The firefighters out of the basement. Whit one firefighter losing his life, others hurt. The investigation this morning. Janai snowy blast. Millions of people getting slammed in the northeast with snow falling up to 4 inches per hour, a foot already reported in some spots. And theres a big chill to follow. Gio firing back. Donald trump angrily denouncing the ruling in his civil fraud case, ordering him to pay a 355 million penalty even as the new York Attorney general says justice has been served. What happens next . Whit a. I. Breakthrough. The eyeopening images from a brandnew texttovideo generator and the new concerns. We can no longer trust what we see and what we hear. Whit a look at what it can do. Hey, you make me a believer janai and hitting the ice. Metlife stadium transformed for a hockey takeover as the nhl stadium series gets underway. Plus, the sport of cornhole and the students awarded the firstever crop of College Scholarships. Gio and we do say good morning, america. Any cornhole champions here . Yes, indeed. Janai we call it bags. Whit i call it cornhole, definitely. Gio we have so much to cover, including this, if you are planning a long Holiday Weekend getaway, gas prices might be pinching you more. Whats behind the rise in fuel costs over the last few weeks. Janai also ahead, new details this morning on the arrest of two people in that kansas city super bowl celebration shooting and how the team is rallying around the victims. Whit plus, major headlines from russia overnight as dozens of people are arrested at protests denouncing the death of one of president putins biggest political opponents. Alexei navalny dying in prison at the age of 47. Gio and former President Trump promising to appeal that 355 Million Court ruling against him in his civil fraud case. But we do begin here this morning with that breaking news overnight. A home in virginia exploding with firefighters inside. Abcs em nguyen is at the scene in sterling, virginia. Good morning, em. Reporter good morning, gio. Certainly a terrifying situation. The neighbor i talked to from this home right here tells me that it sounded and it felt like lightning had struck her home. That just tells you about the force of that explosion about 100 yards in this direction, the impacted home. I dont know if you can see it, but all i can see right now is scattered debris and just the chimney still standing. This morning, smoldering rubble is all thats left after a massive blast leveled this home, killing a firefighter, injuring at least 12 others in virginia. Total devastation. Yeah. Theres a debris field well into the street and into the neighboring homes. Reporter firefighters arriving at the home after a call about the smell of gas, finding a 500gallon underground propane tank with a leak on the side. Shortly after, the house in sterling exploded. We have a structural explosion. Significant damage. The house is pretty much leveled. Reporter the explosion trapping firefighters inside, desperately calling for help. Confirm people trapped in the basement. Large debris pile everywhere. Were working on trying to get the firefighters out of the basement. Reporter the impact killing one firefighter, injuring ten more, some seriously. The whole house shook. It was a huge explosion. caved in. It was horrific. It looked like something out of a war zone. Reporter this neighbor saying he smelled gas along the street earlier in the evening while walking his dog. Now firefighters grieving the loss of one of their own. This is the worst call we can respond to, and this is a time where we need to support each other and hold each other up. Reporter were also learning that two other people outside of the ten firefighters injured were sent to the hospital. They are expected to be okay. You can see its still a very active scene right now. The origin of the explosion is still under investigation. Janai. Janai and just unbelievable pictures, em. Thank you. Turning now to that winter storm charging east right now. Meteorologist Brittany Bell from our new york station, wabc, is here with the latest. Brittany, weve got plenty here. Brittany that is right. So, slowly wrapping up across the northeast, but this is that storm did first yesterday west of st. Louis. Check out this massive pileup near i70. So it had to close down the westbound lane due to four to six inches of snow, intense snowfall rates. Next up it took aim in pennsylvania. This is what happened in state college. About one to three inches of snow fell, leading to a pretty nice winter sight. Then taking aim at woodbridge, new jersey, some of the spots we had more snowfall totals. We had snowfall reports approaching a foot of snow due to snowfall rates ranging about four inches per hour. This is where it is right now. Slowly winding down across new jersey, pennsylvania, also new york, and this is where it is headed for the rest of the day. Slowly tapering off to more so isolated to scattered snow showers, and things should dry out late this afternoon through tomorrow, then that focus turns to a big chill on the way. More details about that coming up. Whit. Whit rough commute this morning, thats for sure. All right, brittany, thank you. This morning former President Donald Trump vowing to appeal that 355 Million Court ruling against him. The judges decision coming in trumps civil fraud case in new york state. Abcs Senior Investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky is here now with more. Aaron, good morning. Good morning, whit. This decision is not going to ruin donald trump, but it could dramatically diminish his Financial Resources and undercut his carefully honed image of a successful businessman that carried him all the way to the white house. This morning donald trump owes a staggering penalty after a judge in new york found him liable for frauds that he said leap off the page and shock the conscience. