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human death from bird flu here in the u.s. and the new recall tonight for some cold and flu medicine. first tonight, we're tracking this major snowstorm hitting more than a dozen states. heavy snow, ice, freezing rain on the roadways. treacherous driving. multiple states, and now from washington, d.c. up through philadelphia. big rigs skidding off highways. drivers in cincinnati stranded for more than seven hours. reagan airport has been closed for the night. and now millions of americans bracing for temperatures in the single digits tomorrow. ginger zee with the forecast tonight. this evening, vice president kamala harris has presided over the peaceful transfer of power, formally certifying her own defeat and president-elect donald trump's victory. tonight, what the vice president said as she entered that chamber to certify trump's win. just in tonight, abc news just obtaining new images moments ago, the explosive devices that authorities say the new orleans terror suspect hid in coolers. what those images now show, as president biden and the first

lady arrive in new orleans to pay tribute. also breaking tonight, we have learned of the first human bird flu death right here in the u.s. what we're learning about the patient. there's new video emerging tonight showing the wing of a passenger plane engulfed in flames as it came in for landing. here in new york city tonight, the first of its kind congestion pricing plan now in effect. lots of opinions tonight. charging drivers now to enter manhattan's busiest areas. why other cities are now watching this very closely. has it helped congestion already? and will it soon pay for major infrastructure repairs on the subway? and a golden night at the golden globes. from "shogun" to "emilia perez" to "the brutalist," with all eyes on the oscars and demi moore, after her historic win. what she said after winning her first major acting award in more than 40 years. you'll see it right here.

good evening. and it's great to be back with all of you in the new year. and what a start, the treacherous driving, as a major winter storm hits. record snow, freezing rain, and a deadly 24 hours on the roads. tonight, reagan airport in washington has now been closed. more than 40 million americans on alert as we come on tonight. there's still more coming in the evening hours. and then the brutal cold tomorrow. the images coming in here, the freezing rain turning to ice on interstate 135 outside wichita. tractor trailer jackknifing. one of many vehicles losing control. an ice storm coating trees and power lines in perryville, missouri. trees covered in ice coming down. branches and trees breaking. hundreds of thousands without power. a state of emergency in louisville, kentucky, buried under more than seven inches of heavy snow there. a nearly seven-hour traffic jam, this is the spence bridge in cincinnati. more than 2,000 flights canceled nationwide. look at this. the kansas city airport a ghost town tonight. more bad weather coming this evening and frigid temperatures behind all this.

ginger zee with the forecast, and victor oquendo leading us off with images from across the country tonight. >> reporter: tonight, hundreds of thousands without power. interstates littered with cars and trucks. millions facing treacherous conditions as a massive, deadly winter storm barrels eastward. we're in the middle of downtown cincinnati. normally bustling on a monday, but right now, it is a ghost town. and here's why. it is so hard to drive through these conditions. that car is stuck, just one of many we've seen today. more than ten inches of snow by mid-afternoon in cincinnati. trucks backed up on interstate 471 for miles. and up to 18 inches of snow in parts of kansas. if drivers weren't stuck, they were sliding. these scenes captured by a stormchaser on interstate 135 in park city, kansas. trucks, cars, tractor trailers hitting that icy overpass and losing control.

in kansas city, watch as this tractor trailer helplessly slides from one end of the highway to the other and back again before crashing and folding like an accordion. south of st. louis -- tree branches caked in ice cracking, falling, and shattering to pieces. at least four dead so far on ice and snow-covered roads in the midwest. in downtown indianapolis, shaun white helping a stranger get back on the road. >> i was just getting gas. i could tell that she wasn't able to get to the parking lot, so we came over here, just to try to assist her to get out. >> reporter: the storm's affects stretching some 1,500 miles from the midwest to the mid-atlantic. virginia state police reporting more than 200 accidents in a 12-hour period. treacherous driving around washington, d.c. schools closed, but congress in session, required by law to certify the results of the 2024 election today. the massive system hitting major

airports and scrapping flights. a sea of red on departure and arrival boards. more than 2,000 flights canceled so far today on top of more than 1,800 canceled sunday. david, this neighborhood in cincinnati blanketed under nearly a foot of snow. streets like this one blocked off, just impassable right now, as plows focus on the main roads first. next, the cold really sets in. tomorrow, it will be 9 degrees here. david? >> david: incredible. some roads just simply closed off tonight. victor oquendo leading us off. victor, thank you. let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee, live in washington, d.c. tonight, and ginger, we mentioned reagan airport shut down tonight. and then the brutal cold coming, just as victor mentioned? >> reporter: that means that snow is going nowhere. david, five to eight inches is kind of the cake, and now we're getting the last burst of icing on the cake for the next couple of hours, until just after midnight. then we'll be rid of this storm. you can see the back end of it making it into southern new

