o'neal died. multiple states under alerts across the country. a 18-vehicle pileup shutting down part of the country. snow, winds into new england. 40 million america u watches, including new york city. rob marciano will time it out. the scene in court today, ethan crumbly sentenced to life in prison without parole. what he said in court and in front of the families of the victims. the professor who went on a shooting rampage. the 911 call just released. hunter biden indicted on nine tax related charges, taxes he did pay back. tonight, hunter biden's attorney say they are not common charges and have been brought against him because of his last name. pierre thomas reporting. the alleged gunman accused of firing shots outside a temple in albany, new york. what he allegedly said. children inside that temple, and aaron katersky with new reporting. the israel-hamas war. tonight the failed attempt to reach hostages in gaza turns deadly. james longman in israel. in the u.s., a major medical breakthrough. the fda approving two gene therapy treatments to treat sickle cell disease. targeted editing of your dna to treat illness. the news coming in tonight, remember actor ryan o'neal. from "love story" to paper moon", his long time relationship with fawcett. good evening, it's great to have you with us as we end another week together. snow, freezing rain, severe storms and damaging winds with this at from rockies to the midwest, then right into the northeast. flood watches already up tonight for 40 million americans going into the weekend in the northeast, including new york city. the system starting in the west, of course. plows trying to stay ahead of the snow in stephens pass. this is washington state. moving to utah, cars inching along in heavy snow east of salt lake city. a 18 vehicle pileup. the northeast now bracing for this. by sunday and monday, heavy rain and wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour in some places. let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano leading us off tonight with the forecast. hey, rob. >> reporter: hey, david. you saw the storm come through yesterday, how much snow it is put down in the mountains and we have winter storm warning for salt lake, parts of colorado. dakotas getting it too. heavy wins into the ohio valley. look at the south. texas, louisiana, parts of mississippi. shreveport, memphis, nashville. damaging winds, tornadoes possible, too. backside could bring down some snow. most accumulations will be in the interior and mountains. heavy rain along the i-95. 40, 50, 60 miles per hour. that will bring down power lines. over 40 million americans in that zone. if your home tends to flood, you should prep for that tomorrow, because it's going to be a mess into monday. david? >> david: rob, thank you. we turn next to the dramatic and emotional scene in the courtroom today. sentenced to life in prison without parole. ethan crumbley who killed four and injured seven others at oxford high school, what he told the families in court today. what those families, including one tearful mother, told him. here's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: tonight a judge senting crumbley to prison for life without parole. he sat motionless while over seven hour, more than two dozen of his victims, their family and friends, pleading for the maximum penalty. madison baldwin, 17, one of the four oxford high school students killed in november 2021. her mother nicole recalling the moment she identified her body. >> i looked through the glass. my screams should have shattered it. >> reporter: madison's best front was saving her seat in class. >> i waited and waited and finally realized she was never come. >> reporter: 17-year-old justin shilling shot point blank protecting keegan gregory. they were trapped in the bathroom with the shooter. >> i felt then and still feel now the guilt of surviving. i know if it wasn't justin's life that was taken, it could have been mine. >> reporter: buck mere in tears, a framed photo of his son tate on the judge's desk, remembering, waiting with his wife for news. >> she put her head in her hands and said, not my baby boy. >> reporter: 16-year-old tate rode with kylie to school that day. she was shot in the hall that day. >> i thought a balloon popped. i turned and i fell right to the ground. >> reporter: moving her hand, she felt hannah st. julianna behind her. >> i kept trying to reassure her, someone will come help us, don't worry, just keep breathing and just please stay with me. i said, that to her a thousand times. >> reporter: hannah was 14. her older sister, reyna. >> instead of speak at her wedding i spoke at her funeralle instead of fish tailing her hair for a game i curled her hair in a casket. >> reporter: crumbley addressing the court. >> i am a really bad person. i have done terrible things that no one should ever do. >> reporter: then sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. crumbley's parents were also charged in the shooting for providing their son with the gun and for failing to recognize the warning signs. their trills will begin early next year. david. >> david: stephanie ramos reporting tonight, thank you. we turn to the chilling 911 calls as the that professor turned down for a job went on a shooting spree on the campus of unlv. matt rivers in las vegas tonight. >> reporter: tonight, bursts of gunfire and desperate pleas for help. >> 911 emergency. >> reporter: just released 911 calls painting a chilling picture from the mass shooting on unlv's campus. >> how many shots have you heard? >> like five. i'm hiding under my desk. i closed my door. it's locked. >> have you heard anything else before or after? >> i heard some scream. >> reporter: this woman hiding steps from the shooter in the business school. >> okay. who else is in the office with you? >> it's just me. my boss is working from home. >> it's