The oncoming traffic. Hes all over the road. Cars actually backing up to get out of the way. Well show you what happened next. And last minute love. If youre waking up with no clue what to do on this valentines day, we have a plan. So nice. How did you know . Your favorite. Ready to make you look like a real romantic. Hey, good morning. And they are really not feeling the love in the northeast on this valentines day. The boston area is bracing for its fourth fourth major weekend snowstorm in a row. How many is that again . Four. I think i said four. Yes, this one, however, is expected to bring blizzard conditions, low visibility, high winds, and treacherous travel. But if you look at this map, its not just boston that is in the cross hairs. 100 Million People in 27 states can expect Stormy Weather or brutal cold. Or worst case scenario, both. Lets go to rob in hardhit boston. Covering off of this for us this morning. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, paula. Theyre scrambling here trying to get rid of the snow. Behind me, one of the many snow melters bought or borrowed from other states in the region. That thing can melt over 300 tons of snow an hour. Its been going nonstop for the last five days. 30,000 tons of snow melted. Meanwhile, the mountain of snow behind it continues to grow. Theyve been scrambling. Theyre trying to get rid of this snow to make room for more snow thats coming tonight. The race is on. Cities across the northeast desperately working to clear the aftermath of weeks of brutal snowstorms before another round potentially brings over a foot more snow. All the digging done in the bitter, freezing cold. In the city like this, theres no place to put it. Thats the part thats tough to contend with. Reporter boston suspending Public Transit once again on sunday. And governments around the region declaring a state of emergency. While Governor Charlie Baker declares a sixday valentines extension. Its been awful. Absolutely awful. Reporter this morning, an arctic blast making its way from the midwest, where wind chills are hitting 12 below zero in north dakota. 15 me below in michigan. And a brutal negative 28 in minnesota. Im tired of it. Doesnt look like theres any end in sight. I cant be sick of it just yet. Reporter the second wave of frigid air moving east ward. And will roll in behind the blizzard in massachusetts, where winds could top hurricane force. A state already so hard hit with winter storms. We have seen National Guard troops deployed for shoveling duty. Plows pushing mountains of snow into the ocean. And doorways, rooftops, and cars blotted out by white walls several feet high. Mother nature has not helped this week. Temperatures below freezing. Today, right now, its 4, with a minus 9 wind chill. All right. Lets break down the advisories. Blizzard warning is up for all of eastern new england. The coastline especially. Winter storm warnings for upper central new england. Winter weather advisories stretching all the way down to the deep south. Heres your storm. Well increase the snow throughout the day today. The winds wont increase until later on tonight and tomorrow. There it is at 4 00. We bomb this thing out just south of long island. It will have the pressure equivalent of a category 2 hurricane. And thats why we fear we could get hurricanestrength wind gusts, especially along the cape. Power outages are a big deal. There are your accumulations. A foot or more from boston into maine. Dropping off dramatically as you get to new york. Three to five inches of snow there. Here we go. Four weekends in a row. If this blizzard verifies, it will be the first time in recorded history in boston they have had two blizzards in one season. Dan, paula . As we have said, its continued payback for the patriots winning the super bowl. Rob, we do have to say. We here in the studio are very impressed by the fact that you can speak so fluently in negative 9 wind chill. We know how hard it is to talk when its that cold. So bravo to you. Well see if that continues throughout the hour, dan. Right. No pressure. No pressure. Well talk to you later. Thank you, rob. Now to another developing story. This one involves an alleged massacre planned for this valentines day. Police say they have foiled a plot alledgedly cooked up by two young people who wanted to shoot up a mall on this holiday dedicated to love. Kendis gibson is here with more. Good morning. Reporter dan, good morning. Canadian Authorities Say they avoided a massacre, just hours away from taking place. Two canadians and one american who are allegedly obsessed with death and mass killing planning on making this a bloody valentines day. This is the scene where police thwarted what could have been a deadly public attack. A 23yearold female from an upscale chicago suburb, along with three men from halifax, nova scotia, all under 21 years old, planning to storm a canadian mall with fire arms. Their intention, gun down as many people as possible. Information gathered that a 19yearold timberlea male and a 23yearold geneva, illinois, female, had access to fire arms. It was their intention to go to a public venue in the halifax region on february 14th with the goal of opening fire, to kill citizens, and then themselves. Reporter officers received a tip about the woman who traveled from the United States to nova scotia canada. And she was quickly tracked down. Police have not released any motive behind the plot, saying it did not appear to be a terror attack but would have had dire consequences. Had they been able to carry out their intentions, the possibility for a large loss of life was definitely there. Reporter a potentially horrific valentines day avoided. And get this, we learned overnight that the 19yearold is now deceased after a police standoff. We did expect some developments in the case coming up throughout the day like today. Wild occurrences in a really remote area. Really strange. And were not exactly sure why halifax. Hopefully, well get more information on that today. Kendis, thank you. It could have