One. Tiny hero. A 2yearold stepping in to save his twin. After a dresser falls. The moment he finally gets free. And their parents urgent warnings for other families this morning. Those kids are okay. I promise you that. Good morning, america. Happy new year. We can say that again. First day back at work and school for so many people. So many people had a difficult time coming home. Did you see those scenes . Travelers stuck in massive lines at customs. Look at the video of people. This is in line in atlanta. The Busiest Airport in the u. S. Gio benitez is at jfk, Kennedy Airport in new york. They experienced delays as well. Reporter robin, george, good morning to you. No doubt about it. It was a headache for travelers. This is the same system that checks International Travelers coming into this country. Overnight, it had major problems. Overnight, the nations airports at a standstill. Thousands facing massive delays. There was thousands and thousands of people, hot, sweaty. No water. Reporter as the u. S. Kus comes and Border Protection system shut down for four hours, during one of the biggest travel times of the year. The agency says the systemwide computer problem began around 6 00 p. M. Leaving those coming in on International Flights stranded. Completely chaotic. No system to who got through fast and who had to wait two hours. Reporter in miami, Emergency Personnel treated seven passengers for medical emergencies, while airport staff handed out fans and water. In atlanta, Customs Officials took a dozen people at a time, manually processing their documents. At new yorks jfk, delays as long as 90 minutes. They herd you into one line. They herd you into another line. Then they herd you into another line. It was just chaos. Reporter it was taking immediate action to address the technology disruption, adding it was working to process travelers as quickly as possible while maintaining the highest levels of security. They told us to just be patient and get back in line. Reporter this morning, many questioning what caused the outage creating a nightmare for frustrated travelers coast to coast. And back out here live at jfk, we should tell you that at this point, customs believe this is was just a technical problem, not a malicious take, george. Thank goodness. Meantime, how did they you said they maintained security. How did they make sure the people on the nofly list didnt get in . Reporter no doubt, a concern, george. Customs says the National Security database, that part of it, was always working. It may have been slow, but it was always working. Thank you, gio. Now to the deadly storms tearing through the south. Also creating a travel nightmare for so many. Reported tornadoes and flash flooding killing at least five people. Adrienne bankert is on the scene in hardhit alabama. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, too, robin. The winds Strong Enough to rip the siding off this church. Just up the road, a tree fell into a mobile home, killing several people inside. Four people are dead following a reported tornado in rehobeth, alabama. A tree went right through the roof, splitting the trarl in two. The other three inside managed to escape. This just 1 of 12 reported tornados in three states overnight, including georgia, where 70mileperhour winds and rising floodwaters created havoc on the roads. Emergency workers racing to the scene after this massive tree fell on a home, hitting two cars and blocking streets. Winds in mississippi overturned tractors and knocked through houses. In florida, a 70yearold man was killed by fastmoving flood wather. More than 11 inches of rain fell in crestview. One of many communities where rising rivers and overworked drainage systems made road ways impassabl impassable. The National Weather service has yet to come out and survey some of this damage to confirm whether or not it was, indeed, a tornado. Either way, the kleinup begins. Thank you. We go ginger with more on the storms and where theyre moving this morning. Throughout the Early Morning hours, we were seeing tornado warnings popping up. The strong storms through florida, into georgia, north carolina, south carolina. Even virginia this morning. Thats where the action is later morning, early afternoon. Then with e can say goodbye. More severe storm reports at this point. 135 reported from texas so south carolina. I wanted to bring in the next big headline. The arctic air. A good shot of january here. It will feel like 5 in kansas city thunderstorm morning. Chicago, 5 below. Then the air slides here. The feelslike by the time we get to thursday, feels like january, george. Winter is back. Thank you. Now overseas to the manhunt for the terrorist who gunned down 39 people on new years eve in turkey. Y isis claimed responsibility for the attack. Aleaks marquardt is live on the scene in istanbul. Good morning, alex. Reporter turkish authorities believe theyre closing in on that suspect. Lots of details this morning. The Police Sources say they have the name but are not revealing it. The suspect is from kirg stan. This is the face of the alleged killer. As he strolls through one of istanbuls central squares, just a few days before the