Tonight bracing for dangerous record breaking cold. Windchills well below zero, expected across at least 20 states from North Carolina to maine. The dangerous rescues already tonight the ice and the flooding from the deadly storm. And now the fires also thousands of flights canceled. And the Emergency Landing today at jfk airport in new york. The white house tonight, President Trump going after the author of that bombshell book. Tonight, the author says he spoke to multiple members of the president s inner circle. He says they told him the president is like a child. He does not read, he does not listen. Late today the fire the arson investigation at the home of one of roy moores accusers. She spoke out and tonight authorities are speaking to a person of interest. In that fire. Also developing, the pulse nightclub shooting and what the wife of the shooter now reveals. The health scare for alex trebek. Why hell be off the air. And if you own an iphone, a mac, a pc a major security flaw. What Authorities Say you need to do now. Good evening and its great to have you with us on a friday night. We begin with the new concern tonight, just as we begin the weekend, the dangerous lifethreatening cold moving in in some places record breaking cold. So much of the country reeling from the deadly storm. Flooded streets right there along the massachusetts coast. Record high waves in boston. Cars frozen tonight under several feet of water in revere. Fierce winds fueling a fire in new jersey. A tough battle there. A very cold night ahead. Authorities are warning take these temperatures seriously. In fact, take a look at the windchills in the morning. It will feel like 16 below in new york city. 26 below in boston. 14 below in the nations
capital. Tonight the fires fueled by the winds. Firefighters out in this frigid cold and abcs eva pilgrim leads us off from massachusetts. Reporter tonight millions chiseling out from a breath taking noreaster as record breaking cold moves in. In scituate, residents assessing the damage, crews racing to clear roads. Just a few minutes ago this entire street was all ice, kind of like this. Reporter in winthrop after storm surge inundated streets, holly and tommy schlichting racing to get the water out of their basement. As you can see theres still lots of water pumping out and hopefully get it all into the drains before tonights high tide. Why is that . Because once the high tide comes in theres no place for the water to go. Reporter Officials Say it was the highest tide ever recorded in boston. If anyone wants to question global warming, just see where the flood zones are. Those zones didnt flood 30 years ago. Reporter dozens of rescues along the massachusetts coast. In marshfield, the National Guard using high water vehicles to save people. There was cars outside almost completely under water. And then there was water coming in the back door. In hull, a front end loader retrieving a woman from this front porch. In new York City Kids trudging back to school through the snow. More than a foot of snow falling here in parts of long island. And take a look here with our drone cam, theres just so much snow. And with these subzero wind chills, its not melting anytime soon. Reporter overnight fire and ice in newark, new jersey. Driven by high winds. That fire quickly spread to the 2 buildings to the left of the original fire building and also across the street. Reporter at least two firefighters injured. The storm taking at least eight lives including a 13 Year Old Girl killed by Carbon Monoxide poisoning at this Apartment Building in perth amboy. Eva from massachusetts. We can see all of thats there behind you from the harbor. The concern over these plummeting temperatures. Reporter david the winds have been howling and the gusts are 40 miles an hour happening all day long. This wind is bringing in the cold. This is the 11th straight day of below freezing temperatures. Tonight it will feel like 25 degrees below zero. This is frigid. And in temperatures like this, you can get frostbite in under half an hour, david. Get back in the car with the crew. Eva, thanks. Remember, your neighbors as we head into this weekend. Temperatures as they plummet turning the hudson river and so many other rivers into ice. Shutting down shipping channels where so much of the heating oil gets to where it needs to go. Adrienne bankert reporting earlier. Reporter david, while out here on the freezing waters of the hudson, temperatures feel about 20 degrees colder than
they actually are. The hudson river looks more like a jagged ice rink but small powerful vessel like this one can break through up to 3 feet of that ice providing a clear path for other ships like those carrying heating oil. Something so many homes here in the northeast desperately need. Especially this winter. David . Thanks. Next the storm reeleavele a travel mess. Take a look at new yorks jfk. Fire fighting equipped on the tarmac as an American Airlines flight made an Emergency Landing because of an engine problem. Heres linsey davis on that story tonight. Reporter tonight after the storm tens of thousands of passengers still stranded from coast to coast. Were stuck here another day. All the flights before us were canceled. Two of us got out, but 13 people are stuck here. Reporter at laguardia, the Thurston Family has battled cancellations for their flight
to aruba since wednesday. Now were booked for tonights flight, but they had to break us all up, each parents flying with children individually, but right now were taking our chances on standby. Reporter with new yorks big three airports shut down for most of the day thursday more than 4300 flights cancel and others had to divert to other airports. This singapore a380, had to land at Stewart Air Force base in new york and 31 flights diverted to washingtons dulles airport, we didnt have anywhere to go. Reporter some passengers trapped on the tarmac for hours as planes tried to find gates. Some managed to make it out faced other problems. This American Airlines flight from jfk to cancun, forced to make an Emergency Landing in the cold after takeoff due to an enginerelated issue. Linsey, you were telling us some signs of life at laguardia but other airportser main
