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
That unleashed two dozen tornadoes on the south and the west. Flipping cars, trucks, even a moving Freight Train. That storm is trejing up the east coast this morning. And big cities, d. C. And new york are getting drenched. Abcs Tahman Bradley has the latest on the storm blamed, now, for at least two deaths. Reporter wicked weather lashed parts of the midwest and south, heavy flooding, dangerous winds and monster tornadoes. Look at these images north of atlanta. A funnel north of the interstate. Reporter a tornado with winds estimated over 120 Miles Per Hour, demolished homes, Office Buildings and wiped out parts of a factory. It picked me up and flinged me three times. Trying to get that door closed. I had to dig my way out. I thought it killed my son in the bedroom in there. And i thought it was going to kill me, too. Reporter the tornado left behind a junk yard of twisted semitrailers and tossed suvs. One person was killed in georgia. Another death reported in tennessee. In parts o
Hows the situation there . All morning long we have been dealing with all different kinds of conditions. Rain, freezing rain, sleet early on. I want to show you what we are dealing with now. If you look at the sidewalk it looks wet. When i kick it you can see the ice coming up. Thats what people have been dealing with all morning long. Putting salt down to keep people safe so nobody falls. Try to stay ahead of it. It was an Early Morning jump on the weather putting down salt before end up here in leesburg. Just be careful. The roads are all right. As far as the sidewalks, be careful on that. Reporter earlier this morning freezing rain and low temps made an easy commute on route 7 a miserable mess. Even getting out of the house caused problems in the area. Its a nuisance, you know. Reporter reggie evans spent a few minutes of his morning scraping ice off the car. Its slippery. I guess they cancelled schools to err on the side of caution. Reporter word came early schools in the region we
Reporter the storm brought high winds to texas, flash flooding in missouri. And in western michigan, a car plunged 20 feets into a creek, after heavy rain and snow melt caused flash flooding. The road flooded out. Were in the middle of a river right now. The cars completely underwater. Help. Reporter in indiana, a storm knocked out power for thousands and destroyed dozens of homes. The winds were so fierce, it was throwing my car sideways. I didnt know if i was going to make it through or not. Reporter tahman bradley, abc news, washington. And that storm will finally wrap up this morning, clearing the way for some chilly air. Accuweather meteorologist jim dickey tells us what we can expect. A powerful storm is tracking towards the coast bringing soaking rainfall on the i95 car dor. You can expect blinding downpours, localized flash flooding. The winds stay gusty, ushing in chilly air. Watching the temps fall in the afternoon. Were talking 60 Miles Per Hour, with winds sustained 20, 30