others. officials suspect it was a nine catch. world news tonight deliberate attack and they are with david muir at 930. it's threating the incident as jeopardy! followed by wheel of terrorism. a massive response from police, fortune. abc seven news is on at emergency workers and 1030 and 11. remember, abc seven ambulances. the car driving at a high rate of speed, mowing people down. news is streaming 24 over seven. get the abc seven bay area app in the chaotic aftermath speech and join us whenever you want stunned and shaken and heavily and wherever you are. thanks so armed officers on patrol, a much for joining us at 3:00. fleet of ambulances arriving to world news tonight with david tend to the injured, dozens muir starts right now. abc seven carried off to hospitals. news is back at four. a young child and adult were killed in the attack. hours later, the christmas market shut down, everyone gone. a lone police officer surveying the scene. new images of the suspect now in custody. he's reportedly a 50-year-old ♪ doctor from saudi arabia who breaking news as we come on lived in germany for 18 years. the air. the suspected deadly terror tonight authorities say a motive attack on a crowded christmas is unknown. market, multiple people killed. the winter blast with holiday abc's ian pannell leads us off in london tonight. travel and the race to prevent a >> reporter: tonight, terror at this christmas market.

horrific scenes as a festive potential government shutdown. first, a car driving at high speed in a suspected terror celebration ends in carnage. this is the moment a car is attack, the driver plowing into a crowd of people at a christmas suddenly driven into the evening market, plough through the market in germany, an adult and holiday crowds at high speed, toddler killed, dozens injured. the incident captured on security cameras. authorities call it a deliberate terrified families running for act. a driver arrested at the scene. their lives, the full video too a bystander capturing this video horrific to show. dozens knocked to the ground, of a man on the ground the lane strewn with bodies of surrounded by police. tonight, the winter blast the wounded. from minnesota to the northeast during one of the busiest travel the blare of sirens drowning out the screams. days of the long christmas a toddler and adult confirmed break. hundreds of accidents reported. a small plane landing on the dead. at least 60 have been injured, a dozen seriously. new york state throughway. the driver captured at the a major temperature plunge coming overnight. scene. a bystander catchtpturing this lee goldberg timing the holiday forecast. hoping to avert a government video. he's been identifies as a doctor shutdown in the peak of the holiday season. speaker mike johnson under from saudi arabia who came to intense pressure from elon musk, germany in 2006. president-elect trump and authorities are treating this as members of his own party. the critical vote tonight. a deliberate act of jonathan karl on capitol hill. 24 hours after some drivers

who work for amazon went on this isn't the first time strike, baristas at some there's been an attack like this. eight years ago an islamic starbucks walking off the job too. the chilling case making streamist drove into a christmas market in berlin killing 13. national headlines. a judge today sentencing the germany's interior minister convicted killer who murdered two teenage girls out hiking. saying just last month there was prosecutors thanking the victims no credible threat to christmas for what they did to help solve markets this year, but saying it their own murders. was wise to be vigilant. tonight the faa expanding a the incident triggering a major ban on drones over 30 areas response by police and medics, across new york state including the city center closed down. all five boroughs in new york five days before a christmas, city. 20 years after surviving the the once bustling tsunami, super model petra them co-va reliving her rescue. cordonned off, littered with and the surprise reunion on debris. clearly something went tragically wrong here. tonight u.s. authorities are stage. assessing to see if there were paul mccartney and ringo starr any u.s. citizens hurt in this together again. ♪ tack according to a law enforcement source. >> whit: back in the u.s. >> announcer: from abc news tonight abc news has learned the world headquarters in new york, nypd is surging resources at this is "world news tonight"

christmas markets here in new york out of an abundance of caution. police say visitors will see an enhanced presence around the markets, including counter terrorism officers. but there appears to be no link with what happened in germany. aaa predicts more than 119 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home for the holidays. snow and rain now in the northeast, this accident in outside new york. a small plane landing on the throughway slowing traffic in both directions. meteorologist lee goldberg with the forecast in just a moment. first, here's abc's r ramos. >> reporter: tonight a powerful winter storm wreaks havoc. mangled tractor trailers on interstate 90 in massachusetts.

