Tuesday, March 3

0:00Live from ABC News headquarters in New York City, this is Good Morning America. Good morning, America. We want to get right to the breaking news in the world with Iran. The rest of the region is getting pulled into the conflict. And overnight, there was an urgent warning from the State Department for all Americans in at least six countries to leave the Middle East now. The U.S. has now sent in more troops to the region as Secretary of State Rubio warned the Iran that, quote, the hardest hits are yet to come. And the next phase will be even more punishing. Oh, so we'll have the latest on how the next phase will play out as a U.S. death toll rises. We have team coverage this morning. Chief Foreign Correspondent Ian Panell starts us off. He's there in Tel Aviv for us. Good morning, Ian. Yeah, good morning, Robin. From a region reeling from a war that's already escalating. We're just hearing that the Allies have bombed a meeting taking place to elect a new Supreme Leader inside Iran, and it fears the war could last longer than predicted. Oh, oh, oh.

1:00Overnight explosions rocking Tehran and sight across the Middle East this morning, the Natanz nuclear facility damaged in a strike, but the UN nuclear watchdog saying there's no radiological consequence. It comes as the American death tolls rising. The Pentagon now confirming six troops killed in an Iranian strike on a tactical operation center in Kuwait. At least 18 more service members seriously wounded across the region. As the White House warns, the hardest hits are yet to come. The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now. This as the U.S. reveals even more American forces will be heading to the region. This rapid build up of forces demonstrated the joint forces ability to adapt and project power at the time and place of our nations choosing. And Trump even saying he's not ruling out U.S. forces on the ground and admitting it could be a prolonged conflict. Whatever the time is, it's okay, whatever it takes, we will always, and we have, right

2:03from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. In the first 48 hours of the operation, the U.S. carried out nearly 2,000 strikes on Iran across at least 50 locations. Delph bombers dropped 2,000-pound bombs on underground facilities, fighter jets destroyed, multiple Iranian Navy ships sunk, Iran's revolutionary guard headquarters leveled. The major focus, Iran's missile launchers and those deadly one-way attack drones which are now wreaking havoc across the Gulf. Tonight, Central Command releasing new video showing U.S. strikes on Iranian ballistic missile launchers. But analysts say Iran still has thousands of missiles in its arsenal. The dangers of the mission also coming into clear review. New video showing an American aviator on the ground in Kuwait having safely ejected

3:04from her F-15 jet, one of three shot down by friendly fire Monday. All six crew members safely ejecting as the aircraft spiraled to the ground. In Iran, the death toll now at least 780, according to the Iranian red crescent, huge search and rescue efforts are underway across the country. After U.S.'s rally strikes, targeted 130 cities overnight, the IDF announcing their expanding operations, opening a second front in Lebanon, deploying troops to the southern part of the country and striking Iranian proxy Hezbollah. ABC's Matt Rivers is in Beirut. So you can hear that's the latest Israeli air strike and another. You can see the smoke coming there behind me. That's one of dozens of air strikes that the Israeli Air Force has been carrying out. Not only here in Beirut against his bullet targets, but across this entire country and what has really become a second front in this ongoing war.

4:06As the war spreads throughout the Middle East, it appears all sides are preparing for a long haul. The head of Iran's National Security Council, writing on X, will fiercely defend ourselves and our 6,000 years old civilisation, regardless of the costs, and will make the enemy sorry for their miscalculation. A mid-questions about how long this war is going to last. President Trump posting overnight that U.S. stockpiles of munitions have never been better while admitting that reserves of higher grade munitions isn't where he'd want it to be. But interestingly, he also wrote that wars can be fought, quotes, forever, and very successfully using just these supplies. Remember, this is a president who said he'd end forever wars. Michael. We won't forget that, Ian. Thank you for that. The State Department is now urging Americans to leave the region of Iran, escalate their attack. Chief International correspondent Jane Longman is in Northern Iraq and James. The options are very limited for Americans to leave right now. Yeah, absolutely, Michael. Iran is unleashing hell on this region with more American targets in the firing line by

5:11the hour. Israel and the U.S. are trying to take out Iranian military capabilities and yet still drones and missiles are raining down. And now two, U.S. embassies in the Gulf have been forced to close. chaos across the Middle East this morning as more of this region is pulled into war. The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia struck by two Iranian drones hitting overnight. No injuries reported, but U.S. officials warned of an ongoing threat with at least eight other drones intercepted in surrounding cities and an urgent warning this morning from the State Department telling all Americans in the Middle East from Egypt to Saudi Arabia and Israel to depart now via commercial transportation, issuing evacuation orders for non-emergency personnel and family members in at least six countries. But getting out is very hard. The U.S. Ambassador to Israel warning Americans there that their options to leave are very limited and there are few good options, suggesting they shuttle a bus to Egypt in order to get

6:12a flight back to the U.S. More than 70 drones and missiles soaring across Iraq and in Qatar, multiple missiles seem being intercepted in the skies above Doha. At least 11 countries, including the European nation of Cyprus, now caught in the crossfire. In Dubai, where missiles hit a luxury hotel and rocked the world's largest airport, filling a terminal with smoke, flights are now starting to resume. The Iranians are mimicking what the Russians are trying to do to Ukraine and that is to use these drones to create terror. They're hitting civilian targets, hotels, airports, places where civilians are that have nothing to do with any military objectives. I'm anxious, I'm scared, and I'm desperate to get home. Americans like Shakina Lee from Chicago who is there celebrating her boyfriend's birthday are still struggling to get out. We're not getting any support from our airline. We've been trying to get in contact with them, but due to the volume of the situation, they're not able to feel calls. So none of our questions are getting answered. She says they had to stay overnight in the parking garage of her hotel.

7:15The parking garage was packed with families from all over the world, just desperate to know what's going on. And take a look at this flight radar shows the disruption all across the region. You can see how complicated it's getting for people stuck here to get home. Now an Iranian tactic with all these strikes is to cause friction with important US allies and we're already seeing Trump falling out with the UK Prime Minister who said he won't carry out regime change from the skies. George. Okay, James, thanks. We're General Doug Lut, who is Ambassador NATO and a White House adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan for both Republican and Democratic presidents. General, thank you for joining us. This morning we've seen both the President and the Secretary of State warn that bigger strikes are coming. What are the next steps like you to look like? Well, I think what they were referring to, George, is this calculus, which you might call the military math of this conflict. And on both sides, you have target sets. So what you want to find and what you want to hit, you have the ability to hit those targets. So offensive systems, and then you have on the other side of the equation defensive systems.

8:16And I think when the US signals that it's going to up the ante, it intends to send additional strike systems and additional, in particular, additional defensive systems, because we've seen that the Iranians retain an ability to hit relatively soft targets like the embassies that you've reported. One of the big questions going forward is who's going to run on munitions and defenses first? Right. I mean, this is very much a contest of attrition between the ability to attack and the ability to defend. Right now, the offensive side of that equation, on both sides, both our ability to strike Iran and Iran's ability to strike back, has dominated this equation. We'll see over time whether that offensive dominance persists. Well, finally, the President is notably not ruled out putting American boots on the ground. Will they be necessary? Well, this has to do with the sticky problem, the unanswered question of the connection between the air campaign and a political end state.

