Insane close call. The terrifying moment this distracted driver heads right for these fishermen im a fireball and this fireball tearing through the night sky seen across six states even causing an earthquake. And we do say good morning, america. Can you imagine seeing that streaking across the sky and as you said it did cause an earthquake, a 2. 0 magnitude earthquake in michigan. Thankfully no reports of damage. Spectacular sight. A little scary too and it is a slippery morning for so many. That powerful storm stretching from the gulf coast to northeast. States of emergency as far south as georgia. The airport in atlanta, hundreds of Flights Canceled or delayed there and the roads in the northeast are already messy. Abcs linzie janis is on the road in northern new jersey, morristown where i used to do training camp. Good morning, linzie. Reporter thats right, good morning, michael. Millions across the country battling treacherous Road Conditions and states of emergencies declared in alabama, North Carolina and georgia and here in the northeast as you can see the storm bearing down making for a slippery and dangerous morning commute. This was the scene for travelers across the country tuesday. Watch out. Reporter a semi sliding out of control before slamming into a light post. And near houston, one crash reported when another truck careens down the same embankment. From texas to maine, dangerous driving conditions wreaking havoc. Freeways littered with accidents. Over 400 crashes in houston alone. Overnight highways backed up for miles and entire interstates shut down as the south plunges into a deep freeze. Its terribly frustrating. I dont even really know where i am at the moment. Reporter in the north ice yammed rivers swamping roads even flooding entire neighborhoods. Please stay off the roads. Please stay off the roads. Reporter this morning, conditions for air travel no better. More than 1500 flights already canceled and thousands more delayed as this Winter Weather barrels through the midatlantic states. Were preparing now and we want to urge everyone to do the same. Reporter this morning, the impact on travel is just huge. Atlantas hartsfield airport at a near standstill. You have schools all across the state of alabama closed. Dozens of School Closures and delays in the new york and new jersey area and it is all because of these Road Conditions. Authorities just do not want you out on the roads unless you have to be. Thank you. You be careful yourself. The snow and ice, theyre creating trouble on the roads and, ginger, the bitter cold is back reaching down to the deep south. Michael, birmingham, alabama waking up in the single digits. Coldest air in three years. Subzero windchills and then this. You see where frozen precipitation was falling in houston for hours. These folks were stuck on int internate 59 for more than four hours. Truck, cars, everybody stuck there. Its snowing from the panhandle of florida just north of panama city to one to two inches that fell around atlanta now east of them up through virginia and up through maine. Look at this video. This is whats happening outside new york. We have it from wabc here, the camera that shows those roads smothered in snow from New Hampshire and vermont back through florida this morning, michael. Thank you, ginger, that ice down in houston, my moms 77th birthday yesterday spent it in the house. Didnt go anywhere. Now to capitol hill where theres a showdown over President Trumps offensive comments about immigrants and a possible government shutdown. The deadline is reach a deal is friday and mary bruce is on capitol hill and, mary, what are the chances this isnt going to be resolved by then. Reporter with three days left until the government runs out of funding up here, the president s vulgar comments about immigrants from african countries have upended negotiations and raised the risk of a government shutdown. This has turned into an s show and we need to get back to being a great country. Reporter lawmakers this morning are scrambling to strike a deal to protect d. R. E. A. M. Ers and get the president on board. So, mr. President , close this deal. Reporter but his profane comment in that immigration meeting last week is still sending aftershocks through capitol hill. The conversation was very impassioned. I dont dispute that the president was using tough language. Reporter quizzed on capitol hill tuesday, homeland surity secretary Kirstjen Nielsen who was in the room when sources say the president used a vulgar slur to describe african countries and asked why the u. S. Cant take in more immigrants from places like norway. What was that Strong Language . Lets see. Strong language, there was apologies. I dont remember specific word. Reporter senator cory booker seething with frustration. Your silence and your amnesia is it complicity. Reporter the focus of that showdown a bipartisan plan to protect the nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children. Senators graham and durbin say the president seemed to be on board with their plan but then he changed his tune. What we need to do better is a reliable partner at the white house. Reporter now, democrats see this fridays deadline to pass a spending bill as their best chance to get something done to protect d. R. E. A. M. Ers while republicans are pushing to are a shortterm extension to give them another month to negotiate but its not clear if they can get enough democrats on board with that plan. Bottom line, george, this