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holidays. college killings. new details about the fatal stabbings of four students in an off-campus home and what we've learned about their last hours alive. elizabeth holmes sentenced. the one-time billionaire convicted of defrauding investors in her tech start-up theranos begging for leniency. the judge's decision. rust report. the santa fe police revealing what investigators discovereded on that fatal movie set including a text from alec baldwin after handling the loaded gun that killed a cinematographer. the actor's response this morning. ♪ ♪ taylor's take. the singer speaking out for the first time about the online ticket sales meltdown that left thousands of fans out in the cold now sparking state investigations. and ted talk. how ted lasso is offering 's naonal sr team in billboards across the country.

live from abc news in new york, this is "good morning america." good morning, america. upstate new york, they're known for getting plenty of snow, right, but no one can get used to five feet of snow falling in a single day. look at these totals this morning, and it is nowhere near finished. >> and take a look at these pictures from highmark stadium where the buffalo bills play. that was friday morning. no surprise that the nfl moved the bills' home game to detroit's ford field where the bills will be playing the cleveland browns tomorrow. >> while those areas are dealing with potentially dangerous amounts of snow, much of the rest of the country is facing a deep freeze this weekend. let's get the latest on the snowstorm with matt rivers in buffalo. good morning to you, matt. >> good morning. yeah. lots of snow overnight in downtown buffalo, a brief lull in the moment as the lake-effect snw ban is drifting and you can

see all of this just falling since last night and as you just mentioned, the storm and the system not over yet. >> this morning areas of western new york buried under more than five feet of snow as it's battered by a deadly winter storm. >> it was just, like, boom, where did we get this from? >> the first major lake-effect snowstorm of the season bringing record amounts of snowfall making travel all but impossible even for first responders. >> we're stuck in the snow ideal. >> do you need to be towed? >> even snowplows getting stuck. >> this front loader, too. >> it's unfathomable to see the snow come down in such a short period of time. >> the extreme weather shutting down traffic on route 11. dump trucks collecting piles of snow as residents try to dig their way out of their homes. erie county officials urging residents to take precautions as they dig up that heavy, wet snow, confirming two men died of

heart issues while clearing snow. >> i didn't think we would get this much snow. it's definitely heavier than i expected it to be. >> the buffalo bills, blanketed in snow. two feet reported in some areas on route 131 in kalamazoo county, at least 20 cars piled up on the slick roads including a michigan state police suv during white-out conditions. police there reporting only minor injuries. >> and if you need to know how much snow has fallen overnight. this morning the national weather service in buffalo said a new daily record has already been set just today since midnight overnight at the buffalo international airport. nearly 14 inches of snow and the day far from over. >> far cry from mexico city, matt, thank you so much. what's next for the storm danielle with wkrm.

>> this morning we have winter storm warnings over in michigan and ohio, pennsylvania and new york. one to two feet of snow not out of the question and then as we head into tomorrow, two to three feet of snow not out of the question off lake ontario and it's not just the snow. it's also the cold. from coast to coast, we are waking up to windchill values in the windchill digits and below zero in spots. in florida today it feels like 46 degrees, whit? >> we'll check back in just a bit. we check back to the justice department to oversee probes into the actions of donald trump. the former president vowing that he will not participate. abc's white house correspondent mary alice parks joins us from washington. mary alice, good morning. >> whit, good morning. this was a major decision from attorney general merrick garland, but in many ways also the safe decision. garland said these cases where a former president has decided to run again presents exactly the

kind of extraordinary circumstance that calls for a special counsel. >> announcing my candidacy. >> just days after president trump declared his third run for the white house, merrick garland announcing his decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee two different criminal investigations with trump at the center. >> appointing a special counsel at this time is the right thing to do. >> garland arguing the decision was to keep these investigations independent and remove even an appearance of politics at play. ? based on recent developments including the former president's announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president's stated intention to be a candidate, as well, i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. >> the prosecutor chosen for the job, jack smith. he used to lead the department's public integrity section, and

investigating war crimes in the hague. smith writing that he will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and law dictate. he will oversee both the investigation into trump's role into a potentially illegal effort to overturn the 2020 election results and whether that led to the attack at the capitol. as well as the investigation into those classified documents found at mar-a-lago, and whether trump committed any crimes or ignored subpoenas to return them. overnight, president trump as he has been before, claiming his investigations are political. >> they're criminals. i've done nothing wrong. this will not be a fair investigation. >> now the special counsel jack smith will ultimately still report to the attorney general. attorney general merrick garland will sign off on any potential decision to indict former president trump. >> mary alice parks, my thanks to you.

