We do say good friday morning. Im kendis gibson. And im Mara Schiavocampo in for diane macedo. Donald trump possibly welcoming a former foe into his cabinet. Mitt romney, a fierce critic of donald trump in the past, and now hes in the running to be trumps top diplomat. Also retired general Michael Flynn, now emerging as the frontrunner to be Trumps National security abcs janai norman is tracking all the latest developments. Janai, good morning. Reporter some big name republicans taking up time on the president elects schedule as donald trump makes the deepest dive weve seen yet into Foreign Policy meeting with japans prime minister. From foes to friends, president elect trump is making peace with former rival mitt romney, a republican who had some of the harshest criticism of him. Think of Donald Trumps bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics. Mitt romneys made a total fool of himself. Reporter now an unexpected change. Sources tell abc news trump is considering romney for secretary of state among other candidates another former rival, South Carolina governor nikki haley who was also vocal about her opposition to the then candidate. During anxious times it call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. Reporter as trumps team works to get key players in place abc news is learning Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn whos been a contender for National Security adviser in the new Trump Administration has reportedly emerged as frontrunner for the job. Its going really well. I mean its a great transition. Promises tweeting about working hollywood with the chairman of ford to keep the lincoln plant in kentucky rather than moving it to mexico, turns out the Company Never planned to move the plant to mexico. And Newt Gingrich is one person who apparently wont be playing a part in trumps administration. The former House Speaker was a highprofile surrogate for trump during the campaign but now he tells the Washington Post he wont serve in trumps cabinet in any position. Kendis and mara. All right, in washington. Thanks so much. These are busy times for donald trump meeting with japans prime minister. It took place at trump tower and it was trumps first meeting with a foreign leader since being elected. Afterwards shinzo abe called trump a, quote, trustworthy leader. Trumps daughter, ivanka and her husband top trump adviser Jared Kushner were involved. In the past trump has suggested that japan should contribute more to the cost of basing u. S. Troops there. Pence served six terms in the house which had nancy pelosi say hell be valued. Pence took a group selfie and he told them they should be ready to work extremely hard. Tim kaine is making himself clear definitive si saying he will not be running for president in four years. He tells the Associated Press his place is i years. Well, this mornings other big story, the deadly norm impacting nearly a dozen states. The first major snowstorm of the year is now moving from the rockies to the Northern Plains. Some areas could see 6 to 12 inches of snow and wind gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour. Lets get details now from accuweathers justin povick. Justin, good morning. Mara and kendis, thanks, good morning to you. States and look at snow accumulations by the time we get into late tonight. East of fargo along interstate 94, north and west twin cities, upwards of doubledigit snow accumulation, some areas well over a foot of snow. The other big impact here, damaging winds which could exceed 60 Miles Per Hour into the overnight. Mara, kendis, back to you. All right, our thanks to justin and the weather problem in the southeast is the drought thats been fueling dozens of wildfire, more than 190 square week alone. One official says hes never seen a fall wildfire season like this one. Thousands of firefighters are trying to contain the flames which may burn until spring. The air quality is so bad its sending people to hospitals. Dozens of people have been killed in a third day of air strikes by syrian and Russian Forces in aleppo. This heartbreaking video showing it took four hours for rescue workers to pull a 6yearold boy president obama is wrapping up the final european trip of his administration. This morning hes in berlin where hes meeting with chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders. Later today he will travel to peru the last stop on his final foreign tour where hell take part in a global stument on trade. Still ahead, overnight an American Woman blasting off making history in space. And the desperate search for a congressmans son. The c the secret service and fbi join in that search. Information just in about that. Well have it for you. Plus, you thought bathrooms had a lot of germs wait until you hear whats found on atms. 