Slashing people injuring 11. He was trying to hurt as many as he could. The hero officer who stopped him and new clues about the suspects past. The message he left online. And breaking right now, the abc news exclusive. The abducted supermoms husband speaking out for the first time to gma. Why he says nothing could have prepared him for the moment he finally saw his wife calling the reality more shocking than anyone who imagine and his message about what he calls rumors, assumptns about his wife. The stunning new details about the kidnapping only on gma. And and good morning, america. We have a lot to get to this morning including that impassioned plea from Sherri Papinis husband. We heard from him. He said officers warned him to brace himself before he saw his wife. What an incredible ordeal she went through. Also get to those terrible fires. Heres an incredible image coming out of tennessee overnight. They battle those blazes in burning all across tennessee right now. We begin with breaking news, plane crash in colombia. 81 people on board including a soccer team. At least five made it out alive. Now Emergency Responders are on the scene and Abcs David Kerley has all the latest. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, george. It is amazing. We are talking about survivors is this small jetliner went down and where it went down. Emergency crews carrying the handful of survivors of the jet crash into local hospitals. Remarkable considering this, the wreckage in the mountainous area around medellin. With just six survivors, rescue crews expect to start the recovery of the other 75 people who were on board. Many of them members of that Brazilian Soccer Team on its way to a tournament. Nearing the end of a long flight from southern brazil and low livia to colombia. It circled near medellin and the crusade they had an electrical problem before it went down. Video was taken of the soccer team, the chapecoense, before they boarded and on board one of the players, alan ruschel posted pictures with his teammate. Ruschel reportedly one of the survivors. The team posting a statement, may god accompany our athletes, officials, journalists and other situation. See, at least one of the players reportedly in the hospital and it was really a cinderella story for this team. Its regional team. They were going to finals and beat some very powerful teams to get to this, the investigation starting at daylight, george. Its a tragedy for this team from brazil. It certainly is. Remarkable, david, that anyone could survive a crash like this. Reporter yeah, you know, its remarkable. We dont know much but depending thats how some people can survive and others perish. You know, part of the aircraft could break off and actually land softly and the other part could be destroyed. So its really its truly to know what happened but there are a lot of factors that could play into why these folks survived. David kerley, thanks very much. No you to that breaking news, right here at home, dozens of wildfires threatening the southeast forcing thousands to evacuate overnight from popular Tourist Spots like Dolly Partons dollywood as winds there up to 60 miles spread flames and destroy so many homes. Abcs rob marciano has all the latest. Good morning, rob. For weeks weve been reporting on the extreme drought, the fires and the rain that was finally to come last night but before that happened the winds cranked and the fire spread. Huge fire. Blown out of control right now. Reporter overnight wildfires raging across eastern tennessee. Burning at least 100 homes. Yeah, its time to go. Areas biggest tourist attractions, dollywood. If you are a person that prays we could use your prayers. Reporter the popular Tourist Destination turned into an orange armageddon. Smoke and ash filling the streets downtown. Owners trying to protect hotels and lodges already lit up with holiday lights. More than 10,000 animals are trapped at ripleys aquarium of the smokies. The fires fanned by strong winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour and the southeast decade. Conditions are extremely dangerous. Stay off the roadways. Reporter motorists fleeing downtown gatlinburg as authorities order a mandatory evacuation there in oh, my god. Its so hot. Reporter the fires spreading quickly. Ground crews struggling to put out the flames. Aerial firefighters not allowed to fly due to the dangerous conditions. So far only minor injuries on evacuation. We hope that holds true burn. Rain helping things just a little bit. Well get another round of rain as we go through time. Still burning this morning. As the streets are wet, thats kind of surreal. Geers gatlinburg about to get out of the heavy rain as it moves towards the north and east, 3 to 4, maybe more inches of rainfall coming later today. That will put out some of these fires but theres also a Severe Threat with this. Well talk more about that in about ten minute. Thanks very much. We move on to that rampage at Ohio State University where a so mol shot down by a quick acting Police Officer. Abcs alex perez has the latest of the. Reporter good morning, george. Authorities are crediting that quick thinking University Police officer with saving lives and investigators are now hunting for any evidence that could help explain why the suspect did this. Overnight investigators searching the home of an 18yearold Ohio State University student who police say carried out the violent Ohio State University. According to the School Newspaper this is the suspects photo. Identified as 18yearold Abdul Razak Ali artan. The rampage starting early monday morning unleashing chaos and fear. The university texting students to run, hide and fight. It was just before 10 00 a. M. When Authorities Say a male suspect in a car deliberately jumps a curb and plows into pedestrians. This is osu. Several