been horrific. Overseas now where a potential catastrophe involving u. S. Troops was averted. Isis terrorists who had disguised themselves as iraqi fighters wearing suicide vests launched a daring attack on a large u. S. Air base where 400 americans are stationed in iraq. Most of the militants were killed in the assault. Alex marquardt reports in from the region. Alex . Reporter good morning, dan and paula. This was a brazen, highly coordinated attack. Against one of iraqs biggest military bases. Where 400 American Forces are stationed to help train iraqi troops. Between 20 and 25 isis attackers all wearing Iraqi Army Uniforms stormed and breached the perimeter of the al assad air base. First a wave of suicide bombers detonating their explosive vests. The others following in behind them. American apache helicopters were dispatched to help repel the attackers. The iraqi soldiers from the base managed to kill them without american assistance. The pentagon said no american troops on the base were near the site of the attack. This, as more fighting is raging in a nearby town that isis has almost completely overrun. It is unlikely this will be the last attack against the base. Paula . Alex, thank you. And dont miss abcs this week, every sunday morning. Tomorrow, Martha Raddatz is covering the latest in the battle against isis from the region. Can they be stopped . Shell tackle the debate against the proposed authorization of force by president obama. A big show for martha. We will, as always, be watching. New details and new developments this morning in the murders of the three young Muslim Students in north carolina. Abc news has now learned that police found an arsenal of guns and ammo in the home of the suspected killer. The fbi is investigating if this is a hate crime. The president is weighing in strongly, as well. And abcs tom llamas is on the story. Reporter this morning, a look inside the vast gun collection of accused killer craig steven hicks. Abc news obtaining search warrants, showing the man who allegedly shot and killed three Muslim Students owned more than a dozen firearms, including shotguns, handguns, and an ar15 assault rifle. This, as the fbi and the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department now launching preliminary investigations to see if any hate crime laws were violated. [ singing ] reporter outside the white house friday scores of muslims praying and demonstrating. Only by working together can we truly make a difference. Reporter calling on the Obama Administration to bring hate crime charges against hicks, the selfdescribed guntoting atheist. Late friday, the president issuing this statement about the killings saying no one should ever be targeted because of who they are what they look like or how they worship. We showed the statement to the brother of the two sisters, yusor and razan abu salha. Killed in the shooting. Im very humbled that he quoted my sister. I actually broke down in tears. Reporter the president even quoting quoting yusor in his statement. Using her words from this oral history project. Theres so many different people from so many different places of different backgrounds and religions. But here were all one. One culture. Reporter so far, hicks has been charged with three counts of firstdegree murder, but has yet to enter a plea. His wife saying he snapped after a parking dispute at the parking apartment complex where he and the students lived. For good morning america, tom llamas, abc news, raleigh. So sad for the families and the Muslim Community as well in general. Global outrage over this story. Lets go to ron with a look at the other stories. That weve been tracking overnight. Good morning, ron. Good morning, paula, dan. Sara. Good morning, everyone. We begin in Washington State where an investigation has been launched into a deadly shooting of an unarmed man by Police Officers. Tuesdays shooting in the southeastern part of that state in the city of pasco was captured there on cell phone video. Witnesses say Antonio Zambrano montes was running way from Police Officers when those officers fired on him, killing him. The officers confronted the man because he had allegedly been throwing rocks at cars. Family and supporters plan to protest later today. Three Police Officers involved in that incident have been put on administrative leave. In oregon, federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records from longtime governor john fitzhaber. He announced hell step down on friday. This after allegations that his livein fiance used their relationship to benefit her Energy Consulting business. Kate brown, next in line as the state secretary of state, will be sworn in as governor on wednesday. She becomes the first openly bisexual governor in u. S. History. A las vegas mother of four is on life support after being shot after an apparent road rage incident. Tammy meyers had just finished giving her daughter driving lessons when she got into a fender bender. With another car. Police say the driver of that car followed meyers home shot her as she pulled in front of her house. Her son witnessed the incident and returned fire. So far, there have been no arrests. Proof that sometimes you may want to stick to your day job, courtesy of the nba allstar weekend kickoff. Actor Comedian Kevin Hart first tried to battle nick cannon in a danceoff. Didnt go too well. After both were showing off their best moves hart left the stage with his head bowed in defeat. There he goes. Didnt get better. He got involved in a celebrity basketball game. Tried to guard Little League phenom mone davis. A spinning move for a layup she did on him. Look at this. The Little League phenom . Oh yes. That might have been a charge there, i dont know. No foul was called. She said her dream was to play nba basketball. Against kevin hart . No. In general. Heres the exceptional athlete. She said her dream was actually basketball. Shes good. Shes definitely good. I dont know about the skill of her opponent in that particular case. But she is good. He was a good