Basketball blowout. Lebron james and the cavaliers dominating the knicks overnight but the real competition off the court. There goes james and, nope. Why basketballs biggest star was flipping out over the water bottle challenge. . We do say good morning, america. You know a game is a blowout this. Unsuccessfully, i might add. Good old water bottle challenge. They couldnt land it. There you go. I think he dove out there because its on the court but the clutch player kyrie irving lands it like a true clutch player does every time. Our ep executive producer saying this challenge is driving parents all across the country crazy. Lebron made a little news with ace hotel choice. For an escaped inmate. Authorities believe he stabbed a Police Officer at a South Carolina walmart overnight and our chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas is tracking the search. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Police believe he is armed and dangerous and asking the public for help in finding him. This morning a massive manhunt for an escaped inmate serving life in prison. 47yearold Michael Allen williamson slipped out of the Mccormick Police believe an hour laters be thatted a female officer at this walmart. Pictured on surveillance camera before the stabbing. She continued to pursue the suspect to get him off the street. Reporter the officer had been responding to a shoplifting call. Authorities believe williamson may have escaped in a food service truck. He was sentenced to life if robbery. Authorities believe he received several disciplinary actions involving drug and smuggling contraband. We need your help. Unfortunately, these things happen and well pursue this person and bring him to discuss tis. Reporter police are urging the public to call 911 immediately if they see him. As for the officer stabbed police say she survived and thankfully is recovering from her injuries. George. Thank good there is for that. Pierre, thanks very much. Now to that weather alert thats across 20 states. Showed you yesterday. They finally made it out. Somebody ventured out of the snow. Sort of. Saw a lot of snow in north dakota. Not as much in denver but extremely cold. Denver is 2 below zero in actual air temperature. The only way to survive temps like that as snow was flying on the roads creating traffic nightmares. Now that snow and, of course, the cold going to move east. The windchill is 18 below rapid city and feels like 7 in chicago. Even dallas feels like 22. Then it slides east. Weve been talking about thursday, now its here. Saturday is the one to look forward to for cincinnati at 10. 18, d. C. , new york city, even atlanta will only feel like 20. You put that cold air over the relatively warm great lakes and lakeeffect snow is already flying. My mom actually called me yesterday and said theres going to be a snowstorm and i said, thank you, mom. There is going to be a snowstorm. You can see up to three feet in so o a lot. Another storm i have to tell you about in a couple of moments. Good old mom. Momma knows best. Thats right. Now to the latest on the trump transition. The president elect facing new questions about the future of his business this morning as he attacks the union leader of another one, carrier, the company he just visited in indiana after claiming he saved more than a thousand jobs there. Abcs tom llamas is here. He has all the details for us. Good morning, tom. Reporter good morning to you. The New York Times reporting trump may turn to his sons to refusing to completely separate himself. Thats not what he tweeted last week. Check out what he posted up on twitter. Wait for it. Okay, maybe we dont have it. I feel it is visually important as president to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses, this as trump is staying very busy on twitter. Overnight, another tweet from donald trump creating conflict. The president elect going after an Indianapolis Union leader criticized trump on cnn for inflating the amount of jobs he helped save at carrier. Were saving the jobs at the carrier plant from going to mexico. 1,100 jobs. And what theyre doing, theyre counting in 350 some odd more that were never leaving this country at all. Reporter moments later trump tweeting chuck jones, who is president of united steelworkers 1999 has done a terrible job no wonder companies flee country. But johnson has a point. Of the 1100 jobs trump claimed to have saves around 800 were actually being exported to mexico. Trump maintaining his twitter wars as he continues to assemble his cabinet. One of his newest hires, an old friend, wwe cofounder Linda Mcmahon, hired to lead the Small Business administration. Donald trump is in a world he is not familiar with. Himself once wrestled with mcmahons husband delivering a sneak attack clothesline and later trump getting inducted into the wwe hall of fame. Were pretty sure hell be the only president ever inducted into that hall of fame. Pretty sure . Pretty sure. Donald trump is expected to nominate john kelly for secretary of homeland security. He is a four star marine general, also a gold star father. He lost his son to combat in have the most retired generals in modern history working in his cabinet and there could be more generals on the way. We will talk to