Now an amazing tale of survivor. A boater who never came back from a short thanksgiving sail. The coast guard had given up. He never did. Two weeks later hes back an dry land. Abcs ted rowlands has the story. Reporter 67yearold ron ingram went for a thanksgiving day sail off the coast of hawaii when his boat started ta eed ta water. Mayday, mayday. Im in the middle of alenuihai channel. Reporter the coast guard heard his call and launched a massive 12,000squaremile search for the experienced fisherman. After four days and 59 search and rescue flights there was no sign of ron or his boat. Gans the wishes of rons son, a decision was made to call off the search. I said, man, i dont think you should call off the search because i dont think hes gone. Then Tuesday Morning after 12 days of radio silence. Mayday, this is the malia. Anybody picking this up. Reporter the dramatic rescue. Ron found floating 65 miles off the coast of oahu. Hes doing okay. A little tired and weak. They got him some
Who will go headtohead in the first big awards nominations of the season . And could it be the leading ladies of thursday night in a golden globe showdown. Which one is golden this morning . Consider it handled. And we do say good morning, america on this thursday morning. A tale of two coasts right now. Powerful storms on both sides of the country. The east digging out from the noreaster. Some places were more than 2 feet of snow. In the west, that already being felt. Houses on the ocean destroyed. And the powerful Pineapple Express is bringing torrential rain. Emergency is in effect, schools closed. Ginger is going to start it off. Sounds benign, the Pineapple Express sounds nice. Its an Atmospheric River from the waters around hawaii. Its like adding gas to a fire. Thats the storm hitting now in parts of northern california, oregon and washington state. This will trail in and bring wind warnings, flood watches, and blizzard warnings in the northern sierra. The entire state of califo
Good evening. As we come on the air tonight, there are two major storms hitting both coasts. In the west, the most powerful storm in five years. But first, look at this tonight. That noreaster isnt letting up. Cars and trucks brought to a stand still on interstate 81 in upstate new york. Part of 81 shut down for seven hours today. And this is the view in ithaca, new york. The fierce wind and snow, the winds howling there. And here we go again, no need to measure in inches. Just look at the picnic table out back. Meanwhile, as i mentioned in the west, bracing for this tonight. Some schools in california already shut down tomorrow. Bracing for blizzards and possible mudslides. Meteorologist ginger zee with the new tracks for both in a moment, but first, abcs linzie janis with the pictures tonight. Reporter tonight, a winter whiteout as the powerful, slow moving noreaster churns up more snoep, ice and rain. Up to 20 inches of snow near syracuse new york. Almost 15 miles of major interstat
On tuesday so lots of changes. Im not sure you will wills love any of them. Lets see what we have at the present time. We will find that we have cold temperatures out in reading right now. 33 degrees our wind west southwest at 5 miles an hour. At least not a lot in the way of wind but enough to chill us down more than those temperatures. Storm scan three in our area we are not looking at any problems in our area. It will be a nice bright day but temperatures will not be reflect by the brightness. We have 33 in philadelphia right now. Thirtyone in trenton, allentown. Thirty in reading and wilmington. Twentynine in millville. Twentysix at the Atlantic City airport 10 miles inland. Twentyfour in the poconos. Head out to pottstown and 28 degrees. Same deal in willow grove. Mount holly below freezing. Doylestown too. Both at 31 degrees. With that slight breeze we have it feels colder. It feels like the 20s in every location except it feels like 14 in the poconos with the wind there. Our tem
This is Montgomery County around norbeck road in rockvail. The biggest storm of the season. Everything turning to wintry mix and thats why were starting here. Whats on the radar right now . Freezing rain and rain in other spots. Temperatures will warm overnight and well slowly see conditions improve and gettin reports of icy sidewalks and snowcovered roads tonight. Heres the latest look of radar right now. The d. C. Metro area tracking mainly rain showers. Green is rain. The pink is freezing rain and potentially little bit of sleet mixing in so you can see an areas of frederick, loudon seeing the wintry mix. Montgomery county arlington and washington mainly only rain right now. This is the storm system. We have a little bit more of rain and freezing rain to move through the area during the overnight hours. You can see areas like leesburg getting in on the freezing rain. Wall of rain. Heres the look at current temperatures. So washington above freezing right now. But then you have leesb