let's bring in aaron katersky. aaron, good morning to you. good to see you. >> good morning. >> what impact will this have on the pace of the investigations? >> this is no reset at all. the attorney general said this appointment will not slow the investigations and the new special counsel himself said the pace of the investigations will not pause or flag. in recent weeks, in fact, prosecutors have brought witnesses before the grand jury and including one former trump aide granted immunity so he could talk about the understand thatteling of classified documents. next week the justice department is going to ask a federal court to appeal in the case so prosecutors can have unfettered access from the documents seized from the former president's home. >> what are the illegal implications for trump especially as he announced he's running for president again. no word that it affected the attorney general's approach. suddenly the investigation interest whether trump mishandled national security secrets intercepted with an ongoing political campaign.

garland said it was now in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. this is not without risk because it does instantly give trump a new foil, but the attorney general is going to have the final say in determining whether either case, the documents case or january 6th will result in criminal charges. >> so what can you tell us about who this special counsel is. jack smith? >> jack smith began a long career here in new york in the manhattan district attorney's office under judge morguenthau where he won a death penalty case against a gang member that killed two nypd detectives. at the justice department he handled cases that targeted elected officials including one thee dropped against former republican congressman tom delay. smith was a war crimes prosecutor at the hague, and i talked to one former colleague who said he doesn't know what jack smith's politics are because he's completely apolitical. >> something to watch.

we appreciate it. >> eva, over to you. >> former president trump kicked off his campaign and this morning he's speaking virtually to the republican gathering in las vegas. abc's rachel scott joins us from las vegas where the race for the republican nomination is already under way. good morning, rachel. >> hey, eva, good morning. the next presidential election is still two years away, but the battle for the republican nomination is already taking shape. just days ago former president donald trump announced a third run for president, but that has not cleared the field. you have ten of his potential rivals from his own vice president mike pence to his former secretary of state mike pompeo and yes, even florida governor ron desantis, they're alls all crossing paths in nevada. some are not shy about teasing a possible 2024 run.

this does come at an interesting time as the party is at a crossroads after suffering big losses. larry hogan told me it's time for a course correction away from donald trump. mike pence said last night that he believes in order for republicans to win in the future they need to do more than just criticize and complain and in reese not days he's been more blunt saying he believes there will be better options in 2024, eva. >> let's talk about the democrats now that nancy pelosi has announced she's stepping down as house speaker. what are you hearing there? >> yes. and just hours ago, pelosi threw her support behind a new generation of leaders including hakeem jeffries of new york. he could be the first black lawmaker to lead a party in congress. this reflects the diversity that we see all across the nation and as she step away from leadership she says a new day is dawning. >> rachel scott in vegas, i'll take it from here.

thank you so much. we turn to respiratory illnesses across the country. flu and rsv are overwhelming hospitals and patients. so many of them so young. ellen lopez, we haven't seen flu activity this high, this early in years. >> yeah, janai. we're seeing hospitals get hit harder and earlier than usual. the last time we saw hospitalizations this high this early in the season was more than a decade ago. take a look at this. more than half of the country including new york city are reporting high or very high levels of influenza. there's been 4.4 million illnesses so far and that's 1.5 times higher than the previous week and this is all unfolding as we continue to see cases with children with respiratory illnesses soar. beds are already full and this week the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association called on

the biden administration for help amid the, quote, alarming surge of pediatric respiratory illnesses, and they're mostly seeing these flu-like symptoms in younger people and most of them are children under the age of 5. >> incredibly concerning. let's bring in dr. darion sutton. thanksgiving just days away. how do we stay safe? are flu shots enough and should we re-think those holiday guest lists? >> flu shots are one part of the way we stay safe. if you haven't gone out to get it, every year we do testing on the genetic analysis on the most common circulating strains of the flu and thankfully this year the most common and dominant strains are included in the current actively given flu shot. also, make sure that if you're outside and in a crowded space, that you wear a mask and clean hot tub surfaces and one way to

prepare is to prepare for the highest risk person in the room and that includes a person over the age of 65 and someone is pregnant and an infant and you are preparinging to keep those safe because you're at an incredibly higherrisk. >> as we hear for rsv, are we current to the playbook opening windows, wearing masks and social distancing? >> yes. basically this helps to decrease transmission and if you want to increase the ventilation in the room and if any children are coming and they have symptoms that they stay at home regardless of whether or not that rapid covid test is positive and also making sure that your children are up-to-date on all of their vaccines. i've been being looking at numbers and we've been seeing in ohio cases of measles and these cases are children that are unvaccinated and make sure your child is up-to-date on routine vaccinations. >> good reminder, dr. sutton.

