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The parents of journalist Evan Gershkovich say they remain confident the U.S. government will do all it can to bring their son home. Journalist Evan Gershkovich has spent more than three months in Russian detention, but his parents say they remain confident the U.S. government will do all it can to bring their son home. "President [Joe] Biden spoke to us and gave us a promise to do whatever it takes ," Ella Milman, Gershkovich's mother, told "Good Morning America" co-anchor George Stephanopoulos as she sat alongside her husband, Mikhail Gershkovich, in their first broadcast interview since their son's imprisonment. Milman said Biden spoke to them "as a parent" about their son, a Wall Street Journal reporter based in Moscow, who's being held on espionage charges -- charges he, his outlet and the U.S. government vehemently deny. "[H]e told us he understands our pain," she said. "Good Morning America" airs at 7 a.m. ET on AB...

The West Coast is bracing for another major storm that is expected to bring flooding rain, damaging winds and mudslides this week. After significant rainfall last week, the West Coast is bracing for another major storm that is expected to bring the threat of flooding rain, damaging winds and mudslides. A "potent atmospheric river" will start impacting Northern California on Wednesday, before moving to the central and southern coast into Thursday, the National Weather Service said. The worst of the major storm is expected to hit the West Coast Wednesday afternoon into the evening. ABC News Damaging winds gusts of at least 50 mph are forecast Wednesday as the front moves in, with gusts up to 70 mph possible near the coast. The gusty winds may down trees and cause power outages, the agency warned. The storm will bring "substantial rainfall to the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast on top of already saturated soils," the National Weather Service said. MORE: Sa...

A Virginia woman tried to bring a bag of giraffe and zebra bones through a Washington, D.C.-area airport last month upon arriving on a flight from Kenya. A Virginia woman was caught with giraffe and zebra bones at a Washington, D.C.-area airport last month after arriving home from a trip to Africa, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. The bones were discovered in the woman's luggage at Washington Dulles International Airport on Nov. 10, officials said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said giraffe and zebra bones were found in the baggage of a Virginia woman who arrived at Washington Dulles international Airport from Kenya on Nov. 10, 2022. U.S. Customs and Border Protection The woman initially declared that she had a small Acacia tree twig, though later mentioned the bones after CBP agriculture specialists X-rayed her baggage and "discovered an anomaly," CBP said. The woman reportedly found the bones in Kenya and wanted to keep them as souven...