Why even Hillary Clinton tonight saying this time trump is right. And just a short time ago they came before the cameras in tennessee with their dog and their Winning Ticket. What they said that had everyone smiling. Good evening, and we begin with breaking news. Images coming in as we come on the air. An attack on a hotel popular with westerners. These are the images coming in from the capital of burkina faso in west africa. Eyewitnesses describing a horrific scene. Gunmen, their heads covered shooting into the air then storming into the hotel. Cars ablaze at this hour. Gunfire heard in the streets. And now reports of possible hostages inside that hotel and a warning now from the u. S. Embassy to any americans in the region. Lets get right to abcs senior just first correspondent Pierre Thomas live in washington tonight. Pierre. Reporter david, just a dangerous situation appears to african country. At least four men attacking that hotel popular with westerners. Eyewitness reports of two car bombs going off outside the splendid hotel. You can hear the gunfire there as well. Tonight there are reports of gunfire in and around the hotel and believe authorities are engaging the assailants. There was a similar attack in neighboring mali last year that left 20 dead. We have a group affiliated with al qaeda claiming credit. We want to stay with these disturbing pictures on the ground as, pierre, we want to get more information about the warning from the u. S. Embassy for americans. Reporter exactly right. The u. S. Embassy is warning all its personnel and u. S. Citizens to stay away from the downtown area. To stay away. Apparently the gunfight is still under way, david. Pierre thomas, well be staying on this story into the night, thank you. Back at home to wall street. Stocks in a freefall today. The dow closing down nearly 400 points. Wild swings. Points. Experts this evening pointing to one major factor driving all of this. The price of oil. Already a very tough start to the year for americans and their savings. Is there more to come . Abcs gio benitez at the New York Stock Exchange tonight. Reporter tonight, a nightmare on wall street. All major u. S. Markets in a freefall today. The dow dropping over 500 points before closing down 390, the nasdaq finishing down 2. 7 and the s p down 2. 1 . So far this year the dow losing 547 billion. Leading the way down, financial stocks and energy. When oil trades lower, yes, there is that benefit that gas prices are going to go down, but most likely you have an oil stock in your diverse portfolio and those prices are going to be affected by that falling oil prices. Reporter a gallon of oil, now cheaper than a bottle of water in some places. So, what does that mean for your nest egg . Has already lost 7500 in value since the beginning of the year. 6 6. One thing they shouldnt do is stwrad them. Just as soon as it falls it may jump once again and you will have missed out on that. Reporter david, traders i spoke with here today say this up and down may actually be healthy for the market, to sort of stabilize those stock prices. But no doubt these are scary times for traders and investor, david. Gio benitez on wall street tonight. Gio, thank you. Now to the search under way at this hour off the coast of hawaii for 12 marines missing after two military helicopters collided. Search teams overhead all day today braving rough seas for any sign of survivors. Abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz on the desperate search at this hour. Reporter the searchers, in the air, on the sea, fighting high waves some 20 feet looking for those 12 marines and the helicopters. The biggest the u. S. Has, leaving a debris field some 15 miles long, virtually the entire north shore of oahu where abcs aditi roy is tonight. The marine corps is warning beachgoers here that there might be debris from the helicopters washing up since the two crashed s offshore and asked people to call and report whatever they find and not to touch it. Reporter the ch53s went down in darkness under a cover of clouds during a routine training mission, the helicopters believed to have clyded midair after reports of a fireball an loud boom. An eyewitness heard loud booms that shook her house. Using night visions there are things that can give you aircraft is. Reporter in the past theres been a rash of marine corps fatalities in at least five years. Martha, we know most of those accidents have been in training. They have been, david, and the marine corps will try to look at whats contributing to this, whether its Pilot Training or equipment, but this is a reminder that military training is not without very real danger, david. Martha raddatz in washington, martha, thank you. Now to the air scare on board an American Airlines flight from new york to miami hitting extreeks turbulence. There were several injuries, passengers and crew. This Flight Attendant injured rushed to the hospital. Eyewitnesses now describing the moment the turbulence hit. Abcs david kerley covers aviation for us. Reporter that Flight Attendant with the bloodied nose on a stretcher. The American Airlines jet heading to miami into this weather hit severe turbulence. Passengers were screaming. Children crying. It felt like a roller coaster. It was just very uncomfortable, and everybody was afraid. American 1410, we have one Flight Attendant with a broken injuries to passengers. Reporter other planes were hit too. Severe turbulence can toss people, their belongings, even heavy drink carts around the cabin. Predicting turbulence like this has always been the problem, but some new software is giving pilots a view inside the storm. We were on board this test flight around miami recently where these test pilots aim for turbulence. Were headed right for this turbulence . Yes, we are. Reporter on purpose. Rockwell has developed Radar Software which American Airlines is installing on its jets. Green means go, a path through the storm. And when we have actually flown through those areas, it has been smooth as glass. There hasnt even been a ripple. Reporter technology which may prevent these turbulent rides. David kerley, abc news, david, thank you. Now to the extreme weather this friday night. The noreaster hitting this evening bringing high wind, rain, tornado watches and warnings for a time across florida. Coral. Whipping winds in sanaa bell island off the coach drenching rain outside this familys home in orlando and the roof ripped off this strip mall in venice, florida. Were tracking the noreaster and a major blast of arctic air elsewhere. Meteorologist rob marciano here on both fronts tonight. Hey, david. Its the southern flaveng of that that clobbered south florida. That has since moved out. Another round on sunday but the center of our low over the carolinas and precip shield pushing across virginia into the northeast. Fastmoving storm but will rain heavily with big winds across only the furthest northern mountains seeing snow. The cold front is where the cold stuff is. Mine 17 in minneapolis blue thats the actual temperature. 