one week till iowa. e new numbers out tonight. donald trump surging past ted cruz in the hawkeye state. on the run. three men considered extreme dangerous, accused of murder and torture, busting out. inside their escape plan. tonight, the manhunt, the new reward, and why they may be hiding in plain sight. and, crash for cash? the man accused of staging more than 20 car accidents and getting his victims to pay. it's part of a multi-billion dollar industry. now, how drivers are fighting back. good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamamas. we begin with one of the fiercest winter storms on record. stretching across 1,000 miles, from louisiana to new england.

blinding snow, fierce winds, with the bull's-eye on new york city. and from washington to new england, streets narrowed to a single la. cars hard to see. and bacackhoes being used in washington, with the capitol in the distance. and a river of ice in the streets. and the storm grounding mor than 12,000 ights. rob marciano, leading us off tonight. >> reporter: the snow's stopped falling, but for millions still blizzard, the battle is not firefighters in virginia struggling to dig fire hydrants out of three feet of snow to battle. roofs collapsing under the weight of all that snow. dozens displaced from this apartment complex in virginia.

sunday services. even the redskins' practice dome deflated. today, the big digout, that is, if you could even get to your car. new yorkers climbing four or five-foot drifts to reach them. the view from above capturing the ope. the nation's capitol shut down. winds gusting to 75 miles per hour. new york city suddenly finding itself in the bull's-eye. at least 25 deaths now blamed on thstorm. a new jersey mom ander son tragically lost to carbon monoxide poisoning while warming up in a running car. in new york, 26.8 inches of snow, a 24-hour record, and just 0.1 of an inch shy of the all time record of 2006. the biggest record in baltimore, 29.2 inches. cracking the top five in d.c. and philly, too. our own gloria riviera is in reston, virginia. >> look at this. that's pavement.

e plows have been through this area. but, all that snow has to go somewhere, and look at this. it's a snow wall and it's past my waist and it's barricading every car in the block in. >> reporter: huge piles in new york cit building up. and two feet of snow falling in such a cramped space is notot easy to work around or get rid of. >> thank you. and now, to the travelers caught by the storm. tens of thousands of them stranded on the highways, including high school students trapped for nearly 20 hours. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, drivers gridlock in some cases for 30 hours, finally free. bus, packed with 37 students and 10 chaperones, gets stuck on the pennsylvania turnpike, the blizzard intensifying.

colder. >> reporter: early the next morning, still stuck, the studentsurn into good samaritans, helping out other drivers. >> we gave them food and some of them came and stayed on the bus with us. >> reporter: yesterday afternoon, freedom. but ten les behind them, anher school group is still barricaded in the snow. it takes them 11 more hours to get out, 30 hours total in blizzard gridlock. that group holding mass to lift the spirits of the marooned travelers. >> reporter: the last group of stuck ca, finally able to get moving this morning. and tonit, everyone is on the road home. >> we were all in good spirits. we all glad we had each other. >> reporter: while the roads may be clearing, the concern turns to black ice, with melted snow that could freeze again. >> thank you. and it wasn't just the snow

coast, but flooded streets forced people from their homes and trapped others. here's linzie janis. >> reporter: record-breaking flooding in parts of new jersey, worse thanan super srm sandydy. ge waves submerging towns in over nine feet of water. roads turned into rushing rivers. huge chunks of ice floating down the streets. now, the peoe here, cleaning up. at high tide, dominic piro's deli in north wildwood, taking on two feet of water. >> four, five inches higher than sandy. >> reporter: hundreds of people had to be rescued from the flood waters. like this man in ocean city, and this little girl carried out of her home by police. we tagged along as emergency workers helped this elderly woman return to her apartment.

>> reporter: this is what the town of stone harbor looks like now, but take a look what it was like saturday. more than three feet of standing water in the streets. buttonight, some towns faring better than expected. belm, staying dry. and back here in the deli, the flood waters are completely gone. but this pile just some of the stuff he's going to have to throw away. tom, he says he hopes to be back in business by the summer. >> linzie, thank you so much. tonit, the storm hit my of the east coast's transportation hubs. airline passengers are still stuck, waiting for a flight out. here's david kerley. >> reporter: so much snow to clear. plowand trucks working all

d.c., airport. no planes, no passengers. a ghost town. >> please maintain control of your personal belongings. >> reporter: some hopeful passengers in new york -- >> i just want to get out of here and go home. >> reporter: -- told they are going nowhere. >> i showed up at the airport and the airport's closed. >> reporter: already more than 800 flights cancelled for tomorrow. bringing the s sto tot to about 12,000, as all that snow is moved. and it's not just out on the airfield. a lot is going on behind the scenes, and workers have to be able to get to their positions in order for the airport to re-open. the closure of the major airports in the east has a ripple effect across the entire country -- delays and cancellations. and even overseas, some international flights can't get in. michael kurth is stranded in ussels. >> in total, it will come out to be about 48 hours or more of travel. >> reporter: amtrak rail, running reduced service during the storm, is coming back. regional and city rail, far from full service at new york's penn station. >> we got stranded and had to stay one more night. >> reporter: but this afternoon,

ththis one anew york's laguardia. commute. and with all this snow to move, it's unlikely that any of the commutes will be smooth. tom? >> so many stuck tonight. david, thank you so much. and rob is back. we see all the snow, the cold air. are we going to see a warm-up anytime soon? >> we will, but not tonight. temperatures around the freezing mark. anything that melted will refreeze. a lot of black ice and slick spots from new york to d.c. temps in the 20s and even teens. and go just 35 north of t city, and snow amounts about six inches, butbelow that, two feet

some will melt, getting to more seasonable temperatures. i bet a lot of the snow will still be here by the end of the week. a new poll tonight with good news for dald trump. surging past ted cruz there, taking the lead. marco rio and ben carson, ron paul, all behind them. in new hampshire, trump ahead of cruz by double digits. cecilia vega has it all from iowa tonight. i >> reporter: donald trump kicking off his sunday on the campaign trail, right here in an iowa church. and he ended it with a rally surrounded by 2,000 0 suppte. >> so, this is crunch time. >> reporter: and one protester. the man in the red turban interrupted trump as he spoke about terrorism. security escorting him out, the crowd went wild. and from trump? >> he wasn't wearing one of those hats, was he?

