It crashed into a lake. We do say, good morning, america, on this wednesday morning. We are following that breaking news in paris right now. Details coming in as were going on the air. Mass gunmen storming a satirical magazine. Gunman still on the loose putting them on the highest state of alert and the french president rushed to the scene of what hes calling an exceptional act of barbarism against journalists. Pierre thomas tracking the late of the. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning. Were getting word of that dangerous situation in paris. Gunmen Wearing Masks have targeted a french newspaper. Weve just learned 11 people have been killed. And four critically injured. Its a very fluid situation. The shooting happened outside of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo which has come into focus before for lampooning the Prophet Muhammad. One was firebombed after publishing cartoons of mohammed. The situation is unfolding and clearly dangerous. So intense the president of france has arrived at the scene. This appears to be a brazen act of terrorism so you can be guaranteed u. S. Intelligence officials will be monitoring the situation extremely closely. Heightening security around all major paris institutions. Thanks very much. I want to bring in richard clarke. Former counterterrorism expert. This magazine has had a history of taking on islam in cartoons. Its final tweet before this actually was a cartoon of the isis leader al baghdadi and had been under hired security. Reporter its been a target of threats by islamic groups for probably at least the last five years. Its a version of this magazine think of contract the youngun, but its different in that it has been consistently going after isis and al qaeda and in doing so several years ago had cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which triggered a massive response earlier when the danish newspaper did the same thing. Reports are that the gunmen wore masks and had ka lashnikov rifles. This is the kind of attack so many have been concerned about across western capitals and now paris in the entire city under the highest possible state of alert. Well we had been worrying about those socalled lone wolves, that the individual selfactivated this sounds like an organized group that had access to automatic weapons and planned out an attack. So this is a terrorist cell of at least two people we dont know how many yet. Pierre thomas i want to bring you back in. We have known about possible isis threats against american media, as well. Reporter yeah late last fall the fbi and Homeland Security put out a notice to media warning that isis radicals might target the media. Its something thats been of great concern to u. S. Officials here and i can tell you based on what happened in france Law Enforcement officials and intelligence officials around the u. S. Government will be deeply focused on this and they will probably put out a notice to Law Enforcement officials. We will continue to rack this. Pierre, richard thank you very much. Well keep on top of it. That bitter cold back at home more than half the country feeling these frigid temperatures. The deep freeze stretching from the rockies all the way to florida. The bitter cold making travel dangerous and ginger is outside here in times square tracking it all. Good morning to you, robin. I can assure you it is plenty cold not only here with a windchill of 21. Down from texas to florida and the windchill warnings and advisories. The numbers are low. 29 below below. The feels like in chicago, where we find our alex perez. Not only minneapolis Public Schools but parts of chicago too. Alex. Reporter good morning, ginger. It will feel as cold as 30 below zero here and one of the big concerns is ice buildup on trains. Authorities are setting fires on the tracks. Deep freeze tightening its grip making getting around for many a nightmare. Overnight, relentless Winter Weather causing scenes like these from the midwest to maryland. In the nations capital, they are digging out and bundling up clearing sidewalks and roadways while trying to stay upright. So slippery. Reporter from the midwest to the northeast a second day of snowy and icy conditions. Commuters this morning bracing for the worst. It was rough because usually only take us maybe like 30 minutes at the most to get to work. Reporter depths shutting down this interstate in Central Indiana causing an eightmile backup. Blaming icy roads for this. For some the polar chill problems begin before they get into the car. My fingers are frozen after the first five minutes. Reporter after ice buildup from the cold temperatures brought by the polar vortex last winter shut down train lines in the chicago area stranding passengers, officials now taking no chances, flames right on the track, crews adding more heaters to keep track switches from freezing freezing. Without these flames were talking about major problems. It would be. Reporter more than 30 chicago Area School Districts closing their doors, canceling school tuesday anticipating lifethreatening cold temperatures. The bitter cold creating headaches for passengers at the nations airports. Philadelphia new york boston and chicago reporting delays and cancellations. And while we often hear about staying hydrated during extreme heat you also need to stay hydrated during extreme cold. It might end up frozen. Ginger. Alex thank you for the tips. More tips. Windchill is dangerous because you have to be covered up if youre going to be protected from it. We have these infrared cameras, this is an interesting way to look. Its not just your head. Come on my shoulder looking at my producer dan manzo and meteorologist with us. You can see where hes losing heat. Not just the head as most of us think, in your legs right there on your feet and if you hold your hand on your jacket hold it right there, dan you can see where the heat escapes right along his buttons. Something to note when youre getting ready this morning. George. That is thanks very much. We have a major break in the search for missing airasia flight 8501. Search crews found the tail of the plane overnight. Officials believe those allimportant black boxes are buried in the mud with it and Abcs David Kerley has been on the story from the start and brings us the latest right now. