abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano is tracking both hurricanes on both sides of the country. he's back in new york tonight. rob? >> reporter: david, let's start with hurricane gonzalo. a hurricane 4 storm. look at that eye. this thing is a monster. about 400 miles south of bermuda. by this time tomorrow night, yeah. hurricane warnings are posted. they will be getting with hurricane force winds. potentially category 3. either way, this will be the strongest storm they've seen since 2003. from the atlantic, let's jump to the pacific. this is tropical storm ana. may become a hurricane. if it hits the island as a tropical storm or hurricane, that hasn't happened since we started keeping records. >> rob marciano at the weather wall tonight. rob, thank you. >>> we turn now to new dash cam video, taking us inside a harrowing police chase. look at this tonight. a mini van swerving, police cars in hot pursuit. a dangerous game of cat and mouse that's happening in towns and steps across this country.

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and abc meteorologist rob marciano right in the middle of it. the lava, 2,000 degrees. >>> also developing right now, just days after that attack in canada, the gunman running through parliament, homeland security here and the new movement and hundreds of federal buildings across america. >>> the breaking development in the joan rivers case. her daughter taking action tonight, after what the medical examiner revealed. >>> vanishing without a trace. the american dad with his son at an nfl game, the dad suddenly missing. our team asking about the cameras. what they're saying now. >>> and breaking tonight, millimeters affected. has your cell phone company done something to your cell phone service? have you been asking, what's wrong with my phone? >>> good evening and we begin tonight with a site we rarely see. that river of lava, that slow motion danger now 12 miles from where it started, and here are the pictures coming in tonight. you can hear the crackling of the lava. 2,000 degrees, hot enough to incinerate virtually anything in its path. tonig

rob marciano on both fronts tonight. rob, thank you. >>> tonight, the showdown over ebola, between that nurse and authorities taking an unexpected twist. the american nurse quarantined, even though she didn't have ebola when she returned. tonight, home in maine now, and telling authorities she would be allowed to leave her home, sending a message to officials with this bike ride, despite their requests to stay inside. and now, the governor of maine demanding she take a blood test to prove she doesn't have ebola. abc's linzie janis in maine. >> reporter: today, a defiant kaci hickox on a bike ride with her boyfriend. a state trooper following her every move. >> thank you, guys. i have to go speak with the health department now. >> reporter: today, maine's governor, paul lepage, telling abc news, hickox should be forced to take a blood test to prove she doesn't have ebola. >> she's pushing my patience. >> reporter: lepage saying the small town is, quote, scared to death. >> the problem with it is, she just doesn't care. sh

rob marciano is here now. it's not over yet. >> no, very active. the next storm system. and there is left overs of hurricane ana. not as much wind as we saw yesterday. but heavy know in the high elevations. and teps, 10 to 20 degrees above average. and look at denver, changes in store. >> and halloween is in store friday. have a trick or treat forecast? >> the northwest and the northeast, questionable areas. maybe rainle and maybe snow. might have the to improvise with some of the costumes. >> rob marciano, thank you. >>> a new survey finds it's the end of the year that should be on your mind. they crunch the numbers and find that tonight is the time to buy airline tickets. mara schiavocampo takes a look. >> reporter: it's not even halloween, but sharon and kyle harvey are already planning for the holidays. >> trying to by a ticket for our daughter to come home for christmas. where are their daughter, mem list is a, a college senior, will be flying from philadelphia to their home in sack plen toe. >> wait, here's one is pretty good. >> reporter: the airlines reporting co

rob marciano is here now. it's not over yet. >> no, very active. the next storm system. take a look, coming in. and there is left overs of hurricane ana. roll in monday and tuesday. heavy rains and winds. not as much wind as we saw yesterday. but heavy snow in the high elevations. and temperatures, 10 to 20 degrees above average. and look at denver, changes in store. >> and halloween is in store friday. have a trick or treat forecast? >> well, that section, the midsection, the south, that is the best area to do the trick-or-treating. northeast, questionable areas. maybe rain and maybe snow. might have the to improvise with some of the costumes. >> rob marciano, thank you. >>> and though halloween may be in your sights, a new survey finds it's the end of the year holidays that should be on your mind. they crunched the numbers and say that now is the best time to be airline tickets. mara schiavocampo takes a look. >> reporter: it's not even halloween, but sharon and kyle harvey are already planning for the holidays. >> trying to buy a ticket for our daughter to come home f

