Under the tree in time . And good morning, america. Happy friday. Two weeks until christmas. I got to tell you im feeling good this morning. A got a lot of shopping done yesterday. Wow. That is important. Good for you. Youre lucky because im like a third of us, i wait till the last minute. I havent bought anybody any gifts yet. You might not want to do that this year because of the big alert from u. P. S. And fedex. Theyre behind right now. Christmas in january. Whoo no, no . All right. We have a lot of in us to get to. Well begin with some Severe Weather battering the northwest hit by that tornado and torrential downpours triggering mudslides and flooding. The storms moving east and aditi roy is in battleground, washington, where dozens of homes were damaged by that twister. Good morning to you, aditi. Reporter good morning, amy. Im standing right in the path of that tornado that tore through this town. Take a look at the piles and the winds were racing up to 10 miles an hour, 36 homes damaged in this town appropriately called battleground. Wow reporter tornadoes, flooding, landslides, Power Outages and lots of hail, the Pacific Northwest in weather mayhem. A huge boom and like the tree came shooting through the window. Reporter this dramatic scene captured in battleground, washington. Straight up ripped every limb off that tree. Reporter watch as a Home Security camera catches this backyard being ripped apart. This morning, people are cleaning up after a confirmed tornado went ripping up trees and shredding them. Dozens of homes and structures damaged. This highway shutting down for hours after a landslide sent boulders onto the road. I dont think anybody thought it would be this bad. Reporter two confirmed deaths in the storm. A woman trapped under a falling tree and another who drowned driving through the floodwaters. Getting battered. Rains buckling roads, trees uprooted. Reports of cars, you know, in water, water over the roadway people trapped in cars. Reporter transportation is a mess. A state of emergency has been declared in 13 oregon counties. The storm now headed east. This area expected to see a second round of wet weather over the weekend. Amy. All right, aditi, thank you. As you just heard aditi say its on the move and ginger moving right into the middle of the country . It will and will bring severe storms there. Lets start with its slapping the coast. With some of the high surf. You could see waves 20 to 30 feet till in some of those Northern California coastal areas in oregon but it goes to Southern California as do the wind advisories right through arizona and new mexico and then that storm moves through the rockies tonight and im worried about damaging wind and isolated west of dallas on saturday and then it moves east on sunday but i got to tell you out in front of this what will be record highs from likely chicago to new york city, im going to detail that if you do me a favor and stick around ill show you how warm we get. Now to the rising terror fear here in america. A new poll shows that almost half the country thinks an attack is very likely to happen in the next few months, the highest anxiety since the days after 9 11 and it is fueling Donald Trumps surge to the top of the polls. Abcs jon karl tracking that story from the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning, george. While trump was slammed by critics for his proposal to temporarily ban muslims from coming into the United States his supporters have not wavered. In fact, his standing in the polls is as high as ever, but one of his major rivals is now privately questioning whether he has the judgment to be commander in chief. In New Hampshire overnight donald trump brushed off protesters as he received the endorsement of a new England Police union. Weve had a pretty tell you that. Reporter all the controversy and news on terrorism over the past month seems to have given trump a boost. Back in late october, there were signs he had started to fade, since then hes jumped 13 points in that same poll. But trumps number one rival in iowa, senator ted cruz is touting an endorsement from a key evangelical leader. I believe the extraordinary leader that we need for these extraordinary times is u. S. Senator ted cruz. Reporter cruz has steadily gained support from social conservatives in iowa, one poll this week showed him leading trump there for the first time. Now hes taking on trump behind the scenes, the audio obtained by the New York Times from a closed door fundraiser cruz questions if trump and ben carson have the judgment to be president. Who am i comfortable having their finger on the button . Now, thats a question of strength but its also a and i think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them. Reporter cruz explained why hes avoided any public criticism of carson or trump saying he hopes to gain their supporters and escape trumps attacks. So my approach much to the frustration of the media has been to bear hug both of them and smother them with love. Reporter but even while trump continues to ride high his proposal to temporarily ban muslims from entering the country is unpopular. In a new wall street journal