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered trump to pay 355 million, plus interest, and barred him from serving in the top role of any new york Company Including his own for three years. Trump verbally attacked the judge and said he would appeal. A new york state judge just ruled, and hes crooked as you can get, and a lot of people expected Something Like this, but not for the amount. Reporter the judge said a significant penalty was warranted. Otherwise, trump, his eldest sons, and his company are likely to continue their fraudulent ways. Because there cannot be different rules for different people in this country, and former president s are no exception. Reporter the judge found trump and his company repeatedly issued false Financial Statements that inflated his net worth by as much as 2 billion and exaggerated the value of his properties so they could convince banks to provide low interest loans. Trump valued his fifth avenue penthouse at 200 million by tripling its square footage, though he signed a document conceding the place is a third the size. And he said his florida estate, maralago, was worth 600 million. Its appraised value, 27 million. The judge said trumps complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological and found him incapable of admitting the error of his ways. The expansiveness, the amount and the extent of this fraud is shocking, and that produced this shocking number. Reporter the judge backed away from a prior decision that ordered trump to dissolve some of his businesses, but he still imposed a monitor and a director of compliance. Otherwise, the judge said he feared the Trump Organization would not operate without committing fraud. Whit, effectively the Trump Organization needs a babysitter. Whit and thats what is happening here, and you also noted that trump said that he is going to appeal, but what could that mean for this massive financial penalty . Yeah, he still needs to come up with the money. It is not like he just gets away with it while the appeal is pending. So, either he can put all 355 million in escrow with the court or post some of it as a bond with some pretty hefty interest using either cash or some of his Real Estate Properties as collateral whit all right. Aaron katersky for us. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Gio just an incredible amount of money. Now to that highstakes hearing in georgia that could decide whether Fulton CountyProsecutor Fani Willis stays on the election interference case against former President Trump. The testimony is dramatic and reena roy has it all for us. Good morning, reena. Good morning. It is extremely unusual to see a d. A. On the stand, but fani willis was clearly determined to tell her story, fiercely denying her relationship caused a conflict of interest, and then in another unexpected development, she was not called back to the stand. In a case already full of twists and turns, yet another surprise, Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis not taking the witness stand for a second day in atlanta after this explosive hours long testimony. It is a lie. It is a lie. Reporter a source telling abc, the state was satisfied with her testimony and didnt feel it necessary to call her back. Instead, calling other witnesses including her father, john floyd, who described the threats willis has faced amid the election interference case against donald trump and 18 others, also explaining why his daughter kept large sums of cash on hand. I trained, you always keep some cash. I told my daughter, you keep six months worth of cash always. Reporter trump and several codefendants trying to get willis removed from the case and their indictments dismissed saying she financially benefited from her romantic relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade, who she hired for the case. Youre confused. You think im on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. Reporter willis and wade getting grilled about their romantic getaways and cruises, both testifying willis was adamant about paying her half. The stakes in this hearing are very high, and theyre on two different levels. The stakes with regard to the motion itself are that if fani willis gets disqualified from the case, then this case goes into a kind of prosecutorial limbo. And trump reacting to all of this in a social media post, seemingly unhappy with the defense team, calling their questioning of willis pretty weak. Janai. Janai all right, reena. Thank you for that. Turning overseas to the death in prison of the most prominent political opponent of russian president vladimir putin. The cause of Alexei Navalnys death remains unclear this morning. Abcs lama hasan is in london with the latest. Lama, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, janai. This morning Alexei Navalnys mother has arrived at the penal colony where he died. Were also hearing from his team who are now confirming the date and time of his death, also announcing that they believe he was murdered. This morning, tributes are pouring in, many defying authorities to remember Alexei Navalny with makeshift vigils in moscow and st. Petersburg. People quietly lighting candles and laying flowers. Police cracking down, quickly dismantling them and arresting more than 170 of navalnys supporters across 21 russian cities. Navalny was russias most prominent Opposition Leader and president Vladimir Putins fiercest critic, jailed for offenses widely considered as politically motivated. It was just this thursday navalny was at a court hearing, smiling and cracking jokes, even Court Officials laughing, too. But on friday in the remote penal colony in the arctic where he was serving his sentence of nearly three decades, the