The anonymous threatatf bombings and nerve gas forced l. A. To close all of its schools causing chaos stranding 650,000 kids. The clues this morning, why investigators knew it was a hoax and the war of words as other cities say it was a huge overreaction. Dropping the mic. What . Oh, thats the robber. The local reporter who helped crack the case and catch a bank robber. Ah, this is live tv, folks. How he got much more than just the story. And Something Like that, good morning, america. The main ent lighting up the strip in las vegas last night. 1400 people packing the Venetian Hotel and casino last night. Donald trump said it felt more like the academy award. Likes having the gold around. He took tough hits from jeb perforornce yet from governor bush, the big question, did it change his place in the race. Did anything change . You saw ted cruz and marco rubio go at it, as well, and were going to t tk about this with bill oreilly who is standndg by with his analysis. There he is right there. Well begin, though, with abcs cecilia vega. She is in las vegas for all the action. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, geor, good momoing to you. Im still outside the venetian low tell. All eyes inside that hall last night on donald trump, the focus was on national security, but donald trump says he had the best debate so far. The gloves were off almost as soon as the opening bell rang. Run for president. Youre a tough guy, jeb. We need to have a leader that is real tough. Youll never be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency. Im at 42 and youre at 3. Doesnt matter. Riporter it was donald trump versus jeb bush on how to fight isis. With jebbattitude we will never be great again. That i can tell you. Reporter and on that donald trump is great at the oneliners but hes a chaos candidate and would be a chaos president. Jeb doesnt really believe im unhinged. He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. Its been a total disaster. Nobo cares. Reporter there was dond trump versus rand paul. Is donald trump a serious candidate . The reason i ask this reporter but the biggest grudge match at all. He has a wonderful temper. Reporter trump versus the texas senator inininging on his frontrunner standings in the poll never happened. Instead, it was ted cruz versus marco rubio, both vying to be the partys alternative to the brash billionaire in the leaea does ted cruz rule out ever legalizing people in this country illegally now. Senatororruz. I have never supported legalization. Do you rule it out . I have never supported legalization and i dont intend to. Because you know of the pack. But the fact of the matter is, look and s s what ive done. And that speaks volumes about strength. Reporter after it was all over. Mr. Trump, did jeb bush have it out for you tonight . No, he has to do what he has to do. I fully understand. Hes having a hard time and he wants to get his numbers up. Reporter well, jeb bush thought he had a good night too. This is the final, this was the final Republican Debate of 2015 and i can tell you there have been a lot of questions about whether trump might stage an independent run if he does not win this nomination. He said unequivocally last night he will not do tha robin, he says hes totally committed to the republican party. Well talk about thatat thank you, cecilia. Matthew dowd, a Senior Adviser to president george w. Bush and worked on campais for both parties is here. So, the frontrunner, how did he do . Donald trump didnt damage himself at all. This is the last debate before christmas and donald trump will frontrunner. Ththinteresting thing, like yes, virginia, there is a santa claus, yes, gop, donald trump may be your nominee. And you say that even more so now because of what trump said, we heard cecilia as she said at the end of her reporting now hes saying, im not going to run as an independent. You read something into that. I thought it was a big tell at the end of it. Up to this time hes been leaning in i may or may not. He sees himself in the dominant place and sees himself as the winner of the gop nomination process. Thats why hes saying that. Ted cruz has been making some inroros and gaining some ground. How did he do . I thoughthte did fine. He had momentum coming in. He didnt do anything to push it forward so i think in that way he fell short of where he kneed to go in this. I think probably wins iowa but the problem for ted cruz is where does he win after iowa . S sdid anybody in your r estimation break out . I thought the two breakout people were marco rubio, hes always good at these debate, probably won every single debate in the course of this and Chris Christie did some good contrasting to everybody else on the problem is, can anybody take a place of donald trump in the course of this race and i think thats the question we dont know. You feel some will drop out by january. I think its going to go from a Football Team to a Baseball Team to a Basketball Team in january which is probably five or six people on stage. I knew you would give wne of those analogies. George. Lets hear from bill oreilly right now from fox news also the author of the number one the New York Times bestseller, killing reagan. Welcome back. We heard matthew d wd right there. He didnt see anything that would take trump off the top right now. Do you agree . I dont think trump really changed his status. You like him before the debate youll like him after. You dont, same thing. I think ted cruz helped himself a little bit because he becomes the conservative alternative to trump. So if youre not a policy person, and youre conservative you would go with cruz. But he and rubio really went at it on national security. You think cruz got the better of that exchange. I dont know. Are going