The authors reaction and the president s tweet overnight plus a case of arson, the home of an accuser of Republican Senate candidate roy moore burns down. And mega winner. One ticket sold overnight in the Mega Millions drawing. Where it was as the powerball tonight grows to 570 million. I felt it today. Something told me to go and buy a ticket. Customers flocking to stores with winning track records hoping to get lucky. Hey, good morning on this first saturday of 2018, and it is a dangerously cold one in the midwest and especially here in the northeast. We want you to look at this shot of frozen floodwaters in ducksbury, massachusetts. Not far away near boston, we have the Charles River which is frozen over as well and then to the south, the Schuylkill River near philly also iced over. And in South Carolina, check out this guy drinking beer on his above ground pool. This situation though is not a joke, although i love this picture. This morning, windchills in some shots could be negative 30 or 40 degrees, which can produce frostbite in as little as ten minutes. Thats reason number 3 million and 1 to stay inside and not go outside. Here in new york city sundays forecast to be the 13th straight day below freezing. Thats the longest stretch in nearly 57 years, so the big question, when will we get relief . So lets start things off with rob. Were going to hold off that answer for just a bit. No. Come on. Its the duration of this. The longevity of this cold thats really been exceptionally brutal. Its going to be a top three, as you mentioned. Since 1961 we havent seen a stretch like this below freezing in new york and places like raleigh goes down to the south. Similar stretches if not alltime recordbreaking stretch there and look at the windchills all the way from maine down in through South Carolina today. This polar air coming in reinforcing, this is the coldest stuff right now. Minus 8 in new york city for a windchill. But look at this, minus 30 to minus 40 in saranac lake in upstate new york and tomorrow we dont warm up a whole lot. Were not going to warm up until the end of this week, so dangerous cold coming in here, and the you saw that one picture in through parts of boston and the south part there, frozen coastal flooding. I dont think ive ever seen that. With us live this morning is eva pilgrim just up the road in boston proper. Hi, eva. Reporter hey, rob, it is frigid here. Right now it feels like 15 below zero, and this cold weather just adding insult to injury. Much of the east coast still recovering from that winter storm. Many airports struggling to get back to normal. This morning, some calling it chaos, passengers stranded inside terminals and on tarmacs and at jfk in new york, weary travelers waiting for hours overnight to deplane. On the tarmac weve now entered hour six. Reporter inside, huge crowds. Airports across the u. S. Struggling to recover from the east coast storm. Its got to be a lot of snow to close an airport down. Reporter in charleston, South Carolina, airport officials shutting it down for lack of snow removal equipment. Were not equipped like you would be say a boston. We expect this once every ten years. Reporter o that was the water line. The white . Oh. Thats how high the water was back here. Reporter in massachusetts storm surge adding insult to injury cascading on the streets and into basements. Officials now saying this was the highest tide ever recorded in boston. If anyone wants to question global warming, just see where the flood zones are. Those zones didnt flood 30 years ago. Reporter the Charles River now a frozen blanket of snow and ice. In winthrop, massachusetts, cars in driveways destroyed. It didnt get in the back. Reporter crews racing to clear roads, trying to figure out what to do with all that snow. Where do you put it . So were going to do some removal operations with our snowblower. You can only plow so much. Reporter the storm taking at least eight lives. In long island, two dead after cleaning up snow. And these temperatures are not just cold, but they are dangerous. As you guys were mentioning, it doesnt take long to get frostbite in these temperatures. Where i am right now, less than half an hour. Guys. Its so cold outside. Eva, thank you. As we mentioned earlier, rob will have an update on when things might warm up. Yes. He didnt want to answer that question. He was really dodging it. Suspicious. We want to move to the breaking news overnight. There was an extremely close call on the tarmac with passengers having to evacuate in this frigid weather. Harrowing video, two planes clipping wings on the runway. A fire breaking out. Abcs Erielle Reshef is here in studio with more. Erielle, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you, paula and dan. Witnesses say the westjet flight had just landed from cancun and was taxiing to the gate when it suddenly was struck by another aircraft. The frightening aftermath caught on camera. Panic on a toronto tarmac as two planes collide turning the tail of this sunwing jet into a ball of flames. Responding bravo 12 for an aircraft on fire. Reporter Stephen Belford capturing this dramatic cell phone video just after that empty aircraft clipped this westjet plane as it sat still minutes after touching down from cancun. There was fuel being vented on the wing and then there was a big fireball, and it went from being very funny to very scary very fast. Theres people running around and their aircraft is on fire. Reporter emergency crews flooding the the westjet flights 168 passengers and 6 crew members on the coldest