Good evening to you on this monday night. And as we start this week together, 163 million americans are in the path of three, big, winter storms, and a kind of Chain Reaction of travel trouble across the country. And each, new storm on the way is more powerful than the last. Abcs linzie janis starts us off with all of the people caught on the kind of Conveyor Belt of wicked winter weather, tonight. Keep on coming. Reporter from the midwest to the northeast, another wet, heavy, slippery mess. An army of plows in new york can barely keep up. The citys new mayor, bill deblasio, had trouble handling staten islands answer to Punxatawney Phil on sunday. Now, hes handling his third winter storm. I am learning about snow removal, more than i ever expected to. Reporter schools closed, from the northeast all the way to ohio. Whiteout conditions in illinois. Trucks pushing trucks in oklahoma, to a sea of snowy wrecks in arkansas. Its also busting budgets. Cities like milwaukee are running out of
out of a maximum security prison in michigan. while on the run, elliot kidnapped a woman and stole four cars. 47-year-old michael done is charged with fatally shooting a black teenager, jordan davis, in a dispute over loud music. he says he fired at him in self defense. iran s nuclear program will be another key topic being discussed today in congress. wendy sherman will go before the senate s foreign relations committee to talk about the talks. any new sanctions put in place could set back discussions ending nooek programs. this one is straight out of dr. evil s play book.
i tell you, i don t even know how you said the name of that volcano. a northern indiana community is breathing a huge sigh of relief. you would not want this guy in your neighborhood on the loose. michael david elliot. this guy brazenly escaped from prison in michigan. they caught him, but not before he victimized another person. george joins us with all the new developments. reporter: good morning. this is where it all ended after a high-speed chase. police attempted to make a traffic stop and eventually caught elliot. he covered a lot of ground in the 24 hours where he escaped crossing through two state lines, stealing two cars in the process. and even kidnapping a woman who
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away. michael david elliot was captured in indiana after spending a day on the run. he had broken out of prison, a prison in michigan, apparently after crawling underneath a fence, then carjacking a woman using a box cutter. police say he stole four cars before sheriff s deputies caught up with him, throwing down these tire deflation sticks to stop the car, forcing him to crash into a snow bank. and then they grabbed elliot as he tried to crawl out a window. we took him out of the car and laid him on the ground and placed him in handcuffs, and i asked him his name, and he told me his name was michael elliot. i asked him if he was the michael elliot, and he said yes. deputies say ellito looked tired, he was quiet and polite. he s serving five life sentences for the 1993 murder of four people. he insists he s innocent. this morning a former california educator is waking up in jail facing sex abuse charges