Filled with nfl playoffs, the Golden Globes and so much more. Its friday, january 10th, early today starts right now. Thanks for joining us. Im betty nguyen. Embarrassed and humiliated. Chris christie fires his aid and apologized for the scandal rocking the political world and today thousands more internal documents are scheduled for release with christies political future on the line. He had no knowledge or involvement on the traffic back up on the washington bridge. Its the worlds busiest connecting new jersey with new york. Christie is already facing six federal lawsuits over those jams and after his two hour epic press conference some questions remain unanswered. Kelly odonnell reports. Reporter his trademark in your face style tempered by scandal inside his own inner circle. What they did hurt the people of new jersey and hurt the people of ft. Lee and the person that needs to apologize for that is me. Appearing contrite and mournful and embarrassed. I am you mihumiliated that it
Good morning to you. Im richard lui. Embarrassed and humiliated. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie fires his aide and apologieses for the scandal, but could still face future trouble. Today, thousands more internal documents are scheduled for release, with the president ial hopefuls future on the line. He insists he had no knowledge or involvement in the traffic backup on the George Washington bridge. The worlds busiest connecting new jersey with new york. Now, christie, along with the state of new jersey, is already facing civil federal lawsuits over the jams, even after an uncommonly long 108minute press conference, some questions remain unanswered. Nbcs tracie potts is live in washington for us. Good morning. And the question might be what might those new documents tell us . Reporter well, they will certainly tell us if anyone else may have been involved, and whether this was actually as the attorney who filed that lawsuit put it this morning, in a statement, a nefarious plan. He s
Its called the polar vortex. Which is the scientific term meteorologists use to explain the historic cold gripping a large section of the midwest right now. The rest of us just say its stunningly cold. The polar vortex is a counterclockwise rotation of dense arctic air thats built up over the north pole. And is then pushed south by the upper jetstream. It is producing wind chills that tomorrow night could have some sections of that region feeling like 60 below zero according to the National Weather service. Wisconsin will see its coldest weather in 18 years. In des moines, iowa, they have closed an ice skating rink because it was too cold. And in minnesota theyve already canceled School Statewide for monday. Thats where kate raddatz of our cbs station w. C. C. O. Picks up the story. Reporter high winds overnight made minusfive feel like minus29 as ice and snow closed down i29 in fargo. Frigid temperatures here in minnesota which can cause frostbite in less than five minutes led the gov
Are calling it the polar vortex. And it is on the move. 140 million americans facing windchills below zero degrees. Breaking records from chicago to tulsa. So, how low will the temperatures go . And how long will it last . Our abc news extreme weather team is out in the deep freeze all across this country tonight. And abc meteorologist ginger zee starts us off with the big picture. Ginger . Diane, that big picture is a wickedly cold one. Even here in new york city, where we started the morning in the 50s, were going to drop to the Single Digits by tomorrow morning. And look at that. The width of this cold. All the way through the northern rockies, to iowa, through the gulf coast. And even miami will get cold tonight. Lifethreatening, school closing, recordbreaking cold. Thats incredibly cold air in western iowa. Weve got brutal cold everywhere you go. Its still going to feel like 20, 25 degrees below zero. Reporter the scenes from our sub zero nation are stunning tonight. From zero vis
The higher notes. Also tonight, going home. Good news for a former first lady, and look whos waiting in the window for barbara bush. And the mega surprise, the mystery winner coming forward. How he suddenly remembered he might have purchased that Winning Ticket. Good evening. And its great to have you with us on a saturday night watching indoors on a very cold evening and just look behind me here at this map. By early next week, every state covered in purple will see temperatures at or well below freezing. Tonight this winter storm has become deadly from the midwest all the way to the east coast and nebraska, look at this. You can see the light there streaming through the burned out windows of a building that caught fire. Firefighters battling the blaze and the frigid temperatures. All the way to the east. Into vernon, connecticut, a man nearly hidden by the snow hes trying to clear away there. And for as cold as it is its about to get worse. An arctic blast moving in and covering it a