Well tell you how it ends up. Its friday, december 29th. From abc news, this is world news now. Yeah, it is the last friday in 2017. The years almost over. It is almost over. The new years upon us. What a tragedy to end the year and begin the new year for a family here in the new york area. Fire spreading through an Apartment Building in the bronx. At least 12 people are dead, including a 1yearold. Three of the victims are from the same family. The fire broke out on the first floor of the fivestorey building. So dozens of screaming residents raced out of the building into the frigid temperatures. Those temperatures in the teens as some ran out wearing only sandals. New york citys mayor calling it the worst fire in the citys, in decades. Tis tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century, based on the information we have now, this will rank as one of the worst losses of life to a fire in many, many years. At least six other people are injured. Four of them critically. Theres no immediate word on what caused that fire. Apart from 9 11, this is snorne york citys deadliest fire since a social club fire in 1990. More than 200 million americans are feeling the deep freeze this morning. Temperatures are plunging into record blows in the upper plains and parts of new england. Weve even heard reports of below 40 degree or 40 below zero. Yikes. Abcs alex perez shows us the hardesthit areas. Reporter 200 million americans bun toe. That dangerous cold snap gripping more than half the country. From the northeast where temperatures are 1530 degrees below normal. Freezing fountains in philadelphia and new york. To chicago at midway airport, it was too cold to fly. More than80 flights canceled. No solutions or anything like that. Reporter officials warning the cold could be deadly, especially for the very young and very old. Extreme weather is more than an inconvenience, its a lifethreatening event. Reporter shelters overflowing with people trying to escape frigid temperatures. The arctic temps shattering record after record. 17 below zero in flint, michigan, 32 below in watertown, new york. And in cotton, minnesota, an unbearable 41 below zero. It feels like your skin is going to be on fire. Reporter it is colder in cotton than in parts of siberia. Meanwhile plow drivers trying to plow through five feet of snow. This man had to hire a plow to unbury his car. The first time he could leave his house in three days. How bad was it . It was bad. You couldnt see anything. Reporter back breaking work for chuck, the day spent pushing the snowblower clearing his home, the sixth time this week. Getting snowfalls like this are not that uncommon, but its just the quantity we got this time was completely unexpected. Reporter crews have been working nonstop to try to clear the snow, truck after truck dumping their load. Some of these piles are 12 feet high and now another winter storm watch and some spots could see an additional foot of snow on top of all this. Alex President Trump is addressing the frigid conditions with a snarky comment appearing to question climate change. He tweeted in the east it could be the coldest new years eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our country, but not other countries, was going to pay trillions of dollars to protect against. Bundle up. I guess thats warm thoughts from the president in the end. Bundle up. Lets get a look at the forecast now. Heres accuweathers justin povick. Were attracting snow. The could have an inch our two around chicago. Where you sigh the blue there could be slippery travel. And of course the major cold that continues. Active in the northwest as well, soaking rains from seattle to portland. Icy mixture and over a foot of snow over the mountainous terrain as we get toward new years eve, bigtime cold continuing to cover much of the eastern accuweather forecast. We turn now to the election battle in alabama. Democrat doug jones will be sworn in wednesday after a lastminute lawsuit from opponent roy moore failed. A judge has now rejected moores request to block certification of the Senate Election results. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details. Reporter republican roy moore is still digging into voter fraud claims, even after Democrat Doug Jones was officially declared the winner in that contentious alabama special election. This has been a very close race and we are awaiting confirmation from the secretary of state. Reporter he didnt concede after the race and hes not now, saying Election Fraud experts have agreed that this is a fraudulent election. But even republican Election Officials debunking that claim. That questions been eliminated from anyones thought and mind, period. Reporter and a judge agreed, tossing out moores lastditch lawsuit to stop in that complaint, moore also claims he passed a polygraph test about the Sexual Misconduct accusations that derailed his campaign. However, the Campaign Offering no details to cnn. He didnt know any of these women and he never conducted, engaged in Sexual Misconduct, what a surprise. Its not. Reporter u. S. Senatorelect jones who won by more than 21,000 votes is set to be sworn in on january 3rd. This isnt over yet. Moore has less than 48 hours to file an official petition to contest the election. He would, though, have to pay for it himself, and that could cost more than 1 million. Stephanie ramos, abc news, capitol hill. Senator al franken is thanking supporters as he prepares to officially step down next week following multiple allegations of sexual harassment. He made it clear that he will continue to fight for what he believes in. I may be leaving the senate, but im not [cheers and applause] we still have a lot of work to do together on issues ranging from net knneutrality to climat change. His voice cracked a bit as he thanked his wife. He said serving in the senate is the honor of his life. A shuttle van plowed onto a crowded sidewalk during a busy lunch hour. At least six people were injured. It also crashed into a gap store sending pieces of glass flying. The driver had a medical emergency. Police say there are no signs that this was deliberate. An escape attempt by a suspect came to a watery end in oregon, and it was all caught on video. This happened north of portland. Police say the person driving that red pickup truck was wanted for trespassing. He tried to get away and drove right into the columbia river. Lets not forget its cold right yes. It didnt end there. He decided he would try to swim from police but came to his wits and swam back to them and was eventually arrested. 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