and rob marciano is tracking it this morning. >> such a powerful storm. now 190 miles away from bermuda. starting to calm things down just a little bit. but it's moving towards nova scotia. they have a tropical storm watch for later today. the u.s. will be impacted with big swells and rip tides easy well. here is the track. but it made a direct hit on bermuda. think about the size of this island. 15 miles across. and the expanse of the atlantic ocean, the odds of it making a direct hit like it did, just astronomical. and there it is right there. and experiencing it is gio benitez on the ground in bermuda. no doubt it was a surreal but scary night last night. good morning to you. >> reporter: absolutely, rob. good morning. i know you know what that sounds like, roaring skies, howling wind. that's what we were hearing here. now nearly every home here is without power. overnight, gonzalo ravaging bermuda, making land fall with those monstrous winds. listen. [ wind howling ] and we're feeling some of the strongest gusts right now. the eye wall inching closer

a big flood threat. >> all right, rob marciano, thank you. >>> and one more weather headline tonight. this one has american troops on alert. that massive tropical system, we first showed it to you last night here, vongfong. this image taken by an astronaut on board of the space station. and just look. the eye of the storm, 800 football fields wide. now officially the most powerful storm on earth this year. here's the map tonight. off the coast of okinawa, barrelling towards japan. 500,000 u.s. troops are stationed there. the system expected to hit this weekend as a category 1 and we will be tracking it here. >>> back here at home, and to california, and to the stunning images of this fire fight. a house engulfed in flames outside sacramento. firefighters racing to the scene, just one of several raging blazes. and this question. were the fires deliberately set? abc's neal karlinsky tonight on why they think someone might have done this. >> reporter: it started fast, like so many other northern california wildfires this season, but as five homes burned overnight and firefighters scrambl

>> all right, rob marciano. let's get right to ginger and this system you were telling me isn't over yet. >> reporter: no. we've got a tornado watch in place until 10:00 p.m. you can see why. that same cold front marching east in the red is the biggest conce concern. right there from virginia to georgia. in the yellow, that's severe thunderstorm. you can have strong winds with that, too. >> you are watching tropical systems in the pacific and the atlantic. >> reporter: major hurricane. that's gonzalo. max winds, 115 miles per hour. and it moves to the north and east. bermuda, right in its target. right there. laser focused. on friday. if it makes landfall there as a category 3, it will be the strongest landfalling hurricane in the atlantic season. and ana should bome a hurricane tomorrow. and this one, i just got off the phone with the hurricane center, they say will be a big story by the weekend. >> great to have you back from the bering sea last night. >> great to be here. >>> now to the breaking headline on t

meteorologist rob marciano is right there. >>> the governor's demand. telling that nurse to take a blood test now to prove she doesn't have ebola. if she's now out on her bike. how far is too far? >>> what happens in vegas doesn't stay on vegas when caught on tape by the fbi. you'll see it here. >>> and the science experiment, that explosion, and now, the new warning tonight. >>> good evening on this thursday night. and we begin with that deadly plane crash. the pilot can be heard just moments before the crash saying, i need to declare an emergency. then crashing into an airport building. >> it happened today in wichita, kansas. molts after impact, look. the fire raging. thick smoke billowing. that building, part of it collapsing what was left on that plane on the roof and inside. remarkably, also in that complex, pilots taking advanced courses on flight simulators. 100 people inside, many of them trapped. this evening, the audio from the final moments from inside that cockpit. abc's ryan smith is on the scene for us. >> reporter: the roof where the pla

>> rob marciano with us again tonight from hawaii. rob, thank you. >>> and from one extreme to another now tonight, the coldest air of the season moving in across much of the country and now word of a nor'easter building. look at this image. 35 degrees in st. cloud, minnesota. and that nor'easter, how much of this will affect the millions of children out for halloween? ginger has the timing of it all. >> reporter: it's really the cold. i started the clock right when the kids will be out of school. places like oklahoma city are under a freeze watch by friday night into saturday morning. you can see why. we take the clock into early saturday morning, so, a lot of people, maybe still be out. you see the 20s dipping into almost chicago. atlanta even gets into the 30s. so, yes, that cold smack goes all the way to the gulf coast. and there we go. the first storm i want to talk about, that's not the nor'easter, but that's another one. bringing snowflakes from the great lakes through west virginia. and check this out. it's there, develops in