morning, a shutdown is still a real possibility. It is possible. You got the democrats balkmanin and a threat from house conservatives. Reporter some house conservatives we talked to said theyre not ready to commit to this shortterm plan but Republican Leaders are still confident they can cobble together enough votes in the house to get this done. The real question then becomes what happens in the senate where theyre going to need democratic support. That is still a big x factor. Okay, mary, thanks. I want to bring in jon karl on this. This is complicated by the president making escalating demands in the face of all this on his border wall. Reporter this is something else. According to senator durbin in that now famous meeting, the president said he wanted 20 billion this year to build the wall. Now, george, this wass an extraordinary ask. They only asked for 18 billion over ten years. So a dramatic escalation at least in that meeting of what he was asking for. Especially when you consider the promise mexico was supposed to pay for the wall. The big news at the white house yesterday extraordinary hourlong press conference from the president s doctor. Reporter weve never seen anything like this and the president got a clean bill of health from the white house doctor who said he is fit to serve both physically and mentally. A rare appearance by the president s personal doctor before the press. And perhaps the most extensive release of medical information on a president weve ever seen. All Clinical Data indicates that the president is currently very healthy and that he will remain so for the duration of his presidency. Reporter given all the questions surround the president s mental fitness, trump himself requested an extra test not normally given to president s, the montreal cognitive assessment. His doctor says he received a 30 out of 30 on this rapid test of cognitive function. Theres no indication whatsoever he has any cognitive issues and on a daytoday basis its been my experience the president is very sharp and, you know, hes very articulate when he speaks to me. Reporter dr. Jackson has been a white house doctor for more than a decade. Previously serving president s bush and obama. Despite the glowing report, the doctor has two concerns about his patient, his diet, the president has a wellknown penchant for mcdonalds and diet cokes. And his almost complete lack of exercise. I think i could lose a little weight. If i had one thing id like to lose weight. Its tough because of the way i live. Reporter at 63, 239 pounds, President Trump is just short of obese on the bmi scale. Dr. Jackson would like to see him lose 10 to 15 pounds this year. We talked about diet and exercise a lot. Hes more enthusiastic about the diet part than the exercise part but well do both. Reporter despite getting just four to five hours of sleep a night, the president s doctor says his patient has good energy and stamina. Can you explain to me how a guy eats mcdonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken and never exercises is in as good a shape hes in. Its called genetics. Some people have great genes. I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200 years old. Reporter dr. Jackson said there are only three Prescription Medications that the president takes regularly, he takes a statin to control cholesterol, propeesh that to fight hair loss and another common drug to stop redness in the face. Lets talk dr. Jen ashton. It was an impressive performance. Hour long in the briefing room. What stood out to you . So, he described the physical as age appropriate evidence based medicine individualized to the president and his unique job description. The main focus in the press conference was on the number one killer of men and women which is heart disease. The target for President Trump, obviously his weight. He is slightly elevated cholesterol. Based on his body mass index which is not the perfect criteria but it is doesnt matter muscle. He is borderline obese and needs to lose about 10 to 15 pounds and needs to start exercising. Clearly the president s absence from smoking and alcohol helped. A lot of attention on this nothing cognitive test. We assess psychiatric and neurologic by observation. He underwent this cognitive test which some questions are here and ask can you identify the lion. Can you retrace the cube and this tests memory, calculation and he did well. Jen ashton, thanks very much. Well have you back later to talk about natural flu remedies. Exactly. All right. But now to the latest on the russia investigation. The president s former chief strategist steve bannon facing two new subpoenas after spending ten hours on the hot seat on tuesday. Angering lawmakers by refusing to answer many of their questions. Our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has more there in washington for us. Good morning, pierre. Reporter robin, good morning. The stakes are rising for bannon as hes called to testify before the special counsels grand jury investigating russia. If he does he would likely be the senior most white house official to do so. Bannon could be before the grand jury within days. Sources suggesting that the special counsels interest was ignited because of that book fire and fury in which bannon raises questions about the trump tower meeting with the russians and questions about the financial dealings of the president s son, don junior, soninlaw Jared Kushner and former Campaign Chair paul manafort. A source