43 below in duluth. Spreading east on monday and 4 degrees in d. C. , some areas will see the lowest temperature in two years. Rob marciano with us, thanks. Now to that showdown in South Carolina last night. Republican rumble and center stage donald trump and ted cruz, the gloves came off on a number of issues including what ted cruz meant when he said trump has new york values. Abcs tom llamas on the campaign trail tonight with breaking developments. Word late today from cruz when asked if he would apologize. Reporter tonight, ted cruz asked again and again should he apologize to the people of new york after staying the course last night on that debate stage saying donald trump embodies new york values. Cow explain what you mean by that . Yeah, i think most people know exactly what new york values are. I am from new york. I dont. Youre from new york so you might not. But i promise you in the state of South Carolina, they do. And, listen, there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of new york. But everyone understands that the values in new york city are or progay marriage, focused around money and the media and i guess i can frame it another way. Not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. Im just saying. Reporter trumps response controlled contempt. When the World Trade Center came down, i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than new york. Everybody in the world loved new york and loved new yorkers and i have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that ted made. [ applause ] reporter now cruz learning the risks of taking on new york. On the cover of the daily news lady liberty giving him the one finger salute. The mayor and governor democrats outraged demanding an apology. Cruz tonight defiant. I apologize to the millions of new yorkers who have been let down by liberal politicians in i apologize to all the prolife and prosecond amendment new yorkers who were told by Governor Cuomo they have no place in new york. Reporter david, just to show you how cruzs new york values attack has really struck a chord, even Hillary Clinton siding with trump on this issue tweeting, just this once, trumps right. David. Rare agreement on that front, all right, tom, thank you. George stephanopoulos will be interviewing donald trump george. Now to a Major Development tonight in the story weve been following here on world news tonight involving lead in the water in flint, michigan. Tonight a Major Investigation launched. The governor of michigan asking the white house to declare a federal disaster and this evening many asking what did authorities know and when did they know it . Abcs alex perez back on the case. Reporter why . Theres no delay. Reporter tonight michigan Governor Rick Snyder and possibly other state officials under investigation after an unprecedented toxic water crisis in flint. Today launching a formal investigation to determine if any laws were violated and why it took authorities so long to respond. Saying in a statement, the situation in flint is a human tragedy, in 21st century america, no one should have to fear something as basic as turning on the kitchen faucet. Angry residents now testing their children for lead poisoning. Tell us how long we got to keep suffering through this. Reporter the frustration growing since 2014 when the city of flint stopped paying for water from lake huron and began to process it from the flint river to save some 19 million. It wasnt until more than a year later that officials declared the water unsafe. This week Governor Snyder deploying the national guard. Volunteers delivering bottled water and tap water filters to residents. And, david, the governor even asking president obama to declare a federal emergency in flint. Theres already a fema team on the ground accession the situation. David. Alex, thank you. Now to the capture of el actor at the center of so many headlines involving el chapos arrest. Sean penn breaking his silence about his secret meeting with the fugitive drug lord. He says he was interviewing him and denies leading authorities to el chapos hideout. Claiming hes been made a scapegoat. We had met with him many weeks earlier in a place nowhere near where he was captured. El chapo was captured three months after that meeting. Tonight penn says he regrets his reporting didnt bring attention to the war on drugs. There is still much more ahead on world news this friday. Walmarts big announcement closing more than 260 stores. Well break down the list. Also, the new headline this evening about chipotle. They will close down every restaurant on the same day and why theyre doing it. The emergency we learned about in space. The space caulk cut short. The dangerous problem involving the astronaut. A short time ago we met them. They brought in their dog and their Winning Ticket and what they said that made us all smile. The powerball winners right after the break. Asthma. One of many pieces in my life. Coming back on my longterm control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. 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What will you do with the our daughter had some theyre going to help me pay student loans. Reporter you cant help but love. A small town family who plans to keep the house thats just down the street from the Grocery Store where john is seen here on a Security Camera buying that Winning Ticket. Big fannie houses, elaborate houses theyre nice. Dont get me wrong but also you got to clean them. Reporter they kept telling us theyre keeping their jobs. Hearst in a dermatologists office and his at a maintenance distribution center. Tonight theres no official word yet from california or florida on the winners there but, of course, there are plenty of rumors. They now have 178 days left to come forward. David. All right, more to come. Steve osunsami in tennessee, steve, thank you. Well have much more on a special edition of 20 20 tonight, 10 00 p. M. Eastern and as youll learn tonight it doesnt always come with a completely happy ending. Youve got to see this coming up later tonight. 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Mary triplet was in a world where if you had a kid like donald you were told one thing, put that child away and forget. And they did. They said, wait a second. Reporter she fought to get him into school and he was soon sitting in the first grade. What would a mother not do for her child . Exactly. Its parental love and thats not not just for children with autism. Thats for what would any parent she would teach him how to drive, and tonight, this is donald now. 82nd still driving. He learned how to drive at 27. Yeah. And he drives in his own special way. Both hands on the wheel using both feet and always a cadillac. You can imagine his mother saying use one foot but that didnt work. He still drives with two feet. Reporter everyone in that mississippi town knows him. Hey, donald. How are you . All right. How are you doing. Reporter until just recently donald had no idea he was case number one. Diagnosed with autism. Decades later so many parents fighting for their children. 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