalate and to spread but Terry as you just elucidated uh for us just a second ago I mean it it has already um escalated and spread throughout the r
egion here when you look at all of the um activity that's happening in the Red Sea and uh here in this region and in Southern Southern Lebanon and of course um we can't go without mentioning what's happening in Gaza a day in and day out so there are people here who are watching that uh very closely with a lot of concern and I can tell you that we've heard um in in Iraq that uh members of of a certain militia group there uh the popular mobilization Force um they have said that they would uh evacu
ate all of their headquarters and we're asking their members to suspend all of their activities ahead of the strikes you're concerned uh about the US strikes that were to come but Terry at the same time you have kib Hezbollah which is another group that operates out of Iraq they have uh also said that they would suspend uh their operations but other groups would continue so um you get a sense of how all of these groups while they are working together uh they do have different um uh strategies at
this point and uh we'll just have to watch and see how this plays out as the US wants to uh send a message of deterrence but as our our team has reported tonight it has not seemed to have worked so far but now with tonight's strikes and those yet to come come perhaps it could be different in the days ahead yeah this is a region really just on the nice Edge Marcus Moore thank you let's bring an AB news contributor and former CIA operative darl blocker so Daryl we are hearing now that that uh B1
bombers were used uh in these strikes what does that tell you and then more broadly as we were just talking with with Marcus you know this is such a kind of fishlyn not too hard I mean what does this moment do to that carry the world of Espionage is always behind the scenes all this what we're seeing now that's now bubbling up into the Press is what we've been collecting on as an intelligence Community for many many years so we didn't just start collecting hasbalah when this broke out we didn't
start collecting on the houthis or the Hamas or Hezbollah there are three principal intelligence disciplines that were probably involved in this human human intelligence you know sources on the ground coupled with s signals intelligence people who are speaking to each other on phones or sending messages back and forth and then tent or Telemetry intelligent which is a couple of different things but looking at how the missiles were were fired and where they were fired from so all of this is underp
inning is almost always happening we just never see it the scale in which we're seeing right now the B1 bomber is very very accurate and it carries a heavy heavy payload so I know that they were looking for for accuracy pinpoint surgical type strikes as opposed to carpet bloming right and that's uh one of the big weapons obviously that the United States has at its disposal darl thank you very much AB contributor former Homeland Security official Elizabeth Newman joins us now and Elizabeth this i
s a region obviously that uh has been the source of a lot of attacks not just there but around the world in the United States as well uh as drawing on your Homeland Security experience are you concerned about this that that as this war which is so so awful and so emotional for all sides generates you know heat and more anger and more rage are you concerned about uh safety here at home absolutely Terry um we have a number of vectors that were concerned about we have domestically just a very tense
political environment we are um in the middle of I want to say at year nine of ever increasing uh domestic terrorist attacks and anytime you have a dynamic occur overseas that might um Inspire an individual or prompt an individual decide to do something domestically so we have a homegrown threat but when you're dealing with Iran you're also dealing with Iranian proxies and the balance that I think the Biden Administration was trying to make here was to appropriately respond to the devastation o
f the loss of three US service members but not escalate too far because we are aware that Iran has capabilities and we don't want Iran to respond and escalate it as well and some of those escalation concerns that we have dealt with um and and most recently when we target uh uh solomani in January of 2020 um we were very concerned that we had proxies that might inflict harm here in the United States we also always worry about cyber attacks right and that is U the continuing concern here on the ho
me front given what's happening and what has always been uh for decades the most dangerous uh region in the in the world let me just we have more information from centcom uh from us command there in the Middle East in the region releasing a statement on these retaliatory strikes tonight uh the US Central Command forces conducted air strikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard Corp the irgc ks force that is one of the main Iranian forces in the region and Affiliated M mil
itia groups uh US military forces struck more than 85 targets today numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from the United States the air strikes employed more than one 125 Precision Munitions facilities struck included command and control operations centers intelligence centers rockets and missiles unmanned aired vehicle storages Logistics and munition supply chain facilities of the militia groups and the Iranian sponsors who facilitated attx against US forces in that region so t
hat is sencom describing how robust how aggressive these attacks today were let's bring in uh ABC News Jay O'Brien live from Capitol Hill J the president under tremendous pressure uh not just from Republicans but from others as well to do more to stop the attacks on the Americans and this statement from sencom clearly an effort to communicate that this is different today is different well the pressure that we had seen Terry particularly as you noted came from Republicans who after those three Am
erican Service members were killed in Jordan was pushing the president to strike not just Iranian proxy groups in Iraq and Syria but on Iran itself which would have been a serious escalation and something that our Martha RIT has reported the president was reluctant to do because how how much it would ratchet up tensions between the US and Iran and so what you're seeing in that statement there from centcom is they're saying they struck irgc targets meaning Iranian backed militia groups and the un
