The Police Officers, hit in the chest and killed. He describes it as an accidental shooting. And a School Superintendent trying to use her own Health Insurance to help a sick kid. She speaks out here tonight. Good evening. Its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. We begin tonight with you new developments. The president signaling he might be willing to reopen the government for three weeks as they continue to debate his border wall. They are trying to broker some sort of a deal. The white house had initially said late today the president would reopen the government for a time if there was a significant down payment on the wall. But a short time later, the president signals that payment was just one idea. So is there moment snont Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter compromise grewing . Tonight, he didnt real out spoortding it for the border wall. Would you support a temporary spending bill without money for the wall . Just to reopen . I wouldnt be happy with it. I wouldnt be happy. We have a lot of alternatives. Even if it has no wall money . Does it have to have wall money . Look, look. I have other alternatives if i have to. Ill use those alternatives if i have to. We want to go through the system. We have to have a wall in this country. Reporter this comes less than 24 hours after the president backed down from his showdown with House Speaker nancy pelosi over his state of the union address. Now the president told us the speakers demand that the speech be delayed until after the shutdown is, quote, reasonable. What she said, i thought, was actually reasonable. Well have the state of the union when the shutdown is over. When do you think thats going to be . That, i cant tell you. That, i cant tell you, but we have a lot of alternatives, but we need border security. Reporter the president s comments on day 34 of the shutdown come amid new accusaons rnint anher yc s,ining up at a food connecticua reporter commerce secretary wilbur ross is under fire for these comments earlier today. There are reports there are some federal workers who are going to homeless shelters to get food. I know they are, and i dont understand why. The 30 days of pay that some people will be out, theres no real reason why they shouldnt be able to get a loan. Reporter democrats calling ross, who is a billionaire, a modern day marie antoinette. They have wilbur ross saying he doesnt understand why. When he was asked about people going to food lines and pantries, he said he doesnt understand why they have to do that. Is this a let them eat cake kind of attitude, or call your father for money. Er. Of course all of this zwoping as we come on the air tonight. Jon karl at the white house. Both parties trying to hash out some ort of a deal tonight. And Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding some of the cards here. And down payment for the border wall to reopen . Reporter Speaker Pelosi continues to insist that money for the border wall should not be mart of any agreement to reopen the government. The same time, you have the president saying the wall must be build one way or another. He said there are alternatives and one of the alternatives still under consideration, trying to bypass congress declaring a National Emergency . Thank you. We have never seen this in our country before. As the political battles play out, the real pain for families across the country. Many of the families sending the messages to world news tonight. Some rationing medicine and pleading with banks for their mortgage. Steve osunsami continues his reporting. This isnt politics. This is peoples lives. Reporter the air Traffic ControllersUnion Tell Us tonight that their members are at a breaking point. That the stress of the job and no paycheck are just too much, and that, mistakes are being made. My worry now is how to keep it. Reporter dan mccabe helps keep the skies safe in atlanta. When we first met his family, they were trying get the Mortgage Company to let a payment slide. Tonight hes beyond frustrat. Fo. Orter the struggle of these Everyday Americans grows larger, and the voices grow louder every minute this shutdown drags on. I received my last paycheck december 31st. Tomorrow i will miss my second paycheck. I havent been paid in over 33 days. Reporter tonia, in colorado springs, tells us she could lose her home. Just thinking that this house that weve been making payments on for, 15, 16 years, we could lose it. We could lose everything. Reporter mallory at u. S. Fish and wildlife in wisconsin, is rationing insulin. When the shutdown occurred i only had a few vials of insulin left in my refrigerator. I thought, okay, i cant really afford the 300 copay for more so ill just make this insulin last as long as i can make it last. Reporter tim in suburban detroit cant afford to finish his home repairs. At what point do i resign from this agency . I cant continue to afford to fund my family on my savings and continue to pay for myself to go to work. I love the work that i do and i need to have an income to do it. Reporter in very personal messages to abc news, they dont ask for sympathy, they ask for washington to solve this. The administration officialsde families will get paid when the government reopens. But they say none of that will undo the damage. David. We will stay on this. Steve, thank you. We will move on to a deadly rampage in a florida bank tonight. We have learned that all five victims for women. One of them, a mother of seven. What the gunmans former girlfriend has revealed. Tom llamas is in sebring, florida, tonight. Reporter tonight 21 year old zephan xaver formally charged in court today with five counts of premeditated homicide murder. Police say the alleged shooter walked into this Suntrust Bank with a bulletproof vest and a 9mm handgun. Forcing the four employees and lone customer to the ground, shooting them execution style. All five victims were women. Just moments before the shooting 76 year old victor sparks tried entering the bank, but the doors had already been locked by the alleged gunman. I was so thankful. The fast response. I would say eight police cars were there. Reporter police eventually surrounding the bank, then ramming the entrance when xaver refused to surrender. At that point were you under the assumption the victims may still be alive . Wed hoped the victims were alive. Reporter but it was too late. And now a young woman who says shes the shooters exgirlfriend says she warned people about his alleged desire to kill. Talking about guns, and wanting guns, and he wants to hurt people physically. Tonight police releasing the names of three of the victims. Marisol lopez, a teller at the bank. Non williams, who had just started working at the bank a few weeks ago, and a mother to 7 children. Loving came easy for her. Living without her will be hard. Tom llamas with us from sebring, flortd. No motive. There is one person who did manage to escape . David, we just learned that incredible piece of information moments ago. Police tell us there was a bank ploy who was in the break room. When they heard the gunshots, they took off running, calling 911 along with the way. Investigators do not have a motive yet. But dhi have Surveillance Video and they will show its a calculated