meteorologist rob marciano. rob, thank you. >>> now to the breaking news here and a deadly midair collision in maryland. take a look at the scene tonight. the small plane and a helicopter flying into each other near fredrik municipal airport. three people on board the helicopter killed when it broke into pieces. two people on the plane hurt. they survived when an emergency parachute deployed. reports say the helicopter may have been on a training flight. tonight, the ntsb is investigating the crush. >>> now, to those defective a airbags. authorities say they can explode like ieds. tonight, some families told to put their loved ones in the backseat. told to disable their airbag even if there isn't a new one ready. abc's david kerley and our team going right to the manufacturer. >> i'm with abc. >> reporter: tonight, takata industries, maker of those defective airbag parts. those parts were made here at this plant in washington state. >> i'm going to have to ask you to step off the properly. >> okay, no problem. >

and i was like -- >> rob marciano, do you know how to pronounce -- is it endive? >> endive. >> endive. endive. i have no idea. >> there you go. tomato, tomato. >>> good morning, guys. hey, want to talk about a hurricane ana. we spent a lot of time on gonzalo. this is no small potatoes either. 250 miles south of honolulu. and it's a hurricane, and will remain over the next couple of days. the good news is that the track will keep it south of the hawaiian islands. but close enough to where a tropical storm watch is, gusty winds, heavier rains, up to 10 or 12 inches. watch for flooding in parts of the hawaiian islands. by the way, folks who live in new york tend to go all the way over to the hawaii island. they don't get hurricanes. it's been a scary couple of months. they have had two scares. taking a live shot of new york city. speaking of. there it is. one world trade. looking pretty good. temperatures around 60 degrees. get up to 69. a chance of a shower later on today. showed you the front. here it is. cooler air tonight. in some cases, the coolest air of the se

>> rob marciano at the weather wall tonight. rob, thank you. >>> we turn now to new dash cam video, taking us inside a harrowing police chase across a quiet suburban town. look at this tonight. a minivan swerving, police cars in hot pursuit. a dangerous game of cat and mouse that's happening in towns and cities across this country. abc's linsey davis tonight. >> reporter: it started as a routine traffic stop, but watch as the officer is about to arrest the driver of that stolen minivan. the suspect hits the gas, speeding away with the police officer in tow. the wheels blown out. a side door smashed in. 30 heart-pounding minutes through suburban new jersey streets. at one point, the minivan spins out of control, but the fugitive keeps on going. in the process, injuring a mother and child. high speed chases like this play out across the country. like this one in minnesota, where police chased this man down the fairway of a golf course. and these pursuits are dangerous, killing on average one person every day. 42% of those victims

>> all right, rob marciano. let's get right to ginger and this system you were telling me isn't over yet. >> reporter: no, not over yet. we've got a tornado watch in place until 10:00 p.m. and you can see exactly why. that same cold front that has been deadly marching east, and in the red is the biggest concern. right there, from virginia back to parts of eastern georgia. now, all the way down in the yellow, that's severe thunderstorm. you can have very strong winds with that, too. so, we're watching the whole region. >> you are also watching tropical systems in the pacific and the atlantic, that's a major hurricane now. >> reporter: major hurricane. that's gonzalo. just moving north of puerto rico. max winds, 115 miles per hour. and it moves to the north and east. bermuda, right in its target. right there. laser focused. on friday. if it makes landfall there as a category 3, it will be the strongest landfalling hurricane in the atlantic season. and david, ana. going toward the big island of hawaii. should becom

abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all for us. rob? >> reporter: leftover moisture for hurricane simon streaming into colorado. above 10,000 feet, some of this is falling as snow. and at pike's peak, just 20 miles east of there, a flash flood warning for colorado springs. this moves across a stationary boundary. a flood threat, but a severe storm threat across the texas panhandle in the next 12 to 24 hours. flood watches from eastern kansas, through missouri, in through western parents of through western parts of illinois. watch our future cast. as the rain shows you exactly how heavy it will fall and where, one falls through st. louis, another falling right behind that. so, the same areas getting multiple inches of rainfall. then it shifts a little bit further to the south. but some areas could see three to four inches on top of what they've already seen. so, a big flood threat over the next 24 hours. >> all right, rob marciano, thank you. >>> and one more weather headline tonight. that massive tropical system we first showed you here

