making news in america this morning, breaking now, several arrests overnight in a sweep to find the terrorists responsible for that horrific attack in paris. plus the show of support spreading to other countries including the united states. we have the very latest. extreme cold. temperatures plummeting to dangerous levels forcing schools to close for a million students plus a wild ride for a family in a minivan after getting dragged by a semi truck for miles. plus scary scene caught on camera. a truck slams into a bus. the impact so powerful the driver thrown from the seat. and betty's big night. america's golden girl stealing the show with a people's choice awards and the gentlemanly act that lit up twitter overnight.

good thursday morning to you all. we have new developments in the terror attack that has stunned france and the world. >> overnight police made arrests in connection with the rampage in paris. but two of the main suspects are still on the loose. >> meanwhile this morning flags, the presidential palace at half-staff as a day of mourning gets under way for the 12 people killed. >> overnight crowd as cross france and other countries holding up pens during demonstrations a show of support for freedom of speech. abc's alex marquardt is there. alex. >> reporter: good morning, t.j. and reena. france is reeling from this attack. the worst terrorist attack in half a century. french authorities have named the three men they believe took part in the attack and one of them, an 18-year-old, has already turned himself in to police in a town about 2 1/2 hours northeast of paris. police have put out a wanted poster for the other two men who they say are armed and dangerous. brothers in their 30s named said

and cherif kouachi. cherif was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 for sending young men to war. they called out the names of the victims and shot them one by one. president obama spoke to president hollande from france to express his condolences and tens of thousands gathered across france to mark this tragic event. in paris, holding up signs saying "we are not afraid" and in french "i am charlie" tweeted more than 650,000 time. president hollande declared thursday to be a national day of mourning. flags will fly at half-staff and at noon there will be a minute of silence to remember the dead. t.j. reena. >> thanks alex. the parachuting rampage was carefully orchestrated. >> dressed head to toe in combat

outfits. they even wore special shooting gloves and appeared calm as they executed a police officer on the sidewalk. >> this was a hit. a professional hit. they were cool calm and collected. they had fire discipline. their bullets hit the targets. >> and look at this. experts say the tight cluster of bullet holes you see in this car, the windshield shows just how well trained the men are with an automatic weapon. the terror attack brings to mind the recent deadly shootings in canada and australia. >> but, of course in this case it was not a lone wolf operation, it was likely carried out by a hidden terror cell now cause for great concern. more now from abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: the recent attacks in canada the recent attacks in australia were carried out by people who appeared to be inspired by isis online but didn't really know much about it. those so-called lone wolves who were likely mentally disturbed and looking for a cause, but these men seem home grown and

far more hard core more determined to terrorize and to kill as many as possible. this is also exactly the kind of attack authorities fear most here in the u.s. terrorists who may have traveled out of the country to get trained and then return or those who are connected to a larger group, larger cause where they can get weapons and support within their own country. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. and the killing of these journalists is dominating conversation online and in newspapers around the world. >> here's a look at some of the headlines this morning, most of the newspapers are splashed with words like the war on freedom, barbaric and massacred in minutes. >> big show of solidarity as well for the people of france. stretching all the way here to the u.s. a large crowd gathered last night for a candlelight vigil outside the french consulate in san francisco and held signs and sang the french national anthem. >> hundreds of them many from france and many americans expressing condolences and outrage. some of them chanting je suis

charlie, i am charlie in support of the newspapers "charlie hebdo." >> stay with abc news for all the latest details on the terror attack in france. live team coverage coming up on "good morning america." here at home the extreme cold is plunging 200 million americans into a deep freeze. >> we have dangerously frigid temperatures now. they forced schools to cancel classes for more than a million students from the upper midwest into new england and down into the south. >> all states east of the mississippi had windchill advisories or warnings dipping to's low as 45 degrees. >> we could see record lows in chicago, boston new york indianapolis, even mobile alabama. >> accuweather's justin povick has the latest on today's windchills and snowfall. good morning, justin. >> thanks. the snow, lightening up throughout portion portions of the northeast. here's a resurgence of more snow and we'll stay very cold. the winds lightening up a bit.

