teens, so be ready. patrick: world news is coming up next. toya: tonight, new charges. the deadly road rage that killed a former nfl star. this evening, the other driver has now been charged. and the sheriff tonight with a blistering message about how his investigation were treated. you will hear from him right here. also breaking, for the first time, images fm warehouse in california. our interview with the d.a. on possible criminal charges, and what authorities are now looking at as a possible cause in that inferno. at this hour, the winter weather advisories across several states. the snow and freezing rain moving in. the east coast getting hammered right now. president-elect donald trump and his message to an american giant, boeing. threatening plans that could have paid them and their workers billions for a new air force one.

and america strong. naomi judd with robin roberts. her personal struggle, affected millions across this country, and how she hopes to help them. good evening on this tuesday night. and we begin this evening with new charges for the driver in that deadly case of road rage. a former nfl star shot and killed. and tonight, those harsh words from the louisiana sheriff, about the kind of hate he says ai and authorities while they were simply trying to do their jobs. authorities say former nfl star joe mcknight was killed by the other driver, ronald gasser, last seen in handcuffs next to that car right there. abc's eva pilgrim is in new orleans tonight. >> reporter: tonight, ronald gasser, the man behind the trigger in the deadly road rage killing of former nfl player joe mcknight, is behind bars, charged with manslaughter. >> two people engaged in bad behavior that day.

jefferson parish today slamming his critics who had called for gasser's immediate arrest over the weekend. >> if people don't think that we know what we're doing strategically, tough. i don't care. i can put my head on the pillow every night, knowing that we've done the right thing for the right reasons. >> reporter: and he quoted from hate-filled comments on social media. aimed at african-american local officials for supporting the pace of his >> it's not fair to be called. we saw you sell out to them, you rat [ bleep ] punk. that's the tone of what we're calling our elected leaders. >> reporter: the sheriff arguing that the four-day wait for an arrest allowed investigators to question gasser for hours, eliminate a lying witness and get other critical witnesses to come forward. the deadly confrontation, he

started when mcknight allegedly cut gasser off driving on a bridge. gasser then sets out after mcknight. the two drivers tailing each other for miles. in this surveillance video, just a mile from the shooting scene, you can see the two vehicles matching the description of mcknight's silver suv and gasser's blue car speeding through a turn. a mile away, the two stopped at this light, arguing through open windows. police say mcknight boxed in gasser's car, got out and leaned toward his passenger window. >> at some point in time durin that verb alabamaer the case, mr. gasser pulls his weapon from between his seat and the console and fires three shots at joe mcknight, killing him. >> and eva joins us live tonight. eva, it's still unclear what that former nfl player might have tried to do? >> reporter: david, no word if mcknight was trying to get in that car. the sheriff says gasser claims

some witnesses contradict parts of his story. here in louisiana, the use of deadly force can be justified if someone is trying to get in your car. david? >> eva pilgrim with us from new orleans. eva, thank you. we do have new reporting tonight of that horrific and deadly fire in okay land, california. tonight here, for the first time, video from inside the warehouse, well before that inferno. the burned-out building now a crime scene tonight. investigators weighing chargers, even mudder. and that new dangling wires, broken plumbing inside. and tonight here, the heartbreaking final text messages from loved ones who were trapped. abc's kayna whitworth in oakland. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, we're seeing those deplorable living conditions inside the ghost ship warehouse where those 36 people perished. >> it was a hell hole, it was a death trap. >> reporter: shelley mack says she lived in the house for five months. she took this video before the

staircases, dimly lit and difficult to navigate. tonight, investigators telling abc news, the cause is most likely electrical, while authorities consider the most serious charges. are there possible murder charges coming down the line? is that possibility? >> it's on the spectrum of possibilities. >> reporter: but who is responsible? the owner of the building? the city of oakland for missing repeated complaints? or, the so-called landlord, derek almena? >> am i the man who should be held accountable? did i build something that -- what am i going to say for that? >> reporter: tonight, officials say most of the victims died of smoke inhalation. some trapped in the inferno, sending those text messages to loved ones, saying good-bye. >> we found a lot of victims in the wreckage here that were holding each other and caring for each other, as they waited to die.