on emotion this year and thats what its all about and people should understand that. Trump has blown the system up. Hes blown it up and n n its all about emotion, so once you get into this micro policy business i think most folks tune out. Theig question people a2e asking does it stay about emotion as the votes actually come . It does, it does until you get to the first voting. Iowa, new hampshire. I think itll carry into that. Because thats wt trump is running on. Thats his wholeampaign, emotoon. He feels your pain and the country is angry. Jeb bush had his toughest attack yet on donald trump last night. Chaos candidate. Did he draw blood . No, because you could just read it in bushs face. How is this possibly happening . How can i, a candidate who knows and has run a state for eight years be losing to a donald trump, who speaks in generalities. But what jebebush has never understood is this is a different time. Sides, but primarily on the right and if you dont feel that anger, if you dont feel it youre going to lose. If he doesnt make a move in the next feweweeks in the polls you think he gets out before the votes. Look, its a matter of money. He has a lot of money. He can stay in. You got super tuesday. I dont think hell get out ben carson has been falling. Carson didnt help himself last night and it all started on my show when we had this big Foreign Policy debate and he didnt really know about the terrorism and the components thererf. Once that had gone out he started to descend and cruz picked up most of his support. Almost all of his votes. Yes. In iowa especially so look, taking a step back with a lot of emotion and anger against washington, can donald trump actually get the nomination. Sure, he could. Sure, could. Hes look, the folks are going to vote and the votes count. Now, the republican establishment dont want him and said trumps blowing up the system. That debate last night, nobobo really won or lost, theres too many people on the stage but how can you come up against a trump who es, hey, i got 42, you got 3, youre an i idiot. How can you debate that . How, how . And i think his pledge again last night to stay as a republican, not to run as an independent got to be a sign of confidence that he thinks he can get the nomination. Look, trump doesnt want to alienate all republicans, but ill tell you what, the guy is formidable and in this age of anger, people got you cant say, oh, hes not going to get it. He could very well get it. If he starts to win will there be a brokered convention. I dont know anything about that. Thats your job. Broker convention. All i know people will vote on emotion this year. Almost like what reagan did with carter. Its almost exactly the same. Carter screwed things up so badly and americans were so angry in 1980 that they voted its the same thing now. And, you know, history might repeat itself. Bill oreilly, thanks for coming in this morning. Next debate democrats will be there on saturday night. Martha raddatz and david muir will moderate that and youll see it right here on abc at 8 00 eastern. Robin. All right, george, wewe appreciate bill oreilly being in the studio with us this morning. Now to that scary moment on that southwest jet in nashville rolling off the runway and into a ditch after a rough landing. This comes as millions of americans are gearing up, of course, for holiday travel. Abcs alex perez is in nashville with the latest. Good morning, alex. Repter good morning, robin. That plane has been moved. You can see e s still on the tarmac. Passengers say they knew something went terribly wrong just seconds after landing. Overnight, a frightening moment for 133 passengers aboard this boeing 737. Terrifying to feel it bounce up and down. Reporter from houston bound for nashville making a rough International Airport at 5 20 p. M. Just as passengers thought they were safe, the plane rolling off the runway into a ditch. Emergency crews and ambulances immediately called to the scene and panicked passengers trying to grab bags from the overhead bins before evacuating down the jetliners emergency chute. They made sure there was no fire, explosioor anything and made sure everyone was able to get off quickly. Reporter eight passengers rushed to the hospital and later released with minor injuries. Both the nose of the plane and its side suffering damage. And the faa is still working to pinpoint what exactly triggered all this including the possibility that the plane blew a tire or was having problems with its landing gear. George. Okay, alex, t tnks. We turn to that Terror Threat that shut down schools in l. A. Yesterday causing chaos for hundreds of thousands of families. New york got a similar threat decided to ignore it and that ignited a a r of words between the two big cities. Abcs matt gutman is in los good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, george. Soon after getting that threat, l. A. Dececing to close all of its 1500 plus schools. Now, in that email threat was direct reference to the San Bernardino attack, new york city getting virtually the same email but deciding immediately it was a hoax. Now, l. A. Is standing by its decision, ononthat cost it nearly 30 million and a lot of criticism. That threat warning of a swarm of jihadists descending on los angeles schools came in an email to an l. A. School board member at 5 00 a. M. Tuesday. What followed, a swift decision, 90 minutes later to close every one of the citys schools. We have suffered far too many School Shootings in america to ignore these kind of threats. Reporter the cost an estimated 29 million, about 650,000 students shut out. The superintendent has didicted all schools to be closed today, tuesday, december 15th, to ensure the safety of scrambling. Had to take the day off woror