not a lot of traffic delays. 1, 2, 3 inches of snow with the next storm system primarily targeting new england back into the state of maine. still slippery travel along portions of interstate 95. southeast, cold all day long. there's the 32-degree line. that's by midafternoon. showers over southeastern florida and right into the upcoming weekend we say cold across much of the country. icy travel possible in texas by saturday. reena and t.j., back to you. minivan matthew mentz rear ended a slow moving tractor trailer but the truck didn't stop and dragged his minivan and family for a terrifying 60 nyemiles. >> it was snow blinding. we ran into the back of a semi truck and he's not stopping and our car is embedded underneath of it. >> police finally flagged down

the truck driver. the mentzs suffered only bumps and bruises but their minivan was undrivable with the wheels torn down to the metal. the urgent search for more pieces of the airasia jet in the wears off indonesia. abc's muhammad lila was aboard the "uss sampson" as they worked to locate more wreckage. divers have been deciding how to get to the flight data recorders, black boxes, often in the tail section that's been located but it's upside down and partially buried which is making progress slow. salvage equipment may be needed. officials in north texas are working on new emergency plans after getting hit by at least 11 earthquakes in a 24-hour period. the quakes in the dallas area have been as strong as 4.0 magnitude causing huge cracks in homes, scientists are trying to determine if they're being triggered by wastewater from oil and gas exploration. >> still ahead, back to the

future. one of marty mcfly's discoveries will be available this year. >> defending her tv husband. phylicia rashad breaking her silence on the bill cosby accusations in an abc news exclusive. plus a live thanks to social media. how facebook helped save a badly injured hiker and his young son.

overseas stocks are mostly higher this morning after a good day for u.s. markets. after a five-day slump, the dow closed up over 200 points. slight gain of nearly 1 1/4%. investors are putting hopes on a boost in oil prices being a sign of a strengthening global

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now nike says its airmax sneakers with their powered laces will be out sometime this year but no word on how much they will cost. >> they'll sell out, won't they no matter how much they cost? >> right. when we come back we'll show you something shocking. it was caught on camera. a truck slamming into a bus sends the driver flying into the windshield. breaking news from france. new developments overnight in the massive manhunt for two terror suspects. we have the latest coming up. no matter who you are, if you have type 2 diabetes, you know it can be a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine ... what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. here's how:

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cause problems for drivers but elsewhere roads will be dry, cold but dry. >> if you're flying, airport delays are possible in boston, new york detroit, chicago, minneapolis, kansas city all due to high wind conditions and in some cases blowing snow. updating our top story arrests in connection with the terror attack in paris. two prime suspects are still at large. >> france is observing a national day of mourning. the gunmen believed to be two brothers shot and killed 12 people before escaping. a third suspect surrendered to police last night. >> also making news bill cosby's longtime tv wife is defending him over those sex allegations of assault. in an exclusive interview with abc news phylicia rashad tells linsey davis she believes the accusations are part of a campaign to ruin cosby's legacy and addressed the firestorm created earlier by her remarks about the women who have come forward. >> you were quoted online as saying forget those women. >> that was a misquote.

and that is not what i said. what i said is this is not about the women. this is about something else. this is about the obliteration of a legacy. >> some people might think that it was dismissive. >> i am a woman. i am a woman. i would never say such a thing. >> protesters were outside cosby's show last night in ontario carrying signs which read rape is no joke but inside the comedian got a standing ovation. it was his first show since many of the allegations surfaced. social media and a creative 911 dispatch trainee are being credited for a rescue. ryan pritchard was hiking west of sacramento with his sons when he slipped and fell 150 feet down a cliff and landed in a tree. pritchard's 11-year-old called 911 from his cell phone but the phone cut out before he could give the location. that's when the quick thinking dispatcher looked up pritchard

on facebook where he posted on his profile the trail on which they'd be hiking that day. >> without that facebook posting, we would not have known where to go. it's an extremely rugged area up there and because of the picture on facebook we were able to see the lake. >> pritchard was rescued flown to the hospital where he's recovering from head injuries. this is a frightening collision to show you here in new mexico. take a look. police say a pickup truck ran a red light, smashed into a city bus and look what happens, the bus then crashed head on into a road sign and the driver flying flew the windshield. looks real bad. he got out with only minor injuries. officials say the driver was not wearing his seat belt. in health headlines, world that guacamole is good for your heart. researchers found that eating an avocado a day lowered bad cholesterol. a chicken salad with half an avocado and turkey tacos with avocado for dinner. watch out for the chips with

