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record-breaking brutal cold across the nation and for how long. desperate for freedom. the menendez brothers tonight calling in to a podcast from prison. what they reveal. first tonight, the life-threatening, record-breaking cold across the country, from texas to the east coast. it was minus 15 degrees in omaha. in parts of the country, wind chills 20 to 30 below zero tomorrow. and then the major change coming. lee goldberg has the forecast. also just in tonight, the breaking news. the video circulating online of a suspected terror attack in israel. reports of multiple explosions targeting buses at different locations. they were empty, but israeli authorities say this was meant for the morning rush. martha raddatz on what we now know. moments ago, elon musk center stage, wielding a chain saw amid the mass layoffs targeting thousands of federal workers across the u.s. the president's team today defending his first 30 days in office. and the new poll in tonight, what americans think of the first 30 days, of the mass firings, of elon musk's role. what the polling reveals.

tonight, after president trump called president zelenskyy a dictator and said that ukraine shouldn't have started the war with russia, the white house today saying president trump is very frustrated with zelenskyy. the trump administration pressuring him to sign a deal that allegedly includes handing over 50% of ukraine's mineral rights to the u.s. european leaders alarmed by this sudden shift on ukraine. the prison inmate brought to a new prison in upstate new york. the disturbing police video. and authorities say within a half an hour of arriving at that prison, the inmate was clinically dead. tonight, in an extraordinary move, the menendez brothers calling in to a podcast from prison, hoping to be set free. erik and lyle menendez describing their 35 years in prison, and what they reveal. the dramatic scene on the highway. a mother driving an suv slammed by a cement truck. the suv bursts into flames. the extraordinary effort to save the mother. and the showdown on the ice. usa versus canada, amid political tension between both

countries boiling over even before the hockey game tonight. >> david: good evening, and it's great to have you with us on a very busy thursday night. the suspected terror attack in israel. multiple bus explosions. the images coming in now, and martha raddatz on this in a moment. but we do begin tonight with the life-threatening, dangerous cold across the country. it is record-breaking. tonight, 70 million americans bracing from texas right over to the east coast. take a look at the wind chills tomorrow morning. the feel-like temperatures below freezing across this country. wind chills minus 13 in minneapolis. 14 in shreveport, 3 in nashville, 13 in washington, d.c. 11 in new york city tomorrow morning. new images tonight of a water main break, cars encased in ice in detroit. several feet deep. they're working to clear the ice. an historic snowstorm in virginia beach, up to 13 inches of snow. treacherous driving on the roads. three people rescued from a

submerged car in boone county, kentucky. the death toll from days of flooding, snow, and ice there now rising to 15 tonight. crashes on highway 321 in lincoln county, north carolina. lee goldberg standing by with the forecast. what you'll face tomorrow. and the big change then coming. and abc's faith abubey with the images coming in tonight. >> reporter: tonight, after powerful storms pummeled the east coast with up to a foot of snow, now, the deep freeze. more than a dozen record lows broken this morning. minus 15 in omaha, nebraska. the coldest on this date in more than 100 years.

>> it's extremely hard when it's this cold. our hands are our best tools. and if you can't feel your fingers, then it's really not easy to do your job. >> reporter: in detroit, an entire neighborhood encased in ice earlier this week. wxyz's randy wembley on the scene. >> city crews have been breaking up and removing ice surrounding dozens of vehicles here after a massive water main break that flooded blocks in this neighborhood, from the streets, all the way into basements. >> reporter: officials say it will be at least two weeks before everything is fixed. and in kentucky, the death toll from the devastating flooding rising to 15. they're still making water rescues. in boone county overnight, first responders pulling three people out of their submerged vehicle. they're expected to be okay. and david, behind me, the missouri and the kansas rivers covered in a sheet of ice. one more night of brutally cold temperatures around negative 3 degrees, and then the warmup, approaching 60 degrees by monday. david?

>> david: what a swing there in kansas city for sure. faith, thank you again tonight. let's get right to chief meteorologist lee goldberg of wabc here in new york. lee, quite a change, but another 24 hours of cold. >> reporter: david, we're almost to the finish line of this frigid blast. a wicked wind here in new york right now and the flakes are flying through the evening hours. the core of the cold still in the middle of the country. look at the wakeup temperatures tomorrow. teens and 20s all the way down to the deep south. all those circles say these are possible record lows. 21 in dallas, 17 in birmingham. you factor in the wind, feels like 20 to 30 below in the midwest and the plains. single digits from lubbock to huntsville. what a change over the weekend. temperatures spike, as you heard in kansas city, some 36 degrees by monday. we'll be in the low 60s, pushing 70 in dallas. 50s in new york will feel great by early next week. david? >> david: lee goldberg with the forecast for us again tonight. lee, thank you. now to the breaking news as we're on the air tonight. explosions rocking tel aviv. a suspected terror attack in israel. bombs planted on several buses. they were empty, but israeli