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A town in Central Illinois is still assessing the damage after a deadly gas explosion. The moment of wednesday nights blast in canton was captured by surveillance cameras. It happened as crews repaired a natural gas leak caused by digging. One worker was killed and a dozen others were hurt. Parts of downtown canton are stillo federal investigators now say the barrier separating visitors from gorillas at the cincinnati zoo was not up to par. The day a toddler fell into the exhibit, the little boy was not injured in last mays incident but zoo officials were forced to kill an endangered silverback gorilla and they concluded the barrier had become ineffective. Breaking Business News now. Volkswagen workers are paying the price for the companys the out to giant Just Announced its cutting 30,000 jobs as it struggles to recover from that scandal. Most of those jobs are in germany. Vw has already agreed to a settlement for the 500,000 americans who own diesels equipped with software that cheated on emissions tests. The tsa says its ready for the Holiday Travel crush. Despite those long security lines at airports nationwide, just a few months ago, the tsa expects this will be the busiest thanksgiving it has seen in its 15year new officers and dozens of canine teams. Well, one American Made history overnight. Astronaut Peggy Whitson is on her way to the International Space station along with russian and french astronauts. When they arrive tomorrow theyll bring the station crew back up to its full complement of six. At 56, whitson is now the oldest woman to travel in space and when she arrives shes take command making her the first times. Good for her. Happy birthday and congrats. Shell celebrate her 57th birthday there. A Police Officer on leave after hes caught on camera punching a woman in the face during an arrest. Why the officer says he did it. Plus, a familys survival story. Lost in the wilderness for days, we asked women b. I would like to smell like this every day but what was body wash a . Ohhhh, i love bath and body works and what was the one they preferred . Ohhhh. This is suave really . Thats quite a bit of smelling good. Suave, three fragrances preferred over bath and body works now twice as much smelling good. Buy one get one free with a coupon in sundays paper. Yesterdays snowstorm in the Northern Rockies caused at least two pileups on interstate 70 and two fatalities. One of the accidents involved more than 20 vehicles and i70 was closed several times. That storm is moving east. This morning drivers will have to watch out for slippery roads and whiteout conditions in the Northern Plains. Roads will just be wet from the texas gulf coast up to the eastern lakes and also in the pacific northwest. Minneapolis, chicago and memphis. Turning now to other news, Washington State couple and their two youngest children headed out for a drive on tuesday and then they never came home. Understandably other family members panicked asking for help to find them. After two long days, they got their wish. The family has been found and everyone is fine. Abcs Neal Karlinsky has details on how he survived. Reporter jason and Melissa Mcalister along with their 2yearo daughters vanished on tuesday. This morning jason says the family van got stuck in mud while trying to go around a fallen tree stranding them. Got dark on us and spent the night on the side of the road after a made a shelter. Reporter thursday morning they heard on the radio people were searching for them and ran into a local hunter who called 911. Yeah, search and rescue has been looking for you guys for a few days. And you said theyre look pretty good really. Reporter this morning, the family of four is waking up at home healthy and thankful. Everybody is good. Gods great. Reporter Neal Karlinsky, abc news, seattle. Now to new york city where two men are facing murder charges in connection to the death of another man here in new york. 26yearold Joseph Comunale was last seen alive last weekend while partying at a luxury manhattan apartment. Now, police say thats where an comunale being fatally stabbed. His body found in new jersey on wednesday. Now two men are charged with comunales murder. One of them lives in the apartment where that party took place. And we do have breaking news to tell you about in the search for the son of michigan congressman john conyers. Carl conyers a student at the university of houston was found safe just after 2 00 a. M. This morning. He had been missing since tuesday. Hes been interviewed right now in houston. Serving member of the house of representatives. Turning now to a stunning video which is landing an arizona Police Officer on administrative leave. Take a look at this video. It shows a flagstaff officer punching a woman in the face while arresting her. Investigators say the officer claims the woman kicked and kneed him in the groin. Flagstaff Police Authorities say the officer has no history of excessive force. Theyre promising full transparency in this investigation. A new warning about drug and than most people think. A new report from the Surgeon General says 78 americans die every day from opiate