>> this morning on world news now. mounting pressure. vice president kamala harris calling for an immediate cease fire in the israel-hamas war. the administration's toughest call yet. >> this as us planes started air dropping, desperately needed food inside gaza. we have a report from the region on the dire situation also this morning, with one day to go before super tuesday. >> nikki haley gets a big victory in the washington, d.c. primary. her first time topping

donald trump. but what's at stake? a rematch of trump versus biden, as more than a dozen states get set to hold their primaries. plus, history made again. >> university of iowa basketball star caitlin clark has smashed the ncaa all time scoring record, a record that's been untouched for more than half a century. >> and the real life patrol cat going viral over his mission as the keeper of the bones. why social media is falling in love with sir indiana. bones it's fun day. march 4th. from >> this is world news now. happy monday. >> good morning everyone, and thank you so much for joining us. i'm so excited for caitlin clark. what a day yesterday. just amazing thing she did it 22 years old breaking a record that was there for 50 years and a record that was increasingly looking like it was never going to be broken with the additions of nil and one and done players, both in men and women's college

basketball, just playing one year and moving on to the wnba and the nba, you don't see a lot of four year players. >> so it was a record. it should have been out of reach, wasn't it? now it's in the rearview mirror. >> yeah, we'll have much more on that coming up in just a few minutes that we will. >> but first we want to begin with israel facing growing pressure to agree to a cease fire in gaza as palestinian families scramble for food and the death toll mounts, a top israeli cabinet member is heading to the white house today. benny gantz, a rival of prime minister benjamin netanyahu, is set to meet with the vice president after she called for a pause in the war. abc's tom soufi burridge has more. >> amid growing desperation in gaza, vice president kamala harris ramping up the rhetoric, saying israel must do more to get aid into gaza and calling for an immediate cease fire and given the immense scale of suffering in gaza, there must be an immediate cease fire for at least the next six weeks. >> the vice president's pointed

remarks coming amid reports more kids in gaza are dying from a lack of food. >> a doctor at this hospital saying 15 children have now died of malnutrition. israel insisting it has to ensure any aid goes directly to people in need. >> we have to verify that it is not being stolen by hamas, which has been happening on a daily basis, and that's clearly one of your priorities right now. >> but aren't you putting that ahead of getting aid to people in a desperate, desperate situation? innocent people as as of as i've noted, tom, we've enabled thousands, tens of thousands of humanitarian aid trucks to enter gaza. the idf saying it continues to target hamas. some democrats calling on president biden to up the pressure on israel. >> this is a critical moment where social order is unraveling inside gaza, and i have both publicly and privately counseled the president to use whatever leverage he has to try to get this this long firm cease fire.

>> and vice president kamala harris weighing in on those horrific scenes around that convoy of aid trucks in gaza thursday, saying, quote, hungry, desperate people were simply trying to secure food for their family and they were met with gunfire and chaos. tom soufi burridge, abc news, tel aviv. >> all right, tom, thank you for that. nikki haley is moving, is making history ahead of super tuesday by beating donald trump in the washington, d.c, primary. her first victory of the campaign makes her the first woman ever to win a republican presidential primary contest. but trump is expected to pick up the lion's share of the votes, as 15 states will head to the polls tomorrow, setting the stage for a likely rematch with president biden. here's abc's maryalice parks. >> it's nikki haley with a warning about donald trump just two days before super tuesday, she was asked if she thought trump would follow the constitution. should he win the white house again. >> i mean, you always want to think someone will, but i don't know. you know, when you when

you go in and you talk about revenge, when you go and you talk about, you know, vindication when you go and you talk about what does that mean? >> trump faces multiple criminal charges for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election. he denies any wrongdoing. haley now walking away from her pledge to endorse trump should he become the gop nominee. so you're no longer bound by that pledge? >> no, i think i'll make what decision i want to make trump picking up two more wins in the idaho and missouri caucuses on the campaign trail this weekend, trump barely mentioning haley, his last remaining gop primary rival, except to call her names. >> she was going around every show, donald trump, donald trump. >> this and that. that wasn't working too well. >> according to a new new york times siena poll, trump holds a five point lead ahead of biden, just out of the margin of error. haley's lead in the same poll even wider ten points in a hypothetical general election matchup and a majority of voters

