ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan. 18, 2024

tonight breaking news as we come on the air the terrifying moments the passenger plane off the taxiway just moments after landing in Rochester New York the image is coming in right now the American Airlines flight from Philadelphia veering off right after landing what authorities are now saying also more than 40 deaths now in a dozen states blamed on the Storm the family electrocuted killed while trying to get out of their car another family member killed while trying to help get them out and no

w the new storm moving in tonight much of the East in Philadelphia in fact a winter storm warning up to a half a foot of snow possible and New York City set to get hit again Ginger Z standing by to time this out also tonight the new and scathing report on Uvaldi from the Department of Justice tonight suggesting the failed response allowed more school children to die police were in that school 3 minutes after the gunman so why did it take so long to get to the suspect what they've revealed Mara V

ia Real in ubal also breaking news tonight in a that stunned the nation the murder of a young pregnant wife Lacy Peterson tonight ABC News learning the LA Innocence Project is now taking up the case of Scott Peterson who was convicted of murdering his wife Lacy and their unborn child what attorneys for the group are now saying tonight the news tonight involving the da in the Georgia case against Donald Trump and 18 codefendants the judge now scheduling a hearing over the DA's alleged misconduct

What She's accused of and what she has said so far Pierre Thomas standing by Donald Trump taking aim at Nikki Haley Haley firing back asking who lost the midterms in the last presidential election just days to go until New Hampshire and Rachel Scott is there in New York City tonight major news in the case of the alleged serial stabber wanted in several stabbings tonight the suspect now under arrest and where he worked the moment of the explosion in Washington DC the blast under investigation ton

ight there is widespread damage news on princess Katherine and her condition tonight Prince William was there today and what we've now learned and with the brutal cold gripping this country looking out for our neighbors and the doctor tonight who got on his ATV in the snow and what he did America strong from ABC News world headquarters in New York this is World News Tonight with David mure good evening and it's great to have you with us here in a Thursday night and we begin tonight with these de

adly winners storms tonight the imag is just coming in the passenger plane off the taxi way moments after landing in Rochester New York frightening moments for the passengers there an American Airlines plane veering off right after landing from Philadelphia authorities at this hour blaming the weather there were 53 people on board firefighters helping to get them off the plane late today down the New York State thre away to Buffalo New York tonight the lake affects snow Relentless more than a fo

ot of snow in the last 24 hours Buffalo with double what it usually gets in January already and now tonight this new storm heading out of the Midwest reaching the Northeast by Morning in Philadelphia tonight a winter storm warning up up to a half a foot of snow possible Washington DC right up through New York City all bracing again it all begins with the morning commute Ginger Z standing by to time this out and ABC's Trevor alt in Buffalo Tonight Tonight the terrifying scene at the Rochester air

port a packed passenger plane sliding off a taxi way moments after landing 58 just slid right off the the taxi way the American Airlines flight carrying 53 people from Philadelphia veering into the snow covered grass firefighters helping passengers off the plane with no injuries Michael tricky was on board that just kind of rocked people pretty hard when it came to that abrupt stop this as a new storm is set to slam the Northeast with even more snow this is Buffalo it's notorious for snow and ye

t already this year they've had well over 30 in that is more than double what they typically average for the entire month of January and in the west a Portland family mourning the deaths of three people killed in an ice storm the father of two of the victim says a down power line trapped his 21-year-old daughter inside her SUV along with her boyfriend and their 9-month-old baby the couple was electrocuted upon stepping out of the vehicle along with her 15-year-old brother teron who ran into to h

elp Mia Washington was nearby and ran to save the baby I was just thinking like I have to save this baby or not in the moment I didn't think it was saving him I kind of still don't think if it is saving him I just think of it is something that anybody would have did officials now urging families if a power line falls on your car stay put and call 911 and if there's a fire and you have to exit avoid the frame and jump out with your feet close together please remain in your vehicle the insulation

of the tires should keep you safe and David here in Buffalo you can essentially find these giant piles of snow on every single block and as for that airplane in Rochester that slid off the taxi way well the airline is now confirmed that happened because of these snowy conditions and the FAA is now investigating David Trevor all leading us off here tonight Trevor thank you let's get right to chief meteorologist Ginger Z and ginger a second snowstorm now headed our way first thing tomorrow morning

we're going to see this yes and David in Rochester they had visibility down to a mile or so on each hour on either side of that accident on top of more lake effect snow those will dwindle tonight but look at all these winter weather advisories from Montana to new Jersey Philadelphia in a winter storm warning the advisories for freezing rain down south to Huntsville Alabama tonight so let's go ahead and take you through the track of it that Gulf moisture is going to meet up with that Clipper sys

tem Chicago gets a little blast and then Pittsburgh early morning you slide it across and for most of I95 it's going to start in the morning commute bad timing the heaviest late morning through early afternoon so right around lunchtime you're going to see the big stuff Philadelphia now in that 3 to 6 in range they've had about their average to date they they could double that by tomorrow big deal after measly couple of seasons and look at this the windchills get even colder this weekend it'll fe

