elizabeth vargas joins us live from new york with a preview of tonight's show. elizabeth, such a powerful interview. >> it really is. and this is a couple that, you know, the storybook couple. you thought they had everything going for them. he had a very powerful position in washington d.c. worked in the bush administration, former white house counsel. she very beautiful and a lawyer in her own right. and then when it moved to connecticut, to this $5 million mansion, she says a nightmare began, that an already tense relationship in their marriage. he was verbally abusive and very, very jealous turned violent. when she tried to serve him with divorce papers finally, he tried to kill her. she tells the story tonight. it's unbelievable. he's been convicted to attempted homicide and sentenced to 15 years in prison. tonight, that wife says that's not enough time for the hell she says that he put her and her two young daughters through. >> well, elizabeth, i know something else you all will be touching on, a young man with a hospital badge who was kind of living a litt

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i'm elizabeth vargas. >> and i'm david muir.e a great evening and a great weekend. >> and up next the reeming john bracing for several more inches of snow tomorrow. thousands are dancing the weekend away at penn statethon and alicia vitareli is live in weekend away at penn statethon and alicia vitareli is live in hollywood with jimmy kimmel, >> here we go again. temperatures are mrunthing to single digits for a second night in a row. records are in jeopardy across the tri-state. that's just the beginning.

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. >> after his death, you picked elizabeth vargas and bob woodruff to succeed him and bob woodruff nearlyied. but again it is your job to brand them and any anchor that you have in the chair. so i was a little surprised to see you say the audience kind of demands that. it's a chicken and egg thing. but are networks in the business of making their front line people big stars? >> you don't want to hide under a hole ever. but there is a fundamental difference. when we sent bob woodruff over, he had covered various wars and very experienced.we sent him over to cover the state of the union address that year because the subject was going to be iraq p. and that's why he was there. but even after he was injured so gravely with his cameraman and we really feared for his life, we did a special with him and he and i agreed from the very beginning that that special had to be principally about the other men and women who were suffering similar or even worse injuries and their families. >> not the journalists who spend a week or two. >> exactly about that bob was in it but we spent most of that hour on

here now, elizabeth vargas and david muir. >> good evening. those family secrets you would never suspect. in the white house, he whispered to presidents, gave them advice. in his own house, he had plenty of reasons to keep his family secrets hidden. but they all came spilling out when his wife went running for her life. >> it's a case making national headlines, but we've never heard from the socialite herself. here's amy robach tonight. >> reporter: a frozen night, a dark road, headlights. a heart pounding pedal-to-the-metal getaway. mary margaret farren and her wide-eyed little girls, a seven year old and a four month old baby. >> the baby. not buckled, in her pajamas on the passenger seat, and my older daughter was sitting in the back seat. >> reporter: a bmw, weaving past the mansions on wahackme road, new canaan, connecticut. they call their wealthy little town the next stop to heaven. but it is far from heaven this night. >> i go the way i know, which is toward the town, and to get toward people. and i don't pull into the first house, bec