overdoses and 20 million suffer from Substance Abuse disorders. The study calls for a shift in the way we think treating addiction as a legitimate disease rather than a weakness in character. A health alert now and a new meaning to the term dirty money. A study finds that the keypads most of them came from human skin, food and household surfaces. The machines in laundromats and Corner Stores had the most bacteria and for some reason many atms here in midtown manhattan tested higher in food and sugary baked goods. Explain that one. What does that say . Lets hope theyre cleaner chicago and other cities. Speaking of other cities los angeles, well, they went back to the future when they talking about the rams. Now theyre looking ahead to their new home. Yesterday the club broke ground on a 2. 6 billion stadium complex. Its at the site of the old Hollywood Park horse racing track in inglewood. The 80000 seat stadium set to open in 2019. Speaking of football, the upsets of College Footballs higher ranked teams continues. Quite a game. The highlights now from our guys im john buccigross. This is John Anderson in the beautiful studios at espn. A couple of Football Games played last night. You might have been in bed when they ended. Number five louisville getting ready to play at houston. After louisville fumbled to catalon. Houston up 70. They never trail. 240. Bonner hits chance allen. Race, teams that have trailed at the half by 31 points or more alltime are 1, 400 and 30. They were not coming back. Lamar jackson, heisman candidate took a hit, three lostfulles for the cards got beat 3610. Panthers st. , cam newton not a high percentage. Just 14 of 33 but a nice pass ted ginn jr. Out of bounds originally but luke kuechly left the game after this hit. Concussion. Obviously shaken up and scared on the field. Missed games last year due to conor mcgregor. You can see the look in his eyes. Panthers won it 2320 thats what we got. Good morning, america. All right, so as we saw carolina won nfls thursdays nfl game but panthers quarterback cam newton did not win much support with his pregame footwear. Why the heck not. The wildlife motif it. One twitter user calls it dead fu fu fur furbys. The best time to call in sick without raising suspicion. And the dress sold for nearly 5 million. Who wore it and the moment that made it so famous . Youll find out. Is that a blue dress . Its gold. In one week. With the. Fastest retinol formula available. Its clinically proven to work on fine lines and. 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While elsewhere even milder in the northeast and record high temperatures in the south, rain from the gulf to the lakes and showers in the northwest. And finally, from Donald Trumps transition of power it remains a hot topic with the late night comics. Reportedly received their first president ial Daily Briefing of Sensitive National intelligence. Or as trump asked putin, do you prefer email or fax . How can the next president of the United States embrace a leader who kills journalists and jails political opponents . Those reports are lies and anyone who says otherwise will be jailed. You just got that answer from him. What . No, were just good friends. Were so close we finish each other Vice President joe bide and Vice President elect mike pence had lunch together this afternoon and just to [ bleep ] him off he told the waiter it was their anniversary. One of the names on trumps short list for attorney general is ted cruz, senator ted cruz who, of course, was trumps bitter rival on the campaign trail. This would be like if tupac hired biggie to be his head of security. What is day one even look like on that job . First order of business, i need you to go after your dad for killing kennedy. Trump, of course, has denied that anything is wrong. He tweeted very organized process taking place as i decide on cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are. He really does think this is a reality show. I saw that president obama was in greece yesterday to meet with the greek prime minister. Yep, obama went to the hp spoiler alert. Hes 5,000 miles away in athens seen here getting a preview of what washington will look like in four years. While back at the white house joe biden held his final toga party as Vice President. Joe biden has been the greatest thing since the election. All these memes. We need it emily good morning. It is friday, november 18. Im emily riemer. Randy im randy price. At 4 30, shots fired at police in norwood. Emily a serial bank robber dubbed the spelling bee bandit. His distinctive notes and the concerne violent. Randy another surprise as president elect donald trump fills his cabinet. The bay state politician thats part of all the buzz this morning. Emily well get to that. First, well check in with cindy for this friday. Tgif. We made it. Cindy its going to be fantastic. A nice day shaping up. Clear skies in boston. It is 43 degrees. Colder in the suburbs north and west of towns. Worcester at 39