it in Iran that sponsors those groups but they struck irgc targets again not in Iran but in Iraq and and Syria that is not likely to be that's cold comfort to the Republican hardliners who have been pushing the president to strike inside Iran um I'll read for instance Lindsey Graham who earlier this week said he was quote calling on the Biden Administration to strike targets of significant inside Iran uh as news of these strikes was breaking today Lindsey Graham said on Fox that he was quote uni
mpressed with the strikes he's seen so far but that is of course not every single Republican and certainly not every single lawmaker on Capitol Hill as news of these strikes started to break Mitch McConnell for instance authoring a statement in which he doesn't talk about this military operation but he says it's quote time for the president to meet threats to American Service members with quote overwhelming force and reestablish credible deterrence against Iran and against its proxies as you're
looking at that map Terry you can see why you have heard calls from some Republican lawmakers to the president to be more forceful on Iran because all of these this constellation of Iranian back militants in Iraq and Syria and Yemen get so much support from Iran in terms of Munitions in terms of military assistance as for the houthis Declassified us intelligence says that Iran is giving the houthis Intelligence on which ships even in the Red Sea to Target so that is why you're seeing Republicans
take this stance where they want the president to be more forceful with Iran and as our Mary Bruce noted earlier it's the president's hope that this strike given how sustained it is across multiple different uh proxy groups and multiple different countries will be enough to deter these Iranian backed militants from attacking US troops going forward right because at the end of the day the Congress obviously has input but the buck stops uh with the president he is responsible for protecting Ameri
can troops and for keeping us out of war and that is obviously very difficult job J O'Brien on Capitol Hill thanks very much we want to thank everyone who joined us on this coverage of these retaliatory attacks by the United States tonight in Sy Syria and Iraq very extensive we'll be right back more news coming up next whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Leon Maine the scene of a horrific ma
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tural it's hardwired in us so there's nothing we can do about it ah welcome back everyone that was a sneak peek of the new animated feature film Orion and the dark the film explores how we can confront and possibly overcome our fears our next guest is starring in the film and he's here to tell us more about it please help us welcome to the studio Colin Hanks Colin oh wow thank you very much um your character kind of looks like you little bit little bit definitely sounds like me which is the most
important part that is the most important part uh tell us a little bit about this story I this is really sort of such a delight it's basically a story about a young uh kid who needs to overcome his fear of the dark as well as numerous other fears and uh it being an animated movie uh dark comes and visits him and takes him around the world to show him the beauty of of the dark it it's it's a really sweet film that doesn't have a bad guy and it's very accessible for everyone it's simply about ove
rcoming your fears which hate to break it to you we all got them oh we all do and you said it uh what are some of the important takeaways that we can you know walk away with especially with families yeah well you know I think more than anything else it it just shows hey we're all human beings everyone's got issues everyone struggles with and you know a lot lot of times the fears are a lot worse in our mind than they are in reality and so that's kind of the the the the message of the film but it'
s also you know funny and beautiful to look at and and was that the original goal when you guys were putting this together well I I I I would assume so yeah I mean I just saw that it was written by Charlie Kaufman who's such a talented writer and I said he's doing a kids movie I want to I want in yeah and then as I read it I just went wow this is really some not only like profound stuff that we're talking about but again there's no bad guy pushing a plot it's simply this relatable subject of you
know everybody has a hard time over overcoming your fears but it's not impossible so you mentioned uh the themes and so many of these kids movies are really they're for the adults too do you have any fears oh yeah not to put you on the spot no no no I I do I do um I yeah massive fear of spiders Arachnophobia I believe is the correct term for you people of science out there um but yeah spiders I had a very traumatic experience getting scared by a spider as a kid and it's never never left little
spiders big spiders particular any spider any spider yeah really good at killing them though do you feel like this movie left you with any kind of did the move the needle I no desire to get over my fear of spiders I am more than happy to maintain that to to the end of my days I don't want to touch them I don't want to see that used to be me too and someone said well I was hypnotized out of that which did help but I said the same thing that you guys said I said I'm really fine being terrified of
snakes I don't feel the need to get over it I don't yeah I'm never going to have a pet spider so yeah no need he's like I'm good thank you very much we appreciate it yeah thank you for having me all right and folks Orion in the dark is available on Netflix go check it out and that is what you need to know on this Friday I'm even a pilgrim I'm DeMarco Morgan and I'm Dr Jen Ashton for all of us here at ABC News have a wonderful day and we will see you bright and early Monday make me want to [Appla
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ding to the deadly drone attack on American forces in Jordan US military officials say that retaliatory air strikes have now begun in Syria and Iraq us Central Command reporting American forces have struck 85 targets using long-range bombers and 152 Precision Munitions the air strike's coming after three Army reservists were killed Sunday in a drone attack in Jordan earlier today President Biden and the first lady attending the solemn dignified transfer of those service members they are Sergeant
Kennedy Landon Sanders Sergeant Brianna Alexandria Moffett and Sergeant William Jerome Rivers let's bring in ABC News foreign correspondent Marcus Moore who is live in Aman Jordan ABC News senior Pentagon reporter Louis Martinez ABC News white senior White House correspondent Selena wing and ABC News National Security and defense analyst Mick mroy Lou I'll go to you first what do we know at those this hour about this us retaliatory air strikes Elizabeth we know that there have been air strikes
