People do a just to warm up. Good morning, everybody. Millions of americans venturing out this morning into the extreme weather. Intense winds, snow, ice, blanketing much of the country. We cover everything. Take a look at the giant swath of white on this map. Only those of you in hawaii and florida will escape this one. Blizzard conditions are making road travel virtually impossible. That storm that has already dumped more than 2 feet of snow in parts of oregon and Northern California has made its way into utah and rockies. Some areas are positively glacial. North dakota, where it was minus 6 degrees overnight. Not expected to climb above zero until some time tomorrow. For more on that lets go to accuweathers justin povich. Good mo snow throughout the day and into the overnight. Not a lot. An inch or two. Can produce some travel delays. Expecting that later on along interstate 95 corridor along with some low visibility. Next storm system continues out west, california, heavy flooding rains and heavy mountain snows that will continue well into midweek. Our thanks to justin. To the cold wartype tensions between the Obama Administration and russia. Today, the president service the report that he requested on russia hack zblg on the heels of the president s lastditch effort to save obamacare with the Incoming Administration bent on repeeling it. Janai norman with details. Reporter the most particularizing political issue of the past eight years. Trump administration plans to the clash on capitol hill that stands to impact about 20 million americans. Were going to get rid of obamacare. Reporter days after president elect donald trump doubled down on his promise to take down obamacare, president obama rallied democrats to defend his legacy. Look out for the american people. Reporter Vice President elect mike pence met with reporters. Lower the cost of health insurance. Reporter to this point, they have voted to repeal the Health Care Law more than 60 times but still cant agree on an alternative. Speaker paul ryan with no real answer with why not. We have plenty of ideas to replace it. As the weeks and months unfold what were talking about. Reporter in the meantime another brewing showdown in washington. Trump at odds with the Intelligence Community over tweeting support of fugitive wikileaks reporter julian assange. Continuing to take shots at intelligence officials. A move that the countrys leading democrat warns could lead to serious payback. They have six ways from sunday of getting back at you. Even for a practical hardnosed businessman hes being really dumb to do this. President obama will receive his first briefing on that russia hacking. Kendis and diane. Janai. President elect is planning to shake things up at the cia. He wants to cut staff at cia headquarters in virginia. Hes also reportedly looking into scaling back intelligence. To the other major story were following this morning and a disturbing one. The shocking torture of a mentally disabled man and livestreamed on facebook. Police in chicago have arrested two men and two women in what they says appear to be a hate crime. We warn you, this video is sickening to watch. Reporter a video so disturbing most of it has to be blurred out. A man beaten and tortured in chicago as the alleged attackers stream the attack on facebook live. I have seen things that you shouldnt see in a lifetime and it amazes me that you see things that you shouldnt. Reporter police say an adult man with Mental Health challenges is believed to be the victim. He was found Walking Around the citys west side disoriented. He was traumatized good. Like i said, it took most of the night for him to calm down for him to talk to us. Reporter the video shows his him bound 57bd his clothes cut. If you look at that video they were just stupidity. Police say in that group attacking the man shouted antiwhite messages. Theyre considering hate crime charges. Turning our focus to overseas right now and the americanled coalition is accelerating the effort to retake the iraqi city of mosul from isis. U. S. Military spokesman confirms that american advisers at times has enentered the city. Theyve also doubled the number of those advisers to 450. A former Buckingham Palace guard is in the news that could have put him in the headlines. This happened years ago, her majesty was walking the grounds at 3 00 in the morning because she couldnt sleep. Luckily he called out and the queen identified herself. The queen reportedly responded next time ill call beforehand so you dont have to shoot me. Also ahead the searching for a missing helicopter in california. And trumps pick rex tillerson, new news about his golden parachute when he leaves exxonmobil. Rescuers have been coming the Pacific Ocean off the coast of los angeles after a Cruise Ship Passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down. No contact had been made with the missing chopper. No victims or debris found so far. The ntsb is looking for the cause of that crash at the train crash. It derailed at brooklyns Atlantic Terminal yesterday morning. The trains engineer has been drug tested but the results havent been released. In michigan, two more homes have been condemned near that sinkhole in the city of fraser. However, two dozen families in the area should be able to return home next week. One former official blames a lack of maintenance. Macys said forward with plans to close 68 stores, cutting more than 10,000 jobs as well. After a disappointing holiday sales season. The retall giant points to more consumers shopping on line. Rex tillerson is getting a Massive Retirement package. Reached an agreement to shift his nest egg to a trust. 