a 7-year-old girl who is hit. she survives. she jumps back up, but police want to find that driver. our team inside syria. tonight, the young american woman who left the u.s. to marry isis fighters, she had a baby boy, and tonight, her plea. why she now wants to come home. tonight, the husband and father under arrest for murder. authorities discovering a possible dna match using a genealogy website. following him to his daughter's hockey game, pulling a napkin he used from the trash. the alarming new headline tonight involving the grand canyon. were tourists exposed to radiation for years? good evening. it's great to start another week with all of you at home. and we begin with that major winter storm now threatening 170 million americans tonight, just as so many of us head back to work tomorrow. and it comes after dangerous and deadly weather already. several states seeing massive pileups. this 47-car pileup turning deadly in missouri over the weekend. well, tonight, new weather alerts stretching from the plains all the way to the east coast, moving up into the northeast, in fact. the storm will menace the south and then make that upward turn. another dangerous mix of snow and freezing rain. airlines tonight already offering waivers this evening, and we have the track of this storm. abc's gio benitez leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, a winter blast making driving treacherous across new england. a snow plow and pickup truck colliding near cape cod, three taken to the hospital. and as that storm moves out, a powerful new system is poised to strike 170 million people in the next 48 hours. north of los angeles, a race to reopen i-5, snow shutting it down overnight. >> it started sliding and you could feel the other cars were sliding, too, so it was scary. >> reporter: in the las vegas valley, up to two inches of snow. even snowing on the strip. near the denver airport, 17 injured in this chain-reaction crash involving nearly 50 vehicles saturday. >> hit your brakes and you couldn't stop. i slid for a good about 100 feet. >> reporter: and east of kansas city -- >> there's nothing we can do, man. >> reporter: a truck driver capturing these terrifying moments amid near whiteout conditions on i-70 friday. 47 vehicles involved here. one person did not survive. and david, there were more than 1,000 flights canceled over the weekend, and some airlines are already waiving rebooking fees ahead of this new storm. david? >> it's going to affect travel coast to coast. gio, thank you. let's get right to abc chief meteorologist ginger zee. she's tracking it all for us. here we go again, ginger. >> reporter: here we go. and david, we've just learned from this storm today, it doesn't take much. 3.6 inches of snow in boston. you saw all those accidents in massachusetts. and that's the type of snow we're going to see again, that's why philadelphia is under a winter storm watch. but i want you to focus in on those flood watches, from nashville, to jackson, tennessee, to memphis, northern mississippi and alabama, all in the flood watches, because you could end up with five to eight inches of rain along interstate 40 there. that's tuesday night. tuesday night into wednesday morning, it hits enough cold air, you start talking about more snow from wisconsin over to pittsburgh, even washington, d.c., to start your day on wednesday. finally, we'll leave it there with what's left behind, that's that snow and ice in the mid-atlantic and northeast and the really heavy rain in the south, david. >> tracking it right through the week for us. ginger zee tonight, thank you. we're going to turn next here to the new headline late today in the case involving actor jussie smollett. we have reported here police have questioned those two men in the surveillance image. well, tonight, those two brothers now claim that smollett paid them to orchestrate the homophobic and racist attack. and this evening, a law enforcement official telling abc news that the brothers have also now suggested a possible motive. abc's eva pilgrim is in chicago. >> reporter: tonight, a stunning claim about a possible motive from the two men who told police jussie smollett hired them to stage a hate crime. a law enforcement source tells abc news the brothers told police the actor was upset a threatening letter sent to the studio that produces the show "empire" did not get enough attention. and so, they say, he staged the attack a week later. >> and you did mention it to the police right away? >> absolutely. >> about the letter? >> absolutely. just because, on the letter, it had a stick figure hanging from a tree with a gun pointing towards it, with the words that said, "smollett jussie, you will die, black [ bleep ]." there was no address, but the return address said in big red, you know, like, caps, "maga." did i make that up, too? >> reporter: detectives are actively investigating the brothers' allegation, but have not confirmed it to be true. tonight, the two men who were identified from this grainy surveillance video breaking their silence, telling chicago's wbbm, "we are not racist, we are not homophobic, and we are not anti-trump. we were born and raised in chicago and are american citizens." police seizing the two's computers and cell phones from their home. but smollett not turning over his phone to police. >> they wanted me to give my phone to the tech for three to four hours. i'm sorry, but i'm not going to do that. >> why? >> because i have private pictures and videos and numbers. my partner's number, my family's number. >> reporter: police now urgently want to talk to smollett. his lawyers say he "is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with. he has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that jussie played a role in his own attack." >> if he wasn't entirely truthful, he needlessly put himself at risk because he gave a lot of detail. >> eva's with us from chicago tonight. and eva, are police any closer to reinterviewing jussie smollett? >> reporter: well, smollett did not speak with police today, david. his attorney saying that his team is in communication with authorities. police hopeful they will speak with him in the next few days. david? >> eva pilgrim from chicago tonight. thank you, eva. we're going to move on now to president trump, lashing out tonight, after that "60 minutes" interview last night with former acting fbi director andrew mccabe. during the interview, mccabe talked about top justice department