Us. Were in the room where it happens. Caught on cam remarks the fiery crash. A plane slams into a parking lot erupting into flames. Witnesses scrambling to help. What went wrong here . Snowy blast. The first major blizzard of the season pounding the upper midwest. The treacherous driving, trucks and cars overturned. Dangerous whiteout conditions. And where its heading now. Hey, good morning, everybody. Lets get it straight out to bed minister township, new jersey, thats where donald trump has his National Golf club. Its 40 miles outside of new york city. Where president elect donald trump has a family compound and where today could be a pivotal day in the formation of his new administration. Many would love to be a fly mitt romney who has come out hard against trump in the past few months. Hes called him a con man and fraud and now romney is reportedly under consideration for secretary of state. Lets not forget trump also said romney was not a smart man and questioned his mormonism. Meantime, reactions are pouring in to several new appointments that trump has just announced. Two of them quite controversial. Jeff sessions as attorney general and retired general mike flynn for nationa adviser. Both dealing with accusations of bigotry. We have Team Coverage this morning and we do begin with abcs david whieth who is in bedminister township. Reporter this place is home to one of 17 golf clubs that donald trump owns around the world but this weekend it is the white house in waiting and this rural setting, donald trump will sit down with former rival mitt romney. A golf course under heavy guard, stakes summit. The 2012 nominee and the 2016 winner havent always been diplomatic about each other. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. He had his shot. He had his shot. He didnt like it when i said he choked like a dog. He choked like a dog. Reporter the idea that trump is now courting romney as a possible secretary of state is an early test for the dealmaker president. Romney isnt the only candidate. Theres also governor nikki haley. Well, i wont pretend to have always been president elects biggest cheerleader. I did vote for him and i was absolutely thrilled to see him win. Reporter and former new york mayor Rudy Giuliani who was trumps biggest cheerleader. But who now seems to be struggling to win the job he wants. Trump has already settled on top post. Mike flynn will be National Security adviser. No confirmation required. This weekend retreat at what used to be automaker john de loreans Country Estate would be a much needed break from fifth avenue. Last night the man leading the Transition Team took a break from the meetings to see the hit broadway show hamilton. There were boos and some cheers for Vice President elect pence as well as Vice President elect pence, i see you walking out but i hope you will hear us just a few more moments. We, sir, we are are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope that this show has inspired to you uphold our reporter the Vice President elect had already ducked out of 9 theater right after the show but stood there in the hallway and heard the whole speech apparently. Meanwhile, here in bedminster trump has a bunch of meetings. Hes meeting with secretary of defense and michele rea, the former d. C. Schools chief under consideration for the department of education, paula. Broadway last night. David, thank you. Trump is facing fierce criticism after announcing his choices for attorney general and National Security adviser. Not to mention his chief strategist steve bannon who opened up in an explosive new interview about his vision for the future of america and abcs Gloria Rivera is here with the backlash that team trump is already feeling. Gloria, good morning. Reporter good morning, paula, thats right. Its only been 11 days since the election and speculation on who to run rampant. His picks for those top three posts and that magazine interview prompting new backlash. This morning president elect trumps supporters are defending his picks for key positions. Three of them under fire for a history of racially charged comments. Jeff sessions is one of the stalwart conservatives in the senate. Hes also been a loyal ally to donald trump throughout this entire campaign. Reporter alabama senator Jeff Sessions selected for attorney general served as a decades long career on capitol hill and was unopposed in his last election but claims of racism have followed the conservative who was accused of calling an africanamerican colleague in the u. S. Attorneys office boy. A charge he denied during this testimony to the senate which rejected his confirmation to a federal judgeship. Im not a racist. Reporter he denies those charges to this day but the chairman of the congressional Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn tapped for National Security adviser gets high praise for his intelligence work. Former cia director mike hayden complimenting flynn saying he has been incredibly successful in the fight against terrorism but has been criticized for recent comments tweeting that fear of muslims is rational and this august 2016 speech on islam. So its like a malignant cancer. Reporter trumps most controversial pick may be the former head of breitbart media has been vilified as a racist and an antisemite. But he seems boast about being scorned telling the Hollywood Reporter darkness is good, dick cheney, darth vader, satan, thats power. One label bannon does reject is the term white nationalist, instead he argues he is simply a nationalist or an economic dan, paula. Yeah, well talk about steve bannon as the broadcast continues. Thank you. Meanwhile, as trump deals with these swirling controversies over his picks for these top jobs hes also moving to put an older controversy to rest. The president elect has agreed