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, george. A major find. Why, because the tail is where the black boxes are located. The indonesians still dont have data recorders in hand yet. This is it. The puzzle piece that could solve the mystery of flight 8501. Divers took these pictures just hours ago on the bottom of the java sea. Airasia markings on the a320 the a from its tail number. The tail the plane has been found and confirmed the head of the search effort told reporters. Later he added while the searchers havent heard the pingers or seen the boxes they believe the data recorders are buried in the tail section which came to lie on the sea bottom upside down. If right part of tail section then the black box should be there. Those boxes are so important because they will tell us what the pilots were saying and doing and what happened to Critical Systems on the plane just before it disappeared from radar a week and a half ago with 162 on board and there is more. Sailors like these on the uss ft. Worth are finding more wreckage using sonar dragged through the water. This according to john wood is the cockpit. It comes to a point, its a very clear point and then above the nose are what could have been the nose theres some dark what appear to be cockpit windows. It really appears that that is the forward end of an aircraft fuselage. Reporter thats not all. Farther back some perpendicular lines. It could either be support members in the fuselage or it conceivably could be seats. Reporter the good news here divers were able to get to the tail section. The bad news is that the boxes are actually buried as the indonesians think. Heavy salvage equipment will have to be brought in to tail lift the tail debris and that could take time. To amy with the top stories. We begin with the developing story from texas. A shooting inside a v. A. Hospital. A doctor among those killed. Sources tell abc news a veteran who had been receiving treatment at the el paso Veterans Affair clinic at ft. Bliss shot the doctor in the Mental Health wing before turning the gun on himself. Authorities have declined to identify the shooter and the fbi is interviewing dozens of witnesses to establish a motive. Military officials are veryreviewing security. A heartstopping scene here in western michigan. Watch as a family trapped on a second floor is forced to throw their child from a balcony. You see the 4yearold lands safely in the arms of a Police Officer there on the ground. That same hero officer then climbed a ladder to save a man and a dog. Everyone remarkably is okay. Bill cosbys tv wife is breaking her silence speaking out to defend him against a string of sexual abuse allegations. Phylicia rashad who played Claire Huxtable someone is determined to keep bill cosby off television and dismissed the claims by his accusers saying forget these women. What youre seeing is the destruction of a legacy and i think its orchestrated. Finally a Stunning Development in a bitter divorce battle between a Billionaire Oil tycoon and his exwife. Sue ann arnall is demanding more cash from her exhusband harold hamm. She even refused to accept take a look at this check hand cut for 974,790,317. 77. That is the cash value of what he owes based on a recent court ruling. She is appealing it and saying if she accepted that check it would hurt her chances in court. I would have loved to see her take that up to the teller. Hey, id like this in hundreds and 20s, who gets a check like that and who writes a check like that. Squeezed all those numbers in. Round it up. Even billion. 1 billion. 1 billion even. Takes a long of strength to turn that down. Well move on to that deadly avalanche that took the lives of two promising Young American skiers. Their teammates honored them in a race tuesday and Alex Marquardt is on the scene in austria. Reporter a moment of silence for Bryce Dallas Howard andastle and ronnie berlack. Their teammates creating in croatia wearing black arm bands in their memory. Horrible way to go and horrible to have any loss of life at that age so its really sad for us. Reporter in the slalom david gave his business run ever before pointing to the initials of the killed skiers on his helmet. Were all skiing with heavy hearts but this is for them remembering them. Reporter back in soelden we took a snowmobile ride out to see the site. It was on the side of this mountain that the avalanche broke. Four skiing to safety but astle and berlack were caught. They were buried under all of this snow. Look its around 12 or 13 feet high extremely heavy and dense. Absolutely no way for them to dig themselves out. Avalanches kill almost 30 people in the u. S. Every year and over three times that many here in the alps. There had been an elevated avalanche warning on monday and the young skiers werent wearing emergency beacons. But even the best training in the world and all the right gear are often no match for mother nature. You can try to swim try to fight to stay