on eight Targets in both Iraq and Syria that there have been 85 targets that have been uh hit at those both both of those countries and 125 Munitions that have been dropped on those in those locations we are told that B1 long range bombers that flew from the United States were the one were the aircraft that carried out these missions inside of both Iraq and Syria targeting targeting affiliate areas that are are affiliated with the irgc that is Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard Corp that works w
ith these militias in providing them with Iranian weapons with training and support and so that is what we know right now that this is a very significant level air strike involving this very uh complicated effort because flying from the United States all the way to the Middle East requires a lot of coordination a lot of refilling and requires a lot of coordination of targeting because this this is what we know now there were some earlier uh indications of reports of air strikes that took place i
n some of these locations uh that are affiliated with these mili groups um but when we've spoken with multiple Pentagon officials they are unable to tell us exactly who carried out those air strikes Mick Lou mentioned that those longrange B1 bombers were used in these air strikes what does that say to you about the intensity of this air strikes is this an escalation how clear of an escalation is this so Elizabeth I think this was intended not to be an escalation that is why I believe there was a
delay so that Iranian uh forces could leave a lot of these sites and there would not be a lot of verani and deaths that said uh the the the size and scope of this really indicates they're trying to uh deplete or if not eliminate the capacity of these proxy forces to attack us uh bases so uh this was significant it likely hit most of the supply line a lot of the storage facilities uh and many of the launch sites so I think they're really trying to take away these weapon systems these Advanced we
apon systems uh so they can't be used uh but they tried to uh uh reduce I would say the chances of cash lease for the Iranians so I think this is measured in that sense but certainly significant in the sense that it's trying to take away uh the capability to strike American forces and make the US the sencom statement says the US has hit more than 85 Targets in Iraq and Syria give give us a sense of the scale of that response and just from this uh from these air strikes that were carried out and
that number alone so that indicates to me this is meant to be a much more substantial response to than any of the responses that we've had to over 160 attacks on our forces they really meant this to send a message that this is completely unacceptable obviously it killed three of our brave soldiers and this is intended I think uh to take out the the the mechanics the the the network if you will of these flow of weapon systems from Iran to these proxy forces and I would also say that if Iran reall
y intends to deescalate then they should not provide these proxy forces with any more of these weapons if they do then I believe they should be uh responsible for the consequences they can't say they didn't direct them when they gave them the capacity to actually attack them and they continue to do so so this likely eliminated most of those and now we'll have to see if Iran uh replaced these weapon systems that I believe were taken out in these initial strikes well and Marcus I'll go to you on t
hat has there been any response from Iranian backed militants who these air strikes are meant to deter yeah Elizabeth at this point no no response yet that we have seen from any of the groups that have been operating here in the region right now we're in Aman Jordan as you know the tensions have been uh very high here uh and across the region in anticipation of uh the US retaliation tonight and and to mix point about the the US's effort to to keep this from escalating any further and perhaps tha
t being the reason why us officials were so vocal about the response and also seeming to give a pretty good heads up uh to the militant groups that are operating here um to that point um kib Hezbollah uh one of the groups that was suspected of carrying out the the Drone attack on that base here in Jordan uh they said that they would be suspending all of their military operations or military attacks on US forces um in Iraq in Syria uh as well as the other group that has been operating uh in Iraq
the popular Mobil mobilization forces we obtained a letter just yesterday that went out to their members and Leadership saying that they were going to evacuate their headquarters there and that they were going to suspend all of their activities all of this was in advance of of the retaliation that we have seen tonight and that Perhaps it is an e is evidence of the US trying to contain uh this situation but having said that Elizabeth you do have uh another group harakat Hezbollah uh Al najah uh t
hey have said that they will continue to uh carry out attacks on US forces in Iraq as long as those forces are present here in the region and also as long as Israel continues its military bombardment um in Gaza Elizabeth and Selena we know that the White House has been so deliberate giving the president saying he made this decision multiple days ago talk about what was his calculus to carry out these retaliatory strikes what is the goal that President Biden wants to achieve here well this is a d
ecision that the president didn't take lightly this is a situation he's been trying to avoid with the smaller scale retaliation so far but it hasn't stopped the more than 160 attacks on US forces in the region so we knew that this response was going to be bigger especially since US forces were killed here the president he had been regularly meeting up with his National Security team Consulting them really trying to weigh the options here because he wants to send that forceable message while also
not escalating this conflict any further we are learning that these strikes could also hit other countries possibly Yemen including Iraq and Syria taking course over several days and we are hearing that there are some officials in the administration that this larger scale attack could still lead to that broader conflict exactly what the president has been trying to avoid and the other complicating Factor here is that amid all of this there are still these ongoing hostage negotiations to release
