making news in america this morning, wicked weather. slow moving and massive. a massive winter storm stretching dozens -- across dozens of states creating dangerous road conditions. we are tracking it all. political storm, hillary clinton speaking for the first time since her e-mail controversy, also making a hint about her future. breaking overnight hundreds of passengers forced to escape a plane after skidding off the runway in dense fog. dramatic new video just in. and big dog. a supersized pit bull quickly becoming the world's most famous pet. well good wednesday morning

to you. we begin, of course with the severe winter weather spreading with a vengeance. >> we got another day of snow rain ice for big portions of the country. you can see the radar here. storms stretching from the plains to new england. >> the newest system impacting 130 million americans, many bracing for more snow overnight. the winter weather that won't quit. snow falling overnight in boston again. beantown on the brink of breaking the all-time record of 107 inches. in the midwest snow and ice creating slick sidewalks and roads. this massive pileup in minnesota leaving one driver dead. and a scary scene in chicago. a driver losing control, fishtailing in and out of traffic nearly hitting two cars. >> it was pretty rough. that's why i had to stop. just rattled a little bit. >> reporter: and the main event yet to come. a final swath of snow and ice will create more treacherous conditions on the roads today. at least 30 states under winter weather alerts.

the storm dumping snow ice and rain from utah to louisiana to maine. some areas could see as much as a foot of snow by tomorrow. >> yeah accuweather's justin povick here with the timing and track of it all. good morning to you, justin. >> t.j. and reena, thanks and good morning. no break in sight for the northeast as another storm system pushes in. now, we will catch a brief break from the cold air, in fact a mild push of air working its way up the 95 corridor from our nation's capital to boston where temperatures will rebound into the 40s. at least above the freezing mark into central and north new england. colder air now catching up to the precipitation over indiana, ohio and west virginia. sleet will mix with and change to all snow and wednesday night into thursday we will have some travel delays and headaches from our nation's capital back into new york city where we could see three, four five potentially six inches of snow but a couple inches for boston upwards of a foot around charleston. back to you. >> justin thank you so much. we turn to the political

storm swirling around hillary clinton. she spoke overnight at the gala in washington. didn't mention the growing e-mail controversy, though. critics say she broke rues by using her personal e-mail account to conduct business while secretary of state using the government e-mail system would have put her messages under public and media scrutiny. however, clinton did hint at her political future last night. listen to this. >> along life's way you get a chance to make millions of decisions. some of them are big like do you run for office? [ cheers and applause ] >> applause and friendly audience but the e-mail issue is not going to go anywhere any time soon. it appears her aides main tine she did not break the law and released thousands of e-mails in december. a suspect is in custody after a series of shooting near washington, d.c. in one of the cases shots hit the windshield of this truck injuring two men inside just 12

miles away the national security agency building was damaged by gunfire. it's not clear if the nsa was specifically targeted. it is an emotional day in boston. opening statements will begin in the trial of mar ton bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. a jury of 10 women and 8 men selected. the 21-year-old is facing 30 federal charges in connection with the 2013 attack which killed 3 people and wounded more than 260. more than half of those charges carry the possibility of death penalty. happening today a big test for obamacare facing a second main challenge before the supreme court. >> a ruling against the administration could mean the loss of health coverage for millions of americans. abc's bazi kanani is braving the wind and the rain this morning. she's joining us from just outside the supreme court. bazi. >> reporter: good morning, reena, good morning, t.j. this is the second time the supreme court is taking a look at obamacare. the justices first decided it was not unconstitutional and now

three years later, another case that is just as critical. a case that could unravel the entire 2,000-page affordable health care act on a techny kaltd. the supreme court hearing arguments this morning about these four words "established by the state." obamacare opponents say that means more than 7 million people are not eligible to get subsidies from the federal government to buy health insurance. >> the challengers are arguing that the language is crystal clear that subsidies are only available in states that have established their own exchanges. sort of end of story. >> reporter: and if those subsidies go away experts say the obamacare system will crumble. >> so only the sort of sickest people will participate in the exchanges, premium rates will go up for everyone and this death spiral will ensue. >> reporter: lawyers for the government will argue against a hyper literal interpretation of the law saying the intent is clearly to help people in all 50 states get affordable health care coverage. >> there's breast cancer in my

family so for me it was very important to get the affordable care so that i could go and get all of my preventive care. >> reporter: the fate of obamacare once again in the hands of nine justices republicans say either way, they will keep working to repeal the law. >> it's bad for patients bad for the providers, the nurses and doctors who cake care of them and terrible for taxpayers. >> reporter: the supreme court's decision is expected to come down in june. president obama would not comment this week on a backup plan to keep people insured if the justices strike down the subsidies. >> please go back inside. you look amazing outside live at the supreme court in the wind and the rain. >> yes. >> thanks bazi. a decorated army general and former cia director david petraeus will plead guilty to mishandling classified information. the charges stem in part from documents the former director allegedly provided to his mistress. he was forced to resign when the affair was revealed. he'll pay a $40,000 fine but