familiar with the case telling abc news that bannon will cooperate with the special counsel and answer questions with no restrictions from the white house. But for bannon as far as congressional investigators, not so fast. Last night bannon left capitol hill after more than ten hours of testifying before the house intelligence committee, apparently raising the specter of executive privilege and refusing to answer many questions. The scope of had assertion of privilege, if thats what it is, is breathtaking. This was effectively a gag order by the white house. Reporter but the white house had concerns about the scope of the committees questions and wanted them to be better defined. No one has encouraged him to be anything but transparent but there is a process of what that looks like. Reporter bannons attorney William Burke said in a statement to abc news last night executive privilege belongs to the president of the united states. Its not mr. Bannons right to waive it. Robin, expect a fight. The committee issued two subpoenas to force bannon to testify and provide documents. There will be a fight. All right. Pierre, thank you. Michael. Thank you, robin. Now the very latest on the nationwide flu epidemic. An entire School District in texas closing for a week because of an outbreak and the cdc holding that urgent meeting. Abcs Adrienne Bankert has the latest. Reporter this morning a connecticut family mourns their 10yearold son. Nico was a very lively, vibrant spirited kid. Reporter nico was looking forward to his youth hockey tournament in buffalo and suffered flulike symptoms before he stepped on the ice so his mom took him to a local hospital where he tested positive for the flu and received fluids, was told to rest and discharged back into the familys care. The family decided to head back to connecticut but on the drive home his condition deteriorated. He was rushed to a different hospital and later died from what Health Officials believe is the flu complicated by pneumonia and sepsis where his body was shutting down. His 12yearold brother now also hospitalized with the same strain. Usually we see influenza may be starting in one part of the country and then moving across the country. But right now influenza is everywhere. Reporter in california, Health Officials say 42 people under the age of 65 have died from flurelated complications. 40yearold marathon runner and mother of three Katie Oxley Thomas died just 15 hours after being admitted to an er in san jose with flu symptoms. Hospitals overwhelmed without enough room some setting up er tents in parking lots to triage the flood of patients. This seems to be the worst flu season in 10 to 15 years seeing a lot more patients for flu and the patients were seeing a lot sicker than usual. Reporter the situation is so dire the cdc postponed a briefing scheduled for Nuclear Detonation to instead give an update on the response to the severe influenza outbreak. As far as nico and his family unimaginable, this active little boy gets sick on thursday, died by the end of the weekend. So heartbreaking for that family. Thank you, michael. Now to that emotional testimony in the gymnastics abuse case, dozens of victims confronted team usa doctor larry nassar with tears and anger about his crimes. Abcs linsey davis has the story. Reporter trembling and tearful. And i have experienced flashback nightmares of the abuse. Reporter on tuesday 28 women stared down their monster, larry nassar, the former usa Gymnastics Team doctor given another title on tuesday by one of his victims who called him quite possibly the greatest sexual predator of all time. Without my knowledge or concept i had engaged in my first sexual experience by kindergarten. Reporter Kyle Stephens was a family friend and later babysitter for nassar and his family. You used bmy body for six years for your own sexual gratification. That is unforgivable. Reporter just on monday one of the biggest names in usa gymnastics, simone biles, said she too was abused by the former team doctor. More than 140 women have accused nassar of sexual abuse including gymnastics brightest star, gabby douglas, Mckayla Maroney and aly raisman who says the blame isnt just on nassar. Its not something that any of us are excited and happy to share about. Its not something you want to think about. But usa gymnastics is ignoring us. Reporter at times nassar wiped away his own tears as he listened to victim after victim detail his years of sexual abuse and their subsequent loss of childhood. Mckayla maroney received over a Million Dollars in a settlement from usa gymnastics and signed a n nondisclosure agreement which includes a 100,000 fine for talking publicly about her molestation but late last night usa gymnastics released a statement saying they will not seek any money from maroney if she decides to speak out about her victimization. How could they enforce that . He could not. There are many that were going to step up and pay that. Pay the 100,000 fine, right. A moment of joy in puerto rico. They need it still recovering from hurricane maria. Take a look at this. This is the lights finally coming back on finally electricity at this school. The academy in san juan, 112 days they waited for this moment. And they are ecstatic to so happy to be in school. I know. We have to keep in mind 40 of the island is still without power. Wow. Those kids are back in school and happy there, ginger. I would be so ecstatic as well. 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