Russian Prison Service said that after a walk, navalny felt unwell and lost consciousness. After trying to resuscitate him, the 47yearold was pronounced dead. The anticorruption campaigners death sending shock waves around the world. Just hours after his death, his wife yulia bravely speaking to World Leaders at the munich security conference, placing the blame squarely at putin and his government, demanding accountability. President biden condemning the russian president. Make no mistake, make no mistake, putin is responsible for navalnys death. Putin is responsible. Reporter so, its unclear what is happening with the autopsy at the moment, but what we do know is that his lawyers are now demanding they return his body to his family immediately. Whit. Whit all right, lama hasan for us, thank you. Now to the new details in the deadly shooting in the Kansas City Chiefs super bowl parade. Two juveniles have been charged. Abcs Morgan Norwood is here with the latest. Morgan, good morning. Yeah, good morning to you. We are talking about two minors facing charges behind bars in that shooting that injured close to a dozen other children, and this morning the Kansas City Chiefs rallying behind their recovery. This morning a pair of juveniles, now charged in the deadly shooting that killed one person, injured close to two dozen, then sent thousands of people scrambling for cover during the kansas city super bowl victory parade. The two held on gun charges and resisting arrest, and according to officials, more charges could be on the way. The barrage of gunfire just as the parade was ending, and this morning support pouring in for the victims hurt during wednesdays shooting, and much of it coming from the very team they came to celebrate the moments those shots were fired. Chiefs star Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife brittany visiting the hospital where several children continue to recover, the couple at the bedside of two young girls whose family says they were shot in the legs. One of the girls cast appearing to have been signed by mahomes. His team, the Kansas City Chiefs, announcing an Emergency Fund in partnership with the united way of greater kansas city, so far raising more than 500,000. A separate fundraiser for lisa lopezgalvan, a beloved radio deejay and mother of two killed receiving 300,000, 100 grand coming from taylor swift who is dating travis kelce. Speaking of kelce, he is matching the donation, donating close to 100,000 to the reyes family whose girls were visited by mahomes in the picture we saw, and the chiefs we know have a new shirt to benefit the k. C. Strong Emergency Response fund. Gio. Gio thank you so much. We are going to turn to that brutal attack on two officers in times square. Five more suspects appeared in court. Abcs phil lipof is here with those details. Good morning, phil. Good morning, gio. That makes it a total of seven people now facing charges in connection with that times square assault on two nypd officers. The District Attorney says after sorting through all of the details including Police Body Camera footage, the seven people charged are all migrants staying at city shelters. Police say the altercation happened january 27th right in front of a midtown shelter when officers asked a crowd to move away from the sidewalk. They say the man in the yellow jacket, 24yearold yohenry brito, wouldnt comply, and thats when the scuffle broke out. The officers seen struggling on the ground, both suffered, were told, minor injuries. He is charged with felony assault and remains in custody. Five men were charged on friday and held on bail, two charged earlier this week. All seven have pleaded not guilty. Bail ranged from a single dollar to 50,000 depending on the charges and the extent of involvement. I. C. E. Has detained two of the suspects. New york city mayor eric adams says most migrants and Asylum Seekers are law abiding and are pursuing the american dream, but attacking police will simply not be tolerated. Janai. Janai all right. That certainly has a lot of people talking, phil. Thank you. Well, if you are traveling by car this president s day, weekend you can expect to pay extra. Aaa reporting that gas prices nationwide have climbed an average of cents a gallon this week alone, and theyre expected to just go higher. Experts say gas prices always rise as winter winds down because demand increases and, of course, youve heard of this, gas stations must switch over to that more expensive summer fuel. The National Average price for a gallon of gas is now 3. 28. That summer blend. Whit the summer blend always gets you. Gio always. Whit sneaks up on you. Man, the summer blend. Janai well, it doesnt feel like summer outside. It is time now for a check of the weather with Brittany Bell from our new york station, wabc, is in the building. Good morning, brittany. Brittany good morning to you. Speaking of summerlike temperatures to get through the cold weather, but you know what . It is annoying to shovel out some of the snow, but it gives us a nice sight like this. This is a video of philadelphia taken early this morning. You can also see some flurries that are still coming down. So beautiful there. They received about two to four inches of snow. Speaking of snowfall totals from yesterday, center valley, pennsylvania, about 13. 8 inches through this morning. Holland township in new jersey, 13 inches of snow. Brooklyn, 7 inches. And coney island this morning, around 3. 3 inches. So after the snow stops falling, the focus turns to the big chill on the way. Get ready for realfeel numbers early tomorrow morning dropping down into the teens across a large portion of the northeast and new england, and new york city realfeel numbers around 16 degrees. Then temperatures slowly rise closer to average over the next f