Risked their lives and what they are saying this morning. And sweet dreams are made of this. Lotto fever heating up after no one wins the powerball. The giant jackpots ballooning. More than 600 million up for grabs. Will anyone take home the megamillions . And good thursday morning, america, and lotto fever has so Many Americans dreaming of those megamillions. No powerball winner again last night, but theres of course another chance at the big prize that keeps on growing. Its over 600 million, to buy something that will make you feel warm and fuzzy. Were not getting that with the weather. That bitter cold not letting up at all. More Winter Weather is on the way. Youre looking at snowy conditions in minneapolis just moments ago. Look at this picture from our weather team. This is a fountain in new york city almost completely frozen it actuallyer. It is frozen. It does look a little beautiful, but i would rather be inside. Watchin exactly. Well begin this morning with that deadly freeze gripping so much of the country. The state of emergency, record cold and snow making Holiday Travel a danger for millions as calls for help to aaa sore and abcs alex perez is in erie pennsylvania where the National Guard has been called to help dig out residents under 6 feet of snow. Good morning to you, alex. Reporter good morning, paula. When you get that much snow you run out of places to put it all. Thats what areas here in erie look like now. Officials dealing with mounds of snow that are dealingcars buried in and these owners cant get to them. From roads to runways, Winter Weather wreaking havoc all over the united states. Kansas city more than 40 accidents due to icy roads. Icy conditions also turning runways into rinks. A plane skidding off the runway in indiana. The same thing happening in pittsburgh. Bitter temperatures and record snowfall crippling the great lakes. Erie, pennsylvania brought to a halt this week buried under more than 65 inch of snow. Even this snowplow got stuck. Today well be out probably 10, 15 hours easily. We have been out since 2 00 in the morning. Reporter the city now bracing itself for another 10 inches of snow friday into saturday. Oswego county bearing the brunt of the deep freeze under a state of emergency. We really got hit this year. Reporter and in new york city this fountain turningnto an ice sculpture. The coast guard breaking up ice in green bay and just to give you an idea of how much snow we are actually talking about here erie gets about 100 inches of snow all winter. So far, they have gotten 102 inches just in december alone. Paula . Jawdropping numbers. 102 inches alone in december. All right, alex. Well send you shovels and hot chocolate by the way. We turn to rob marciano. Is there any relief in sight from this bitter cold . Its only going to get worse. Im sorry to say. It will be a long duration. They have had a long one near minneapolis. The falls there, singledigit highs, and its freezing the rivers and rapids there. We have windchill warnings and watches. This is dangerous stuff over the next two days. Check out these numbers. 15 below in binghamton, and 3 here in new york. Im glad to be inside. We will have another surge of cold air in half the country. 11 degrees the windchill of minus 4. That could be the coldest since 1962. Stop looking so happy about it, please. Three words you dont want to hear. Long duration event. With a smile on his face. Thank you, robert. Now to po republican roy moore filing a lawsuit to block the senate electionts alleging fraud. Abcs Stephanie Ramos is on the story in washington this morning. Stephanie, good morning to you. Reporter dan, good morning. Roy moore just wont give up. Overnight in alabama, the Moore Campaign filed a lastminute complaint to prevent his loss from becoming official. He has refused to concede since the december 12th vote which he lost by about 20,000 votes. Moore filed his complaint seeking a temporary restraining order to delay the certification alleging potential election fraud. That altered the outcome of the election. He says this is notue as election interestingty should matter to everyone. The board is scheduled to meet this afternoon to certify jones victory. The Board Meeting will take place as planned and doug jones will be sworn in by Vice President pence on the 3rd of january. State officials said last week they have found no evidence of voter fraud in the senate race. In moores complaint though, he also says he took a polygraph over the Sexual Misconduct allegations against him, and he says those results prove he did not know any of those women, dan. Just to put a fine point on this, these lastminute maneuvers are not expected to delay the certification of doug jones win . Reporter not really dan. The secretary of state has previously said its highly unlikely that jones not be certified as the winner of that election. Dan. This election in alabama continues to generate controversy. Thank you very much. We appreciate your reporting. Paula, over to you. Possibly closure as stephanie said. President trump stirring up controversy on his working vacation in florida, touting his legislative successes. All as his former Campaign Manager faces Sexual Assault allegations. Kenneth moton has the very latest. Good morning to you, kenneth. Reporter good morning, paula. It was a nice gesture. President trump taking a break to thank firefighters at a local fire station, but the president spent most of his time in front of the cameras talking about his first year in office. President trumps surprise visit. You do a fantastic job, so we wanted to thank you very much. Reporter the president stopping by a West Palm Beach fire station to thank First Responders and tout his own record. We have signed more legislation than anybody. Broke the record. Reporter that claim, false. President trump has signed the least amount of bills than any president at this point in office. We catch glimpses of him playing golf nearly every day of his vacation. But a box truck blocked the view of the president hitting the lakes. Corey lewandowski is on defense, now facing a Sexual Assault allegation. A trump supporter who wore a make America Great again picture tweeted this picture. She said it was taken seconds before lewandowski slapped her behind not once, but twice. She was shocked, she wrote. She told abc news if lewandowski, would, quote, apologize, thats all i want. Lewandowski, a contributor with the fox network was asked about the allegations. Im not here to speak for joy, but im here to speak for me, and what i will do is let the process play forward. Reporter its not the first time lewandowski has faced legal trouble. During the campaign he was involved in a physical altercation grabbing a reporter by the arm, but themisdemeanor Battery Charge was dropped. Thank you, we appreciate your reporting. Lets bring in our chief political analyst, matthew dowd. Good morning. Lets talk about this lewandowski case. The president appears to be close to the accuser and the accused here. How does he handle this especially because he has his own accusers . Reporter well well, this is a difficult spot for the