miraculously no one was hurt, but authorities had to close a stretch of the major highway for hours. boston bracing for up to five inches of snow. multiple crashes reported on the new york state throughway. near albany a small plane landing right on the throughway. thankfully only minor injuries reported, but it caused major traffic jams. the system dumping more than half a foot of snow in parts of western michigan. overnight, the minnesota state patrol reporting at least one fatality amid hundreds of crashes, slide-offs and jackknifed tractor trailtor >> i got here an hour and a half before my flight, figured i'd be fine. the line goes all the way back there. >> reporter: early morning fog led to hundreds of delayed and

cancelled flights and weary travelers. another burst of snow is expected with the system. behind it, plunging temperatures, expecting to keep things really slick out here. >> whit: let's get right to chief meteorologist lee goldberg. with those dropping temperatures, a danger of black ice now. >> reporter: certainly in the interior and tomorrow just about everywhere. winter isn't waiting for the solstice. we've had rough travel from the great lakes to the northeast today. rain and snow along the coast. boston snow has been enhanced by ocean-effect snow and the coastal low. the arctic air pouring in will spark lake snows from cleveland to erie and syracuse. it's about the coldest air of the season, sub-zero windchills in northern new england. it will feel like 8 here in new york city. the good news is we're going to thaw out by the holidays.

>> whit: thanks. >> whit: now to the other major headline on this friday night. the standoff on government funding. the house averting a shutdown with just hours to share. two bills failed earlier in the house after elon musk averted a bill. jonathan karl is on capitol hill. >> reporter: tonight with a government shutdown just hours away, house republicans move to prevent a christmas crisis that would have left millions of federal workers without paychecks heading into the holidays. despite pressure from billionaire elon musk and president-elect donald trump. >> we will not have a government shutdown and we will meet our obligations for our farmers who need aid, for the disaster victims all over the country and making sure that military and essential services and everyone who relies on the federal government for a paycheck is paid over the holidays. >> reporter: it came after musk,

followed by donald trump blew up the bipartisan deal to keep the government funded through march. musk called the bill a crime, bloated with waste, threatening republicans who supported it would be voted out of office. trump demanded republicans add something unrelated, a provision to raise the so-called debt ceiling, the limit on how much the federal government can borrow, something it will hit early next year, potentially creating a crisis early in his presidency, telling republicans, without this, we should never make a deal. last night speaker of the house mike johnson tried to give trump his wish. he failed. 38 republicans voting no. >> the bill is not passed. >> reporter: today leaders of both parties went back to the drawing board. >> the lines of communication have been reopened. >> reporter: on the senate floor, mitch mcconnell in his farewell speech as republican leader warned house republicans they would be, quote, foolish to assume they wouldn't be blamed for a shutdown. >> recent history doesn't leave a whole lot of room for

interpretation on that one. when you try to use normal government function as a bargaining chip, you pay a political price. >> reporter: the bill still needs to pass the senate. that's expected to happen soon. this is a temporary bill. it only funds the government through the middle of march and it doesn't include what trump was demanding. there is nothing in here to raise the debt ceiling, whit. >> whit: next tonight with days until the holidays some starbucks workers going on strike and threatening to expand the walkout as drivers with the teamster's union are picketing outside amazon facilities. will the strikes interfere with the holidays? here's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight thousands of workers at some of the nation's largest companies on strike. >> no contract! >> reporter: starbucks baristas here in los angeles as well as

chicago and seattle, where the company is headquartered, kicking off a five-day strike today, demanding better pay and benefits. >> we know our worth. and we know how to get there. >> reporter: starbucks says the demands are, quote, unsustainable. why are you striking now just a few days before christmas? >> well, consumers may next time they look at their phone and push something try to empathize and recognize that when they hit that order button that there's a person on the other end of it. >> reporter: amazon says it has 800,000 operations employees and disputes the teamster's claims that 10,000 people have walked off their job. they say most of those protesting with amazon employees, insisting the strike is having no effect on deliveries. moments ago the teamsters union