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Emergency crews are responding to calls of overturned vehicles and some sliding off the roads on those icy snowcovered roads. Conditions are only going to get worse, slippery conditions from the west coast to northern texas. If youre flying weatherrelated airport delays are possible in los angeles and denver. But four of the five Major Airlines are warning that dozens of flights could be delayed. To South Carolina now, more relatives of the Charleston Church Massacre Victims will tell their stories today. It moves into its second day. The jury wont be hearing much more from the killer himself. Reporter strange, awkward, upsetting the only describing see this racisted acted his own attorney. Now hoping jurors will spare his life. In his Opening Statements he tried to explain why hes going against all legal advice. The point is, im not going to lie to you. Theres nothing wrong with me psychologically. He took something very precious away from me. But i forgive you. Reporter the feeling now is very different. You have to be sentenced to death. Reporter on the witness stand the wife of the reverend killed first told stories. She told stories about she and her daughter called 911 from a locked office down the hall. Prosecutors asking for the death sentence pointed to a jill house journal that roof wrote after the murders. Steve osunsami, abc news, charms. Some new video showing what happened when two Police Officers responded to a trespassing call. It all happened in walmart in chandler, arizona, the officers talking with the suspect suddenly he opens fire. He hits one officer three times. Luckily that second officer was hit in his bullet proof vest and he managed to quickly return fire this is fascinating. A pistolpacking grandmother singlehandedly scared off a burglar. She was about to watch the news sunday night when a masked gunman broke into her home. When i started to get up, he was aiming the gun right at his face. 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No doubt that flair has raised the bar for quite a few are waiting for you outside this morning, and by this time tomorrow, the grounds may look a lot different. Good morning washington is bracing for a blast of winter weather. Good morning washington. Toss to eileen light snow is on the way few flurries this afternoon evening 2pm to 9pm best chance for snow 9pm 3am accumulations coating to cold weekend ahead today cloudy cold. A few Late Afternoon evening evening snow showers. Little to no accumulation. Highs 3640 winds light variable tonight cloudy with snow developing. Accumulations low. A coating to an inch. Roads may be slick. Lows 2632 winds light friday mostly cloudy and cold. Highs 3437 winds nw 48 mph a new name joining the democratic primary race for virginias governor. As a surprise to the party. Former virginia congressman Tom Perriello now says he intends to run, and could announce as soon as today. Until now Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northan has been the only democrat seeking to succeed Governor Terry mcauliffe. Right now an active investigation about what caused a commuter train to crash in downtown brooklyn. More than 100 people were hurt wednesday morning when the Long Island Railroad train went over the bumper at the end of the track and kept moving. None of the injuries are lifethreatening. Federal investigators are now trying to determine the cause. There are reports it was speeding. Bad news for one of the nations biggest retailers. Macys is eliminating more than 10thousand jobs. The move comes after a disappointing Holiday Season for sales. The only store slated to close in our area is at the landmark mall in alexandria. We are learning more about Vice President joe bidens plans after the next Administration Takes office. According to his aide Vice President biden will partner with the university of delaware for an economic and domestic policy initiative. Biden graduated from that university in 1965. He also is planning to work with the university of pennsylvania on an initiative involving Foreign Policy issues. Next weeks National Championship game will have College Football fans glued to their televisions. But if they want to see the game in person thats going to cost more than a pretty penny. The average resale price of a ticket to the clemsonalabama game is close to threethousanddol lars. Thats a record for the College Title game according to ticketiq, which tracks sales. Only about 3thousand resale tickets were available wednesday afternoon. The cheapest costing a little over 1thousanddollars. Its xx and were just getting started. Coming up. Tracking the first snowfall of 2017. A wintry mix expected to have an impact on your morning rush. We are tracking the storm right now. And gettting you ready. Complete stormwatch coverage. Coming up. Good morning washington. Light snow is on the way few flurries this afternoon evening 2pm to 9pm best chance for snow 9pm 3am accumulations coating to an inch cold weekend ahead today cloudy cold. A few Late Afternoon evening evening snow showers. Little to no accumulation. Highs 3640 winds light variable tonight cloudy with snow developing. Accumulations low. A coating to an inch. Roads may be slick. Lows 2632 winds light friday mostly cloudy and cold. Highs 3437
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