thanks. the country's power grid as frigid wintry temperatures settle in. tom is in lviv, good morning. >> good morning, whit. the winter is well and truly here just as russia's relentless attack on power stations have crippled half of ukrainian system, and officials in kyiv with a dire warning, contingency plans are in in case there is a com bloat power shutdown in the capital. >> if you want inspiration, check out this photo. this is the doctor performing life-critical operation in lviv in the dark. they were mid-operation when they heard and felt russian missiles landing nearby knocking out the power and that is the resilience of the ukrainians and the reality they're living rid

now. teams are now working flat out to repair energy facilities and get them back online. so hopefully fewer, prolonged power cuts in the coming days. eva? >> that picture is remarkable to look at. tom burress, thanks so much, tom. now to the sentencing of theranos founder elizabeth holmes. once a rising star, and now convicted criminal facing 11 years in prison for defrauding investors. elizabeth schulze has more from washington. good morning. >> this sentence from a federal ju judge marks the year-long saga that was the downfall of eliz elizabeth holmes. >> this morning one-time billionaire and silicon valley rising star elizabeth hoerms is facing more than 11 years behind bars for misleading investors about her failed blood testing start-up theranos. the 38-year-old who is pregnant with her second child addressing

the court in tears friday saying cell of my body.ings with every- reading from notes, holmes adding every day for the past years i have felt deep pain for what people went through because i failed them. >> we will change our lives and our world. >> holmes promised technology that would transform health care with just a few drops of blood. the hype attracted big investors, ballooning theranos' valuation to $9 billion in 2014, but then, holmes' claims turned out to be far from true. in january she was convicted of four counts of criminal fraud and conspiracy. federal prosecutors were seeking a 15-year prison sentence calling it one of the more substantial white collar offenses in silicon valley history, but holmes' attorneys made it house arrest as part of of a plea for a more lenient sentence holmes with 130 letters

of support including one from new jersey senator cory booker. the judge ordered holmes to report to prison in april. she hasn't confirmed her due date and that will likely be after her baby is born. she is expected to appeal her sentence. >> tesla founder with elon musk and the billionaire shaking things up and facing jobs and a massive amount of traffic due to soccer's world cup. dee deidre bolton is here. >> elon musk called twitter's remaining engineers to the office and tweeted out this picture. you can see the caption. just leaving twitter. there's great concern that there aren't even enough workers left in the company to allow the platform to run smoothly coming such as the world cup. in the past few weeks the billionaire has pushed out most of the previous executive team, cut the company's workforce in

half and a few days ago he threw down a hard core ultimatum about working around the clock or leaving. our sources say that many more people quit after that, leaving some teams with zero members, but elon musk ever present on twitter and last night he tweet out a poll, reinstate former president trump yes or no? that has more than 300,000 likes at the moment. it is unclear that musk will put it on twitter that will will make the company profitable with half of the staff members in the meantime. musk bought it late october for $44 million and he's clearly gotten more than he bargained for. >> we'll wait and see how that shakes out. >> danielle breezy with wkrn in new york. good to have you with us. >> i have to starts with this incredible video of snow from hamburg new york, and cars getting stuck and the ambulance

getting stuck and that's not good news and we have a lot of buildings that are covered and by the way, these snow bands are setting up today out in michigan and also off lake erie, buffalo, new york. as we head into sunday the heavier snow band will be in lake ontario so we'll be watching for all of that. how much snow are we talking about? we can see one to two feet of snow up through the area in fulton and it's six to 12 inches

and you guys know that it's known for snow, but imagine that they're moving the bills game. that's crazy. you saw those amounts of snow. it's just incredible. >> five feet in a day or something like that? >> incredible. >> i went to elementary school in upstate new york, i would not have been able to walk to school! >> both ways uphill. >> swimming through it. >> thank you so much, danielle. the u.s. men's national soccer team got quite the sendoff by none other than fictional football coach ted lasso before taking off for the world cup. coach lasso left personalized messages of encouragement on billboards, sides of barns and near high schools in each of the u.s. player's hometowns and that's 24 cities. the world cup starts tomorrow and the u.s. plays on monday. >> against wales. >> be a goldfish, ted lasso would say. >> i have no idea.

