made the trek to chicago where he was summoned. that's what's making news in america this morning. making news in america this morning, blame game. after once accusing china of raping the united states, president trump in beijing overnight changes his tune. >> i don't blame china. >> this morning, trump's message to the chinese and who he's now blaming for the ballooning trade deficit. sounding the alarm on airport security. an undercover test reveals just how often the tsa is failing to detect threats and what's to blame. breaking overnight, kevin spacey replaced. the actor now pulled from his upcoming movie. >> spacey made his move and sexually assaulted him. >> as a new accuser comes forward. plus, country music's night to shine. the big winners at the cmas. >> i love you, guys. >> and the megastar who admits to lip-syncing at the show. and why facebook wants to

collect your nude photos. i think that will grab your attention on a thursday morning. >> yeah, new demands from facebook, okay. >> talk about your status update. all right. well, we begin with a shift from president trump. he's no longer blaming china for the unfair trade deals he bitterly condemned on the campaign trail. >> instead while standing side by side with china's president, he publicly declared that his predecessors in the white house are at fault. abc's karen travers has the latest from beijing. karen. >> reporter: good morning, diane and kendis. president trump says he and china's president xi have great chemistry and a great relationship, and today he let china off the hook on a critical issue. he once blamed china for the u.s. trade deficit, but today he gave them credit for their strategy. ♪ another red carpet rolled out for president trump. an elaborate welcome ceremony

outside beijing's great hall of the people. military bands, some very excited children. after the pomp and circumstance, the two leaders got down to business. several thorny issues on their agenda. china was a favored bogeyman for mr. trump during the presidential campaign. he said china was raping the united states and getting away with murder on trade. but sitting next to president xi thursday, a major change in tone. >> i don't blame china. [ applause ] after all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens. i give china great credit. >> reporter: it was a headline making moment, an american president in china blaming his predecessors for allowing the trade deficit to balloon. the other big issue, the nuclear standoff with north korea. president trump using these meetings with president xi to push for a greater commitment from china. >> china can fix this problem

easily and quickly, and i am calling on china and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard. i know one thing about your president, if he works on it hard, it will happen. >> reporter: the trump administration says china has significant influence over north korea as its biggest economic partner. the president today once again calling on all responsible nations to stop doing business with north korea in order to get it to change its behavior. diane, kendis. >> our thanks to karen travers there in beijing, china, the third stop on the president's international trip. but back here in this country, a disturbing headline about airport security just as millions of americans plan to travel for thanksgiving. >> a source tells abc news undercover testing shows the tsa fails to detect security threats roughly 80% of the time. abc's janai norman takes a look at that for us. good morning, janai. >> reporter: diane and kendis, it's a startling new report some members of congress are calling disturbing.

inspectors finding checkpoint security measures failed more than half the time. dangers in the sky from laptop bombs and terrorist threats remain high and now inspectors finding vulnerabilities in the tsa screening meant to thwart those dangers. >> vulnerabilities i think every member at the briefing found disturbing. >> reporter: inspectors looked at airport security checkpoints finding that screeners, their equipment or their procedures failed more than half the time in detecting items smuggled through. that's better than two years ago when tsa failed 95% of the time. when abc news asked if the new failure rate was as high a 80%, a source familiar with the classified report said you're in the ballpark. >> this agency that you run is broken badly. >> reporter: members of congress with sharp criticism of the tsa administrator who released a statement saying in part, we take the oig's findings very seriously and are implementing measures that will improve screening effectiveness at checkpoints. we're focused on staying ahead of a dynamic threat.

but one congressman questioned whether critical funding that could close these security gaps was being siphoned away from the tsa. >> we have the technology and resources to do it, but we're not doing it because of funding because we're taking it away for budget reduction on what people pay themselves out of their own pocket to do it, and we're paying for a wall. >> reporter: and these findings come in the same week a man breached security at an airport in miami and when a man out of phoenix airport made it past security and onto a plane with a ticket with someone else's name on it. so far eight recommendations have been made aimed at improving checkpoint security measures. diane and kendis. >> all right, our thanks to janai there in d.c., thank you. new figures out this morning reveal the impact of the republican tax plan being debated in congress. the congressional budget office says the white house plan would add $1.7 trillion to the federal deficit over ten years. supporters say the tax cut would fuel economic growth to make up for that. another nonpartisan analysis finds the plan would actually