9:19What we've learned in the past is that in order to actually control the situation sufficiently to determine a political end has required presence on the ground. And if we rule that out, then we're in a very uncertain period of trying to dictate results from the air alone. General Doug Lut, thanks very much, Robin. And George, the Trump administration, as we know, has been offering various justifications for the campaign against Iran. Chief White House correspondent Mayor Bruce is tracking what the President and others in his administration have been saying about the conflict. Good morning to you, Mary. Good morning, Robin. Well, President Trump is adamant that the U.S. will quote easily prevail in this war, but his administration is sending mixed messages about why the U.S. decided to launch this campaign and what comes next. The Secretary of State, now suggesting that Israel forced the U.S.'s hand. This morning, a new explanation from the White House about why the U.S. started a war with Iran. The Secretary of State, saying the U.S. attacks were preemptive that Israel was going

10:19to strike Iran with or without the U.S. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties. The President has insisted Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe and our bases both local and overseas and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America. But American intelligence agencies say Iran would not have had missiles capable of reaching the U.S. for another nine years. The President predicts the U.S. will quote easily prevail in this war and is dismissing concerns that he will tire of this fight if it drags on beyond the four to five weeks that he's projected. Somebody said today they said, oh, well, President wants to do it really quickly after that he'll get bored. I don't get bored. Moments later, though, Trump distracted by the White House décor. I picked those drapes in my first term.

11:21I always like gold. The President isn't ruling out sending in U.S. troops if necessary, telling the New York Post, I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground. Like every President says, there will be no boots on the ground. I don't say it. As for the future of Iran, the administration with more mixed messages. The President has been urging the Iranian people to overthrow the government. But at the Pentagon, Secretary Hague Seth Adamant, regime change was not the U.S. objective. This is not a so-called regime change war. But the regime sure did change. And the world is better off for it. Some of Trump's long-time supporters in the MAGA movement raising serious concerns. It's pretty clear that we're not going to gain anything more. And how do we know that? Because no one has explained what we're there to gain. On Capitol Hill, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioning the President's justification for starting this war now. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States,

12:25then we are in uncharted territory. Now, the administration is set to brief the full Congress later today. Overnight, the President sent formal notification of these strikes to the Hill, but Democrats are demanding that this war be put to a vote. And the House is expected to take up a war power's resolution later this week. That would block any further U.S. military action in Iran without congressional approval. But, George, that is unlikely to become law. Okay, Mary Bruce, thanks very much. The primary season for the midterm election kicks off this morning in the shadow of the war. Chief Washington correspondent John Carter said it would look at some of the key contests in John Texas front and center. Absolutely. Look, the midterms are here. Primaries today. We have Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas. But Texas is the big one. Because Democrats believe this is the year they can win in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator in nearly four decades. The Democratic Senate primary fits Jasmine Crockett against state legislature, so legislator in aspiring Presbyterian minister James Talleriko. I was just in Texas, George, and I can tell you that both of these candidates have been

13:29electrifying Democrats, but they have starkly different visions of what the Democratic party should be doing. With Jasmine Crockett, you have somebody who is known for her aggressive takedowns of Trump's cabinet secretaries. She says the goal is not to win over Republicans, but to energize Democrats as a fighter going all out in resistance to everything Donald Trump. James Talleriko, on the other hand, he hardly mentions Trump at all on the campaign trail. He is a progressive, but he is aggressively trying to win over independence and Republicans with a rejection of what he calls the politics of division. He's been attracting huge crowds, and not just in Democratic cities, but also in Republican parts of the state. George, in his speeches, you will hear him quote the Bible, but you will also hear him quote bad money. Are there either one of those candidates, can we really depend on what happens in this Republican primary? Yeah, and I got to tell you, on the Republican side, we are witnessing one of the nastiest Senate primaries that I have ever seen. John Corning is attempting to win a fifth term in the Senate, and Corning and his allies

14:33have spent approximately $70 million. This is presidential primary level spending, almost all of it directed against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who Corning is calling a cheat, a liar, and a fraud in warning that a few wins Republicans will lose in Texas. We're watching it today, John. Thanks very much. And coming up, the video released from Bill and Hillary Clinton's depositions in the House's Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we're going to tell you what we're learning about their testimony. Also a set head, Sam, have the air scare. Michael, it's a United Airlines flight cross country making an emergency landing because of a smoking engine. Now, that forces passengers to evacuate. We will hear from some of those passengers this morning. That was really a scary moment, Sam, okay? And well, you have the latest on the search for Nancy Guthrie. Yeah, good morning, Robyn Savannah Guthrie and her family making their first visit to the tribute area set up outside her mom's house. They're sharing a new message that and other headlines, new at 730. All right. Our thanks to you, Ellen. Let's say good morning to Ginger. Morning, Robyn. Light snow moved through the nation's capital yesterday this morning. It's a mix in Philadelphia, and it's moving through that pink remember is that wintery

15:35mix. So we'll be seeing that through the later morning hours into New York. And then it will transition to all rain. Boston starts the snow and by later this evening, it transitions to rain. So if you want accumulating snow, you're going to have to go away from the coast, port Smith up to Conway, New Hampshire, perhaps Portland, Maine, back to Western Massachusetts. We'll be right back on this Tuesday morning. Stay right there. When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team, not a maze of paperwork from a third party. Every day, America's hospitals and health systems show up for you, navigating healthcare and fuel overwhelming. But you can count on real doctors, real nurses, real people, providing quality around the clock care when you need it most. They're in your corner. In communities across America, your neighbors, your lifelines, right beside you holding your hand and helping find answers. That's what putting patients first actually means. Learn more at strengthinhealthcare.org, brought to you by the coalition to strengthen America's healthcare. When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team, not a maze of paperwork from a third party. Every day, America's hospitals and health systems show up for you, navigating healthcare

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17:44killed in Sunday's rampage, where 21-year-old Savita Sean and 19-year-old Ryder Harrington, multiple others, were injured in the shooting, which police are investigating as a possible act of terrorism. And Savannah Guthrie and her family made their first visit to the tribute area set up to their mom, Nancy Guthrie, outside of her house yesterday. Nancy Guthrie has now been missing for over a month. The Today Show host followed up the visit with an Instagram post, talking, asking people to keep praying and hoping. And overnight, a small plane making an emergency landing on ice on the Hudson River. It was a single-engine plane hitting the river near Newberg, about 50 miles north of New York City. Both passengers on board were able to escape and swim to shore. New York Governor Kathy Hockle, saying the passengers sustained only minor injuries. And an incredible show in the skies this morning, a blood moon total lunar eclipse. That's when the earth moves directly between the sun and the moon. That gives the moon a deep red look.

