enough. >> he's won three times. >> stop this. >> ron claiborne's twitter feed is going to be a hate fest. >> put an end to this, please. >> people from boston. >> ron, are you hungry? >> i'm hangry. >> nasty weather today, right rob? >>> let's get over to weather. go new england patriots. >> i hate to admit i'm agreeing th rn this. we're on the same -- go seattle. come on baby. go two cities that are rabid about there teams. we'll start you off with the afc championship icy condititions, freezing rain advisories. this moisture runs into cooler air. generally speaking the warm air will move in. it will be mostly rain in fox borough. behind the system we're cooler again tomorrow and we get below freezing but snow across the northern tier of new hampshire and vermont. 50 degrees in seattle south southwest wind that's where the opening is at the stadium. that's the game day forecast. here's what's happening locally. >> reporter: good morning, everyone i'm meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. storm tracker 6 live double scan we have major icing issues right now for the

enough. >> he's won three times. >> stop this. >> ron claiborne's twitter feed is going to be a hate est. >> put an end to this, please. >> people from boston. >> ron, are you hungry? >> i'm hangry. >> nasty weather today, right rob? >>> let's get over to weather. go, new england patriots. >> i hate to admit i'm agreeing with ron on this. we're on the same -- go seattle. come on, baby. go seahawks. seattle and green bay. two cities rabid about their teams. it will be a battle today, no doubt. we'll start with the afc championship. across the northeast. the icy conditions to start your day. freezing rain advisories. just north of new york city. temperatures around the freezing mark. this moisture runs into the cooler air. generally speaking, the warm air moves in. mostly rain in foxboro. kickoff, 44 degrees. southeast winds will be picking up. i think the rain will pick up in the second half behind this system. we're a little bit cooler again tomorrow. by the time we get below freezing, most of the precip has moved out. snow across the northern tier of new hampshire and vermont. 50 deg

. >>> and now to ron claiborne for the rest of the headlines. >> hey, welcome elizabeth, dan.a, hi. >> oh, you. >> oh, you. >>> we begin with the new york city police department on high alert this morning after receiving nearly a hundred threats in the two weeks since the ambush murders of two police officers in brooklyn. the recent threats led to 21 arrests. and the police commissioner is urging officers not to make political statements during the funeral for one of the officers tomorrow. they turned their backs when mayor bill de blasio spoke last saturday for the officer ramos. >>> and jewish settlers threw rocks at a convoy of diplomatic officials who were looking at alleged destruction to palestinian property. they are speaking out against interference, but this was the first physical attack. >>> and dying of liver failure days before his trial was to begin, he was accused of plotting the 1998 bombings in africa. he was found in a raid by u.s. co man does. >>> and a house explosion in illinois, one killed one injured when the house burst into flames. this was friday after

ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> 68,000 instagram followers he has. the morning. we are back tomorrow. thanks for spending your saturday with us. have a good night.

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ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> 68,000 instagram followers he has. the morning. we are back tomorrow. thanks for spending your saturday with us. have a good night. >>> next at 6:00 bay area school sure ares to highway water damage. >> concerned parents take to the streets to teach life lessons to their kids. >> abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> good evening thank you, for joining us. a waterline break on the campus of newark memorial high school flooded eight classrooms with three feet of water. crews are trying to rearrange alternative teaching spaces before monday. sergio quintana has details. reporter: this waterline burst last week, and students had already left for the winter break and it's probably good thing because the superintendent tells us it sounds like an explosion when that line burst. he says that is how neighbors described the sound. it has taken several days for maintenance crews to pull out damaged furniture and other items from the classrooms that were flooded because of the break. classroom walls and carpets had to be torn afortuna

ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >>> and there is a familiar name in trouble with the law again tonight. police in florida say george zimmerman was arrested and booked last night on aggravated assault charges in an alleged domestic dispute involving a girlfriend. you'll remember zimmerman was acquited in the 2013 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, trayvon martin. this is zimmerman's fourth brush with the law since then. >>> and now, to what may be an incredible feat of endurance and survival at sea by someone known for his athletic abilities on land. a former miami dolphin football player in a boating accident braved ten-foot waves for what he says was some 16 hours. what he did that made all the difference. here's abc's gloria riviera. >> reporter: robert conrad's fight for survival likely took more grit than anything he ever faced on the football field. the former miami dolphins fullback, an experienced angler, fishing off the south florida coast on his 36-foot boat. falling off, he told police, reeling in a fish. the boat on auto pilot, drifting away. facing darkness, ten-f

ron claiborne here with the story. they're both, the resident college football fan. >> this is the game that dan and i have not stopped talking about for more than a week. >> lie. >> should be a heck of a game. the two best college football teams in the country, two terrific quarterbacks. one who almost everybody knew was gonna have a great season. the other who practically no one ever heard of just two months ago. the first ever college football playoff national championship is shaping up as a bruising battle between two heavyweights. in this corner, the oregon ducks, 13 wins, 1 loss. an offensive juggernaut, racking up more than 47 points a game. >> scores! >> reporter: and in this corner the ohio state buckeyes. the underdog still looking for respect. two teams. two very different quarterbacks. marcus mariota from oregon. >> i wanted to be part of this team. i wanted to contribute. i wanted to find ways to get myself better. >> reporter: he's arguably the best quarterback in the country. and an all-american nice guy

ron claiborne for a look at the headline. >> good morning to you, mr. dan or dad harris. >> i'll take both. >> good morning to you paula. >>> we begin with that historic same-sex marriage decision expected later by the supreme court. the justices have agreed to decide once and for all whether gay couples have a constitutional right to marry in all 50 states. the court will begin hearing the case in april from four states where couples lost their appeals to marry or have their marriages recognized. the decision is expected by the end of june. >>> and pope francis is in the philippines just as a massive storm is barreling through that region. the pontiff wearing a papal poncho braving the elms as he visits tacloban ravaged by a typhoon two years ago. 6 million expected in manila this despite a new typhoon closing in. >>> joe paterno is back at the list of winningest college football closes. the ncaa and penn state where he used to coach have agreed to a deal that restores 112 team wins to penn state and puts paterno's victory totals at 409. paterno was cr

we want to go back to ron claiborne. the countdown is on to monday's first ever college football playoffs national championship game. the oregon ductionks will do battle with the ohio state buckeyes. it's a third stringer against this year's heisman trophy winner. ron, here, with the story. they're both the resident college football fan. >> this is the game that dan and i have not stopped talking about for more than a week. >> lie. >> should be a heck of a game. the two best college football teams in the country, two terrific quarterbacks. one who almost everybody knew would have great season. the other who practically no one ever heard of just two months ago. the first ever college football playoff national championship is shaping up as a bruising battle between two heavy weights. in this corner the oregon ducks, 13 wins, 1 loss. an offensive juggernaut, racking up more than 47 points game. in this corner the ohio state buck eyes. underdog still looking for respect. two teams. two very different quarterbacks. marcus mar

. >>> let's turn now to ron claiborne with the other top stories developing this morning. hey, ron. >> good morning to you, elizabeth and dan, sara. >>> we begin with the boston marathon suspect on trial and jury selection in that case against dzhokhar tsarnaev will start tomorrow. a motion to postpone it was rejected. or move it from massachusetts to another state. if convicted he could face the death penalty. 2013 bombing killed three people and wounded 260 others. >>> and thousands of police officers from across the country are expected for today's funeral of the second nypd detective ambushed and murdered last month. on saturday hundreds of mourners packed a brooklyn funeral home for the wake of wenjian liu. the 32-year-old officer was shot and killed along with his partner rafael ramos while they were sitting inside of their patrol car. >>> overseas now, a major rescue operation underway right now after a huge cargo ship capsized off the coast of scotland. you can see the end of the ship sticking out of the water there. the eight members of the crew are missing. the sh