officials and their discussion about a wire to record the president. it never happened, but the president tonight calling the discussion treasonous. here's abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. >> reporter: president trump today lashed out at top justice department officials, accusing them of staging a coup, calling it "illegal and treasonous." this, after former acting fbi director andrew mccabe's jaw-dropping description of the chaos surrounding the firing of james comey. >> it was incredibly turbulent, incredibly stressful. >> reporter: mccabe tells "60 minutes" he and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein were stunned when the president acknowledged he had russia on his mind when he fired comey. >> i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> reporter: after the president gloated about his decision to fire comey to russian officials in the oval office, that's when mccabe says rosenstein discussed the idea of invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office, even raising the idea of secretly recording him. >> he said, "i never get searched when i go into the white house. i could easily wear a recording device. they wouldn't know it was there." now, he was not joking. he was absolutely serious. >> reporter: in a carefully worded statement, the justice department said rosenstein never authorized any wiretaps of president trump, calling mccabe's version of events "inaccurate and factually incorrect." but mccabe, who was fired for allegedly leaking to a reporter and misleading investigators about it, charges he denies, is digging in, saying president trump seemed to trust vladimir putin over his own intelligence team, describing one white house meeting about north korea. >> the president said he did not believe that the north koreans had the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the united states. and he did not believe that because president putin had told him they did not. intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses, to which the president replied, "i don't care, i believe putin." >> strong reaction tonight on all sides from that mccabe interview. cecilia vega live from the white house tonight. and cecilia, another moment making headlines over the weekend, involving vice president mike pence. the vice president, as you know, was discussing a security conference in munich with many european leaders, our long-time allies, and this was their reaction when he brought up the president. >> i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. >> a bit of an awkward moment in the room, some silence there, cecilia. and this made headlines not only here, but around the world. a real sign of the strain with some of our allies. >> reporter: a standard applause line met with silence. awkward, as you say, david, to say the least. but it wasn't just that moment. germany's angela merkel blasted the trump administration over a trade issue with ivanka trump, right there looking on. many european allies united in their frustration with this administration's america first policy. david? >> all right, cecilia vega, starting another week at the white house for us. cecilia, thank you. next, to the dramatic takedown in arizona tonight. a sheriff's body cam recording a confrontation with a knife-wielding man who had claimed allegiance to isis. that 18-year-old man had called 911 beforehand. here's abc's clayton sandell. >> reporter: tonight, a conversation quickly turning into a confrontation. >> you have i.d. on you or anything? hey! back off. back off. >> reporter: investigators say just before this, ismail hamed had asked to meet police face-to-face. >> drop the knife! 7-40, he's got a knife coming at me. >> reporter: but then urges a maricopa county sheriff's sergeant to shoot him. >> shoot me. shoot me. >> drop the knife! >> reporter: before the shooting, hamed had called 911 twice. >> my name is ismail hamed and i'm owing my allegiance to the islamic state of iraq and syria. please, i just want a cop to come real quick and i want to deal with them. >> reporter: hamed survived and was charged with assaulting an officer and terrorism charges. but his alleged connections to any terror groups are unclear. those pages in the report are blacked out. hamed has pleaded not guilty. we tried reaching out to his attorney. he has not called us back. david? >> all right, clayton, thank you. next tonight, to the hit and run manhunt in california at this hour. a driver running into a 7-year-old girl, sending her right into the air. the girl does survive this, in fact, she jumps back up, but authorities do want to find the driver tonight. abc's marci gonzalez with the video, we warn you, it is difficult, and again, she is okay. >> reporter: those terrified screams from a 7-year-old girl as she's hit by a car. tonight, police in california are searching for the driver. >> if that was me, i would stop, make sure the kid was all right. >> reporter: surveillance video from a neighbor's house in santa rosa, california, shows hazelann conzet and her brother running across the street saturday. that black sedan then hits hazelann, launching her into the air. she lands several feet away. then, incredibly, gets up and runs away. her brother, damion, rushes to find help as the car takes off. >> i felt like i was about to pass out. >> reporter: because you were scared? tonight, hazelann is okay, other than some bumps and bruises, and has this message for the driver. >> watch where you're going. >> reporter: and police say that driver faces a felony charge for leaving the scene. they tell us they are following several leads tonight. david? >> marci gonzalez with us. marci, thank you. and now, to our team inside syria again tonight. and this evening, the young american woman who left the u.s. to marry isis fighters. she had a baby boy, and tonight, her plea, why she now wants to come home. and it comes just as the u.s. now takes back that territory that had been claimed by isis in syria. abc's james longman from inside that country again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, as the isis veil is stripped away, this young american mother is pleading to come home. >> i realized i've made a big mistake. and i know i've ruined my future and my son's future and i deeply, deeply regret it. >> reporter: hoda muthana, here with her 18-month son, left alabama to marry an isis fighter four years ago. she was just 19. she spread isis propaganda online, calling for attacks on americans. now, she tells "the guardian," after trying to escape, she fears for her safety. >> from what i heard, if they were to read my messages, i would have been killed. >> reporter: muthana married three times during her time here, each time to an isis fighter. each time made a widow. muthana is not the only woman lured by the terror group. there are 1,500 foreign women and children in this camp alone. 