closed . Reporter things are starting to get back to normal but more than 200 flights were canceled. Lets talk about charleston, South Carolina, that airport remains closed. They got about 5 inches of snow but not equipped to handle it. The faa says they might not reopen until monday night. Lets get to ginger zee tonight. This cold we cant underscore how dangerous it is. Places like new york and massachusetts its going to be ten minutes of exposure and you get frostbite tonight and tomorrow morning. Thats how close the windchill warnings are. From South Carolina to augusta, maine and as far as south as dato datone, beach. New york city 27 below. Turn it around in the afternoon you say its got to get better. Not that much better. Not a day you want to be exposed. Heres the last thing, actual
air temperatures sunday morning, if philadelphia drops below zero its the First Time Since 1944. Thanks. On to other news this friday night. New fallout open the book about the white house. The publisher rushed it to bookstores today. Steve bannon turning on the president and his family. President trump is tweeting about bannon nicknaming him sloppy steve. The president is going after the author and the author saying he spoke to multiple members of the president s inner circle. He says they told him the president is like a child, does not read or listen. Heres cecelia vega tonight. Reporter President Trump headed to camp david for the weekend. As for questions, he wasnt having it. Were making America Great again. Thank you very much. Reporter the new book taking his white house and it seems all of washington by storm. At bookstores, long lines, within hours empty shelves. The president now lashing out at author Michael Wolff and former chief strategist chief bannon, a key voice quoted disparaging the president and his faemg. The president tweeting the book is full of lies and sources that dont exist. Look at this guys past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve. Wolff stands by every word and tells nbc news the president s inner circle thinks he is unfit for office. They all say he is like a child and what they mean is that he has a need for immediate gratification. Its all about him. They say hes a moron, an idiot. Lets remember this man does not read, does not listen. Reporter wolff paints a portrait of a mentally unstable man saying he repeats the same stories every three minutes and recently at maralago failed to
recognize lifelong friends. I will quote steve bannon. Hes lost it. Reporter these incidents not confirmed by abc news. But the white house now forced to answer questions about the president s mental stability. Its disgraceful and laughable. If he was unfit, he probably wouldnt be sitting there. This is an incredibly strong and good leader. Reporter their strategy, to disparage wolff as someone who had limited sources and limited access. The president tweeting today i never spoke to him for book, but wolff says whether or not the president realized it was for the book, they did spend about three hours together during the campaign and in the white house. Lets get to cecelia vega from the white house. President trump was hoping to start the new year boosted by victory on the tax cuts but this book is dominating the white houses agenda. Reporter there is definitely
a sense of outrage and frustration about that. But this is a west wing used to dealing with crisis. As one firm said people expect us to be running around with our hair on fire but hard to do that when its already been burned off. Cecilia, thank you. Next to new reporting on the russia investigation. Several reports claiming that President Trump directed his White House Council to tell attorney general Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself in the russia investigation and claiming Robert Mueller has received handwritten notes from Reince Priebus that do shed light on the president s firing of former fbi director james comey. Heres abcs Pierre Thomas tonight. Reporter new questions about whether President Trump was attempting to obstruct justice by controlling the investigation into russian meddling. The New York Times reporting the president ordered why is counsel to personally pressure attorney general sessions not to
recuse himself from the russia probe but sessions did it anyway. Infuriating the president. If he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. Reporter times also reporting new details of the president s alleged attempt to convince james comey to publicly proclaim trump himself was not under scrutiny. He asked to get it out that i the president am not personally under investigation. Reporter times claims Reince Priebus kept notes of conversations where the president told him he made that request of comey. Special counsel bob mueller has these notes. According to the times as the president s frustration with comey mounted, the aide to general sessions approached a capitol hill staffer looking for dirt on the fbi director. Tonight the attorney general spokeswoman tells abc news this
did not happen and would not happen. Pierre thomas live from washington. Theres also news tonight that the Justice Department is now renewing its investigation into the Clinton Foundation and whether or not donations were made in exchange for political favors when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Your sources are confirming that . Reporter our sources tell us the investigation began during the Obama Administration but republicans have been calling for it for months and the president had been urging the just does department to investigate Hillary Clinton and we have a response from Hillary Clintons spokesman and it is pl blistering. He said lets call it what it is, a sham. Republicans have tried to turn into a political football. Disgraceful and should be concerning to all americans. The goal is to distract the special from the special counsels investigation and accusations from treason from
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