think the country is heading in the wrong direction, a sign of the challenges ahead for president biden. >> i think the economy at this moment is the absolute worst. >> all the essential stuff is going up. >> we are also learning that the u.s. supreme court will likely weigh in on that big case out of colorado, the colorado state supreme court had ruled that trump should be barred from the race because of his actions around january 6th. now the u.s. supreme court likely to give colorado some clarity. just in time for super tuesday. mary alice parks, abc news, washington mary alice, thank you. >> abc news will have full coverage on super tuesday, starting 7 p.m. eastern on abc news live and on the network at 10 p.m, and join us thursday for president biden's state of the union address that begins at 9:00 eastern. the massachusetts air national guard member accused of leaking pentagon secrets is expected to plead guilty today. >> jack teixeira has been in custody since last april, when he was arrested at his parents home and charged with allegedly posting classified military documents on a social media

platform. his expected guilty plea could lead to decades in prison. >> next, the nation's extreme weather everything from epic amounts of snow to record setting wildfires that snow up to 12ft of it in the sierra nevada mountains is over for now , but there is more on the way and not a lot of time to get ready for it. abc's alison kosik with the details. >> residents of truckee in california's sierra nevada took advantage of a slowdown in the snowfall and began digging out. >> we are doing some snow displacement. it's not really snow removal because it doesn't get removed. it just kind of just puts it into the bank. so we just move it around. >> some residents are making the most of the winter wonderland. >> our dogs are having a blast. our neighbors are having fun. everybody's snowmobiling and skiing in the streets. wind are weakening, but more precipitation is in the forecast. >> the next round is moving in just in time for the workweek. it's going to be highly

concentrated over the northern portion of the sierra into oregon, idaho, and wyoming on friday night, authorities say between 203 hundred vehicles were stuck along interstate 80 over donner summit. >> we literally had to go one by one to start helping people out to get them off the hill more than 70 miles of that interstate remain closed. >> on sunday, an avalanche on highway 50 trapped multiple vehicles. fortunately, there were no injuries in the nation's heartland. 14 million people across at least a dozen states, from new mexico to minnesota are under red flag warnings. wind gusts between 30 and 60mph and humidity as low as 7% could help fuel wildfires, as the smoke house creek fire, which started in texas, has moved across the state line into oklahoma more than a million acres have already been burned, and about 500 structures destroyed. the fire only 15% contained. >> we're going to seek out some

of those heats that are detected by the infrared flights, and we're going to be ready for additional flare ups as they occur. >> meanwhile, some parts of the country will likely see unseasonably warm temperatures on monday. buffalo, new york could break a record for march fourth. alison kosik abc news, new york. >> alison, thank you. there is a new all time leading scorer in division one college basketball. iowa's caitlin clark has set a new standard for anyone, male or female, who follows her. her four year scoring binge, which may not end until april, has also brought new fans and lots of money to the sport for college basketball history. this morning, history made caitlin clark's becomes the all time leading scorer in major college basketball history, iowa's caitlin clark dethroning pistol pete maravich to become the top scorer in college basketball history, men's or women's, shattering a record that had stood for 54 years. >> i feel like i'm living in a

dream, honestly. holly and hopefully i can inspire a lot of young girls to be able to dream, to be on stages like this. >> as a girl, clark had to join a boys team. her dad couldn't find a girls team for her age. now the times have changed and clark has helped to change them. >> she's a huge inspiration to me. she's been an inspiration to me since i started watching her. she's like an idol to me and it's so fun to watch her, like play. and i just want to like we all. >> i think we all want to be like her, like when i grow up. >> it's been dubbed the caitlin clark effect. the 22 year old's impact on basketball undeniable. the average ticket price for yesterday's game was $571. that's more than ten times the average ticket price of a wnba game. even the cost of her road game tickets has skyrocketed. games at northwestern average about $11 per ticket. that jumped to $256 when clark came to town, and after announcing that she's heading to the wnba after the season, the indiana fever, the team expected to draft her, saw its ticket prices more than double tv ratings, also bouncing into the record books. clark has already scored

