Sheets of ice. Look at this suv slamming into a home after that powerful storm dumps more than a foot of snow. Now a dangerous morning commute this morning as millions dig out. And ten years later, neal gorsuch anna nicoles daughter dannielynn and what she left behind for her. Good morning, america. Happy friday. We are digging out this morning here in the northeast. Not so bad in new york. Massachusetts, a foot of snow. It wasnt as bad here. We got a lot of snow out there. Theres so many trying to dig out. Take a look at this photo of Martha Stewart behind the wheel of a pickup truck. I decided to plow and now i am stuck, darn. Only 38 days until spring. Only . Only 38 days. Keep hope alive. Well, theres still more snow coming. Much more on that in a moment. First right to that travel ban decision. A federal court deciding unanimously to keep President Trumps executive order on hold for now. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl is here with those details for us, good morning, jon. Good morning. No doubt this is a big setback for the white house but the president is vowing to fight on and confident that he will ultimately prevail. Just minutes after the court shot him down, President Trump was defiant. Its a political decision. We have a situation where the security of our country is at stake. And its a very, very serious situation, so we look forward as i just said to seeing them in court. Reporter the president insisted his executive order was essential to protecting america from another terrorist attack. But the three Appeals Court judges refuse to reinstate ban writing, quote, the government has pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States. The president s order banning entry into the United States from seven majority muslim countries set off chaos at airports hours after it went into effect two weeks ago. The Appeals Court ruled the ban imposed, quote, substantial injuries and even irreparable harms to families and travelers. The Washington State lawyer who brought the case celebrated the decision. We are a nation of laws. Those laws apply to everybody in our country and that includes the president of the United States. Reporter democrats applauded the courts decision. Senate democratic leader Chuck Schumer challenging the president to, quote, see the writing on the wall. Abandon the proposal, roll up his sleeves and come up with a real bipartisan plan to keep us safe. The courts decision is the biggest challenge to President Trumps authority so far. But he seems unfazed. Do you think this undercuts the early days of your presidency. No, this is just a decision that came do you know but we are going to win the case. Reporter among those applauding the courts decision is hillary clinton. She weighed in with a rare postelection tweet saying simply, 30. Robin. Thats obviously reference to the fact it was unanimous. All three judges ruling against the president. What does the white house do now . It was a temporary restraining order that put the ban on hold while the legal challenge goes forward. They can try to fight to get that temporary restraining order lifted or just get to the court and fight on the fundamentals of the case. I think theyll do that. Theyre very confident they can win on the fundamentals of the president s right to do this executive order. Lets get more from dan abrams. Terry moran as well and let me begin with you. 30, unanimous but a sweeping decision. It was so broad. I mean the court criticized the court criticized the way the order was publicly defended so you see language in here and as john just talked about, for example, saying that the administration is absolutely wrong that the court has no place in this at all. One of the administrations biggest arguments was this shouldnt be reviewable by a court. This is a National Security question. The court saying thats absolutely not true. So, you look at it again and again. Every argument that the administration made, particularly on Something Like the seven countries these pose a particular risk and the court saying theres no evidence of that. Thats important because they had to demonstrate why there was immediate harm because, again, were talking about the timing here. And terry moran, one thing the court didnt do is reach a decision on whether or not this discriminates against muslims. Reporter thats right. They declined to reach that question but they raised it in a really interesting way, george. What they said the states say that this ban was intended to treat them with disfavor and the courts said, well, we arent going to reach that, it is clear that the president s own comments on the campaign trail on twitter and the comments of his associates like Rudy Giuliani who said this was a muslim ban could fairly be considered under statistic precedent as evidence of intent that they intended to discriminate against muslims. Thats big if it stands. Dan, on the process do you agree theyll forgo opinion of the Supreme Court on the restaining order itself and go straight to the substance in the district court. Its the right decision to make particularly if the president wants to be right that they want to try to win, right, because there are two options sort of temporarily. They could go to the entire ninth Circuit Court of appeals and say, we want the whole court to hear this. This is just a threecourt panel. Some people do that. Thats unlikely i think in this particular scenario. The other go to the Supreme Court and appeal this. The problem there is they need five of those eight votes to overturn the stay. I think theyll recognize thats unlikely and so they may say, this with of the courts. Were going to want to litigate this and there are technical reason, by the way, based on the ninth circuits ruling that its time to hear the whole case. Thanks very much. In other words, its not over. Far from over. The president also firing back about the criticism he received from his Supreme Court nominees saying those remarks were misrepresented. Lets go to our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega for more on all that. