jon karl, the president has to strike a delicate balance. >> he does. he has to show he takes the threat seriously. what the president wants the american public to be both vigilant and go on carrying on their normal lives. after this, he will attend the kennedy center honors in washington. >> he says we should not give in to fear. here now, president obama, from the oval office. >> good evening. on wednesday, 14 americans were killed as they came together to celebrate the holidays. they were white and black, latino and asian. immigrants and american-born. moms and dads, daughters and sons. each of them served their fellow citizens, all of them were part of our american family. tonight, i want to talk with you about this tragedy, the broader threat of terrorism, and how we can keep our country safe. the fbi is still gathering the facts about what happened in san bernardino, but here's what we know. the victims were brutally murdered by one of their co-workers and his wife. there's no evidence they were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or pa

. >> and jon karl joining us live from the white house. still seems to be some confusion over e-mail rules. but back to ash carter for a moment, jon. acknowledging his mistake today, but it doesn't appear that that's going to be quite enough. >> reporter: no, it won't be. the senate armed services e-mails to see if they included any classified information. carter has pledged to cooperate with that investigation, david, and he has insisted that he did not include any classified info in his e-mails. >> all right, jon karl live from jon, thank you. >>> we tern now to a developing story out of oklahoma tonight. an apparent road rage incident that left two people dead. a suspect now in custody. 45 minutes of terror stretching 60 miles across i-40, as a gunman opened fire, hitting unsuspecting drivers, including a husband, sitting in his car with his wife. here's abc's ryan owens. >> reporter: this stretch of western oklahoma interstate late wednesday night, a crime scene stretching 60 miles. >> ambulance to the 84 mile marker off-ramp. possible

asanti-muslim. >> jon karl live from the white house.yrn, thank you. >>> now, to that tonight, finding 50% of voters say they would be quote, embarrassed if donald trump were to become president. 35% of all voters say they would be embarrassed if clinton is elected president. >>> and one more poll number y) tonight. a surge foree t cruz. as any national poyet. right there, nearly tried with donald> w mallses right outside.ut in that packed mall j ÷5 christmas. shoppers evacuating. crowding that staircase. video of shoppers hiding in a store. outside, confusion and fear this could be terrorism. abc's linzie janis reporting in tonight. >> it was pure pandemonium. everybody was running. >> reporter: just two days istmas, panic at thi new york mall. hundreds of last-minute shoppers running for cover. >> i heard like three sounds, like that sound like gunshots. ede came through. ampled reporter: many trying not t its. others hiding in store >> we locked the doors, ran to the bathro store and we just crouched there and we waited. >> reporter:

as anti-muslim. >> jon karl live from the white house. jon, thank you. >>> now, to that new poll tonight, finding 50% of voters say they would be, quote, embarrassed if donald trump were to become president. 35% of all voters say they would be embarrassed if hillary clinton is elected president. >>> and one more poll number tonight. a surge for ted cruz. as high as any national poyet. as you can see right there, nearly tried with donald trump. now leads by just four points. >>> we move on this tuesday night to other news and the scare late today, panic inside one of the nation's biggest mallses right outside new york city. gunshots bringing out in that packed mall, just days before christmas. shoppers evacuating. crowding that staircase. video of shoppers hiding in a store. outside, confusion and fear this could be terrorism. abc's linzie janis reporting in tonight. >> it was pure pandemonium. everybody was running. >> reporter: just two days before christmas, panic at this packed new york mall. hundreds of last-minute shoppers running for

cooperate and he has insisted that he did not include any classified info in his e-mails. >> all right, jon karl live from his post at the white house. jon, thank you. >>> we tern now to a developing story out of oklahoma tonight. an apparent road rage incident that left two people dead. a suspect now in custody. 45 minutes of terror stretching 60 miles across i-40, as a gunman opened fire, hitting unsuspecting drivers, including a husband, sitting in his car with his wife. here's abc's ryan owens. >> reporter: this stretch of western oklahoma interstate looked more like the wild west late wednesday night, a crime scene stretching 60 miles. >> ambulance to the 84 mile marker off-ramp. possible gunshot wound. >> reporter: police say a gun-toting, pickup-driving jeremy hardy was drunk when he fired at at least six vehicles, including this semi. >> officers are advising that they are doing cpr. >> reporter: authorities say it started as road rage, that hardy tried to run kent powell and his wife off interstate 40 just hardy allegedly followed the couple some 15 miles before shooting and killing pow

political pollution for syria, but david, no sign here of a breakthrough on that. >> all right, jon karl with us from paris tonight. jon, thank you. >>> now, to the stunning new report out this evening, and it's your money. how your taxpayer dollars are being spent, and what some are calling major government overreach. from licenses for runaway llamas, to another story we reported on here, a gas station in afghanistan, one gas station, costing american taxpayers $43 million. abc's mary bruce, back at it tonight, chasing down answers on capitol hill and tracking your money. >> reporter: remember these guys? the llamas on the loose that took over the internet? after their great escape, the federal government took time to tell the owners, they needed permission from washington to showcase the animals. just one out of 100 examples of alleged federal overreach and wasteful spending, highlighted in a new report. it's the kind of federal pork that makes taxpayers squeal. $65,000 to study what happens to bugs when the lights go out? $2.6 million on a weight-loss program for truck drivers. and $3

