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This much snowfall in years. >> reporter: and while many residences appeared to heed the call to stay indoors, some couldnt resist the call to enjoy the wintry scenery. >> we enjoyed some lightning strikes nearby around town. we were out walking last night, as well. hopefully people are just coming together to get through the storm. >> reporter: temperatures around rhode island tonight are expected to plunge into the single digits. a windchill of 10 below in places. heating centers are open so p...

Arent feeling the glory. in their village near the olympic park, theres no gas or plumbing, little power or heat. we are worth nothing in our own land, he says. and then there is sochis location. beyond these mountains just behind me is chechnya, a hot bed of islamist militants, who have threatened to strike during the games. but putins biggest enemy could be another mild winter. with so much of his and russias prestige on the line, he has ordered mountains of snow stockpiled, just in case. jim ...

World cup champion. the most successful american skier in history. >> action. >> reporter: a favorite with sponsors, tabloids love her, too. her unconfirmed romance with tiger woods and her revelation that shes battled depression. >> hi, dad! >> reporter: but since she was 3 years old shes been happiest on the slopes. telling brian williams in 2010 that this is what she was born to do. >> ive given my entire life for the sport. >> reporter: there have been other heart-stopping falls. she came ba...

>> so many traps in this course with the conditions. >> reporter: it was the kind of jump lindsey vonn has made a thousand times before. but today, a horrific crash. >> over the top! and she is down heavily. lindsey vonn -- >> reporter: you can hear the painful screams, and see the shocked reaction on the faces of her fans and competitors. >> to watch her lie there, of course, as a ski racer and as a commentator, it was horrifying. >> reporter: medical teams treated vonn for 12 minutes before sh...

Weve done a lot of reporting lately about the drought thats left much of this nation way too dry. tonight theres some potentially good news to report in a part of the west where an early flurry of winter snow may be a welcome sign for the water supply. nbcs miguel almaguer reports from california, sierra nevada mountains. >> reporter: in the mountains of californias gold country, this

Season, a different kind of boom. >> the amount of snowpack determines how much water were going to have next summer. >> reporter: the sierra nevada snowpack sits at 134% of normal. early snowstorms have dumped half a typical winters snowfall in just two weeks. >> thats a huge turnaround from last year. >> reporter: the change in just 12 months is dramatic. last year on this day in squaw valley. this year. but chris field and his team who won a nobel prize for their work on climate change warn s...

News, los angeles. and we thank you for watching. we are always here at abcnews.com. "nightline," of course, will be along later. and ill see you right back here again tomorrow night. until then, have a great night. good night. tonight california pollution credits go up for bid a tempts to fight global warming or a tax that will wipe out jobs? >> its a race against the clock in a mud ravaged neighborhood of daily city. theyre shoring up the hillside. >> were live in san francisco where theyr...

Zip code, our milky way. 84 million stars in this one picture. including some familiar ones. the constellation sagittarius and scorpius. and the video in the news, the grand canyon about to be photographed as never before thanks to this. a 40-pound backpack with 15 cameras inside, invented by google, to help us see the canyon through a superhuman eye. the panoramic images will be uploaded later this year. and this shot of stonehenge. taken by a kind of tricycle with nine cameras onboard. and...

In a 24-hour period, more than half the country has traded flip-flops for snow boots or t-shirts for sweaters. temperatures plummeting so fast, records are shattering from coast to coast. so what is the consequence of this, and what does it mean for the winter ahead? abcs weather editor sam champion tells us. >> reporter: after suffering through the third hottest summer on record, a quick turnaround. a preseason blast of cold air bringing snow in early october from the rockies to new england. in...

45% contained. the search for four japanese climbers in alaska was permanently suspended today. the national park service says the men likely survived the avalanche on mount mckinley but were killed when a snow slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep. a fifth member survived wednesdays avalanche. the man wanted in a deadly armored car heist in western canada has been arrested at gunpoint by u.s. border officials in washington state. police say that travis baumgartner was carryi...