Days when gets stuck surviving on halloween candy. But no cell phone to call for help. How they were finally found. Good morning, america. Happy friday. Were less than a week out from thanksgiving, and so all eyes on the weather and that first snowfall of the season for millions. The snowfall in the middle of the country, seeing major weather whiplash. A 60degree swing. Some guys out golfing. That weather to this weather which makes you want to curl up under the sheets and ginger will have more on that. It could affect a lot of thanksgiving travel. But first that breaking news for our viewers in the west. Officials condition firm that donald trump has offered Jeff Sessions attorney general, and Michael Flynn has accepted National Security adviser. With a long career in military intelligence, and he has courted controversy on the campaign trail. We have also learned that donald trump is set to meet with mitt romney this weekend. Martha raddatz has the latest. She joins us. Reporter a very big morning in terms of the transition with those key appointments reported a justice, the cia and his National Security adviser. The appointment of retired general, mike flynn, of course, one of the most important jobs in the has been by trumps side since the beginning. Two senior trump transition officials confirm that Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn has accepted the offer to be National Security adviser. A controversial figure, flynn roused support at the Republican National convention with the infamous lock her up chant against Hillary Clinton. Lock her up. [ chanting lock her up ] yeah, thats right, lock her up. Reporter and in his book field of fight flynn writes i dont believe all cultures are morally equivalent. Also telling abc that Jeff Sessions has been offered attorney general. I would be honored to be considered, and mr. Trump will make those decisions. Reporter while trump praised sessions, phenomenal record on thursday, in 96, when he was nominated for a federal confirmed by the senate. He made racially tinged comm comments. One lawyer he worked with said the senator called him boy and told him to be careful what you say to white folks. Sessions denied the allegation. Away from cameras overnight, the law graduate who supported marco rubio. Trump also extending an olive branch to former governor mitt romney. Transition sources telling abc news the two will meet this weekend, and that romney is under consideration for secretary of state. The meeting coming after months and months leaning from both sides. He is playing the members of the American Public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the white house and all we get is a lousy hat. Did you he didnt like it when i said he choked like a dog. Away from cameras overnight, the president elect also having his first facetoface meeting with a world leader, meeting with japanese Prime Minister abe, who told reporters after the meeting that trump is a leader who i can have great confidence in. Both senator sessions and congressman pompeo will need to National Security adviser will not. It can be overstated how important of a role he will play. I have known him for years through covering the pentagon, and he is known as a brilliant intelligence officer, but in this job, he will be advising a President Trump on all aspects of foreign and military issues. Robin . All right, martha. Thank you. Lets get more on this from our matthew dowd and john cohen. National security official in republican and democratic administrations. Let me begin with you as well. As martha pointed out, the general had Great Successes in iraq and afghanistan, forced to leave the job as Defense Intelligence agency head early, and caused course controversy. Yeah, good morning, george. Yes. General flynn is smart, hes intelligent. Hes experienced. His military and intelligence experience will serve him well in the role of National Security adviser, but hes very intense, advocating his ideas and he has been known to be somewhat dismissive of the ideas of others. He will have to be very open, very measured in this new role if hes going to be an effective National Security adviser to the new president. Yeah. The job of National Security adviser generally seemed to be an honest broker among the various cabinets. Let me go to you, matthew dowd. Mitt romney, interesting hell come in for a meeting with donald trump to talk about the possibility of secretary of state. Whether that turns out to be true or not, even talking about it, a political boon for president elect trump. Yeah. And im not surprised thad mitt romney would sit down with donald trump. I think if Hillary Clinton had won their election that mitt romney would have sat down with Hillary Clinton if asked. He cares for the country, he loves the country, has to unite. I would be surprised if mitt romney gets an appointment or even takes an appointment, but having a meeting is good. If other thing in related to general flynn, this is a guy unfiltered and very much in the mold of donald trump, shoot from the hip. Im reminded of Donald Trumps appointment so far with steve bannon and general flynn of the Kenny Chesney song, better as a pirates, thats just who i am. He seems to be assembling a pirate brigade. Another friend of his, senator Jeff Sessions. We talked about those allegations of racism that caused him a judgeship 20 years ago and served in the senate 20 years since then. How serious will those be in his confirmations . Well, the senate gives great deference to the appointments of the president. Its his privilege to make the cabinet the way he wants it. In a split senate this could be problematic for president elect trump