And we begin with a new turn in the race for president. On both sides, it is now a battle for the south. And donald trump now saying, if he wins in South Carolina, hes going to, quote, run the table. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders set to battle tonight on that stage. Many eyes on clinton. Will she change her strategy after a bruising loss in New Hampshire . Abcs Jonathan Karl in South Carolina tonight, where trump now says there is something you will not see from him. Reporter taunting his rivals, donald trump is declaring if they cant beat him here in South Carolina, they wont beat him anywhere. We win here, were going to run the table. If we win here, after winning so big in New Hampshire, all of these characters are going to give it up. Were going to run the table and again. That i can tell you, okay . Reporter Trump Campaign so confident, says it is only going to run positive tv ads. Great. Reporter but theres one resist attacking. You have a guy like bush, who has this big fund its terrible. Ill be honest. Another bush. That i can tell you. Reporter we traveled to florence, South Carolina, to meet up with governor bush, as he went into the venus restaurant, he seemed irritated name. Are you going to be able to stop donald trump here. I hope so. Back. Do you want an entertainer in chief . Someone who will say whatever he wants to, you know, to make it all about him . Insult people, divide people . Basically just talk trash on his way to the republican nomination . Reporter South Carolina president ial politics is known for its brass knuckle attacks. Ted cruz is out with this video, ridiculing trump. Look, i got the trump action figure figure no way, its huge what does he do . Reporter and today, marco rubio launched his own grenade at trump. Donald trump has zero fosh policy experience. Negotiating a hotel deal in another country is not Foreign Policy expeer yerns. Reporter rubio is still haunted by his bad debate. Those mocking rubio robots following him to South Carolina. But at a town hall meeting today, a vote of confidence. As far as the robot stuff, you havent brought that up, but just keep in mind that the terminator was elected twice as governor of california. Reporter that won governor schwarzenegger, of course. A jon karl live in South Carolina tonight. And jon, there has been so much talk on the republican side george w. Bush would be a help or not. Ife campaigned for his and theyre about to give it a shot . Reporter thats right. Former president bush will be at a big Campaign Rally with his brother in charleston on monday. Its the latest indication, david, that jeb bush, who started the campaign saying i am the bush name to help save his campaign. Jonathan karl in South Carolina. Jon, thank you. Meantime, to major developments on the democratic side tonight. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders, and the showdown this evening. Theyre in wisconsin now, their first debate since Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. Both now looking to nevada and South Carolina. Polls in that state have shown clinton with a lead, but sanders, of course, with new momentum. Tonight, both courting black voters, and abcs cecilia vega, oneonone with Bernie Sanders, ask asking, does clintons ground game give her an advantage in this next round . And heres what he said. Reporter tonight, a debate stage showdown. The first since Bernie Sanders sweeping New Hampshire win. And the first since the candidates most heated clash. I think its time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks and lets talk lets talk about the issues. Lets talk about issues. And so lets talk about issues. Reporter sanders and Hillary Clinton hunkered down all day, but their campaigns in overdrive rolling out key africanamerican endorsements with an eye towards the South Carolina primary. In clintons corner members of the congressional black caucus. Georgia congressman john lewis slamming sanders, saying he wasnt on the front lines the civil rights struggle. But i never saw him. I never met him. I was involved in the sitins, the freedom rides, the march on washington, the march from selma to montgomery. But i met Hillary Clinton. I met president clinton. Reporter but sanders today, civil rights icon super star harry belafonte. I think he represents i think he represents a moral reporter all signs the campaign is moving to a new battlefield. The democratic vote, more than 90 white in iowa and New Hampshire. But in South Carolina, more than half of the democratic vote africanamericans. And in nevada, blacks and latinos could make up a third. But sanders acknowledging clinton has a head start. Shes got the instra tuck sure, the name, the ground game. I agree. Reporter you bring . Shes ahead of us. But were moving quickly. She was ahead of us in iowa and New Hampshire. But we caught up. And cecilia vega with us live. Clinton and sanders both heighting hard for South Carolina. Tonight, that states most powerful democrat appears to be torn, choosing his words very carefully . Reporter very