those hostages in Gaza there are concerns that the US response could derail those negotiations a lot of a very delicate balance for the president to strike Louie we know that the White House has made clear that it does not want this to escalate do you see this these what we know so far about these air strikes achieving that goal but also just talk about who who this is aimed at you know who are these Iranian backed militant groups what kind of message and who are they trying to send this messag
e to especially given that these air strikes are in Iraq in Syria we know that they are not directly in Iran Elizabeth these are Shiite uh groups of affiliated with Iran which is a Shiite dominant country um these Shiite groups control the power of fulam if you will inside of Iraq um and they are the ones who essentially uh created their own independence system a separate military separate militias that work with the Shiite dominated government that government has extended invitations for the la
st decade for US troops to remain inside of Iraq to C return prevent the return of Isis the Islamic State what has happened since then is that these militia groups are completely opposed to a US presence on their soil and so for the last decade or so they have also engaged in some attacks against US forces because the raising the attention of these countries uh the raising the United States as attention to these attacks in their mind means that they will depart uh so that is Iran's goal here the
y are do they are not happy with the US presence in Iraq and in eastern Syria and so they want these militia groups to essentially carry out attacks that will lead the United States to eventually leave that is not the case as far as us officials believe because they believe that their presence is very important in both countries so you're seeing these groups that have uh this backing they are given this training but they are also given autonomy to carry out attacks so it seems like Iran does not
direct a particular attacks it gives these groups the training and then the these groups carry them out against US forces in Iraq and in Syria so that's the situation as to why Iran backs these groups and why these groups have S play such an important role in the internal politics of Iran and in eastern Syria and we are just getting now a statement from President Biden on these US military operations he makes clear in this statement to say our response began today it will continue at times in p
laces of our choosing Selena what do we know about how this these air strikes could continue in the days weeks ahead we expect this will continue for the course of several days and I think the president's statement was very important saying look we're sending a clear message what's been done by these Iranian backed militant groups is completely unacceptable but we will respond but we don't seek war I just want to read a little bit more of it he said quote 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 and that is the line that was crossed in that attack of the more than 160 attacks from these Iranian backed group is that American troops were killed now another interesting critical part of this is that the president he had been facing pressure especially among Republicans to strike back directly at the source to strike directly at Iran but we know t
hat the president he has deep misgivings about that it's not something we're expecting as this president again he is laser focused on containment of this crisis on not escalating this well and Mick as we talk about containment the White House has tried to draw this distinction between the attacks in the Red Sea and the Israel Hamas War how do you see these US air strikes affecting the ongoing war in Gaza so Elizabeth I think these were measured to try to avoid any escalation that's obviously wha
t the United States is trying to do by causing deterrence by keeping Hezbollah from actually launching a ground Invasion creating a northern front if you will in Israel and also the houthis of course are a wild card if you will they will likely try to respond to this uh hopefully the United States is down there and ready to react along with our allies to prevent that from happening but I think this was initially intended to deplete the capability of these groups from attacking the United States
without escalating by not attacking in Iran by not causing too many Iranian uh casualties in Syria and Iraq but of course that is we're only one side of the equation here in in Hezbollah and Hamas and the jusi all get a vote to whether they do see this as an escalation and try to increase their attacks uh in in multiple different fronts well and Mick what do you make of the timing of this the president had already indicated he'd made this decision days ago we had been told by sources at the Whit
e House in the Pentagon that this was coming why now why tonight so I think it's a combination of two things I do believe they wanted to allow some of the Iranians to leave I would uh challenge that uh decision but uh that was likely one of the decisions to avoid escalation the other is weather and I'm in the region I'm in uh Tel Aviv right now uh it's been raining since I got here 5 days ago so there's the a lot of cloud cover a lot of rain uh we of course can fight in the rain but if you're re
ally trying to pinpoint the strikes avoid civilian casualties sometimes you would like the weather to clear which it did today so that you would really have that full picture of what you're doing to ensure that you're not hitting civilian civilian casualties and you're really hitting just the places that we intended to hit so it might have been a combination of the two well Marcus you're also on the ground there can you give us a sense of of how these tensions are playing out is there a a feel t
hat this is is heightening just give us a feel for for the mood on the ground yeah I mean Elizabeth I think naturally there is a concern here in Jordan and and across the region and because you have a situation where you have all of the sides involved and there's a sense that uh one side feels like they have to respond to the other because of their retaliation and you get into a cycle and the those are the ingredients that uh create this atmosphere for atmosphere for a miscalculation and then a
major uh escalation and that's what people are so concerned about just on a human level uh I can tell you that in Iraq we've heard from uh locals there who uh in addition to the potential for civilian casualties that you heard uh Mick talking about uh they're concerned about that but also the impact that these strikes will have on on the economy in in Iraq and and across the region and so and I thought that was very um an interesting uh and enlightening uh statement because it does give you a se
