this morning on "world news now," the bitter arctic blast with bone-chilling temperatures gripping the nation. >> and snowfall records are being shattered. more than five feet of though in so -- snow in some areas. president trump is away from the white house for holidays but not off twitter, and he's now taking aim at the russia investigation and the fbi. and a shocking double murder. two parents shot and their daughter's boyfriend is the sus selected quiller. later in the mix, a shoe-in. a bizarre moment when they started chanting and r

we'll find out why on this wednesday, december 27th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> must have smelled lovely in that stadium. >> i hadn't thought of that. it's outdoors at least. >> keep the dome open, everybody. ron claiborne, welcome in for kendis. >> diana say de macedo, thank y much. happy two days after christmas. >> we're starting things off with the severe winter weather. >> wrae're going to begin with e cold weather gripping the upper half of the country. >> some locations are bracing for as much as six feet of snow going nowhere fast. the bitter cold temperatures

>> and more than 6,000 flights to or from u.s. airnports are delayed. >> reporter: with millions on the roads, the lake-effect snow machine is shattering records and grinding travel to a halt. the city of erie, pennsylvania a? emergency. crews unable to keep up with the nearly four and a half feet of snow that fell in 36 hours. dozens of cars are spinning off highways, and these drivers backed up for miles on interstate 90 outside of town. that lake-effect snow leaving buffalo buried. whiteout conditions all the way to kalamazoo and causing car wrecks in kansas where at least four people died after sliding off the road. in the northwest, icy roads causing pileups in oregon. one driver injured. >> lost control, did a 360, hit a car in the next lane and ended up her

northeast are digging out after getting blizzard conditions for christmas, white knuckle travel from maine to massachusetts where there was thundersnow. >> thundersnow. >> reporter: and winds gusted to 65 miles an hour, knocking this beam after the bridge and knocking out power to thousands. at logan, flights delayed for hours and one almost didn't make it. >> we started spinning and spinning and spinning. >> we just skidded on the ice. >> reporter: passengers evacuating onto the icy tarmac and onto shuttle buses after a jetblue plane from savannah spun all the way around. thankfully no one was injured. that's water from lake erie completely frozen solid here. that's actually a bench underneath there covered in ice. tritch aaa says they're getting over 100 calls

and people here expecting another foot of snow. buffa buffalo, new york. >> and there is more snow in the forecast for places like buffalo, new york. >> they're used to it. it's scooping up relatively warm water. >> and the northwest is getting the coldest air. they are under a wind chill advisory. no fun. and president trump taking a swing at the russian investigation from his resort in florida. the president said he was getting back to work but also returned to the golf course. he's now spent more than 100 days at his property. a third of his presidency. he's also back on twitter responding to a fox news report about a dossier that claimed there were links between his campaign and russia. he called the claim as bogus

clamm slammed the fbi as tainted. he says the tax law essentially repeals the health care law. and says that democrats and republicans will eventually come together and create a new health care plan. and 30 cities are suing the pentagon for failures in the gun check system. the mayors of philadelphia, new york and san francisco are calling on the defense department to repair the flaws that allowed the shooter in the texas church massacre to slip through the cracks. he had a criminal record that should have disqualified him from buying a firearm, but the u.s. air force failed to update the fbi. and police are investigating a quadruple murder. it happened in troy near albany. the property manager found the victims with their hands bound behind their

any other details but the deaths are being investigated as homicides. and we're learning new details about the virginia teen charged with killing his girlfriend's parents. family members say the parents feared he was a neo-nazi and think wanted the they wanted their daughter to break up with him. they say he mowed a swastika into a field. >> reporter: police are investigating a double murder inside this virginia home three days before christmas. >> a mother and father were shot. >> reporter: they were gunned down before dawn. family members say their daughter's boyfriend then shot and critically injured himself. >> we have the shooter down. >> reporter: the girl's grandmother says last week the couple told their daughter to end the relationship oafter discovering his alleged nazi views from looking at her phone. >> they disapproved of all the time she

hours on the phone. >> reporter: they alerted the principle of their private school about praising hitler and calling for a white revolution. but by friday morning the boy got inside the home where he was confronted by the couple. that 17-year-old is still hospitalized. the juvenile is facing double murder charges. the victims' devastated family sending a message. >> hate has no home here. >> reporter: there were four other people inside this house when the shooting happened. a family member tells me the parents were there visiting for the holiday. none of them were physically hurt. and fire crews are battling a fierce three-alarm fire at a historic building near seattle. flames were seen shooting out of the building

