Welcome to world news. Tonight, extreme weather. A huge and deadly storm on this first weekend of winter. Heavy snow spinning drivers off roads, ice so thick tree branches are snapping. Hundreds of thousands now would power in the south. Flooding and tornadoes, too. But on the east coast, its recordbreaking heat. Also tonight, the home stretch. Holiday shopping in high gear. But the countrys biggest bank is taking dramatic steps to deal with the target Security Breach, including putting limits on how much millions of customers can withdraw and buy. And the racist tweet heard around the world. The backlash building as she was flying to her destination, unaware of the fire storm she triggered. Now tonight, the former publicist doing some damage control for herself. And good evening. David is off tonight. Im rebecca jarvis. We begin with the massive and deadly storm snarling Holiday Travel with a bizarre mix of winter and springlike conditions. At least 12 people have died. Thousands of flights delayed, some 600 canceled. It even got dangerous for holiday shoppers. In Oklahoma City, huge sheets of ice pouring down on shoppers who ducked out of the way at this outlet mall. And in upstate new york, power lines sagging across this road. Hundreds of thousands without power across the country tonight. To ohio, flood rescues, where the watt earl rose quickly. Rafts were used to save the residents of a retirement home. Reports of tornadoes in louisiana. The winds so strong, they ripped off this store front. The storm stretching nearly 2,000 miles from texas to the great lakes to the northeast, where some cities are experiencing recordbreaking heat today. Abcs alex perez starting off our coverage. Reporter the monster storm is packing a powerful punch of snow, ice, strong winds and even devastating floods. The water so high in central kentucky, it washed away this suv, drowning fl ining three pe inside. In ohio, fastrising waters forced the evacuation of this retirement home and the neighborhood around it. Fire crews going door to door and making rescues by raft. This system creating a major headache. And getting home isnt easy. 600 flights canceled. More than 4,500 delayed. On the icy roads, spinoffs and deadly pileups. At least three killed in oklahoma. One shopper in Oklahoma City capturing this scary moment as huge sheets of ice fly off a roof into a busy outdoor mall. Luckily, no one was injured. In vermont, dangerous black ice left some cars upside down. Meteorologist Michael Paige from our burlington affiliate is in the thick of it. Here in vermont, everything is caked in a half inch to three quarters of an inch of ice. Its the biggest ice storm the region has seen since the devastating storm of 1998. Reporter in the south, the storm spawned possible tornadoes, tearing apart this roof in louisiana, overturning mobile homes in mississippi and destroying entire neighborhoods in parts of arkansas. But in wisconsin, heavy snow is the big problem. In milwaukee, john benning says walking his dog has become a challenge. When you hear the power of this storm, what are you thinking . I think thats it shutdown mode. Just clamp down, get inside and be prepared for whatever else comes. Reporter and thats the attitude many people are taking. Get inside and out of the Winter Weather as soon as possible. This is the Milwaukee River behind me. Tonight, it is completely frozen over. Across the midwest, they are bracing. Temperatures are expected to plunge tonight. Rebecca . Alex perez, braving the elements in milwaukee for tonight us. Thank you. And were joined by lee goldberg from our station here in new york. Lee. We have this highly unusual weather out in the northeast, but in other parts of the country, severe. Reporter it looks like a weather map from 1998. A lot of the ice is leaving the northeast. The big snows are starting to leave the great lakes. Rain along the east coast. Heavy rainfall along the i95 car door on monday. The worst weather to the north is leaving. But look at the highs. 70 in new york city. The alltime december high in new york city is 75. It was in the low 70s today. Three to five inches in new york city during the work week. Look at the pictures out of central park. Snow cover in the week and folks are jogging in shorts and tshirts. No evidence of the previous snowfall. But now things will start to change. Unbelievable. Whats the outlook for christmas . Reporter cold, but thankfully pretty quiet. If you look at the cold air which is already over the upper midwest and the great lakes, thats rushing east. Places like boston, new york and d. C. Will go from 70 degrees to 30s by monday night and you see tuesday and wednesday, as we head into Christmas Eve, frame churps temperatures in the 30s. Snow showers on Christmas Eve in the Northern Rockies and great lakes. Same thing on christmas day. Its a very quiet weather map. A shower over south florida. Very few delays at the airports. A weather gift for christmas. Lee goldberg, thank you. We turn now to the shopping frenzy. The crowded stores tonight, and a sudden move by one of americas biggest