el like 16 below David on Sunday in Chicago Ginger Z with us tonight Ginger thank you as always we're going to turn now to the new and scathing report on Uvaldi from the Department of Justice tonight suggesting the failed response allowed more school children to die First Responders were actually inside that school within 3 minutes after the gunman got into the building so why did it take so long to get to him the faces of the victim 19 children you'll remember and two teachers were killed and w

hat authorities have now revealed tonight ABC's Mara vial in Uvaldi shot get inside tonight a scy new report from the Department of Justice paints a fuller picture of what they're calling cascading failures by law enforcement in that deadly mass shooting at Rob Elementary in Uvalda Texas that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers had the law enforcement agencies followed generally accepted practices in an active shooter situation and gone right after the shooter to stop him lives would

have been saved and people would have survived the report setting the timeline at 11:33 a.m. on May 24th 2022 the 18-year-old suspect armed with a high-powered AR-15 style rifle enters through an unlocked door within 3 minutes a group of officers entering through the same door and four minutes after the gunman enters the building five officers taking fire as they move towards the classrooms they Retreat after two of them are hit with shrapnel am I am I bleeding am I bleeding the report says afte

r three attempts to reach the classrooms officials changing their tactics from an active shooter to a barricaded subject approach which delayed attempts to breach the classroom rooms as they tried to negotiate with the suspect you believe he's uh barricaded in one of the one of the offic sir School District police chief Pete Arondo who had been among the first to respond instead directing officers to search for keys to unlock doors to the classrooms where students and teachers were trapped it me

ant waiting for a set of keys to open the classroom door which the report concludes was likely unlocked loed anyway for 77 minutes after the first officers entered the school no one going into the classrooms even as dispatchers received two phone calls from students inside 10-year-old Khloe thores was one of them I'm in classroom 102 please hurry there's a lot of dead bodies please it wasn't until around 12:50 that officers went in and took down the suspect nearly an hour and a half after First

Responders arrived on scene as a consequence of failed leadership training and policies injured and scared students and teachers remain trapped with the subject in the classrooms waiting to be rescued Veronica Mata lost her 10-year-old daughter Tess I would hope that she didn't have to sit there for those 77 minutes and see everything that her friends were going through Claire but not closure for these families David the Department of Justice report uh did not bring up any possible criminal char

ges that was not their focus it's actually the responsibility of the local district attorney right here in Uvaldi to handle that but the doj did list a number of recommendations for law enforcement meanwhile former law enforcement agents that were criticized in this report we have reached out to them but have not heard back for comment on this report the city of yal says they continue to review it and will release additional comments in the near future David two years of pain for these families

Maria vial tonight Maria thank you there is also breaking news tonight in a case that horrified this nation the murder of a young pregnant wife Lacy Peterson tonight ABC News learning the LA Innocence Project is now taking up the case of Scott Peterson who was convicted of murdering his wife Lacy and their unborn child what attorneys for the group are now saying about new evidence and about Scott Peterson's claim of Innocence here's Kana Whitworth tonight A stunning development in the Scott Pete

rson case the Los Angeles Innocence Project now representing the Man convicted of murdering his wife Lacy and their unborn son on Christmas Eve in 2002 their bodies found in the San Francisco Bay months later Peterson Now 51 years old is currently serving life without parole after his death sentence was overturned the Innocence Project a nonprofit known for helping overturn hundreds of convictions the LA chapter stating in court documents quote evidence has been discovered that points to Mr Pete

rson's innocence and points to the actual perpetrators of the crimes against lcy and Connor Peterson the Motions claim a burglary that occurred across the street from the Peterson home around the time of Lacy's disappearance was not fully investigated and that Witnesses who saw Lacy walking her dog the morning she went missing were not properly interviewed the filings also request more DNA testing of a van found burned one mile away Peterson maintaining his innocence arguing that the prosecution

presented no physical forensic or direct evidence linking me to the deaths of my wife and son just months before his 2004 conviction Peterson sitting down with our Diane Sawyer in 2003 everybody sitting at home wants the answer to the same question did you murder your wife no no I did not and I had absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance and David attorneys with the LA Innocence Project say that Peterson's rights were violated and they say that his actual innocence is supported by new e

vidence David quite something Kana Whitworth reporting tonight Kana thank you we turn now to the news tonight involving the da in the Georgia case against Donald Trump and 18 codefendants a judge in the case now scheduling a hearing over the DA's alleged misconduct tonight here what She's accused of and what she has said so far here's Pier Thomas tonight a Georgia judge ordering fton County district attorney fonnie Willis to answer allegations she is improperly engaged in a personal romantic rel

ationship with one of the special prosecutors she hired to help her try the sprawling election interference case against former president Donald Trump and his 18 codefendants the accusations against Willis came in the filing by one of those codefendants former Trump campaign Aid Mike Roman without providing evidence he claims Willis engaged in a secret relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade who offic has paid $650,000 to help try the case and that Willis personally benefited because Wa

de allegedly used some of that money to take her on lavish vacations Willis has yet to formally respond to the accusations but speaking at a church service honoring Dr Martin Luther King Jr she did say this Lord never mind your flawed imperfect servant has composed a team that wins wins and wins and she implied Wade is only coming under scrutiny because he is black the other two special prosecutors she appointed are white I appointed Three Special counsel is my right to do paid them all the same