>> jon karl traveling with the president. jon, safe trip back. >>> and the president was in paris with nearly 150 other leaders, pushing for action on climate change. and tonightht a new warning from chinese authorities, urging families to stay indoors. from beijing this evening, the image of two people there wearing their masks. you can bearly make out the building behind them. in the middle of it all, abc's bob woodruff, on the streets of beijing with what he found. >> reporter: this is today in china. most people staying off the the background barely visible. so, this is what it normally looks like here in beijing, as the sun goes down and the cars turn on their headlights. but the sad news is, because of all this pollution, this is noon. that heavy smog stopping traffic on the highways. that sign, right there, is a warning to drivers, reading "visibility low. slow down the speed." the government issuing an alert. advising residents to avoid being outdoors, orderinin factories to shut down temporarily. schools keeping the k

. >> and abc news' chief white house correspondent jon karl is hosting "this week" this morning. jon, you spent some time with republican front-runner donald trump, he's now starting to throw his fire toward hillary clinton and bill clinton. >> yeah, he spent so much tearing apart each and every one of the republican opponents with the exception of ted cruz. but now, he's gone after hillary clinton hard. hillary clinton has made it clear that bill clinton is going to be out on the campaign trail for her in january, which prompted this tweet from from donald trump. basically accusing bill clinton saying, why would you put him out -- he got a whole long list of sexism. he made it very clear. he'll be bringing up that past, monica lewinsky, gennifer flowers and paula jones, et cetera. get ready for trump to train that negativity on that. one point onhis, the clinton people say they would be absolutely thrilled to run against donald trump, that would be her easiest path to victory. but take a look at this poll, the most recent national poll, which looks at a head-to-head matchup betwe

host of abc's "this week" in manchester alongside political analyst matthew dowd as well as our jon karl. good morning george and good morning, gentlemen good morning, paula. thank you very much. matthew dowd, cecilia said both sides claiming victory. >> you know george, we have covered enough campaigns, everybody claims victory. i think all three walked away with their best performance within the course of this campaign. i think hillary clinton had her a-game yesterday. bernie sanders brought it. and i think martin o'malley even did well. i think they all be happy. >> nothing changes. started out the night, jon karl, with that apology, but after the debate, the sanders' campaign announced they have suspended two more staffers, is this over? >> look, so you have one person fired and two suspended. more possibly coming. it's not over. he apologized. it was interesting, even as he about the dnc and how they handled it. and look, the hillary clinton campaign still thinks this was a serious breach of their personal propriety data. >> sanders believes that the dnc is on the side of hillary cl

started out the night, jon karl, with that apology, but after the debate, the sanders' campaign announced they have suspended two more staffers, is this over? >> well, look, so, you have one person fired and two suspended. more possibly coming. he apologized. but what was interesting, even as he apologized, he had bitter words about the dnc and how they handled it. and look, the hillary clinton campaign still thinks this was a serious breach of their personal proprietary data. >> that's what they believe. dnc is on the side of hillary >> and they're very mad about it. >> they are. last night, attacked nine separate times. the only republican candidate mentioned. all the democrats said he's the candidate they want to run against. he put out a tweet last night, no, no, that's what they're saying, they're afraid of me. >> many of us didn't think he was going to get in this race, now every republican pivots off of him. and now, all democrats are pivoting off of donald trump. donald trump was the only republican mentioned. it will only help him in the >> maybe not only the winner here was hill

but we begin with more on this stunning poll and a defining week in this campaign from jon karl at thehite house. good morning, jon. >> reporter: good morning, gege. it's just about 50 days until the iowowa caucuses while donald trump still has a commanding losing badly to ted cruz in the state that gets to vote first and republicans are gunning for him everywhere else. is this the week the republican party came undone? >> out wez pretty brutal four days ago for trumump. >> reporter: on monday, he announced his most controversial plan yet. >> donald j. trump is calling for a complete shutdown of muslims entering the uted states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> repororter: party leaders denounced the proposal as not just wrong but un-american. >> what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and more importantly, it's not what thi country stands for. >> reporter: every candidate in the race not named trump opposed the plan. jeb bush even called trump unhinged. >> i'm not one of these other i don't go down i go up. >> do you hav