and kayna, you've learned that investigators are trying to find clues from some of those cell phones? >> reporter: absolutely, david. so, they just have about 10% of this warehouse left to search and they are recovered several cell phones contains pictures and vid free from the night of the fire, and that is helping investigators piece together a timeline. david? >> kayna, thank you. we stay now in california, and next, the terror threat in los angeles. officials initially calling it specific and imminent. abs of force, all day in los angeles. >> reporter: tonight, one of l.a.'s most famous spots transformed into a tsa security line. that tip warning of an attack on the red line metro stop just yards from universal studios. >> it's scary. >> reporter: the stop brissefuling with k-9 units and officers in tactical gir. they've been checking trash cans, and now they're putting

metro to open under intense security. the fbi says it got the tip from a foreign intelligence agency. a male, speaking in english, had called a public safety hotline, say officials, with a specific warning. >> our intelligence was that it was universal city station, and it was today. >> reporter: we accompanied los angeles mayor eric garcetti, riding the subway himself, hoping to calm nerves. >> it wasn't something with massive amounts of people, or coordinated in other places, it was just a single, lone actor type of event. >> let's go live to matt gutman tonight, and matt, the mayor telling you, they had no choice but to take this seriously? >> reporter: that's right, david. the major saying this had two of the three major components of a severe terrorist threat. specificity, here, and timing, today. he said, what may have lacked was credibility. david? >> certainly many there welcoming the show of force. matt, thank you. next tonight, to the storms hitting right now. the blizzard and winder weather advisories. a dangerous commute in the east

meantime, a blizzard, look at this, blowing through north dakota. this man walking against the wind in downtown grand forks. that arctic air heading east. ginger zee is standing by. but first, abc's alex perez in north dakota tonight. >> reporter: tonight, across the northern plains, treacherous travel. wind gusts up to 64 miles per hour. in morton county, north dakota, where demonstrators have, for weeks, gathered to protest the dakota access pipeline, tribe officials begging them to leave, but even leaving was dangerous. >> the hill just got us and we just started sliding sideways all the way down the hill and i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: 300 mile stretch of interstate 94, closed. >> lot of people spinning around getting stuck. sort of miserable. >> reporter: visibility so poor, minot, north dakota's airport, entirely shut down. and david, here in bismarck, the big problem is the blowing snow,

one, and now, the cold. it will feel like 20 te agrees below zero here tonight. david? >> winter is certainly back. let's get to ginger zee, live with us tonight. timing it all out. hey, ginger. >> reporter: hey there, david. this is one of the storms that we're tracking, this cold rain. actually had some sleet in it earlier. i'll take you to the maps, where we have some ice storm warnings in parts of new england. going to get in on the snow as the low pressure system moves fwu tonight, into tomorrow. you're going to find slick coast. then, i wanted to focus in on the cold. so many folks are going to be feeling it. the numbers, 5 below, omaha. 2, kansas city. that's thursday morning. before the cold air makes it right here by saturday morning. >> ginger zee, our thanks to you again tonight. president-elect donald trump and audio thank you rally tonight, this time, in north carolina. mr. trump will be joined by his choice for defense secretary. tweeting this photo with general james "mad dog" mat tis. mr. trump using twitter to blast

abc's tom llamas on the tweet being studied by the company and its workers, the tweet that said, "cancel order." >> reporter: today at trump tower, the golden elevator opening and out walks the president-elect himself. >> good morning. how are you? >> reporter: donald trump, coming down to talk about his latest tweet. "boeing is building a brand new 747 air force one for future presidents, but costs are out of control. more than $4 billion. cancel order!" well, the plane is totally out of control. i think it's ridiculous. i think boeing is doing a little bit of a number. >> reporter: no explanation nor why he's attacking boeing, but with the tweet came about an hour after the company's ceo was quoted, criticizing trump's rhetoric on china. during the campaign trump warned boeing would send jobs there. >> then, all of a sudden, your boeing plant in this area will be gone. and we don't want that.