18:46Hopefully you caught it because there won't be another total lunar eclipse until New Year's Eve of 28-29. And I'm sorry that I didn't advertise this yesterday. So we all could have looked out for that show to do. It's on me, but there you go. It's on GMA this morning. Thank you. We're going to turn now to the videos of last week's depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the House's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Chief Investigator, of course. My name is Eric Torsky here with the details. Good morning, Aaron. Good morning to you, George. This was the first time a former president was compelled to testify before Congress. Bill and Hillary Clinton wanted public depositions. The committee kept them private, but we can now see President Clinton say he saw nothing to make him think Jeffrey Epstein was a sex trafficker. This morning, the extraordinary image of former president Bill Clinton deposed. I did take those blunt trips with him, and you have a right to ask those questions. Answering questions about his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Clinton was friendly in the early 2000s before Epstein was charged with sex crimes. There's nothing that I saw when I was around him that made me realize he was trafficking

19:51women. Clinton, who was accused of no wrongdoing, was also questioned about his own conduct. Did you ever have any sexual contact with young women or girls in the presence of Epstein or Maxwell? No. The former president was asked about this photo from the Epstein files, showing him at a pool with Epstein's co-conspirator, Galen Maxwell, and an unknown woman. Clinton recalled a conversation with President Trump in the early 2000s. When he said Trump, told him how his relationship with Epstein fell apart. He said, you know, we had some great times together over the years, but we fell out all because of a real estate deal, and he said, I'm sorry, that's all. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and has described his falling out with Epstein differently, accusing Epstein of stealing employees from Mar-a-Lago. From the beginning of her deposition, Hillary Clinton repeatedly told lawmakers she never

20:53interacted with Epstein or knew about his crimes. You have compelled me to testify fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation in order to distract from President Trump's actions and to cover them up. And then Clinton learned Congresswoman Lauren Bobert leaked a photo of the closed-door deposition. I've done this. If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. This is just typical behavior. You will go off director. Oh, for heaven's sake. So I would like to understand how that permissible, it doesn't matter. We all are abiding by the same rules. I will take that down. Yeah, well. I would like to take a break at this moment. I'd like to have auditions for now. Secretary Clinton, exasperated by the committee's behavior, at least, Representative Bobert's. One person the committee has not called to testify about his relationship with Epstein is President Trump. Another is Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, who was photographed on Epstein's private island. Michael?

21:54Maybe we'll get to that one day. All right, Aaron. Thank you. I'm going to turn now to the passenger plane, forced to make an emergency landing, returning to LAX because of the possible engine fire. This morning, we're here from some of the passengers and Sam, you have the story. Just here you say it right now. I'm thinking about the panic Michael, for more than 200 people on board that United Flight. They had to use emergency slides and those air stairs to get off that plane fast. All while smoke was indeed pouring from an engine. This morning, dramatic video capturing the moment, hundreds are forced to evacuate a smoke-filled, Newark, New Jersey bound United Flight in Los Angeles. A few minutes off to take off, there was sort of this, very, very bumpy feeling when one of the engines was on fire on the left hand side. The flight, and it was, you know, panicking, saying, oh my god, oh my god, I've never seen this before. This is really bad. The pilot of the New Jersey bound plane, telling air traffic control, they received warnings

22:55of a fire in the left engine and they needed to evacuate. We're getting fired, so we're going to evacuate tonight. The plane diverts back to LAX for an emergency landing. I was in the emergency exit row and learned the hard way, you know, it ain't just about passengers told to leave everything behind, using the inflatable slides to escape to the taxiway below. Running away from the plane to safety, smoke, scene, billowing from the engine, and the emergency prompting a temporary ground stop at LAX. United Airlines saying flight 2127 safely returned to Los Angeles to address a possible engine fire, and that no one on board was seriously injured. You know, they always ask you if you're prepared to open that emergency door, but are you? I mean, they had to, the United says there were no injuries except amazingly for a couple of cuts. No one had to be taken to the hospital, everything went well.

23:57Pay attention when they come up, just don't dismiss it. That's right. That's right. All good advice there. Thank you, gentlemen. Coming up next, Ginger literally took the plunge to show us how to stay safe on the ice. Yes, I grew up on Lake, so I thought I knew a lot, but I learned so much and I hope you will too. I've lost too many lives this winter to people falling through the ice, and as the weather gets warmer, ice is thinning. You're going to see what happened when I went through on purpose, and how to survive if it happens to you. Stay with us. Mmm. Crazy. Back now in GMA, and we've seen many incidents of people falling through ice this winter, sometimes with catastrophic results. Now as temperatures get warmer, the danger may grow as ice starts to melt, and Ginger has a must-see demonstration of what to do if it happens. Yes, and we were just saying that, you know, part of this country had the coldest winter in 30 years. Yeah. So places that don't ice over very often did, and you have a whole generation of people that are kind of learning what to do on ice. It may look solid and safe enough to walk on, but underneath that surface, it could be much thinner than you know. So I went to a lake in Indiana with a team of rescue divers so that I could show you what

25:01you need to know to stay safe. From falling through it, to rescuing someone in it. Icey water under frozen rivers and lakes can be deadly. So, we came here to Logan Sport in Indiana and this huge frozen quarry. But how can you tell how thick the ice is? And what if I were to fall in? How do you survive? A lot of times people don't realize how thick or how thin the ice is. You can get trapped under the, or could injure yourself hitting your head on the way down. One of the most obvious signs that it might not be safe is if some of the ice is already visibly thought. Generally, four inches is the minimum you want to walk or skate on ice. So, you could take a four inch drill bit, go ahead and go down. And if it's still ice all the way down and you don't hit water, you're in good shape. Test it again 100 feet and another 100 feet. You want to make sure because ice can be different at different places in the lake. Experts say if you don't know, don't go.

26:05The ice we're standing on now is about eight inches thick. So if we want to get in, we're going to need to cut. Queue the rescue divers of the Indiana State Police. And since this is only a simulation, they cut out a clean triangle shape. That way I don't get cut by the jagged edges of the ice when I eventually take the plunge. I'm also attached with a safety line. So if I go under, they can pull me back up. But before I go in, we're going to show you how to get someone else out. Zach, one of our rescue divers, he's going to play the victim. The first thing to do is have someone call 911. Then it's all about keeping yourself safe first. They say, preach, reach, throw, row, and go. Preach or tell the victim how to self-rescue. Kick your legs, get horizontal, and pull yourself along the ice. If you're safely close enough, reach the victim with something like a hockey stick, ladder, or almost everybody's got a jacket on. So you can get that as close to the victim as possible and give them a little leverage

27:05to get out. If you can't reach the person that fell in, find something to throw, like a rope or extension cord. Finally, row and go. If you find a canoe laying around, scoot that along the ice, so that way if the ice breaks, you're still safe and in a boat. Now it was my turn, with an ambulance standing by, rescue divers on the surface, and underwater. So here we go. I'm walking along and you just step in. Yes, absolutely a shock, and let me go ahead and come over to you if I can because I feel like my legs already can't move, but that might just be my brain telling me that. This is the moment most people panic, which can lead to tiring yourself out to the point where you can no longer stay above the water. To help you stay calm, remember that you have time. Use the 110-1 rule. Start yourself one minute to get control of your breathing and get used to the water.

