May help the whales survive. Nightly news begins now. Good evening, we begin tonight with a deadly and dangerous ice storm that is paralyzing much of the Central United states causing chaos from oklahoma to kansas and nebraska. Morgan ratford reports it could be one of the worst ice storms in a decade. Cars sliding off ice covered asphalt, spinning out of control. Hunk of mangled metal and flashing light where 20 cars crashed in wichita, kansas. Be careful guys. Accident. Deadly ice storm killing three so far. Leaving millions under weather alerts and thousands without power. Tens of thousands more worried the electricity and haeeat will be knocked out by shattered power lines. We want to be able to respond to what happens now and between the event. In missouri salting the stadium. The playoff showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers pushed back seven hours because of the storm. Meanwhile in kansas, thousands of bundled up boy scouts on their annual camping trip. Get ready to put their skills to the test. I will pull the plug and send people home if it looks like we need to evacuate. Reporter 200 Kansas National guard troops on standby as res dants prepare for half an inch of ice overnight and into tomorrow. I dont want to have to leave when it gets too cold. Sidewalks were very, very slick. When you know the weather is bad, what do you sdo. Be cautious. In oklahoma, police say a truck was driving too fast on wet roads when it mowed through a fence and slammed into this st. Louis missouri where you can see a decedent coating of ice on the trees here. A lot of this is melted throughout the day. Will refreeze overnight. Also potential for more freezining rain. Reporter slippery streets and power linings covered in ice across the state. Residents smashing their way out. Preparing for more ice on the way. The full brunt of this storm is expected to hit here tonight in kansas. This as hundreds of National Guard troops are already patrolling key streets and ready to help first responders, jose . Thank you. Dangerous ice situation is going to be a factor through the weekend and into the start of the workweek. Just take a look at radar right now. In the last three hours, really seeing ice storm now intensify. Portions here in the pan handle of texas and oklahoma. Really making its way through kansas. Look at the totals were expected to see by the time this is could see an inch of ice. Thats enough to take down power lines. Three if not four times that amount. Its not just snow and ice, you talked about texas word that some Southern States are in for wet weather as well. Absolutely. Now adding another element. Talking about the stationary front and moisture from the north. Now the low is expected to make its way through the east. See the system intensify. Sunday evening talking about the system intensifying where we could add a Severe Weather element even threat for isolated tornados. In South Carolina late this afternoon a reunion took place between a young woman stolen as a baby at the Florida Hospital where she was born and her natural parents. Bittersweet moment 18 years in the making. Reporter for 18 years, craig acon didnt even have a picture of his daughter. Only artist rendering from a nationwide from a hospital hours after she was born. Never gave up hope. Always thought i would find her. Today a private reunion. First meeting was beautiful. Wonderful. For so long praying her daughter was alive. Having cake on her birthday, making public pleas. I want you to bring my child back. Thats all im asking from you. Thats all i want. Investigators say it was a dna match that confirmed the teenagers own recent suspicions she might have been kidnapped. Police arresting a woman named Gloria Williams that raised kamiyah as her own. Found living with williams in north carolina. Neighborhoods dl described williams as well respected in the community. This woman has taken care of her. 200 miles south in jacksonville florida, kamiyahs grandmother is overjoyed. I havent seen her since that day she too big hug for her. Thats all. Just let me hold you a few minutes. Acon says it was difficult to see imagines of the teenager at a Court Hearing for williams crying. I saw her telling her mom she loved her, but that was the mom she knew. She said she understands how continental fusing it must be, but wants kamiyah to know she has been loved and missed by her real family who never gave up hope. Six days before he becomes president , donald trump issued strong counterattack today. Says he doesnt see mr. Trump as a, quote, legitimate president. Congressman is of georgia. Leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Get more on this tonight from kelly odonnell. Reporter on the move in washington, d. C. Hundreds march for civil rights to remember doc luther king and to challenge the incoming trum trump administration. While in new york, more protests. Today, the protest of one legendary civil rights figure, democratic congressman john lewis provoked the president elect. I think the russians participated and helped this man get elected. Louis went further, a striking statement from a senior elected official. I dont see this president elect as a legitimate president. You do not consider him a legitimate president. No. Trump fired back on twitter. That lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district. In the atlanta area the trump labeled in horrible shape and falling apart, but trump also accused lewis of being all talk, talk, talk. No action. A charge that seemed to ignore lewiss history, beaten and jailed in the struggle for civil rights. That irony caught fire on Nebraska Republican ben sass wrote, john lewis and his talk, have changed the world. A flood hof response followed from hashtag, i stand with john lewis to House Democrats using the issue to raise campaign funds, but in six days, trump will take the oath of office as our president. The very least, he should be accepted