nbc poll 57 of americans oppose it, only 25 support it and republican primary voters are split on it. Less than 40 , george, support it. Donald trump, we thought he would be going to israel after christmas. Now thats been canceled. Reporter thats right. He had been scheduled to go to israel and meet with Benjamin Netanyahu but yesterday trump abruptly canceled that trip, george. Trump said he rejected i mean after netanyahu said he rejected trumps comments on muslims. Trump said hell visit him when hes president. Reporter with characteristic modesty. Thanks very much. Much more sunday on this week. Now to the investigation into the terror couple in San Bernardino. The fbi expanding its search. Authorities now looking in this pond for clues. They believe the killer may have gone there after the massacre and were also learning more about syed farooks childhood friend Enrique Marquez and his secret double life. Abcs matt gutman has been in San Bernardino covering the story from the beginning. He joins us now, good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, amy. The fbi tells us theyll be scouring this lake for days, gives you a sense of how important this site is to them, it also gives our first hint of where that terrorist couple may have been in that black hole of time, the three hours between the shooting rampage and the time they were gunned down by police. This morning, for the first time whereabouts of that terrorist couple in the hours after they fled this shattered Conference Room and before the roadside shootout which left them dead. Is it possible they were here. Its possible they were at this park. Reporter the fbi believes the couple may have come here to dump evidence. Perhaps devices with digital data. Divers crisscrossing the murky water to salvage even the smallest evidence from the lake bed. The lake just 2 1 2 miles from the site of that shooting. This as authorities expand their investigative web, federal authorities now saying farook and his neighbor, Enrique Marquez, who supplied the militarystyle weapons used in last weeks massacre, allegedly began planning but later abandoned a terror plot in 2012. There had been some arrests immediately adjacent to that right in their area that really caused them to rethink it. Reporter those arrests also in 2012 before the founding of isis, four men from riverside, california, the same town farook this morning, marquez is still in fbi custody but not under arrest. His mother talking to reporters for the first time telling us shes heartbroken. And shocked to learn her son isnt who she thought he was. Family members say they never knew the former punk rocker converted to islam or that he married a chechen woman who just emigrated to the u. S. His wife one of two chechen sisters, the other married farooks brother. Now, in that merck, the fbi hopes to find some sort of digital data, perhaps a hard drive that could give them an idea of where the terrorist couple planned to attack next, who, if anyone, directed them and critically whether or not they had accomplices either overseas or in the u. S. Who planned another attack. George. Yeah, so much to untangle. Thanks very much. Were going to turn to that terrifying new alert detailing how isis followers can slip undetected into the u. S. Just like the real thing and brian ross here with this exclusive report. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, george. The u. S. And other countries are on high alert for isis attacks, american authorities are warning the terror group is now producing its own authenticlooking passports almost impossible to detect. Authorities say as isis swept through major syrian cities last year, it was able to seize at least two government Passport Printing machines similar or smaller than this one used by the british government. If isis has been able to acquire legitimate passports or machines that could create legitimate passports, this would represent a major Security Risk to the United States. Reporter a Homeland Security investigation bulletin sent to Law Enforcement in the last week and obtained by abc news showed examples of suspect passports and said isis may have boxes full of blank passports. The bulletin warned that individuals from syria with controlled cities or who had passport blanks may have traveled to the u. S. The director of the fbi first revealed it publicly in testimony. They are concerned they have the ability, the capability to manufacture fraudulent passports. Which is a concern in any setting. Reporter several of the fraudulent passports have already been discovered in europe, most notably in the paris attacks when authorities said one of the suicide bombers to come into europe as a refugee. Switzerland authorities are searching for as many as six possible isis terrorists, the u. S. Provided intelligence to the swiss about a possible attack and americans traveling to switzerland have been warned the threat level especially in geneva has been raised. Quite specific. Exactly right. Thanks very much. Thank you. Now to a different type of this one aboard a runaway it left the station with no one at the controls and it barreled through four stations for