pete: lots of them. those people feel like this is seminole moment for this president. at 3:00 p.m. what will he say? some people are speculating as they always do. ed: big news day. we will be teeing it up for the next four hours. biggest lineup. stick with us all morning. jedediah: we will turn to headlines for you now. we will begin with extreme weather. hundreds of flights are cancelled major winter storm barrels across the country. snow ice and artic temperatures threatening millions in its path. blinding snow falling in parts of california. the harsh elements wreaking havoc for drivers in utah. a southwest plane sliding off the runway in omaha. no one was hurt. the fourth american killed in a targeted isis attack in syria has now been identified. she was working as arabic inel interpreter. the 27-year-old along with greenboro bre rare commander and scott worth worked on missions gathering highly
terrifying parents and students finally reunited hours later. law enforcement officials tell me if it s determined the rifle was left unsecured by that 14-year-old boy s parents. they could be prosecuted. david? matt, thank you. tonight we re hearing from the woman on the southwest flight sitting two seats away from that mother and wife sucked out of that plane and pulled back in, but she didn t survive. what she and two other passengers did to get her back in the plane. here s abc s martha raddatz. reporter: passengers on that southwest plane were just 20 minutes into their flight when shrapnel from a broken engine blasts through a window. and almost immediately i felt the rush of wind. reporter: passenger jennifer riordan was being sucked from her window seat. hollie mackey sitting two seats away. what did you see? the bottom part of her rib cage was out the window. i had leaned over to try to pull jennifer in. reporter: between the two
course, he s the young man whose body was not found for 48 hours. the big question, also, how is it that rescue forces did not come into the area for over an hour. how are they sent on a mission with no medevac and no rescue forces readily available to help them. these are all the questions the pentagon is supposed to be answering. but let me underscore something, what we learned a few minutes ago is we re getting a briefing, we re getting the summary, we will be able to ask questions. after seven months, we are not getting the full report. that full report still being declassified, no indication of when the full report of this event that killed four american soldiers in niger, no indication when that report will be made available to the american public. john? important points, barbara starr, thank you very much. the pilot who successfully landed that southwest plane after the engine blew midair
entire middle east. no surprise there that the u.s. has come out squarely on israel s corner on this one. what happens from here? it is deceptively quiet here especially after what we saw overnight which was just a few hours ago. does this dissipate or does this continue to escalate? what happens the answer there comes from russia? it is russia that has the military influence over syria, it is russia that has relations and influence over iran and israel and it is russia that is now calling for both sides to de-escalate and to think long and hard about what happens next here. or ren lieberman reporting from the golan heights. thank you very much for that. president trump seizing on a chance to change foreign policy. case in point, michael cohen we re learning more about his aggressive and lucrative pitch promising access to the president. she was hailed as a hero for landing a southwest plane and now we re finally hearing from pilot tammie jo shults about
producers have decided to put the back drop like ainsley s dress. am i wrong to be bothered by that. jillian: you can bothered by whatever you want. steve: i didn t notice. brian: matching ainsley s background. ainsley: the show for once, briajillian, is not about brian. brian thinks it needs to be red to match brian. ainsley: we re changing the name of the show it s brian kilmeade and friends. steve: perhaps this is why television used to be in black and white. jillian: would you prefer that brian? ainsley: that s where brian s career started. brian: wow. ouch. jillian: let s move on. they are still going. i will tell you about this incredible story the hero pilot who landed that southwest plane after the engine blew up is now speaking out tammie jo shults who many said is a hero relied on military background to get the packed