our jon karl getting a rare look. the oval office. the situation room. a full command center. >> there's 87 telephones on the airplane. three different networks, top secret all the way down to nonsecure. >> reporter: but the aircraft is 25 years old and quickly becoming obsolete. boeing tapped to build two new planes. but there is no $4 billion deal. the pentagon projects the cost could exceed $3 billion. and the jets would likely be for trump's succr, the president-elect now routinely tweeting about deals with specific companies. there was carrier, trump announcing the company would stay in indianapolis, quote, great deal for workers. we later found out that while carrier agreed to preserve 1,100 jobs, it is still moving 600 jobs to mexico. late today, trump tweeting again, claiming credit for another deal, this time with a japanese bank that owns sprint.

japanese ceo. >> and he's just agreed to invest $50 billion in the united states and 50,000 jobs. >> reporter: but so far, no details about that deal. or exactly how and when all those jobs would come to the u.s. >> still waiting for the details on that. tom llamas joins us from a trump rally in north carolina. last night right here, we reported on that suspect with an ar-15, showing up at a family pizz d.c., after reading that fake news story online involving hillary clinton. that fake story had been retweeted by a young man working on trump's transition team? and you have word tonight, he's been forced out? >> reporter: that's right, david. the man's name is michael flynn, and he happens to be the son of president-elect donald trump's pick to lead the national security agency, retired general michael flynn. sources telling me the call to get rid of him came all the way from the top, from president-elect trump himself. david?

forever noisy rally there in north carolina tonight. tom, thank you. overseas tonight, and our team inside aleppo this evening. just 24 hours after syria and its ally, russia, rejected a cease-fire for the battle-scarred city of aleppo. syrian forces now moving to take the city back. tonight, we witness some brave families heading back in, and abc's alex marquardt with many of them, looking to see if they can find toys, prized family possessions they hid before escaping war. ing city of 2 million, aleppo is now a shell. driving in, we see the scars of four years of nonstop war, block after block lying in ruin. you can hear the fighting not too far away, the thuds and the booms. but here is silent. these homes are empty. almost no one around. but slowly, as syrian forces retake eastern aleppo from rebel fighters, some residents are

s samir dawalibi left two years ago, and has returned to find his home like this. the doors and windows blown off, tv and ac stolen off the walls. outside on the street, constant reminders of the war still raging. to you think it can end soon? >> no. endless. >> reporter: still, ahmad mardinli is bringing his four sons home for the first time in ur so, he has only ever known war. we walk to their building and up the stairs. ahmad lifts his boys over the brick wall that he built to keep their home safe. the children sprint inside. their father, climbing a ladder, pulling down the toys he hoped would survive the war. dusty, but loved. a father, now trying to rebuild his home and his boys' lives.

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[captioning made possible by wisn-tv] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: now on wisn 12 news. >> he had a bullet hole in his hip. joyce: a woman's dog shot and killed, and wisn 12 news has learned the man accused is an off-duty milwaukee officer. >> i guess he's good at scamming people. patrick: and, it's arrived in wauwatosa. we're live with the holiday train. we begin with breaking news. of a multi-vehicle crash in grafton. the crash has part of highway 60 shut down between 7th and 8th avenues. newschopper 12 flew over the scene within the last few minutes. there is no word on the extent of injuries. joyce: this story now, the dog behind us his name was vinnie. , and tonight milwaukee police are investigating one of their own after accusations that vinny was shot and killed by an officer. patrick: it's our big story tonight. wisn 12 news terry sater is live outside police administration

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