Remember a fearless journalist, bob simon. Good evening. And its great to have you with us tonight. We begin with the american sniper trial. And the stunning video revealed in court today. This is the former marine accused of killing navy s. E. A. L. Chris kyle and his friend. The images from his days in iraq. Than is what he looks like now in that texas courtroom. Dont, the video captured by the police cruiser, revealing the moment the suspect takes off a short time later, surrendering as police then rush in. That marine veteran is pleads not guilty by reason of insanity but abcs ryan owens reports tonight, the prosecution is hoping these videos will prove otherwise. Reporter this is dash cam video of Police Chasing double murder suspect eddie routh just hours after he killed chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. One officer rams the truck. Watch that collision again. It doesnt stop routh. The chase reaches speeds of more than 100 miles an hour before the truck has mechanical problems and stops in the middle of the interstate. Routh gets out, hands in the air and is swarmed by officers. Heres another angle of his takedown from a different dash cam. The marine veteran who served in iraq is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity but prosecutors say the fact that he is fleeing from police proves het from wrong. The truck routh is in belonged to navy sniper chris kyle whose story is told in the blockbuster, american sniper. Dont pick it up. Reporter kyle, along with littlefield, brought routh to this gun range to help him cope with ptsd. Thats where prosecutors say routh shot them in the back multiple times and stole kyles pickup. He said that he killed two guys. They went out to a shooting range. Like, hes all crazy. Hes a psychotic. Reporter chris kyles widow taya was back in court for a second day after her tearful testimony wednesday. Prosecutors played another tape for the jury this afternoon, this shaky video is from an officers body camera. Thats routh sitting in the truck just before that police chase. His neighbor, whos also a cop, is trying to get him to surrender. The officer says routh tells him ive taken af souls, and i have some more souls to take. These videos may not be quite the slam dunk they appear for the prosecution. On them, routh rambles. Talking about devils living among us. Even saying hes insane. David . Ryan owens leading us off tonight from texas. Rib, thank you. And now, to dangerous cold moving in tonight. A possible blizzard to follow. 35 million americans will be affected. Heres the map tonight. 14 states under wind chill advisories around warnings. That cold air reaching inging georgia. Look at this. A vallen tines day storm marching eastward. Outside pittsburgh, two tractor trailers skidding off im70 and whiteout conditions on this highway in indiana today. A dangerous comemute home tonight already, and now the coldest air of the winter coming next. Heres meteorologist rob marciano. Reporter tonight, this fastmoving clipper storm that brought blinding conditions to 23 states is causing pileups near pittsburgh. And behind that storm comes two more blasts of dangerous cold. At least 14 states and 35 million americans are under wind chill advisories or warnings. Frostbite could set in in just minutes to exposed skin. Tonight, a warning from first responders. Limit exposure, dress in multiple layers and stay hydrated. Also tonight, news that new england will not want to hear. More snow. Hopefully well get a break in the weather pattern. Reporter they wont. Whiteout conditions are in the works this holiday weekend. We havent had a chance to really clear the snow from our driveway. Reporter across hard hit massachusetts, the National Guard still hauling away snow by the truckload. Residents rushing to shore up collapsed roofs. Boston already buckling under the weight of recordbreaking snow. And now, preparing yet again. Were going to get through this. Just ask for your help and patience. Sounds like a broken record there. Authorities want folks to take this seriously. Reporter the second shot of cold air may be the worse weve seen in a decade. Lets talk about tonight. The bitter cold down to the south. These wind chills in the morning, what it feels like against your skin dangerous stuff. Minus 10 in boston. Minus 23 in buffalo. The actual highs tomorrow will break some records. Not getting out of the teens in pittsburgh chicago nor new york. Not above zero in burlington. Here is your blizzard watch. Not what you want to hear there. The storm spreads light snow across the great lakes and the low itself just offshore of new york and new jersey. Thats where the strong winds are going to be a. Fullon blizzard for boston and strong winds as far south as philadelphia. All right, rob, thank you. Tonight, in chapel hill North Carolina three members of a young muslim family gunned down by a neighborhood are being remembered. More than 5,000 at the funeral today. Too many for the mosque moved to a nearby field. So many offering their prayers. Tonight, the fbi is helping with the case opening their own inquiry. The families the victims family calling on the president and telling americans, this was a hate crime. Abcs tom llamas in North Carolina again tonight. Reporter in raleigh today, thousands coming together from all religions to remember three Muslim Students killed near the campus of unc chapel