jersey. that's going to burst out of here. and then it sticks, because the wind chills will be 22, as far south as mobile. sub-freezing for corpus christi. alerts all the way to orlando. but those single digits that you're seeing in the wind chill department up in the great lakes, northeast, they're not going anywhere. they're going to stick around through most of this week. look at washington, d.c., only feeling like 4 on thursday. 8 below for kansas city with their biggest snowstorm since 1993. and dallas will deal with a big snow on thursday, so, big-time problems going there. but let's talk about the winds in southern california, because these are life-threatening. we're talking about tuesday night through wednesday. 80 to 100-mile-per-hour winds, burbank, pasadena, simi valley, malibu. so many people will be dealing with this, and fire danger through the end of the week is high. >> david: we'll track that in the west, as well, and what a night behind you there in washington. ginger, thank you. we'll see you on "gma." now to the other news this monday night, and on this january 6th, the joint session of congress convening to certify donald trump's victory and return to the white house.

it was vice president kamala harris who presided over the peaceful transfer of power. formally certifying her own defeat. and what she said as she entered the chamber today. rachel scott on the hill for it all. >> reporter: tonight, history in the nation's capitol. vice president kamala harris marking the milestone in the peaceful transfer of power, presiding over the certification of donald trump's victory and the election she lost. >> what should people take away from today? >> democracy must be upheld by the people. >> reporter: before a joint session of congress, with vice president-elect jd vance looking on, harris formally declaring trump the winner. >> the votes for president of the united states are as follows. donald j. trump of the state of florida has received 312 votes. kamala d. harris of the state of california has received 226 votes. >> reporter: after, the vice president calling it an important moment.

>> it is the about what should be the norm and what the american people should be able to take for granted, which is that one of the most important pillars of our democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. >> reporter: that was not the case four years ago, when joe biden also won a resounding electoral victory, with a 7 million vote lead in the popular vote. but trump told his supporters to march to the capitol to disrupt the certification of the election. >> we're going to walk down, and i'll be there with you, because you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> reporter: trump's supporters storming the building, chanting "hang mike pence." >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> reporter: today, pence saying, "i welcome the return of order and civility to these historic proceedings. it being particularly admirable that vice president kamala harris would preside over the certification of a presidential election that she lost." nearly 1,600 people have been charged for their actions on january 6th. 600 of them for assaulting or

resisting law enforcement. 140 officers were injured. but trump has called the but trump has called the rioters patriots and hostages. vowing to pardon them on day one. do you believe that the president-elect should pardon -- >> i'm going to leave that to him. that's his power to exercise. but people who beat up police officers, i would put them in a different category than others. >> reporter: president-elect trump calling today's certification a big moment in history. and president biden hoping the nation has turned a page. >> i think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. i'm hopeful that we're beyond that. >> reporter: the biden administration intent on showing the world the peaceful transfer of power. weeks ago, president biden invited president-elect donald trump to the white house for a traditional meeting. and today, vice president kamala harris certifying the election she lost, making it clear this is what democracy stands for. david? >> david: rachel scott live up on the hill. rachel, thank you. now, to new orleans tonight, and that deadly truck attack, and this evening, just moments ago, abc news obtaining never before seen images of what

authorities say were the explosive devices hidden in coolers by the suspect. surveillance video showing the suspect placing the coolers near bourbon street, and what those images now show. and it comes just as president biden and the first lady arrived to pay tribute at a memorial to the victims, meeting with the families. we are now seeing the faces of all 14 victims who died. abc's trevor ault in new orleans again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, abc news has obtained never before seen images of the homemade explosive devices authorities say shamsud din jabbar brought to bourbon street the night of the new year's terror attack. surveillance video shows the suspect planting a pair of coolers there on the street early that morning. authorities say inside, they discovered a steel galvanized pipe with two end caps surrounded by two dozen rolls of nails, along with a radio-controlled receiver. they also say they found jars of flammable liquid inside the truck the suspect used to barrel into those bourbon street crowds, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more.