to settle several lawsuits from people who claim Trump University was a fraud. The new York Attorney general calling this a stunning reversal. Heres abcs rebecca jarvis. This is actually a good one all around. Reporter this morning attorneys for president elect three fraud cases against the now defunct Trump University for 25 million and no admission of wrongdoing. Everybody who was enrolled in this school and wants their money back will get over half their money back. Reporter new York Attorney general Eric Sneiderman who brought one of the suits against the program saying it amounted to a stunning reversal by donald trump and a major victory for the more than 6,000 victims of university. While campaigning, trump vowed to never settle the claims. I could have settled it. I just choose to. When i ran this, why didnt you settle up, i dont want to. Reporter his attorneys have long defended the program saying it imparted valuable knowledge and a vast majority of former students were happy with their experience. He was willing to put his personal interest and his personal beliefs aside and focus on the issues that are facing the country. Reporter the allegatio were set to make headlines. The trial scheduled to begin later this month before judge curiel who trump criticized alleging the u. S. Born judge was biased because he is the son of mexican immigrants but this morning, it appears those cases will not go to trial. For good morning america, rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. Rebecca, thank you. For more on all this lets bring also an abc news contributor and joins us from washington. Bill, good morning to you. Good morning. Lets start with this trump romney meeting. There is a long history of political rivals making nice after these hard fought campaigns but romney really went pretty far as we showed, he called trump a con man and a fraud. Could he really join the cabinet after saying all of that . Sure. Sure, he could. I think he would want assurances as secretary of state i assume thats the job he would be inteed his department, he would want to talk about some substantive Foreign Policy issues, hes not going to defend or articulate positions that he thinks are indefensible. On the one hand trump is criticized correctly for appointing loyalists who shouldnt perhaps be in the highest positions then he reaches out to mitt romney who is unquestionably qualified for this job who has been harsh critic of trump and shows a kind of openmindedness on trumps part honestly and i think rising the offer, same with jim matus, oh he retired marine, fourstar general, fantastic human being. I dont know that he wants to be a secretary of defense. If he would advise him i would feel better about a President Trump being advised by mitt romney and jim matus. We can all laugh about it and show the clips of romney criticizing trump but remind everyone that matus was thinking about runni i have to applaud him for being more openminded. Nikki haley and ted cruz going from his hit list to his hot list. The five highprofile job appointments since the election. All white men. And three of them were talking about sessions, bannon and flynn accused of bigotry. If a member of a Minority Community, if youre a member of the Minority Community and concerned about a trump presidency, how should you feel about this administration and how its shaping up right now, bill . I think you should keep an open mind, honestly. Of things but bannon, im not sure i would make flynn my National Security adviser. I respect Jeff Sessions and think hes getting a bum rap but lets see. Sessions will testify before the senate in his confirmation. Flynn and bannon are in staff positions, i myself think staffers should not give interviews and speeches as much. Let the president be the president and cabinet seconds be the public faces of the administration so i would if im a trump skeptic obviously but if distrust but verify. Be very skeptical but he is the president elect, lets see what he does and see what his policies are and see what he says as president. And maybe some of his aides will move on from where they were a few months or years ago. Youve paid a price for being a trump skeptic. Steve bannon, the newly. Ed staffer has gone after you through breitbart quite aggressively. What do you make of the fact an enormous amount of sway with the incoming president . Well, bannon thought the kind of conservatism i had been part of for decades was Old Fashioned and too timid and not sort of nationalist enough. Some of those are legitimate policy difference, sometimes i think he published stuff at breitbart that was unnecessarily not just personal but sort of vitriolic and so forth but, again, im not thrilled to see bannon as a counsel to the president of the United States but, again, its really going to be what donald trump does and says, not what steve bannon does and says. Fascinating to watch you walk this line. Well check back with you throughout this administration. Thank you very much. And, paula, over to you. Dhangs. Moving to the fiery scene of a small plane crash. The plane slamming into a parking lot in northeast nevada near a housing complex that set off explosions. Witnesses capturing these visuals youre seeing. All four people on board were pilgrim is here with more. Good morning, eva. Reporter good morning. A fiery plane crash moments after takeoff into that parking lot across from the airport. This morning we are learned this was a Medical Transport plane with three crew members and a patient on board. Overnight the dramatic aftermath of a fiery plane crash caught on camera. We have an explosion at the barricks parking lot possibly involving an airplane, ammunition on board. Reporter wats surrounding cars as a plane plummeted into a parking lot in nevada. A local newspaper reporting