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00:00David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's most-watched newscast.
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00:16Tonight there is breaking news just as we come on the air.
00:18ABC News has just learned a new message has been sent into a TV station
00:23linked to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mother.
00:26Tonight, sources telling ABC News the new message was sent to that local TV station
00:31and that law enforcement is taking it seriously.
00:34Now this comes six days into the search.
00:36Authorities at the home right now and will go live to the scene.
00:40Also tonight, President Trump taking down a racist post on his social media account
00:45that had been up for 12 hours depicting former President Obama
00:49and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.
00:52Tonight, Republicans joining Democrats outraged.
00:55Senator Tim Scott saying this is the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House.
01:01At first, the White House defending it.
01:03Tonight, no apology from President Trump.
01:06The coldest air of the winter, wind gusts topping 50 miles per hour,
01:10moving into the Northeast.
01:11The massive chain reaction crash, at least 25 vehicles involved.
01:15And just in tonight, the ice rescue by a helicopter now playing out.
01:18Several people rescued.
01:20Lee Goldberg has the forecast.
01:22Breaking news coming in tonight after that teenage girl was brought off a cruise ship found dead in her room.
01:28Tonight, there is news of an arrest.
01:30A member of her own family.
01:32In New York City tonight, alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione's outburst in court,
01:36calling a judge's decision double jeopardy.
01:39The news tonight involving the Jeffrey Epstein files.
01:42Members of Congress will now be allowed to see unredacted documents.
01:46What we've learned.
01:47The economy tonight, the Dow soaring more than 1,200 points, closing above 50,000 for the first time.
01:54The driver slamming into a grocery store.
01:56Three people killed in the crash.
01:57Some trapped under that car.
01:59The new indictment tonight involving actor director Timothy Busfield.
02:03What a grand jury has now decided.
02:05The opening ceremony at the Winter Olympics.
02:07And after we showed you Lindsey Vonn's stunning training video last night with her torn ACL,
02:14you're not going to believe what she's done tonight.
02:16And Super Bowl 60, almost here.
02:18The Seahawks, the Patriots.
02:20Tonight, we hear from both quarterbacks.
02:22Wick Johnson standing by live.
02:27From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:34Good evening.
02:35We begin tonight here with the breaking news and the desperate search for Nancy Guthrie,
02:39the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie.
02:41We have just learned tonight that a new note has come into a local TV station in Tucson.
02:46The FBI tonight saying the family is now aware of this new communication.
02:51It comes after authorities had already revealed a potential ransom demand had been received by several TV outlets days ago,
02:57making demands and setting a deadline that already passed yesterday.
03:01That initial contact also setting a second deadline, that is this Monday.
03:06At this hour, authorities have returned to Nancy Guthrie's home in Tucson.
03:09Savannah Guthrie and her siblings, Annie and Cameron,
03:12have pleaded in video messages for new communication with the person or persons who have their mother
03:17and for proof that she's alive.
03:20And now this news tonight of a potential new note just in.
03:23Aaron Guthrie leading us off from Tucson with late reporting tonight.
03:26Tonight, investigators descending on the home of Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy,
03:31just moments after announcing a potential development in her disappearance.
03:35We are going to be locking down the road at that point, OK, for their investigation.
03:39The FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department say they are aware of a new message sent to a local television station
03:44and are actively inspecting the information provided in it to determine its authenticity.
03:49The mysterious message comes six days after police say Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home in the darkness of early Sunday morning.
03:57Savannah Guthrie and her siblings are enduring an agonizing wait for any word about their mother
04:01after one potential ransom deadline passed, knowing there's a second deadline on Monday.
04:07Savannah and her siblings tearfully tried to engage any alleged abductors, asking them to bring their mother home.
04:13And Savannah shared her own message to her mom.
04:16Mommy, if you are hearing this, you are a strong woman.
04:23Overnight, in a new video, Savannah's brother Cameron, a retired F-16 pilot,
04:28pleading again for direct communication with any kidnapper.
04:31Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you.
04:35We haven't heard anything directly.
04:38We need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward.
04:42But first, we have to know that you have our mom.
04:45We want to talk to you and we are waiting for contact.
04:49But investigators say there's so far no proof Nancy Guthrie, who is 84 and who relies on daily medication
04:55and her pacemaker to survive, is alive, despite those appeals from her children.
05:00Our mom is our heart and our home.
05:03She is 84 years old.
05:07Her health, her heart is fragile.
05:11She lives in constant pain.
05:15She is without any medicine.
05:17She needs it to survive.
