Million americans head out for the holidays. And a dramatic holiday rescue caught on camera. A young boy found helplessly dangling by his backpack after slipping off a ski lift. Theyre coming. They know. Theyre copping. The Good Samaritans who kept him calm and hanging on as the dramatic rescue unfolded. Good morning, america. Dan, you feeling better . Im happy to be here. They told me i might be able to wear a matching holiday sweater with michael again. You have matching ties. We are different sizes, it may surprise people. Only slightly. The camera guys are going what . Its Christmas Eve eve. That means 103 million americans are expected to hit the roads and skies for a recordsetting week of travel. Very busy out there and also in the News Department as well. Breaking terror news from overnight. That berlin market suspect gunned down in italy ending his run across europe. Matt gutman has all the latest from berlin. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, amy. It was a dramatic gunfight. Anis amri stopped by a routine patrol outside milan. Officers asked him to produce his i. D. Instead pulled out a pistol hitting an officer and the other officer returning fire killing him. Italian officials are saying beyond a shadow of a doubt its him. This morning in a dramatic shootout in an italian train Station Police killing the most wanted man in europe. Italian officials saying the man who allegedly barreled this truck into that Christmas Market anis amri was stopped in a routine patrol in milan and asked to show his i. D. Instead they say he pulled out a pistol firing at one of the officers reportedly shouting allahu akbar. A fellow officer returning fire killing him. Arriving by train in milan possibly from france meaning the man whose picture was plastered in wanted photos traveled through multiple countries. The italian interior minister saying its him without a shadow of a doubt. Officials saying they matched his fingerprints to the fingerprints german forensic teams gathered from inside the cab of the semi that amri allegedly bulldozed into that Christmas Market. In his wake he left shattered bodies, 12 dead and dozens wounded but also his i. D. And those crucial fingerprints on the Steering Wheel say german officials. Overnight, german officials telling abc news they thought the manhunt would be short. We have his photograph. We have his fingerprints and we have his dna. Reporter germany saying the dragnet was unprecedented. Every policeman in berlin, in germany is trying to find this man. Every policeman in reporter literally every policeman. Every policeman investigate everyone has his photo and try to find this man. Reporter they knew that amri went by at least six aliases and had three nationalities including an italian one. He spent years in italy, four of them in prison partly for trying to burn down a Refugee Center hed been living in. Now, european intelligence agencies are going to be asking why he was headed to milan. Was it perhaps to meet up with a terrorist cell, also lots of questions are going to be asked about how the most wanted man in europe whose face was plastered all over the place was able to travel on Public Transit through three countries without being spotted. Amy. Frightening and incredible and the investigation continues. Matt gutman, thank you. To pick up on what he was saying to washington and abcs senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. Pierre, matt raised this issue. How is this suspect able to travel so widely even while the subject of a multinational manhunt . Reporter good morning, dan. We cant rule out amri had an escape plan to get out of the country immediately after the rampage. It did take some time for German Authorities to discover his i. D. Or at least make it known to the public. Heres where the germans have questions to answer. Why didnt they shut down borders quickly after the massacre and we know that amri had already been identified as a terrorism suspect as a threat before the attack. How is someone like that allowed to move so freely, dan . They have Big Questions to answer, no question about that. Lets move to australia now, though, where police say they foiled a major terror attack that was planned for Christmas Day. What are we learning about in this morning . Reporter dan, yet more evidence that the isis worldwide call for attacks targeting christmas is indeed being heeded. Australian authorities currently have five people in custody who allegedly were planning a holiday attack using explosives and possibly other weapons including guns and knives. Their target the heart of melbourne. Authorities believe they were selfradicalized by isis propaganda which is one of the scenarios u. S. Officials have been warning about since november. Dan. Unsettling news as we head into the holiday. Pierre, thank you. I mentioned it was a busy news day. We have more breaking news to report as well. A potential hijacking situation involving a passenger plane with 118 people on board. Military rushing to the tarmac at this hour and abcs terry moran is in london with the latest on this developing story. