The message he left online. And breaking right now, the abc news exclusive. The abducted supermoms husband speaking out for the first time to gma. Why he says nothing could have prepared him for the moment he finally saw his wife, calling the reality more shocking than anyone could imagine. And his message about hat he calls rumors, assumptions, and lies about his wife. The stunning new details about the kidnapping only on gma. And good morning, america. We have a lot to get to this morning including that impassioned plea from Sherri Papinis husband. Yeah, we heard from him for the first time. He said officers warned him to brace himself before he saw his wife. What an incredible ordeal she went through. Well hear from him directly coming up in a bit. I can only imagine. Also get to those terrible fires. Heres some incredible images coming out of tennessee overnight. They battle those blazes in burning all across tennessee right now. We begin with breaking news, plane crash in colombia. 81 people on board including a soccer team. At least five made it out alive. Now Emergency Responders are on the scene and Abcs David Kerley has all the latest. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, george. It is amazing. We are talking about survivors this morning considering how this small jetliner went down and where it went down. Emergency crews carrying the handful of survivors of the jet crash into local hospitals. Remarkable considering this, the wreckage in the mountainous area around medellin. With just six survivors, rescue crews expect to start the recovery of the other 75 people who were on board. Many of them members of that Brazilian Soccer Team on its way to a tournament. The British Aerospace rj85 from southern brazil and bolivia to colombia. It circled near medellin and the crew said they had an electrical problem before it went down. Video was taken of the soccer team, the chapecoense, before they boarded and on board one of the players, alan ruschel posted pictures with his teammates. Ruschel reportedly one of the survivors. The team posting a statement, may god accompany our athletes, officials, journalists and other guests traveling with our delegation. So, at least o reportedly in the hospital and it was really a cinderella story for this team. Its regional team. They were going to finals and beat some very powerful teams to get to this. The investigation starting at daylight, george. Its a tragedy for this team from brazil. It certainly is. Remarkable, david, that anyone could survive a crash like this. Reporter yeah, you know, its remarkable. We really dont know much. But depending on how this plane went down, how it hit, where you people can survive and others perish. You know, part of the aircraft could break off and actually land softly and the other part could be destroyed. So its really its truly to know what happened but there are a lot of factors that could play into why these folks survived. David kerley, thanks very much. Now to that breaking news right here at home. Dozens of wildfires threatening the southeast. Forcing thousands to evacuate overnight from popular Tourist Spots like Dolly Partons dollywood as winds there up to 60 miles an hour spread flames and destroy so many homes. Abcs rob marciano has all the latest. Good morning, rob. Good for weeks now, weve been reporting on the extreme drought, the fires and the rain that was finally to come last night. But before that happened, the winds cranked and the fire spread. Huge fire. Blowing out of control right now. Reporter overnight wildfires raging across eastern tennessee. Burning at least 100 homes. Yeah, its time to go. Reporter forcing evacuations and threatening one of the areas biggest tourist attractions, dollywood. If you are a person that prays, we could use your prayers. Destination turned into an orange armageddon. Smoke and ash filling the streets downtown. Owners trying to protect hotels and lodges already lit up with holiday lights. More than 10,000 animals are trapped at ripleys aquarium of the smokies. The fires fanned by strong winds up to 60 miles her hour, and the southeasts worst drought in a decade. Conditions are extremely dangerous. Stay off the roadways. Reporter motorts downtown gatlinburg as authorities order a mandatory evacuation there. Oh, my god. Its so hot. Reporter the fires spreading quickly. Ground crews struggling to put out the flames. Aerial firefighters not allowed to fly due to the dangerous conditions. So far only minor injuries on evacuation. We certainly hope that holds true throughout the day today. Large fires that continue to burn. Rain helping things just a little bit. Well get another round of rain as we go through time. Kind of surreal. Heres gatlinburg, about to get out of the heavy rain as it moves towards the north and east, 3 to 4, maybe more inches of rainfall coming later today. That will put out some of these fires but theres also a Severe Threat with this. Well talk more about that in about ten minutes. Thanks very much. We move on to that rampage at Ohio State University where a somaliamerican student drove into a crowd and was shot down by a quickacting police of abcs alex perez has the latest. Reporter good morning, george. Authorities are crediting that quickthinking University Police officer with saving lives and investigators are now hunting for any evidence that might help explain why the suspect did this. Overnight, investigators searching the home of an 18yearold Ohio State University student who police say carried out the violent attack that injured 11 people at Ohio State University. According to the school razak ali artan. The rampage starting early monday morning, unleashing chaos and fear. The university texting students to run, hide, and fight. It was just before 10 00 a. M. When Authorities Say a male suspect in a car deliberately jumps a curb and plows into pedestrians. This is osu. We have a vehicle that struck several pedestrians. Reporter