hourly rate they only Attack One Willis did not confirm or deny a romantic relationship with Wade but called him a great friend and a great lawyer all three of these special counselors are superstars but I'm just asking God is it that some will never see a black man as qualified no matter his achievements the defense attorney who filed a complaint against Willis says the accusation has nothing to do with race the judge has called on district attorney Willis to respond by February 2nd and a hear

ing has been set for February 15th David Pierre Thomas in Washington Pierre thank you on Capitol Hill tonight House Republicans revealing Hunter Biden will sit for a closed deposition on February 28th as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Biden Republicans had threatened to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of congress because he insisted on being questioned in public and not behind closed doors we turn now to the race for the White House Donald Trump now taking aim at Nikki Haley and

Haley tonight firing back asking who lost the midterms and who lost the last presidential election with days to go now until New Hampshire Rachel Scott is there tonight with just five days to go Donald Trump and Nikki haly taking aim at each other so good to see you than times God bless you oh God bless she spread the word let's get out on Tuesday Haley taking her entire campaign on a strong showing here calling the former president a drag on the Republican party you look right now Congress is g

etting nothing done why because there's no majority in the house there's no majority in the Senate the infighting is happening because we lost the midterms because of trump again Trump telling his supporters the exact opposite that Republicans will lose if Haley is nominated a vote for Nikki Haley this Tuesday is a vote for Joe Biden in a democrat congress this November because that's what's going to happen today Haley firing back he says if you're the nominee then Republicans are not only going

to lose the White House but they're going to lose races up and down the ballot your response I mean Trump says things Americans aren't stupid to just believe what he says the reality is who lost the house for us who lost the Senate who lost the White House Donald Trump Donald Trump Donald Trump tonight Haley's team trying to manage expectations just weeks ago her top supporter here the state's Governor chrisan nunu said he expects that she will win by a landslide now he says they're hoping for

a strong second place finish David all right Rachel Scott in New Hampshire for us again tonight Rachel thank you tonight the house and the Senate have now passed a short-term funding bill averting a partial government shutdown essentially by moving the deadline now until March Government funding was set to run out this Friday the deadline now moved to March 1st a second part of the funding moved to March 8th house Speaker Mike Johnson pushing back against pressure from hard-right Republicans to

add a border Amendment the temporary spending measure passed with help from democr RS when we come back here tonight in New York City this evening major news in the case of the alleged serial stabber wanded in several attacks now under arrest tonight and where he worked we also have news on princess Katherine and her condition tonight tonight A New York City Hospital worker he was a hospital greeter is now under arrest for that stabbing spree here in New York Germaine regor has been arrested for

attempted murder linked to six attacks in 10 days mostly in Queens including one attack though on the subway in Brooklyn Police say he worked worked at a hospital in Brooklyn detectives say they have recovered the hunting knife used in the stabbings tonight the investigation into a gas explosion in Washington DC with firefighters already on the scene when it happened the blast destroying a store littering the street with bricks and debris at least one person was hurt fire Crews were already the

re responding to reports concerns over a possible gas leak when we come back here tonight news on princess Katherine in the hospital and her condition tonight but we've now learned to the index tonight and Princess Cather is now recuperating from abdominal surgery in London Royal sources tonight say she's doing well Kensington Palace releasing few additional details but tonight saying the condition is not cancer Prince William visiting her today she's expected to remain in the hospital for up to

two weeks when we come back here tonight blinding snow arctic temperatures and a baby coming so what did the doctor do in a moment here ABC World News Tonight with David mure sponsored by Pacific Life creating Financial Security for more than 100 50 years finally tonight here in this brutal cold from the kindness of strangers to the determination of one doctor tonight the brutal cold across this country and the warmth from so many quiet acts of kindness in Pittsburgh all over town you can see i

t the scarves tied under railings on bus stop benches for 9 years now Suzanne vulpi and her team with more than 20 volunteers have been collecting scarves to give to people in need sewing them too donating 2600 scarves this year and right here tonight hi David these are two of the scarves I'll be putting out Suzanne with the next batch of scarves ready to go out it makes me feel like I'm helping people people really appreciate it especially in the cold and it makes me hungry and in shenendoa Iow

a Northwest of De Mo Dr Chase Brown got on his ATV driving it through Sub-Zero temperatures and through blinding snow he said it was the only way to get to the shenoa medical center on time to deliver a baby girl Berkeley Gardner snow went everywhere went flying in all directions Dr Brown was determined to make it good evening David thanks for having me on I'm grateful and blessed that I get to be a part of these opportunities to take care of people here and joining us tonight hey David meet Ber

keley that's 5-day old Berkeley with her mom Crystal and her dad Craig we're grateful for the community that we have and the doctors and nurses that made it to the hospital during a snowstorm tonight the quiet acts of kindness and the Doctor Who was determined to get there and he did Welcome To The World Berkeley and thanks to the doctor on the ATV I'll see you tomorrow good night thank you for making World News Tonight with David new America's most watched newscast