authorities say they were meant for the morning rush. martha raddatz on what we know so far. >> reporter: tonight, a string of explosions rocking central israel. in what israeli authorities say is a suspected terrorist act. highly coordinated and brazen. multiple city buses up in flames. authorities say four devices were planted on buses, three exploded. and they're searching for suspects. investigators combing through the burnt-out wreckage. they say the attack was believed to have been planned for friday morning, meant to detonate during the pre-sabbath rush when buses in israel are crowded with commuters. but fortunately, the buses were empty. still in a parking lot. u.s. intelligence sources say the size and number of devices indicates this was well-resourced, saying they are military-grade, sizable explosives, and sources tell abc news investigators found a note indicating the attackers were

seeking revenge for israel's ongoing operations in the west bank. prime minister benjamin netanyahu instructing the idf to now carry out massive operations in areas he believes are terrorist hot spots. and david, while israelis have gotten accustomed to rocket and missile attacks launched from outside israel, this appears to be one of the largest, most coordinated incidents inside israel proper since the october 7th massacre in 2023. david? >> david: i know you'll be continuing to follow this into the evening hours. martha, thank you. tonight, as president trump's sweeping job cuts now target the irs next, and thousands of government workers already in several agencies across the country. elon musk late today center stage, wielding a chainsaw, boasting about slashing the federal bureaucracy. the president's team today defending his first 30 days in office, and tonight here, the new poll. what americans think of this first 30 days. here's mary bruce tonight. >> reporter: tonight, before a conservative conference in

washington, elon musk, chainsaw in hand, boasting of slashing the federal workforce. >> this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. chainsaw! >> reporter: with tax season in full swing, the irs tonight beginning to lay off more than 6,000 employees across the country, roughly 6% of its workforce. employees, like kia, informed by email. >> i was, like, the first person on my team that got the email and i just broke down into tears. >> reporter: sources tell us no one being laid off plays a direct role in processing americans' tax returns, but that there are still widespread concerns within the irs that the layoffs could ultimately cause delays. the firings part of the administration's sweeping effort led by musk to dramatically downsize the federal workforce. more than 2 million people spread out across all 50 states, with the largest number in d.c., virginia, maryland, florida, texas, and california. the administration insists they're firing people for cause,

but many of these fired workers, who have only been on the job for less than two years, say they've never even had a performance evaluation. from nicholas berarti, who works for the irs in philadelphia -- >> it even says here in the email that they're citing the reason why i'm fired is because of my performance. but until today, i hadn't gotten a performance review. >> reporter: to emma freerks, who works for the u.s. geological survey in iowa. >> the thing is, i never had a meeting implying or even official, like, sitdown, letter saying, here's your performance review, you're not doing a good job. >> reporter: still, today at a press briefing marking one month of the trump administration, the president's top economic adviser insisting the thousands of workers who have been fired deserve to go. so, you're saying everybody who is being let go was doing a bad job? >> i'm saying that we're studying every agency in deciding who to let go and why. and we're doing so very rationally, with a lot of support from analysis. >> because we're being told by a lot of people who have been let

go at other agencies that they were told they were being dismissed because of poor performance, when in some cases, they haven't even had a performance review yet. because they've only been on the job a couple of months. >> yeah, i've never seen a person who was laid off for poor performance say that they were performing poorly. >> reporter: but as the president's team stood in the briefing room defending his first 30 days, tonight, a new "washington post"/ipsos poll has trump's approval rating at 45%, with 53% of americans disapproving. 57% say the president has exceeded his authority since taking office. only 34% approve of how musk is handling his role, with 49% disapproving. the president gets his strongest numbers on his top issue, immigration, but even there, the public is split. 50% approving of his performance, and 48% disapproving. and on the issue of the economy, the president keenly aware that inflation is rising, and now floating the idea of giving money saved through the work of musk's team directly to the

american people. in the meantime, the senate today confirming trump's pick for fbi director, his staunch supporter kash patel. this was a tight vote, two republicans voting against him, but tonight, patel will now lead the nation's top law enforcement agency. david? >> david: mary bruce at the white house tonight. mary, thank you. tonight, after president trump called president zelenskyy a dictator, the white house now saying president trump is very frustrated with zelenskyy. the trump administration allegedly pressuring zelenskyy to sign a deal that includes ukraine handing over 50% of ukraine's mineral rights to the u.s. ian pannell from kyiv again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, in the face of relentless russian drone attacks on the capital here in kyiv, president zelenskyy also fending off political attacks from president trump, and now trump's white house national security adviser mike waltz, declining to blame russia for starting the war. waltz, who was once vocal about standing up for ukraine, saying this today -- >> president trump is obviously very frustrated right now with president zelenskyy, the fact

