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00:00David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's most-watched newscast.
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00:15Tonight there is breaking news in the search for Nancy Guthrie.
00:18Tonight what authorities have now revealed about the DNA on that glove,
00:22two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home.
00:24Also tonight, the next steps here involving the DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie's property.
00:30DNA that did not belong to Nancy or any of her family.
00:33And tonight what the sheriff is now saying about her abduction, was it targeted?
00:37Aaron Guthrie is standing by live with Lake Developments.
00:40Also breaking tonight, a man wearing a tactical vest.
00:43Police say armed with a gun racing toward the capital.
00:46Police getting him.
00:47Tonight the 30-vehicle pileup, including six tractor trailers, strong winds,
00:52the storms slamming the west over and over again, moving across the country.
00:56There's word of an avalanche tonight.
00:58Some have been rescued, multiple people still missing.
01:01We have late reporting.
01:02And now the models that show a possible snowstorm in the northeast coming this weekend.
01:07Lee Goldberg has the forecast.
01:08The horror at that ice rink tonight, the chilling new video showing the moment the first shots were fired.
01:14Authorities now say it was a man who killed his ex-wife and adult son,
01:18critically wounding two other members of their family.
01:21And tonight, ABC station WCVB with one of the bystanders who stepped in and prevented this from being even worse.
01:29Tonight, the nation remembering a civil rights giant, Reverend Jesse Jackson passing away at the age of 84.
01:37Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is rainbow, red, yellow, brown, black, and white.
01:45Pierre Thomas looks back.
01:46Also tonight, the harrowing scene, a man grabbing a one-year-old girl at a supermarket,
01:50ripping her away from her mother.
01:52What happened next?
01:53Tonight, actor Shia LaBeouf arrested, accused of assaulting two men.
01:57And America Strong, the Winter Games tonight, the bittersweet day for Team USA.
02:02And there's news coming in on Lindsey Vong.
02:04We'll go right to Italy.
02:08From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:16Good evening.
02:17We begin tonight with breaking news and the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
02:20The sheriff tonight revealing DNA evidence recovered from a glove about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home
02:25does not match anyone in the federal criminal database.
02:28But tonight, they are still looking at DNA found at Nancy Guthrie's home.
02:32That was not Nancy Guthrie's DNA or anyone in the family.
02:35And the sheriff now suggesting that with that DNA found at the home,
02:38they will now go beyond the criminal database and to some of the family genealogy DNA collected across this country.
02:45Now, tonight, the other key part of this investigation remains the video at that front door.
02:48Law enforcement sources now telling ABC News that investigators are now trying to identify the gun and holster.
02:54They already know the backpack and perhaps some of the clothing, trying to see if the man bought any of
02:59it at Walmart.
02:59And the FBI also now canvassing gun shops in the Tucson area, hoping to find where the gun and holster
03:05were sold.
03:06And the search for any signal from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker.
03:09We have learned tonight authorities have been using technology carried in drones overhead,
03:13capable of locating any possible signal from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker, but nothing so far.
03:19ABC's chief investigative correspondent, Aaron Katursky, leading us off from Tucson again tonight.
03:24Tonight, 16 days into the search for Nancy Guthrie, DNA found on a glove two miles from her home is
03:31not a match.
03:32Authorities confirming tonight the DNA lifted from that glove did not match any of the 22 million samples,
03:38mostly from criminals, in the FBI's national database.
03:41And law enforcement sources tell ABC News the DNA sample also did not match DNA found on Nancy Guthrie's property,
03:48which was not hers or anyone in her family.
03:50That DNA is still undergoing analysis.
03:53As of tonight, DNA on the glove is getting investigators nowhere.
03:57The glove has always been a long shot in my view.
03:59But having said that, it's another piece of potential evidence that can only become relevant,
04:06basically, if and when you develop a viable suspect.
04:10Authorities continue to test that unknown DNA found at the property.