endorsement deals with goldman sachs, gatorade and nike, which released this ad yesterday just moments after she broke the record. caitlin byrne. isn't done just yet. iowa heads to the big ten conference tournament this week, where she can add to her scoring total. and believe it or not, there are some sports books where you could bet that the detroit pistons would take a flier on her and draft, hey, why not? >> here's one thing i love this. she said this last night. she said about the record. she said a record is just a record. she wants people to remember the way she played with a smile on her face and her competitive fire, and would love for iowa to put a bow on the season and win it all. wait and see. we'll keep watching. coming up, how two horses managed to snarl traffic on a major interstate plus a decade later, what's now driving the renewed push to find malaysian airlines flight mh370. >> the new details this morning and meeting sir indiana jones. >> there he is. why this real life patrol cat is racking up

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tuesday on abc a new lawsuit is calling for boeing and alaska airlines to pay a heavy price tag for january's mid-air door

plug mishap. >> three passengers on that flight are suing the company for a total of $1 billion. no one was seriously hurt in the incident, but the plaintiffs claim they suffered severe mental, emotional and psychological injuries this morning. >> there may be efforts to find a malaysian airlines flight declared missing in the indian ocean a decade ago, a private search company believes it may know the location. here's abc's derek dennis. this morning. >> nearly ten years to the day after malaysia airlines flight. mh 370 disappeared from radar and is believed to have plunged into the indian ocean. a glimmer of hope at this memorial for the victims, a texas based company, ocean infinity, claims to have scientific evidence of the plane's final resting place at the bottom of the ocean, and is proposing an all new no find, no fee search. but i'm very, very confident that the government of malaysia and the cabinet will approve such proposal. flight mh370 was a boeing triple seven with 239 people on board when it

vanished shortly after takeoff from kuala lumpur on march 8th, 2014. multiple countries helped in the search for months, with malaysia's government eventually declaring the plane's disappearance and accident. with no survivors. relatives of those on board, mostly chinese nationals, left with no closure for one day. >> there will be someone who will come forward and tell us what really going on. >> the truth. that's all we want until we longing for that. yeah, until the day malaysia's transportation minister says he's invited ocean infinity to share its new evidence and it's promised if it's credible, he'll push to green light a new search. >> jacquita gomes is hopeful she lost her husband patrick, a crew member on the doomed flight. i'm on top of the world, you know these. >> it's what we wanted to hear and we hoped for that for a very long time. >> ocean infinity searched for the plane as recently as 2018, but nothing turned up.

malaysia's government has said it's committed to finding out what happened, whether it takes ten years, 20 years or more. andrew rhiannon. >> all right derek. thank you. coming up, the 90 year old grandma who wasn't quite expecting a surprise party at all. just wait until you see her priceless reaction. >> and the real life patrol cat standing guard over a skeleton museum. sir, indiana bones. next, you're watching world news. now

eight central on abc. >> yes, yes, you had to be a big shot, didn't you? >> you had to prove it to the crowd. you have to be a big shot , didn't you? oh, your friends were so knocked out. >> you had. you know, we love cats here on world news now. and there's a certain warm and fuzzy four legged big shot now going viral on social media. >> he's cute, cuddly. but danny knew he lives in a museum, a museum, a very particular one. >> and visitors come from all over to oklahoma city. just trying to meet this cat who lives in that museum that makes a whole lot of sense for a black