attack. New images of the suspect, whose name hasnt been revealed, and new details about how he did it. Reportedly taking a taxi just before midnight to the upscale nightcl nightclub. He shot bullets that were used by ak47s, using six clips. The gun, Police Sources tell us, is not from turkey. Adding that the attacker also used flares to illuminate his targets. Here, he appears to be take off his jacket. Sources tell us they believe he changed his appearance to help his escape. Then pretended to be wounded and limped to blend in. He escaped in another taxi, going less than half a mile before getting out carefully, looking around, and walking away slowly. Behind him, carnage. Among the wounded, 35yearold american jake rock, in istanbul on vacation. He was shot in the leg and pretended to be dead. He was flown home to the u. S. Allky say is its a massive tragedy. This is very unfortunate. Reporter with isis now cl m claiming responsibility, theyre sending a clear message. As theyre peat beating back in iraq and syria we can expect more attacks like this here in turkey and beyond. We have the latest on the trump transition. 17 days until the inauguration. And the president elect is back to business and back on twitter. Were going hear from his Senior Adviser, Kellyanne Conway in a moment. First, cecilia vega is at trump tower here in new york. Good morning. Reporter robin, good morning to you. A new year, a new tweet storm. Donald trump may be just days away from his swearing in. On twitter, hes looking backward to november. And that big win. Taking another victory lap. Fresh off his new years eve bash in maralago all i can tell you is well do a good job. Reporter donald trump is ringing in 2017 with a twitter blitz. The president elect writing, north korea just stated it is in the final stages of developing a Nuclear Weapon capable of reaching parts of the u. S. It wont happen. And a jab at chicagos mayor on the murder rate. If major cant do it, he must ask for federal help. Trump writing it used the worst cover photo of me on a new book. Just 17 days to go before inauguration, trump is promising Something Else on the calendar first. Big news on the russian hacks. I also know things that other people dont know. And so they cannot be sure of this situation. Like what . What do you know that other people dont know . Youll find out on tuesday or wednesday. Reporter hes still doubting evidence from 17 u. S. Intelligence agencies that say they have concrete proof of russias involvement. I want them to be sure. I think its unfir if they dont know. Reporter trump is back here in new york today. Meetings in trump tower. Including with mike pence. Everyone is waiting to see if today might be the day that he releases whatever this new information is that he says he has on those russian hackers. George . Now to the new congress. Smouch on its plate from repeal of obamacare, tax reform, confirming trump nominees. Lets bring in mary bruce. Before the official swearing in today, the house gop voted overnight to take away the power and independence of the congressional Ethics Office. Reporter george, this came as a huge surprise. Late last night, behind closed doors, they moved to gut their own watchdog. The independent Ethics Office. Meant to investigate allegations of their own wrong doing. Now republicans want to move the office and their own control. Saying it on will create a fairer process. Democrats are outraged. Its a sour note to kick off the first day of the new republicanled congress. A packed schedule. Including getting the trump cabinet nominees confirmed. Reporter democrats are ready to go to battle over the confirmation hearings. Theyre targeting eight of Donald Trumps picks. They want more personal financial records released. If they dont, get ready for a long, drawnout fight on capitol hill. George . Thank you, mar ay. Lets get more from Kellyanne Conway. Thanks for coming. Happy new year. Trump promised to drain the swamp in waugs. He wanted real reform. Is this what he had in mind . I havent discussed this with the president elect directly. But, lets make clear that youre going to have an office of complaint review. But its under oversight of the republican majority. Its not independent. The full house will vote on it today. The democrats will have their say. Theres an ambitious agenda to push forward. The republicans have not given the theyve won over 1,000 state legislative seats under president obamas watch. Theres a mandate there for them to make significant change. But is this the way to start gutting the independent Ethics Office . Gutting it doesnt mean there wont be a mechanism. I dont want the viewers to think theres no way for complaints to be reviewed. Theres been an overzealousness in the situation over the years. We dont want people to be mired in years of ethical complaint reviews. North korea is signaling they may test an intercontinental missile. Does that mean president elect trump will order the military to shoot down a test . It doesnt mean anything. We still have a president for the next 17 days. At the same time, President Trump will be tough on those developing nuclear capability. Its been a big disappointment to