Good evening and its great to have you with us here in the new year. And we begin with two major stories. The deadly cold. 50 million americans affected. But first, the avalanche. Two Young Americans with incredible promise, olympic hopefuls, gone in moments. One of them from New Hampshire, there on the left. The other from utah. Both of them in the alps. Fellow athletes horrified by what they witnessed. Abcs Clayton Sandell with the rescue efforts and the video one of the americans had made, trying to follow his olympic dream. Reporter high on the mountain, search teams in helicopters today with a desperate task, after a sudden avalanche buried two rising stars in american skiing. The rescue crews were on the scene immediately with multiple helicopters and other rescue crew. They were able to extricate the two skiers but unfortunately it was too late. Reporter four skiers escaped the wall of snow on the austrian slope, but those two olympic hopefuls killed. My name is bryce astle, im
Good evening, as we come on the air for the west coast tonight. We begin with that breaking story. Reports of a shooting at a major v. A. Clinic in el paso texas. Near the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in west texas. That clinic the hospital for a time on lockdown. Abcs senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas on the latebreaking developments as were on here in the west tonight. Pierre . Reporter good evening, david. The el paso veterans afarmfairs Health Center was on lockdown after reports of an active shooter. A local congress is telling our affiliate that a doctor was wounded and that the shooter apparently shot and killed himself. At this time the condition of the doctor is unknown. The shooter has not been identified and we do not know why he was at the medical facility. The incident began about 4 00 p. M. Local time at the sprawling Health Care Center which is not only a v. A. Clinic but an Army Hospital treating more than 3,200 parents a day. As we come on the air, pol
But selma was charged by critics to taking too much lightning in rewriting the relationship between Martin Luther king and others. They could have draped in olympic gold. Instead, two u. S. Skiers one just a teenager die in an avalanche of snow and rocks doing what they loved, how the story of these young men poised for victory became instead a tragedy. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. That closing bell. We begin today with the money lead. And stocks sliding down a fiscal hill. The dow taking another dip falling off more than 130 points. Thats a bit of a rebound. The dow was down nearly 200 points a couple of hours ago. This after it plummeted 330 points monday. Criminal Cristina Alesci is in new york. Oil prices keep on dropping and the dow right along with them. Reporter thats right. Its fallen too far and too fast causing a little bit of a shock to the system. There are three main systems why this is very bad. Major Oil Companies the most directly compa
The rich and famous including Prince Andrew. When the two were spotted walking in central park in 2011 after epstein had become a registered sex offender the British Press went crazy. Youre an embarrassment, sir. Are you resigning . His friendship cost Prince Andrew his job as the uk trade representative. Now the alleged victims are suing the u. S. Governments saying their rights have been violated in the epstein plea deal. And at least one victim has named Prince Andrew by name. Jane doe number 3 was forced to have sexual relations with this prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations in london new york, and on epsteins private island in the u. S. Virgin islands. Is according to the suit, young women were paid to come to epsteins home in florida to give him massages where they were allegedly sexually assaulted. The defense says the girls lied about their ages and that there was never any sexual molestation. Prince andrew has not been charged, but the allegatio
Right now on your screen. For the first time oh, lets listen in for a moment. Hes talking. Weve been getting together for a long time. A hundred years our ambassadors have been involved in that program in the United States. Fighting together but working together. These statements speak for themselves. Ill tell you what. Id like to. Might not be easy, but id like to. Do you recognize this from many of your allies . Sometimes it seems america alone because it has adverse impacts. Well, i think i can say very easily that weve been very good to our allies. We work with our allies. We take care of our allies. Ive inherited massive trade deficits with allies. We even help our allies militarily. We do look at ourselves more pos tifrly than ever before. I think australia is a good example. Weve worked together closely. Recently had a big trade situation. We had a little bit of a trade situation going. Worked out well for both of us. And i think especially when it comes to those great allies, a