january 5th in torontos history. You good . Reporter one passenger in flipflops. The windchill, negative 18 degrees. It was freezing cold. So, everyone is like kind of panicking because youre not dressed for winter. Youre just dressed for being on the plane. Reporter westjet tweeting the boeing 737 was struck by a sunwing aircraft pushing back from the gate, and sunwing confirming to abc news that its plane was being towed and came in contact with another aircraft. Pearson International Airport saying all passengers made it safely into the terminal. All passengers made it out safely, but Authorities Say one First Responder was injured and taken to the hospital. This morning the Transportation Safety board is investigating how this could have happened. Of course, they are. Erielle, thank you very much. To politics now and that bombshell book, fire and fury, which paints a deeply unflattering portrait of the trump white house, its flying off the shelves this morning. President trump is tweeting about the claims writing actually throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and as everyone knows went down in flames. I went from very successful businessman to top tv star, abcs david wright is at the white house with more. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, paula and dan. This new book is the talk of the town here in washington and not in a good way for this white house. Its another big distraction for an administration that already seemed to struggle to stay focused. Already this book is number one on the amazon bestseller list. This morning, fire and fury isnt just the title of the capitals newest bestseller creating long lines at book stores. I heard that it pissed the president off, so i just had to buy it. Reporter that phrase also neatly describes the reaction the book has inspired here at the white house. Its completely tabloid gossip full of false and fraudulent claims. Reporter the president and his team are expressing outrage at the books depiction of an administration adrift, rife with infighting and constantly on the verge of chaos. Overnight the president tweeted, Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really bore and untruthful book. This morning, he tweeted, i went from very successful businessman to top tv star to president of the United States on my first try. I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius and a very stable genius at that. I would never question his mental fitness. I have no reason to question his mental fitness. They all say he is like a child. Reporter but on fridays today show author Michael Wolff insisted that all of trumps inner circle have little respect for the man they serve regardless of what they may say publicly. My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point. Reporter meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department is now launching a new investigation into the Clinton Foundation and whether some donors expected political favors back when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. The clinton teams response, lets call this what it is, a sham. This is a philanthropy that does lifechanging work which republicans have tried to turn into a political football. Its disgraceful and should be concerning to all americans. The president is at camp david trying to focus on his legislative agenda and the upcoming midterm elections. It is an extremely cold weekend to be spending at camp david. The president is there with Republican Leaders as well as top members of his cabinet, however, some noteworthy exceptions. Not on the invitation list, attorney general jeff sessions. Dan and paula. Interesting omission. David wright, thanks for your reporting. We want to bring in abcs cokie roberts. She is in d. C. For us this morning. Good morning to you, cokie. Good morning. Im luckily inside unlike poor david. We wouldnt put you outside. No. Thats good. Regarding the Clinton Foundation, the democrats say this is just the Trump Administration attempting to shift the focus. Is that the case or do you think theres legitimately something there . Well, obviously donald trump has said in an interview with the New York Times that he can do anything he wants with the Justice Department. And the Justice Department is really just getting whipped whiplash from both sides, so the fbi has reopened or apparently reupped an investigation into the Clinton Foundation and that investigation was legitimate. It was a question of whether there was pay for play of people donating to the foundation for favors from the state department, but whether that is whether theyve learned anything new is the real question there. Why would it continue now when theyve already been investigating it for a good long time . So there is certainly at least a whiff of politics here. Well, in the same vein, democrats are also up in arms this morning over the fact that trumps allies in congress, senior Congressional Republicans are calling for a criminal investigation into christopher steele, who is the author of that infamous dossier looking into trumps alleged ties to russia. These republican senators say they believe steele may have lied to federal authorities. So, begin, the same question, do you think this one is politically motivated or is there possibly there there . There might be there there in that he might have said something that was not correct, but clearly this is something where the republicans in congress have been pressured to do something about this russian probe, and what theyve decided to do is go after the people who have