. >>> now let's turn to ron claiborne tracking the developing stories in airasia and that elusive black box. >> good morning, everyone. we begin overseas where airasia officials say they may be zeroing in on finding the plane's all-important black boxes. this morning, big pieces of debris including some passenger seats arrived at an indonesian port. the ceo of airasia tweeting overnight, "we are led to believe black box may have been found. still not confirmed but strong info coming out. my main thoughts is the fuselage." officials say they are hearing underwater pings that could be from the flight data recorders. the plane's tail section was pulled from the water on saturday. >>> and a horrific traffic accident kills five members of a virginia family. one virginia family, a huge tractor trailer crashed into the family's car before rolling over and crushing their vehicle. police are reviewing cameras in the area to determine the cause of that crash. >>> and investigators are trying to figure out why a small plane crashed into a busy los angeles street on friday. reports say the single e

ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> it's all tonight on espn at 8:30 eastern time. >>> coming up, lastht's big winners from the golden globes. the stars coming together for their favorite awards show. we'll recap the big winners. >> my kind of story. ahead in the next half hour, lying while parking. phonies caught on camera using disabled parking permits before going on a hike. what the police had to say about it. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. ♪ ♪ >>> the awards season is in full swing. last night was a big one. the golden globes and all the stars of film and television were out and about. joining us is abc's entertainment editor lesley messer. a full recap of the big moments. welcome. >> hi. nice to be here. >> let's kick it off with the hosts, tina fey and amy poehler. this is their last time. >> their last time together. i have to say, i didn't think we saw enough of them. last time we saw them on stage throughout the show during gags. this time they took a back seat and let margaret cho play a bigger rol

here's ron claiborne. >> reporter: today, the two lives of aaron hernandez intersected in a massachusetts courtroom. hernandez's murder trial and the biggest game in sports were tied together by a highly unusual instruction by the judge to the jury. >> i am not going to forbid you from watching the super bowl on sunday. if that's something that's really important to you. >> reporter: but judge susan garsh told them what to do if they ever hear hernandez's name mentioned. >> if you hear the word, you got to walk out of the room. distance yourself immediately. stop people. >> reporter: hernandez is accused of shooting his acquaintance odin lloyd. lloyd's mother breaking down and leaving the courtroom today when prosecutors showed gruesome photos of the murder scene. aaron hernandez, displaying no emotion himself. and today was actually the second time that hernandez's football career has come up. prospective jurors were asked if they were patriots fans. >> ron, thank you. >>> and a slew of candidates hinting they may run. but mitt romney will not run, telling donors today, he wants to give

ron claiborne is on the train. >> it was when college students took an amtrak train like this. and health experts say anyone who passed through the same car as him or her, breathed the same air even after he or she got off that train up to two hours later, was exposed to the measles virus and those without immunity were very likely infected. >> reporter: at the super bowl health care workers are gearing up. this team will be inside the stadium working first aid stations looking for signs of the highly contagious disease. >> we want to make sure if something happened when can respond as quickly as happen. and limit that spread. >> reporter: in hard-hit california the epicenter of the outbreak, kelly said her 3-year-old came down with the measles despite the fact he had been vaccinated. >> when they told us it was measles it was such a weird, kind of old-fashioned thing like who gets measles? >> reporter: many doctors are blaming the so-call eded the spread. many fear do have their kids vaccinated fearing side effects. >> even a touch, sneeze, make things tricky at the super bowl