in this appointment in this. Sit a question the country is very concerned about diversity, and how the appeals are made and what happened in the campaign, and again, senator sessions could have a real problem getting aprofesg getting aprofessig getting approval by the senate. And, john, you served in National Security positions during transitions as well and were seeing something of a break of protocol with donald trump. He met with the japanese Prime Minister yesterday and had dozens of phone calls but not thats true, and it was somewhat unusual and weve seen many unusual things during the course of this campaign in the early stages of this transition. But this is a very important thing to remember, this administration will be taking charge of the government at a time when we are facing significant threats abroad and significant threats at home. Theyll be need to be ready day one to handle a crisis. The minute that has been administered, they own any crisis that impacts the united states. John cohen and matthew dowd, thanks very much. Much more on the transition this sunday on this week. Michael. Thank you, george. Now lets turn to phillip mena who drew the short straw in the middle of the first snow of the season in sioux falls, south dakota. Good morning, phillip. Reporter michael, good morning. Yeah. That first major snowstorm of the season has arrived here in sioux falls, giant stockpiles of this rock salt about the size of a threestory building at the ready. About 500 tons of this stuff will be used today to help keep winter is finally here. Up to a foot of snow falling in wyoming and colorado. Much of it touching down at rush hour. The slick roads and Poor Visibility leading to dangerous driving conditions. At least two people died in accidents on i70 near denver. The freeway shut down in both directions. This 15car pileup caused by a mix of snow and sleet. Massive delays at Denver International we were delayed until 4 00 and then they canceled it and said well have to wait till the morning. Reporter in wyoming, dozens of accidents as drivers fought to stay on the road on interstate 80. The snow started falling here about an hour ago and it is not letting up. Up to ten inches could fall today as this storm heads east. Michael. All right, thank you, phillip. Stay warm and be safe. Ginger, you have more on where the snow is cold is heading you can see this picture out of sturges, south dakota. Roads look like this for so many folks and a lot of people hit the road today and air travel for thanksgiving because they have next week off. So this is a big deal with this storm blowing through. Brifrd warnings now for parts of western minneapolis. Driving along 94 to fargo. That will be travel not advised. Just dont do it. Give it 24 hours if you can, aberdeen, and snowfall, not just a couple inches. Some will get 6 to 12 inches of even in minneapolis you get the wind gusting to 30, 40 miles per hour, and thats why just west of them, you have that blizzard warning. Just a real quick look at the cold because the chill so no joke. Feels like 5 in den very. Remember we were talking 80 . Out there golfing and all that. Okay. Whoo. What a difference. Distant memory. Thank you so much. Now to an alarming confrontation with an Arizona Police officer caught on camera. The officer seen scuffling with a woman and then punching her. Our senior justice correspondent, pierre thomas, has more. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin. Today an arizona patrolman has been placed on administrative leave after yet another Controversial Police encounter, as you said, caught on tape. The video is jarring. An officer punching a woman in the face during an eviction. Hey, you cant hit a girl like that. Reporter look again in slow motion. A direct blow to the face. Punched in the face two times, i was choked. It was just a brutal attack. Reporter but the Flagstaff Police officer, jeff bonar, who apparently has no history of excessive force, claims this is woman, 30yearold Marisa Morris resisted arrest kicking and kneeing him in the groin before he hit her. Something she denies. The case now under investigation. We became aware of this incident primarily through social media. We immediately became concerned. Reporter overnight authorities releasing clips from the officers body camera showing the moments following the tense exchange. But not the entire encounter. Stop. Into why the officer did not turn his camera on when the exchange started to get heated. I didnt do anything. Reporter the case symbolic of the overwhelming prevalence of surveillance cameras and smartphones placing police under even more scrutiny. Its become reflex to pull out their phones and record interactions with police. Like we saw here in alabama last november when College Students reach for their cameras in unison and later recorded Police Beating them. Back in the arizona case you can hear the bystander recording the video, comforting the woman. I got it on camera. Reporter its a complicated case. A classic he said she said and now police under the microscope must make a judgment call as to whether the officer broke the law. Robin. Hope they get to the bottom of it. All right, pierre, thank you. Lets turn to dr. Besser and theres a huge mumps outbreak on some College Campuses. Thousands of cases across the country this year and dr. Besser, mumps seems like a childhood illness. Thats right. Why so many outbreaks . Why on College Campuses . This is a big increase, but the vaccine doesnt protect 100 of people. If you get two doses, which is what you should get, thats going to protect about 88 of people. If you only get one dose of the vaccine, that will protect