>> still ahead on "gma," still new information on the idaho college murders and the man hunt for the killer. >> what we are learning about the fatal movie set involving alec baldwin now that the sherff's office has released its findings. >> swift response. what taylor swift is telling fans about the mess involving online ticket sales. we'll be right back. e're crunchs of polygons here! what's going on? where's regina? hi, i'm ladonna. i invest in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to the nasdaq-100 innovations, like real time cgi. okay... yeah... oh. don't worry i got it! become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq moderate-to-severe eczema. it doesn't care if you have a date, a day off, or a double shift. make your move and get out in front of eczema

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bill. a better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc. seven news. good morning, everyone. i'm liz corey . it's happening now. in san francisco, the long awaited central subway is finally open for services. it has been four years since the project was initially supposed to be finished in a decade. since construction started, it costs nearly $2 billion to complete.

the first train rolls at eight this morning with free rides this weekend from the subways for new stations. there will also be a parade through chinatown with traditional lions , dragons and firecrackers and lisa. good morning to you. let's go check outside. good morning, liz 20 degree change for or spread. i should say from santa rosa at 30 degrees to 50 degrees around the bay area 35 in santa clara. look how clear it is, but the winds still keeping temperatures in the upper forties and conquered a cooler day today, sunny skies loaded and sixties. all right, lisa. thank you. and thanks for

♪ i'm ♪ ♪ i'm still standing better than i ever did ♪ i love this song. always makes you want to play the keyboard. >> no, you're the only one. >> welcome back to "gma." >> no one plays the piano that way. elton john wrapping up his farewell tour in los angeles this weekend. coming up in our second hour, more from his sitdown chat with our own robin roberts and what he had to say about leaving the limelight. >> look at this. >> just to teach you -- >> kicks out the chair. no? air keyboard? >> now we go -- >> now we need a new chair. while whit figures out the seating situation, some of the other big stories happening right now. the fbi has joined the investigation into the death of a north carolina woman found dead in mexico last month.

25-year-old shanquilla robinson was on vacation with friends in cabo san lucas when she was found lifeless in their rental home. her death certificate lists the cause of death as severe spinal cord injury and trauma to the neck. also right now, some scary moments in the air for passengers on a plane traveling from poland to new york. passengers and the flight crew restraining a man after they say he got up and started banging on the cockpit door. authorities taking the man into custody as soon as that plane landed. and uva strong. a memorial will take place for the three university of virginia football players gunned down on campus last sunday. overnight the virginia men's basketball team honored the fallen schoolmates with sweatshirts with their names on the back and the words uva strong on the front. we start this half hour with new developments from the investigation into the deadly shooting on the set of the movie "rust" where alec baldwin, the actor was holding the gun that killed cinematographer halyna hutchins. the santa fe police now

revealing their report to the public. abc's phil lipof joins us now with the details. phil, good morning to you. >> eva, good morning to you. this public report will be handed over to prosecutors in this case as the production, we're told, will pick up in january but not in new mexico. that's according to the production company. all of this while prosecutors will figure out if any charges should be filed. this morning santa fe police releasing a report more than a year in the making. more than 550 pages revealing what investigators have discovered about the fatal shooting on the set of "rust." the report including texts from alec baldwin after handling the loaded gun that fatally shot cinematographer halyna hutchins and injured director joel souza. baldwin texting his assistant, i have to delete my archive just two days after the shooting. his attorney releases a statement saying mr. baldwin was referring to his twitter archive which he has long considered deleting. the report also contains excerpts from interviews from people who were there that day

including director joel souza. investigators say joel stated at some point he remembers the armorer hannah gutierrez standing over him hysterically yelling, "i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry." it was more than a year ago when hutchins was killed during a rehearsal for a scene in that low-budget western. in an interview with george stephanopoulos, baldwin adamant he did not pull the trigger which he still maintains to this day. >> it wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled. >> the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. >> so you never pulled the trigger? >> no, no, no, no, no. >> this was clearly an accident, but perhaps a criminal accident. just because something is an accident doesn't mean that a criminal act didn't occur. >> reporter: just last week baldwin trying to clear his name filing a lawsuit against the armorer and some members of the crew he says who are responsible for handling the loaded gun. they have denied being responsible for the shooting.