Martha Raddatz more about that. You know all these generals. The president elect criticized the generals and said he knew more about military strategy than they do and yet has three in key positions and taking criticizing for overre them by some. Reporter the Approval Ratings for the military couldnt be higher. I also think as you said there is some surprise in president elect trumps picks given what he said about the generals during the campaign. But i think those comments were aimed more at the administration and president obama has had his share of general officers over the years as well in the cabinet. And general kelly, a good star father, you know him pretty well. General kelly has spoken very powerfully about how little some americans know about the sacrifice of service members, which should dispel the myth about these general officers that they somehow are eager to go to war, they fight wars when ordered to do so but no one understands the costs more than they do and how carefully the decision should be made to enter into them and kelly also brings, george, experience as commander of Southern Command where he dealt with border and immigration issues. Front, the president elect getting a fair amount of attention with his meetings with former Vice President al gore and Leonardo Dicaprio on Climate Change but his pick for the epa scott pruitt from oklahoma a real opponent leading in the effort to fight regulations on those issues. Reporter scott pruitt is a man who is basically battled the agency. He is now asked to lead. He has said the debate on Climate Change is far from settled and pruitt sent a today, the American People are tired of seeing billions of dollars drained from our economy due to unnecessary epa regulations and i intend to run this agency in a way that fosters both responsible protection of the environment and american businesses. I see a fight upcoming. Thanks very much. The weather may be dipping but the stock market is surging. The dow closing at another record high, Rebecca Jarvis is here and, rebecca, what is going this is the opposite of what almost every expert was forecasting since donald trump elected the dow up more than 1200 points. Investors are focusing on the president elects proposed policies, fewer regulations, lower taxes and Infrastructure Spending and theyre bullish on what that means for companies and businesses. Since stocks have now or since the election stocks have now hit record highs, 12 time, which is ultimately positive for everyones Retirement Savings account and, guy, that means typical 401 k up between 5,000 and 6,000 in just the last month, michael and robin. Great news there. All right, rebecca, thank you. Now to a Dramatic School shooting caught on camera. A campus Police Officer in reno, nevada, firing on a knifewielding student and abcs t. J. Holmes has more on these terrifying moments. Good morning. Reporter incredibly we saw the video of this incident almost immediately after it happened. A kid wildly the middle of the school day in the middle of the school yard before being shot and as youll see in the video many instead of running, what did they do, pulled out their phones and started recording. This 14yearold student seen on camera wildly swinging at least one large knife is in Critical Condition this morning shot by police trying to stop him. Shots fired with a student down at hug high school. Reporter it started as a fight between two students at this Reno High School around lunchtime. Reporter it quickly escalated when the 14yearold boy pulls the knife in the middle of a crowd but the student refuses to drop the knife. The officer fires a single shot. Hes going around telling everybody hes going to shoot and stop everybody so i mean he finally did it and he got stopped. The officer gave verbal commands for the student to drop the knife, ultimately firing his Service Weapon stopping the threat. Once the threat was stopped, the shooting officer immediately began to provide medical aid to reporter the teen is critically injured on the group as the school is put on code red lockdown. Officers are going classroom to classroom looking for potential other victims, looking for witnesses to the incident to make sure the kids are safe. Reporter no one else was injured and detectives now interviewing witnesses and asking for any other videos like these. The officer is now on paid leave. As you can see in that, middle in the school day, middle of the school yard kidding standing you might think kids take off and run but these days they have these phones and now it will be an important investigative tool asking for all those videos. Hard to see how the officer had that much choice. You got so many potential victims. You do. All right, t. J. Well move on to charleston, South Carolina, where dylann roof is on trial for killing nine africanamericans in a church sanctuary. Steve osunsami is in charleston. Steve, it was an emotional day in that reporter prosecutors say this will be a long and difficult trial for many in this community. One of dylann roofs relatives got so worked up and upset she had to be taken from the court. She had a medical emergency. Families of the victims were crying in their seats. The United States versus dylann roof is moving forward this