meteorologist rob marciano is right there. >>> the governor's demand. telling that nurse to take a blood test now to prove she doesn't have ebola. if she's now out on her bike. how far is too far? >>> what happens in vegas doesn't stay on vegas when caught on tape by the fbi. you'll see it here. >>> and the science experiment, that explosion, and now, the new warning tonight. >>> good eveng

rob marciano is on the big island. >> reporter: the 2000-degree lava is closer to the town of pahoa.n the backyards of residents. that first structure we saw burning yesterday, from the ground today just ash. and this smoldering pile of tires. officials warning residents about air quality. today we got a view from above. >> just incredible to see the expanse of lava for miles and miles. still steaming. lava breakouts happening. and fingers of lava reaching for anything in its path. >> reporter: residents are trying to put up a fight. >> right now we're flying over a private residence who had a bulldozer and built his own berm hoping to protect himself. the lava is less than 100 yards from his home there. >> reporter: teams of scientists, monitoring the floe that's less than a quarter of a mile off the main road. to keep the power on after the lava goes through, they're shoring up these utility poles with insulation that goes about halfway up, and dirt surrounding it, well up and over my head. the question is, will the lava go around it and undercut it and knock the power out anyway.

. >>> and rob marciano with what neighbors lived through. >> that's how they start. >> reporter: it struck during lunch hour in longview, washington. watch the debris spinning hundreds of feet in the air. and winds pushing this dumpster down the street. and this camera catching these employees racing for cover. >> it was very intense. >> i just wanted to make sure we were safe. >> reporter: the tornado, this man's trampoline sucked into and out his window. it was an ef-1 tornado, incredibly rare. this county has recorded just three tornadoes in the last 60 years. >> rob with us now. your eyes still on the northwest tonight. >> well, the tornado moving to the east, but the pacific northwest weather pattern is stacked. we'll get into the convective part of the system. winds could gust up to 60 miles an hour. >>> now to the defective air bags that could explode in the front of your car. now, congress asking the questions we've been asking all week. tonight, the number of drivers affected going higher. here's david kerley. >> reporter: a call tonight for millions of additional air bags to be r

and abc meteorologist rob marciano right in the middle of it. the lava, 2,000 degrees. >>> also developing right now, just days after that attack in canada, the gunman running through parliament, homeland security here and the new movement and hundreds of federal buildings across america. >>> the breaking development in the joan rivers case. her daughter taking action tonight, after what the medical examiner revealed. >>> vanishing without a trace. the american dad with his son at an nfl game, the dad suddenly missing. our team asking about the cameras. what they're saying now. >>> and breaking tonight, millimeters affected. has your cell phone company done something to your cell phone service? have you been asking, what's wrong with my phone?

rob marciano, abc news, massachusetts. >> wow.ut in the field. worked with him for a long time. he's fantastic out there. good to see him out there. >>> now here's a look at today's weather. the nor'easter is blowing out to sea lingering behind showers across new england. heavy rain in the pacific northwest and up to six inches. >> cool across much of the northern half of the country. 50s and 60s. but dry conditions in the midwest. 70s and 80s. 96 degrees for phoenix. >>> a lava flow on the move threatening thousands of residents on the big island of hawaii. the flow is less than a mile away from the town of pahoa. it's only a matter of time before residents there are forced to evacuate. they hope to give them at least three days notice. that's scary stuff. >> it devoured 130 acres of terrain by thursday afternoon. unstoppable, huh? >> what do you do? you just have to get out of the way. probably just a matter of time. hopefully everybody will be all right. our friends out in hawaii. >> some of the big island residents are used to

rob marciano has the story. >> reporter: the storms started before dawn in atlanta.d at least one confirmed tornado. >> it was quite a spectacle. in here and out of here as quickly as it came. it was blinding fast. >> reporter: wesley and heather are lucky to be alive. with just minutes warning they rushed their family downstairs to shelter as the tornado roared over the top of their home. >> just a growling sound. the angry, scary, hair standing up on you kind of sound. i've never heard anything like it in my entire life. >> reporter: over 350 reports of severe weather. at least a dozen confirmed tornadoes from the midwest to the south. >> the national weather service in greenville-spartanburg has issued a tornado warning. >> reporter: in chattanooga, morning mudslides closing a highway. in alabama, storms turned deadly. a falling tree killing one woman and injuring her husband. the neighbor saw the woman's husband run from the house. >> i heard the tree and it fell and he started screaming, help, help, help. >> i tried everything i could to get her out. but there w

