darla miles from our new york affiliate wabc has the story. >> walking on the stroo street this way,ar pulled up on the opposite side and she screamed, as he picked her up. >> reporter: a man wearing a plastic bag over his head, another wearing a black mask was spotted charging around the corner from west 173rd on to haven avenue. a dark-colored minivan is right behind him speeding around the corner with its doors open. >> a chrysler. it was like a navy blue chrysler. and turned down the one way and pulled over and stopped and a couple of guys came out and picked up a girl. pushed her in the car. >> reporter: sources say two 10-year-old girls playing at the park in washington heights, 7:00 friday evening, called 911 after they saw a woman screaming as she was forced into a minivan at gunpoint. investigators believe a man may have also been stuffed into the vehicle. this,s before it peeled off screeching up a one-way street. >> in the beginning when she screamed we were nervous. the way they walked in, made it seem suspicious. like they knew whose car they were going into. >> reporter

we'll start with a beautiful shot out of wabc.york and not watching wabc, the power of the biggest city in america, then unplug the tv set. we say you're just wasting power. >> wow. >> wabc is the deal. >> you are -- >> i'm just saying, 25 is the windchill. it's a little chilly from the great lakes into new england. check out boston windchill at about 7, in the single digits. what, spring is next week? doesn't feel like it. atlanta, 38. some milder air does start to swing in. phoenix got about 95 degrees. that's a record. a record again today. some of that milder air will start to spread across the south just like this. still places like dallas/ft. worth, i think it's also houston, as well, well down into the deep south of texas and new orleans, atlanta, all getting some milder temperatures but it's going to take some time for the great la >> all that weather was brought to you by zyrtec. josh, elizabeth, george. >> thank you. >>> coming up highway confidential, how do so many of these bizarre accidents where drivers walk away, ho

wabc's phil lipof, right there. >> we are getting tremendous wind off the ocean here. the ocean that, by the way, is getting closer. >> reporter: wind so strong in maryland, this semi teetered on the edge of a bridge. in north carolina, real life bumper cars on an icy mountain road. the federal government shut down. more than 200 accidents so far, as we make our way through the storm. so, we just had to get off the highway because there's a jackknifed semi. we're going to have to go around it. the roads deteriorating every single mile. we're here in shenandoah national park and every once in awhile, you'll hear a tree crack or pop in the woods. and you can see why. the weight of the snow, so heavy. you can imagine what that's doing to power lines. 250,000 power outages and at least one person is dead. hit by a fallen tree. this snow is thick and it is heavy. so hazardous and the storm isn't done yet. we keep saying that the snow is wet and heavy. well, we wanted to give you an idea of how heavy wet, heavy know is. so, i know what i weigh and -- this adds almost ten pou

wabc right there. >> we are getting tremendous wind off the oh here.by the way is getting closer. >> reporter: wind so strong in maryland this semi theaterred on the edge of a bridge. in north carolina real life bumper cars on an icy mountain road. the federal government shut down. more than 200 accidents so far as we make our way through the storm. >> we just had to get off the highway because there is a jackknifed semi and we will have to go around it. the road is deteriorating every mile. >> you will hear a tree crack or pop in the woods. the weight of the snow so heavy you can imagine what that is doing to power lines. 250,000 power outages and one person dead, hit by a fallen tree. the snow is thick and heavy. so hazardous and the storm isn't done yet. >>> snow is also fueling heavily in the sierra. up to 10 inches expected above 4,000 feet. drivers advised to expect very difficult conditions heading to the mountains on i-80 and highway 50. and, of course, spencer christian is here with more on the weather which means maybe a little more rain for

let's go to wabc's camera and give you an idea who is not warm, new york city, right now 29 degrees.ly morning temperatures feel like they're right around 0. it won't get a whole lot warmer. new york, 42. philly, 42 and d.c., 43. and on the west coast behind that storm that is dropping through the center of the nation, some cooler temperatures settling in. seattle goes from 50 to 48 and los angeles, that one yesterday was in the 80s, 68 by tuesday. that's the big picture. a check now a little closer to home. this weather report has been brought to you by at&t. you like how i tell ron, yeah, you remember when there's 19 inches. >> i was thinking about that all week. amarillo? you don't think about that. >> what i like is how ron pretends to remember. >> yes, of course. >> i did remember that. i pay very close attention to everything ginger says. >> as always. everyone should. >> well played. well played. >>> all right, well now to a rare look at the new military technology that could save hundreds of lives. they're testing a robotic bomb enoughing dog named rex to see how it works on

