Several flown out for treatment. New arrests just as we come on tonight amid the state of emergency in virginia. Authorities say there have been trial. Le threats involving impt President Trumps legal Team Revealed tonight. Including ken starr and alan dershowitz. In new york city, the deadly gas explosion that made national headlines, leveling several buildings, killing two. Tonight, the major new headline. And our person of the week. Shes been known as rose, as sue ann. She fights for animals. And tonight she marks a giant birthday. Who is our person of the week . Good evening. Its great to have you with us here on a very busy friday night. For millions it has already been a rough ride home tonight. A monster winter storm bearing down on much of this country. More than 100 million americans under alerts from the rockies all the way into the northeast. Drives facing blinding snow and gusting winds. This is moorhead, minnesota, where cars areffhe highways tonight. Jesl off the taxiway in kansas city. Runways shutting down. More than 4,000 flights delayed or cancelled already. Tonight, news coming in of a deadly avalanche hitting a ski resort near lake tahoe. At least one person killed. The storm heading to chicago and then right into the east. Several major cities in the path. We have the timing and the track for you. Alex perez is in the storm zone. Reporter tonight, blizzard warnings in the upper midwest, that power storm creating whiteout conditions. Vehicles stranded, visibility near zero. This u. P. S. Truck jackknifing on interstate 94 in north dakota. In omaha, nebraska, drivers struggling for traction. This car continuing to have issues as it makes its way up the hill. Reporter First Responders racing to accident scenes. We had to extricate that person, removing the roof of the vehicle. Reporter an icy glaze covering this kansas state troopers cruiser. Going tbelieve this, but we hit a patch of ice and somebody is going to have to tow us out of here. Reporter conditions forcing the airfield to close for a time. Around the country, more than 4,000 flights delayed or cancelled. In the west, a deadly avalanche near lake tahoe, california. They are assembling the nordic rescue team. Total patient count is two at this time. Reporter a 34yearold man killed and another person seriously hurt at the Alpine Meadows ski resort after more than two feet of snow in just 24 hours. David, you can see, check it out, the snow already falling at a steady clip here in chicago. Things will get messy here. Some areas will get five inches of snow, which will then be followed by ice and freezing rain as the night goes on. Just getting around is going to be a big headache for a lot of people. Also, david, theres a ground stop at ohare because of this weather. Alex, thanks to you. Lets get back to rob. Hes timing it out just as we all start this weekend. Hey, rob. Reporter hi, david. This storm now phasing together. Its a fullon blizzard across the northern plains, moving rapidly to the northeast. The only thing positive i can find with this is its moving relatively quickly. Moving to chicago. The warnings still up from colorado all the way up through northern new england. Lets time it out. Detroit, i think you see snow for most of this event. I80 is the cutoff line. Moving to philly, new york, and boston, with accumulations there. Ice accumulations as well. Here in upstate new york where its been a slow start for winter, it will be white come this time tomorrow night. Winter is back. Rob marciano, thanks to you. As several airports brace for this storm, theyre preparing for Something Else tonight. There is growing concern at this hour over a possible outbreak of a mystery virus. Federal authorities preparing to screen certain passengers coming into the u. S. The pneumonialike illness first reported in the china, spreading to japan and thailand. The cdc will begin screening thousand of passengers in new york, l. A. , and San Francisco. Abcs gio benitez and our dr. Jen ashton tonight on what you need to know. Reporter tonight, a massive screening effort begins for about 5,000 passengers arriving from china after a mysterious respiratory virus has killed 2 and sickened at least 45 in asia. The cdc deploying about 100 experts at San Francisco international, l. A. X. , and new yorks jfk, where the first flight from wuhan, china, arrives in just hours. Theyll be asked where they were in the previous two weeks, whether they came into contact with any animals, whether they had any symptoms of an upper respiratory infection. Reporter experts believe this is a new kind of coronavirus, which typically causes symptoms of the common cold, but in some rare cases can lead to pneumonia. An outbreak of two other corona viruses, sars and mers, proved deadly. But tonight its unclear if this new virus is easily spread from person to person. Other coronaviruses like sars and mers have taught us they need to be taken seriously. Reporter most of the patients in china contracted this virus at a seafood and meat market in wuhan, but some cases have already been reported in thailand and japan where screening is also under way. This is obviously very concerning, so gio is with us from a busy Kennedy Airport tonight. Gio, the cdc is calling this a serious situation tonight. Reporter yeah, david, thats because more than 60,000 people travel from wuhan to america every year. The cdc says the risk to the American Public is low, but, david, they want to be ready. Better to be ahead of it. Gio benitez, thank you. Next this friday night, the alleged highway shooter arrested in North Carolina tonight, accused of shooting at least 20 cars over two days. Tonight, the images of shattered windows. And authorities now say the shooter is just 14. Heres victor oquendo. Reporter this car window shattered by a suspected highway sniper. It was still just mindblowing and still shocking to see Something Like that. Reporter it all happened along u. S. 264 in North Carolina this week. Authorities say at least 20 passing cars were shot at and damaged with a highpowered pellet rifle. The Wilson County sheriff says they started receiving calls yesterday morning, drivers reporting bullets blasting through their windows. Others saying the sides of their cars had been damaged. Hugh scott is a principal at a local school. He was on his way to a School Sporting event when his car got hit. I thought this was an isolated incident at the time. Finding out that more vehicles had been shot, i felt that i needed to make people aware that this isnt a hoax. Reporter tonight, deputies arresting a 14yearold boy, releasing these images of a nest made out of tree branches. Thats where officials believe the teen hid and fired shots at passing cars. I am truly blessed and very grateful that this wasnt a greater or more serious incident. Reporter deputies set up patrols and undercover surveillance. They found ammunition near the apparent nest and thats what led them to the 14yearold suspect who lives in that area. Tonight hes been charged as a juvenile. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Victor, thank you. Turning to new reporting on the iran missile attack on the u. S. Military. Members wounded, checked for concussion, flown out for treatment. President trump has said no americans were harmed in the attack, but u. S. Officials now confirming at least 11 Service Members were wounded. When did the pentagon know . Heres Martha Raddatz tonight. Reporter on the night of the Iranian Missile attacks and the hours immediately following, President Trump and pentagon officials said there were no injuries from the missile strikes and that the damage was only minimal. No americans were harmed in last nights attack by the iranian regime. Reporter the u. S. Forces benefited from an Early Warning system, and most were in bunkers at the time of the attack, but we now know on the very night of the attack, january 8th, a number of Service Members were examined for concussions, although they returned to duty following the attack. Soon afterwards, some of the injured reported persistent symptoms, and others reported new ones. On january 10th, one Service Member had to be flown out of iraq for treatment. On tuesday at a campaign rally, the president repeated that there were no injuries. I said, how many killed . Nobody, sir. I said, how many hurt . They said, nobody, sir. Reporter the next day, january 15th, ten additional Service Members were flown out to either germany or kuwait and screened for traumatic brain injury. Less than 24 hours later, the defense secretary was notified and prepared a statement that was released shortly after the story first appeared in defense one. Lets get right to Martha Raddatz, live in washington tonight. The president said no injuries, as you reported, for days. Do we know when the pentagon and white house learned of all of this . Reporter the pentagon says leadership didnt know about the medical evacuations until yesterday because the forces in iraq would not have been required to report them unless they were considered lifethreatening. But david, a lot of questions still remain. Martha raddatz tonight. Martha, thank you. Now to the Senate Impeachment trial. President trumps legal Team Revealed tonight, including two wellknown names who often appear on cable news. Hears terry moran. Reporter finally, after weeks of indecision,ourc say team to represent him at his Senate Impeachment trial, and it includes a couple of big names. Ken starr, the former independent counsel whose investigation into president bill clintons affair with Monica Lewinsky triggered clintons impeachment. And highprofile harvard law professor alan dershowitz. Both men have been frequent and vocal defenders of the president s on fox news. They would be abusing their power if they impeach President Trump on this record. It is a lesson, and a nasty lesson, in how not to do impeachment. Both men also represented convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein, who committed suicide last year, helping to negotiate a lenient sentence for epstein in 2008. Dershowitz also helped to defend o. J. Simpson. Already, and not surprisingly, theres confusion on the trump team. Dershowtiz, who will handle the constitutional issues surrounding impeachment, today telling dan abrams hes not really on the president s team. I will be there for one hour, basically, presenting my argument, but im not a fullfledged member of the defense team in any realistic sense of that term. Reporter as for starr, after the clinton impeachment, donald trump had to this say about him. I think ken starr is a lunatic. I really think that ken starr is a disaster. Reporter starr and dershowitz join a defense team led by white House CounselPat Cippollone and President Trumps personal lawyer jay sekulow. Lets get to terry moran. The president wanted at one point his strongest defenders from the house to make his case in the senate, but it looks like that wont happen. Reporter it wont. Think of the house proceedings. They were ferocious defenders of the president , and he wanted them in the senate. Mitch mcconnell, Senate Majority leader, said thats not going work, because in part having house memb president and prosecute the president just didnt work, and in general, they want a more lawyerly defense in this impeachment trial. David . Terry, thank you. Next this friday evening, word of new arrests amid a state of emergency in virginia. The fbi arresting three suspected members of the neonazi group the base in georgia. Reports of Credible Threats from those alleged neonazis. Heres kyra phillips. Reporter tonight in georgia, Police Say Three suspected members of a neonazi group called the base are under arrest, charged with conspiracy to murder members of the Left Wing Group antifa. The fbi linking to case to the arrest of three other armed members who investigators believe were plotting to attend a gun rights rally in richmond, virginia, with hopes of starting a racial war. We had received credible intelligence from oulaw foenencies that there are groups with malicious plans. Reporter virginias governor declaring a state of emergency, temporarily bann two years after a neonazi plowed his car into a crowd of protesters in charlottesville, killing 32yearold Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others. Now Police Believe this man, a member of the base, and a former Canadian Army reservist with explosives training, arrested this week in delaware, trained with the three men under arrest in georgia. Kyra, i know theyre stepping security ahead of the rally in richmond . Reporter they sure are. Law enforcement sources telling me tonight, david, theres a much heavier presence of both local and state police. They dont want to see another charlottesville. We are also told tonight some counterprotesters are also pulling out amid safety concerns. Kyra, thank you. The jury is set for the Harvey WeinsteinSexual Assault trial in new york. Seven men and five women have been set to hear the case. Several accusers could testify against him. Weinstein has insisted he did nothing wrong. Opening statements next wednesday. A new setback for boeing as it tries to get its grounded fleet of max jets back in the air. The company discovering a new issue with the software update. The problem involves a function that makes sure system monitors are working properly. Boeing now with another problem to solve before the jets can fly again. The fleet grounded ten months ago, of course, following the two deadly crashes overseas. There is still much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. The massive explosion late today, the pictures coming in tonight. The aerial footage showing flames shooting into the skies as a propane tank facility ignites. First responders on the scene right now. More in a moment. The other explosion. This one in new york city. Leveling bgs and killi tw case. Well have that. And the pickup truck slamming into a starbucks. Customers and employees injured. Authorities now reveal what led to this accident. A lot more news ahead. Lot more news ahead. Ill be right back. 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