. >>> and now bringing in rob marciano. so hurricane ana. did i get that right. >> hurricana. >> hurricana. >> we can joke because it is dangerously close to the hawaiian islands but it doesn't look like it will make a direct impact. we'll show you some out of there, about 125 miles southwest, west-southwest of honolulu. it has caused some flooding especially on the big island. we've had a record rainfall there, 4 1/2 inches in hilo. almost a foot of rainfall in other parts of the big island and now it's heading towards kauai and we have tropical storm warnings that are posted for the island of kauai as it heads in that direction. waves, wind and obviously some heavy rain, tropical storm watches remain posted for honolulu. here is the forecast track. as we push it out to sea, it will affect some of the more remote islands obviously as we go throughout the day today. let's take a look at what's going on a little bit closer to home. that cold blast of air. you felt it last night driving all the way down across the south. this morning it's chil

rob marciano with the new images. >>reporter: looking from space, it is a meteorological masterpiece, but that serene beauty translates to a fury of wind and water below. at its peak, super typhoon vongfong packed winds gusting over 200 miles per hour with hurricane force winds covering as much as 63,000 miles. roughly the size of wisconsin. vongfong's effects are already being felt in okinawa, japan, where over 50,000 americans are stationed. >> residents are advised to stay indoors and away from windows during the storm. >> reporter: this storm will track over okinawa on saturday morning, weakening as it heads over mainland japan which is still recovering from typhoon phanfone less than a week ago. this typhoon is much stronger and moving much slower which will likely make flooding much worse. >> a lot of people watching this tonight. rob, what's the newest track? >> that part of the world has been active. not much new. but news on tropical storm fay. and flooding potential. another couple of inches in the south. an

. >> let's go to rob marciano. >> this thing is a monster. a major hurricane. winds gusting over 120 miles an hour. the impacts on the winds and waves. i don't expect conditions to improve until after minute knig -- midnight. big swells coming to the u.s. >> and tropical storm ana has become a hurricane as well. looks like it's going to have tropical storm watches for the hawaiian islands but not as bad as in bermuda. >> thank you. >>> now to the other fast-moving nightmare. the ebola scare on a carnival cruise ship. tonight, the passenger is self-quarantined. the ship heading back to texas, and more than 100 employees of the dallas hospital are being expected to avoid public places. and nina pham, thanking everyone. >>> we begin our coverage of ebola with tom llamas. >> reporter: more than 3,600 passengers caught up in the growing fear of ebola. a dallas supervisor in her ca n cabin. passengers describing a surreal scene. >> people crying, and others having drinks. >> reporter: the cruise set out from texas on sunday. and the next stop, honduras. the next day,

meteorologist rob marciano is right there. >>> the governor's demand. telling that nurse to take a blood test now to prove she doesn't have ebola. if she's now out on her bike. how far is too far? >>> what happens in vegas doesn't stay on vegas when caught on tape by the fbi. you'll see it here. >>> and the science experiment, that explosion, and now, the new warning tonight.

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and rob marciano, now tracking the cold this weekend. >> this is a big storm. you mentioned the cold, rain, and snow for about a third of the country. just a nasty night. freeze warnings and watches all the way to the gulf coast. 30s as far south as the florida panhandle. and some snow, we're going to see eight inches in parts of the app lay chans. and new york and d.c., not as much of an impact. but new england, some winds up to 60 miles an hour. and more snow coming their way. >>> and to the breaking headline, one of america's most wanted captured. terrorizing a community for 48 days, tonight, eric frein is in a cell. and the marshalls that took him in speaking out. tom llamas with the story. >> eric are you sorry? >> reporter: eric frein had no words and nowhere left to run when police marched him out of a pennsylvania courthouse -- just inches from a crowd of angry neighbors who let him have it. >> death penalty, let's go! >> reporter: people snapping pictures, as the accused cop killer walked by. their relief, palpable. when you laid eyes on him, what did

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and abc meteorologist rob marciano right in the middle of it.rees. >>> also developing right now, just days after that attack in canada, the gunman running through parliament, homeland security here and the new movement and hundreds of federal buildings across america. >>> the breaking development in the joan rivers case. her daughter taking action tonight, after what the medical examiner revealed. >>> vanishing without a trace. the american dad with his son at an nfl game, the dad suddenly missing. our team asking about the cameras. what they're saying now. >>> and breaking tonight, millimeters affected. has your cell phone company done something to your cell phone service? have you been asking, what's