Tailgating tradition. Good tuesday morning, everyone. After recordbreaking december warmth, the first major winter storm battering several states right now. Absolutely. Lets get right to the radar. That massive system stretching from wisconsin to maine bringing everything from snow to ice to heavy downpours. This is the scene right now overnight outside of boston. The snow and ice snarling traffic and delaying flights on one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. All this after the same system spawned deadly tornadoes in texas. Abcs megan hughes has the latest. Reporter after an unusually warm december, the first snow falls in massachusetts this morning. Ice melt and shovels fly off the shelves. It was kind of like black fridayish. Reporter in new york state, plow trucks are ready. First storm of the year. Theres a lot of accidents. Hopefully theyll be very minor. Reporter weather around the country has given them a preview from high winds and icy roads creating treacherous conditions missouri where the states death toll climbed into the double digits. A snowdrift in new mexico trapped betty and Jimmy Anderson in their car for 20 hours until rescuers broke the windshield to free them. My wife, she was just shivering and shaking so i got into the passenger seat because the drivers seat was full of snow from us trying to dig out so we cuddled up together. Reporter air travelers also had nothing to do but wait. Ive been stranded now in the airport for 50 hours. Reporter almost 3,000 Flights Canceled across the United States yesterday according to flight tracking service, flight aware. The weather system spawned more tornadoes bringing terror to florida and arkansas. Drive. Get on the gas and go. Thats it. Thats a tornado. Reporter while cleanup began near dallas where a 40mile scar of splintered homes and debris show the aftermath of tornados that took 11 lives there. Megan hughes, abc news, washington. Thank you, megan, and that this morning, it will be a slick commute for most of the northeast. On the map here, albany, hartford, boston, all cities in that pink icy area. Mostly rain for new york city and south. At least 6 to 12 inches of snow from wisconsin to maine when its all over with. Okay, lets get to the other major breaking news story from overnight. The capture of the socalled affluenza teen, ethan couch. This is the first image right here of couch since he was detained in mexico. Note that hes dyed his hair black in an obvious attempt to avoid detection. Couch and his mother are now on their way to guadalajara where theyre expected to eventually be transferred back toexas. Couch was found responsible for a drunk driving crash that killed four people back in 2013. But his lawyers claimed his privileged upbringing prevented him from being able to distinguish right from wrong and authorities have been searching for couch since december 10th for allegedly violating his probation. Well, now to the race for the white house and donald trump is on the attack. Hes taking aim at someone new, new jersey governor Chris Christie, and mr. Trump still firing shots at possible rival Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president. Donald trumps new target. Chris christie. Chris christie. Christie. Christie. Christie. Reporter going after Chris Christie last night in New Hampshire ripping the new jersey governor for embracing president obama after hurricane sandy. It was unbelievable. He was like a little boy, oh, im with the president. Reporter the republican frontrunner also blasting christie for the bridgegate scandal suggesting the governor knew about the lane closures. Theyre closing the biggest bridge in the United States, the most traveled on bridge, one of them in the world and most traveled on in the United States. Youre doing that and youre not telling the governor. And youre with him all the time. Reporter the latest attack coming after the New Hampshire union leader endorsed christie. What a pile of garbage that newspaper is. The papers publisher comparing trump to biff in back to the future movies. You have a very dishonest newspaper up here. Its also a failing newspaper. Its going down the tubers. Reporter trump also going after not just one clinton, but two tweeting if hillary thinks she can unleash her husband with his terrible record of women abuse while playing the womens card on me, shes wrong. That tweet coming after Hillary Clinton accused trump of sexism in an interview last week. And in an interview with abc news back in 2013, trump seemed proud to consider bill clinton a friend and he told cnn back in 2008 that clintons infidelity was, quote, totally unimportant. Only five weeks till the caucuses in iowa. New this morning, family members of a little syrian boy who drowned while seeking freedom have arrived in canada. The image of alan kurdis body on a turkish beach Drew International outcry. The 3yearld died with his mother while trying to reach well, now kurdis aunt and uncle and their five children have arrived in canada to start a new life. The kurdis are among 25,000 Syrian Refugees the canadian government has pledged to welcome by the end of february. A potential Security Breach during the president s vacation in hawaii. A drone briefly flew next to mr. Obamas motorcade before secret Service Agents approached the man controlling the aircraft. The motorcade was in traffic and driving slowly at the time and didnt speed up or alter course. No charges will be filed since it was apparently an accident. And speaking of president obama, were getting our second glimpse of him on the golf course during his current vacation in hawaii. There he was on the 18th green unable to repeat the successful 40foot chip into the hole that we saw a couple of days ago. Eventually he got the ball in the hole. Good going, mr. President. Okay, so the president possibly wanting to say good riddance to that round of golf right there. And thats exactly what a lot of people here in new york citys times square did during the participants ditched whatever they needed to get out of their lives. They put it into a shredder. The shredder, it shredded paper and will be used as confetti to help ring in the new year. So it all comes full circle come january 1st. Better to rain down on someone else, right, your old things. Still ahead, taking over your news feed, the facebook post, now confirmed a hoax. And lost in the woods, in near zero temperature, a teenager found with no time to spare. Plus, caught on camera dangling high in the air, skiers rappelown a ski lift. Daring rescues caught on camera. Snowboarders at a ski resort in canada. This snowboarder seen dangling high up in the air, he was among a group forced to climb down a ski lift that broke down. 2015 is going out with a whimper on wall street. Both the Dow Jones Industrial average and s p 500 are lower now than at the beginning of the year. Its the first time either could end the year in the red since the recession. The dow yesterday lost 24 points, s p was off 4 1 2 and the nasdaq slid 7 1 2 yesterday. Whole foods is paying a hefty fine to settle claims it overcharged new york city customers for prepackaged foods. The grocery chain is paying 500,000. Its also expanding policies to prevent mislabeling and incorrect pricing. City regulators had initially demanded 1. 