19-year-old shamima begum, from london, is one of them. she just gave birth to her third child. the first two she claims dead. >> at first, it was nice, it was like how they, you know, showed in the videos. >> reporter: she described life in the islamic state, including watching beheadings. >> i knew about those things and i was -- i was okay with it. >> reporter: but now she, too, wants to return home. >> i don't want to take care of my child in this camp, because i'm afraid he might even die in this camp. >> reporter: the british will not bring begum back. while as an american, muthana can expect to be brought home to face justice. president trump is pushing other countries to follow the u.s. lead. david? >> all right, james longman and our team inside syria for days now. our thanks to you, and stay safe. back here at home tonight, and to a cold case authorities say they've now cracked. the hockey dad who is, tonight, charged in a 25-year-old murder case in minnesota. prosecutors say they used dna from a genealogy website, then tracked him to his daughter's hockey game, watching as he threw away a napkin. they pulled that napkin out of the trash. here's abc's erielle reshef. >> reporter: tonight, a napkin and a genealogy site leading to the arrest of a minnesota businessman in a cold case. >> the suspect's dna was identified as being consistent with the dna left at the scene. >> reporter: detectives now reopening the investigation into the mysterious murder of 35-year-old jeanne ann childs, stabbed to death in her minneapolis apartment in 1993. prosecutors say dna samples taken from the bloody crime scene, run through an online genealogy site, leading authorities to 52-year-old father of two jerry westrom. detectives using the internet to track westrom to his daughter's hockey game in wisconsin. >> they got a dna sample when he was at a hockey game, used a napkin, threw it away, and they got enough dna off of the napkin. >> reporter: westrom now charged with second degree murder. >> there is no known relationship between the individuals, and that's what makes these sort of cases so hard to solve. >> reporter: similar public genealogy databases have been used to track down other suspects, including in the infamous golden state killer case. now, westrom told detectives he did not know the victim in this case, and was never at that apartment. he is out of jail after posting half a million dollar bond. he is due back in court in march, david. >> we've done so many stories on these websites now helping to crack these cases. erielle, thank you. there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday. the kidnapping scare. police in pursuit. this is the moment officers trail the suspect right into a gas station. there are children trapped in that car, right in front. you'll see the children soon in their arms. the highway crash, the suv in flames, the female driver behind the while hit by a suspected drunk driver. the effort to get her free. and the alarming new headline that broke today involving the grand canyon. were tourists exposed to radiation in part of that park for years? 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greta zimmer-friedman. and why did george pick greta on that day? >> it was the uniform. >> reporter: her dental uniform reminding george of the nurses serving in the war, helping the injured. in 1980, he and that nurse greta reuniting in times square. they stayed in touch through the years, telling each other about their families. his family tonight saying george loved his country, and was proud of that photo. >> the picture is still known around the whole world as a symbol of the end of world war ii. this is one of the good things that ever happened to me. >> it is a beautiful image. george and greta and that kiss. i hope to see you tomorrow. good night. billowing black smoke, flames shooting out of windows. tonight we're live in san francisco in a house fire that could have been much worse. new at 6:00, i-team reporter dan noyes digs through the newly released list of 45 local priests accused of child sexual abuse. what's interesting is whose not on the list. this was a tesla before it hit a tree, and it wasn't the impact that did most of the damage. and abc 7 news is all about building a better bay area, which is why we're live tonight with the looming oakland teachers strike, because these issues affect all of us. >> live where you live, this is abc 7 news. >> and good evening. thank you for joining us tonight. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. today the catholic diocese of oakland published a list of 45 priests who have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse. >> that list includes the name of one priest who years ago looked abc 7 news i-team reporter dan noyes right in the eye and claimed he did nothing wrong. >> it was a memorable moment, and dan has been digging into the names on the list and talking with people who say there are many names the diocese left off this list. >> this is a step, but survivors tell me it's not far enough. the list oakland put out today is much shorter than reports we've seen in recent months. many of the 45 priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse have already appeared on abc 7 or in other published reports, but five are new names that don't appear in any public database. they're part of what the oakland diocese says is a new era of transparency. >> our two most important priorities, keep our children safe, healing and justice for our survivors. >> but attorneys and advocates for survivors say the list is too short. in october attorney jeff anderson released a report that found 95 priests accused of sexual misconduct in the oakland diocese. >> and how many more files do they have of how many offenders are they now keeping secret? >> the oakland diocese now says anderson counted priests who lived here for a time but offended in other parts of the state, and that the publication of the list today is just a start.

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