yin finally realized what was happening when david perez said he would meet her for a birthday dinners restaurant in jack london square. yin showed up, waited, and waited. he never came. >> i went there. i couldn't see him. that's when i said, you know, it's probably a scam. >> reporter: when yin complained to match.com about losing her life savings to a scam artist, they deleted the david perez profile, told her to contact authorities, and refunded her $107 membership fee. a company spokesperson told me less than .01% of match.com users reported a scam last year, and pointed out the many warnings members receive not to give money to strangers. yin did file a complaint with the fbi's internet crime center months ago and has not heard back. i also called the pentagon, but they have not been able to identify that marine whose pictures the scammer used. >> heartbreaking and really makes you mad. >> it does, absolutely. but that money is long gone. and yin just wants to help other people, to warn people that this can happen. >> how brave to speak out. >> expectatiactly. >> the most common

yin finally realized what was happening when david perez said he would meet her for a birthday dinnerscott's restaurant in jack london scare. yin showed up, waited and waited. he never came. >> i went there, i couldn't see him. it's probably a scam. >> reporter: when yin complained to match.com about losing her life savings, they deleted the david perez profile, told her to contact the authorities, and refunded her $107 membership fee. a spokes told me less than 0.1% reported a scam and pointed out the many warnings they receive not to give money to strangers. yin did file a complaint months ago but has not heard back. i also called the pentagon, but they have not been able to identify that marine whose pictures the scammers used. we have tips on that to follow. some things came in the past hour. we may be tracking down that man whose pictures were used without his knowledge. >> wow. >> do you think it's possible other people scammed by the same guy? >> it sounds like it, yes. this is common using it for men and women. i'm in the military. the same thing is used again and again and ag

david? >> alex perez tonight. thanks for your reporting. >>> now to the weather. damaging winds expected in the northeast. deadly flooding across several states tonight. rain falling through the weekend. several towns ordering emergency evacuations. tornado warnings in texas and the gusty winds and very cold temperatures hitting the northeast. rob marciano tracking it for us this evening. hey, rob. >> hi david. winds cranking here. concerned about the storm plowing into the plains. there's that tornado watch thenoow a winds cranking all day long tomorrow from d.c. to phillie to boston gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour. windchills in the teens and 20s to start your stat day. >> rob marciano we'll be watching you all weekend. >>> to major news on boeing. after news many were missing important safety features that boeing charges extra for. tonig tonight indonesia wants to cancel their order claiming passengers don't trust boeing anymore. here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: just days after learning the pilot of the doomed lion air jet from indonesia was flipping thro

david? >> alex perez tonight. thank you. >>> next, there was news today on when congress and perhaps the american people may see the actual mueller report. more than the attorney general's summary. they say it will be a matter of weeks, not months. president trump celebrating victory today up on the hill, no collusion with the russians, with republicans. and now a new battle tonight. the president and the move to overturn obamacare once and for all. what would this mean for millions currently covered with pre-existing conditions? mary bruce, on the hill tonight. >> reporter: as president trump arrived on capitol hill today, word from the justice department that a version of robert mueller's report will be released in weeks, not months. >> the mueller report was great. it could not have been better. it said no obstruction, no collusion. >> reporter: that's half true. the special counsel did not find collusion between the trump campaign and russia. but he made no determination on obstruction of justice, writing, quo

david? >> alex perez with us again tonight. thank you, alex. >>> and now to late developments tonight involving michael cohen, the president's one-time fixer and personal attorney general, revealing new documents behind closed doors on capitol hill today. sources telling abc news shortly after the fbi raided his home and law office, he was approa approached, as they tried to keep cohen from flipping. here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas tonight. >> good morning. >> reporter: today, michael cohen back on capitol hill. behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee. the president's former fixer, tonight, sources tell abc news that shortly after the fbi raided his home and office, cohen was contacted by two attorneys claiming to have ties to rudy giuliani, the president's personal lawyer. sources say those attorneys wanted to make sure cohen did not abandon the president. at the time, the president was publically sympathetic to cohen. >> they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. it's