pedestrians. Reporter the driver then exits the car with a butcher knife in hand and starts slashing people near the Engineering Building watts hall. We got a man with a knife running around cutting people. Reporter meanwhile, Students Learning about the news on social media took action. Some locking themselves in classrooms, piling chairs to barricade the door. Once we barricaded the door everyone sat in the corner trying to stay away from the windows. It was terrifying at first. You dont think its going to get really scared when it does. Reporter one minute after the stabbings began campus Police Officer alan horujko arrives. Officials say when artan refused commands the officer shot and killed him. Yeah, i need medics at the macquigg lab as soon as possible. Reporter they raced in to treat the wounded and jacob bowers who was across the street watched in shock as the attack unfolded. It looked like he was trying to hurt as many as he reporter in all 11 people were injured. The good news here this morning is that Authorities Say none of those injuries are lifethreatening. Amy. That is certainly good news, alex, thank you very much. Investigators are now looking into the suspects background and his posts online as they look now for a motive. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with more on that. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, amy. Authorities this morning say all signs point to ab attack inspired by terror propaganda carried out by a young man who Abdul Razak Ali artan, cum laude. Reporter it was five months ago that Abdul Razak Ali artan graduated with honors before going on to ohio state. So many people who are flipped by isis propaganda remotely look like theyre leading successful lives. Reporter but just minutes before the attack, Law Enforcement officials tell abc news artan posted this message on facebook. I cant take it america, stop interfering with other countries especially the muslim ummah. If you want us muslims to stop carrying out lone wolf attacks, then make peace. It certainly looks like this individual had some sympathy for terrorist groups overseas. Reporter artan had only started at ohio state this fall. He was recently profiled in the campus newspaper the lantern blaming the media for making muslims feel scared. His main concern was is it oval before class . Reporter artan and his family lived near the campus where neighbors said there was nothing suspicious about him. Very astonishing. You dont know what people are up to now. Reporter as police surrounded the apartment, family members left in tears. Isis has been urging its followers to carry out attacks using a vehicle and over the Holiday Weekend they put out a new video showing how an attack with a knife can instill terror, even as isis loses territory in iraq continues to instill terror around the world. All right, brian, thank you. We move on to that breaking political news overnight, president elect trump nominates a prominent opponent, tom price to be his health secretary. As trump unleashes new twitter attacks on reporters calling out his baseless claims on voter fraud and tom llamas is covering it from trump tower. Good morning, tom. Reporter george, just moments ago, congressman price accepting that nomination and saying last night as he left trump tower very important announcements would happen today. This as you mentioned president elect trump back on twitter attacking journalists pointing out hes making baseless allegations of voter fraud. Overnight, president elect donald trump unleashing a twitter tirade retweeting attacks on a journalist after trump claimed voter fraud but provided no proof of voter misconduct. Retweets like this one,ha did not suffer from millions of fraud votes . Trump is furious about Green Party Candidate jill steins recount in three battleground states calling the effort sad. What we have are predictors that if tampering took place, that it would be most likely to be discovered in the three states where we are looking. Reporter but many are wondering why the president elect tweeted this baseless claim. Millions of people who voted on monday his team pointing to this 2012 pew study which said more than 1. 8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters. But the primary author of the study quickly clarifying. I can confirm that report made no findings re voter fraud. We found millions of out of date registration records due to people moving or dying but found no evidence that voter fraud resulted. I think its most unfortunate that the president elects problems with our system and thats feeding what i call this conspiracy theory. Reporter back in trump tower, the president elect busy shaping his cabinet. Overnight transition sources confirming hes expected to name congressman tom price, a georgia republican, who started his career as a surgeon and has been a staunch critic of obamacare as the next secretary of health and human services. Trump also considering retired general David Petraeus for secretary of state. The one time director of the cia forced to resign after he leaked classified information to his mistress. Trump tweeting about the petraeus meeting say he, quote, was very impressed. Now, a top aide to president elect trump tells me general petraeus is also being considered to head up the department of homeland security. And later today, mitt romney will again meet with president elect trump. This will be the second round of meetings for the onetime trump critic. Karl and, jon, extraordinary public jockeying for secretary of state job. The two main contenders it appears, mitt romney and rudy giuliani. It seems like trump is intrigued by romney but his staff not so much. Hes facing open revolt by members of his staff like kellyanne conway, really do not like the idea and made it clear. But the controversy between those