A jagged ice rink but small powerful vessels like this one can break through up to 3 feet of that ice providing a clear path for other ships like those carrying heating oil. Something so many homes here in the northeast desperately need. Especially this winter. David . Adrienne bankert, our thanks to you. Next the storm leaving a travel mess. More than 5,000 Flights Canceled in just the last 24 hours. Take a look at new yorks jfk. Firefighting equipment on the tarmac as an American Airlines flight made an Emergency Landing because of an engine problem. Heres linsey davis on that story tonight. Reporter tonight After The Storm Tens Of Thousands of passengers still stranded from both coasts. Were stuck here another day. All the flights before us were canceled. Reporter at laguardia, the Thurston Family has battled cancellations for their flight to aruba since wednesday. Now were booked for tonights flight, but they had to break us all up, each parents flying with children individually, but right now
we dont know how thats going to go. Reporter with new yorks big three airports shut down for most of the day thursday more than 4,300 flights were canceled and dozens International Flights to new york and boston had to divert to other airports. This singapore a380, had to land at Stewart Air Force base in new york, and 31 flights diverted to washingtons dulles airport. We didnt have anywhere to go. Reporter some passengers trapped on the tarmac for hours as planes tried to find gates. Some managed to make it out faced other problems. This American Airlines flight from jfk to cancun, forced to make an Emergency Landing in the cold after takeoff due to an engine related issue. Linsey back with us tonight. You were telling us some signs of life at laguardia but other airports remain closed . Reporter things are starting to get back to normal but more than 200 flights were canceled. Lets talk about charleston, South Carolina, that airport remains closed. They got about 5 inches of snow but not equipped to handle it. The faa says they might not reopen until monday night. David. Lets get to ginger zee tonight. This cold we cant underscore how dangerous it is. Places like new york and set ten minutes of exposure and you get frostbite tonight and tomorrow morning. Thats how close the windchill warnings are. From South Carolina to augusta, maine and freeze warning as far south as Daytona Beach those are the windchills saturday morning. Tomorrow morning what youre feeling like, indianapolis 16 below. New york city 27 below. It feels like in boston. Turn it around in the afternoon you say its got to get better. Not that much better. Not a day you want to be exposed. Heres the last thing, actual Air Temperatures sunday morning, if philadelphia drops below zero its the First Time Since 1994. Thanks. On to other news this friday
night. New fallout over the book about the white house. After the president tried to stop its release, the publisher rushed it to bookstores today. In the book steve bannon turning on the president and his family. President trump is tweeting about Bannon Nicknaming him sloppy steve. The president is going after the author and the author saying he spoke to multiple members of the president s inner circle. He says they told him the president is like a child, does not read or listen. Heres cecelia vega tonight. Reporter President Trump headed to camp david for the weekend. As for questions, he wasnt having it. Were making America Great again. Thank you very much. Reporter the new book taking his white house and it seems all of washington by storm. At bookstores, long lines, within hours empty shelves. The president now lashing out at author Michael Wolff and former chief strategist steve bannon, a key voice quoted disparaging the president and his family. The President Tweeting the book is full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that dont exist. Look at this guys past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve. Wolff stands by every word and tells nbc news the president s inner circle thinks he is unfit for office. They all say he is like a child and what they mean is that he has a need for immediate gratification. Its all about him. They say hes a moron, an idiot. Lets remember this man does not read, does not listen. Reporter wolff paints a portrait of a mentally unstable man saying the president often repeat the same stories every three minutes and recently at maralago failed to recognize lifelong friends. I will quote steve bannon. Hes lost it. Reporter these incidents not confirmed by abc news. But the white house now forced to answer questions about the president s mental stability. Its disgraceful and laughable. If he was unfit, he probably wouldnt be sitting there. This is an incredibly strong and good leader. Reporter their strategy, to Disparage Wolff as someone who had limited sources and limited access. The President Tweeting today i never spoke to him for book, but wolff says whether or not the president realized it was for the book, they did spend about three hours together during the campaign and in the white house. Lets get to cecelia vega from the white house. President trump was hoping to start the new year boosted by victory on the tax cuts but this book is dominating the white houses agenda. Reporter there is definitely a sense of outrage and frustration about that. But this is a west wing used to dealing with crisis. As one senior white house official told us, quote, people expect us to be running around with our hair on fire but hard
to do that when its already been burned off. Cecilia, thank you. Next to new reporting on the Russia Investigation. Several reports claiming that President Trump directed his white House Counsel to tell Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions not to recuse himself in the Russia Investigation and reports claiming Robert Mueller has received handwritten notes from former Chief Of StaffReince Priebus that do shed light on the president s firing of former fbi director james comey. Heres abcs Pierre Thomas tonight. Reporter new questions about whether President Trump was attempting to obstruct justice by controlling the investigation into russian meddling. The New York Times reporting the president ordered white House Counsel to personally pressure Attorney General sessions not to recuse himself from the russia probe but sessions did it anyway. Infuriating the president. If he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. Reporter administration