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, amy. This is a fastbreaking situation so heres what we know right now. This morning an Afriqiyah Airways passenger flight inside libya was diverted to the island of malta in the mediterranean and now maltese troops have surrounded that plane which is an airbus 320 and the Prime Minister of malta tweeted this is, quote, in fact, a potential hijack situation. Negotiations are under way. There are as you said 118 passengers on board. And at least two hijackers and the airport has been shut down. Emergency Security Services on the scene. Nobody is coming in or out. A local official there has confirmed those two hijackers have threatened to blow up the plane. Who they are, what they are demanding is unclear. What is clear this is a hijack and the lives of those 118 people on board are hanging in the balance. I know youll keep us updated. Thanks nothing anyone wants to hear as so many are heading to the airports. Today is the day for the Holiday Travel rush. Millions are hitting the road and skies but Severe Weather across the country is causing some major delays and our david kerley has the latest from washingtons Reagan National airport. How is it looking there so far . Reporter this is what the holiday rush looks like, michael. Do you see that Christmas Tree way back there . The line coming to this security checkpoint snakes all the way back to that tree. The good news, it is moving. Yesterday about 3,000 delays, that is the problem. Everything is moving a little bit slowly and the roads could be treacherous too. Overnight flood watches and blizzard warnings causing weather alerts in 19 states as two storms preparing to barrel from the west coast to the plains this holiday weekend. The Winter Weather causing travel trouble. On one of the busiest days of the travel season delays rippling throughout the country because of trouble in tinseltown, day long delays in los angeles, doing runway construction during the holiday rush. Weve been in this airport for almost 24 hours trying to get out. Reporter it rippled to denver. I got here and parked and delayed already two hours. Reporter and philadelphia. You have to come early and be mentally prepared to stand in line and wait. Reporter at Newark Airport delays of an hour reported. The flight was being delayed and delayed and delayed. Reporter major traffic tieups outside the terminals with many seeing red. One driver in upstate new york skidding into the back of a snowplow and in california, this car was stranded on a flooded road. The only way out firefighters had to rescue the driver through the sunroof. You know the amazing thing when you think about it, a third of americans are traveling for this holiday and at the end of tonight over the past 48 hour, 5 million americans will have flown, we hope they get home for the holiday, michael. We hope they get home too. Ginger, whats going on with the weather . Two more major storms. Two were tracking. A lot of people are going to be affected. Look at this video out of new mexico. So even at some of the lower elevations one to three inches of snow. The spinouts they were trying to get the cars back upright. Thats going to be happening a lot more in a lot of places so we have those 19 states. Theres a winter storm warning for more than 16 inches of snow for the mountains north of burbank through wisconsin and northern michigan. Blizzard watch in parts of north and south dakota. The first snow going to hit parts of wisconsin and then a mix in chicago for tonight. So chicago is a problem tonight. Los angeles could be a problem tonight so could seattle. Thats what the first then second and look at the rain along i95 traveling tomorrow morning on the east coast and then that second storm comes through. This is where it tightens up. This storm is the one that im most concerned about thats on Christmas Evening. All right, ginger. More on that im sure later in the broadcast. The latest on the trump transition and president elects surprising Nuclear Weapons tweet raising questions around the world and here at home. Abcs mary bruce has more now in washington. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning. Well, amy, for nearly five decades president s of both parties have tried to limit nukes but now the president elect seems to say he wants more Nuclear Weapons, trump this morning is sparking fears of a new Nuclear Arms Race with just 140 characters. In a single tweet donald trump announced what could be a dramatic shift in u. S. Foreign policy. Posting the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its Nuclear Capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. The timing of the statement also raising eyebrows. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] coming just hours after russian president putin said we need to strengthen the military potential of Strategic Nuclear forces. Since Ronald Reagan both the u. S. And russia have worked to cut nuclear stockpiles. During the campaign, trump sent mixed messages. Nuclear should be off the table but will there be a time when it could be used, possibly. The biggest problem we have today is nuclear, nuclear proliferation. Reporter now in an attempt to clarify his tweet, trump spokesman said hes referring to the threat of proliferation and the need to improve deterrents but did not clarify what he meant by that call to expand Nuclear Capability and its that word whats raising so many questions this morning. Yeah, lets talk about some of those question, mary bruce. Well bring in abcs matthew dowd who is in austin and, of course, matthew its unprecedented tore a president elect to be announcing potential Foreign Policy via twitter. Im curious about the content, though. Thats what leads all of the raised eyebrows. What do you make of the content of his tweets . Well, amy, weve been surprised along the way since election day that the president elect would continue using twitter in a manner that he was setting Foreign Policy goals or setting Foreign Policy direction but this took it to a whole other level. There is great concerns related to the Nuclear Arsenal that we have and the fact that the president elect tweeted about it at about