nse of the fact of how there are innocent people who are caught in the middle of this this situation that has only seemed to uh escalate and and spread despite the efforts of the the US government and the other governments and groups that are involved in this conflict we are told by a Us official that 85 targets were hit in Iraq and Si at eight locations Louie walk us through how big of a scale we expect this to be how will this continue to play out just given already this High number of targets
well uh Elizabeth as Selena mentioned earlier this is going to be something that is going to be carried out over the course of several days uh this is much more significant than those limited strikes that we've seen already the less than 10 uh strikes in both Iraq and C area that have taken place since mid- October one of the things that indicates so us how seriously the United States is taking this is the fact that they used this platform uh as we the military speak for an aircraft in this cas
e a B1 bomber uh originally designed in the 1970s to carry nuclear bombs and then because of us arms limitations treaties of that feature was disabled and so it is America's uh Premier longrange bomber and it flew all the way from the United States to the Middle East to carry out this Mission shows how significant they've really take this lot still to follow Louis Marcus Selena and Mick thank you all so much and we'll talk to you again soon coming up closing arguments wrap up in the Jennifer Cru
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nifer Crumbley the mother of the Oxford High School shooter grilled today by the prosecution under cross-examination including on her vigilance as a parent as well as her extramarital relationships she was questioned on how she spent her Time ahead of the shooting that killed four Teenage students in November 2021 Jennifer Crumbley and her husband James Crumbley have both been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting carried out by their then 15-year-o
ld son the couple convinced a judge to grant them separate trials James crumb's trial is scheduled for March both parents have pleaded not guilty joining us now is ABC News Trevor alt live from outside the courthouse in Pontiac Michigan and ABC News legal contributor and managing partner with the Cochran firm shaa lyd Trevor what stood out to you today in the cross-examination of Jennifer Crumbley well honestly Elizabeth what stood out was how fast it went this trial had basically been building
up from the start toward Jennifer Crumbley taking the stand in her own defense the prosecution went through it rather quickly and there was never really a big moment of Confrontation where they said how could you miss all these signs and the warning signs were right there what were you thinking they kind of just went beat by beat through the evidence that they had presented over the course of a week and a half prior of this trial and made sure that Jennifer Crumbley did not disagree with it and
basically just making her acknowledge all of the steps along the way that definitely stood out to me and what it tells me is that the prosecution feels very confident that that trail of red flags that they had already laid out is enough in their eyes to get a conviction on these unprecedented charges of course then that did open the door for her own attorney uh to make the case and closing arguments and beyond that with her uh further questioning of Jennifer Crumbley that this is an extremely hi
gh bar and they believe and and they re re asserted Elizabeth that Jennifer Crumbley is not on trial for being a bad mother and it's going to be very difficult to get a conviction on involuntary manslaughter trying to find sympathy that that's not something she should be charged with shaa there was a dispute over text messages that were exchanged between Jennifer Crumbley and her attorney about turning herself in before police raided that art studio where she and her husband had actually fled af
ter the shooting how damaging was that for Jennifer Crumbley that testimony was very damaging because what it showed is that although she had testified under oath that they were asleep she had made these statements those assertions weren't correct because the time stamps on the text messages show that she was awake she was communicating with the attorney so being able to bring those in showed that she was aware that she was telling saying statements that weren't true and that she was continuing
to make these statements under oath that weren't accurate and so for the state that was a great point to show that she's not truthful despite the circumstances Trevor we also heard Jennifer denying having really any role in buying or storing the gun that her son used she tried to shift responsibility to her husband how did that play out during cross-examination yeah that's one of the benefits of getting those separate trials Elizabeth and actually during the beginning of Jennifer crumley's testi
mony she said she has not spoken to her husband in two years essentially since they were arrested now she didn't make it clear if that was because it was their choice or if it was because they both been in jail that entire time but what it does mean is that her defense can lean into the fact that at least they say it was James crumley's responsibility to lock up that weapon that it was him who actually went and purchased the gun and that Jennifer kind of tried to wipe her hands of the fact that
she didn't know a lot about weapons even though the prosecution did admit into evidence she happily posted on Instagram about how that gun that their son used in the shooting was a gift for him for Christmas her in the closing arguments her defense at attorney said I'm not trying to tell you that James crumble is not guilty of involuntary manslaughter I would imagine when we get to her uh his trial his attorney is going to do the same thing where he they lean heavily on to saying well Jennifer C
rumbley was responsible for these kinds of things I think her trial really is largely about parental responsibility and maybe gross negligent whereas his trial will likely be about gun safety and the responsibility of a parent and we are not expecting a verdict today the the jury will be back on Monday a lot to keep watching Trevor CH thank you both so much coming up more on our breaking news the US military launching retaliatory strikes in response to the deadly drone strike on American forces
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Iranian backed militants I'm Elizabeth schy in today's big story the US responding to that deadly drone strike on American forces I'll speak about the target so far with a retired fourstar army General who commanded American and Coalition troops in the Middle East and in our Spotlight the mother of the Oxford High School shooter in Michigan Jennifer Crumbley back on the stand closing arguments wrapping today are our panel weighs in on this unprecedented legal [Music] case but we begin with our