28:06You'll have a full 10 minutes of meaningful movement before you lose feeling in your arms and legs, and then one hour before hypothermia sets in. Oh my goodness, it feels like bones breaking in this water. So after that minute, you want to utilize your function still. You have the ability. You don't want to try to push up leg out of a pool because it might break again. Instead, you want to get your chest as far out as you can. Arms out far and start kicking, kicking like you're swimming, and then pull yourself along the surface. So you can almost burst yourself like a seal or a whale onto the ice and then crawl. Or if your arms and legs are numb from the cold, you can even roll to safety. I think I need to warm up. Wow. Another really important tip though, if you fall through the ice, turn back in the direction you came from because just a step or two earlier, that ice did hold your weight, so that would be the strongest place. And I can't stress it enough if you don't know, don't go. And please tell your kids, because again, we're kind of working with generations of folks

29:10that maybe haven't run into this ice, and it's important to remember. That is really life saving right there, if you just shared. It's so great. It's so great. But you do have more time, and I think that's the thing. 10-1. 10-1. All right, Jen. Thank you. You got it. You got to play the day, Larry? Yeah, sure do, guys. So coming up, we will tell you about an inseparable pair, they're on an important mission, and it is worldwide life day, there's your clue. Stay with us on GMA. 30 years ago, Blinds.com broke the mold and made custom window treatments easy for everyone. Over 25 million windows later, we're celebrating by giving our customers up to 50% off sight wide during our anniversary sale. Whether you DIY it or want a pro to handle everything from measure to install, Blinds.com has you covered. Shop online, access real design professionals, and get free samples. Thank you for 30 amazing years. Shop the anniversary sale, now through March 11th, and get up to 50% off sight wide at Blinds.com. From 30 for 30 podcasts.

30:17Brian Patta, senior defensive lineman from Miami, gunned down. The key to this case, it's blinded. Four years. It's right there. A hour before he died, he was on the phone arguing what's about it. This might be a hit. You want the truth. They just want a conviction. We have to kill our monsters. Murder at the U, listen now. It is play of the day time, and there you got that force. Yes, I do, everybody. So it is one of my favorite days of the year, World Wildlife Day, in an honor of all the creatures of the world. We've chosen a special little lady and her human mom to honor, meet Alexis and Beau, the beaver. Alexis first took in Beau two years ago at our Animal Rehab Facility, after a flash flood, separated little Beau from her family. Alexis posted about Beau's journey regularly, creating quite a following, and making Beau a certified educational ambassador. The pair traveled together to educate young people and wide beavers are so important to the environment. They are inseparable. In fact, guys, Beau even served there as ring bearer at Alexis's wedding, hearing the

31:22rings on her flat tail. Okay. Good job, Beau. Their story caught our company's attention, and Alexis was invited to attend the World Premiere Pixar's new movie, Hoppers. Okay. We need to venture all about beavers. Alexis's review? She says it gives beavers all of the positive attention they so deserve, and that is play of the day. That's right. That's right. You can't make that up. Nope. It's a beautiful day. We'll be back. Great to have Joan London back on GMA this morning. So many great stories from her life and time here. You'll find it in a new memoir, and she's going to share some of those with us. Coming up. We're looking forward to that. Also, Dr. Norel is here with new studies on teens and sleep, and what parents can do to help them get the rest they need. But first, to look at the top stories, breaking at age, starting with the war and with Iran, overnight, an urgent warning from the State Department for all Americans that at least six countries in the Middle East to depart now.

32:23Let's go back to Chief Foreign Corresponder Ian Pano and Tel Aviv. Good morning, Ian. Yeah. Hi, again, Michael. It's day four of this war and strikes at escalating throughout this region, here in Israel, throughout the Gulf, even in Cyprus, and of course, inside Iran. We're now hearing that the Allies, Israel and the US, we're not sure which planes were involved, bombed meetings that were taking place inside Iran to elect a new Supreme Leader. This is a conflict that was going to last days. Now it's going to be weeks. Overnight, explosions rocking Tehran and sight across the Middle East. It comes as the American death tolls rising. The Pentagon now confirming six troops killed in an Iranian strike on a tactical operation center in Kuwait. At least 18 more service members seriously wounded across the region. As the White House warns, the hardest hits are yet to come. The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now.

33:24President Trump even saying he's not ruling out U.S. forces on the ground. Overnight Central Command releasing new video showing U.S. strikes on Iranian ballistic missile launchers. But analysts say Iran still has thousands of missiles in its arsenal. The IDF announcing their expanding operations, opening a second front in Lebanon, deploying troops to the southern part of the country and striking Iranian proxy Hezbollah. ABC's Matt Rivers is in Beirut. So you can hear that's the latest Israeli air strike and another. You can see the smoke coming there behind me. That's one of dozens of air strikes that the Israeli Air Force has been carrying out. Not only here in Beirut against Hezbollah targets, but across this entire country and what has really become a second front in this ongoing war. The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia struck by two Iranian drones. No injuries reported, but U.S. officials warning of an ongoing threat with at least eight other drones intercepted in surrounding cities overnight. An urgent warning from the State Department, telling all Americans in the Middle East from

34:28Egypt to Saudi Arabia and Israel to depart now via commercial transportation, issuing evacuation orders for non-emergency personnel and family members in at least six countries. At least 11 countries, including the European nation's Cyprus, now caught in the crossfire. Well, Michael, we've had another post from President Trump this morning saying, Iran's air defenses, its air force, its navy and its leadership is gone, adding they want to talk too late, exclamation mark. Well, in actual fact, the Iranians made it very clear, only yesterday Ali Larinjani used a senior figure inside the regime posting on X that there will be no negotiations with the United States. Michael. Yeah, somehow these messages get all mixed up there. Ian, thank you. And let's bring in Elizabeth Suldi with the economic impact of the war and Elizabeth gas prices are already on the rise following the strikes in Iran. Yeah, good morning, Michael. The war is having an immediate impact on the prices we pay starting at the gas pump. According to gas buddy, the national average is up 13 cents just in the last 24 hours,

35:34exceeding $3 a gallon, gas prices are now higher than they were one year ago. Stock futures also tumbling, oil spiking again this morning. After the commander of Iran's revolutionary guard said that the straight-up hormones, that critical passage for about one-fifth of all of the world's oil is closed, and any ship that tries to pass through would be, quote, set on fire. So the longer that vital shipping route is at a standstill, the bigger the impact on inflation and the broader economy keep in mind, when companies have to pay more for fuel, those higher costs can get passed down to consumers, analysts I've been talking to say one of the first places where we could see that happen, it's with higher airfares, Robin. And we will see that happen. All right, Elizabeth, thank you. We're going to turn now to the hot air balloon rescue, more than 900 feet in the air. This morning we're going to hear from the firefighters who say to people who were trapped, we can't wait to hear the story. Well, look at that video, Robin, because we see crazy video, but this is wild. All right, imagine this, you're in a hot air balloon. It's really windy, and that how our balloon crashes into a cell phone tower, and you're