expanding it sent all kinds of people atwitter as we would say and one of the things problematic for him is that there was all kind of warnings especially from Hillary Clinton that when she said if a guy that you could bait with a tweet is not someone you want put in charge of the Nuclear Arsenal so in one day in one moment he combined that message. Do you make anything about the timing between what we saw from president elect trump and Vladimir Putin . Well, i think its interesting to me if you go back and look at all of Donald Trumps tweets, there always seems to be something that instigated a tweet that he does, something happened in the news, something he saw on television and then he tweets. I dont know. We dont obviously know for sure he was directly responding but it sure is circumstantial that Vladimir Putin says one thing and almost along the exact same lines and then he tweets but when were in a situation where people around the world are trying to figure out where president elect trump is going to take us the fact he has to watch his twitter feed to figure that out is concerning. What do you think his advisers are telling him . Are these tweets strategic on the part of president elect trump or is he just going rogue . Well, i think that is i think thats a very good question. I think in the aftermath his advisers say they were strategic. I dont think they are. I think this is a person if you look at his twitter feed for since twitter was invented nine years ago he has used it as a manner to communicate. I dont think its a good exchange. He is a rogue twitter user. All right. Rogue one. I had to say it. Thank you, matt dowd. Happy holidays. Thanks. Rogue twitter user. More trump news. There was a confrontation on a jetblue passenger wean a jetblue passenger and ivanka trump who was traveling with her husband and children on a plane. The man was removed from the flight after witnesses said he attacked her with sharp words. Abcs cecilia vega is here with the story. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, michael. You know this, ivanka trump is expected to play a powerful role in her fathers admission and witnesses say he was not happy to be on that commercial flight with the trump family and say he doesnt like her fathers politics and he certainly let her know. Ivanka trumps Family Vacation to hawaii turning into a frightening moment on a jetblue flight. Her husband and children there too when aides say a fellow passenger began yelling at her. He was upset. He walked on as soon as he saw her he started shaking. He was visibly shaking. Reporter witnesses say the man told the future first daughter that her father is ruining the country. A College Professor tweeting that his husband is the man who chased down ivanka and Jared Kushner to, quote, harass them and that jetblue kicked us off a flight when a Flight Attendant overheard my husband expressing displeasure about flying with trumps. She was calm. She was trying to distract her kids and was really calm so, yeah, it was she handled it really well. He was being rude and inconsider at. Reporter secret service traveling with the family did not intervene but Flight Attendants did. Jetblue saying in a statement the decision to remove a customer from a flight is not taken lightly. If the crew determines that a customer is causing conflict on the aircraft, the customer will be asked to deplane. After a layover in San Francisco, ivanka and family were reportedly transferred to a private plane and on their way. Yeah, that private plane was reportedly also a preplanned trip, not a result of what happened on the jetblue flight but, guys, ivanka trump flies coach, who knew . A lot of people were surprised by that but after this incident you think its something shell continue to do . I wonder if shell probably be flying rieft a lot more. She was with a big group of family members, cousins and things like that so perhaps they all just booked a big block of tickets. Some plan way in advance. Not in my world. Im barely making a flight home to San Francisco tonight, i think. Im surprised dad didnt give her Trump Force One to avoid all of this. Good luck getting home. It is the final countdown to christmas. If you havent finished buying your gifts yet youre in luck. Abcs Rebecca Jarvis hit the stores to find out where you can get the best lastminute discounts. What did you find . Reporter hey, dan, we found discounts galore. Us procrastinators often get a bad rap. This year some of the best deals of the season are happening right now even at stores that dont typically go on sale, they are discounting today. Christmas is just two days away and retailers across the country are wheeling out the savings, cleaning house before the even steep postchristmas sales promotions begin. Retailers overstocked for the holiday so youre either going to see massive discounts and just want to get that merchandise out. Reporter right now kohls taking an extra 20 off 100 or more orders. Buy online and pick them up in store. Target is filled with discounts. 20 off some legos and 70 off the apple watch series 1 and at the gap all mens and womens clothes not already on sale now 50 off. If youd rather shop from home, amazons got you covered. With their procrastinators delight where if you live in any one of their more than 30 metro areas you can order on amazon now up until 9 45 p. M. On Christmas Eve and get your gifts by midnight. And check it out. Even the high end retailers like ralph lauren offering discounts up to 65 off. Lets talk about haggling. When you go into a store you have the option and people dont know this to haggle for that price. Ask nicely. Ask nicely. We found