david? >> alex perez tonight. thanks for your reporting. >>> now to the weather. damaging winds expected in the northeast. the states of emergency in the midwest. deadly flooding across several states tonight. rain falling through the weekend. several towns ordering mandatary emergency evacuations tonight \after a levee breach in kansas. tornado warnings in texas and the gusty winds and very cold temperatures hitting the northeast. rob marciano tracking it for us this evening. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. winds cranking here. concerned about the storm plowing into the plains over the flood zone. there's that tornado watch that's posted for parts of north texas. this low is swirling around the rain and the snow tonight. winds cranking all day long tomorrow from d.c. to philly to boston, gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour. windchills in the teens and 20s to start your saturday. david. >> rob marciano, we'll be watching you all weekend long. >>> to major news on boeing and those new max jets that have been grounded after news many were missing important safety featu

david? >> all right, alex perez live in texas. we will stay on this. >>> in the meantime, there is new and disturbing video emerging tonight. a young driver chased by state police. the teenager crashing his car, and tonight, prosecutors now say he was then pulled from the wreckage and beaten. one trooperow indicted in west virginia, and here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: federal investigators tonight are sharing this police dash camera video from berkeley county, west virginia, and say it shows why they are indicting a former state trooper. the video, with no sound, begins with a car chase on november 19th. a 16-year-old is behind the wheel and crashes to a stop. he's a juvenile who is clearly hurt. you see the officers rip him from his broken driver's side window. the boy is put in cuffs and that's when this officer puts a knee to his neck and starts beating him. west virginia's governor didn't mince words. >> just plain ridiculous. it's inexcusable. i mean, i stand rock solid with our police force in every way, shape, for

evan perez, former district attorney and also david gergen. how significant is it that mr.ater who had a key role in the moscow trump tower project, the plans, discussions there, will be of be testifying. >> it is very significant because he is at the center of this project that for many months we were told the president had abandoned, that candidate trump had abandoned, that it had been put aside while he ran for president and we found out that was not true. these were discussions we've learned were going on all the way through the election. so i think that it is very important that felix sater who is someone who obviously has mob ties, russian mob ties, going back to the 1990s, that is where he got in legal trouble previously. and yet he still ended up being close enough to the president. had an office on the same floor as the president according to michael cohen's testimony yesterday. so there is a lot that felix sater can shed light on as a result of where he was. >> and so that point what evan just mentioned, felix sater was close, there is a lot of things that has pro

david: after all, even before chavez, perez was president when he socialized the oil industry.ould it be privatized? >> yes, we all accepted it needs to be privatized. to your point, yesterday we had ricardo houseman, eminent professor at harvard got assigned to be guaido's ambassador to the interamerican bank. he has written a phenomenal plan for recovery of venezuela that would be the tip of the spear in the venezuela recovery. he is very clear about privatization and recovery of the productive capacity. david: boy, that would be -- it has been three, four decades since you had a privatizeed oil industry. vanessa neumann, thank you very much. >> at thank you very much. david: is amazon about to change the game for supermarkets? details coming up. ♪ this is decision tech. it's screening technology that helps you find a stock based on what's trending or an investing goal. it's real-time insights and information, in your own customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology, for smarter trading decisions. and it's only from fidelity. open an account with no minimums

david, thank you. >>> and the unexpected turn for jussie smollett. prosecutors dropping all charges. what smollett insisted afterward, and the move to drop charges blindsided chicago's mayor and top cop. here's alex perez. >> reporter: tonight, prosecutors in chicago making that surprise deal with jussie smollett to drop charges, blindsiding and angering the city's mayor and top cop. >> i have been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. i would not be my mother's son if i was capable of one drop of what i've been accused of. >> reporter: but officials quickly blasting prosecutors' decision to make a deal with smollett. >> you all know where i stand on this. do i think justice was served? no. >> this is a whitewash of justice. at the end of the day, it's mr. smollett that committed this false claim. >> reporter: under the deal smollett did community service and will forfeit his $10,000 bond in exchange for no charges. but even prosecutors today said he lied to police. >> you believe he lied on the police report? >> yes. this was not an exoneration. to say he was exonerated by us or anyone else is not true. >> reporter: chicago police officials say they had no idea this was coming.