will likely stay out of jail. the justice department is releasing a blistering report today on the ferguson police department saying it routinely violated the constitutional rights of fringe americans after widespread protests triggered by the fatal shooting of michael brown. black residents made up of 93% of all arrests, 8 % of traffic stops and 88% of cases where police used force. they say racial bias was so ingrained in the department that officials even used government e-mail accounts to circulate racial jokes. well also new this morning, new information about the homeless man killed by police in los angeles. police say he's that man, 39-year-old charlie robinet a french official says he stole the identity of a french citizen and was living in the u.s. under an assumed name. and he was wanted for violating probation after being convicted of robbing a bank 15 years ago. lapd says officers opened fire after robinet tried to get one of the officer's guns. after a bitter political

battle lawmakers have funded the department of homeland security for the next year. the measure cleared the house yesterday. president obama says he'll sign it as soon as it reaches his desk. it's victory for the white house since conservatives failed to tack on restrictions. the president's authority to limit deportations. another twist this morning in the battle over gay marriage. the alabama supreme court has ordered probate judges across the state to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses. this ruling comes just weeks after those same judges were told that they must issue those licenses. supreme court did not invalidate the marriages of hundreds of same-sex couples who wed in recent weeks. stay tuned. more to come. still ahead, oprah winfrey's big decision about her future. and federal agents swarming an unscale apartment. foreign women streaming into the u.s. so their babies can be americans. new overnight panicked passengers sliding down emergency chutes escaping this damaged plane. new details just in on exactly what went wrong.

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well, target has announced plans to slash thousands of jobs over the next two years. layoffs are a part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving $2 billion. most of the affected jobs from the company's minneapolis headquarters where they employ 13,000 workers. a settlement this morning of the first set of lawsuits stemming from the deadly asiana airlines crash in san francisco. 72 passengers from the 2013 flight reached a deal over personal injury claims with the airlines. boeing and the company that made the slides, but the terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

dozen of additional cases still pending. it's the end of an era for oprah winfrey. she is shutting down her studio after 26 years. harpo studios will close by the end of the year as she transitions her oprah winfrey network headquarters to los angeles leaving 200 staffers without a job. the presence of harpo transformed a downtrodden area into one of the city's hottest neighborhoods. let me take you fellows back to your childhood. look at this. that's a big tonka truck. but this is a full size, fully functional f-750 dump truck. tonka teamed up with ford to build this thing. it can haul up to 17,000 pounds and debuts today at a truck show. you see the little tonka truck there that we all had as kids. yeah it debuts in indianapolis and it's going to head out out for a promotional tour. but a full-size functioning tonka truck. this was the dream back in the day. >> a dream for my 4-year-old right now. i hope he's asleep and doesn't know about this. >> don't let him see that. when we come back, digging deeper into the day the music died. why investigators are

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right now is hadlock field in portland maine, home of minor league baseball's sea dogs, almost completely buried by snow and team officials insist that on april 9th, that's opening day, the sea dogs will be playing baseball. this morning's road conditions are a little better not by much, though. expect icy roadways from new england extending to oklahoma. look out for rain-slicked roads with some flooding from texas to the mid-atlantic. and if you're flying, plan on airport delays in dallas, memphis, washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york and boston. well, federal agents are cracking down on what they call maternity tourism.

>> these are schemes that offer travel, lodging and medical care to wealthy pregnant women from foreign countries so their babies can be born in the u.s. and, of course, become american citizens. agented raided 20 luxury buildings across southern california where mostly chinese women who paid 15,000 to 50 grand and plan to give birth on u.s. soil. those women were not arrested but the ringleaders are facing charges of money laundering and conspiracy. it was a tragic plane crash of rock 'n' roll pioneers and the ntsb agrees to reconsider an investigation into the accident that killed buddy holly, the big bopper and ritchie valens. the 1959 crash in iowa had been blamed on pilot error and weather conditions but an ex-ernest poohed pilot now contends other factors were involved. well a frighten inging crash landing in nepal this morning. a turkish airlines flight skidded off the runway and ended up nose down in a field. the airbus arriving from istanbul and trying to touch down in dense fog on a slippery runway. you can see the packed -- panicked passengers exiting on emergency slides.