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter robin, good morning to you. There is a war of words playing out here at the white house right now. As you mentioned the president said the Supreme Court pick has been misrepresented but others on capitol hill right now are sticking to their story. They say judge gorsuch made it very clear he is not happy with the president s words against fellow judges. This morning, President Trump waking up to that ruling from the very judges he criticized. A bad High School Student would understand this. Reporter and it is that ridicule that now has his own Supreme Court nominee firing back calling the president s and demoralizing. But President Trump isnt buying it. His comments were misrepresented. Reporter President Trump blasting the democratic senator who went public with gorsuchs words after their private meeting but that senator and others including a republican and even gorsuchs own spokesman all say the judge expressed dismay about the president s words. The white house not backing down. Are you saying that demoralizing and disheartening was not specifically about the president s comments and what he said and if so no, i think the judge literally made it very clear three senators have come out and said they corroborated the statement and his spokesperson. Senator ayotte made it clear he was commenting in general about attacks on the judiciary. That was it plain and simple. Reporter counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway fielding questions of her own after this in the briefing room. Go buy ivankas stuff. Ill give a free commercial here. You can find it reporter critics pouncing saying she is in violation of government ethics, bipartisan lawmakers on the House Oversight committee recommending conway be disciplined. It was over the top and wholly unacceptable. Reporter overnight conway on defense saying President Trump has her back. He supports me 100 . In fact, it was a very heartening moment. All i can say to americas women is at some point in your life you ought to have a boss who treated me the way that the president of the United States treated me today. Reporter now sean spicer says Kellyanne Conway has been counseled but sources are telling us President Trump is taking issue with that assessment telling aides that counsel makes it sound like Kellyanne Conway is in trouble for what she said when, in fact, the president does stand by her, he feels like she was just defending ivanka trump after the brand at nordstrom was dropped, robin. But still, cecilia, we heard many reports that the government ethics site crashed after she made those remarks. Reporter this is the agency that basically helps avoiding conflicts of interest and youre right, it crashed and, listen to what they tweeted. They said it crashed after an extraordinary volume of contacts from citizens about recent events. The site was down for hours and that crash happened right after Kellyanne Conway made those comments about ivankas brand, robin. All right, cecilia. That office could still recommend further discipline. Another Top White House official in hot water. Thats mike flynn. The Washington Post reported that his contacts with the russians before the inauguration were inappropriate, possibly illegal. Lets bring in our chief Global Affairs anchor, martha raddatz. At issue whether he was sending a signal about sanctions imposed about the election hacking. Reporter was the incoming National Security adviser telling the russians not to worry about those sanctions because things would change when trump became president. U. S. Citizens should not be negotiating with a Foreign Government under law. Flynn never denied he had ambassador. But as recently as wednesday according to the Washington Post said, no, when asked if sanctions were discussed. The post said that changed yesterday when a spokesman back add way from the denial saying while flynn couldnt remember discussing sanctions hes not certain sanctions did not come up, george. Martha, he made those same denials to his colleagues in the white house. Listen to Vice President mike pence a few weeks back. I talked to general flynn yesterday. And the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u. S. Sanctions against russia or the expulsion of diplomats. The Vice President was put in a tough spot. Real credibility problem. Reporter certainly does. Vice president pence said at the time he had spoken to flynn about this. I suspect he and others will want to know what why flynn now appears to have changed his mind, george. Meantime, martha, major reversal from President Trump on play during the transition. He had a phone call with the chinese leader last night. Reporter yeah, this seems quite the turnaround. The president , of course, making huge waves after his call with taiwans president , the first in decades, that angered china. Now President Trump has officially recognized the one china policy. I dont think he would have gotten anywhere with china had that not happened, george. That was the precondition for more talks. Martha raddatz, thanks very much. It certainly was. The latest on President Trumps confirmation battles. Overnight representative tom price confirmed as the next health and Human Services secretary. But the president s nominee for labor secretary is now under fire. Lets go to our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce who is there on capitol hill. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. Well, weve seen tense battles. This may be the most bruising yet. Andrew puzder still hasnt had a hearing but the leader is withdraw his nomination. Chuck schumer saying that puzder is the most antiworker nominee for labor secretary ever and this isnt just democrats voicing concerns, while most republicans are digging in to get him confirmed were already seeing several hinting they may not support him and overnight that other big confirmation you mentioned, this came down to a vote at 2 00 a. M. This morning. But this morning tom price now confirmed for hhs secretary. Robin. A lot of long hours there on the hill. Mary, thank you. We move on to that breaking news out of france where four people including a 16yearold girl have been arrested for plotting a terror attack, explosives on the scene. Abcs lama hasan has the latest. Good morning, llama. Reporter good morning. This morning the French Interior minister saying an imminent terror attack has been foiled after police swooped in and arrested four people in the south of france. Three men aged between 21 and 34 years old as well as a 16yearold girl were detained. Three are suspected of planning a violent act on french soil. Now, police searchi where they were arrested found explosives and other equipment. Discovering 71 grams of tatp, a powerful explosive used by isis militants and also the same explosive used in the recent deadly paris and brussels attacks. The suspects were known to french authorities and were already under surveillance. These latest arrests come a week after a 29yearold egyptian man attacked soldiers at the louvre museum. This is a country on edge, france at its highest alert level with hundreds of thousands of police and soldiers on the streets and it remains under a continuing state of emergency. A country truly under siege. Thanks very much. Michael. Thank you, george. Now to the big chill in the northeast after that major snowstorm. Adrienne bankert is in south boston where they got nearly a foot of snow and good morning to you, adrienne. How are you doing out there . Reporter yeah, michael, its cold outside but check this out. That foot of snow is it covering cars. You cant even see the pavement and making for a here in south boston and across the northeast. This morning, over 50 Million People digging out. Drivers no match for this winter storm. Its pure ice underneath the snow. Reporter overnight hundreds of accidents reported across the northeast. Watch this suv in New Hampshire lose control. Slamming into a house so hard, it shook it right off the foundation, inspectors calling the home uninhabitable. Try to give it gas. Reporter along the east coast severe elements creating treacherous treks. Massachusetts and connecticut roads pounded with 19 inches of snow. In west virginia, multiple vehicles smashing into each other shutting down interstate 70 in both directions. Sadly the driver of a semi died after strong winds blew a truck off the Chesapeake Bay bridge. And in pennsylvania, slick highways causing this chain in new york city, buses in slow motion stuck in the slush. This u. P. S. Truck struggling to get out of the snow, the governor of new york jumping out of his car to help pull out a stranded driver. And you know it can take about an hour or more to commute in to town. We talked to locals from surrounding cities and neighborhoods. Thats on a normal day without the snow and ice on the roadway so a lot if they havent dug out last night might want to work from home. Robin, back to you. Good idea. Be careful, adrienne, thank you. To rob who has more on the deep freeze this morning. Hi, robin. Its so cold the salt isnt going to work very much. 23 in new york city. 11 in boston so where those secondary roads arent plowed theyre frozen. Miserae if youre trying to get to where you need to go. Biting windchills. Minus 11 what is feels like in boston. 2 degrees in new york city. Over a foot and a half in hard fort and lesser as you go south. Another one coming f shall the same areas that got the snow and saturday looking for this storm to develop. This looks to be more wicked. Rain snow mix across i95 and a lot of wind for boston. More on the California Storm in a few minutes. Thank you there, rob. Turning now to what may be a huge data breach at arbys. Rebecca jarvis is here with the latest on that and, rebecca, hundreds of thousands of credit and debit cards may have been compromised. Thats right. Weve seen this before. This time we now know it looks like this breach occurred between october of last year and midjanuary. It affects arbys owned restaurants across the country, not the franchises. The crooks got at least 355,000 credit and debit cards, likely more and were able to steal them in what appears to the be same way hackers got to target and home depot by remotely stealing data off each card as its swiped through the register. While its still ongoing they have taken measures to eradicate how can you find out if youve been affected and most of all how can you protect yourself. This is what everybody wants to know. Unfortunately, nowadays this is just the norm. We see this all the time. Youre not liable for fraud. You do have to report it