carefully, david. Congressman Jim Claiborne saying that he is undecided in this race. His own family is split. His daughter is for hillary, his grandson is feeling the bern. And listen to this. He says, quote, my heart and head are in different places right now, but we will see. A sign of the tough road ahead for Hillary Clinton. All right, well let the viewers interpret that one. Cecilia, thank you. To the polar vortex and the the deep freeze on the way for 65 million americans. Sub zero temperatures, 20 states, in fact, bracing for record cold and extreme one chills. Images already coming in tonight. Dangerous roads outside cleveland. Pipes bursting. A water main break in scranton, pennsylvania. Even florida, that car window in melbourne, covered in frost. Lets get right to meteorologist rob marciano, tracking it all, and were saying, the wind chills with this, going to make it very rough. Reporter its going to be dangerous. Heat, recordbreaking heat to the west. And the cold air to the east. And that cold arctic stuff really going to come down across the great lakes. Saturday, daytime highs, 3 in overnight saturday into sunday morning, the core of the cold air gets to the northeast. It will be 0 likely in new york. If thats the case, thats the coldest weve seen since 94. These are the wind chills. York. 36 below in albany. That is dangerous k08d, david. Try not to go too much. If you do, cover up and certainly protect your pelts and check on the neighbors. Rob, thank you. In the west tonight, a dramatic end to the armed standoff in oregon. The fbi with bull horns and youre about to hear what the protesters were shouting back. All of this in a town taken hostage over a fight over government land. Abcs Neal Karlinsky with oregon with the audio tonight from the final stand. Reporter the final hours of the standoff playing out live over an open phone line. Youre going to come out with your hands up. No, were not reporter a surreal end to a bizarre standoff that began over government control of land in the west. Do the right thing, right . The right thing is to kill us . Reporter three of the final four holdouts finally surrendering this morning. Sandy and sean both have their hands up in the air. Seans holding an american flag. Reporter but inside the federal compound, occupier david fry wouldnt budge. Unless my greivances are heard, i will not come out david, its harder to live for liberty than it is to die you have no right to call me a coward. Reporter his list of grievances varied, from taxation issues to this all i needed was marijuana. You guys wouldnt even let me have my marijuana. Reporter but little by little, activist Krisanne Hall got through to him. If everybody says hallelujah, ill come out. Im walking towards them right now. Can i just cry now, gavin . Reporter tonight, those final four are now part of a group of 16 people now under federal indictment after 41 days that wreaked havoc out here. David . Neal karlinsky on the scene from the start. Thanks, neal. Now, to a breaking headline tonight from georgia. A major prison scandal. Officers raiding this prison, more than 40 current and former guards under arrest at this hour. Abcs senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas on what they are accused of doing while in uniform to avoid getting caught. Reporter Georgia State Prison Guards are the ones wearing handcuffs today, busted taking bribes from inmates and drug dealers. They allegedly helped prisoners get drugs into the prison. Allegations range from smuggling in contraband, but also using their official capacity as officers to protect what they believe to be drug transactions and drug shipments. Dont overlook anything reporter raids like this coming as the fbi and state officials vow to clean out compromised guards and illegal activity inside prison walls. The arrests, the latest example of apparently widescale corruption within georgia prisons. More than 130 inmates, guards and outsiders charged just since september. And Pierre Thomas with us live tonight, as well. Pierre, so, these officers are accused of staying in uniform to go undetected and the inmates had cell phones to run their deals . Reporter david, its stunning. 19 georgia Corrections Officers have been charged with protects inmates who were using cell including posing as Law Enforcement officials and demanding victims pay fines. Pierre thomas again tonight. Thank you. Now, to a case weve been reporting on right here. A massive and deadly gas explosion that brought down city. It caused a sevenalarm fire. Buildings were reduced to rubble. Two people were killed. Well, tonight, four people are now charged with manslaughter, and prosecutors say it was all abcs Ron Claiborne from the scene tonight. Reporter it began with a fiery explosion. Flames engulching three apartment buildings. And in just a few hours, all of it gone. Two lives lost, dozens displaced. Today, the buildings owner, her son and two contractors were arrested and charged with manslaughter. Accused of tampering with gas lines in their rush to rent apartments for up to 6,000 a month