raise taxes for 25% of americans over the next decade and benefit the wealthy the most. the senate is expected to unveil its own plan soon. the parents of a shooter behind the texas church rampage says they're not ready to talk publicly yet. the gunman's father tells abc news we are grieving. our family is grieving. i don't want our lives, our grandchildren's lives destroyed by this media circus. and we're getting more chilling details of the horrifying ordeal. sources say video from a church camera shows the shooter methodically going to each pew and then opening fire. vice president mike pence was on hand overnight in sutherland springs, texas. >> faith is stronger than evil. no attack, no act of violence will ever break our spirit or diminish the faith of the american people. >> this is just amazing. i mean we've lived here 17 years and i've never seen the outpouring of love like

financially, emotionally, the people are just -- i'm proud -- it makes me proud to live here. >> the fbi has been struggling to unlock the killer's cell phone. apple now says it's offering advice on how to access the phone. investigators are refusing to comment on reports that baseball star roy halladay was showing off in his plane before it crashed. video obtained by tmz shows the moments before the plane went down in the gulf of mexico. witnesses say he appeared to be showboating and making abrupt maneuvers. it could take more than a year to complete the investigation. a frigid arctic blast of air is moving into the upper midwest right now before heading into the northeast. it's packing enough snow that those machines right there, well, they can take a break for a little while and temperatures could hit record lows according to accuweather's justin povick. good morning. a cold blast, an arctic blast on the move today. it's throughout the great lakes

but look at how quickly it ushers in the coldest temperatures of the season to the northeast. also talking about a rapid freeze as we venture into the overnight hours as temperatures quickly fall below freezing. there could be some very slippery spots. look at this. this is how it's going to feel as we work our way throughout the daytime hours on friday in the teens and even for some in the single digits. i'm justin povick with your accuweather forecast. coming up, why facebook is asking people for their naked photos. also ahead, hidden in plain sight. the unlikely place where a $165 million painting was found. and new video of a mishap on the golf course. president trump is nearby as the prime minister of japan takes a mighty tumble.

this guy's outfit is as close to iron man as you'll get in real life. he flew it around a park hitting 32 miles an hour. look at that. the gas turbines produced nearly 300 pounds of thrust. hollywood and military are showing interest in using this. new questions are being raised about the proposed merger between at&t and time warner. the parent company of cnn. the justice department is denying reports that regulators demanded cnn be sold for that deal to be approved. that raised some concern about critics of the white house about possible political motivations but the justice department says at&t actually offered to sell cnn and says the offer still does not resolve its antitrust concerns. a stark warning how vulnerable our e-mail is to hackers. the former ceo of yahoo! testified about the massive data breach that compromised 3 billion accounts.

marissa mayer who walk add way from the company with a $260 million payday blamed russian hackers and said yahoo! still doesn't know how it happened. she said companies are in arms race with hackers. tripadvisor says it will warn hoosiers go hotels where sexual assaults have been reported. the travel website will identify those places with a red-lettered message at the top of the listing. tripadvisor says though warnings will last for three months unless new claims are reported. this comes after the company was accused of censuring the reviews of some mexican resorts. and it was a rough start for the self-driving shuttle in downtown las vegas. the shuttle was involved in a crash on the very first day of operation. it was hit by a truck on fremont street. a human worker is always on board just in case.

facebook's new effort to fight so-called revenge porn involves getting naked photos of people using its site. so it's a program that's being tested in australia. here's how it works. users send in their racy photos that could be uploaded by someone else without consent after a facebook employee views the photos, they'll be added to a database that will block them from being uploaded in the future. if the trial is successful, the program will be brought to the u.s. >> so you give facebook your naked photos so no one will give facebook your naked photos. >> exactly. seems foolproof. sign me up. no, thanks. when we come back a new warning about breast cancer and when it can return. also a tragedy at a preschool. is a cheese allergy to blame for a 3-year-old's death? up next the movie being reshot right now after kevin spacey losing his job while facing new assault allegations. t a bathroom disease. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms.

crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our turn to take control with stelara® stelara® works differently for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. stelara® may lower the ability of your immune system to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before or during treatment, always tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have flu-like symptoms or sores, have had cancer, or develop any new skin growths, or if anyone in your house needs or recently had a vaccine. alert your doctor of new or worsening problems, including headaches, seizures, confusion, and vision problems. these may be signs of a rare, potentially fatal brain condition. some serious allergic reactions can occur. do not take stelara® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. we're fed up with your unpredictability. remission can start with stelara®. talk to your doctor today. janssen wants to help you explore cost support options for stelara®.