>> the d.a. said they are still making decisions about who, if anyone, will be charged. they won't be making those announcements until after thanksgiving. >> "rust's" armorer hannah gutierrez reed's attorney said baldwin is solely responsible for the harm that happened. also claiming he rejected training and pulled the trigger on that day saying it's his fault, period. that's a quote. eva? >> phil, thank you. joining us is abc news contributor and managing partner of the cochran firm, shawna lloyd. shawna, thank you very much for being with us. even if we've heard this before, does this mean anyone is off the hook? >> absolutely not. what we are looking at is this investigative report is really about fact gathering. it's about figuring out what is fact, what was fiction and what actually occurred and what people knew at the time when it occurred. >> so looking at those facts, did we get a better sense of what happened from this report? >> absolutely. i think the texts, i think all

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idaho. authorities now mapping the movements of those students prior to what they are calling a targeted attack. the timeline shows kaylee and madison at a food truck in downtown moscow early sunday morning. five minutes later they arrive home by car service. authorities put ethan chapin and xana kernodle at a party earlier that night. all making it home by 1:45 a.m. nearly eight hours later, a 911 call. >> the four were stabbed with a knife but no weapon has been located at this time. >> reporter: police have still not named a suspect but this morning they are confirming significant details from the coroner saying the four victims were likely asleep. some had defensive wounds and all were stabbed multiple times. the coroner confirming to abc news, they were killed using a large knife. >> our detectives have gone out to local businesses to see if some type of knife was purchased in the past. >> reporter: this tiktok video shows, kaylee, madison and xana inside that home just weeks earlier. the two other roommates who

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welcome back to "gma" and taylor swift speaking out for the first time since thousands of fans found themselves shut out from her concerts in a ticketmaster meltdown. will ganz has more on what the singer is saying. it's personal for you. >> it's personal for me. i was in the queue from 9:30 to 2:30. 2:30 on tuesday and it is too soon for me to open up about it. i'm emotional about it. if there's one thing we know about t. swift, it's she's protective of her swifties. finally addressing what happened this week and without ever even

saying the word ticketmaster letting her fans know just how excruciating this week has been for her. ♪ hi, i'm the problem, it's me ♪ >> reporter: this morning taylor swift is assuring fans that she is not the problem. the grammy winner finally addressing this week's ticketmaster disaster on her instagram writing in part, i'm not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could. t. swift's statement coming after ticketmaster announced it was canceling general sales to her heiress tour entirely due to high demand and insufficient inventory. swifties sent spiraling. >> tell me right now this is a joke. >> i literally feel like i am about to burst into tears right now. >> reporter: taylor adding it's truly amazing 2.4 million people got tickets, but also added she was angered that a lot of them felt like they went through several bear attacks to get them. >> it was a lottery, a really terrible experience.

>> liberty media is the majority stakeholder appearing on cnbc's "squack on the street." >> the site was supposed to be opened up for 1.5 million verified taylor swift fans. we had 14 million people hitting the site including bots. another story, which are not supposed to be there. we could have filled 900 stadiums. >> reporter: in other words, taylor would have to play a stadium show every single night for the next 2 1/2 years to meet that demand. this morning the bad blood boiling over in washington, too. ♪ now we got bad blood ♪ >> reporter: "the new york times" reporting on friday that the justice department is opening an investigation into ticketmaster's parent company, live nation entertainment, over whether it has abused its power over the multi-billion dollar live music. and some states attorneys general now weighing in. >> we're talking about someone who dominates the market. with 70+% market share.

we need to be sure there's not some sort of gaming going on taking advantage of consumers. >> in a statement released this morning, live nation, who merged with ticketmaster in 2010, says the company, quote, does not engage in behaviors that could justify anti-antitrust litigation. they go on to say that ticketmaster does not set or control ticket prices. strongly advocates for all-in pricing so fans are not surprised by what tickets end up costing. taylor is telling the swifties my hope is to offer more opportunities for us to get together to sing these songs. >> which is all you want. >> that's all you want. >> add more shows to the tour dates. i don't know. >> it is interesting at the surface level this is about fans not getting tickets to a concert. it is a much bigger business concern. >> i want to sing "shake it off" at the top of my lungs. you know? >> you got -- you're getting to go to the concert. >> yes. thank you, brandon, for scoring tickets. >> we won't get into what it took to get there. thank you, will. we'll be right back with our "play of the day." from the start, carmax has reimagined used car buying for you. so you can buy online... or on the lot.

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