that -- that he hasn't come to the table, that he hasn't been willing to take this opportunity that we have offered. >> reporter: this was the deal from trump that zelenskyy was asked to sign, according to ukrainian officials. hand over half of the revenue from its mineral resources to the u.s. forever. but without any promise of security going forward. a senior ukrainian official telling abc news they were given almost no time to read the document. the source claiming when zelenskyy presented an alternative plan to the u.s., at the munich security conference, they threatened to cancel planned meetings with vice president vance and secretary of state rubio. a u.s. official calling this inaccurate. today, u.s. special envoy keith kellogg meeting with zelenskyy amid this blistering public feud. ukraine insisting the meeting went well, and a new deal over mineral resources is on the table. but a planned joint press conference was canceled at the request of the american delegation, according to zelenskyy's office. zelenskyy saying ukraine is

ready for a just and lasting peace. and here's why. olexander lost both of his legs in a russian attack. it's a miracle he's alive. his body is broken, but his spirit strong. "we can't stop the fighting," he says, "it's the russians who came here, not us." david, eu leaders are alarmed by what they're hearing from trump. britain and france sending delegations to meet him next week to try and resolve this crisis. david? >> david: ian pannell live in kyiv again tonight. ian, thank you. back here in the u.s., meanwhile, the prison inmate brought to a new prison in upstate new york. authorities say within a half an hour of arriving there, the inmate was clinically dead. tonight here, the disturbing police video. and now nine former corrections officers are charged. here's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: tonight, multiple corrections officers seen in this disturbing body camera video beating robert brooks at a new york state prison, now charged in his death. brooks had just been transferred to the marcy directional facility near utica.

>> about a half an hour later, he was clinically dead. >> reporter: six former officers charged with murder. all six, plus three others, charged with manslaughter. last december, the officers seen choking, punching, and kicking the 43-year-old in the face, torso, and genitals. >> i think any sentient human being looking at the tapes naturally comes to the conclusion that he must have said something, he must have spit at the officers, he must have resisted in some way -- and the fact of the matter is, he did absolutely nothing. >> reporter: an autopsy finding brooks died from homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck compression and multiple blunt force injuries. tonight, brooks' family calling the charges a step toward accountable. >> these men murdered my father. it was on video. these men need to be prosecuted and convicted of the crimes they made. >> reporter: brooks had been serving a 12-year prison sentence for assault. all of the charged officers plead not guilty and some have been released on bond. david? >> david: stephanie ramos with us here. steph, thank you.

tonight, the menendez brothers, in an extraordinary move, calling in to a podcast from prison, just one month from their sentencing hearing. and what they reveal. here's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, in an extraordinary move, the menendez brothers calling into a podcast, tmz's two angry men podcast, with harvey levin and mark geragos, their defense attorney. erik describing the terror behind bars. >> i've faced a lot of bullying and trauma. there was -- it was a dangerous environment. >> what happened to you? >> i was picked on, bullied violently, and it was traumatic. and it was continual. and, you know, those are things that a lot of inmates in prison go through, when they're not part of a gang structure. >> reporter: and erik says he didn't fight back. >> i'm not going to fight back. i'm not going to, you know, engage, and i had no one to really turn to for help.

>> reporter: the brothers served 21 years of their sentence in separate prisons. erik describing how he felt when he learned his brother lyle had been attacked. >> i was told, lyle just got assaulted and got his jaw broken, and it was -- i'm thinking, he's over there, i'm going through this over here, and at least we could protect each other, maybe, if we were together. >> reporter: next month, the brothers face a critical hearing when a judge will decide whether they should be resentenced for the gruesome murders of their parents, kitty and jose. the 2024 netflix series shining a spotlight on their case and the alleged sex abuse by their father. >> this is done. this is done. you understand? >> reporter: lyle believes that the tv show helped people understand the childhood trauma he and erik endured. now, david, resentencing is the most likely legal avenue for the brothers' release. and l.a.'s new d.a. nathan hoffman telling me he

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that once got swamped. >> i'm meteorologist sandyha patel. temperatures on the rise today. i'll show you how much warmer for the weekend coming up. >> always live. abc seven news starts right now. >> severely off track. that is the assessment from the secretary of transportation about california's high speed rail project. years of delays and millions of dollars of our money already spent on it. now the trump administration wants to take a closer look. with billions in federal funds hanging in the balance. good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. the high speed rail project and the presidio tonight, both in the crosshairs of the trump administration's effort to slash federal funding. >> we do have a look at what is at risk, starting with the bullet train funding so far. roughly 13 billion has been spent on it. most of that money coming from the state. >> abc seven news reporter suzanne fawn is in the newsroom tonight, speaking with supporters of this massive transit project. suzanne. >> dan, the