♪ ♪ give extra. get extra. that moment when who you're going with is more important than where you're going. wherever life takes us, we go together. interwoven... ...exclusively at kay, jared and zales. fortified.tored. replenished. emerge everyday with emergen-c packed with b vitamins, antioxidants, electrolytes plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. why not feel this good everyday? emerge and see. to kevin spacey, i want to

say this, shame on you for what you did to my son. >> that's heather unruh, a former news anchor in boston detailing new accusations against actor kevin spacey just as we learn that spacey has been removed from his upcoming movie. unruh is accusing spacey of sexually assaulting her 18-year-old son at a bar. >> she claims her son was starstruck during his chance encounter with spacey, and unruh says there was no concent for what happened, and she says there was a witness who she hopes will come forward. >> kevin spacey bought him drink after drink after drink. and when my son was drunk, spacey made his move and sexually assaulted him. i want to make it clear this was a criminal act. >> she says her son was a straight 18-year-old boy at the time. no comment from spacey about her allegations overnight.

sony pictures confirmed spacey is being removed from a movie scheduled to be released next month. the studio says his scenes in the film called "all the money in the world" are being reshot and actor christopher plummer will take spacey's place. a woman who admitted removing a plug from her fiance's kayak causing him to drown has now been sentenced to four years in prison. angelika graswald pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide though she insists she did not intentionally cause his death. because she spent so much time in jail awaiting trial, she could get out as early as next month. she faces possible deportation back to her native latvia. a grief-stricken family in new york is demanding answers after the tragic death of a 3-year-old boy who was allergic to dairy products. the family says elijah silvera went into shock and died after someone at his preschool gave him a grilled cheese sandwich and they say the school knew about his allergy. several investigations are now under way.

researchers now say breast cancer can return up to 20 years after the initial diagnosis. they found the risk of the disease returning is high, especially among women with the most common type of breast cancer, but they say patients who continue to take suppression medications despite the side effects will reduce that risk. one of the nfl's most powerful owners may be trying to sack commissioner roger goodell. cowboys owner jerry jones is reportedly threatening to sue the league over goodell's contract extension. jones has been unhappy at how goodell has handled the national anthem protest and the suspension of cowboy star ezekiel elliott. and three ucla basketball players arrested in china on shoplifting charges are now under house arrest at their hotel facing jail time. the father of one of the players, lavar ball, would not comment outside his hotel. you see him there and he's usually very outspoken. it could take weeks to resolve the case. the players traveled to china for their season opener. one of those kids is the brother also of a star nba player for

the lakers. and japan's prime minister recently learned that getting out of the bunker, well, it can be a bit tough. >> shinzo abe was playing golf with president trump when he lost his balance and took a tumble. watch him run up the sand trap and then he just goes back, right back into the bunker. president trump apparently was a pretty good distance away and didn't seem to notice. >> that happens to everybody. he was trying to get the ball out. that's just a different case. coming up, the toll that christmas music can take on your mental health. and country music's night of the year, the big winners at the cmas and see who has already admitted to lip-syncing. plus, the pricey painting found tucked away in a bedroom. the mountain like i used to. i even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but whatever trail i take, i go for my best. so if there's something better than warfarin, i'll go for that too. eliquis. eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding

than warfarin. eliquis had both. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily... ...and it may take longer than usual for any bleeding to stop. seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. i'm still going for my best. and for eliquis ask your doctor about eliquis. ♪ there'that only uses 100% american oranges.and simply orange and tropicana ship in juice from overseas. only florida's natural grows all of our oranges in florida. great taste. naturally.

take a moment. to unwrap, and unwind... with lindor. a hard chocolate shell, with a smooth, melting, center. crafted by the lindt master chocolatiers. whenever. wherever. lindor, from lindt. life's too short for ordinary chocolate. ♪ i got friends in low places ♪ where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away ♪

>> okay, so your starts with a little bit of blues and country from last night's big night in nashville. >> that was right. it was some of country's biggest stars sharing the stage to kick off the country music award, carrie underwood and brad paisley hosted the show for the tenth time. >> it was actually a great opening number there. they wasted no time getting political with the comical rendition of underwood's hit "before he cheats. ♪ and it's fun to watch you that's for sure ♪ ♪ till little rocket man starts a nuclear war and then maybe next time ♪ ♪ he'll think before he tweets ♪ >> the favorite part of the time, indeed. #befo #beforehetweets instantly trending after that. taylor swift also won song of the year for writing little big town's "better man." she tweeted watching the