sport. Yes, he was. All right, ron, thank you. Youre welcome. Now terrifying moments on a runaway school bus, all caught on camera. It happened, look at this video. When the School Bus Driver suddenly loses control of the school bus. Mara schiavocampo is here with the story. Good morning, mara. Reporter paula, good morning. The most frightening part of all that . The bus was full of children at the time, taken for a frightening ride that lasted almost 15 minutes. Luckily, that bus was spotted by a deputy on patrol. Police able to alert other drivers and stop the bus. Overnight, officials releasing new details of a Minnesota School bus out of control. After its driver suffered a medical emergency. All caught by a deputys dashboard camera. Im not sure how were going to stop him. Reporter watch as this bus full of 11 schoolchildren, aged 6 to 14, swerves into a ditch, almost tipping over. Police say the bus careened and weaved across the road at speeds of 35 to 40 miles per hour. Im afraid hes going to hit oncoming traffic. Hes all over the road. Reporter at one point, narrowly avoiding a headon collision with this car. Get off the road reporter the car luckily stopping just in the nick of time, and shifting into reverse to back out of the path of danger. As repeated attempts to get control of the bus fail. Every time he stops, i try to get out and get up there and he takes off. Reporter one student at least calling 911 to alert authorities to the drivers medical emergency. We have a medical call on highway 47. Bus driver, possible diabetic reaction. Reporter the nightmare ride coming to an end once Minnesota State troopers blow the buss tires and stop it in its tracks. Its not something that any of us would expect when we hop on any vehicle, let alone a school bus. Reporter thankfully none of the kids were injured. The driver was treated at a local hospital and released. No word on whether hell go back to his job driving a school bus. Officials said that while this was taking place, the older kids on the bus were comforting the little kids. At least there was that moment. None of them were hurt. Terrifying. They had to blow out the tires . The whole thing an ordeal. The fact that nobody was injured is wonderful news. Absolutely. Mara, thanks. Now to a criminal justice story of a bizarre and amusing variety. It involves an 80yearold woman there she is, who went in front of a judge and proceeded to crack a series of oneliners. Luckily for her, this was a judge with a sense of humor. And abcs matt gutman shows us the best moments. Reporter petitions and pleas. Sure. But cackling in court. [ laughter ] wisecracking Dolores Sheinis who is 80 years old, had them rolling in the galleries during her bond hearing. You seem like you have a great wit about you. Sweetheart, thats the only thing i have. I havent been called sweetheart in this courtroom since mr. Miller took over. Does that mean youre taking me for breakfast . Reporter the unlikely court jester facing charges of resisting arrest and violating an injunction to stay away from her estranged husband. But she couldnt resist a little banter in the broward courtroom after she was ordered to wear an ankle bracelet. Dont go around him again. I havent bothered him for 31 years. Why would i bother him now . Thats the 63,000 question. Used to be 64. Reporter even her straightlaced attorney struggling to keep straight faced. And the judge doing his best to keep up. Let me ask you something, maam. Yes, sir. How have i done as a judge today . So far, how am i doing . Not bad, but you could do better. Maam, have you thought of doing a standup routine . Have you ever thought of that . I did. If you pay me good money, sweetheart, ill be there. Reporter and sheinis, who is still waiting to post bail, kept the oneliners coming until the very end. I gotta tell you, you brightened my day, maam. All right . Thats what the last guy said. And then he sued me. Reporter for good morning america, matt gutman, abc news, miami. Definitely has her wits about her. Thats what the last guy said. Thats awesome. Shes a firecracker. It wont help her get out of trouble. Nonetheless, its amusing for everybody else. Definitely, not something you see every day. And speaking of, todays valentines day. As if you couldnt tell from the subtle outfit. No help from dan with the maroon purple tie. This is something stronger than love. This is lurve. [ laughter ] okay, well dan, if you find yourself in the extreme procrastinator category, we are here for you. I have found myself there many times. Not this year. Ill tell you more about that today. Specifically today, linzie janis. Abcs linzie janis is here for you. She joins us from l. A. With creative ways to have a great time and apparently avoid making it look like you threw it all together at the last minute. Linzie, youre wearing the color of love, as opposed to the color of lurve. Take it away. Reporter i am, indeed. Thanks, dan. Hello, paula. We all leave things to the last minute. If you dont have a dinner reservation or a babysitter or a gift, its not too late to put something together and make it look like you have been planning it for weeks. Its valentines day. And love is in the air. But it may feel more like panic if you waited until now to get your special someone that special something. Trying to choose between chocolate and vanilla right now. Reporter not to worry. We have lastminute tips. For your romantic survival. Marvin of super date planners, the heart bandits, says you dont even need obvious gotos like a trendy restaurant or a couples massage to make your someone special feel whisked away. Its the morning of. What do you suggest . Get them pampered. Get their nails done, their hair done. Reporter how do you make this look like its been on the plans for week . Call ahead. Have strawberries and champagne brought in. Reporter ooh. Thank you. Look at those. Chocolatecovered strawberries. Do you know me or something . And the final touch that shows you have been paying attention. How did you know . Theyre your favorites. Rep