guacamole. the calories can add up. time for sports. that means basketball. >> the hoops highlights from our guys at espn. with your "sportscenter" update i'm randy cost. he is chris hassel. neither of us play for the cavalier. >> trading for just about everybody so maybe they'll make a trade to "sportscenter." we can only hope right. lebron james greeting his teammates before the game on wednesday night taking on a houston rockets team that's up four late in the half when kyrie irving drained a three. missed the last with a back issue. the cavs miss on this. dwight howard 17 and 19 rockets win by a dozen. oh yeah. fergie was performing at staples center. clippers owner steve ballmer was just gyrating with his arms if that's possible. blake griffin with a couple of dunks and the clippers -- won nine of ten against the lakers.

114-89. football news this morning, jameis winston will forgo his remaining eligibility set to enter the nfl draft this spring. espn draft insider mel kiper jr. has the former heisman trophy winner as the second best quarterback available behind oregon's marcus mariota. mariota was one more game to go in his season college football playoff championship game it's presented by at&t. it's oregon and ohio state at 8:30 p.m. eastern time. you can watch that game on espn. you can also take it with you using the watch espn app and how fitting of an end to a career would that be to win the heisman, win the title, ride off into the nfl sunset. >> great for either one of those kirchner as well the pac-12 they've only had usc win national titles lately and the big ten with ohio state. maybe steve ballmer will be at halftime dancing. randy cost chris hassel "sportscenter" is live 9:00 eastern on espn. >> okay. up next in "the pulse," a woman

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♪ time for "the pulse" starting with the harrowing visit to the bathroom in a san diego office building. please explain this. >> a young woman went in and noticed that the water in the toilet was a little higher than usual and plunged it then she got the shock of a lifetime seeing a snake. >> as soon as i realized that was a snake i had the plunger still in hand and screamed all the way to my desk. >> i would scream of course i would scream. >> well animal control showed up to deal with this five five-foot-long colombian rainbobo iowa and it bit a handler. if the snake isn't claimed by tomorrow it will be given to a rescue group. >> wow. next hollywood has kicked off this year's award seasons. >> heavy hitters from the worlds of movie, music, television collided at the people's choice

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in a fire overnight and authorities are on the scene we'll get you a lived report. there's breaking new developments out of the france where police have taken several people into custody in connection with the deadly terror attack there in half a industry. back here at home, dangerously cold temperatures are forcing dozens of schools to open on a delay, we have our eye on that. we have your team coverage on everything you need to know. "action news" is up next. reaction on twitter overnight both moving and powerful. >> the same could be said from the guys who usually we turn to

for laughs. starting with jimmy kimmel. >> the car tubist journalist some other people police officer were killed in paris. >> this was really big [ bleep ]. >> it is yes, especially in our business in particular. >> this story hits home for anyone who day in and day out mocks social and political and religious figures. in this country we take it for granted that it's our right to poke fun at the untouchable or the sacred. but today's tragedy in paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right some people are ineksxplicably forced to die for. >> our hearts are with the staff of "charlie hebdo" and fair family. very few go into comedy as an act of courage. mainly because it shouldn't have to be that. it shouldn't be an act of courage. it should be taken as established law. but those guys at hedbo had it.

>> they were firebombed. >> they continued -- the editor said he'd rather die than change his right to free expression. >> for the crime of being satirists. >> our goal tonight is not to make sense of this because there is no sense to be made of this. our goal as it is always is to keep going. >> that was handled really well by some of those guys. you take it for granted. you can say anything you want to say about folks here in the united states. these guys do it night in night out. you never think you'll be targeted in such a way for i that's exactly what happened in paris. >> they have the right to do that. to be able to make people laugh. >> all right. well that's what's making news in america this morning. >> stay with us for "good morning america." have a great thursday.

>> good morning we're following several breaking news stories on this thursday, january 8. here's one of them a person dies in the overnight in a fire in philadelphia while firefighters face the coldest temperatures of the season. >> 0 french officials announce several arrests after the massacre and terror attack. >> two people slice up a man in a center city we understandies understandies -- wendy's and take his cell phone. >> we