just you, just yourself. >> yeah. >> reporter: officers arriving quickly. security video capturing the shootout where an officer kills the gunman. >> all of a sudden i hear shots and, you know, some bullets hit this ford explorer, and there was a couple faculty. they huddled behind that suv. >> reporter: police say the alleged gunman had been rejected from professor jobs at unlv and other nevada schools before walking into the building armed with a pistol and a target list. investigator believe when he couldn't find those on the list he shot three professors who happened to be there. tonight we're learning the third victim killed was an associate professor of japanese studies. david, police say they tested the 22 letters that he sent to university employees around the country, but police say the white powder found in those envelopes turned out to be harmless. >> david: matt rivers in las vegas tonight. matt, thank you. now to the federal charges for hunter biden. the president's son facing nine counts, accused of cheating the federal government out of $1.4 million from 2016 to 2018. he has paid them back. lawyer arguing these are not common charges when taxes have been paid and have been brought against hunter biden, they say, because of his name. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: heading out of the white house today, president biden ignoring a barrage of questions about the new federal indictment against his son hunter. >> any comment on the new charges against your son, mr. president? >> reporter: the nine-count indictment -- six misdemeanors and three felony charges accusing hunter biden of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019. special counsel david weiss insisting that during that time, biden was living an extravagant lifestyle, spending on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels, rental properties, exotic cars, clothing. in short, everything but his taxes. biden allegedly shelling out more than $600,000 on various women. another $397,000 on clothes and more than $187,000 on adult entertainment. weiss, a trump appointee kept on by attorney general merrick garland to continue the probe, has been investigating hunter biden for more than five years. through it all, the president standing squarely behind his son. >> my son's done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in him. >> reporter: hunter beede siden paid all of his back taxes. today his attorney saying, if his name was anything other than biden, the charges would not have been brought, added the special counsel bowed to republican pressure. in a recently recorded podcast, hunter biden accusing republicans of attacking him to undermine his father's confidence and ability to continue the campaign. >> they're trying to destroy a presidency, and so it's not about me. in their most base way what they're trying to do is they're trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle. >> reporter: some legal scholars say it's unusual for someone who's fully paid back their taxes to be prosecuted. the stakes are incredibly high for biden who faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted. >> david: pierre thomas in washington. thank you. now to albany, new york. shots fired outside that temple where preschoolers were still inside. tonight that alleged gunman under arrest, and what he allegedly said to police after firing the gun. here's aaron katersky. >> reporter: top, the man accused of firing a shotgun outside an albany shotgun is being held before court. a 28-year-old iraqi born citizen stood outside the temple with a 12 gauge shotgun and fired two rounds into the air just hours before the start of hanukkah. authorities saying he told investigators the events in the middle east have impacted him. >> we were told by responding officers that he made a comment "free palestine". >> reporter: for now he's charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. he did not enter a plea. authorities are investigating the shooting, though, as a possible hate crime. >> you raise me up. you gave me life. >> reporter: tonight in a show of sport, new york governor kathy hochul is attending services at temple israel. >> the community has been upended, but i'm calling on all people -- don't let this -- don't let the forces of evil take the joy that should be in your heart right now. >> reporter: just here in new york last month, david, the nypd said there was a 32% increase in anti-jewish crime compared to the same month a year earlier. david? >> david: aaron katersky in new york tonight. thank you. meanwhile, to the israel-hamas war. israel acknowledging the israeli military did try to rescue hostages from hamas inside gaza but that it failed. james longman in israel again tonight for us. >> reporter: tonight, as israel intensifies its furious assault on gaza, details are emerging about a failed operation to rescue hostages from hamas. israel says two idf soldiers were severely injured when its forces raided a hamas hideout, but no hostages recovered. hamas claiming one hostage killed in the fire fight, but israel not confirming the death. it comes after the detention of hundreds of men in gaza. new images show the men stripped down to hair underwear, sitting hands tied behind their backs, taken to israel for entire gags. >> men discovered in areas civilians were supposed to have evacuated weeks ago. they will be questioned and we'll work out who is indeed a hamas terrorist and who is not. >> reporter: this man's brother was among with men. he says he has no affiliation with hamas. >> reporter: this man confirming his son and father were all released. and tonight, fierce people's homes destroyed. 