right on america this morning treacherous travel the ice storm impacting up to 35 million americans, cars and trucks sliding off roads and highway overpasses. thousands of flights canceled the areas being hit the hardest and what's next? developing story. police revealing new details about the man they say, walked into a target store in nebraska and started opening fire what he was carrying, and the store workers praised by authorities the training they had just received. fueling historic profits after a year of sky high gas prices. exxon mobil reports nearly $56 billion in profit a record by the white house calls it outrageous, breaking overnight, the woman expected to announce she's running for president in 2024 scare on the slopes, the

coyotes chasing skiers at a popular resort. what's being called highly unusual behavior, and later the school lunch worker accused in a $1.5 million chicken wing heist. news in new york. this is america this morning. good wednesday morning, everyone. i'm andrew timberg, andrea fujian for rhiannon. we begin with the ice storm, causing major travel headaches this morning about 35 million people. intense states are on alert for ice, snow, sleet and heavy rain storm could have a nationwide impact through at least tomorrow. this morning . forecasters are warning the worst is yet to come for areas already crippled by the winter storm, bringing freezing rain, sleet and nearly one inch of ice in some spots. god in arkansas, this man showing the thick sheet of ice in his yard. the storm, creating treacherous travel

conditions across multiple states are memphis affiliates. dash camera captured this pickup spinning out of control. and in texas, at least one person died after this 10 vehicle pileup in austin. vo from just off i 30 in arlington, texas, shows driver after driver losing control sliding and crashing. this is what drivers are dealing with sleep all day, forming ice on the roadways, making it very difficult to drive the storm stretching from texas to west virginia is expected to dump more snow ice and rain until at least tomorrow morning. air travel also impacted with hundreds of flights nationwide already canceled today after more than 1900 were canceled yesterday. but back in texas students in the dallas suburb taking advantage of a snow day, getting the rare opportunity to break out their sleds. i say. if you want to stay inside, stay inside. but go make the best of it like this is we're gonna only have this for a couple more days

and this man using his horse to pull children down an icy road. it was mostly sleep that fell in the dallas area, but they still broke a daily snow record because the weather service counts sleep on the ground as snowfall. we'll take a look closer. look at today's forecast and just a few minutes. developing story from omaha, nebraska. police say they may have stopped a mass shooting inside a target store. they say a man in his thirties with an ar 15 style rifle and 13 loaded magazines opened fire, setting off a panic. he wase veigsreedie store employees who recently completed active shooter training for their quick response. and a man wanted for kidnapping and torturing a woman and possibly using dating apps to choose. his next victim has been captured in oregon after a weeklong manhunt and has now died. benjamin foster was arrested in grants pass after a standoff hours after he was reportedly seen walking nearby. tyree nichols will be laid to rest today as we learn new

details about the officers accused of beating him to death . two of the officers involved in the beating received prior reprimands and connection with the use of force. abc is justin finch has the latest from memphis, where today's funeral is being held. justin good morning. andrea good morning, the family of tyree nichols says they are preparing for a long fight for justice. but today they will remember tyree as a father, son and brother who loves skateboarding and sunsets. this morning. tyree nichols family heartbroken as they prepare to say their final goodbyes. i really think that like i wasn't here. but for real dupri wishing he was there the night memphis police pulled over his brother, tyree nichols family, vowing to get justice fight ahead of us right to stay strong for so dozens retiree news obtained the initial police

incident report contradicting what was caught on video. police report admits officers kicking and punching nichols seen on several cameras, saying only one officer deployed his baton while giving verbal commands to stop resisting striking him several times in the right arm. the report later claiming officers were able to take nickels into custody after several verbal commands, but the body cam video shows nichols injured and slept on the car as officers stand by. 24 minutes passing before eight is rendered . nichols died three days later and new details from the files of two officers accused in nichols murder. desmond mills jr and dimitrius haley. both received written reprimands for failing to file required paperwork after making arrests, where force was used there among the five memphis police officers and three memphis fire