announcement on tv. she's here in new york rehearsing for "saturday night live" so she couldn't actually be at the awards show itself. clearly she was very excited. >> garth brooks took home top honors with entertainer of the year, but brooks is getting some criticism on social media. you see, he admitted to lip-syncing his performance at the awards show. brooks blames an illness for that decision. and next the fbi is investigating the case of a long lost painting. it was sold to an antique dealer in new mexico for $2,000. >> here's the twist, the painting was stolen from an art museum 32 years ago. it's set to be worth more than $160 million. >> the guy who sold it said he was just getting rid of his uncle's stuff after his death. the painting is now back at the museum. the fbi is looking into it. if you're crazy about christmas music, you might be surprised to find out that christmas music can make you crazy. >> okay, so researchers say you can actually o.d. on holiday cheer. a study warns listening to too much christmas music can be psychologically draining and make you feel trapped. it's especially tough for retail

workers who are exposed to it all day and can't get a jingle bell break. >> what. this is outrageous. i could hear "all i want for christmas" an infinity amount of times. >> anyway, it was republican against republican in a capitol hill grudge match. >> on the left texas congressman sam johnson, on the house majority whip steve scalise. gentlemen, start your scooters. >> scalise on the scooter as he recovers from being shot during a congressional baseball practice and he won. >> oh, and one of them had a helmet. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪

(annou) tresiba® is used swelling of your face, tongue, or throat, dizziness, or confusion. ask your health care provider if you're tresiba® ready. covered by most insurance and medicare plans. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ as our ocean spray cranberries, which is why we're declaring it "the unofficial official fruit of the holidays." -the fig's gonna be so bummed. -[ chuckles ] for holiday tips and recipes, go to oceanspray.com.

it's ok that everybody ignores me when i drive. it's fine, 'cause i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident-free. and i don't share it with mom. right, mom? right. safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. only from allstate. but he hasoke up wwork to do.in. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. alright, i brought in high protein to help get us moving. ...and help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks! i'll take that. -yeeeeeah! ensure high protein. with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. ensure. always be you.

and good morning. it's 4:27 on this thursday. >> yeah, we're trying to mess you up. it is the 9th but it is thursday not wednesday. >> we got that cleared up quick. >> we have a big traffic issue. mike nicco, i think we're kicking it off with you. >> some of the wet weather still hanging out there across the south bay and working its way up the peninsula to san mateo where our best radar returns are and as you head out to tracy and down to patterson. broaden it out to show you what's going on. it doesn't mean it's dry elsewhere. scattered showers as you can see moving from southwest to northeast across most of our neighborhoods. it is going to be a wet morning commute because of the rain last night. the streets are wet everywhere. and this pair of lows is still

spinning to our north and that's going to keep funneling in chances of rain as we head throughout today and into tomorrow f. you're stepping out right now it is very mild from 50 in clear lake to 60 in concord, san jose, san mateo, san francisco, and tremont's at 62. let's get over to frances and find out what's going on with the commute. with the slick rains you've shown us, quite a few accidents this morning. some have already cleared. here is a live shot of the maze. there was one here heading to eastbound 80 that has been cleared. traffic was building up earlier so that's great for those of you heading to the maze. and here is a look at 680 and walnut creek. southbound traffic past north main heading to highway 24. there was also an earlier injury crash southbound 680 near monument and i'll have an update on the other accidents coming up. >> thanks frances. we do need to be careful out there. >> amy hollyfield is live in my

hometown of san rafael. how is it looking out there, amy? >> reporter: good morning, natasha. it's raining, a light rain but was wet overnight and the roads are very wet this morning and a fatal accident did happen overnight on these wet roads. let's get to the video of northbound 101 in san rafael. a big rig crashed. they had to shut down all lanes on northbound, three lanes on the southbound side. the big rig crashed and caught fire. this is near the san pedro exit. the chp said at least one person was killed in this accident. the good news is for commuters, they just reopened all of the lanes. they were closed all night long but reopened them within the last hour so commuters, you shouldn't feel an impact from this accident. the chp is asking that all commuters remember that it is wet this morning, to slow down and give yourself space between you and the car in front of you. amy hollyfield, abc 7 news.

and we have breaking news coming in out of san leandro, a car ran into a home overnight at 150th avenue and patton avenue, crashed into a room where children were sleeping. amazingly no one was hurt in the car or in the home. and look at this video we just got from the scene. you can see all the damage left behind on that home as crews were able to get that vehicle away from the house. the car hit exactly where the children were sleeping. again, those kids were not hurt. police say right now it does not appear the driver was impaired, in fact, they think the crash could have been due to slick roads or car equipment that failed. i will let you know as soon as we get an update. >> thanks, jessica. it is 4:30. if you're just joining us a quick look on your weather and traffic. we'll start with mike. mike, i guess i timed it wrong. i went outside this morning and that's when i got a second shower. >> oh! did you have an umbrella? >>