Good evening. And we begin this monday night with that deadly storm battering much of the midwest and a huge swath of frigid air thats going to come racing in afterward. All the way down to the gulf. A foot of snow and this is what drivers are facing in minnesota tonight. One family in wyoming capturing this outside their back window tonight. The wind chimes, no match for thor if rope shus winds there. And in denver this evening where they started the day at 69 degrees, they will end it in the teens. Look at the wall tonight. That arctic air about to stretch all the way down to texas. 200 mile americans will feel this. Ginger zee is standing by. But we begin with abcs alex perez, in the middle of the storm. Reporter the chaotic, wintry scene near duluth, minnesota, tonight car on top of car, icy conditions causing this 16vehicle pileup. Just kind of a landslide of cars, everything just slid down the hill. Reporter snow, ice and possible treacherous conditions for some 6 Million People across eight states tonight. This time lapse shows how quickly the storm barreled in. Complete gridlock as frustrated motorists tried to get moving. Minnesota Highway Patrol responding to at least one fatality and more that 390 Car Accidents today alone. Including this overturned truck, carrying turkeys. In normal driving conditions, youre supposed to keep three seconds of distance between you and the car in front of you. But aaa says, in conditions like this, snow and ice, ou should really stay about eight seconds behind to give you time to react. How important is it to keep a safe distance between the car and front of you and why . Its the difference between getting in a crash and getting to your destination safely. Reporter also, experts say drivers should never use Cruise Control on slippery surfaces. Ease up on the gas. And keep your Steering Wheel straight to navigate. Tonight, salt trucks and snow plows across the storms path gearing up for what could be a long night ahead. And its here just north of minneapolis that got slammed the hardest. More than a foot of snow in some areas here. You can see the big mounds already piling up. And theyre not in the clear here just yet. They are bracing for plunging temperatures headed this way. David . Alex, thank you. Chief meteorologist ginger zee is here on the winter storm warnings still in effect tonight. Reporter i want to show you, minnesota, wisconsin and michigan. Thats because, not only will it be windy, but additional snow. Some places a foot or a foot and a half in the u. P. Of michigan in some sports. Thats just the snow. The cold is what youre going to notice most. Denver, almost 70 degrees at 10 00 a. M. 15 minutes later, they dropped more than 20 degrees. By early tomorrow morning, were looking at denver, almost 60 degrees colder than they started today. That arctic blast is going to move as far south as oklahoma. The wind chill will feel like the 20s. Look at memphis by wednesday morning. All of this moves south and east as we go into the end of the week. Ginger, thank you. Now to the breaking news, that lava flow weve been tracking as it closes in on a town in hawaii. Officials say the lava has reached the first home on the big island today. The house empty. The family had evacuated weeks ago. What a stunning sight coming in at this hour. We move on now to the u. S. Air strikes against isis tonight and those unconfirmed reports that the key leader of isis may have been injured, ooefbl killed. Known for his fiery speeches, his taste for western luxuries. That expensive watch we had seen. Tonight, the pentagon saying he was not a target, but was he in that caravan . Abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz working her sources today. Shes live in washington. Martha . Reporter david, we backtracked all of this to see where the stories began. The original report of baghdadi being injured or killed came saturday on iraqi television, within a fuhr hours of a u. S. Air strike in mosul, targeting a large convoy. But that rumor spread so fast on social media that u. S. Central command put out a statement saying they could not confirm whether baghdadi had been hit. That had the unintended consequences of keeping the story alive. But what the pentagon has said definitively today is that the air strike was not preplanned with baghdadi as a target. They still cant say for certain whether he happened to be there, but reports continue on iraqi tv tonight that he was wounded. But even if bag bad di were killed, david, nobody thinks isis is going away. Okay, Martha Raddatz in our washington bureau. Martha, thank you. Now, to that eye opening sight from china. Beijing rolling out the red carpet for world leaders, complete with dancers along the route and lights. President obama would come down that route there. And when he got out, as is tradition, he was wearing a chinese silk robe. But there was something else, something the world did not see. What china did before leaders even got there, hoping the world would look the other way. Abcs jim avila, traveling with the president. Reporter it was a red carpet never seen before. The chinese limb moments arrived carrying leaders from 21 pacific rim nations, along a neon l. E. D. Red carpet that lit up as the dignitaries approached. President