hill. And just before the coffins were carried out, the father of the two slain sisters, yusor and razan, demanding the Obama Administration bring hate crime charges against the alleged killer, Craig Stephen hicks. This has hate crime written all over it. Reporter police say hicks shot and killed deah barakat, his new wife yusor and her 19yearold sister razan, inside their chapel hill apartment. The family telling abc news they were each shot in the head. Hicks wife saying this may have started because of a dispute between her husband and the alleged victims over a parking space at the apartment complex. Something just snapped. Reporter but hicks, who is being held would bond openly posted on facebook his proposed solution to the problems in the middle east. Atheism. Care drafting a letter with other groups calling for a federal hate crimes investigation. A sentiment echoed all over social media. The hash tacks muslim lives matter and chapel hill shooting trending all over social media. Last night, a massive vigil on chapel hills campus. Tonight, another massive vigil. This time on the campus of nc state university. 1,000 people gathered here. David, we have an update on this case. The fbi now launching their own investigation into this matter. David . Tom, thank you. And a major headline from washington tonight. The senate has now confirmed Ashton Carter as the nations new secretary of defense, taking over for chuck headache hagel. A vickt the white house tonight, president obama signing a new bill at aiming veterans in crisis. A Suicide Prevention bill named for clay hunt, who fought on the battle hill but losing his battle against postTraumatic Stress. Abcs bob woodruff tonight on the young mans strug that will now help so many other. Reporter he was a strong marine, corporal clay hunt, visibly wounded by a bullet piercing his wrist. But invisibly tormented by post Traumatic Stress so severe that at age 28 he killed himself, two years after returning from afghanistan. He was treated for depression by the v. A. , mostly with drugs. When they didnt work, he just got more. He told his friends he felt like a guinea pig for drugs. He tried to warn others about depression in this video on mtv. Ive done seen things in my life that for one, most people should never have to see. Reporter with post Traumatic Stress, he could not keep a job. Football games or fireworks set off panic attacks. He wanted to do something, so he traveled with an organization started by a fellow marine to help victims of the earthquakes in haiti and chile. But his depression kept getting worse. We got 22 veterans a day committing suicide here. Thats an issue that needs to be seared in the forefront of every citizens mind. Reporter the family hopes those suffering will get more state of the art care. He would not care if his name is attached to a bill. All he would cbout is theyre going to take care of my fellow veterans. When you hear a story like clays people are going to wonder why it took so long. Reporter when you try to spend more tax money, you get a lot of resistance. This time in the senate. And finally, remarkably this Republican Senate and house actually agree with a democratic president. So, now this has been passed. You can imagine clay hunt right now would be very very proud. Great to hear from his parents today. Great to see you, too, bob. Thank you. Were going to turn now to a fearless journalist. Bob simon killed last night in a car crash here in new york city. Remembered this evening for his tireless war coverage from the battlefield in vietnam, traveling to so many conflicts around the world. His latest record airing just last sunday. Tonight, this image from the scene of the crash. Simon was a passenger in the backseat. Abcs byron pitts, who worked with simon, on what happened last night, and on bob simons storied career. Reporter this is the mangled wreck. Evidence of the silence of the crash that took bob simons life. Investigators looking into just how fast the driver was going when he hit a car at a manhattan traffic light and slam into a metal barrier. Simon wasnt wearing a seat belt. An unlikely end to a life lived on the edge. This is where the bobdies are stored. Reporter bob simon had it all. The looks, the style, the resume. He was hemingway with a microphone. Hundreds became thousands until an exodus of biblical proportions was under way. Were going to pick up an american. Reporter as they say in the business he made his bones in vietnam, giving humanity to the humanity of war. Theres nothing left to say about this war. Theres just nothing left to say. Reporter bob simon had a way with words, like babe ruth had a way with a baseball bat. Historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. The beatles are breaking up. Reporter and durhis report on israeli soldiers. This seemed cold methodical. It went on for 40 minutes. Reporter once, when he was the story, taken prisoner along with a cbs crew in 1991 simon told his ordeal not with hubris but humility. Has it changed you . Yeah. How . I dont know. Too early to tell. Reporter 40 days in captivity may have changed bob simon. It never stole his passion for storytelling. He had it all. And to the profession he loved, he gave his all. Byron pitts, abc news, new york. Bob simon remembered tonight. Our thoughts are with his wife his daughter and with his family down the street at cbs. We move on here this evening, and to an abc news investigation now. Buying your way into america. The 500,000 green card offered by the government. Are suspected criminals, spies, possible terrorists paying to live here in the u. S. . Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross tracking down the Government Official in charge of this program. Brian . Reporter well david oushgs invest game focuses on a little known visa program that federal agents fear is being abused by possibly dangerous people to get into this country. As advertised around the world, from russia to iran to china, foreign citizens can now essentially buy visas or green cards to come and live in america through the u. S. Immigration program called the eb5. Yes, you can. Reporter all it takes is 500,000 invested in a u. S. Project that creates jobs. Like this big casino in las vegas. We believe the program is nothing more than selling of green cards. Reporter and among those buying, according to these government documents obtained by abc news are people suspected of childnographypornography, even suspected spies. If this program is being used to undercut our National Security, its something thats got to be exposed. Reporter u. S. Authorities tell a b kr nuzbc news if the program is used by irans elite revolutionary guard. Authorities are now investigating this california shipping company, American Logistics international, and its iranianborn owner, ali mahdavi. Even as he is under a National Security investigation for smuk ming to iran hes used the eb5 program to bring in dozens of people. As he arrived back from the middle east last week, he tried to duck our cameras. Both American Logistics and myself have not done anything wrong. Reporter but mahdavis company is just one of 32 businesses approved for the eb5 Green Card Program that have come under criminal investigation, raising questions about lax oversight of the program in washington. Mr. Secretary, brian ross abc news. Reporter now deputy Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is under investigation, something he did not walk to talk with abc news about. You cannot answer these questions . Only after that encounter did we start to get answers, including word that the company in los angeles under investigation has been stopped from arranging for people to get into the country. And the inspector generals report david, is due out soon. Brian ross thank you. Were going to turn now to the powerball jackpot. Three lucky winners sharing more than a hatch billion dollars. Abcs nick watt on where the winners bought their tickets. Reporter three lucky winners are going to slice up the fifthlargest lottery pot in american history. 564 million. Their names remain a mystery. Ones in texas. The information they provided us from the ticket does match up. Reporter this guy sold that ticket. Did you know until now . Now, still i cannot believe. Reporter he gets a million bucks. A cameraman from our afilliate wfaa broke the news. He told me, hes the first one here. Reporter the other two Winning Tickets were sold in shallotte, North Carolina and ponce, puerto rico. Another 18 tickets matched all but the powerball. Thats the one right there. Of course you kick yourself you know 18 and the winner was 19 but im happy with a million dollars. Reporter for most everyone else who pushed this pot to historic highs, theres nothing but dashed dreams. Id be at the b. E. T. Awards sitting next to jayz and beyonce. Reporter and a maybe next time. Nick watt, abc news, los angeles. There is always hope next time. And there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this thursday. The snowmobiler buried up to his neck in snow. Look at this. The avalanche in the west tonight. Youll see it as it happens and the rescue coming up. Also tonight, pope francis now saying this about married couples who choose not to have children. And the mom to the rescue. Juchl ping from her minivan, wrest. Ing with the suspect. She helps take him down. Tonight, it turns out, shes the one in for one giant surprise. Ay i look at life. Especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib a type of irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. I was taking warfarin, but wondered if i kept digging could i come up with something better. My doctor told me about eliquis. For three Important Reasons. 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Trying not to lose sight of their friend, sam robinson. Where is he . Reporter luckily theres a clue. Right there, just part of the snowmobile is exposed. Robinson is buried. Rescuers trying to dig him out. Get his chest out. Get his chest dug out. Im all right. Reporter all that fluffy snow now a solid trap. This is like concrete almost. Exactly like concrete. And, you know the when the snow starts to avalanche, it starts getting churned up heat pressure and everything bonds together real tight. Reporter over the last five years, about onethird of u. S. Avalanche deaths involve a snowmobile. Amazingly, robinson made it through with only bruises. And tonight, is thankful for a few quickthinking friends. I just kept swimming up. Reporter clayton san deck abc news denver. When we come back here tonight, the pope on couples that choose not to have children. And the mom that jumped out of that mini van to tackle the suspect. Well the big surprise in store for her tonight. 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