department personnel fired over nickels, death. for other law enforcement officers were placed on leave pending investigation. and among those attending today's service vice president kamala harris, the city have been faced, also announcing more audio and video from nichols arrest could be released in coming weeks as officials here carrying out criminal and administrative investigations and no doubt on emotional day here in memphis, andrea justin, thank you after a year of sky high gas prices, exxon mobil has reported record profits in the white house isn't happy about it. exxon says it made nearly $56 billion last year, the white house calls that number outrageous spokesperson saying oil companies have everything they need, including record profits and thousands of unused but approved permits to increase production. but there instead choosing to plow those profits into padding the pockets of executives and shareholders. exxon mobil says its profits are the result of growing demand, increased production and cost cutting. the white house is

again being accused of a lack of transparency amid word of yet another fbi search tied to classified documents. sources say. the search was conducted in november, biden's old office after his lawyers found the initial batch of classified documents. it's not clear if the agents recovered any new files. the white house has not previously mentioned that search former south carolina governor, nikki haley is expected to announce she's running for president. the announcement is expected later this month. haley served as u. n ambassador during the trump administration, and she said she would not run against trump. but she recently called for a new generation of leadership. new accusations have come to light against alec baldwin and his colleague charged in the deadly shooting another movie set new mexico. we're now hearing from the lawyer representing the woman who was in charge of weapons on the set. this morning, an attorney for the armorer on the set of alec baldwin's movie rust caused the involuntary manslaughter charges against his client and baldwin the result of a flawed investigation. we're going to fight these charges till the last minute of the case

, baldwin and armorer hannah gutierrez read, have now officially been charged for the deadly shooting in 2021 when baldwin's prop gun discharged, killing cinematographer helena hutchins. on the armor. at least i was documents. prosecutors accused gutierrez read of not performing required safety check on the gun, but her attorneys blame david halls, the movies assistant director, saying halls never asked. gutierrez read to perform the safety check before he handed baldwin. the gun hall struck a plea deal with prosecutors getting a suspended sentence and probation. that's a david halls failure. it's for the life of me. i cannot think whether d a thought it was just to give him a misdemeanor and pursue five year felonies or more than five year felonies, potentially against hannah and against baldwin. prosecutors also say photo evidence clearly shows baldwin had his finger on the trigger, contradicting his previous statements. so you never pulled the trigger. oh no,

no, i would never point a gun at someone and pull the trigger at them. never investigators also revealing they believe baldwin did not get enough firearm. is training. gutierrez reed's attorney says the producers denied her request to provide more training specifically for the motion. baldwin made before the gun went off. hannah asked to train him against specifically in the cross draw a very important because if you understand the cross draw a lot of times, people that haven't been trained, will pull the weapon out with their trigger finger. that's a very important detail. hannah would have told him to have his finger outside the trigger guard. attorneys for baldwin declined to comment on the formal charges, but they've called the decision to charge him a miscarriage of justice. time. now for a look at your wednesday weather. the ice storm continues for yet another day today tonight into thursday, ice could accumulate up to an inch arounds and li, numerous travel delays and power outages.

meantime as you look across the nation today, you see the arctic air, poised and ready in the northern tier. that's gonna move south this week into friday and saturday, the coldest air of the season coming our way in the northeast boston could see 10 below zero hasn't happened since the fifties. accuweather meteorologist kevin costner in. coming up. the missing monkeys have been found, but the mystery at the dallas zoo is still not solved yet. but first new video of a dramatic rescue on the las vegas strip and a new twist in the scandal surrounding congressman jorge santos. the lie, he