- that concern....seen as a big reason behind donald trump's surge to the top of the polls abc's jon karl is at the white house with more. " nats protests/show anti-trump signs in new hampshire overnight, donald trump brushed off protesters as he endorsement of a union. sot trump: "we've had a pretty i i iesting we've had people you that." all the controversy and news on past month seems to have given trump a boost. back in late october there were signs he had started to fade [10/27 nyt/cbs: carson 26, trump 22, rubio 8, bush 7, fiorina 7, cruz 4]. since then, he's jumped 13 points in that same poll [thursday: trump 35, cruz 16, carson 13, rubio 9] but trump's number one rival in iowa, senator ted cruz, is touting an endorsement from a key evangelical leader. sot bob vander plaats president, the family leader "i happen to believe that the extraordinary leader that we need for these extraordinary times is u.s. senator ted cruz." cruz has steadily gained support from social conservatives in iowa - one poll this week showed him leading trump there for the first time. gfx 2016 iowa poll cruz

this morning, jon karl's exclusive face-to-face interview with the brash billionaire. yet another controversy. this time, for that graphic slang. >> we shouldn't let anybody bully his way into the presidency. >> announcer: how donald trump shook up the campaign in 2015. >> did you, even you, think you would dominate the field the way you have? >> announcer: and what he's planning for the new year. >>> plus, one-on-one with the one who's taking on donald trump like no other else. >>> and as the year ends, a special look at a stunning year on the trail. >>> plus,

h >> okay, jon karl, thanks very much. >>> let's talk to mr. trump right now. we saw that tweet, mr. trump. are you going to stand by it? >> well, of course, i'm standing by it. it was vetted. they went to "the washington post." fox news went out in great detail and looked for it and there's no such video. and they may make one up knowing the clintons and knowing hillary, but there's no -- there's nobody -- she just made it up, i mean she made it up. it was a sound bite. just like bernie sanders lied. i mean, he went out and said things that never took place. i never said that about mexicans. i have great relationships with the hispanics. i didn't say what he said. you know, they make up things in the world of politics. they're all talk and no action. they're politicians. >> you sure you want to go down that road, the fact-checkers have called you out on more false statements than any other candidate. >> i'll go down that road. people may call me out but they turn out to be wrong and many of the things i've said, i think about all of them, they have been contro

this morning, jon karl's exclusive face-to-face interview with the brash billionaire.the heels of yet another controversy. this time, for that graphic slang. >> we shouldn't let anybody bully his way into the presidency. >> announcer: how donald trump shook up the campaign in 2015. >> did you, even you, think you would dominate the field the way you have? >> announcer: and what he's planning for the new year. >>> plus, one-on-one with the one who's taking on donald trump like no other else. >>> and as the year ends, a special look at a stunning year on the trail. >>> plus, the big predictions about where the camp

jon karl live at the white house jon, thank you. >>> of course, the democrats duel next and we hope you'll join martha raddatz and me when we moderate the new hampshire democratic debate, this saturday, december 19th, 8:00 p.m., 7:00 central. >>> in the meantime, we turn to the economy tonight, and to a major development. the federal reserve raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. the first rate hike since the financial collapse. sending wall street soaring, closing up more than 220 points. but many americans asking tonight, what does this now mean for car loans, credit cards, mortgages? abc's chief economics with what you should do tonight. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, the federal reserve is hiking interest rates from zero to one-quarter of a percent. how confident are you that our economy won't slip back into recession? >> the underlying health of the u.s. economy, i consider to be quite sound. >> reporter: so, what exactly does this mean for you? everything from your credit cards, to new car loans or mortgages, will be a little more expensive. the incr

but we begin with the big moments from last night with jon karl. >> reporter: good morning, george. going into this debate the democratic race was engulfed with allegations that the sanders' campaign stole voter data from hillary clinton's campaign. bernie sanders offered a quick apology. before they turned their attention to neutral enemy -- donald trump. last night's debate started with a surprise -- a mea culpa from bernie sanders. >> not only do i apologize to secretary clinton i want to apologize to my supporters. i run. >> i very much appreciate that comment, bernie, we should move american people are all that >> reporter: throughout the night, clinton and sanders sparred on foreign policy. lead, there is not another leader. there is a vacuum. policemen of the world, the united states must not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. >> reporter: and on the economy and wall street. >> should corporate america love hillary clinton? >> everybody should. >> and will corporate america love a president sanders? >> no, i don't think they won't. ceo of large multinational