revealed it as opposed to going after the probe itself so it is or the Trump Administration, which, of course, is accused by democrats of colluding with the russians. So it is very, very political at the moment in terms of what people are asking the Justice Department to do and trying to maintain its independence as an important federal agency is going to be very tough for this Justice Department in this administration. These are interesting times. Cokie roberts, we always appreciate your analysis on a saturday morning and we will never send you outside so thank you. Never. Thank you. Never. Never. I promise. Thats good. Now this morning to the new developments in the Nuclear Standoff involving north korea. Yeah, north korea and south korea have now agreed to sit down and talk next week in advance of the upcoming olympic games, which will take place in the south, and abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz is in south korea for us this morning. Martha, good morning. Reporter good morning, dan and paula. Here in seoul, there is relief that the two sides will be talking again, but there remains ep aut what happens next. The talks will happen here in the socalled truce village of panmunjom where north korean and south korean soldiers stand feet awart on this heavily fortified border. The armistice that suspended the korean war was signed here in 1953. The topic this time, the norths participation in olympic games. It may sound unimportant but the talks come at a time of incredible tension. The north near perfecting a Nuclear Weapon that could potentially reach the u. S. Kim jongun claiming he has a Nuclear Button ready to go on his desk. President trump responding with a school yard taunt tweeting that his is bigger. I think the rhetoric that north korea understands is while it is our objective to achieve a denuclearization through diplomatic efforts, those diplomatic efforts are backed by a Strong Military option if necessary. Reporter and the show of u. S. Military might on the peninsula has been nearly constant. But during the olympics, the u. S. Has agreed to halt military exercises, but what comes after these talks between the north and south is still very much in question. The u. S. Saying they will not sit down with the north unless it accepts denuclearization. And the north saying that will never happen. For now, all eyes are on tuesday. If there is progress made in the talks, there is hope that they will expand, but either way, this Nuclear Crisis is far from over. Dan and paula. All right, Martha Raddatz reporting from the region. And we want to send things over to Ron Claiborne for a look at what else is going on in the news world. Hi. Good morning. Good morning to you, paula and dan, adrienne, robert. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Were going to begin with new details about the las vegas mass shooter in the days leading up to that massacre. Workers at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and casino had contact with the gunman, Stephen Paddock every day. On the day of the shooting, october 1st, there was a Room Service Delivery to his room and a call to housekeeping. That was from the room. Mgm resorts owner of the hotel said the interactions were normal. Paddock killed 58 people before fatally shooting himself. New this morning, the u. S. Navy announcing that they have located a missing aircraft that crashed back in november. It was located, the remains of it, in the south pacific. The wreckage of the c2a greyhound aircraft was pinpointed last week in the Philippines Sea at a depth of more than 18,000 feet. Experts say bringing up the wreckage will be one of the deepest recovery attempts ever made. Three American Service members died in the crash. Their bodies were never found. And breaking overnight hall of fame basketball star Julius Erving has been hospitalized after becoming ill at a philadelphia 76ers game in philly last night. The 67yearold dr. J was honored at the game to mark 5 years since that, his famous cradle dunk since repeated only by rob marciano. According to ervings representative, hes expected to be evaluated and should be okay there. New this morning, a lawyer for o. J. Simpson threatening a Las Vegas Hotel with a 100 million lawsuit over an incident there back in november. Simpsons lawyer accusing the Cosmopolitan Hotel casino of malice and racial prejudice claiming that simpson was singled out from a group of nonafricanamerican friends and then thrown out. The hotel banned simpson following that incident. Simpson has denied he was intoxicated or unruly at the time that he was removed. In houston, texas, nearly 6,000 people who lost their homes during Hurricane Harvey are waiting to move into fema trailers but they cant because of a local law preventing those trailers to be used, you can see those trailers in the video, thousands of them sitting unused about 120 miles outside houston. A city law restricts manufactured Housing Units and rv trailers to mobile home parks. Thats the rule so far. And finally, one philadelphia father is taking a creative approach to tracking his infant sons growth. Check this out. Hes doing it with a philly cheesesteak. Oh, yes. Brad wchls started taking the photos of his son lucas alongside the famous philadelphia sandwich when lucas was just two weeks old after noticing how similar in size the son was to a philly cheesesteak. He started doing it every month for the last year. By the way, those are new cheesestakes, not the same rotting cheesesteak. Its never too early to send your son positive messages