many americans, including the president elect, that iran, for example, was imboldmboldened an increased their capabilities. Their program son hold. What about north korea . There are so few tools to stop them. What is the president elect suggesting hell do . Hes not stated that publicly. He wont before hes inaugurated. We do know saxs are possible. They have not always worked. I think china would have to have a significant role here as well. Hes putting north korea on notice through this tweet and other statements that this wont happen. He wants to stand between them and their missile capabilities, which experts say could be deployed to reach seattle almost immediately. Finally, on the russian hack. So many people were caught by surprise by those comments by mr. Trump over the weekend, saying he knows things that other people dont know about the russian hacking. What was he referring to . President s and president elects have to know things you and i dont know. E sure hope they do. Hes privy to Intelligence Briefings of all sorts. Today, hes the consensus of those Intelligence Briefings is that russia was behind it. But Julian Assange of wikileaks said just yesterday it was not a political party. Is that what mr. Trump is referring to . No, no. Hes not referring to that. Hes said hes receiving Intelligence Briefings from the top intelligence officials across the country here in new york early this week. He plans to do that. The reason hes doing that is he wants the information. Hes saying he already knew something on saturday that we dont know. Well, he does know things we dont know. We see a lot of blind quotes. Unsourced information. There were cia operatives invited to testify before the house intelligence commute tee and refused to show up and are instead leaking to the press. This is not how we, as americans, want our politics to work. We believe politics should not interfere in our politics. If those officials come to the president elect today or tomorrow, whenever the briefing is, saying we know russia was behind it, will he accept it . He has to see all the evidence. Youre not saying it. Many people on tv try to c conflate any russian hacking with the election results. People are still trying too find a reason that Hillary Clinton lost. You cant deny it. Everyone makes a statement about the russian hacking today are saying, ahha, thats why Hillary Clinton lost. It was embarrassing to have the content of the emails revealed to the country. They dont like that people were questioning Hillary Clintons judgment . Can she find her voice . It was a very uncomfortable situation for them. Thank you very much. We do expect that briefing today. We do know 17 days until the inauguration. We go amy now. A mishap on a flight . An investigation is under way after a baggage handler became trapped inside the cargo hold of a United Airlines flight from charlotte to washington. Airport workers realized what happened and called the faa. They worked to prove that the man was an employee. Its unclear how he got locked in the cargo hold in the first place. A federal judge says dylann roof is competent to represent himself during the sentencing phase of his trial that starts tomorrow. Theyll decide whether or not he gets the death penalty. A dramatic crash in california. An suv stalled on this freeway with no lights on. You see what happened. It was hit at full speed. A news photographer was there, ran to pull the driver out of the burning vehicle. Dragging him away to safety. Neither man, thankfully, was seriously injured. And in hawaii, officials at the Volcano National park hope to have a new viewing area opening today. The previous viewing area was abandoned over the weekend because this massive section of lava crumbled into the ocean. Some visitors were removed with just moments to spare. In sports, oklahoma beat auburn in the sugar bowl. But the game everyone is talk about is the rose bowl. Usc scored 17 unanswered points, including the gamewinning field goal to beat, sorry, lara, penn state, 5249. Did you see lara earlier this morning. She was just like it was a tough night for lara. It was quite a game. Well be kind in pop news. How about a little love on the tennis court. A judge hit. The ball that struck her was going at 126 miles an hour. Jack sock rubbing her head. Giving her a little kiss. Shes okay. She staid on the court. After all, it was his fault. It ended with love. Is it too early for puns . Should i save that for 8 00 . Maybe. You have the audience. They loved it. We do, too. You were laughing on the inside. Ginger, no laughing matter out west with the snow and cold. Not at all. This is bay area snow. Two inches. Thats hamilton. They closed lets get to your local weather in 30 seconds. First though the tuesday trivia brought to you by walgreens. Good morning, everyone, and that rain on storm tracker6 live double scan is beginning to come up into Chester County now and into New Castle County and kent county delaware. Most of it light. Every now and then a little steadier cell beginning to push through. As we take a look outside in philadelphia, cloudy skies ahead of the rain. 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