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to drag this man out of his bmw just as the car burst into flames after a crash. the driver was taken to the hospital, he now faces. d u i charges two monkeys missing from the dallas zoo have now been found. they turned up at a vacant house that's been the target of a previous exotic animal investigation. no arrests have been made and no vandalism and the death of a rare vulture officials in idaho say coyotes are getting too close for comfort. some have chased skiers on the slopes near the city of sandpoint, biting one woman, a coyote also got into a bar officials think people feeding them are making the coyotes more comfortable around humans. we turn now to the new interview with congressman jorge santos sitting down with the far right network o a n. he says he is deeply sorry about lying on his resume, especially lying about his education. a lot of people want to create this narrative that i faked my way to congress, which is absolutely categorically false this morning, embattled

congressman jorge santos defiant after stepping down from his committee assignments on capitol hill, thoroughly apologize for lying about my education and embellishing the resume. i said i was sorry. many times i've behaved as if i'm sorry. i am sorry. i'm deeply sorry. growing backlash for his fabrications on the campaign trail is now agreed to take temporarily give up his seat on two house committees party tell you step away from the committee's or nobody tells me to do anything. speaker kevin mccarthy calls the move appropriate, but stopped short of criticizing santos for his deceptions, including his false claims that he worked for goldman sachs and citigroup, as grandparents survived the holocaust that his mother was at the world trade center on 9 11, and that he graduated from baruch college all false. it was a bad decision. poor judgment. i felt the need to do it because i thought that without a diploma looked down on and less than the other people but with republicans still relying on his vote, santos says, don't expect

him to resign. was santos, now removed from committee's republican leadership is now moving to aus some democrats. santos stepping down from his committee assignments serves as relief to republicans here on capitol hill. they want to remove several democrats from committees for their being. hey, viewer, but would certainly be accused of a double standard if santos got to remain on his as soon as today. the house rules committee could vote on whether to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee, setting anti semitic remarks she made in the past. and back to santos. a new poll finds 71% of republicans in his district want him to resign. coming up a million dollar chicken wing embezzlement scheme also ahead, the basketball coach fired for posing as a 13 year fired for posing as a 13 year old player. if your moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms are stopping you in your tracks... choose stelara® from the start... and move toward relief after the first dose...

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on the oprah winfrey show back in the late 19 nineties. a teenager from iowa is accused of faking a cancer diagnosis on tiktok to rake in nearly $40,000 in donations. 19 year old madison, rousseau claimed she was undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer, leukemia and a tumor. she was arrested after someone watching her videos noticed discrepancies with her medical equipment and now to virginia, where a high school basketball coach has been fired for posing as a player on the court. abc is lionel moise has more this morning scandal on the court in virginia in this junior varsity girls basketball game with a coach posing as a player . the biggest thing that we heard that that we felt disappointment. the player in the black jersey wearing number one with the slick move, scoring baskets and high fiving other players was no player at all. she's our licia boykins, a member of the church land truckers, coaching staff, boykin suiting up and playing as if she were a student in a weekend game

against the nansen and riverwalk. warriors last month when adults commit to being a coach. they take on a lot of responsibility. adults who failed to live up to those expectations. fail our students sports with public schools district says the game was held at nancy and river and no church land administrators were there, saying they immediately investigated when it was reported the fallout leading players on both the junior varsity and diversity girls teams to call it quits. the district says players from both teams expressed they did not want to continue this season. the teams remaining opponents and officials have been notified . as for the coach, the district says, are licia boykins is no longer or an employee. her last day of work was january 25th, the head coach for the junior varsity team was also fired. the executive director for the virginia high school league, says this is the second time in his seven year tenure that a coach has impersonated a player , but there are no plans to

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in the hospital this morning after being attacked by a mountain lion in san mateo county. kumasi: family and friends preparing their final farewells to tyre nichols. the investigation revealing new details. reggie: an important deadline in the state's master plan to build more housing. some cities in the bay area are pushing back. >> and now you guys are going to have 30 families over my fence. >> atherton -- works in atherton can afford to live in atherton. reggie: residents resisting plans for more affordable housing. good morning. it is february 1. it is black history month. is is possibly the day that beyoncé announces her tour.