36:37left swinging there in the basket, partially outside the basket. You know you'll get to the ground, but you're not sure how, and if you're going to survive it. Firefighters say this frightening scene is the Super Bowl of rope rescue. This basket is tenuously hanging on the tower by a thread. There was 10 and 20 mile an hour of steady wind up there, gust it up to 24. This massive hot air balloon in Texas, colliding with a cell phone tower, the balloon canopy wrapping around the tower, two passengers inside holding on for dear life, rescuers, lieutenant Steven Winshel, and firefighter Cliff Patrick racing to the scene. I grabbed a little bit of gear, got the basics of the plan, and started climbing, because it'd be new yet, a long ways to go. The team quickly climbing the narrow ladder of the tower, over 900 feet, reaching two people dangling dangerously in the air. One of the survivors was standing in the basket. One of the survivors was sitting in the basket. After over an hour of climbing, the team makes contact, and starts the rescue process.

37:41We secured the basket to the tower with ropes, but they physically had to climb out of that basket, at over 900 feet in the air. Drone footage capturing the heart-stopping moment. One of the survivors gets out, another 30 minutes or so later, and they are all safely back on the ground. Everyone showed up, and everyone brought their A-game to it, and the training paid off. So it was a very rewarding experience to be able to be a part of that. You're all sweating? You're all sweating? You're all sweating? You're all sweating? You're all sweating? You're all sweating? No, I don't think so. There you go. You're a good boy. It is amazing that I truly, truly, my palm's sweaty. Everybody's OK. But I want to tell you something that was heard on that 1-hour 900-foot climb. One of the officers saying he doesn't like heights. What? But he pushed on any way to make sure that everybody is fine. Great. Thank you Sam. We got a GMM A Health Alert and asked about kids in sleep, three new studies, suggest the teens are not gonna sleep they need, and screen time isn't the only reason.

38:43Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Turner, rule is here to break it all down. Tell us what these studies showed. Well, George, we know how important sleep is for adults, even more important for kids. So this first study was a survey of 120,000 high schoolers over a period of 15 years, 2007 to 2023, asking them on average how much sleep do they get per school night. And they found that 77% of them reported that they're getting an insufficient amount of sleep, meaning less than the recommended 8 to 10 hours in 2023. That was up from about 69% back in 2007. This increasing trend was primarily driven by kids who reported getting less than five hours of sleep per night. That number increased to about almost a quarter, 25% of kids in 2023. This trend was seen across all demographics, but most prevalent in black teenagers. And the researchers said that it really wasn't just due to sedentary behavior or screen time or other kind of risky behaviors, but there's some other societal environmental influences really pushing the insufficient sleep problem forward. Now the second study looked at screens and sleep.

39:46So it looked at about 4,000 individuals ages 3 to 25 in terms of how much overall screen time they used and how it affected their sleep. They found that overall screen time was associated with pushing the bedtime later, so a later bedtime, but did not seem to be associated with sleep quality, duration, or efficiency. The only caveat being if kids use screens after they went to bed or in the middle of the night when they woke up, then there was an effect on quality. Now they say here that the finding support, what they call the sleep displacement hypothesis, which means that the more you're using screens, the more of course you're pushing out other important things like bedtime, but they argue that there should not be a blanket, no screen time before bed policy, that we should really be tailoring this to kids that some kids may be using it to kind of displace negative emotions, get their mind off of ruminating. I think other people, my family included, would argue that there are better ways to displace negative emotions other than screens, music, meditation, family time, all of that. So what can parents do?

40:46So it's hard for parents. I have a 13-year-old. We battle this every single night with her. You know, when she says, I can't fall asleep, I can't fall asleep. And there is biology there that says it's harder when kids enter those teen years to get to bed on time. Certainly about 15% of teenagers based on a recent CDC study are saying that they are tired most days of the week. So parents can make sure screens are out of rooms, try to get the kids to turn the screens off before bedtime, make sure they're exercising, getting into sunlight during the day, and try to keep a consistent bedtime week and weekend. So we actually wake our child up on the weekend so she doesn't sleep till 11 o'clock. I'm sure she will. She's not right. That is what she's talking about. Hey, Dr. Rulan, thank you as always for sharing as you do. Coming up our GMA Morning Menu, more of my conversation with Christina Applegate on her favorite role, and the one person she says she's living for every day. Also ahead, Deal's and Steals, Tory Johnson's product, starting under $5, all from women run small businesses. And Christian Bell and Jesse Buckley

41:47are here to tell us about their new film, The Bride, and Lauren Sen, with her friend Joan. Yes, you guys know, we're talking GMA Royalty in the house. Joan London is right here. We are so happy to talk about her brand new memoir. Why she says that she needed to write it right now. And what was it like raising her kids right here on the set? I wish I remember that. I hold every baby back. I think so. I think so. Uncle Sam. You have to sign the wall. We'll have water there. And we will have water with Joan coming up on Good Morning America. We'll be right back. Excellent job, Joan. All right. America leads the world in medicine development. It matters. We get new medicines first, nearly three years faster. Five million Americans go to work because we make medicines here at home. And not relying on other countries keeps us safe. But China is racing to overtake us. Will we let them? Or will we choose to stay ahead?

42:49When America leads, America cures. Let's tell Washington to keep us in the lead. Learn how at AmericaCures.com. Paid for by Farma. Rinse knows that greatness takes time. But so does laundry. So rinse will take your laundry and hand-deliver it to your door expertly cleaned. And you can take the time pursuing your passions. Time one spent sorting and waiting, folding and queuing, now spent challenging and innovating and pushing your way to greatness. So pick up the Irish flute or those calligraphy pens or that daunting beef Wellington recipe card and leave the laundry to us. Rinse, it's time to be great. Now with our GMA cover story and more of my conversation with Christina Applegate, who is sharing things she has never talked about before. It's all in her new memoir, you with the sad eye. She tells me about why she had a hard time enjoying her success and is very honest. Very honest about the reality of living with MS. Despite her accolades and achievements,

43:50Christina has felt shame when speaking about it. Detailing that feelings about it, detailing that feeling in her new memoir, you with the sad eyes. The shame is like a virus, hooking onto my low self-esteem and leaving me struggling to gain pleasure in my work. You see my sad eyes? Now maybe you're starting to get wide. With all the success that has come your way, all these roles that have come your way, married with children, dead to me is my personal favorite. I'm going to step back and go. Thank you for doing that because you wrote about how you wanted to remain humble. You didn't want to be that person. I even know it was humble. It was almost like escaping like my own feeling of my own success or taking that in and being proud of myself for so many years. But no, dead to me.