all 238 of them evacuating safely and no reports of serious injuries. well, a man has been arrested here in new york after he was found sleeping in the cockpit of a jetblue plane. the flight from the dominican republic had landed at jfk moments earlier when the passenger apparently entered the cockpit after everybody else had gotten off the plane. he was discovered by ground crews and then turned over to police. also take a look at this. a pickup truck in houston. this is on the right side of your screen there slams into a van and another truck sending part of a tree flying, you can see. a mother and her 2-year-old son were trapped inside that truck. rescuers had to use the jaws of life to cut the roof off their truck to try to get them out. both were gotten out of that truck. it's a mess there. both survived and taken to the hospital for treatment expected to be okay. now to a disturbing new report on the growing number of fatal heroin overdoses. the cdc finds those deaths have tripled since 2010. the increase was seen in every region of the country with the

midwest the biggest jump. abc's dr. richard besser says prescription narcotics are the gateway to heroin use. in many communities, people become dependent on the narcotics and then switch to heroin because it's so much cheaper. espn baseball analyst and former pitching great curt schilling can still bring the heat apparently but this time it's against some cyberbullies. this all started when schilling posted a note of congratulations to his daughter you're seeing there, she got accepted into college. in response he received a wave of sexually explicit tweets about his daughter, so schilling posted screen shots of the tweets and identified those tweeters. >> i grew up in a locker room. i grew up playing sports and i know what it means to be a guy. never in my life have i ever uttered half of the words that these guys were posting. >> now one man named by schilling has been fired from his job as a ticket seller at yankees stadium in new york.

another guy has been suspended from his school. let's turn to something a bit more uplifting like college basketball. >> yes. >> this morning all about the letters. >> those letters are uk and ku. our guys from espn will explain. good morning. welcome to our "sportscenter" set. i'm stan verrett here in los angeles. let's start with college basketball. kentucky trying to get to 30-0 on the season. the wildcats taking on georgia. charles barkley was there, bill belichick to check it out, as well. aaron harrison hits a jumper with kentucky down two to tie it up. here calls karl-anthony towns and he's going to work. 17 of his 19 in the second half. he got fouled there. kentucky up three after he made the free throw. and just over two minutes to go, it's towns inside once again. kentucky wins it, 72-64. they're 30-0, 17-0 in the s.e.c. to the big 12 now. kansas fans pumped to watch the jayhawks take on west virginia. west virginia beat them in morgantown earlier this season. less than 15 seconds to did.

devonte graham fouled. hit both his free throws. that would send the game to overtime. tied at 65. wayne selden to jamari traylor, that will get them up in lawrence and that will put kansas up too and then later in transition, kansas, frank mason going the length of the court. kansas cuts down the nets and they clinch the outright big 12 title. they win it 76-69 in overtime. can't wait for tournament time. that's all we got from here. now back to you. >> okay. next in "the pulse," 7,000 square feet of luxurious property, and you can stay here too. the megastar renting out this compound. and hefty hulk. the big dog shattering misconceptions about his breed. help pay for her kids' ice time. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time. and 2% back at the grocery store. even before she got 3% back on gas all with no hoops to jump through.

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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good tuesday morning. it is 4:28. i am christian. i am matt keller here for eric thomas. >> i was driving in and saw the moon, it was beautiful so i knew we had clear skies and it would be cold. >> look at you. >> i am a weather man. >> it is that easy. >> it is. it is. >> we need to hear from you. >> we need you mike we need you. >> starts early with matt. here we go, live doppler hd showing it is dry this morning. we will look at the east bay hills camera. temperatures are in the 30s and 40s. the 12 hour day planner, look how quickly we warm, a dry wind

and off show breeze. low 50s at 4:00. a delightful evening. a warm weekend coming up. >> i will not talk about the traffic, that is for you. >> we had road work at san mateo bridge. we will go there first. it is picked up. in the westbound direction 92 in the flat section is moving nicely with no delays. there is a lane closed in the eastbound direction from foster city to hayward and golden gate bridge has three lanes southbound. that will be four when the commute is underway in about 45 minutes. >> breaking news firefighters are at the scene of a top san francisco restaurant this morning, with flames breaking out at the award winning restaurant in nob hill. amy hollyfie >> yes, look at this tarp kristen, that is covers up the affected area of the building at the restaurant.

it looks like the garage area was impacted here in san francisco. firefighters got the call at 1:30 this morning of a report of a fire in the building same building as the restaurant on sacramento street. firefighters had to bust in to get to the fire. >> we had to breakdown the garage door and get through the basement parking bar rage. we found a trash fire down there smoke and smoldering. >> no one was hurt in the fire. there are residents who live above the restaurant and we talked to a tenant who told us that everyone is fine. it was not a huge deal. they are okay. the debris that was left behind a pile of rubble that firefighters have left burned out...just junk. this is the damage. this is what is left behind of the fire. the restauran