the driver then exits the car with a butcher knife in hand and starts slashing people near the Engineering Building watts hall. We got a man with a knife running around cutting people. Reporter meanwhile, Students Learning about the news on social media took action. Some locking themselves in classrooms, piling chairs to barricade the door. Once we barricaded the door everyone kind of just sat in the corner and tried to stay away from the windows. It was terrifying at first. You dont think its going to happen to you and you know you get really scared when it does. Reporter one minute after the stabbings began campus Police Officer alan horujko Officials Say when artan refused commands, the officer shot and killed him. Yeah, i need medics at the macquigg lab as soon as possible. Severe bleeding out of some of them. Reporter ambulances and fire trucks raced in to treat the wounded. And jacob bowers, who was across the street, watched in shock at the attack unfolded. It looked like he was trying to hurt as many as he could. R were injured. The good news here this morning is that Authorities Say none of those injuries are lifethreatening. Amy. That is certainly good news, alex, thank you very much. Investigators are now looking into the suspects background and his posts online as they look now for a motive. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with more on that. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, amy. Authorities this morning say all signs point to an attack inspired by terror propaganda carried out by a young man who until monday seemed to be living the american dream. Reporter it was five months ago that Abdul Razak Ali artan graduated with honors before going on to ohio state. So many people who are flipped by isis propaganda remotely look like theyre leading successful lives. Reporter but just minutes before the attack, Law Enforcement officials tell abc news artan posted this message on facebook. I cant take it anymore. America, stop interfering with other countries especially the muslim ummah. If you want us muslims to stop then make peace. It certainly looks like this individual had some sympathy for terrorist groups overseas. Reporter artan had only started at ohio state this fall. He was recently profiled in the campus newspaper the lantern blaming the media for making muslims feel scared. His main concern was is it acceptable for me to pray on the oval right now before class . Lived near the campus, where neighbors said there was nothing suspicious about him. Very astonishing. You dont know what people are up to now. Reporter as police surrounded the apartment, family members left in tears. Isis has been urging its followers to carry out attacks using a vehicle. And over the holiday weekend, they put out a new video showing how an attack with a knife can also instill terror. Even as isis loses territory in iraq and syria its propaganda continues to instill terror around the world. All right, brian, thank you. Okay, now to that breaking political news overnight. President elect trump nominates a prominent opponent, congressman tom price, to be his health secretary. As trump unleashes new twitter attacks on reporters calling out his baseless claims on voter fraud and tom llamas is covering it from trump tower. Good morning, tom. Reporter george, just moments ago, congressman price accepting that nomination. And this just could be the start. Vice president elect pence saying last night as he left trump tower very important announcements would happen today. President elect trump back on twitter attacking journalists who are pointing out hes making baseless allegations of voter fraud. Overnight, president elect donald trump unleashing a twitter tirade retweeting attacks on a journalist after trump claimed voter fraud but provided no proof of voter misconduct. Retweets like this one, what proof do you have donald trump did not suffer from millions of fraud votes . Trump is furious about Green Party Candidate jill steins recount in three battleground states, calling the effort sad. What we have are predictors that if tampering took place, that it would be most likely to be discovered in the three states where we are looking. Reporter but many are wondering why the president elect tweeted this baseless claim. Millions of people who voted illegally to explain why he lost the popular vote. On monday, his team pointing to this 2012 pew study which said more than 1. 8 million deceased voters. But the primary author of the study quickly clarifying. I can confirm that report made no findings re voter fraud. We found millions of outofdate registration records due to people moving or dying, but found no evidence that voter fraud resulted. I think its most unfortunate that the president elect is claiming that theres huge problems with our system and thats feeding what i call this conspiracy theory. Reporter back in trump tower, the p shaping his cabinet. Overnight transition sources confirming hes expected to name congressman tom price, a georgia republican, who started his career as a surgeon and has been a staunch critic of obamacare as the next secretary of health and human services. Trump also considering retired general David Petraeus for secretary of state. The meeting went very well. Reporter the onetime director of the the cia forced classified information to his mistress. Trump tweeting about the petraeus meeting say he, quote, was very impressed. Now, a top aide to president elect trump tells me general petraeus is also being considered to head up the department of homeland security. And later today, mitt romney will again meet with president elect trump. This will be the second round of meetings for the onetime trump critic. George . Okay, tom, thanks. Lets talk about it with jon karl and, jon, extraordinary public jockeying for secretary of state job. The two main contenders it appears, mitt romney and rudy it seems like trump is intrigued by romney, but