each. When greed guides the decisions and the respect for result. Reporter nearly one year later, the two people who died are still remembered here at the prosecutors say the contractors illegally jerry rigged the gas lines twice. First, with dangerous flexible hoses, shown in this photo, to supply gas to the apartments above. Later, by allegedly tapping into the gas lines of the neighboring building, and hiding it all from inspectors. They say the day of the deadly fire, the owners son and th lead contractor went to investigate the odor of gas in the basement. They smelled the gas and then they sprinted out of the building, without alerting people in the restaurant. Reporter minutes later, the gas ignited. And prosecutors say the building, which had been here, had already failed one inspection, and the owners wanted to get those renters in as soon as possible, and not wait for the next inspection. David, those four suspects accused of manslaughter, they pleaded not guilty today. Ron claiborne live right here in new york tonight. Ron, thank you. This evening, the u. S. Coast guard is now inspecting that Royal Caribbean cruise ship, straight through hurricaneforce ones. Tonight, the passengers now describing the horror. Heres abcs linsey davis. Reporter for passengers onboard this rough and tumble cruise that had some fearing for their lives this is crazy. Reporter renewed meaning tonight to the saying their ship has finally come in. Im alive. Im alive. This is insane. Reporter finally on dry land, passenger Peter Aloupis told our robin roberts, anthem of the seas in that storm sunday night felt like being inside a washing machine. Thats exactly what it was like, robin. It was absolutely terrifying. We were on the third floor with an ocean view and we literally by. Reporter as to why the to sail with those warnings in the forecast, Royal Caribbean what happened this week showed that we need to do better. Were going to figure out what exactly happened and make sure doesnt happen again. Reporter while the coast guard has yet to come meant on its inspection of the ship, in a tweet today, Royal Caribbean confirmed anthem of the seas will set sail again on saturday. David . Linsey davis, thank you. Now, to the economy tonight, and a wild day on wall street. The dow on a roller coaster ride yet again. At one point, plummeting more than 400 points. Then, leveling out somewhat, closing down 254 points. Abcs chief Business Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis tonight on the market rocked by lower oil prices, while at the same time, its leading to 99 cents a gallon in parts of this rebecca . Reporter david, there are gas stations selling below 2 a gallon and suspected prices will continue to fall from here. And take a look at this. Its a station in kansas, now selling gas for 99 cents a gallon. Experts predict there is more where that came from, especially in the midwest, where prices could fall in coming weeks below 1 a gallon. Now, this is great news for consumer consumers, now paying the lowest decade, but its been a big problem for energy companies, and energy jobsnd we have seen as well. David . Rebecca jarvis with us tonight. Rebecca, thank you. There is still much more ahead on world news tonight this thursday. 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Your planner shows snow at 10 pm and 19, snow ending at 2 am and 17, and cloudy skies at 6 am with a temperature of 14. Ill be back with a look at how much snow to expect tonight, along with snow over the weekend, in just a few minutes. Its time for local news that matters jenna good evening and thank you for joining us tonight im Jenna Rehnstrom tim and im tim seaman. A sioux city man accused of several armed robberies and attempted murder learned the charges he faces today. Jenna 18year old Isaiah Mothershed was aprehended earlier in the week after one of those robberies, where he shot a Sioux City Police officer abc 9s christina grihallva has more on the Court Hearing today. Christina . Christina tim and jenna Isaiah Mothershed may have had his first court today but this was not his first act of violence. The 18yearold has actuallyeen connected to several incidents dating backto last year. 18yearold Isaiah Mothershed appeared in Court Thursday for the First Time Since being accused of shooting a Sioux City Police officer sunday. Mothershed is charged with two counts of attempted murder and five counts of 1st degree robbery each as a classb felony that carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. I have to advise you that if convicted of any of those charges, you would be required to serve 70 percent of that sentence, before youd be eligable for parole or work release. Mothersheds hearing is actually in several incidents dating back to december of 2015. According to court mothershed was invasion back in a special needs and beaten while the other occupants of the home were threatened at gunpoint. Also connected to four other robberies over the past two months. Also the shooting of the
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