nearly ten minutes before it was finally stopped. That operator has now been placed on leave and abcs linzie janis is in braintree, massachusetts, with that story. Good morning, linzie. Reporter good morning, amy. During those few minutes passengers say they didnt know what would happen to them. Some worried theyd crash into another train. Others trying to stop the train themselves. This morning, a boston train operator is on administrative leave as investigators try to figure out what caused his packed commuter train to drive off without him. What happened today is unacceptable. Reporter Authorities Say just after 6 a. M. Thursday David Vasquez got off his train to deal with a signaling issue. Seconds later the train taking off grazing him as it left the station. I have a motor person that was operating one of my trains. Hes got a lower right leg laceration. Reporter the runaway train traveling nearly six miles blowing through four station stops. It was flying. It was flying. A guy trying to open the doors, he even tried to break one of the windows because he goes, i dont know whats going on. I just want to get out of here. Reporter passengers on board that train say they started to panic realizing there was no one inside the operators booth. Some tried to get inside. Others attempting to pry open the exit doors. Transit crews scrambling to move other trains off the track and cutting power to the third rail. All the lights went off and everything just stopped. Reporter the train finally coming to a halt after nine terrifying minutes. Investigators say theyre now focused on operator error as the cause questioning that operator with 28 years experience. George. Hard to imagine that could happen. Linzie, thanks very much. A new headline now about those hoverboards everyone is talking about. Them to catch fire. Now airlines are banning passengers from taking them on board. Abcs linsey davis here with that story. Good morning, linsey. Reporter file this under the category of hot, hot, hot. A lot of people will be unwrapping these gifts for the holidays but getting them home, that might be the problem. Its the toy that is topping Christmas Wish lists. The hoverboard, but some of these hot new rides are getting a little too hot. Holy cow. Reporter reports of hoverboards catching fire like these put airlines on high alert during the height of the Holiday Travel season. Big names such as american, united, jetblue and delta are all banning the twowheeled machine making sure an incident like this doesnt happen up in the sky. Hoverboards are powered by lithium batteries which have concerned airlines for years. The faa putting on this test showing the potential dangers of lithium batteries in a shipping container, a Chain Reaction explosion and fire. And while the government aboard an aircraft many of these must have new items surpass that wattage posing a potential hazard risk and on the ground, more hoverboard bans, overstock. Com stopping all hoverboard sales thursday saying customer safety is always our top priority. These concerns dont seem to be hurting sales one bit. Ebay has said its selling a hoverboard every 12 seconds but some parents may be rethinking their purchases right about now. Wow. My twins, thats what they want. Their number one are they going to get it . You cant say anything about that right now. After reports last week, i dont know. If i want to get them one i better order it now because everybody out there, big alert from fedex and u. P. S. An estimated 1. 5 billion packages will be shipped this Holiday Season and the companies are overwhelmed with more deliveries arriving late. Abcs Rebecca Jarvis is here with that. Rebecca. Hey, michael, good morning. Get on that right away if youre going to get your twins those hoverboards because we are seeing growth in online sales up 14 over the holidays already and that means delays for deliveries. tis the season to shop online but will those Online Purchases arrive in time to be placed beneath the tree . Thats the burning question as both u. P. S. And fedex posted lower than expected on time delivery rates in the runup to christmas. According to ship matrix on time delivery rates for u. P. S. And fedex are both down from this time last year. A primary reason for the delays, a surge in online sales over the thanksgiving holiday weekend. Consumers spent an estimated 4. 5 billion online on thanksgiving and black friday alone. Overwhelming the Delivery System reminiscent of christmas 2013 when high volume, insufficient staffing and bad weather created u. P. S. Thousands of packages ordered online that year failed to arrive before their promised delivery dates. I was expecting the gifts to get here. Nothing is going to be under the tree. Reporter thanks, u. P. S. , for ruining christmas wrote one consumer. Does a promised delivery date not mean anything to you . Upsfail. Could this be another disappointing christmas . Its still early, but experts advise better be safe than sorry. And order early and when possible, have a backup plan in place. That backup plan might be a coupon for the gift sometime in the future. U. P. S. 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