04:14And tonight, the sheriff in the case is suggesting they'll go beyond the criminal database and look at family genealogy
04:20that's been cataloged all over the country,
04:23saying, we believe that we may have some DNA there that may be our suspect.
04:27And there are other resources, like private genealogical companies, that we will look into.
04:32Investigators also remain focused on the best evidence they have so far,
04:35the video retrieved from Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera of the masked suspect at the front door armed with a pistol.
04:42The FBI has been visiting gun shops all over Tucson.
04:45The owner of this one told us the investigators were in the other day asking if there were any suspicious
04:49customers
04:49or sales of a holster that looked like the one on Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera video.
04:54The holster, the mask, the jacket.
04:57The sheriff says those items, like this Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack, may have been purchased at Walmart.
05:03Authorities say they're working with Walmart to see if any of their cameras or receipts could lead to anyone of
05:08interest.
05:08It could be a lead to Walmart. It could be a lead to a gun shop. It could be a
05:14lead on anything, DNA, whatever. They chase it down.
05:17It was 2.28 that Sunday morning when investigators say Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker app disconnected from her phone,
05:23which was left behind at the house.
05:25Tonight, we've learned for days, searchers have been using technology called Blue Fly in drones
05:30that can help detect any possible signals from her pacemaker.
05:34That technology is also in helicopters and carried by investigators on foot.
05:38So far, no signs of the pacemaker.
05:41And while authorities have presented no new evidence that Nancy Guthrie was targeted because of her high-profile daughter
05:47or for any other reason, the sheriff telling Fox News it remains his hunch she was in some way targeted,
05:53that this wasn't random.
05:55I believe it was a kidnapping.
05:56Targeted kidnapping.
05:57Yes, I believe whoever did that knew what they were up to.
06:00So do you believe...
06:01Knew who they were after.
06:01And with authorities now formally clearing Nancy Guthrie's family, her children, and their spouses
06:07of any involvement in her disappearance, the sheriff tonight is speaking of the toll
06:11misinformation and speculation has taken on the Guthrie's.
06:15That family is suffering.
06:17They are hurting.
06:18And there's no justification for saying some of the things that were said out there in the media
06:24and social media.
06:25Just none.
06:26And I'm not going to tolerate it.
06:27Right now, David, all investigators really seem to have is the DNA sample found here at
06:32Nancy Guthrie's property and the doorbell camera video of the suspect.
06:36The authorities are trying to identify everything the man has seen wearing in that video and
06:42trace where he bought it.
06:43David?
06:44Aaron Katursky leading us off in Tucson tonight.
06:46Aaron, thank you.
06:47Also breaking tonight, the tense scene at the U.S. Capitol.
06:50A man wearing a tactical vest, police say armed with a shotgun, racing toward the Capitol.
06:55Officers then intercepting him.
06:57And what authorities say they then found inside his SUV.
07:00Here's Jay O'Brien.
07:02Tonight, the alarming scene just steps away from the Capitol.
07:06Authorities say around 1230 p.m. with tourists looking on, an 18-year-old man wearing a tactical
07:11vest and wielding a loaded shotgun raced toward the building.
07:14Capitol police immediately drawing their weapons and the man surrendering without firing a shot.
07:19Who knows what could have happened if we wouldn't have had officers here standing guard like they
07:24do every single day.
07:26And tonight, the investigation.
07:27Police shutting down blocks around the Capitol and searching and towing a car away.
07:33And tonight, police identifying that 18-year-old suspect as Carter Camacho of Smyrna, Georgia.
07:39They say he was armed with multiple rounds of ammunition and arrived in a white Mercedes SUV.
07:44And inside that car, investigators say they found a Kevlar helmet and a gas mask.
07:49Have you found anything in the car or anything else that indicates the suspect's motive?
07:54That investigation is ongoing.
07:56Does the motive appear to be to hurt the public or members of Congress?
08:00That's ongoing.