2 million now displaced. those who escaped the bombing now living in plastic tents with limited access to food, water, or protection from the elements. with more than 17,000 palestinians killed, according to the hamas run health ministry, antony blinken with some of the strongest criticism yet of israel's offensive. >> it remains imperative that israel put a premium on civilian protection, and there does remain a gap between what i said when i was there, the intent to protect civilians and the actual results that we're seeing on the ground. >> reporter: as for that failed rescue operation, david, the idf says it did kill hamas fighters involved in the october 7th attack, but that all 178 hostages remain in hamas custody. >> david: thank you, james. back here in the u.s. and to a major medical breakthrough, the fda approving two new treatments for sickle cell disease. one of them, the first gene editing therapy, targeting certain dna and changing it to fight could it eventually help fight cancer? here's faith abubey tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the fda approve the first two break-through therapies for sickle cell seize, offering what some researchers call a functional cure for many patients with the blood disorder. the treatments have the ability to edit patients' dna in targeted areas, leading to the production of healthy cells and alleviating the excruciating pain and organ damage caused by blood cells that mutate into a sickle shape. one of the traeeatments is they uses gene editing tool crispr-cas-9. >> as we continue to do the science and data collection behind it, it is hoped we can expand those getting it. >> reporter: a connecticut 15-year-old was one of the youngest involved in the trials. his family says before he received the therapy, he was hospitalized every few months. now the teenager says he hasn't had a painful attack in over a year. >> before this whole treatment, it was always, oh, don't go, because you might have a pain crisis, but now not that i have free reign, but i'm able to do more stuff than i used to be able to. >> reporter: david, the treatments are only approved for patients 12 years and older. they do come with many risks and hurdles. they're expensive, require patients to stay in the hospital for several weeks, and they may jeopardize fertility. >> david: bringing hope for multiple diseases. faith abubey with the breakthrough tonight. thank you. when we come back, the 16-year-old high school cheerleader found dead in her home by her mother. the fast-moving investigation toni tonight. and we learned ryan o'neal died. we look back from "paper moon," and barbra streisand with her own tribute out tonight. i'm not good being retired. i'm a pain in the neck. i like to be able to have a purpose. about three or four years ago, i wasn't feeling as if i was as sharp as i used to be. i saw the prevagen commercials. after a short amount of time taking prevagen, i started noticing a difference-- that i'm remembering this, i'm remembering that. i stopped taking prevagen and i found myself slacking back so i jumped right back on it. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. 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>> reporter: then the movies. his third film making him a household name, the 1971 blockbuster "love story" and the famous line. >> love means never having to say you're sorry. >> reporter: at the time, one of the highest grossing films ever, earning him an oscar nomination. >> then don't leave me, jenny. sure we can, honey. daddy was just fixing to leave. >> reporter: there was 1972's "paper moon," costarring with his 9-year-old daughter tatum, who won an oscar for her role. >> i told you, i don't want you riding with me no more. >> you still owe me $200. >> reporter: in 1979, alongside barbra streisand in "the main event." >> i'm not a fighter. >> you're not a fighter? >> do you like like a fighter? >> no. >> reporter: tonight, streisand sharing this image writing he was funny and charming and he will be remembered. o'neal would act alongside farrah fawcett and the two would share a 17-year romance. he battled leukemia, and he was there for her when she battled cancer. >> she is so brave and positive and confident. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: tonight, his son patrick saying his father pass away peacefully today at the age of 82, calling his father his hero, saying he died, quote, with his loving team by his side, supporting him and loving him as he would us. ryan o'neal, remembered tonight. i'll see you for an all-new "20/20" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. i'm david muir. good night. a dent in it, but we still have a ways to go. >> san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins on the open air drug markets in the city and her plans to crack down on. >> and in oakland, more police officers ready to hit the streets. good afternoon. i'm kristen sze. and i'm larry beil. >> thanks for joining us. a first. new details in the fight against retail theft. scenes like these have been in the news for quite a few years now. thieves stealing from both high end retailers as well as drug stores. a recent report from the national retail federation said when it comes to inventory losses, a whopping 50% were due to organized crime. >> but now there walking those claims back. abc seven news reporter ryan curry is live in the newsroom with a look at the about face ryan. >> yeah, larry. kristen, good afternoon. organizers in the industry tell me that this is a problem organized retail theft is a problem. but there isn't a clear way to track all the data behind it. we have all seen the videos, massive groups running in, grabbing arms full of merchandise and quickly escaping . it happened as recently as this week at the apple store in berkeley. but it turns out organized retail crime does not have a large impact on the industry as first thought. in april, the national retail federation released a report saying that $94 billion of inventory loss and half of it was organized retail crime. daphne howland, a reporter