mass shoot sbk not a bank robly. David . Thanks to you tonight. We will turn now to a desperate search for a 3yearold, Casey Hathaway. And tonight, we hear the call to 911 and the new hurdle that the searchers now face. Here is stephanie ramos. Reporter the frantic search for 3yearold Casey Hathaway hampered by weather. Heavy rain and strong winds pounding the rural eastern no playing in her backyard tuesday. According to his great grandmother. According to his grandmother, playing in her backyard tuesday. And tonight were hearing the 911 call she placed soon after he disappeared. Whats going on there . We lost my 3yearold grandson. He walked in the woods back there, and we cant find him. Reporter telling the dispatcher he was playing with two relatives, but he never made it back in the house. Its been at least 45 minutes cause weve been looking all in the woods for him. Reporter officials are treating this as a missing persons case, and are hopeful casey is found safely. There is no such thing as an insignificant lead for us. Our number one priority is getting casey home to his family. Reporter david, right now only professional search teams are working to find little casey because of safety concerns. Nearby residents have been told to look in sheds and storage vehicles. David . The storm upul cst toortheast. Long delays at the airport, new york and boston. Damage from a possible tornado in lake county, florida, tonight. And the one person killed in long island and downed trees and power lines in massachusetts. Coming behind it, an arctic blast. Rob marciano is tracking it all for us. Hey, rob. Reporter the swrinds been ripping here and now the cold front is nearly clear of the u. S. Coastline. Check it out on the radar. New england with the rain. Wind gusts, 70 miles per hour, and the great lake, warners for buffalo, new york, and michigan. Look at the would air, minus 22 in chicago. And cold as 9 in nashville and it slides to the east saturday morning. Teens, new york, philly, boston, below zero and a shot of cold air the middle of next week. David . Whiplash next week with the temperatures. Thanks to you. 24 hours of Michael Cohen suddenly revealed he would not testify to the American People because of threats he say from the american president , the subpoena to Michael Cohen. They have made it clear they want to hear from him. Here is Kyra Phillips. Reporter tonight Michael Cohen served with a subpoena. The president s former attorney and fixer ordered to testify on capitol hill. Sources say it will be behind closed doors. It comes just a day after he canceled his public testimony, citing concerns over ongoing threats against his family from the president and his lawyer. The president suggestion his cohens fatherinlaw who should be investigated. He should give information maybe on his fatherinlaw, because thats the one that people want to look at. Reporter Rudy Giuliani suggested he might be a criminal without any evidence. His fatherinlaw has millions and millions. Im telling you, he comes from the ukraine. This reason that is important is, he may have ties to something called organized crime. Reporter the president denies hes threatened cohen. No, i would say hes been threatened by the truth. Hes only been threatened by the truth. Lets get to Kyra Phillips live from us in washington. Will he comply with the subpoena . Well, Michael Cohens lawyer tells us tonight they hope to have reasonable terms, ground rules and a date before march when cohen reports to prison for a three year sentence. David . Kyra, thank you. Just 24 hourser the Trump Administration said you it will no longer recognize venezuelas president , retail United Nations telling the american diplomats, and telling the diplomats to keep their children close, dont send them to school. Let hees go to Martha Raddatz reporting. Martha . Reporter the regime does not have the authority to order american diplomats in the u. S. Venezuela since the president does not recognize as president. But tonight, the state department is ordering nonemergency employees to leave venezuela, it comes among the escalating chaos and a night of looting and violence. But the u. S. Embassy will remain open, david . Martha, thank you. And tonight, flortdidas secretary of state has resigned. It has came after the tallahassee newspaper said he was wearing a costume as a Hurricane Katrina victim in 2005. He was appointed secretary of state last month. There is much more ahead on world news tonight this thursday. The plif who shot his fellow officer. He describes it as an accidental discharge. Tonight, news on the investigation. The earth games way. The ground shaking. They thought it was an earthquake. Families racing out. What was it. And the soup superintendent arrested after using her own Health Insurance to help a student missing school who didnt have insurance. She speaks out. Lots more ahead. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. 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Reporter the superintendent of schools in elwood, indiana says she has learned her lesson after being charged with insurance fraud. Im not saying i was right. Im really sorry. I was scared for him. Reporter according to police, Casey Smitherman went to the home of a sick student and took him to a Medical Center where she used a false name, claiming he was her son. She then admits to driving him to a pharmacy, where she had a prescription filled for an antibiotic because the student doesnt have insurance. I have a student ive been helping, and he was sick, and i believed it was strep throat. Reporter she says shes helped the boy before even buying clothes for him. But when the student reportedly told a teacher, who told the school nurse, smitherman turned herself in to police. I would love to go back to that moment and redo it. 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This fire was a tragedy of unimaginable scale. We know the cause of the second most destructive wild fire in california history. Private equipment and not pg e is to blame. This news comes a weak after the Company Announced plans to file for bankruptcy. Pg e was found liable for 17 other fires. In 2017. The cal fire report and announcement comes as rebuilding is muf moving along slowly. Good afternoon. Thanks for joing us. The tubs fire, 22 people died. 5,600 structures lost and 57 square miles burned. How it plays out with pg e plans to file for bankruptcy protection remains unclear. The utility planned to file for bankruptcy next week citing billions of potential damage from other deadly and destruct i have fires. New video shows you exactly where the fire started in 2017. The red in the middle of the screen is the exact location. Napa county. We have been following this story since 2017 fire. Live in studio with the development. Here it is the cal fire report. 80 pages. It took 15 months. This is good news for pg e. Attorneys for the victims say they are already saying cal fire got it wrong. This fight is far from over. The tubs fire started the night of october 8, 2017 and swept across napa county. Destroying 5,000 homes. Taking 22 lives. The report released today shows hours after the fire started an investigator identified the possible ignition point. A home on a ten acre plot