Upside down and burst in flames. How the Heroic Police officers risked their lives and what they are saying this morning. And sweet dreams are made of this. Lotto fever heating up after no one wins the powerball. The giant jackpots ballooning. More than 600 million up for grabs. Will anyone take home the megamillions . And good thursday morning, america, and lotto fever has so Many Americans dreaming of those megamillions. No powerball winner again last night, but theres of course, another chance at the big prize that keeps on growing. Its over 600 million, to buy something that will make you feel warm and fuzzy. Were not getting that with the weather. No, we are not. Our lotto fever may be heating up, but that bitter cold not letting up at all. More Winter Weather is on the way. Youre looking at snowy conditions in minneapolis just moments ago. Look at this picture from our weather team. This is a fountain in new york city almost completely frozen over. It actually looks completely frozen over. It is frozen. It does look a little beautiful, but i would rather be inside. Watching it from here. Exactly. Well begin this morning with that deadly freeze gripping so much of the country. The state of emergency, record cold and snow making Holiday Travel a danger for millions as calls for help to aaa soar, and abcs alex perez is in erie, pennsylvania where the National Guard has been called to help dig out residents under 6 feet of snow. Good morning to you, alex. Reporter good morning, paula. When you get that much snow, you run out of places to put it all. This is what a lot of neighborhoods here in erie look like right now. Officials also dealing with mounds of snow that turn out to be carries. These owners just cant get to them. From roads to runways, Winter Weather wreaking havoc all over the united states. Kansas city, more than 40 accidents due to icy roads. Icy conditions also turning runways into rinks. In michigan city, indiana, a plane skidding off the runway. The same thing happening in pittsburgh. Bitter temperatures and record snowfall crippling the great lakes. Erie, pennsylvania brought to a halt this week, buried under more than 65 inches of snow. Even this snowplow got stuck. Today well be out probably 10, 15 hours easily. We have been out since 2 00 in the morning. Reporter the city now bracing itself for another 10 inches of snow friday into saturday. Oswego county bearing the brunt of the deep freeze under a state of emergency. We really got hit this year. Reporter and in new york city, the bitter cold turning this fountain into an ice sculpture. The coast guard breaking up ice in green bay. And just to give you an idea of how much snow we are actually talking about here, erie gets about 100 inches of snow all winter. So far, they have gotten 102 inches just in december alone. Paula . Jawdropping numbers. 102 inches alone in december. All right, alex. Well send you shovels and hot chocolate by the way. We turn to rob marciano. Is there any relief in sight from this bitter cold . Its only going to get worse. Im sorry to say. It will be a long duration. They have had a long one near minneapolis. The falls there, singledigit highs, and its freezing the rivers and rapids there. We have windchill warnings and watches. This is across much of the northeast. This is dangerous stuff over the next two days. Check out these numbers. 15 below in binghamton, and 3 here in new york. Im glad to be inside. But Going Forward towards new years, were looking at another surge of cold air in half the doesnt. By the time the ball drops, 11 degrees, the windchill of minus 4. That could be the coldest since 1962. Stop looking so happy about it, please. Three words you dont want to hear. Long duration event. With a smile on his face. Thank you, robert. Now to politics, and Alabama Republican Roy Moore filing a lawsuit to block the Senate Election results alleging fraud. Abcs Stephanie Ramos is on the story in washington this morning. Stephanie, good morning to you. Reporter dan, good morning. Roy moore just wont give up. Overnight in alabama, the Moore Campaign filed a lastminute complaint to prevent his loss in that state Senate Election from becoming official. Moore has refused to concede since the december 12th vote, which he lost by about 20,000 votes. Moore filed his complaint seeking a temporary restraining order to delay the certification alleging potential election fraud. That improperly altered the outcome of the election. He says, this is not a republican or democrat issue as Election Integrity should matter to everyone. The Alabama State candidacy board is scheduled to meet this afternoon to certify jones victory. The Board Meeting will take place as planned and doug jones will be sworn in by Vice President pence on the 3rd of january. State officials said last week they have found no evidence of voter fraud in the senate race. In moores complaint though, he also says he took a polygraph test over the Sexual Misconduct allegations made against him. He says those results prove he did not know any of those women, dan. Just to put a fine point on this, these lastminute maneuvers are not expected to delay the certification of doug jones win . Reporter not really, dan. The secretary of state has previously said its highly unlikely that jones would not be certified as the winner of that election. Dan. This election in alabama continues to generate controversy. Thank you very much. We appreciate your reporting. Paula, over to you. Possibly closure as stephanie said. President trump stirring up controversy on his working vacation in florida, touting his legislative successes. All as his former