cat that's vietnam devised >> behold, the guardian of a place patrol cat, nicknamed the skeleton museum. >> you had to get a black cat, right? because it's kind of a spooky museum a little bit. you know, people think that, and we really kind of didn't connect that at the museum of osteology, which is apparently the study of skeletons. >> this oklahoma city attraction has become world famous for its animal. >> that's not a skeleton, of course. >> we have an internet famous pet cat, sir. indiana bones, indiana. >> the bones, whose name was chosen by the internet, has been part of the family here since the summer of 2019. >> we really wanted an office pet. >> give it up for indy. >> brenna glover, who is the head of the team's kitty committee, says initially they wanted a kitty, but when they got to their local shelter, then two year old indy was like, hey, you there he was very

persistent. >> he was very cuddly. and every time we were looking, another cat, indy was, you know, he was going for us and trying to get our attention. now for the most part, indy lives in the back office, but throughout the day he likes to help with inventory or do yoga with the guests. >> sometimes he's even kind enough to play hide and seek. >> how are you going to get out of there? >> but besides, for entertaining millions of people online and in person, sir bones has a mission. >> raising money every year for oklahoma city's more animal shelter. the place that originally helped him find his home with the bones. >> we're kind of trying to turn his fame into something good for the rest of the kitties. okay >> and you guys, you know, i have a black cat who also came from a shelter. so naturally here is a zoom call that i have named indiana bones and the pepper of doom. there's indiana on the left. you see him in his little throne eating some tuna.

>> he's got a new best friend. >> that's right. no sherlock. >> bones. sherlock bones would be good, too, if they got a second kitty cat. >> there's pepper, my cat, who i love. i love you, pepper. um, so the internet voted on the names. indiana bones came in first, but in second, which as a millennial, i would have loved to watch is binks for focus. pocus is hysterical. hysterical, right? yeah, i found it. >> how does pepper feel about you doing cat stories with other cats? i had to get her in there first to get permission. you had to.

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look look who's here >> they're embarrassing me. set up. gary. you didn't tell me. >> so funny. >> it's the funniest video ever. she said, why didn't you tell me this? >> this would be my grandma's reaction. >> this would be my reaction. >> are you embarrassing me? >> no surprise parties, guys. >> it's so funny. >> she went in. it looks like she's having a better time. you know. >> she did. she did. she had a ball. all right. next is some serious horsing around on an interstate highway in cleveland. this is over the weekend. >> two police horses you see right there are said to have inadvertently strayed during what the police department calls a routine care and exercise. >> they're like freedom. >> yeah, but like the way. >> yeah, the exercise they ended up get was trotting down i-90 against traffic, causing a major snarl. least everyone stopped. i don't know if people in new york were to stop. it would have been

like, move it. >> this is just a regular day. >> new yorkers have seen it all asking if there were any injuries. the cleveland police department tweeted nay, no. >> you write that andrew, you freelance? no, they did, they did. >> wow. >> they're learning from the best. yeah. >> cleveland, they must watch this show. >> yes. friends of the show. >> friends of the show. all right. next to an apparent bear whisperer, a nature nature enthusiast was caught on camera carefully crawling under a home in california's south lake tahoe to evict a trio of bears. >> nobody try this at home. he described it as a very challenging, tough love eviction, saying that his non-lethal aversion techniques were both highly effective and safe for both the bears and the humans involved. i don't know, i'm seeing bears run out of a tiny hole, sprint out of that. that's safe and didn't see that guy come back. >> we just saw apparently where the guy go. he's in there. is he in the bear? he's got the headlamp there. >> what is that? just a regular flashlight. okay. still, even more dangerous. gotcha. >> he said, quote, mama bear did let me know face to face how she

felt, but then opted to take my advice and headed to the exit. >> he's the expert. >> how much do you charge for something like that? $1 million, that's what it would cost for me to get in there. >> so yeah, any amount finally, to a sporting event for which we've all been waiting for all year long. >> all right. alaska's official state sport. the itinerary celebrates its annual ceremonial start in anchorage over the weekend on saturday, and just got underway on sunday. >> they got 38 total mushers competing

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