5 million. Just last year whole foods paid 800,000 to los angeles, santa monica and san diego for pricing violations. So apparently getting hacked may be the best thing that ever dating site. The site, which specializes in arranging extramarital affairs, says its membership has spiked since the data breach. There are more than 4 million additional members. Theres still class action lawsuits pending as a result of that breach. So, whats in your investment portfolio . Stocks, bonds, gold . Maybe you should put money into legos. A study finds that the set of popular childrens Building Blocks have increased in value 12 each year since 2000. Gold, on the other hand, just missed 10 , but thats only for lego sets that have never been opened. You got to have the box. So, thats what we have to tell our Financial Adviser that were going to invest in legos. Hell probably think youre crazy. Yes, and he would be right. When we come back, right place at the right time. 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Youll also see snowy roads in the northwest, the Northern Rockies and parts theres flooding in the south right up the east coast, icy roads in new england later. Flying, airport delays likeliest in minneapolis, philadelphia, new york city, boston and atlanta. No criminal charges are being filed against the two Cleveland Police officers in the death of 12yearold tamir rice. He was carrying a toy gun when he was shot dead last year. A Rookie Police officer killed rice within seconds of arriving at the scene. Family members furious over the grand jurys decision called the investigation a charade. Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, the stakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police. It was so clear from the prosecutors behavior that he was trying to lose the case, that he was trying to exonerate the officers. Prosecutors say theres a long list of mistakes which led to the tragedy, among them, they to police that the person scaring people at the park was probably a juvenile with a toy gun. Heavy metal fans are morning the loss this morning of motorhead frontman, lemmy. The ace of spades the ace of spades ian Lemmy Kilmister died just two days after learning that he had a particularly aggressive form of cancer. On its Facebook Page the band is urging fans to play lemmys music loud and to have a drink or two. Lemmy died at his home in los angeles. He was 70 years old. A utah family thankful to have their son home after a harrowing ordeal. 14yearold Braden Neilson became separated from friends during a hunting trip on saturday. He wound up spend ging nearly 30 hours in the frigid wilderness. During that time he walked 11 miles believing if he stopped he would have died. He was hypothermic when he was meantime, in pennsylvania. Watch this video carefully. Dash cam here, this car slammed had into a pole and the unconscious driver is trapped inside the burning vehicle. Within seconds that is yorktownship fire chief nate tracy jumping out of his truck pulling the driver out of the vehicle to safety. Watch. The chief didnt even put on his firefighter jacket before racing into action. A favorite player among the fans of the San Diego Chargers has been slapped with a rather odd fine. Safety eric weddle now fined 10,000. His offense, staying on the field at halftime during the chargers recent game against miami so that he could watch his daughter perform in a dance program. A Team Spokesman says players are required to be in the locker room when game plan adjustments are made. Give me a break. The chargers making some bad moves all around this year. Every nfl team will play next sunday the regular seasons final day and thats when all the outstanding playoff issues as for last nights action we get the highlights from our guys at espn. Hes stan, im neil. Were going to do highlights. Lets start with monday night football. We have the broncos and bengals. Bengals already in the playoffs, broncos trying to get there. They went to overtime. Its tied at 17. Brock osweiler, the backup quarterback in for the injured Peyton Manning to demaryius thomas. How does he make that catch . Its unbelievable. So, that led to this field goal attempt from Brandon Macmanus who had missed one earlier. Badly. Knocked that one down so its 2017 denver. A. J. Mccarron and the bengals get a shot. So the broncos get their chance and broncos are in the playoffs. Steph curry did not score a point in the First Quarter and riley curry wants to know why. It was against the king, then he went stepback bobby jack. His first of the game. See, he shot with 3 16 left in the half. Dudes made like six in a row after that. 17 by half. This omri casspi guy was doing his best curry imitation. The warriors win again. Theyre 291. Wow, theyre good. 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The severe storms in the midwest and south are making postchristmas travel a nightmare. Thousandsf Flights Canceled or delayed. Driving in many areas will be treacherous. Looking g ating at todays weather, snow in new england, local thunderstorms and showers in the south and still more snow west of the great lakes. Well, its one of the most popular gadget gifts this year yeah, a lot of people are saying that. Everybody is talking about hoverboards and clearly timed for this years 30th anniversary of the back to the future s you might say people are falling head over heels for the twowheeled devices and heading back not to the future. But to the emergency room. Abcs gio benitez has that story. Reporter as many reveal what they got for christmas, one of this years hottest gifts leaving many in the hospital. Wipeout after wipeout. Even professional athletes like baseball player dan uggla hitting the ground. And this u. S. Representative taking to twitter to show off his hoverboard injury. Weve seen the fires linked to hoverboards. The Consumer ProductsSafety Commission now investigating 21 fire incidents across the country. Even tweeting this warning got a hoverboard for christmas. Might want one of these. Devices from flights for fear of the batteries catching fire. I was surprise. I didnt think i would get injured that badly. This goes so fast. Reporter Xavier Terrell documented his first hoverboard ride. Falls twice bloodying his knee. The cpsc says it received dozens of reports of injuries and is expecting that number to grow. Experts urge everyone to wear proper safety gear before taking one for a spin. If you want to be someone taking care of yourself get wrist guards and a helmet. Reporter gio benitez, abc news, new york. I hope you have wrist guards and a helmet. You got one. I got a drone but it really is everywhere. I saw a church choir on Christmas Day using it as part of their performance. 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