obama, part of the show. Donning a dark purple silk tunic. Other world leaders, including vladimir putin, wearing similar outfits, provided by the chinese that seemed more familiar to a dance club than a world summit. Putin and president obama met only briefly and did not discuss any of the serious issues dividing them. The traditional fireworks were not the only show. All of beijing treated to a rare glimpse of blue sky in the notoriously polluted capital. The government has been temporarily cleaning the air. Enticing government workers to leave town with paid sixday vacations, shutting more than 800 surrounding factories and keeping off coalfueled home heating across the city, despite freezing temperatures at night. Sadly, that clean air lasted only a couple of days. The air quality warnings are back, and we can no longer see those blue skies. David . Jim avila in beijing tonight. Thank you. Back here at home this evening and to a dropping story out of oklahoma. A hostage situation ending just as we came on the air tonight. For hours, authorities outside police then moving in, guns drawn. Abcs ryan owens with the pick churls as workers escaped that building all afternoon. Reporter dozens of frightened witnesses, their hands in the air, are led away from a busy Oklahoma Office building just after lunchtime. But for several hours this afternoon, the gunman remained on the second floor, with at least two hostages. One of them, a woman. Texting her coworkers a sort of play by play of the ordeal. She said she felt like she was safe right now. They just kind of have been talking about books and politics and shes just actively talking to him. Reporter hostage negotiators were talking to him, too. Police believe hes a military veteran, armed with a pistol. We dont have a lot of particulars as to who he is. What his motivations are. Why hes upset. We simply dont know at this point. Reporter but the s. W. A. T. Team didnt take any chances. Bringing in bomb roe bolts before the suspect finally gave up tonight. And once again, the breaking news tonight, this hostage drama has just ended. The 29yearold gunman has given himself up. Both of those hostages are safe. And tonight, police here in oklahoma working to figure out what could possibly have been this mans motive. David . Ryan owens in oklahoma tonight. Ryan, thank you. There are new details this evening about that deadly plane crash, that private jet going down in the bahamas over the weekend. These pictures of the aftermath. That plane believed to have smashed into a crane, just four miles from the airport. Officials believe bad weather played a role. All nine people on board killed including pastor myles munroe, who has a strong following right here in the states. In the west tonight, a dramatic rescue in the San Gabriel Mountains outside los angeles. 15 hikers air lifted to safety. They had been on a hike when they lost track of time. The sun went down. Texting the word help and praying together. Tonight, they say they are grateful to be reunited with their families. Now, to the joan rivers case. Thorpts now revealing that there were selfies taken be joan rivers while she was sedated. And warning signs missed. Heres abcs mara schiavocampo. Reporter tonight, new details about joan rivers death. A report on the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic finding the facility failed to follow a number of procedures. The 81yearold comedian was undergoing a scheduled procedure for acid reflux in august when she went into cardiac arrest. The record by the department of Health Claims the clinic failed to identify deteriorating vital signs and provide time little intervention. Rivers was sedated for the procedure with propofol, the same powerful anesthetic involved in Michael Jacksons death. The report saying her dose of propofol was inconsistently documented. The highly critical report goes on to say rivers didnt consent to every procedure that was performed, including one conducted by her surgeon, who wasnt even authorized to work at the clinic. And that a staff member proceeded to take pictures of rivers with his cell phone while she was sedated. Now, attorneys for rivers daughter melissa released a statement, saying she is outraged by the misconduct and mismanage noun shone to have occurred and will direct her efforts towards ensuring that what happened to her mother will occur again. The Yorkville Endoscopy clinic says theyve sub milted a plan for fifxing the problems in the report, and that none of the Staff Members mentioned still works here. David . Mara, thank you. And now, to a recall this evening, an alert for parents. Mcdonalds is recalling a toy found in its popular happy meals. A hello kitty birthday polly pop whistle. Small children could choke on some parts. There are more than 2 million of those toys. And a new warning this evening for parents about those popular laundry detergent pods. An alarming new study about them tonight. Every hour, an emergency call to poison control. Weve shown you the similarities before. Thats deter jenlt on the left. Candy on the right. So tonight here, abcs linsey davis with an eyeopening demonstration. Could children tell the difference today . Make it easy and do the pop. Reporter theyre advertised as a clever replacement for