05:20She needs it not to suffer.
05:22An unverified ransom note sent to local news organizations included a demand for Bitcoin and two deadlines.
05:28The first has come and gone.
05:30The second is in just three days.
05:31And if a transfer wasn't made, then I think a second demand was for next Monday.
05:37Tonight, FBI hostage negotiators are here in Tucson standing by should any contact be made,
05:43while hundreds of investigators are scouring for evidence.
05:46This is the home here in the Catalina foothills where Nancy Guthrie lives alone.
05:51She's separated from her neighbors.
05:53The houses are spaced out and all of them are surrounded by this lush desert vegetation.
05:58There are also no street lights or businesses.
06:02It could explain why doorbell cameras so far have yielded no helpful clues.
06:06Tonight, this map shows the home and the relationship to thoroughfares that any abductor might take to get away.
06:13It sounds like you're going to need some old-fashioned work on the ground, conducting interviews, searching terrain.
06:20Are those things being done and have you exhausted your interviews at this point?
06:25Oh, no, no, no, no.
06:26They're out now.
06:27They're knocking on doors and seeing what we can learn.
06:30And tonight, we hear from one of Nancy Guthrie's neighbors who says police came to look at cameras on her property.
06:36She's a very sweet woman, very nice.
06:38Just don't want to imagine what happened that night and what she might have felt at that moment.
06:44For years, Nancy Guthrie has appeared with her daughter from time to time on the Today Show.
06:48My mom and I, I feel like we really click as friends, too.
06:52It's just amazing what she's brought to my life.
06:55It is unclear if she has been targeted in any way because of her daughter's high-profile role.
07:00What is clear, there are prayers from across the country for her safe return, and investigators are not giving up.
07:07Somebody asked, Sheriff, how do you know, can you prove that she's alive?
07:12And I just simply turn it around.
07:14Can you prove she's not?
07:16Why would I operate from any other position then?
07:20My team is operating from the same position.
07:24She's out there.
07:25We're going to find her.
07:26We know the family is aware of that new message tonight, David.
07:30And in just the last few moments, we were pushed further back from Nancy Guthrie's home as detectives arrived to begin a new search.
07:38David.
07:38And, of course, if you learn anything here, Aaron, we'll come back to you.
07:41Aaron Katursky leading us off tonight.
07:43President Trump taking down a racist post on his social media account that had been up there for 12 hours.
07:49The video depicting former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.
07:55Republican Senator Tim Scott saying this is the most racist thing I've seen out of the White House.
07:59Outrage for Republicans and Democrats.
08:02At first, the White House defending it.
08:04Tonight, no apology from the president.
08:06Rachel Scott at the White House.
08:07Tonight, President Trump facing an avalanche of criticism from Democrats and Republicans.
08:13After posting a blatantly racist video portraying former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.
08:21White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt defending the post, saying, please stop the fake outrage.
08:27But the criticism only grew, including from Republican leaders who rarely break from Trump on anything.
08:34Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate's only black Republican, calling the president's post the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House, adding the president should remove it.
08:44Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, writing, this is totally unacceptable.
08:48The president should take it down and apologize.
08:51Seldom have Republicans been so willing to criticize President Trump.
08:55But today, their statements piling up.
08:57Congressman Mike Turner of Ohio posting, the release of racist images of former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama is offensive, heartbreaking and unacceptable.
09:06Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, calling the president's post a grave failure of judgment, adding it's absolutely unacceptable from anyone, most especially from the president of the United States.
09:18A clear and unequivocal apology is owed.
09:21The president has not apologized.
09:23But 12 hours after the racist video was posted, it was taken down.
09:28Tonight, a White House official telling ABC News a White House staffer erroneously made the post.
09:33President Trump is ultimately responsible for his social media account.
09:37But tonight, he said he did not watch the whole video.
09:40And I didn't see the whole thing.
09:42I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of a that people don't like.
09:49I wouldn't like it either, but I didn't see it.
09:51When asked if he condemned the racist image, the president said he did, but he won't apologize.
09:56A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post.
10:00Is that something you're going to do?
10:01No, I didn't make a mistake.
10:03And David, we will learn tonight that President Trump personally called Republican Senator Tim Scott,
10:08but still no apology from the president and no word from the Obamas either.
10:12They have chosen not to comment, David.
10:14Rachel Scott at the White House.
10:16Thanks.
10:16Tonight, more than 100 million Americans are bracing for the coldest air of the winter.
10:20Wind gusts topping 50 miles per hour now, moving into the Northeast.