two, between giuliani and romney has opened up the possibility of a third kate and yesterday. Bob corker, the senator from tennessee, Foreign Relations committee will be there today. Im told general allen is also in the mix. If he goes that direction and chooses a general for secretary of state you have the prospect of three generals on his National Security team, mattis, a leading contender for defense, flynn at National Security council and possibly petraeus. If he picked those they would need a waiver from congress. Meantime, you do have this pick this morning, congressman tom price, orthopedic of congress to head health and human services. It shows the real influence of mike pence. Pence and price were very close in congress. Both served in the house together and this is clearly showing the influence of pence. Price is somebody by the way who was both a prominent critic of obamacare but actually wrote a plan to replace obamacare, no the simply one of those that said repeal. Was also replace. A strong supporter of donald trump going back to may. Absolutely. Jon karl, thanks very much. Charleston, south carolina, shooter, dylann roof, hes accused of killing nine in a church. A judge ruled he can act as his own attorney and Abcs Steve Osunsami is in charleston with all of those details. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, amy this. Is et issing up an ugly situation at federal court in charleston where dylann roof could now question the relatives of the victims hes accused of murdering. Its a Stunning Development in the trial of an accused mass murderer who policeay called for a race war. A federal judge in downtown charleston is allowing 22yearold dylann roof to act as his own lawyer as long as his old defense Team Continues to sit by his side. Roof began representing himself monday, still dressed in his prison jumpsuit saying very little as prosecutors interviewed potential jurors. He objected to one, the only juror of the day who was africanamerican. Roof seen here at his arraignment is pleading not hes seen here on a surveillance camera walking into the Emanuel Ame Church in june of 2015 where police he gunned down nine black worshippers at a bible study. Police later found roofs white supremacist manifesto along with pictures of him at confederate grave sites holding the confederate flag. The danger is that someone like roof wants to make a statement and thats going to be the judges job to make sure hes got the right to represe right to make a mockery of the courtroom. Reporter it was just last week that the judge in this case even ruled that roof was competent to stand trial. Jury selection in the case will last another two weeks. Amy. All right, steve, thanks so much for that. Michael. All right, thank you, amy. Now to something you dont see every day. A bizarre incident at a houston airport. That right there is a passenger running along the tarmac after jumping from the planes emergency exit and linsey davis is here and linsey, i have to that in a hard one to believe. The kind of stuff typically reserved for hollywood and nightmares which is why passengers were stunned when a fellow passenger popped open the emergency door and the question this morning is why. Passengers on this jet were stunned. The lady on this flight just opened the door and jumped out. Reporter the flight landed in houston from new orleans but not at the gate. The emergency door gone. As well as a passenger. She was seen spotted on video the tarmac toward the terminal. But authorities quickly realized this is not a threat, but a medical case. Psychiatric problem. Airport Response Team 92. Reporter the woman was hospitalized overnight. Frankly its been a fear. I always watch the emergency doors and, you know, its pretty frightening that somebody could do Something Like that. Reporter now for those worried about it happening midflight fear not, the the plane is midflight. When it is in the air at altitude and when its traveling at a high speed the cabin is pressurized and its that pressure that makes it impossible to open the door but still a fearful moment for a lot of people on the plane, yeah. Thanks very much. Back to rob. You mentioned the Severe Threat today. We had it yesterday. Video out of grundy center, iowa, one of ten tornadoes reported. Another in louisiana and another Severe Threat today with another system. This one actually looks t b were threatened yesterday namely eastern louisiana, mississippi get nothing alabama, tupelo, jackson, really right in the heart of it. Youll be in the threat for not only tornadoes but strong winds also. All with this system that moved through gatlinburg in the way of rain. Its getting up into the northeast. New york, philadelphia, 1 00 p. M. I think it will rain heavily. Tomorrow another rain coming into the east coast as well. Around the same time. Northeast has extreme drought too so well take the rain. Time now for your tuesday walmart. Good morning for us, warm and humid this afternoon. Low 80s, a few pockets of mid 80s across the interior. Well pick up a good wind today south to southeast. Well have gusts up to 20. Similar to yesterday, in fact a little stronger. As the front Parole Office organ front approaches on thursday well have a line of showers. We are looking for cooler overnight lows cooling back downin the 50s. Coming up, the husband of that kidnapped california mom speaking out only to gma. We have the stunning new details and what hes saying really happened during her terrifying ordeal. The sheriff at the heart of that investigation joins us live. Take a look at this crazy scene playing out in a parking lot. Two women crashing their suvs. Whoa. Well tell you what sparked the road rage when we come back. Crohns disease. My e but then i realized there was. So, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. He said humira is fo