president to be in. This is like pirates of the caribbean where all these characters are surrounding him, and they have problems. We know what happened with Paul Manafort and the candidate he endorsed in alabama. A series of folks, in surrounding this world, and in the end, the president is barbosa barbosa, and he has problems as big as corey lewandowski. Its a difficulty that the white house is in. I knew some cultural references would be thrown in this morning. Lets talk about the preside specifically, and his claim that he repeated that he has signed more legislation than any other president. So it is absolutely true that trump has some big wins under his belt including the tax bill that just went through, but its not true. Its verifiably false that he signed the most legislation. Why do you think he keeps saying this . Im just shocked that the president exaggerates like this. We havent seen this before from him. In politics, we have seen all president s exaggerate and probably stretch the truth in this but this president , when you look at the averages of this president , this president exaggerates or makes stuff up an average of five times a day. It has become commonplace in the presid of the olympic champion of this kind of stuff, and he continues to do it and my guess is for the next year two years, three years, he will continue to do it. Hi matt. Its paula. Good morning to you. Hey, paula. There is a lot of uncertainty with the tax bill that dan brought up. What should you know if you are many peopl to make thoseuctions that will soon disappear with the tax law taking effect . Specifically property taxes. Sure. You have a major tax reform change through at the last minute in a rushed manner right before the new year. We have the law of uninte consequences and this is the first one well see, see more. I paid my property taxes last week for 2017. Those are still deductible because i was billedd and it was all for 2017. You cannot deduct those expenses for 2018 unless you have been billed and assessed in 2017, and pay it in t if pay 2017, youre fine. Really up to the municipality municipality, the local municipality to decide. We t prepay 2018, and said no. Its up to the jurisdiction as well. As i said this is the law of unintended consequences and well see more of this you see majort dowdo much. We want to move now to the Airport Security scare, raising questions about safety in the skies after a tokyobound plane was forced to turn around mid flight when an unauthorized passenger was found on board. John legend and Chrissy Teigen were delayed a total of 15 hours. Matt gutman is at l. A. X. To tell us what happened. Good morning, matt. Reporter sources tell us which was likely not a mistake. They say one of two brothers with very similar names likely used a duplicate boarding pass to get on the plane, and then flight attendants didnt realize they had a possible stowaway on board until the flight was halfway to tokyo, which is one reason they are calling this the flight to nowhere. This morning, the fbi is weighing criminal charges against a pair of brothers who somehow got on flight 175 los angeles to tokyo, using a single boarding pass. The socalled flight to nowhere ngeles o from noon on wednesday and just four hours later, boomeranged back when flight attendantse stowaway. It turned out to be a 4,000mile de overnight, we learned the brothers have nearly identical names and used a boarding pass. One had a legitimate ticket for flight 175, and the other brother had aimate ticket to tokyo, but on a different airline. Once we get those answeren you engineer the process andou dont let that occur again. Reporter and overnight, 16 hours delayed, that plane finally unloadedas mostly tired and pretty angry. Pretty upset. Definitely ppoint reporter abc news was there meeting honeymooners. Theres no competition to give us back that day. Reporter there was also a very, supermodel Chrissy Teigen. This awesome vacationbabe. Weet stormviraasking to know why flown to tokyo, and et is this one persons mistake . The Co Passengers inconvenience. Now being a stowaway is a federal crime. Its punishable by up to five years in prison and federal authorities are poring over surveillance video. But the airline couldac fines for allowing that passenger on board, and failing to make an accurate head they have offered all those passengers a 26 or thereabout ou are in the middle seat i dont know if that cuts it. Thank you. Now to theccue caught onbodyca officers pulling teenagers from an overturned vehicle that burst into pilgrim has the story on how these officers risked their own lives. Back up. The car is on fire back up reporter a fiery car crash, three teens inside four Milwaukee Police officers jumping into action. When we saw the car up in flames and we saw the unconscious, we knew we had to get them out. Reporter t down after hitting a utility pole. The bodycam capturing the rush to get the two teens inside. You see an officer tap on the window yelling. Crawl reporter when no one comes out, one of the officers goes in pulling the teen from the car, dragging him away. We started getting people out as quick as we could, knowing that was our job right then and there. Reporter the fire growing. The officers go back in getting a second teen out, moving him to safety. Come on. Reporter another teen was able to get out on his own. All three were taken to the hospital. And these same officers had actually tried to pull over this speeding just a short time before the accident. It didnt stop, so the driver will face charges for not stopping and for reckless driving. Eva, thanks. And now to the big money thats up for grabs after last nights lottery drawing. Still no powerball winners again, and powerball is just one of massive multimillion dollar jackpots that are sparking lottery fever this week and abcs t. J. Holmes is here with us. Did you buy your ticket . No, because im not going to win. Here we go again with this. The powerball, up to 384 million. If you take the cash, buy out. Thats 239 million. Youre not going to win that. Megamillions, 236 million, and if you pay it out, 191 million. They have been rolling over and i have been doing this since october now, and they have not had a winner and youre not going to win, folks. Your odds are great. Everyone wants this warm fuzzy story about the lottery. Look at your face. Your hopes and dreams. You dashed all of them. If you want to bring nihilistic sarcasm, absolutely. Heres how we are. Wonmillion on the drawing this week so everyone was disappointed. Were there any other winners . Congratulations, folks. There were 1. 3 million winners last night, and overwhelmingly most of them won 4. That means you doubled your winnings. Congratulations. There was somebod night, but overwhelmingly most people won a few bucks. You need a hug, t. J. Welcomew segment, the keeping it real theme, lets sends things over to rob marciano. Being inside is what makes me happy. I won the lottery today b look at this rain in new york between water town an syracuse. Firefighters had to dig a woman out of her home. 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