banks to protect millions of debit card hold earls that shop at target. A new spending cap in the wake of the Security Breach. Abcs aditi roy with that story. Reporter its the busiest shopping weekend of the year. And mo fallout from the Security Breach on credit and debit cards at target stores nationwide. Now the largest bank in the u. S. , jpmorgan chase, says it is putting limits on debit card holders who shomed at target between november 27th and december 15th. Thats when store Officials Say as many as 40 million accounts were compromised. Nearly 2 million chase debit card holders who shopped at target during that time are being told today they can only withdraw 100 on their debit cards on any one day. And limit total purr chases to 300 a day. Chase said this action is a precaution to protect customer accounts from criminal activity. Chase is the grinch that stole christmas from families all across america. The reality is, they are doing it to protect themselves and they are holding peoples money hostage. Reporter in a dramatic move, the bank says it is opening up more than a third of its branches today to issue new cards to card holders effected. For its part, target is trying to soften the blow, offering 10 discounts this weekend. A target spokesman telling abc news, the company has activated even more Fraud Protection and is answering customer questions. Adding, our customers need to continue to be vigilant and we are working to help them report issues. Its an allout effort to salvage a holiday nightmare. Aditi roy, abc news, los angeles. Also tonight, regret from a woman who sparked a twitter bash lack over an offensive tweet that joked about said in south africa. She says shes sorry. But so many are wontering how a Public Relations executive could spark such a Public Relations disaster. Abcs gio benitez with that story. Reporter shes the pr executive at the center of a digital firestorm. Justine sacco now apologizing after this offensive tweet went vie value. Going to africa. Hope i dont get aids. Just kidding. Im white. In a statement, sacco tells abc news, words cannot express how sorry i am and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of south africa. She was fired saturday from her top pr job at iac, where she reps some of the biggest names online, like match. Com, the daily beast and about. Com. This is one of the fastest responses in crash and burns ive ever seen from a tweet. Reporter sacco posted the tweet friday, just before a nearly 12hour flight from london to cape town, south africa. While she was apparently offline in midair, millions were online, anxiously waiting for her to land and see the uproar her tweet caused. Hasjustinlandedyet became an instant trend. Her former bosses calling the tweet outrageous and offensive. So many teachable moments here. Think before you tweet. And never, never put out something that can be perceived as racist. Reporter this photo reportedly shows sacco at the south africa airport when she landed. She quickly deleelted the tweet and her entire account. She tells us, it is terribly easy to be cavalier about an epidemic that one has never witnessed first hand. I am ashamed. So many saying tonight she should have known better. Not only because of her job talking to reporters, but because she herself was born in saut rfafrica. Tonight, she tells us shes very sorry. Gio benitez, thank you. In south sudan tonight, word that hundreds of americans have been safely rescued from the Central African nation over the past week. Some were flown out of the region by these u. N. Hall cometers, as fierce fighting is intensifying. Yesterday, three u. S. Military aircraft were attacked by ground fire. Four u. S. Troops were wounded. The u. S. Is urging all other Americans Still there to leave immediately. Now, to the busy week ahead on the International Space station. Astronauts are gearing up for a dangerous space walk to finish fixing that broken cooling system. But first, they have a serious wardrobe malfunction to take care of. Abcs Mike Boettcher explains. Reporter in a crippled International Space station, a successful Christmas Eve spacewalk would be the best gift of all to the six astronauts on board. Station houston with us. Hope everybody had a good day. Reporter a saturday spacewalk brought them halfway to that goal. American spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and mike hopkins removed a broken 780pound coolant pump. Dont tlaet go. Thats a stocking suffer. Reporter but a malfunction in mastracchios suit my toes are quite cold. Reporter forced the postponement of a second spa spacewalk, scheduled to complete the repairs. We want to dry that suit out overnight. Rrl if the second spacewalk in a row, water in the suit was an issue. Just to be safe, the as troy naughts will use a backup suit. Its their life support system. Somebody on the ground, team on the ground is making a big plan to put that new suit together. Reporter this is the suit theyre wearing. Behind glass in a display at the Johnson Space center. At 35 years old, it could be a museum piece, but nasa always facing