according to passengers who spoke to our affiliate wabc, shortly after the trip began roaches showed down. roaches started crawling on our clothes, falling out of the ceiling, everything. >> we are already at the part of

according to passengers who spoke to our affiliate wabc, shortly after the trip began roaches showed up pretty much everywhere. >> sat down. roaches started crawling on our clothes, falling out of the ceiling, everything. >> we are already at the part of the trip where i would pull the emergency brake and call wolf blitzer to pick me up. he's used to sketchy phone calls from new york city. unfortunately for passengers, things only got worse. >> e with thought it was one. it turned tout to be a houseful of roaches. >> i was in the front. i saw people panicking and after a while the panic got to the back. we looked around and saw roaches crawling everywhere. >> i'm b about to throw up. you have no idea. roaches on a bus? kardashians in an elevator, my length of fears is lengthy. i attempted to conquer my fear of roaches as you can see in this old file footage. how i miss the days when my hair was more pepper than salt. unfortunately the roaches and i could not reach an agreement. >> are you willing to put your hand inside the container? >> um -- yeah -- no. i don't think so. >> yeah. d

our affiliate wabc reports that two 10-year-old girls saw what happened, called 911. >>> a texas prosecutorhot and killed in his own home almost exactly two months after his colleague was murdered outside the courthouse. no suspects, no motive. kaufman county defense attorney mike mcclellan and his wife, cynthia, were found dead in hair home last night. two months ago, mcclellan's assistant, mark hasse, was shot and killed in broad daylight outside the kaufman county courthouse. cnn's ed lavendera live now at the sheriffs department there. so, ed, we're hearing that shell casings from a semiautomatic rifle were found inside the mcclellan home. what else are you hearing now from police? >> reporter: yeah, they're hoping that those shell casings can at least provide some leads that they can begin tracking down. this is from a .223 caliber high-powered rifle that was found inside the house. i'm told from a law enforcement source that it was several casings that were discovered inside the home. so it's a little bit of what we've learned about what they're discovered at that crime scene. for the

the couple inside told our affiliate wabc they were driving down a hill and couldn't stop, turn a cornere road, in the air, on a roof. >> the air bag deployed and i don't even see where we're going from there because the view was obscured and i just couldn't stop. we're very, very lucky. >> so lucky indeed. a neighbor used a ladder to help this couple out. it took a crane to get this cadillac off the roof. authorities say there was a man inside the house, but he was not hurt. wow. >>> bad news for tourists and history buffs here. new york's iconic ellis island will not be opening anytime soon. the national parks service says damage from superstorm sandy was so bad, they don't have a projected reopening date. repairs could cost up to $59 million. >>> he claims to know everything about the 82 phillies, but what about march madness? jake tapper, his bracket, my bracket, next. >> wherever she goes, they follow. but at the same time, yes, as she is traveling through many different lands, there are other languages she comes across. >> we have other languages coming up on the show that are not

here is wabc's art mcfarland. >> reporter: students and their principal at saint raymond's elementarye. >> like, when they kept on focusing on, like, the door where he was going to come out i was like anxious to see who it was going to be. >> reporter: saint raymond's one of the largest schools in the new york archdiocese. most students share a cultural heritage with the new pope. >> i think it is amazing. like, the first for everything has to happen. and, so, it was pretty exciting seeing the pope from argentina. >> i come from a hispanic background. so, i'm kind of like, he is like latin. i am excited for him to be the new pope and all. >> monsignor john graham heads saint raymond's parish. >> it doesn't really matter what country you come from or what your background is it is just a wonderful story once again in the church. >> reporter: for the students we spoke with their excitement over the pope is mixed with pride. >> now will they have a leader and he is going to be strong and we're going to be good. we are going to have a good leader of the church. >> this is what we need, the