his staff, not so much. Hes facing open revolt by members of his staff like kellyanne conway, really do not like the idea and made it clear. But the controversy between those two, between giuliani and romney, has opened up the possibility of a third candidate. And thats why you saw david yesterday. Bob corker, the senator from tennessee, Foreign Relations committee will be there today. Im told general allen is also in the mix. If he goes that direction and chooses a general for secretary of state you have the prospect of three generals on his National Security team, mattis, a leading contender for defense, flynn at National Security council, and possibly petraeus at state. If he picked those they would need a waiver from congress. Meantime, you do have this pick this morning, congressman tom price, Orthopedic Surgeon member of congress to head health and human services. As we were just talking about before we came on air, it shows the real president elect mike pence. Pence and price were very close in congress. Both served in the house together and this is clearly showing the influence of pence. Price is somebody by the way who was both a prominent critic of obamacare but actually wrote a plan to replace obamacare. Not simply one of those that said repeal. Was also replace. A strong supporter of donald trump going back to may. Absolutely. Jon karl, thanks very much. All right, turning now to the trial of the suspected accused of killing nine people in a church. Well, a judge has now ruled he can act as his own attorney. And Abcs Steve Osunsami is in charleston with all of those details. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, amy. This is setting up an ugly situation at federal court in charlesson. Dylann roof could no be able to question the relatives of the victims hes accused of murdering. Its a Stunning Development in the trial of an accused mass murderer who police say is called for a race war. A federal judge in downtown charleston is allowing 22 as his own lawyer as long as his old defense Team Continues to sit by his side. Roof began representing himself monday, still dressed in his prison jumpsuit, saying very little as prosecutors interviewed potential jurors. He objected to one, the only juror of the day who was africanamerican. Yes, sir. Reporter roof, seen here at his amainment, is pleading not guilty. He could very well get the Death Penalty if convicted. Hes seen here on a surveillance camera walking into the emanuel police say he gunned down nine black worshippers at a bible study. Police later found roofs white supremacist manifesto along with pictures of him at confederate grave sites holding the confederate flag. The danger is that someone like roof wants to make a statement. And thats going to be the judges job to make sure hes got the right to represent himself. But he doesnt have the right to make a mockery of the courtroom. Reporter it was just last friday that the judge in this case even found him competent to stand trial. Jury selection here will last another two weeks. Amy . All right, steve, thanks so much for that. Michael . All right, thank you, amy. Now to something you dont see every day. A bizarre incident at a houston airport. That right there is a passenger running along the tarmac after jumping from the planes emergency exit and linsey davis is here and linsey, i have to ask you, how could she even do that . Reporter this is a hard one reserved for hollywood and nightmares which is why passengers were stunned when a fellow passenger popped open the emergency door and the question this morning is why. Passengers on this jet were stunned. The lady on this flight just opened the door and jumped out. Of the plane. Reporter the flight landed in houston from new orleans but not at the gate. The emergency door gone. As well as a passenger. She was seen spotted on video obtained by kprc running across the tarmac toward the terminal. But authorities quickly realized this is not a threat, but a medical case. P Airport Response Team 92. Reporter the woman was hospitalized overnight. Frankly, its been a fear. I always watch the emergency doors and, you know, its pretty frightening that somebody could do Something Like that. Reporter now for those who may be worried about this happening mid flight, fear not. The emergency door cannot open while the plane is mid flight. When it is in the air at altitude and when its traveling pressurized. And its that pressurization that makes it impossible to open the door but still a fearful moment for a lot of people on the plane, yeah. Thanks very much. Back to rob. You mentioned the Severe Threat today. We had it yesterday. Video out of grundy center, iowa, 1 of 10 tornadoes reported. Another in louisiana and another Severe Threat today with another system. This one actually looks to be stronger but the same areas that were threatened yesterday namely eastern louisiana, mississippi getting into alabama, tupelo, jackson, really right in the heart of it. Youll be in the threat for not only tornadoes but strong winds also. All with this system that moved through gatlinburg in the way of some rain. The rain is getting up into the northeast. New york, philadelphia, 1 00 p. M. I think it will rain heavily. Bring along the rain gear. Tomorrow another rain coming into the east coast as well. Around the same time. Northeast has extreme drought too so well take the rain. Time now for your tuesday trivia brought to you by coming up, the husband of that kidnapped california mom speaking out only to gma. And what hes saying really happened during her terrifying ordeal. The sheriff at the heart of that investigation joins us live. And then take a look at this crazy scene playing out in a parking lot. Two women crashing their suvs. Whoa whoa. Well tell you what sparked the road rage when we come back. Crohns disease. My e i didnt think there was anything else to talk about. But then i realized there was. So, i finally broke the silence with