as the president , whether theres disagreements over his policy, over his opinions, thats fine. On the eve of the king holiday, some Martin Luther king soften the charge lewis made. Is congressman was saying this does not feel like a legitimate president. I cant accept it in my emotions, but realistically, in congress, im going to have to work with this president elect who becomes president on january 20th. Reporter all members of congress are invited to the inauguration, congressman lewis and a number of other democrats will boycott this saturday. Wi russian hacking, Senate Intelligence committee has launched a bipartisan investigation into the hacking and what effects it may have. Kelly odonnell, thank you so much. You can see so much more of the interview tomorrow morning on meet the press. One of the key issues Donald Trump Campaign got and continues to push is keeping jobs in this country. Many jobs are changing drastically, especially in manufacturing where the way things are made would be unrecognizable to those making them just a generation ago. Anne thompson reports tonight on the challenges this presents. Reporter Research Engineer spends days in a driving simulator. Put the vehicle into drive. Reporter watching people interact with technology. Fifth generation ford employee with a job his great great grand fo father who worked the Blast Furnace couldnt we are a mobilitity company. Technology is changing the products we make and how they are manufactured. This week, president obama said those changes will only benefit some workers. The next wave of economic dislocations couldnt come from overseas. It will come from relentless pace of out medication that makes a lot of mild class job obsolete. We are on the verge of robotics revolution. 10 of manufacturing tasks handled by robots today n a decade, 25 . Will robotics help manufacturing stay in this country. Absolutely because it will lower the cost. By lower cost, wont it also cost jobs. It will cost jobs and thats what happens. Remember the carrier plant that agreed to keep jobs at the urging of president elect trump. The ceo told gjim cramer the money they [000 10 58;00] will go to automation. There will be fewer jobs. At the truck plant where ford makes f 150 says about 30 of line is robotics. Doing the repetitive heavy lifting. How does that change the human jobs on the line. It makes them better. Allowing our people to do whats most important, use innovation. 1,000 workers hired here doing jobs required 4 months of training. Smarter more efficient Work Force Building products to move america forward. Nbc news, michigan. Big changes announced by Obama Administration this week. Reversing a policy when cubans fleeing the island were excepted by the country once they stepped foot on the island. For decades, cubans have fled the island and u. S. Has welcomed them with open arms, but those days are this week the Obama Administration ended a policy dubbed wet foot dry foot which gaves cubans who successfully reached shores automatic residency and fast track to residency. Its unfortunate. The surprise decision sending shock waves throughout cuba. Translator everyone is depressed, says claudia gonzalez. We dont know whats going to happen to the destiny of all the cubans en route to arrive there. The family sold everything they own to get the money to flee cuba. Arrived in the u. S. One day before the border closed. One of the last families lucky enough to stay. Translator i thank god we made it and even more so for my daughter. From here on out, all cubans without claims will be turned away. Deported. A change thats been long overdue critics say. Took advge u. S. Government aide to send dollars back to communist island. For others, its a new policy of lost dreams. Translator our parents, our brothers, cousins, we have the hope they would come one day, but now with these laws, no one knows. Now thousands are expected to be stranded throughout latin america. Stopped on their dangerous journey. Reporter the policy change another step in repairing relations with cuba. Critics concerned this is yet another concession to castro regime without anything in return. Tammy lightener, nbc news, miami. Still ahead tonight, how your returns may be someone elses bargains. Take you inside the world of stuff that gets sent back. Thats me. Then out of nowhere. Crying. Third time that day. I wasnt even sad. First the stroke, now this. So we asked my doctor. Or pba. Its frequent, uncontrollable crying or laughing that doesnt match how you feel. 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Programming note, starting monday, special nightly news series, across america leading up to inauguration of donald trump next friday. Im jose diaz reporting from new york. Thank you for the privilege of announcer the following program is sponsored by operation smile. Every year, hundreds of thousands of children are born with cleft lip and or cleft palate. Dr. Bill magee why should any child, anywhere on this planet, have to live a life of misery. Kathy majette a lot of people think that children that are born with these deformities are cursed. Norrie oelkers and we had children coming in for screening with brown bags over their head. Theyre never allowed to leave their house unless they have a bag on their heads. Kathy majette some children dont live, because they have problems with eating, and drinking, and die of malnutrition. Mel and they see us as their last resort. Dr. Jill gora every child deserves a fair chance at life, Peggy Stillman it may only take an hour to do something that will change their lives forever. Noreen kessler and you just see a whole new person, a whole new beginning. Its almost like theyre reborn. I cant think of another word but phenomenal. [ music ] roma downey as a mother, i would do anything i could to help my child live a normal life. And im sure you would, too. But what if you couldnt do anything . What if you were totally helpless