44:52Is that your favorite role? Yeah, when I lost it. I was just honest. It was so honest. I'm so beautifully written and so beautifully directed. And like it was all women. It was during the filming of Dead to Me, Christina learned she'd been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, MS, a degenerative autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, which we spoke about two years ago. My symptoms had started in the early part of 2021 and it was like literally just tingling on my toes. And by the time we started shooting in the summer of that same year, I was being brought to set in a wheelchair. I remember asking you, were you still grieving? And you're like, don't put a time stamp on it. Where are you now with the grieving process of MS? Still sucks, Robin. It really does. And anyone that tells you different, they're not telling the truth. I'm sorry. I have so many friends who have MS

45:53and we talk to each other constantly. And I don't have one that says, I'm great. There is no great. There's a better day and a less day. This is a lifelong disease with no cure. Period. Where am I at with acceptance? Not at all. I hate it. But you know, I wake up every day and go, I'm Sadie's mama. And that to me is why I'm still here. It's her daughter Sadie, who is the love and light of her life, while also finding comfort in reality TV. I keep the TV on 24 hours a day, because without it, the quiet is so loud in my head I can't bear it. You settle the scale of one to ten with your pain, you're constantly at an eight.

46:53Yeah. The bravo makes me at a one. But I'm not freaking bravo and I'm like, thank you, Andy Cohen. You have changed my life. Although she says she now spends most of her time in her California king size bed due to her daily pain, she's worked to create community and help raise awareness of the reality of living with MS, hosting a podcast called Messy, alongside Jamie Lynn Sigler. Do you still want to act? Man, I'd love to. Yeah. As long as I didn't have to get up really early and no one touches my face over my hair. Other than that, you're good. I'm so good. What do you want for Sadie? What do you want for her? Joy. Like, visceral joy.

47:55Well, thank you for bringing joy into our lives. And for five decades, she's done that. She has brought joy into her lives. But I got to tell you, she said, Robin, don't go on there and say, I'm a warrior, I'm a fighter. Keep it real. She kept it real. She kept it real. And she wanted it to be real because a lot of times people don't want to hear that. And in 2008, when she came on, when she had breast cancer, and she was taking that little warrior stance, she wrote about this at her book. She collapsed after it because she knew she wasn't being true. She wasn't being authentic. This is the authentic Christina. It's so helpful for us to hear that, thinking about her. I love her. Yeah, we just root for her. And just being able to tell the truth, right? And she does in her memoir, and it is out now. And you can see more of my interview with her tonight. On nightline. That was really great. Thank you so much. Let's go to ginger now. Can't wait to read that. Thank you, Robin. All right, let's go ahead and start with what's happening. Severe weather wise, it's spring. So, hey, it's going to erupt. Dallas is going to be in that severe storm threat, both Wednesday and Friday.

48:56So Dallas Fort Worth on Wednesday through southeastern Oklahoma into the Ozarks and Northwest Arkansas. That's the risk area. And then on Thursday, it switches to western Oklahoma into the Panhandle of Texas. That includes Midland and Abilene. And on Friday, it's even bigger area. From Iowa down to Dallas again. All right, it's time now for deals and steals. And Tori is back with another day of fabulous products. All right, now get this. This morning, they're all from women run small businesses for women's history months. So buy it all up. Exactly. Starting with Ed Too Home, this is a way to add little simple luxuries to elevate the everyday. So obviously, we've got these beautiful bloom vases. I love this three and one. Those cutting boards are fabulous. This three and one's great because you get three different bases so you can create a variety of lots. These boards are incredible. You can prep on this side, serve on this side, or chop on this side, serve on this side. So much variety and this assortment, it adds just that little oomph to every day. Yeah, very good. All 50% off starts just at $10.

49:58Okay, we run out of bread again. This is Go Nana's. And they have really cracked the code. And no, he's not getting fed. He can pick himself. They have cracked the code on how to use a mix to get that homemade flavor with better for you ingredients. So three ripe bananas in every bite. He gives it the sign of approval. We've got chocolate chips, cinnamon roll, their brand new collab with little bites for a little nostalgia with that blueberry muffin. This is just deliciousness in a bag. You get a five pack, $30 in free shipping. It's that, look, he's going for seconds. That's how good it is. Okay, tech candy. Oh, no, I'm not beating you. We love a tech accessory. So we've got everything from tech candy from these little lights that attach to your clothing. If you're going out for dog walking, jogging after dark, I love this. This is their tech taffy. It's a little goo that's going to get all the dirt out of your keyboard favorite teeny-weeny earbud cleaning

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51:59This was a huge dark tank favorite. You'll get a pack of these. We also have their tick tweezers. Everything slashed in half from Bug Bite thing. It's genius. And then finally, Sam, this one's for you. Sunscreen's so good. You're going to want to wear it every day. We've got the translucent powder right there. This is like a little brush on powder with SPF 50. We've got their moisturizer and SPF built in one. And my favorite, the lip oils. You get lip oil and SPF everything from brush on block is slashed in half. Thank you so much, Cory. Guys, we partnered with all of these amazing companies on the products you can find them. And yesterday's deals from six fabulous female bosses, all at GMADeals.com. All right, we will see you back here tomorrow and coming up as I go get some more banana bread. Joe London is here. Yes, Joni. GMA Royalty, Joan. We are just reminiscing right now. Thrilled. Thrilled to have our longtime member of our GMA family, Joe London, the one and only.

53:01An anchor here for so many years, as well as a best-selling author, advocate, and a dear friend. Now she's opening up. Woo, you've got to read this, our friends. It is called Joan Life Beyond the Script. So wonderful to lay our eyes on you and see you here. And so fun to be back here with all my good buddies. And you come bearing gifts here. You're family is here. Oh, I saw my friends here with me today. My daughter's Jamie. Yeah. Yeah. And Jamie, get over there with us. Jamie, Jamie Lindsay and Sarah grew up on this set. Yes, yes, yes. And Lindsay has her children, Parker and Leo. Leo only wanted to meet Michael's right now. Of course. We were talking basketball, we just talked about basketball. But they learned how to like focus the cameras that used to like get up on them and all the cameramen would like ride them around the studio, rolling around the air, of course. And that's how it's done. Are you still asked, what time do you get up? What time do you get up? Yes, and you know, it's a strange thing.

54:03But sometimes I'll be like walking down the street or on social media or whatever and they'll say, I love watching morning. Like I'm still on. Like I'm still on. Because in their fire, you're part of the family. They get so long. Yeah, you really, really are. You've written books before, but this one, Joni, this one, this really lets people in. So why now? Well, because I think I can only do this book now with the perspective of, you know, the 25 unbelievable years in the public eye on a big broadcast. And then the last 25 years that have really been concentrated on advocacy. And you know, there was a young whipper snapper who said, as I was leaving, gee, how are you ever going to top this London? And the thing is, you don't have to top something. You don't have to do the same thing that you always did. You don't have to jump to something that everyone expects you to do. If you just keep yourself open, open to ideas, keep your mind open, keep your heart open to figure out where else can you kind of make your mark on this world.

