overnight, including a truck driver found dead this morning in his rig. the cause of death now under investigation. at lower elevations, torrential rain. it s pretty bad out there, like, windshield wipers full blast. reporter: leaving cars swimng tough intersections. one stranded, pushed out by a police cruiser. the l.a. fire department rescuing a 52-year-old man from six feet of cold water overnight. we have a victim back to the shoreline. reporter: racing him to get checked out for hypothermia. in san diego, more water rescues and massive trees crashing into cars and homes. one man killed by a huge falling redwood in northern california. all right, will carr joins us now from along the i-5. that freeway shut down for hours. will, what are officials telling you about the conditions out e?th reporter: well, tom, snow is still blanketing the mountainside behind me and it s not often that you can stand in the middle of i-5. this is a major thoroughfare
pd,gengen the nypd is not commenting further, saying this is an ongoing investigation. tom? erielle reshef with those new developments. erielle, thank you. we want to turn now to politics and the looming impeachment showdown in the senate, with the first sign a party line vote may not be a sure thing for the trump administration. derate alaska republican senator lisa murkowski, qumoote disturbed by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying he s in lock-step with president trump and the white house counsel. at the same time, president trump continuing his christmas day twitterstorm, insisting the whole thing is a scam. abc s rachel scott is in florida with the president. reporter: tonight, a potential crack in the president s wall of republican support. when i heard that, i was disturbed. reporter: moderate republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska is reacting in an interview with ktuu to majority leader n otal with the white house during the senate trial to come. to m
we take out the remaining scaffolding. there is still a risk. 50,000 tubes of scaffolding installed for a planned renovation before the fire is now threatening the cathedrals gothic vaults. we saw the extent of the damage firsthand back in may. the french general put in charge of rebuilding showing david the architecture that had kept the cathedral intact. there is no question that these arches built in the 12th century saved the cathedral? yes. reporter: tom, the plan is to remove all the scaffolding to assess the damage before beginning the reconstruction in 2021. if the church survives, it might be safe enough for tourists in 2024. but a full restoration will take even longer. tom? lama hasan with that major headline tonight. lama, thank you. and there s still much more ahead on world news tonight this thursday. the mountainside rescue. an avalanche barrelling through a busy ski resort. the latest from search teams on the ground. also, the unexpected porch
here in los angeles county. you can see, chp is turning all of these drivers around, and at this point, we don t know when the interstate will reopen, as the storm moves through the midwest, with more of those blizzard conditions. tom? will carr on that developing story tonight. will, thank you. and this deadly storm system is far from done. sweeping toward the midwest this evening. abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano has the latest. rob, good evening. reporter: good evening, tom. this is a compact and powerful storm that will be expanding across thery. it s going coast to coast.nt c already, check it out, we have winter storm alerts from minnesota all the way back through southern california, where the center of that low still sits, so, it s pushing more in the way of heavy precip and wind into vegas and phoenix tonight. the heavy knows will get into new mexico and the san juans of colorado tomorrow. tomorrow night, snow in denver. but the heavier snows will be in the central
was detained. officials say the 14-year-old was found this morning in the bronx, tracked using electronic surveillance. brought in, photographed, fingerprinted and swabbed for dna. majors apparently fighting back during the apparent mugging, leaving bite marks on one of her attackers. a 13-year-old in custody now facing a felony murd cha and two other teens from his el middle school in the grisly crime. i think it should disturb any new yorker when we have a child involved in something this serious. reporter: attorneys for the 13-year-old cautioning against any rush to judgment, saying, our client is a 13-year-old ntced who is presumenoind with no juvenile record. all right, erielle joins us now live from the scene where that stabbing took place. and erielle, i want to go back to that 14-year-old who was apprehended and released this morning. he s not been charged? reporter: that s right, tom. police say that that 14-year-old, who was detained and then released, has not been