about 78 of people. So that means on College Campuses a lot of people who are still at risk of the mumps and College Campuses are disease incubators. I have two kids in college. One had mumps, the other one is always sick. Theyre living in crowded quarters and sharing secretions and water bottles. Its a place where diseases tend to spread. What are the symptoms of mumps . So the telltale sign is that swelling of the jecheeks, loss the jaw line, because your salivary glands are inflamed. Fever, body aches, all those viral symptoms and most recover fine, though there are some who will get some swelling of the brain, rarely you can get swelling of the testicles. If youre pregnant it can affect you n and get two doses of the vaccine and if youre sick stay away from people for at least five days. Vaccines, five days. And try not to share this stuff. You know, campus, there is a lot of the sharing and kissing. Theres risk. A lot of the kissing. Might not stop the kissing. I know. I talk to my kids. Theres no way. Its not going to happen. You know what . Youll be answering everybodys questions on twitter. Have any questions just ask dr. Besser. Hell have the answer for you. What are you goin bus. Okay. Its on you now. Good morning, guys. Just hours before president obama arrives in peru the secret service has released pictures of its biggest counterfeit cash bust ever. Look at that. 30 million in fake bills linked to a criminal organization in peru along with printing presses. 48 people arrested. Peru, by the way, is the top producer of fake american currency. Nearly 200 square miles have now burned as those wildfires parts of georgia havent seen rain in two months. Air quality is so bad there, children are being kept inside during School Recess and people with asthma are now being told to close their windows. A dramatic call for help in maryland as a woman was mauled by a bear. She was walking down her daughters driveway when she was attacked. The bear was apparently protecting its cub. The woman survived by playing dead, but you have to hear this 911 call. P now. Hes broken my arms and my legs. I cant move. And im bleeding. And im going to die. Please hurry. Oh, my god, here he comes. Please, dear god, no, please dear god, no, hurry, sir. Ah, she suffered a broken arm. She needed 70 stitches, but she is recovering thankfully. In Business News volkswagen is cutting 30,000 jobs as it tries to recover from that emissions cheating scandal. Billion to settle claims in the united states. And finally, if you want to play hooky from work and call in sick, we have the results of an Important Survey for you. A Research Firm found the best time to call in sick is 6 38 a. M. On a tuesday. Thats when your claim of illness will be found most credible. Not on a monday or a friday because thats too close to the weekend. The best excuse you ask, stomach problems. Nobody wants those details. And apparently november and december are the most common months to call in sick so just be careful. You just ruined that for everybody. I know, really. Should have told us that off camera. 6 38 is a little late for us. It would like 3 38 for us. Okay, thank you, amy. We move on to that family of four in Washington State found safe and sound after they went missing for days. It all began when their car got stuck and abcs Neal Karlinsky has the details on how they survived. Huddled together inside the family van on this remote Washington State logging road came to an end with this 911 call. I found the people in the woods, the mcalisters. Theyre from grays harbor. Theyve been gone a few days and have two babies. Reporter jason and Melissa Mcalister along with their 2yearold and 8monthold daughters vanished on tuesday. This morning, jason says the family van got stuck in mud while trying to go around the fallen tree on a scenic drive, stranding them. Got dark on us and so we spent a night on the side of the road after i made a shelter. Reporter he says they survived on a diet of leftover halloween candy and rainwater. They had no cell phone and turned the vans engine on and off in shifts to keep warm, but preserve their gas. Thursday morning, they heard on the radio that people were out searching for them so jason says they left a bread crumb trail of white pieces of paper behind they ran into a local hunter who called 911. Yeah. Search and rescue has been looking for you guys for a few days. And you said theyre dehydrated . Yeah. A little bit. But they look pretty good really. Reporter this morning, the family of four is waking up at home healthy and thankful. Everybody is good. God is great. And happy to be alive. Reporter for good morning america, Neal Karlinsky, abc news, seattle. A lot of gratitude there. Rightfully so. Ginger, you have more on this t were about to do our own temperature tumble. As we look at this, look at new york city, 60s today, snow blowing through just north of the city as we go in. The temperatures are going to go right with it. Lets get to the Weekend Getaway you know whos pumped about the cold and snow . Thats a picture from vail, colorado. Keystone opens today. Breckenridge open tomorrow. Where i learned how to ski. Way back when. We can go back today. Coming up, we have new clues in that manhattan murder. Account killing of a 26yearold after a night of partying in the city. What were now learning about their past. And the chilling 911 call from a victim of violent road rage. Her car repeatedly slammed as she pleads for hem. He is trying the kill me on the road. He is flipping me off well hear from the driver and the 911 operator who helped her. Yes. When im at work. When im at home. I could just really use some help sometimes. Hey w