officials do not dispute to abc news that he pressured sessions. Times also reporting new details of the president s alleged attempt to convince former fbi director james comey to publicly proclaim trump himself was not under scrutiny. He asked to get it out that i the president am not personally under investigation. Reporter the times claims former white house Chief Of StaffReince Priebus kept notes of conversations where the president told him he made that request of comey. Special counsel bob mueller has these notes. According to the times as the president s frustration with comey mounted, the aide to general sessions approached a capitol hill staffer looking for dirt on the fbi director. Tonight the Attorney General spokeswoman insists sessions did not ask his aide to do that, telling abc news this did not happen and would not happen. Pierre thomas live from washington. Theres also news tonight that the Justice Department is now renewing its investigation into the Clinton Foundation and whether or not donations were made in exchange for political favors when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Your sources are confirming that . And were getting reaction from the clintons . Reporter thats right david. Our sources tell us the investigation began during the Obama Administration but has recently intensified. The republicans have been calling for it for months and the president had been urging the Justice Department to investigate Hillary Clinton and we have a response from Hillary Clintons spokesman and it is blistering. He said lets call it what it is, a sham. This is philanthropy that does life changing work which republicans have tried to turn it into a political football. Disgraceful and should be concerning to all americans. The goal is to distract the special from the special counsels investigation and accusations from treason from trumps own people. Next from alabama, a fire at the home of a woman who accused Senate Candidate roy moore of sexual assault. And late today authorities
revealing they are speaking to a person of interest. Abcs Steve Osunsami tonight. Reporter Fire Investigators in alabama tonight believe that this was no accident. That someone purposefully burned down the home that belongs to tina johnson, one of the women accusing Republican Senate nominee roy moore of sexual assault. But they tell us tonight they dont believe this was any sort of payback for that accusation and not connected to roy moore or any of his followers. Johnson claimed moore crossed the line when she was 28 and meeting with moore in his law office. He just grabbed me from behind on my buttock and just squeezed it really hard and i remember thinking im so ashamed. I felt humiliated in that moment. Reporter the house burned down tuesday and neighbors report seeing a drunk man Walking Around the home before the fire. In a statement tonight, investigators say theyre speaking to a person of interest. But say the Ongoing Investigation does not lead us to believe that the fire is in any way related to roy moore or allegations made against him. No one was home and no one was hurt in the fire. Neighbors say they know the man seen around the house and say he has long been a problem. David. Steve, thank. The government out with a december jobs report tonight. The u. S. Employers adding 148,000 jobs last month. Fewer that Man Economists had expected but it is the 87th straight month of job gains. The Unemployment Rate remaining at 4. 1 . And as for wages, average Hourly Earnings grew by 9 cents to 26. 63 an hour. Still much more ahead on World News Tonight this friday. A new headline about the pulse nightclub terror attack. The gunmans wife and what she has revealed. The health scare for jeopardy host alex trebek. Why hell be off the air. And what we have now learned. The cdc next week will tell the public how to survive a nuclear attack. If you own a iphone, mac, pc, there is a major Security Flaw, what authors say you need to do immediately. A lot more news ahead tonight. Scare for alex trebek taking a leave of absence as he recovers from Brain Surgery after a fall. Heres matt gutman. Reporter tonight, speaking a shade more deliberately than his normally peppy clip on jeopardy we learn alex trebek is taking a medical leave from the show. During the holiday break, i had a slight medical problem. Subdural hematoma. Blood clots on the brain caused by a fall i endured about two months ago. Reporter Trebek Suffering complications checked into a hospital in mid december for Brain Surgery. Subdural hematomas are pools of blood on the brain. Compressing it. They can be deadly. Most insidious is they can go unnoticed. Trebek has been hosting jeopardy for 33 years. The prognosis is excellent and i expect to be back in the studio taping more jeopardy programs very, very soon. He could start taping as early as this month. Now the symptoms of a Subdural Hematoma range from dizziness or a light headache to the severe like seizures. David. Great to hear from alex trebek. As he said the prognosis is very good. We wish him well. When we come back, the headline from the cdc, they will tell the public early next week how to best survive a nuclear attack. As i mentioned, anyone who has an iphone, smartphone, pc, a major Security Flaw we have learned about and what Authorities Say you should do right away. Thats after the break. A farmers market. Ieve whats in this kiester. A fire truck. Even a marching band. And if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. For any sort of discomfort in yours. Preparation h. Get comfortable with it. Stuff happens. Old. Shut down cold symptoms fast. With maximum strength Alka Seltzer Plus liquid gels. Tired of Sore Throat Lozenges that only last a short time . Try alkaseltzer plus sore throat relief. The melts dissolve quickly. Plus, the powerful Pain Reliever provides long lasting relief for up to six hours. Try alkaseltzer plus my teeth are like an iceberg. Something interesting. Theres a lot going on underneath that i cant see. Like harmful bacteria hiding below the gum line. So now i use this. Crest gum detoxify
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