messy, heavy jugs. It cleans, brightens and removes stains in one step. Reporter but that new report tale revealing that in just two years, 6,000 kids rushed to the emergency room, most after eating those detergent pacts. The journal pediatrics reporting over 17,000 calls to poison control. So we went to see just how easy it is for kids to mistake the detergent for candy. Which one do you think is not candy . Kate, you would try to eat this at home . You would . How about you, aaron . Um id try this. Reporter zealand, almost 2 1 2, couldnt stop reaching for it. Researchers say kids who got sick were often around his age. Some ended up in comas, more than 100 put on ventilators. One child even died. The American Cleaning institute, speaking for major brands like tide, saying manufacturers have made major changes to their packaging and improved warning labels. But at the play ground, we found kids could easily open that container. It took 3yearold kate only four seconds to pop it open. Same with 6yearold kensington. 3yearold alexis thought she couldnt, but with a little persistence you got it open. True, some younger kids werent able to get the containers open. But for the 3yearolds we saw, the Candy Wrapper was the tougher challenge. Linsey davis, abc news, new york. Powerful reminder. And next tonight here, to a case weve been reporting on. The utah parents who woke up in the Early Morning hours. The mother who told us she could hear her daughters voice, but knew that those were not her footsteps. Abcs dan harris with the interview tonight. Reporter it starts in this nice home on a quiet street in sandy, utah, in the middle of the night with one mothers intuition. I woke up and i remember being wide awake. Reporter then Stephanie Edson hears her 5yearold daughter lanies voice in the hallway. But its what she doesnt hear that sets off alarm bells. At that moment, that i knew was a problem, is i didnt hear her footsteps. Because she has a minor disability where she has a gait patern thats unique. Her walking syle is a little bit different than yours or mine, and it was missing. Reporter then, she hears the front door close. I screamed to aaron, i said shes outside, shes outside. Got outside and saw a man holding our child who i didnt recognize. And he gave me a story that he was in trouble, and that if he had her with him, they wouldnt kill him. And i said, okay, well, i want to help you, but you cant take her. And i stretched out my arms to take her and he just handed her over. Reporter stephanie, frantic, calls 911. He took my 5yearold daughter. Reporter the cops arrive in minutes and find this man, troy morely, hiding in a neighbors basement. Now shes doing okay . Shes doing great. Reporter the power of a mothers instinct is boundless. Yeah. You just have to learn to go with it and trust it and i believe that, you know, heaven limb father has given me the ability to trust it. Rrl dan harris, a b bc news, ne york. Dan, thank you. Tonight, the great communicator and the iron lady. President ronald reagan, apologizing to Margaret Thatcher after he sent u. S. Troops into the commonwealth state of grenada without consulting her first. Hello, Margaret Thatcher here. If i were there, margaret, id throw my hat in the door before i came in. Theres no need to do that. Listen, im wee regret very much the embarrassment thats been caused to you. The apologize worked. Rail began telling his old friend to go get em, as she headed into parliament. And there is still much more ahead onto world news tonight this monday. Sinking fast. Neighbors evacuated. A half dozen homes and counting. The car swallowed whole there. 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Reporter big bird. And snuff lup pus was an imaginary friend. Adults on the show refusing to believe he existed. Producers changed that, fearing the show was discouraging children from sharing important things with their parents. Even imaginary friends. And when mr. Hooper died in real life, there were Big Questions for the producers about what to do. So, they told children the truth. Mr. Hooper died. Reporter the milkshakes at mr. Hoopers store, 20 cents in 1 1969. They tackled so many issues through the years. Hunger among the more recent. Little lily from a family in need. She drew a crowd with us in central park. Hi. Reporter fist bump . Not always easy for a muppet. 45 years and counting. And whats their secret . Well, you know, i use a lot of botox, david. Reporter i can tell. When i told the muppets i had just met maria. I just met maria. You did . Isnt she awesome. Reporter i watched her since i was a kid. You did . Reporter i was a kid at one point . You were . Reporter i grew up watching you. Do you think she gets tired of hearing that . No, i think she loves that all the kids are making good for themselves. You did all right for yourself, david, were all proud. Yeah. Reporter with help from sesame street. Well see you back here tomorrow night. Good night. 11111111111111111111111111111111 this is the jeopardy tournament of champions. Here are three former champions a fifthgrade math teacher from richardson, texas. An officesupplies Sales Assistant from queens, new york. And an i. T. Consultant originally from florence, south carolina. And now here is the host of jeopardy