big story the US retaliating against Iranian backed militants for that deadly drone strike on American forces US military officials say that air strikes have now begun in Syria and Iraq us Central Command reporting American forces struck 85 targets using longrange bombers and 152 Precision Munitions president President Biden saying in a statement in part quote our response began today it will continue at times and places of our choosing the air strikes coming after three Army reservists were kil
led Sunday in a drone attack in Jordan earlier today President Biden and the first lady attending the solemn dignified transfer of those service members they are Sergeant Kennedy Landon Sanders Sergeant Briana Alexandria Moffett and Sergeant William Jerome Rivers joining me now is retired four-star Army General Joseph Al votel he's a dis distinguished fellow at the Middle East Institute and most recently served as head of us Central Command leading American and Coalition forces in the Middle Eas
t thank you so much general for being here I want to get your immediate reaction to these air strikes that we now know were launched tonight yeah thanks it's great to be with you Elizabeth so I think what we're watching here is uh you know is a pretty broad strike by us Central Command Pro in Syria probably against most of the facilities the architecture that is used by these militant groups and by the Iranian coups force uh to kind of facilitate their uh their attacks against against Americans
85 85 different targets is is a lot of targets uh to be struck it's important I think to have some patience in this uh the president and others have said that this is just the first part of a what will be a broader campaign so we'll have to see where this goes but it looks like this is a pretty good pretty good start start to trying to put as much pressure and destruction on this network uh as as we can in the initi initial opening Sals do you see these air strikes as an escalation we know that
this is part of an attempt from the Biden Administration to reach this balance between you sparking a wider War while also sending this message of deterrence to those Iranian backed groups well I'm sure many will view this as an escalation I I guess I could view it as as a respon I mean we we paid a very heavy price most Americans today watched the dignified transfer of our fallen soldiers coming home that's a that's an extraordinary price that we have paid so um this is going to be a a substant
ial strike and a substantial campaign to extract the cost on not only the militant groups but on Iran for this action it's very important I think throughout the throughout the process of this that we send an unambiguous message to Iran that we hold them responsible for this and that this is this is not going to be tolerated and they need to knock it off so I I think uh you know many will view it as an escalation but I think it's actually a very appropriate response and hopefully we'll be followe
d up with even even more appropriate responses in the coming hours and days what do you see as what the followup might be is it additional air strikes in Syria and Iraq on more targets how do you see this playing out in the next couple of days sure so you know what what will be happening now is as our military forces will be assessing the effectiveness of this first round of strikes and there may be some follow-up strikes on those targets if we haven't achieved the effects that we've had I think
it's also important to appreciate that uh that these militant groups and Iran and other other Bad actors on the ground will be will be talking we be communicating about this and of course all that information will be gathered and used to help uh help in the next round and the subsequent rounds of of targeting here um so we may you know we may be using that to uh to go after leaders and other facilitators uh to inflict more damage on this on this Iranian back Network that has perpetrated this at
tack against our soldiers General President Biden had said he reached this decision on military action in retaliation for the Drone strike that took those lives of those American soldiers several days ago what do you make of the timing and the decision to wait to do this night now well there could be a variety of things I think as as some some have reported weather has not been particularly great in the in the region right now and and we do want to be able to uh give our forces the maximum Advan
tage here and make sure they can see what the see what they're hitting that adds to precision and accuracy and and and in our assessment of this plus we want to be able to do this uh continuously so maybe what is with a period of bad weather we may now be into a period of more favorable weather whether that would that would uh that would be supporting this likewise this could be just uh letting the network settle out uh certainly we a lot of these targets are known to us we probably uh those are
probably already loaded up and ready to go but again the the the Iranians these militant groups responded in the wake of uh of this attack they knew they had crossed red line so there has been some disruption of that and we've had to uh we've had to assess what that is so there can be a variety of reasons uh with this to include you know communication to our partners in the region to let them know what's going on so I don't think a deliberate response to this Nest means means anything about the
quality of the response that uh that we are that we are providing I think we'll have to assess that in the days ahead General volel thanks so much for your Insight on this story tonight great to be with you let's bring the big story now to our panel joining us is ABC News National Security and defense analyst Mick mroy ABC News senior Pentagon reporter Louis Martinez ABC News senior White House correspondent Selena Wang and ABC News contributor and former senior Cia op operations officer darl b
locker Mick I'm gonna way ask you to weigh in on what the general just told us is this the appropriate response here that can send that message of deterrence but also not create that risk of a wider war that has been such a priority for the Biden Administration so Elizabeth if anybody would know it's General Hotel uh and I would agree this did uh send the message and I think it was geared toward really reducing the capabilities of these proxy forces uh which likely will not change their attitude