Campaign Manager faces an investigation on a Sexual Assault allegation. Kenneth moton has the very latest. Good morning to you, kenneth. Reporter good morning, paula. It was a nice gesture. President trump taking a break from his holiday vacation to thank firefighters at a local fire station, but the president spent most of his time in front of the cameras talking about his first year in office. President trumps surprise visit. You do a fantastic job, so we wanted to thank you very much. Reporter the president stopping by a West Palm Beach fire station to thank First Responders, but also in time to tout his own record. We have signed more legislation than anybody. Broke the record. Reporter that claim, false. President trump has signed the least amount of bills than any president at this point in office. As trump celebrates his first year, we catch glimpses of him playing golf nearly every day of his vacation. But a box truck blocked the view of the president hitting the lakes. Corey lewandowski is on defense, now facing an investigation into a Sexual Assault allegation. Singer joy bella, a trump supporter who wore a make America Great again picture tweeted this picture. She said it was taken seconds before lewandowski slapped her behind not once, but twice. I was shocked and embarrassed by his behavior, she wrote. She filed a complaint with Police Telling abc news, if lewandowski, would, quote, apologize, thats all i want. Lewandowski, a contributor with the fox network was asked about the allegations. Im not here to speak for joy, but im here to speak for me, and what i will do is let the process play forward. Reporter its not the first time lewandowski has faced legal trouble. During the campaign, he was involved in a physical altercation grabbing a reporter by the arm, but the misdemeanor Battery Charge was dropped. Dan . Thank you, we appreciate your reporting. Lets bring in our chief political analyst, matthew dowd. Good morning. Lets talk about this lewandowski case. The president appears to be close to the accuser and the accused here. How does he handle this, especially because he has his own accusers . Well, this is a difficult spot for the president to be in. The trump world is a bit like pirates of the caribbean where all these characters are surrounding him, and they have problems. We know what happened with paul manafort, and the candidate he endorsed in the senate, and alabama. A series of folks, in surrounding this world, and in the end, the president is barbosa, and he has problems as big as corey lewandowski. Its a difficulty that the white house is in. I knew some cultural references would be thrown in this morning. Lets talk about the president specifically, and his claim that he repeated that he has signed more legislation than any other president. So it is absolutely true that trump has some big wins under his belt, including the tax bill that just went through, but its not true. Its verifiably false that he signed more legislature than his predecessors. Why do you think he keeps saying this . Im just shocked that the president exaggerates like this. We havent seen this before from him. In politics, we have seen all president s exaggerate, and probably stretch the truth in this, but this president , when you look at the averages of this president , this president exaggerates or makes stuff up an average of five times a day. It has become commonplace in the presidency. He is sort of the olympic champion of this kind of stuff, and he continues to do it, and my guess is for the next year, two years, three years, he will continue to do it. Hi, matt. Its paula. Good morning to you. Hey, paula. There is a lot of uncertainty with the tax bill that dan brought up. What should you know if you are one of the many people rushing to make those deductions that will soon disappear with the tax law taking effect . Specifically property taxes. Sure. So this is one of the problems when you have russia bill a major tax reform change through at the last minute in a rushed manner right before the new year. We have the law of unintended consequences and this is the first one well see, and well see more. I paid my property taxes last week for 2017. Those are still deductible because i was billed, assessed and it was all for 2017. You cannot deduct those expenses for 2018 unless you have been billed and assessed in 2017, and pay it in 2017. We need to look at if you pay 2017, youre fine. 2018, youre not. And its really up to the municipality, the local municipality to decide. We were assessed in 2017 and we tried to prepay 2018, and they said no. Its up to the jurisdiction as well. As i said, this is the law of unintended consequences and well see more of this when you see major changes in a tax bill. Matt dowd, thanks so much. We want to move now to the Airport Security scare, raising questions about safety in the skies after a tokyobound plane was forced to turn around mid flight when an unauthorized passenger was found on board. Fellow passengers john legend and Chrissy Teigen were delayed a total of 15 hours. Matt gutman is at l. A. X. To tell us what happened. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, paula. Law enforcement sources tell us this was likely not a mistake. They say one of two brothers with very similar names likely used a duplicate boarding pass to get on the plane, and then flight attendants didnt realize they had a possible stowaway on board until the flight was halfway to tokyo, which is one reason they are calling this the flight to nowhere. This morning, the fbi is weighing criminal charges against a pair of brothers who somehow got on flight 175, los angeles to tokyo, using a single boarding pass. The socalled flight to nowhere took off from los angeles at noon on wednesday and just four hours later, boomeranged back when flight attendants discovered the possible stowaway. It turned out to be a 4,000mile detour. Overnight, we learned the brothers have nearly identical names and used a duplicate boarding pass. One had a legitimate ticket for flight 175, and the other brother had a legitimate ticket to tokyo, but on a different flight on a different airline. You have got to know precisely how it happened here. Once you get those answers, then you can kind of reverse engineer the process and make sure you dont let that occur again. Reporter and overnight, 16 hours delayed, that plane finally unloaded 208 very frustrated passengers in tokyo. Mostly tired and pretty angry. Pretty upset. Definitely disappointed. Reporter abc news was there meeting honeymooners. Theres no competition to give us back that day. Reporter there was also a very prominent tweeter, supermodel Chrissy Teigen. Thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation, babe. Reporter her tweet storm went viral. Now she is asking, i just need to know why we couldnt have flown to tokyo, and settled this one persons mistake . In a statement, the company said the return to l. A. X. Was conducted per procedure, and apologized for passengers inconvenience. Now being a stowaway is a federal crime. Its punishable by up to five years in prison, and federal authorities are poring over surveillance video. They are trying to determine whether or not there was intent here, but the airline could also face hefty fines for allowing that passenger on board, and failing to make an accurate head count. They have offered all those passengers a 265 or thereabout voucher. But, you know, if you are the guy sitting in row 87 in the middle seat, i dont know if that quite cuts it, dan. Thank you. Now to the dramatic rescue caught on bodycam. Officers pulling teenagers from an overturned vehicle that burst into flames, and abcs eva pilgrim has the story on how these officers risked their own lives. Back up. The car is on fire back up reporter a fiery car crash, three teens inside, four milwaukee Police Officers jumping into action. When we saw the car up in flames and we saw the two kids in the back unconscious, we knew we had to get them out. Reporter this car upside down after hitting a utility pole. The bodycam capturing the rush to rescue two teens trapped inside. You see an officer tap on the window yelling. Crawl reporter when no one comes out, one of the officers goes in, pulling the teen from the car, dragging him away. We started getting people out as quick as we could, knowing that was our job right then and there. Someone else is in there. Reporter the fire growing. The officers go back in, getting a second teen out, moving him to safety. Come on. Reporter another teen was able to get out on his own. All three were taken to the hospital. And these same officers had actually tried to pull over this car for speeding just a short time before the accident. It didnt stop, so the driver will face charges for not stopping and for reckless driving. Eva, thanks. And now to the big money thats up for grabs after last nights lottery drawing. Still no powerball winners again, and powerball is just one of massive multimillion dollar jackpots that are sparking lottery fever this week, and abcs t. J. Holmes is here with more on this. Did you buy your ticket . No, because im not going to win. Here we go again with this. Here we two again. Let me tell you whats up for grabs. The powerball, up to 384 million. If you take the cash, buy out. Thats 239 million. Youre not going to win that. Megamegamillions, 206 million, and if you pay out, 191 million. They have been rolling over, and i have been doing this since october now, and they have not had a winner, and youre not going to win, folks. Your odds are great. Im sorry. Everyone wants this warm, fuzzy story about the lottery. Look at your face. Your hopes and dreams. You dashed all of them. If you want to bring nihilistic sarcasm, absolutely. Heres how jaded we are. Someone won 4 million on the megamillions drawing this week, so everybody was disappointed. Were there any other winners . Congratulations, folks. There were 1. 3 million winners last night, and overwhelmingly most of them won 4. That means that 2 ticket, you doubled your winnings, congratulations. There was somebody that won 2 million in georgia last night, but overwhelmingly, most people won a few bucks. You need a hug, t. J. Welcome to our new segment, keeping it real with t. J. Continuing the keeping it real theme, lets send things over to rob marciano. He is keeping it real in the weather department. Being inside is what makes me happy. I won the lottery today by staying inside for sure. Look at new york, between watertown and syracuse, and they had to dig a woman out of her home. They had so much snow there, and there is more lakeeffect snow coming after another surge of cold there. Time for our snowy cities brought to you by burlington. Good thursday morning. Im lisa argen. Check out the view from mt. Tam. Its beautiful out there, and in fact we have less fog this morning, so temperatures are going to be a little bit warmer around the bay. The dense fog is in the north bay. Then were left with hazy sunshine today. Its dry for new years eve and into new years day and high temperatures today from the upper 50s oakland and San Francisco, 63 in concord and fremont. The accuweather sevenday forecast, we get a coming up, such a tough story. 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