the plane may have been transporting a heart patient. I heard a bang and then saw the flames. Reporter the inferno, setting off explosions as witnesses scramble to find a way to put out the growing flames. Firefighters arriving on scene to douse the blaze but the plane and the surrounding vehicles that the crash is under investigation this morning saying unknown circumstances caused the plane to crash just one mile from the elko airport. The fire chief saying there isnt much left of that plane. The ntsb is also investigating this crash. So tragic. Thanks, eva. The video was harrowing. Thank you. To the breaking weather news now and deadly blizzard slamming the upper midwest. Whiteout conditions leading to more than 400 crashes, all that weather is now forecast from rob in a moment but first lets get it out to abcs phillip mena who is in sioux falls, south dakota where people have been warned to stay off the roads. Phillip, good morning to you. Reporter dan, paula, good morning. Thats right. Yeah, that snowstorm that is now pummeling the upper midwest is no longer here but heres the problem. All of this snow and ice, it is rock hard and it is coating the roads here making them slick and extremely dangerous. Conditions blanketing the upper midwest. Plows working to clear the roads. On highways and interstates blizzard conditions making it nearly impossible to see. Big rigs struggling to gain traction. Overturning on the side of the road. Gets any worse than this thatll be it for me. Reporter the Minnesota State patrol responding to over 440 crashes with at least three deaths so far. Winds gusting 50 to 7 on Lake Superior a lone surfer braving the rough waters trying to catch a perfect wave. Surfing would be your best bet. If youre wearing the right gear its totally comfortable. 10 to 18 inches falling in northern minnesota. The wind is really, really bad. Reporter residents now digging out. It is what it is. Im kind of used to it. Its been uncommonly warm this fall and not typical to have the first snowstorm hit so close to thanksgiving but now that its here its hitting hard. Stay warm, we all want to know where this storm is headed now so lets send things over to rob. Hi, to echo what phillip just said we not only had a mild winter but first snowstorm. Full on blizzard and only strengthen as it traverses the great lakes. The back side, a lot of snow with this and especially as that cold air gets over great lakes. Lake effect snow machine begins cranking today on all lakes and upstate new york especially western new york. Lakeeffect snow warnings posted through tomorrow and in through monday, as well. Look at the advisories all the way down into the south. Bigtime wind and cold. Everybody will get a piece of this. Not good for the fire situation there and heres the heavy snow across parts of upstate new york. 10 to 20 inches expected. Well get snow in some of the higher elevations, as well but windchills. Yesterday louisville, 81 degrees. Tomorrow morning, itll feel like in the 20s. Thats a serious drop. A shock to the system for sure and that gets all the way do into florida. Tallahassee, 28 degrees monday morning. Winter has we are contending with a little bit of fog. Its mostly sunny skies and clouds approaching from both directions from the east this afternoon and from the west r showers from northwest to southeast and its behind that band of rain showers that eventually after highs in the 50s to lower 60s today we start to cool off and could even be a little bit of a touch of snow in a few Western Areas as that rain wraps up tomorrow morning and certainly for the North Country winds gusted to 79 miles an hour in jackson, michigan, yesterday. So wind jackson. Jtown. Is that where youre from. You didnt know i was from jackson . It doesnt surprise me its a windy place. In a good way. Insinuating im long winded. In a good way. Is that where it was going . Well talk about your wolverines and the rest of College Football impacted for the first time by reason he calls her filibuster speaking of ron over to ron. Good morning to you and filibuster faris, good morning. Wichita, kansas where the fbi has now joined the search for su baby. The infantsophia gonzalez is barely a week old and the mothers boyfriend came home thursday afternoon and found the woman dead of a gunshot wound and the baby missing. Officials say they have no idea where baby sophia is and no suspects at this time. And in georgia, a u. S. Marshal and the fugitive he was trying to arrest for both killed in a shootout. Officials say a team of marshals serving a warrant in a rural area when the suspect started the suspect had been accused of trying to kill police officers. And soul and funk singer sharon jones lost her battle with pan creigh yachtic cancer and her band the dapkings built a following with hits as 100 days, 100 nights and profiled in miss sharon jones. She was just 60 years of age. The zika virus is no longer a Global Health emergency but still poses a serious threat that word coming from the World Health Organization despite ending its Emergency Declaration that w. H. O. Says zika is still dangerous and could return to several countries. Pope francis has appointed 17 new cardinals including three americans inducted in the ceremony at the vatican. It includes the or bishops in chicago and indianapolis, 13 of the new cardinals are younger than 80 making them eligible to california airport. Youll see mounds of foam. Not snow, pouring out of a hangar at san joses airport. A Fire Suppression system malfunctioned and caused that blob and environmental cleanup contractor had to be called in to clean up the foam. Youre positive its foam . Or should you say allegedly. I have a 2yearold who would love that. Is that right . Absolutely. 2yearold. I think if you could do thatun you said your 2