morning in this charleston courthouse with more testimony from First Responders who raced to this Historic Black Church after reports of the shooting. Stories on the witness stand how they found nine People Killed in the house of their lord in this basement of mother emanuel ame Methodist Church in june of 2015. We got two people coming out, an adult female and a child. Reporter in Opening Statements the u. S. Attorney spoke eloquently saying that parishioners welcomed 22yearold dylann roof to their bible study but little did they know how cold a heart he had. Instead of a bible to study, the defendant chose to bring a 45 caliber roof with his boyish face sat in his prison stripes stared s silently into space and confessed in an interview recorded by the fbi. Yes, sir. Reporter at roofs First Court Appearance the deeply religious families here spoke passionately about forgiving him. I will never be able to hold her again but i forgive you. Reporter tuesday we heard from a survivor, the mother of 26 taiwan da sanders who held on says roof executed her son because he was black. She says he told our son i have to do this because yall are raping our women and taking over the world. Roofs lawyers admit to it all saying that he did it and telling us that they may not even call any witnesses. Their goal is to save his life because prosecutors are asking for the death penalty. Robin. All right, steve, thank you. The forgiveness those families are showing, remarkable. To those two teens accused of starting the deadly blaze that killed 14 and forced thousands of evacuations. Abcs linzie janis is here with new details from the investigation. Good morning, linzie. Reporter good morning. These are very serious charges, the highest level of arson meaning prosecutors believe these two young people started these fires with intent to do damage. This morning, two juveniles in custody accused of deliberately starting the fires that killed that two people have now been charged for their role in starting the fires. Reporter Authorities Say they believe the fire was set the day before thanksgiving. Within days the blaze exploding, more than 14,000 people forced to evacuate the towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge. People were basically running for their lives. Reporter Travis Cogdell says he had minces to get his parents whats left of it. The Kitchen Table was right there. Reporter he tells us he plans to search through the rubble for his fathers purple heart. In all, nearly 2500 buildings damaged or destroyed. The flames coming dangerously close to Dolly Partons dollywood amusement park. The country legend pledging money to help every familiar affected. This morning, prosecutors say they may seek to transfer the two juvenile arson suspects to reporter Juvenile Court laws prevent prosecutors from identifying the suspects or even revealing their age and gender. All they would say is that the two youths are tennessee residents. Now, i heard from Travis Cogdell late last night. He spent me this photo of some of the 23 volunteers he says showed up to help him look for his dads purple heart. Robin, he says they found it. Ah, that is great news. Some big hearts there and kudos to dolly parton and all those to help those families. Amy has new details about the oakland warehouse fire. A shocking admission from oakland officials about the deadly warehouse fire. They say no building inspector had been inside that warehouse in at least 0 years. The fire killed 36 people and city officials had been investigating safety complaints at that building just before the fire. One of them went there two weeks ago but was unable to get inside. Well, intense fighting is to capturing the entire city and syrian president assad said today he is waiting to see if president elect trump will be able to unite all the various forces in the fight against isis. Well, there were some frightening moments on a southwest flight. Passengers and crew rush to put on oxygen masks when their plane lost pressure after leaving dallas bound for houston. It landed safely back in dallas. No one injured but this is the third incident on board a southwest flight just this week. Well, l United States has dipped for the first time in decades. According to the cdc people are now living 78. 8 years, down sitely making it the first drop since 1993. Health experts say the rise in obesity is likely leading to shorter lives by triggering Heart Disease and other deadly ailments. And finally it seems like everyone has an opinion about one citys main christmas tree. Take a look for yourself. This is the tree in montreal. From charlie brown. One tweet said it looks more like a sprig of rosemary. Nothing like a nice flat top christmas tree. Theres no top and another saying beauty is in the eye of the bow elders. The folks said we delivered natural quebec tree and thats what it should be. Natural is not perfect. Some people say, sure, far from it. Dignified but i like it. All right, amy. In the eye of back over to ginger. Look at that storm. The storm coming into the west so you can see in this monitor the rain and snow flying in california. I80 at times had to be stopped because there were so many spinouts in truckee. 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