yes. Reporter were your employers understanding . Hopefully. Reporter new york city officials received almost the exact same email threat, but decided to keep schools open. New yorks Police Commissioner blasting l. A. s decision. To disrupt the daily schedules of 500,000 schoolchildren, their parents based on an anymous email, i think, it was a significant overreaction. Reporter the first tipoff for new york police was that the alleged threat seemed remarkably similar to the plot line of the tv series homeland. The instigator of thehehreat may be a homeland fan watching homeland episodes that it mirrors a lot of recent episodes. Reporter the police sent to new york read in part Something Big is going down. Not only are there bombs, but there are nerve gas agents set to go off at a specific time it was so generic, so outlandish and posed to numerous School Systems simultaneously. Reporter and had a conspicucus typo, me and my 1313 comrades will die tomorrow in the name of allah with a lowercasas a in a new york version. Incredible to think any jihadist would not spell allah with a capital a. Reporter now all schools are scheduled to reopen here this morning. But because so many people were rattled there will be uniformed officers at schools like this and crisis counselors. Now, thahahoax, a very real felony, whoever perpetrated it could face up to 20 years in prison. George. They should get it. Okay, matt, thanks very much. To amyith the other top stories. That deadly crash of a medicalal helicopter in n oenix. Thats right. Medical helicopter has crashed in rugged terrain east of phoenix killing two people and injuring a third. The chopper similar to this one nurse. No word yet on what caused the crash but last week four people died when a medical helicopter crashed in california. Overseas a shift in u. S. Policy towards syria. Whililmeeting with russian president vladimir putin, john kerry says the u. S. Agrees with russia and Bashar Al Assad can stay in power if thats what the ththobama administration previously insisted assad step down immediately. In Washington HouseSpeaker Paul Ryan has announced an agreement on a 1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. It would extend a series of business tax breaks and would 9 11 First Responders and that deal would lift the 40year ban on oil exports. Robber in minnesota was nono expecting this. He returned to the crime scene but didnt realize the local news station was broadcasting live. He was approaching the bank just shotottake a look. Tyler just 24 hours ago this bank in that guy right there. What . Thats the robber. Oh, thats the robber. This is live tv, folks. Thats the robber just went by. According to the bank employee, so i got to go here and call 911. Ill talk to you later. And guess what, he did just that. He called 911. The man was arrested a short time later as Police Responded but you can just see his brain should i go back to my script oreact here as a human being and he decided to be a human being and ditch he had that smile saying this is the best thing that ever happened to me. Right, he knew. He did know, thanks, amy. To your money right now for the first time in nearly a decade the federal resesve expected to raise Interest Rates. Fed chair janet yellen will likely announce a 0. 25 hike that could have an impact on your mortgage to credit cards. Lara with our experts. Joined by shark tanks oleary. This is the first hike since 2006. How big a deal would it be for our viewers . What the immediate effect will be on the Housing Market will certainly help it because it will kick people off the fence who have been procrastinating and jump into the market and it will really boost pricic immediately. So you like it for real estate but could mean some problems for credit card rates. Kevin, whats your take on this . No, shes wrong. Real estate will go flat. I knew you were going to say y that. Thats how it works. You know, the thing is, its good news. The reason the fed is raising up. Thats always good news, more it just gets better for america. Housing, nah, barbara is wrong. See. Money on that. We will look forward to this exchange. I want to ask about it being good news. A lot of viewers are concerned. Stay tuned with us in our next half hour, the sharks will be back to answer your questions bottom line. Robin and george, of course, theyre disagreeing. Only the beginning. Takakg a page from dan and nancy. Ginger, you have this big snowstorm around denver. Denver had it yesterday. Parts colorado up to two feet of snow and look what it looked like at the dedeer airport. Yoyocan see why hundreds of flights were canceled. Now it has cleared out of there and moved up through the Northern Plains like north dakota and minnesota but i wanted to shock you here. Look at the temperatures. The windchills by saturdrd feels like 21 in new york city. Plan on a windy wednesday across the region if its trash day in your area, watch for bins blown over as gusts may hit 40mph at times. While a sprinkle or two may occur with this passing warm front, we wont really see standpoint. Well see a gradual downturn in temperature, and we should be down around 35 by 6pm. Plan on dry conditions through sunday, but our temperatures will be undergoing a rollercoaster ride. Our coolest day will be friday as muchchs i may have shockeded you with the cold, dont worry. We get mild again next week. White christmas not looking so great. Dont look sad about that. Were okay. Thank you, ginger. Coming up on gma that successful business woman accused of stabbing a stranger. Now in custody. What police are saying is a motive as her friends speak out. Two giant movies battling for the galaxy and the box can star wars overtake avatars record. 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