on the surface, grab a tree. There are certain avalanches that you cant do a thing. Youre at the mercy of the avalanche and youre just along for the ride. Reporter so little you can do. The mens coach told me this morning that some of the team members are going out in this beautiful weather to do some skiing as a kind of therapy to trace some arcs and feel some gs as he put it. Others, he said may decide to go back to the states each coping with this tragedy in their individual ways. George. Robin thats understandable. Now to the dramatic skydiving accident 13 people narrowly escaping when their plane lost power parachuting to safety moments before it crashed into a lake. Abcs reena ninan has that story for us. Reporter the aircraft had just taken off for a skydiving trip over lake tapo in central new zealand when the plane lost power and suffered engine problems. The pilot told the six tourists and crew members this he had to leap for their lives midair. The instructors attached themselves to the tourists and were ail to tandem jump at the last minute. 4200 feet above water. So plane came across smoke coming out of it and saw the plane, the parachuters jumping out and then heard a big bang like yeah it blew up. It blew up before it hit the water. Reporter the plane nosedived crashing into the waters as hundreds of stunned holiday onlookers watched. The pilot, what happened to him . He landed down there. He landed in there pretty deep so had to wait for fire brigade to come down and cut him out. Reporter some of the survivors managed to swim to the coast. While others were rescued by boat. You can see the plane here just below the surface. Authorities will lift the plane today and are investigating the cause. The group paid to tandem sky dive with skydive taupo as seen here. The pilot was only with the company a few days. His fastthinking action is credited with saving all aboard. They had to jump at a high altitude. Almost half of whats ideal for skydiving. Nothing short of a miracle because reel both the pilot and all the instructors are heroic. Theyve been trained to deal with emergency situations and they pulled out in the best possible way. Reporter for Good Morning America, reena ninan, abc news, new york. A fascinating look into our past. Americas oldest time capsule opened tuesday placed under bostons statehouse cornerstone in 1795 by paul revere and samuel adams. So much anticipation leading up to this and t. J. Holmes is in our social square with all the details. Good morning. We watch too many movies. Too much tv so we hear a 2yearold artifact has been found and expecting to find a treasure map or see some great mystery revealed. History aint always that sexy. Its a discovery straight out of national treasure. Americas oldest time capsule buried by two of our greatest historical figure, paul revere and samuel adams over two centuries ago after being unearthed last month on tuesday, a Boston Museum finally breaking open this 220yearold artifact. A nation waiting breathlessly in anticipation to see what secrets were 1795 lived inside. Museum officials taking nearly an hour and every so often an epic find like coins. We got coins. But what else we got here . The morning paper. The historians at least fascinated by their finds it has fingerprints on it. Reporter some other, finding this hourlong exercise a bit of a letdown. One person tweeting why are we all watching old newspapers being slowly taken out of a box. It did contain pretty cool stuff like this silver engraved plate believed to be created by paul revere himself. Are you crying . Reporter not quite the room of artifacts nicolas cage found. Now at the end of the 0th century we are going to bury our time capsule. Reporter this might be a topic close to our hears at gma. We left our own time capsule in times square 15 years ago. Lets hope whoever discovers our old stuff in 100 years is well as excited as we were. Yes, our old stuff is right here in times square right outside. Its all right here and, well 2100 is when someone is supposed to pick it up and discover what we buried in 1999. If someone buried a heavier coat i would dig this thing up right now. Youd be able to use it every january. Thanks t. J. Boy, ginger its going even colder if you believe. That this is not the end folks. Lets see the culprit though this big High Pressure system sliding down. See, they rotate clockwise. Right here at the surface wind chills tomorrow morning since we already told you about this morning will be cold all way to new orleans. Its going to feel like 13, 15 in austin, 15 below in kansas city. Look at chicago tomorrow and new york, 20 degrees colder than what it feels right now so just remember that and if you want to warm up, go southwest. Im just jealous. Your local Weather Forecast in 30 seconds. First this morning sunny cities brought to you by Royal Caribbean international Pierre Thomas tracking the late of the. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning. Were getting word hi, david murphy with an update. Couple snow showers popping down through the northern and western suburbs. Slow it down if you encounter one of those. Bev a fair a cloud cover across the region and it is cold out there with temperatures in the upper teens, low 20s and wind chills in the Single Digits in some spots. 26 is todays high. Brick and cold with winds getting stronger as day goes on. Overnight tonight into tomorrow morning, wind chills below zero. Tomorrows high just 22. Bitter cold tomorrow. S from paris. A shooting rampage at a controversial magazine. The gunmen on the loose right now. 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