toward attacking US forces but if we can cut off the means in which they can do that which is this steady supply of advanced weapon systems coming from Iran like this type of drone that they Ed to kill our soldiers in Jordan so I think it was it was measured in the sense that they did want to avoid somewhat the Iranian casualties uh but they certainly did want to kill this uh network if you will of deadly weapons that it get in the hands of the proxy forces that Iran up until now thought uh the
y could they could use uh steadily without consequences hopefully now they understand that if they keep supplying weapons to Iran then the United States is going to hold them responsible and I believe in the future if they keep doing that that these retaliatory strikes uh could be more significant as it relates directly to Iran the message has not been fully received but the hope is that it now will be darl talk about the intelligence process these air strikes hit dozens of targets several diffe
rent locations how would the military have chosen those targets these targeting packages have probably been on the shelf and have been dusted off and looked at significantly since the events of 7 October and most certainly since the events that took our three servicemen uh last week so it's a combination of looking at Telemetry meaning the signature of the missiles and the weapons that are being fired uh human sources on the ground all of our liaison contacts I'm confident that uh on the Diploma
tic side we're hitting all of the different all of the different uh Regional partners and so intelligence is a huge part of this and the message has been sent and cutting off like General goel and Mick just said cutting off the means of these individuals is going to uh cut into their ability to strike us well and Louie walk us through a little bit what this response could look like in the coming days and how this round of air strikes has been different than what we've seen so far from the US in
response to the conflict in the Red Sea and this provocation from Irani back militant groups Lou I'll go to you on that one sorry about that um these AER strikes are very different Elizabeth because uh they are hitting multiple locations multiple times over the course of several days that is not what has been happening so far one of the things that we've seen so far is that we've had pin prick strikes uh targeting very precise locations affiliated with these militia groups but one of the things
that we're going to see now is that this is going to last for several days potentially other air strikes that could be the same scope as the ones we're seeing tonight 85 Targets in one round is a lot um so the question then becomes are we going to see others similar strikes over the coming days or are they going to be more more less more diminished but still carrying the same weight of the air strikes and in other words targeting those locations um that Daryl and then mck have been talking about
that are affiliated with those militia groups so this is remains to be seen exactly how this is going to carry out let's not forget we've been hearing from us officials and not just Iraq and Syria but possibly Yemen where the houthis have been striking at those ships and Comm commercial shipping lanes and Selena we know that this was a decision that the president thought about heavily it was a solemn day today we watched as he attended the dignified transfer of those three Fallen Soldiers What
can you tell us about how the president came to this decision from the US about this response and Elizabeth the president's attendance at that solemn dignified transfer really underscores the weight of the decision that he makes was not an easy decision for the president he had spent many days huddled with his National Security team weighing the options here we know that this Administration is laser focused on not escalating the situation but the death of American troops that crossed a red line
so we knew the president was going to have to respond differently and this is in a larger scale and scope as Lou was just describing than what the US has done before before the US responds did not stop the one more than 160 attacks from these Iranian backed groups so this had to send a clear message but there are still some fears within the US Administration as we had been hearing over the last few days that the president's response could still lead to an escalation he has been facing some press
ure from Republican lawmakers to hit directly at Iran but we've learned that the president has deep misgivings about that and that is not a scenario that we are expecting Mick Lou Selena and Daryl thank you all so much for your Insight on this coming up a first ofit kind case Jennifer Crumbley on trial for voluntary manslaughter her son already convicted on that school shooting that killed four people but will the Michigan mom serve jail time too our panel weighs in in the spotlight after the [M
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bout her son's upbringing the troubled life he in school and his alleged obsession with guns what ultimately led him then 15 years old to kill four students at his high school in 2021 he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after being convicted a first-degree premeditated murder let's bring back our panel Mike Muse is here now Barbara com stock Amanda renia and joining us is ABC News legal contributor and managing partner with the Cochran firm shaa Lloyd shaa I want you to pu
t this case and perspective for us in a way it's putting parents on notice and putting her on trial for contributing to stop her son and and take uh take stop those actions that he took what do you make of the cross-examination and how this might play out now I mean the bigger picture really is that the state is alleging that parents have a responsibility not to miss large warnings signs as they see it when it comes to a child who has access to a gun is exhibiting some sort of mental health beha
vior issues and that you can't just turn a blind eye now when we look towards the the cross-examination it was actually very methodical they went through every item that they felt showed was a red flag that she they alleged that she ignored that should have been something that she did something differently or that she should have taken a proactive step the state is alleging that she should have taken more action when faced with these warning signs and they just systematically went through each o
ne of what they believe are red signs red flags and brought it up to her and had her address it on the record well and this case has really captivated so many people's attention Barbara what do you make of how the prosecution framed her essentially condemning her as a failure as a mom well I think you know seeing that picture where you know he drew the gun itself that looks like the gun you know that she knew he had you know the blood and saying you know help me I mean it was written there the t