10:23There's been a massive chain reaction crash outside Pittsburgh.
10:26And just in tonight, the ice rescue by helicopter playing out here in New York City.
10:31Here's Faith Abube.
10:33Tonight, deadly accidents from a fast-moving snowstorm that's bringing with it the coldest air of what's been an already brutally cold winter.
10:42Outside Pittsburgh, Interstate 79 shut down after multiple crashes in Butler County.
10:48It was very hard to stop.
10:49It was just complete ice out of nowhere.
10:51At least 25 vehicles involved and at least one person killed, nine taken to the hospital.
10:57In Springboro, Ohio, outside Cincinnati, whiteout and slippery conditions led to accidents all over town.
11:05In New York City, three people rescued by a chopper after falling through the ice off Far Rockaway.
11:12Temperatures have been brutally below normal for millions of people for weeks,
11:16from the Northeast to the Great Lakes, as ABC's Alex Perez shows us.
11:20It looks like the North Pole, but we're actually overlooking Lake Erie because of the prolonged deep freeze.
11:26The lake has gone from about 1% ice coverage in a month to 95% ice coverage.
11:32With temperatures set to hit rock bottom this weekend, it could freeze all the way over for the first time in 30 years.
11:40And David, that cold and snow heading to New York City, it'll feel like 10 to 20 degrees below zero by Sunday.
11:48David.
11:49Hard to believe it'll be the coldest air of the winter so far because it's felt pretty cold already.
11:53Faith, thank you.
11:54Let's get right to Chief Meteorologist Lee Goldberg.
11:56We're going to feel this, Lee, and winds up to 50 miles per hour?
12:00No doubt about it during the day tomorrow, David.
12:02That punishing cold is pouring into the Northeast as we speak.
12:04Just saw the first flurries in New York City.
12:06Extreme cold warnings along the I-95 corridor from D.C. to Philly to New York.
12:1110 to 20 below wind chills, 40 below upstate New York and New England.
12:14It starts with snow coating to an inch in New York City.
12:17Two to six inches southeastern New England includes Boston.
12:19Behind it, 50 mile per hour gusts.
12:21By Sunday morning, wind chills 14 below in New York City.
12:24It's the coldest air in three years.
12:26It's a weekend of hibernation.
12:28Finally, we'll get to freezing by about Tuesday of next week.
12:30David.
12:30And the Super Bowl on Sunday, so everyone can just stay right inside.
12:33Lee Goldberg tonight.
12:33Lee, thank you.
12:34Also in New York City tonight, alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione's courtroom outburst.
12:39Mangione protesting a judge's decision to have him stand trial on state murder charges in June.
12:44And then three months later, his federal trial.
12:47Mangione saying, quote, it's the same trial twice, calling it double jeopardy.
12:51His defense tonight claiming the new date will leave them unprepared for trial.
12:55Tonight, there's also news coming in involving the Jeffrey Epstein files.
12:58Members of Congress are now being told that they will be allowed to see unredacted documents.
13:03Here's Jonathan Karl.
13:06Tonight, the Justice Department announced that starting Monday,
13:09members of Congress will be able to review unredacted versions of more than 3 million pages
13:15of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
13:19Lawmakers will only be able to review documents that have been publicly released,
13:24not the 3 million pages that are still being withheld.
13:28President Trump has been hoping to turn the page.
13:30Frankly, the DOJ, I think, should just say, we have other things to do.
13:34But the many powerful men whose names have already come up in the files
13:38have people wondering who else might be in there.
13:41On Monday, the House Oversight Committee will hear from Epstein's accomplice,
13:45Glenn Maxwell, who is scheduled to testify virtually from the prison where she is serving
13:5020 years for sex trafficking.
13:53She is expected to take the fifth.
13:55The Republican-led committee has subpoenaed former President Bill Clinton
13:58and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testify behind closed doors.
14:04Hillary Clinton calling out the committee chairman, James Comer, saying,
14:08Let's stop the games.
14:10If you want this fight, let's have it in public.
14:12And today, Bill Clinton posting,
14:15I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court
14:20by a Republican Party running scared.
14:23If they want answers, let's stop the games and do this the right way,
14:28in a public hearing where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about.
14:34While the Clintons are demanding a public hearing,
14:37they have already agreed to appear before the committee for closed-door videotaped depositions.
14:44David, those depositions are scheduled for the end of the month.
14:46All right, Jonathan Karl with us tonight.
14:48John, thank you.
14:49We have breaking news coming in after that teenage girl was brought off a cruise ship in Miami,
14:53found dead in her room.