budget constraints, must make old things work. Weve done over 11,700 hours of spacewalking. I think it was just a small blip in the road that happened to catch us. Reporter and so nasa and the astronauts on board the space station have this christmas hope. That those ageing spacesuits are gifts that keep on giving. Mike boettcher, abc news, at the Johnson Space center, houston. And we wish them well. Turning now to another deadline and one that the Obama Administration is watching very closely. Tomorrow is the last day to enroll for Obamacare Health insurance if you want your coverage to begin on january 1st. The administration set a goal of 7 million signed up by march and on friday, the president announced theyve only hit the 1 million mark. The challenge is not only to keep the website rubbing without any glitches, but also to get younger americans to sign up. Abcs jon karl reports. Reporter theres a new front in the battle over obamacare. Young people. If not enough sign up, premiums could skyrocket and so far, they dont seem to be paying much attention. Hasnt really been on my mind. I havent had time to think about that. Reporter to get their attention, the proobama group ofa is out with this video. We love you no matter what. But its time to get covered. Reporter and earning rid yule for this ad featuring a 20 something guy in zipup pajamas. Thats spawning all manner of parodies. Even one with a photo shopped White House Press secretary. California is out with this, featuring a rapp eper telling yg people to sign up because its hot. Health care which has got it going on reporter is somebody going to buy health care because a rap song items him to buy it . Having not designed Advertising Campaigns myself, im not an experts, but i think that, you know, people there are efforts under way to reach potential consumers. Reporter and then theres the antiobamacare side. One Group Launched this creepy video with uncle sam taking over a womans medical exam. It has over 2 million views. The group is also having optout parties, telling people not to enroll. Health care experts say at least 40 of enrollees need to be young adults. Only nine states have said how many young people have signed up so far and none of them have come close to hitting that target. White house Officials Say that efforts to reach out to young people will intensify in the new year and they insist that past experience shows that young people are most likely to wait until the last minute before buying health insurance. Rebecca . Jon karl. A lot of people waiting until the last minute for a lot of things this time of year. This note now for you football fans. Denver broncos quarterback Peyton Manning snapped tom bradys nfl record for most touchdown passes in a season tonight. 51, with this play against houston. The broncos won the game, 3713. It was brady who beat mannings record back in 2007. And he held onto it until tonight. Still much more ahead on world news this sunday. One womans unforgettable gift to her family years after her death. 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Now, the story of a wife and mother who looked ahead in her last days, planning a family Christmas Gift that they and many of us will nev forget. Heres abcs john donvan. Reporter it is a Christmas Wish letter unlike any ever written, probably, because the woman who typed it up more than two years ago, brenda schmitz, died soon afterwards of cancer. Yet the wish she made it in came to life only last week. When david, the husband she left behind, unaware the letter existed, was asked to drop by des moines Radio Station star 102. 5. You lost your wife brenda a couple years ago to cancer. Reporter and first they talked a bit about brenda and david could barely get through it. She was very strong. Um accepted what happened to her. Reporter and then they told him about the letter, which they had only recently received. Anonymously. And they read brendas worlds allowed to him. I am writing this letter to have sent tow by a dear friend who has instructions to do so when it was the time. Reporter and why was it time . Because david who had been raising three boys with brenda, including a 2yearold named max. What a great husband and father he is. Reporter because david had only recently been engaged to remarry, to jane abraham, joining two families. And back in 2011, when brenda was dying, she had foreseen this day and asked a close friend to mail off her letter to the Radio Station only once david had found new love. She must be quite a lady and i wish i could have met to take on the task of raising a larger, extended family. Reporter and it was brendas wish to send gifts through the stations Christmas Wish program. Among them, a day spa for her kids knew mom. She deserves it. Being a stepmother to all those boils and especially giving limb max a mothers love that only she can give. Reporter wrbrenda, back for this christmas, in some ways, never gone. John donvan, abc news, washington. That touching story of brendas gift resonating around the world online. 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