houghts won't stop help me what part of help me didn't she understand I think at that moment when she saw that knowing he had a gun that was a pretty easy basic red flag where she just should have stepped in and I think the fact that she then texted her husband saying emergency and the husband responded they knew what they were dealing with yet they didn't take action and I think their flight also shows their guilt and their understanding of the situation so it just is such a horrendous situatio
n and I think it is good that these kind of cases are going forward we have seen Jennifer try to kind of shift blame toward her husband she denied having any role and buying or storing that gun that her son used in the shooting what do you make of that argument Amanda instead trying to put it on her husband are both parents responsible is it one more than the other absolutely both parents are responsible I mean this is what we have to start taking much more seriously when we are near and we have
knowledge of someone with mental health issues a kid a partner a friend and you know they are equipped to harm others they actually have the tool to harm others that should be a red flag and no doubt both parents here were well aware of the risk they were well aware of what was going on with their son and I think this is a moment for all of us to take a look and say how can we as a community help people understand the red flags and do something about it well Mike weigh in on that do you feel li
ke we're putting parenting on trial in a case like this should there be more of this yes I do believe we are putting parenting on trial but not in a negative context Elizabeth I think that uh if parents are in the home where guns are there uh we have to make sure that we have used guns wisely responsibly and if there's children around make sure that there's an understanding of gun safety and in particular when there are red flags that can be documented of a child's mental health challenges that
they're experiencing an emotional distress I think it's incumbent upon the parent to make sure that either the gun is removed from the home or to make sure that the gun is locked up safely uh we seem to be in this area we don't want to lay any responsibility and blame on the parent but it's much more easier to lay blame on other things such as product uh such as technology at some point we have to hold parents responsible as well and even if Jennifer is not found guilty I think this puts other p
arents unnoticed to be more intentional uh with your children uh in school and at home an important message we will be watching closely to see how the jurors react with the meeting again on Monday Mike Barbara Amanda and Don thank you all so much we are going to talk about something happening on Sunday though in the meantime the Grammy Awards are just two days away and the stories and performances to watch as music's biggest stars take the stage that's coming up after the break in mcac one of th
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is nominated for album of the Year Swift could become the first artist in history to win the category four times Suza is up for the same award for her album SOS that features the chart topping single Kill Bill and she could become the first black woman to win album of the year since Lauren Hill 25 years ago let's go back to our panel Mike Barbara Amanda and Daryl Mike gotta go to you first on this one who you rooting for what do you expect to make history on Sunday night this Grammy is going to
be so exciting this is one of the few times I've been really excited for almost every single category for the Grammys and this is the night of anticipation because so many records could be broken at the same time and I have a personal interest in this Elizabeth I love Taylor I love siza but my nephew Sam du stands to win a Grammy if Taylor Wins album his writing collaboration so I'm rooting for Sam on that one I'm excited for Victoria Mona I think she's a strong shot to win Best New Artist and I
'm excited for the moment we're going to see Tracy Chapman and Luke Colmes on the stage singing their song of fast cars well Tracy song but then Luke did a rendition of it together because there been so much talk about that separately to see them on the stage at the same time singing the song that is going to be a big Grammy moment right so much of it is about the performan is as much as the awards Barbara what are you watching you excited about the the Luke Holmes Billy Joel who you watching oh
well yeah know a fast car I really love to see that too but also since uh Bono is one of the few people I've met I really you know seeing you too I think that's going to be an exciting performance but since it's also Taylor Swift's year it seems you know still rooting for her too Daryl gotta go to you I know you're a Swifty what do you say I am a jelly roll guy I love the new new the newcomer category um I did see Tracy Chapman in a 500 seat theater like the the year that fast cars was released
back in the late 80s so I'm excited about that and of course John Baptist he is the man so I'm looking forward to the Stephen Tyler Grammy party on Sunday and I'll be there a man of many talents John Baptist Amanda last call over to you yeah I gotta say I'm cheering generally for the woman women this year because I think we're seeing sort of cross-section of Barbie and here we are talking about people singing the Barbie song at this Grammys you know football is engaged here people are you know
talking about Taylor Swift at football games so I think this is a super interesting time at the Grammys and I think it's an opportunity to see women actually play a really important role on who wins and the messages they are sending out so I'm both excited about the music I'm excited about the message um so I'll be tuning in for sure the music and the message I mean we talk about Taylor Swift all the time yeah M final word if I could add Elizabeth if I add a little gov for you I know you're into
politics but Daryl just mentioned about jelly roll he's in the category for Best New Artist with Victoria M he's coming off of a strong win from the CMA with that speech that went viral so I think in terms of a campaign perspective uh that does put him in top contention because he's in front of the members for voting there's always a political ambition isn't there Mike View we will put it here you called it and that though guys is our last call at this half hour thanks so much Mike Barbara Aman
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