55:06And it took until now for me to be able to kind of look at the whole arc and say, oh yeah, that other 25 years, that was also important. It didn't need to be exactly the same. However, that 20 years here was pretty incredible. So what else did you learn about reinvention? Oh, that reinvention never retires. And you can keep changing it and changing it and changing it. And if you're going to take a page out of the Joan London playbook or out of this book, it's that whenever anyone asks you if you can do something, just say yes. And then go figure out how to do it. I mean, tell my kids that all the time. I mean, that is how I got into the business. That is how I made my way up in the business. And that's why I've had all these extraordinary opportunities. I mean, my husband always says, you have the most extraordinary life. But what's weird is that to you, it's ordinary. So you don't always see it as extraordinary. And he's right.

56:06Well, you do stuff that I love in a book. And it is so different. You have QR codes in a book. So as you're reading through the book, you can just get the QR code. You see some of your favorite television moments. What inspired that idea? Because one day as I was writing, I thought, almost every bit of my life has been a video. And since I was 23, when I got into the business, and I wonder if I could do that. And I called my attorney, said, well, do you own it all? I said, it's all on YouTube. I don't even know how it all got on YouTube. He said, if it's on YouTube, you can do it. So I have QR codes all throughout the book. I made a decision to put them at the end of chapters, because from a literary sense, you want the person to be able to read the story, get into the story. And I wrote this book twice. I wrote it first in my publisher's sets. It's an autobiography. Shownline reporting on Shownline is like, they're going to want a memoir. That's what your reader is going to want. So now it's more like kind of a historical fiction, which is the book I like. So write the book that you like to read,

57:07and really take people into the moment. Don't tell them what happened. Tell them how you felt, and how scared you were, how vulnerable you are. So when that happened, was it hard to get in like that? Was it hard to dig in like that? This is my 11th book I've never dug in like this book. This is 11 years in the making to leave it alive. And the stories you can tell, I mean, you have lived it. And one of the stories that you include is, I mean, it's just a pivotal moment. Is your first day at Good Morning America and your little baby on your lap. And it's such a full circle moment to see the girls and the grandkids here in the studio. It's so nice to see everybody here. Can you tell a little bit about what it's like? I know we all who our parents can have our own experiences of bringing the kids to work. But you really raised the kids. They were all here. Yeah, I mean, Uncle Sam was a big part of their life. You carried them all on. So you know, it was just one of those things. I was not like a flag waving feminist. I was just a young girl.

58:08I was 29 years old and I got the call. And they said, you just got offered the job of Good Morning America. And 20 minutes later, my gynecologist called and said, congratulations, you're present. And it never really occurred to me to say, that would have been so great, but the timing was just bad. I just said, all right, how am I going to do this? Yeah, you followed your own advice. And I said to my agent, will you call them and tell them that I need to bring the baby with me because I'm breastfeeding? Now remember, this is 1979. Very, very good. Oh, you could not say on television was breast or breastfeeding. Right, right. And but there you go. But you know what, kudos to ABC. They let me. It was supposed to be the best kept secret, but they threw this big press conference right out of the first show and Time Magazine Newsweek, like right off the bat. We hear you're bringing your baby to work. How did you get ABC to do that? And the breaking story of that day became the fact that a major media company was allowing to be a mom, and you know,

59:11it never really interfered. Well, one morning it kind of did. One morning I was interviewing some senator about President Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economic theory. And I guess it was time for baby Jamie to feed because I had a lot of fun. Oh, no. Oh, no. And trickle-down. Oh, no. Oh, no. I didn't know that. Can we take a picture? Pass it on out there. You know, weaved out with a blow dryer and the show goes on. Yeah. And alive. It's life, I know. It's life, I know. It changed everything. You made so much history. It's just lovely to see you. I can't wait to read that. And open doors for all of us working months, you know. I mean, you really, you were, you paved the way. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, gee. Oh, gee. And what everybody knows, Joan, like me on the script, is out now. And for old time sakes, you want to take us to break? Oh, absolutely. And coming up, Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley are here live to talk about their new movie.

1:00:12Welcome. Yay! Oh, Ronald! Thank you. We're back now with two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars, Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley. They're starring in The Bride, reimagining of Frankenstein's Bride. And it's great to have you both here. Oh, gee, man. Yes. Now, I was looking at this, and I said, this is interesting, because you said the first thing you thought after reading the script was, I have no idea how to do this. You said it totally rattled you. Why would that? Well, it was like on anything I've ever read before. And I always like to stare from a place of, I don't know how to do this, but I can't stop looking at this. Oh, no. Like this is just already coursing through my veins. And when you get that offered to you, that's a really exciting prospect. And then you just have to get down and dirty with it.

1:01:12Wow. I think everybody's good. It feels that way. You know, like you don't know what you're doing before you're going to start a film. It's a total reinvention. I always feel that same way. Yeah, every time. I have no idea what I'm going to do. Do you guys feel like that every morning? Every morning. I feel like why are they hiring me? Why are they making the same mistake again? I like it doing this for so long. I was so bad. But you thought you read the script? You thought you read the wrong script? I thought I read the wrong script, because it was so there, and it was so bold, it was so radical. It was more like a kind of a low-budget indie film. And I said, I want to do this film, but I think it's something the wrong one, because for some reason, they'd already told me the kind of budget that they wanted to put in. And there's just, frankly, we're in dire straits in terms of movies and theatrical release and everything. And everything that I hope you guys love about your cinema. You're on a big screen, which is so important and vital for connecting people and really telling stories, which is so essential. But they're dying. We're in their death throws. And so we need to come up with some bold, new people.

1:02:13Jesse's this fantastic talent, who is just sort of bursting and exploding onto the scene. Maggie, likewise, and as a credible new director. And I just thought, well, yeah, I definitely want in on this, but I couldn't believe that Warner's were giving it such a big swing. I know. I'm a big, big, big, big, and a man. I know how you feel, dear. Oh, I know. Because just the trailer alone has you. I don't know if you all have seen it yet, but oh, my goodness. But Maggie was going on and on and on. OK, your character. He's just looking for a companion. He's a fashion romance guy. Right. He's got quite history, you know? I think you can't get out of the shadow of Karloff. You know, he's an incredible, you know, portrayal. You can't stop thinking about that. That's where I want to think so. But they're Mary Shelley's version, very different. But I kind of tried to think, well, why the hell should I be playing this character? But he's been portrayed more than 100 times before. But in this, it's called The Bride for a Reason. It's The Bride Story. You know, Maggie watched The Bride of Frankenstein

1:03:15and realized that the bride did almost nothing. Was fascinating in all of her bird-like movements and all that, but did almost nothing. And this is one where Frank, call it Frank, is well over 100 years old. There's been just sitting full of loneliness, intense loneliness, regret, remorse. I kind of just imagine him sticking a knife in his head non-stop, hating himself, but just dying for companionship. And he goes back to this brilliant scientist played by a net-bending euthronious and says, please, please, I'm going to die. If I can't have a companion, I'm so lonely, which I think so many people can relate to as well. And he would have been happy just to have somebody come. Sit next to him on the log. But instead, he gets this absolute dynamite, explosive woman, who starts a revolution. And he's just kind of hanging on for dear life. He's not as quick as hell. He's not as sharp. But they're these brilliant, authentic, sincere women throughout the film. And he's just dying to keep up and hope that he can put himself in. Let's give everyone a look.