>> it was a transmitter that was recovered inside of jabbar's vehicle, and would have worked, but for new orleans pd putting him down before he could get access to that transmitter and set off the devices. >> reporter: the fbi reveals jabbar traveled to new orleans twice in the past year, possibly surveilling the location, filming the french quarter with smartglasses equipped with a camera while riding a bike. agents believe jabbar wore those glasses during his rampage, but there's no indication they were recording at the time. authorities are also combing through his trips to egypt, canada, and florida, still working to pin down how he became radicalized. sources tell abc news jabbar recorded several videos before the attack, saying he joined isis earlier this year, and that he also wanted to harm his family, telling them, "i don't want you to think i spared you willingly." and david, the mayor says president biden has approved their request to raise the security designation for mardi gras to the highest level, the

same level as the super bowl, it means they'll receive significant federal security assistance and mardi gras season kicks off today, david. >> david: yes, the same level as the super bowl now, indeed. trevor, thank you. we're also learning tonight of the first human bird flu death here in the u.s. and what we're learning about the patient who has died. here's abc's erielle reshef. >> reporter: tonight, health officials reporting the first death from bird flu in the u.s. the patient, who was over 65 with underlying health conditions, had been hospitalized in louisiana since mid-december. after being exposed to the virus through a flock of birds in a backyard. >> the risk is still very low. remember, this is from someone who has had direct contact with backyard flock. so, direct connection to wildlife in a way that most people don't have. >> reporter: the cdc analyzed the virus in that louisiana patient and found concerning new mutations which could help the virus infect people more easily. but so far, there has been no evidence of human to human spread. >> we are not seeing person to person transmission. that change would indicate a

real problem, and we're not seeing that yet. >> reporter: health officials urging the public to avoid consuming unpasteurized dairy products. the fda now testing aged cheese made with raw cow's milk. and david, public health officials tonight are also warning not to feed your pets raw food, after at least one cat in oregon died from the virus. david? >> david: we're going to watch this very closely. erielle, thank you. we learned late today, sentencing will move forward for president-elect donald trump, who had called for a delay on the sentencing. sentencing slated for friday. what the judge indicated late today. let's get right to aaron katersky with late reporting for us. aaron? >> reporter: david, trump does not want this sentencing on friday to go forward. he argued that just days from the inauguration, he should be covered by presidential immunity, and his conviction for falsifying business records here in new york should be dismissed. but just a few moments before we came on the air, david, judge juan merchan refused to budge. he called trump's arguments repetitive and refused to move friday's hearing.

and the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg said there really was no reason to. he said there's overwhelming evidence of trump's guilt and no reason to delay sentencing, because on january 10th, trump simply is not president yet, david. >> david: aaron katersky tonight. aaron, thank you. north of the border in canada tonight, prime minister justin trudeau announcing his resignation after nine years as prime minister. trudeau facing growing discontent over the economy and immigration, and divisions in his own government. president-elect trump has also threatened major tariffs for canada. trudeau will stay in office until at least march. back here in the u.s., and new york city, the city's congestion pricing plan now in effect. the first in the country. how it's working so far, and why other cities are watching this closely. here's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: tonight, a controversial first in the nation toll called congestion pricing now in effect in new york city. millions of drivers paying $9 to access the busiest part of manhattan, south of 60th street, with different tolling rates for trucks, taxis, and ridesharing

services, depending on the time of day. the city hoping it will reduce gridlock while raising billions of dollars to improve the infrastructure of the country's largest public transit system over the next few decades. >> i'm kind of okay with at least the motivations of trying to get public transportation better funded. >> reporter: but critics blasting the toll, saying it punishes drivers from outside manhattan. >> it's too much, man. we can't afford it, you know? >> reporter: tonight, cities like los angeles, chicago, and boston watching this closely, because if it works in new york, it could be a model for how to control urban traffic. david, traffic seemed to move through these congestion zones, with a couple of slowdowns, but it's unclear if weather had anything to do with it, or these new tolls. david? >> david: all right, stephanie, thank you. tonight, with just days left in office, president biden announcing a sweeping ban on new offshore drilling of oil and gas along most of the u.s. coastline. it covers 625 million acres of ocean. the entire eastern seaboard, the eastern gulf of mexico, pacific

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missed. >> david: all these years later, "the substance." >> have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? >> david: a thought-provoking movie about the search for youth and a better you. but at what cost? >> i'm fine. everything's fine. >> david: moore's daughters cheering on her mother as she won her first major acting honor. >> 30 years ago, i had a producer tell me that i was a popcorn actress, and -- and at that time, i made that mean that this wasn't something that i was allowed to have. i thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe i was complete, maybe i would -- i've done what i was supposed to do. >> david: demi moore on the moment she waited more than 40 years for. her golden moment. >> i had a woman say to me, just know, you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down

the measuring stick. and so, today, i celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something i love and being reminded that i do belong. thank you so much. >> david: really powerful words last night. more than 40 years, waiting for her moment. all eyes now on the oscars, here on abc. i'm david muir. good night team reports. tonight we dig into the details. our dan noyes revealed that they might bring up in court also. >> we want to make sure that the next person that comes in as mayor hits the ground running. >> he became oakland's mayor today. the third mayor in a month. how long until the voters who recalled mayor

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