1921. no serious injuries were reported, but all of the tenants there have been displaced. the building did not have sprinklers. and researchers are shedding light on popular vitamin supplements. calcium and vitamin d pills do not seem to prevent bone and hip fractures. and it adds to the contentious debate over whether adults should take calcium and vitamin d supplements. >> they're saying it does not have any benefit. >> that's what they showed in this study other than a certain number of patients with osteoporosis. but there is a deficiency there, so trying to get it from food and the sun might be a better option than supplements. >> why not take it? unless it's harmful. >> that is a good question. >> think about it. time is running out

a huge reward. if you find some priceless artwork. >> an empty frame marks the space where a rembrandt once stood. the museum is offering $10 million for information that leads to the recovery of that painting and 12 others that were stolen back in 1990. >> but that reward expires when the clock strikes 12:01 on new year's day, then it drops to a mere r5 -- $5 million. >> we can do this. you know that photo hunt game? i am very good at that game. all about picking out the differences. i just need learn what constitutes a rembrandt, and i think i could crack -- >> how much is that rembrandt worth? >> it might be more worth our while to try to keep it if we do figure it out.

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we're back now with the miss america pageant and the scandal. >> mallory hagan, a target of many of those e-mails has now spoken out. >> reporter: a shakeup at the miss america organization. ♪ there she is ♪ miss america >> reporter: after the huffington post published leaked e-mails from sam haskell exposing crude and demeaning comments about the contestants, the future of the organization is now in general ajeopardy. >> reporter: mallory hagan was the subject o

e-mails, belittled about her love life and weight. >> that type of language was used about other miss americas while i was miss america. so it shouldn't have surprised my, i gue -- me, i guess. >> reporter: dozens have called on the leadership to resign. now haskell has stepped down along with lynn widener. dick clark productions cut ties with ms. america calling the e-mails appalling. >> i hope we're starting a larger conversation here. >> reporter: haskell tells abc that the e-mails were conveniently edited. and they say it does not reflect my values or the values i work to promote at the mthe organiza. they say they are determined to

ron and diane? >> it's interesting. she refers to those e-mails containing language that was crude and demeaning, appalling. but it's so bad in some cases, we can't even really that i out for you just how egregious it is. a handicap in describing what's in there, but it's pretty bad. >> it must have been pretty hurtful to read those things and seeing that they're about some of those people. coming up, we're going to take a look at some of the biggest headlines of 2017. >> the major events that shaped our year, next on "world news now." that's when he needs vicks vaporub. proven cough medicine. with 8 hours of vapors. so he can sleep. vicks vaporub. goodnight coughs. i'm joy bauer, and as a nutritionist i know probiotics can often help. try digestive advantage. it is tougher than your stomach's harsh environment, so it surivies a hundred times better than the leading probiotic.

♪ welcome back. welcome back, diane. >> oh, thank you very much. >> after a year of whirlwind headlines, we're finally closing in on 2018. >> as we look ahead to the new year we look back at the moments that defined 2017. breaking news right now. ♪ >> reports of multiple casualty situation as a

active shooting situation in las vegas. >> so all of this playing out just the last hour and a half near the las vegas strip. >> more than 200 people injured. >> i'm thinking, am i going to die? >> the slaughter in that church behind me. >> i saw bodies with a lot of blood. >> this town is in complete shock. >> that church is my family. >> oh, my god. >> a 29-year-old inspired by isis used this rented truck plowing into crowds. >> white supremacist marches. >> [ bleep ]. >> the 32-year-old who was killed -- >> we condemn this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. ♪ >> i donald john trump do solemnly swear. ♪ >> america is back! >> you told the

post" that your plan to replace obamacare. >> i want to take care of everybody. >> the major defeat for the republican party, the senate voting against "the skinny" repeal of obamacare. >> at least 20 top officials have been fired or resigned. tom price, steve bannan, anthony scaramucci, reince priebus, shawn spicer and michael flynn. >> i was fired because of the russia investigation. >> it is isis the military believes that killed those four americans. >> this was once again kim jong un flexing his muscle. >> a deadly explosion at an ariana grande concert. >> a massive blast. >> oh, my god. >> carnage. >> my life flashed before my eyes. ♪ >> this is a