1:04:15Hi, I'm a monster. Yeah. So am I. I don't want to let you go. Yeah. I don't think that's my name anymore. I'm fighting you, I'm so lonely. Yeah, a new name. Yes. Yes. Yes. The bride of I love it. Oh, my God. I tell you, I tell you, it's proper cinema. And she's brilliant, and Maggie's brilliant. And it'll entertain you knowing it'll also make you rethink your life at the end of it and go, I'm done with being a friend of every year. And that's what we want when we go to the theater. That's what we want. Exactly that. Congratulations on everything. Thank you. You have just this award season. My goodness, your name gets called again and again.

1:05:16And now they ask us a couple of weeks away. They can meet. They send her back to Ireland. No, no, no. But how has that been for you? Just a feeling, dear emotions. I mean, you never expect anything really at all. You just get into work and you're so happy to do something that you feel awoken by. And I was so lucky that year to do bride and then two weeks later, go start filming Hamlet with two incredible female film directors and incredible scripts. And it's been great. The best part about this is you get to step into a room full of artists that you deeply admire and go, whoa, you like woke me up. You changed my life. I didn't know that. I needed to know that about the world. And then you go and celebrate. Oh gosh. A lot to celebrate. Yeah, a lot of both of you. Thank you for this. Yeah. This is honestly, like your description of this movie, and you could just tell you to love what you do and you put everything into it.

1:06:16And we're all going to benefit from it. Yeah. Because the bride is in theaters. Everybody says it's going big. I'm next. I'm next. Nationwide this Friday. Jesse, if you're dead. I'm next. I did it with you. I did it with you. I did it with you. I'll do it. OK. We're going to move on to our GMA March Club, a book club pick. The Secret Lives of Murderers Wives by Elizabeth Arnot. It's officially out. And we're going to have more with her tomorrow. So be sure to pick up a copy wherever you buy books and follow along on our GMA Book Club Instagram. And coming up, Scott Speedman is here to tell us about his new show, RJ Decker. And which crazy anatomy star he would like to join him? Oh. Yeah, a little visit. We'll have a coming up on GMA. Did you have one pick? So we've gotten to hang out with him. And I really like it. I just want you to come back and hang out more on the show. Back now with Scott Speedman. We love him in Felicity, Grace Anatomy, also in the back picture there. Where he's sitting with the flamingo in the pool. Yeah, we're just doing a deep dive for no pun intended.

1:07:18But on that, and I said, it's giving me Magnum vibes. He's starring in the title character in his very own show. Congratulations. It's called RJ Decker. He's here to tell us all about it. And I love how the press release describes you as your character, I should say, not you. Well, they're very close. I know where you're going with this, so this is very close. Private Eye and Public Mass. That's new. That's me. I know. The Private Eye part, not so much. Public Mass. Right on the money, right on the money. So tell us a little bit about RJ. Oh, he's great. As soon as I read this part, I knew I wanted to play him. Partly because of that, to be totally honest, he's a deeply flawed guy. He was a newspaper photographer, got burnt out, ended up committing a crime, and went to jail. And it comes out, and went to jail for two years, comes out, decides to turn his life around and become a PI. And he's like, you know, he's a really funny, interesting guy, but he's deeply flawed. And that just put me at ease. When I have to play something that's a little too buttoned up, I get a little tight. It's this type of dude right here, my kind of guy. And you were just telling us it's a bit of a throwback, which is also really fun for you.

1:08:19You rock for files, ask, Magnum, PI, good show. I feel like we're kind of ready as a sort of a broader audience for these type of shows again, in a certain kind of way. So that really appealed to me. And the writing was just really good, and I couldn't turn it down. I called my guys right away, and I was like, please just try to get me this. All right, I want to watch it, but let's show everybody what a clip will. Sure. How you doing? Back at the newspaper? Matter of fact, Bill, no, I'm a PI now. You're serious? It's a dead lady in a car trunk. You heard what happened and thought Clay Gregory. Well, to be fair, Bill, I did kill my former colleague, his wife, the exact same way. Wow. Yeah, first of all, I love the wardrobe. Yeah, that's fun. All right, we've got two shows going on at the same time for you. And one, you play a doctor in grades, and then this, you play a PI. How do you make sure you get the technical stuff right? Like, I know on the set, medical sets, they often have an expert for you. Nurse Linda, on grazing out of me, I've talked about this when I go back. If I talk about her again, she's going to laugh at me. But yeah, she is. I always say this, and I love her.

1:09:20I have to say that right up front, but she's like a coach from the 80s. Everybody's very nice there, and doating, and you know, you can't screw up. If you screw up on Nurse Linda's set, you'll hear about it. Let's hear about it. I kind of respond well. I love that. You know, if I had coaches like that, I grew up in the environment, but I love it. I respond well. How is that going, though, the double duty? Well, we're about to start doing it. I go back in a couple of weeks, so I'll film all day, yet in grades. We're filming in Wilmington, North Carolina, right now for this. I'll get on a plane and film all day Saturday, jump on a plane back Sunday, and start filming this again. So, back and forth a bit. Yeah, and to be the lead character in this, that's a lie. I've never done it before. You know, I've been the leads and shows, but not the lead where I'm in every single scene. Yeah. It was really wanting to do that, and it was exciting. But because you are, you get to, you know, you have a say. So we would like you to say, who do you want to do the crossover from Grey's to RJ Jack? It should be a great pull. Well, it's got to be Alan Pompeo. I mean, I know that's the easy one. Good choice, easy one, but if I don't worry that, I'll get in trouble when I go back,

1:10:20but she is amazing. I, you know, she's starting to do different things. We can get that Boston accent going, if she likes to have, and she's got the strong Boston accent. She is. We can get her, you know, playing a criminal on my show, and it'll be on my show. She'll, oh my, my turn. I like it. All right, well, we can put it out there. Yeah, all right. Hopefully, boss is listening, and Ellen. I can't wait to see this. Yeah, congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. That's so great to see you. Guys, the theory, series premiere, RJ Decker tonight, 10 p.m. right here on ABC. It streams the next day on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus. Scott Fiedman in the house. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We'll be back. We'll be back. We had the term that Larry should not be a history teacher. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team, not a maze of paperwork from a third party. Every day, America's hospitals and health systems show up for you. Navigating health care can fuel overwhelming, but you can count on real doctors, real nurses, real people,

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