announcing that workers in the facility in staten island are joining this nationwide strike beginning at midnight. >> whit: now to that chilling case making national headlines, a judge today sentencing a convicted killer who murdered two teenager girls while they were out hiking, prosecutors crediting the victims with helping to solve their own murd murders. >> reporter: the maximum sentence for a man who killed two teenagers, richard allen sentenced to 130 years. >> justin has been served for the girls. this community has embraced our families from day one and continues to lift us up and support us. >> reporter: those families today coming face to face with allen, describing their gut wrenching loss, abby's grandmother saying i wake up each day calculating how many hours until i can go back to bed. libby's mother saying i hope he

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finally tonight, diane sawyer one on one with supermodel petra nemcova 20 years after surviving the historic tsunami in south asia. >> it's the morning after christmas 2004. families wander onto a beach, no idea of the terror to come. they look up and see a towering white wall of water. someone on shore seems frozen in place, but it's too late to run. in this horror is a 25-year-old woman. i first met her right after the nightmare, petra nemcova. a beautiful small-town girl

communist communist czech. she and her boyfriend simon were on vacation in taiwan in their bungalow. >> it pulled us out and we were outside. >> as she's carried away, the final thing she sees and hears is simon. >> he can scream, petra, that's the last time i saw him. >> that was petra when i first met her. this is petra today. all the time that's traveled between this. >> almost 20 years. >> yeah. did you dread coming to talk again? >> no. i was excited to see you. it's always difficult to go back in that moment when my life

changed. >> in the deadly chaos she holds onto the top of a tree for nearly eight hours, every bone in her pelvis is crushed and she's completely naked. the water has torn off her clothes. 20 years ago, i flew in to that hellscape left by the tsunami, the suffering beyond despair. in all, there were 230,000 people will die, including the man with the piercing blue eyes swept away when an instant meets an eternity. strangers give her clothes and gently place her on a floating mattress to steer her through the debris toward medical help. >> that day of the tsunami i didn't have a choice to help, but today and every day i have a choice and that keeps moving me every day. and we all have a choice every

day. >> that's why two decades ago she had an idea. she would use her own money and time to try to build an army of volunteers to keep helping the victims of natural disasters long after the world's attention has moved on. a global nonprofit now called all hands and hearts, through the years 68,000 volunteers deploying all around the world, rebuilding schools and homes. almost two months ago, hurricane helene smashed into north carolina. they plan to help 500 families. >> we were not in a flood zone here. >> most of the homes here don't have flood insurance at all. >> these volunteers calling on everyone watching to join their army of hope. >> in the new year, we will need lots of volunteers, lots of support to come and join us. thank you. there's still a lot more to >> whit: a remarkable story.

national geographic's docu-series about that day now streaming on disney plus. and m always live. abc seven news starts right now. >> the suspect was driving quickly on the sidewalk, and it appeared to be chasing a person on a bicycle. >> it started as a chase and ended with police shooting and killing a security guard at the blink of an eye. >> tragedy struck. >> kids were screaming, blood everywhere. >> we hear from bay area parents on an air boat that collided with another boat in florida. and good news for crabbers. after a long wait, the season finally has a date to begin. good afternoon, i'm dan ashley thanks for joining us and i'm j.r. stone. we begin with breaking news. an apparent attack on a crowded christmas market in germany. terrible

scene. authorities say 50 year old doctor plowed a rental car at high speed into the market, killing two people, an adult and a toddler. at least 60 were injured. 15 seriously? thee motive is unknown here. the incident happened in magdeburg, 100 miles southwest of berlin, around seven in the evening local time. authorities say the suspect is originally from saudi arabia and had lived in germany on a permanent residency permit since 2006. now to developing news out of washington, d.c. it appears a federal government shutdown has been averted. abc seven news reporter monica madden is here with the latest on the vote that just happened in washington. monica, what's in that package? >> dan, first and foremost, this is just a stopgap to avert the government from shutting down. and the bill would extend the current funding into march. so they'll run into that same problem again in a few months. now, this measure passed in the house, 366 to 34, coming after president elect donald trump and his ally e