tonight, the manhunt, the new reward, and why they m 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 driveve are fighting back. good evening. anks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with o o of the fiercest winter storms on record. stretching across 1,000 miles, from louisiana to new england. leaving at least 25 people dead. blinding snow, fierce winds, with the bull's-eye on new york city. and from washington to new england, streets narrowed to a single lane. cars hard to see.

washington, with the capitol in the distance. and a river of ice in the streets. and the storm grounding more than 12,000 flights. rob marciano, leading us off tonight. >> reporter: the snow's stopped falling, but for millions still reeling from this monstrous blizzard, the battle is not over. 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. this churcin pennsylvania caving in just hours before sunday services. even the redskins' practice dome deflated. totay, the big digout, that is, if you could even get to your car. new yorkers climbing four or five-foot drif to reach them.

the scope. 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 the storm. a new jersey mom and her son tragically lost to cbon monoxide poisoning while warming up in a running car. in new york, 26.8 inches of snow, a 24-hour record, and just 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. that's a good sign. the 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

every car in the block in. >> reporter: huge piles in new york city building up. and two feet of snow falling in such a cramped space is not easy to work around o o get rid of. >> thank you. and now, to the travelers caught by the storm. tens of thousands of them stranded on ththhighways, including hihi school students trapped for nearly 20 hours. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, drivers stranded in that endless gridlock in some cases for 30 hours, finally free. 7:30 friday night, this churur bus, packed with 37 students and 10 chaperones, gets stuck on the pennsylvania turnpike, the blizzard intensifying. >> it was bitter cold. it was in the teens, if not colder. >> reporter: early the next morning, still stuck, thth students turn into good samaritans, helping out other drivers. >> we gave them food and some of them c ce and stayed on the bus with us. >> reporter: yesterday afternoon, freedom.

barricaded in the snow. it takes them 11 more hohos 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 cars, finally ableleo get and tonight, everyone is on the roro 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 and wind that battered the 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 than super storm sandy. huge waves submerging towns in

roads turned into rushing rivers. huge chunks of ice floating down the streets. now, the people 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. you're home. >> i'm home. >> reporter: this is what the town of stone harbor looks like now, but take a look what it was like saturday. morerehan three feet of standing water in the streets.

better than expected. belmar, 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 awayay tom, he says he hopes to be back in business by the summer. >> linzie, thank you so much. tonight, the storm hit many 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. plows and trucks working all day at an empty washington, 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

bringing the storm total to about 12,000, as all that snow and it's not just out on the airfield. a lot is going on behind the able to get to their positions in order for the airport to re-open. the closose of the major ripple effect across the entire cancellations. and even overseas, some international flights can't get in. brussels. >> 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. regigial 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, a few flights s arting to take off from northern airports. this one at new york's laguardia. commute. and with all this snow to move,

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 the 20s and even teens. and go just 35 north of the city, and snow amounts about six inches, but below that, two feet of snow. sose will melt, getting to more seasonable temperatures. i bet a lot of the snow will

a new poll tonight with good news for donald trump. surging past ted cruz there, taking the lead. marco rubio 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, righhere in an iowa church. and he ended it with a rally surrounded by 2,000 supporters. >> 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? was he wearing one of those? 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.

donald trump? >> we are, first time. >> reporter: why? >> he is relatable. >> he's not the politician you see every year running. he wants change. >> something diffefent about he's not scripted. >> reporter: his gop rivals, their own. >> voters here t te their vote very seriously. >> reporter: it was texas senator ted cruz's younger this new clip posted on youtube. what i want to do in life? >> reporter: the lanky teenager, seems to know exactly what he wants. >> take over 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 my full-time career of writing things on facebook. >> reporter: "snl"'s version of trump and sarah palin, played by none other than tina fey.

but the race is just as heated on the democratic side. hillary clintos biggest event, 600 people showed up. for sanders, the number was 2,000. >> thank you. and to southern california, where 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, joining the desperate search for hossein nayeri, jonathan tieu, and bac tien duong. >> two of them in custodyor murder, and one of them for mayhem, kidnapping. i consider them very dangerous

escaping their dorm-style cell by cutting this hole through a grate, climbing through the plplbing, then breaking through five other secured areas. that's how they made it to an unsecured portion of this roof, rappellili down the side of the building using a makeshift rope. friday morning at around they weren't discovered missing for 16 hou, setting off a manhunt late friday night. >> reporter: the family of the youngest fugitive, in disbelief. investigators say the plan was sophisticated and well-thought out. e fbi and u.s. marshals now offering a $50,000 reward to find the missing men. tom? >> thank you. still ahead, one man, and

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