14:54Well, tonight, according to her father, the stepbrother of Anna Kepner has been arrested
14:57and charged in her death.
15:00Authorities say she was, quote, mechanically asphyxiated.
15:02She was found under a bed in her cabin, wrapped in a blanket and covered in life vests.
15:06That stepbrother now in the custody of a guardian.
15:09To the stock market tonight, the Dow soaring more than 1,200 points,
15:12crossing the 50,000 mark for the first time ever.
15:15The surge fueled by strong corporate earnings reports,
15:17the Nasdaq jumping 490 points, closing above 23,000.
15:21And as you can see, the S&P 500 up 133 points as well.
15:25When we come back here tonight, the dramatic new images of that horrific crash into a grocery store
15:29and what we're now learning about the deadly scene,
15:31who was killed, trapped under that car right there.
15:33Also just in, this new indictment tonight involving actor-director Timothy Busfield
15:38married to Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert,
15:41what the grand jury has found tonight.
15:43And Super Bowl 60, the Seahawks, the Patriots,
15:46tonight we hear from both quarterbacks right here in a moment.
15:51Tonight here, the new video emerging,
15:53capturing that horrific crash into a grocery store in Los Angeles,
15:56killing three people, plowing into 99 Ranch Market.
15:59The three victims included two workers and a customer.
16:03Six others injured, police saying they're still trying to determine whether the driver,
16:06a woman in her 70s, had a medical issue.
16:09When we come back tonight, this new indictment just in involving actor-director Timothy Busfield,
16:14Melissa Gilbert's husband.
16:15Plus, we showed you Lindsey Vonn's stunning training video with that torn ACL last night.
16:19You're not going to believe what she's done tonight.
16:21We'll show it to you in a moment.
16:22To the index, a grand jury in New Mexico tonight
16:26indicting actor Timothy Busfield on child sex abuse charges.
16:30Busfield now facing four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child.
16:34He's charged with inappropriately touching a child actor on the set of the TV show,
16:37The Cleaning Lady.
16:38Busfield denies the allegations.
16:40The Winter Olympics underway following the opening ceremony in Milan.
16:44Team USA with 230 athletes in the Parade of Nations,
16:47including alpine skier Lindsey Vonn.
16:48She tore her ACL a week ago in that crash.
16:50Last night, the lunges, the squats we showed you, even with that ACL.
16:54Tonight, competing in her first training run, planning to compete now on Sunday.
16:58And, of course, many eyes on American figure skater Ilya Malinan,
17:01known as the quad god, the two-time world champ,
17:04earning the nickname with his skills on the ice.
17:06A lot to look forward to.
17:07And when we come back here tonight, we'll go to Whit Johnson live outside the Super Bowl.
17:11We hear from both quarterbacks tonight.
17:15Tonight, the Super Bowl almost here, and Whit Johnson got the tough assignment.
17:18Tonight, the stage is set for Super Bowl XVI here in Santa Clara, California.
17:24A rematch of the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, who fought to the last play in 2015.
17:30Pass is intercepted at the goal line.
17:33And it's a tale of two quarterbacks.
17:35For the Seahawks, Sam Darnold.
17:39First drafted by the Jets, but struggled.
17:41Now on his fifth team, hoping to pull off one of the greatest career comebacks in modern NFL history.
17:47I grew up dreaming of this moment.
17:48For the Patriots, after the exit of Tom Brady and several bruising seasons,
17:52along comes 23-year-old Drake May and the touchdown seen by millions.
17:59Now trying to become the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl.
18:03I think the age is the thing that makes it special for me at such a young age
18:06that shares such a moment of playing this game.
18:08And tonight, a first look at the Super Bowl commercials.
18:11Ben Stiller and Benson Boone with Instacart going back to disco.
18:19And Melissa McCarthy in a telenovela waking up from a coma for Elf Cosmetics.
18:25Oh, doctor, what day is it?
18:29And then there's the halftime show, global superstar Bad Bunny.
18:32Fresh off his historic Grammy win, with the first ever halftime performance mostly in Spanish.
18:43He says you will not have to know Spanish to enjoy it.
18:47And David, anticipation is mounting here outside Levi's Stadium.
18:51Two teams hoping to reclaim their former glory, but only one Lombardi trophy.
18:56David?
18:56That's true.
18:56Glad you're there, Whit.
18:57We can't wait.
18:58Two amazing quarterbacks.
18:59We'll see.
18:59I'll see you right here on Monday from all of us here.
19:02Good night.
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