and he never will. >> reporter: that double-digit lead, largely due to first-time caucus goers, backing the brash billionaire, like the young family i met today. you are going to caucus for donaldrump? >> we are, first time. >> reporter: why? >> he is relatable. >> he's not the politician you see every year running. he wants change. >> something different about him. he's not scrted. >> reporter: his gop rivals, still hoping for a victory of their own. >> voters here take their vote very seriously. >> wow! >> repeporter: iwas texas senator ted cruz's younger personaliton full display in this new clip posted on youtube. >> what i want to do in life? >> reporter: the lanky teenager, talking about his life goals, seems to know exactly what he wants. >> takover the world, world domination, you know, rule everything. rich, powerful, that sort of stuff. >> reporter: dominating the airwaves overnight. >> i wanted to take a break from

>> reporter: "snl"'s version of trump and sarah palin, played none other than tina fey. a lot of laughter last night, but the race is just as heated on the democratic side. hillary clinton's biggest event, 600 people showed up. 2,000. >> thank you. and to southern california, where t three escaped prisoners may be hiding in plain sight. here's lauren lyster. >> reporter: tonight, investigators say this dark rooftop surveillance video shows the moment three inmates escaped a maximum security jail. the flashes of light, believed to be the inmates. the fbi and u.s. marshals,

hossein nayeri, jonathan tieu, and bac tien duong. >> two of them in custody for murder, and one of them for mayhem, kidnapping. i consider them very danangerous individuals. >> reporter: the inmates, escaping their dorm-style cell by cutting this hole through a grate, climbing through the plumbing, then breaking through five other secured areas. that's how they made it to an unsecured portion of this roof, rappelling down the side of the building using a makeshift rope. the inmates were last seen friday morning at around 5:00 a.m. they weren't discovered missing for 16 hours, setting off a manhunt late friday night. >> reporter: the family of the youngest fugitive, in disbelief. investigators say the plan was

the e fbi and s. marshals now offering a $50,000 reward to find the missing men. tom? >> thank you. still ahead, one man, and nearly two dozen car accidents. is he the world's unluckiest driver, or was he something else? and annest earthquake, felt almost 200 miles away. those stories and more, coming up. introducing centrum m vitamint a brand new multivitaminou enjoy like a mint. with a full spectrum of essential nutrients... surprisingly smooth, refreshingly cool. i see you found the vitamints. new centrum vitamints. a delicious new way to get your multivitamins.

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one victim's car had barely a scratch. but monjazeb claims his car looked like this. he's now facing charges including insurance fraud and reckless endangerment. one study estimates in 2012 fake or infnflated caaccident claims added up to as much as $7.7 billion. as one of monjazeb's victims found, that cost gets passed on. >> my rates went up, and i had to pay to fix my own car because i only had liability on it. >> reporter: authorities say the schemes often involve multiple cars and fake witnesses. >> the victim slams into the second car which is filled with three or four passengers, all of whom will claim injuries. >> reporter: some drivers are now turning to dash cameras, popular overseas for catching everything from meteors to plane crashes. this driver in georgia used a dash cam to prove another car ran a red light, hitting him. >> there's no other way to be sure that you can prove in court if you need to that the accident was not your fault without having some kind of video

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finally tonight, with so much of the country shivering in cold temperatures, you don't want your furnace to stop working. but one mother in pittsburgh had a big surprise. here's john donvan. >> reporter: what this furnace in bridget stephen's house near pittsburgh needed the other day was a spark. because it was dead, cold broken. >> it was freezing in here. so i checked the thermostat and saw that i it was li 50 degrees in the house. >> reporter: now, normally, she'd turn to her main furnace fixer, her husband robert. but he was off serving his country. still, with two kids at home, she reached out to robert anyway, by text. >> he gave me a couple of tips, but ultimately it wasn't working. >> reporteter: so brget gave in and calls this guy, paul betlyn, of betlyn heating and cooling, who headed right over, even though -- >> i i'm not sposed be doing

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good night.your forecast first." james/wx wall there won't be any relief from the clouds tonight, but temperatures will remain mild under that blanket in the upper 20s. winter weather advisory in effect 6am monday until 12am tuesday for portions of west and north iowa. the advisory does not include polk county. the overcast skies will finally give way to precipitation tomorrow as highs top out in the low-to-mid 30s. central iowa will likely see the precipitation fall as freezing drizzle overnight, as patchy fog develops. the freezing drizzle will turn into rain late morning and then into a mix in the afternoon. eventually everything will switch over to snow and the winds will really ramp up. low snow accumulations are expected. northwestern iowa could see 1" to 2", the metro currently looks to stay under an inch, and snow amounts continue to lessen to the southeast where the precip looks to fall mainly as rain. winds will be out of the nw gusting to 20mph, so there will be drifting and blowing snow likely on the roadways. freezing drizzle will also add to the dangerous driving conditions during the commute home from work or up to ames for the big

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