seattle fan, ron claiborne. good morning, everyone. we begin overseas with the president kicking off his scaled back visit to india. the president and first lady touching down in new delhi. michelle obama wearing a floral outfit by an indian designer. the president later attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the burial site of mahatma gandhi. he wrote, the spirit of gandhi is alive and well in india. >>> back here at home caught on camera some wild wild santa ana winds through california. the winds knocking over this huge 40-foot billboard. the driver of the white truck narrowly escaped the falling billboard. the wind gusts clocked in at 60 miles an hour. no one, however, was injured. >>> a 21-year-old snowboarder missing for three days was found alive saturday on a canadian mountain. july abramson was vacationing in whistler. she was last seen last wednesday. despite the extreme weather conditions, she was found and was not hurt. >>> and finally, some more snow news. some history during the x games. for the first time, the faa allowing

ron claiborne, abc news new york. >> all because somebody didn't give up on him. have. and look what's come out of it for a lot of other dogs and animals out there. >> they are shipping two to three of these carts a week. there's interest out there. >> what's his name? >> turboroo. >> we'll keep an eye an turboroo. >> he kind of reminds me of you. >> please explain that. >>> this morning on "world news now" -- sole survivor. how one brave little girl walked away from the plane crash that killed her entire family. what we're learning about that bare foot trek through the darkness. >> an 8-year-old little girl. i can't imagine her going through what this little one went through. >> the next chapter she now faces. >> new clues in the hunt for the wreckage of the airasia flight. the new theory about what might have triggered the crash. the weather conditions improving in this race against time. >>> a woman hopping off of what should be the ride of her life ends up dropping 30 feet down. new questions about the high flying fun of zip lines. it's monday, january 5th. >>

ron claiborne, you've been tracking some of the other stories we've been tracking. >> i have. >> allight, good morning to you. >> and good morning to you, paula and ryan, sara. good morning, everyone. we begin with some big last-minute changes to president obama's trip to india. the president and first lady departed for new delhi, the indian capital. this morning mr. obama will be the first u.s. president to take part in a parade on sunday celebrating the day that india's constitution came into force. the obamas, though, will not visit the iconic taj mahal instead cutting their trip short to fly to saudi arabia to pay respects to the founding of the late king abdullah who died earlier this week. >>> now to the urgent concern about measles. the cdc has issued a nationwide health alert urging hospitals and health clinics to be on the lookout for the disease. there are now 58 cases linked to the california measles outbreak. the disease has now spread to six states. most of those who have gotten sick have not been vaccinated and doctors are urging parents to vaccinate their young childre

. >>> a lot of other news overnight, and, as always, we turn to ron claiborne for a look at the morningeadlines. good morning, sir. >> good morning to you, dan and paula, saar r good morning, everyone. we begin with a hostage crisis involving a jordanian air force pilot and japanese journalist both held captive by isis militants. japanese officials are saying the negotiations with isis for the journalist's release have now become deadlocked. isis has demanded that a female prisoner held in jordan be let go in exchange for freeing that japanese reporter and sparing the life of the pilot but jordan wants proof the pilot is still alive before agreeing to any deal and so far no proof from isis. >>> and outrage on the campus of the university of virginia after sorority members are banned from attending this weekend's big frat parties, the sorority members have been told by the national sorority leadership to stay home tonight while the male fraternities party on. some coeds are calling the unprecedented ban havana sexist and say it undermines their ability to make good decisions. the ban com

ron claiborne. >> amy, we're seeing the first video after an explosion after a children's hospital in are trapped right now in the rubble authorities say a gas tanker exploded outside that hospital and about 30% of that building collapsed. it's unclear right now why the tanker exploded. no a fatalities e immediately confirmed. also breaking right now the deadline set by isis to save the lives of two hostages has now passed. isis has demandd that the government of jordan free a convicted female terrorist to spare the life of a jordanian pilot. now in exchange isis said it would release a japanese journalist held hostage. before any swap is made jordan has demanded proof that its pilot is still alive. no movement on either side. earlier confirmed jordan said that the hostage is still in the country. amy, back to you. >>> back here in this country a high-profile murder trial gets under way today. former new england patriots star aaron hernandez is charged with shooting his former friend who at the time was dating his fiancee's sister. the jury of 13 women and 5 men will hear opening stat