>> the longest-named storm to torture texas now in history. >> waters are up to your chest. >> it's going to be okay. it's going to be okay. >> hurricane irma. >> irma. >> these winds are unbelievable. >> hurricane irma is right over us right now. >> to see everything crumbling around us. >> overnight these fires are on the move. >> the scene here is po apocalyptic. >> holy cow. >> i gotta get help. >> nearly 30 accusers and counting. >> and then i just fled. >> we were seeing person after person coming forward, the list of accusations growing. >> people need to be held accountable. >> there's a mistake. moonlight, you guys won best picture. >> you heard them say

"moonlight." >> i didn't now what to do. ♪ o say can you see >> on football fields around the country, players united in protest. many kneeling, others linking arms. their owners and coaches joining them too. players sat in silence. >> if our country stands for anything, folks, what? it's freedom. >> we have reached totality here! >> i'm going to have our cameraman glen turn down the lights. turn it off, glen. let's see how dark it really is. it's pitch-black here. it's the most incredible thing i've ever seen. >> you did such a great job. abc news had ex-exclusiclusive o the great american eclipse and you slept through it. >> i did. >> did you intend to stay up for it? >> i kind of did. and i got really tired. i did catch a few minutes of it on tv,

get to go outside. we did kind of see the eclipse here on set, though. see? that was our very high-tech recreation. >> that's the next best thing. >> how about that? stick around, "the mix" is coming up next. that cough doesn't sound so good. take mucinex dm. i'll text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. one pill lasts 12 hours, so... looks like i'm good all night! why take 4-hour cough medicine? just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this.

♪ all right, it is time now for "the mix." and we're starting things off in australia and a peculiar sports moment, right, ron? a >> this is one about cricket, right? >> your favorite. >> the guy took off his shoes. th this is in australia. england against australia. and the security guy told him to put his shoes back on. what happened? >> the fans didn't like that. you need to make yourself comfortable. and two, sometimes you need to entertain yourself during the

if you're england, shoes off. >> solidarity with this guy who was told to take them off by security. and apparently the security guards got a laugh out of that and deidn't enforce. >> what are they going to do? everyone's waving their shoes in the air. >> i would like to know the perspective of the players on the field. what is going on right now? let's stick with australia, shall we? over in melbourne, this is a christmas surprise, a man came out to recognize a crocodile, a 3-foot crocodile on their front lawn hanging out. >> their is is in a residential neighborhood. initially they thought it was a large lizard. a very large lizard. >> so you think, i'll show you crocodile dundee, this must happen all the time. but we're talking about in the middle of the city of melbourne. not typical. and southern australia generally doesn't have

>> four different people are claiming that it's theirs, right? >> they're worth up to $2,000. >> they're trying to get a free crocodile. there's a private license required in melbourne to have yourself a crocodile on the premises. >> well, lots of people are saying he's mine. our next story's great. the love letter found in the wall of a house. the love letter was written in 1944. >> oh. >> by a guy named walter and addressed to ms. betty miller. this is in greenfield, where? mass? central massachusetts. >> thing is, betty, it turns out, dated more than one walter around that time. >> around the same time. >> so we're not sure which walter this came from. >> it appears to be an apology or something. it starts off, what i have to say -- >> maybe that's why she's dating the other walter. >> i mean with every word

heart. t and it goes on, baby, baby, baby. that's weird. >> i didn't see that part of the letter. that's lo

this morning on "world news now," president trump spending the holidays away from the white house, golfing and also on twitter where he lashed out at the special counsel's russia investigation and the fbi. we'll bring you up to speed on the president's working vacation. and see he, severe winter weather is hitting the country. some locations are bracing for up to six feet of snow. travel could be a nightmare for many people. with all that, spinouts are already happening on the roads, and a passenger plane went skidding off a runway. we have the complete weather forecast coming up. and new this half hour. it's time to go bowling, no, not that bowling. we're talking about