08:02And David, tonight, Capitol police say this kind of harrowing incident is something they trained for,
08:06including in an exercise just months ago.
08:08And we should note, as far as we know, no lawmakers were inside that building.
08:11The Congress is on recess this week, David.
08:14The unnerving scene of the Capitol today.
08:15Jay O'Brien, thank you.
08:17Tonight, dangerous weather triggering a deadly pileup on I-25 in Colorado.
08:20Take a look.
08:21The 30-vehicle pileup, including six tractor trailers, strong winds, poor visibility.
08:26Multiple people were killed.
08:27More than two dozen hurt.
08:29Tonight, millions are now under snow, high wind, and fire alerts across several states at this hour.
08:34The west getting hit over and over again.
08:36And now the models tonight that show a possible snowstorm in the northeast again this weekend.
08:41It's still early on that.
08:43Lee Goldberg will sort through it all with the forecast.
08:45And here's Trevor Ault.
08:47Tonight, a staggering, deadly pileup on the Colorado interstate.
08:51More than 30 vehicles colliding on I-25 south of Pueblo, including six semis.
08:57Officials say there were brownout conditions created by blowing dirt and wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour.
09:04This was one of those storms that came through and the wind picked up very quickly.
09:09Visibility near zero.
09:11Four people killed.
09:12More than two dozen taken to the hospital.
09:14Tonight, that intense weather is sweeping across the plains.
09:18With red flag and high wind warnings, this 15,000-acre fire burning on the Oklahoma panhandle.
09:24And watch as powerful wind gusts topple this semi on Highway 87 north of Amarillo, Texas.
09:30Storm chasers racing to check on the driver, helping him out of the cab.
09:33They tell us that driver is okay.
09:36Overnight, this same system slams southern California with heavy rain across the L.A. area,
09:41dumping feet of snow in the Sierras, but travel there nearly impossible.
09:45And tonight, first responders in northern California are racing to locate a group of backcountry skiers
09:51caught in an avalanche northwest of Lake Tahoe.
09:55David, several people in that Colorado pileup are now in serious condition.
09:58And here in southern California, we're expecting more storms through the week with more rain coming tonight.
10:04David.
10:04The picture's just unbelievable tonight.
10:06Trevor Rall, our thanks to you.
10:07Let's get right to WABC chief meteorologist Lee Goldberg taking us through it all tonight.
10:11Hailey.
10:13Hey, David.
10:14Boy, these high winds are battering the central U.S. as we go through tonight.
10:17We're talking wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour from Wyoming to Texas causing critical fire danger.
10:23It'll be a rough night.
10:24The wind will ease a little bit tomorrow.
10:25It will not ease in places like Montana over to parts of Minnesota and Michigan.
10:30Blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings for 6 to 12 inches of snow and high winds.
10:33Those alerts do extend into parts of New York and into Massachusetts for a few inches from Syracuse to about
10:38Worcester.
10:39We're still going with more rounds of rain in southern California, heavy over the next couple of days, mountain snow
10:44up to 8 feet in the Sierra, more in the Rockies as well.
10:47And some of that Pacific energy will be building blocks for an East Coast storm coming up this weekend.
10:52Now, a lot of this energy is still over the ocean.
10:54The storm track still to be determined.
10:56A major snowstorm, not a lock yet on the East Coast.
10:59David.
10:59We'll track that with you as well over the next couple of nights.
11:02Lee, thank you.
11:02We turned out of the horror at that ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
11:06Chilling new video tonight showing the moment those first shots were fired, players on the ice and fans racing for
11:12cover.
11:12Authorities tonight now say it was a man who killed his ex-wife and adult son and critically wounded two
11:18other members of his family.
11:19Here's Stephanie Ramos.
11:23Tonight, authorities in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, say this video is evidence of a targeted attack.
11:29And the suspect who opened fire at this youth hockey game, 56-year-old Robert Dorgan, killed members of his
11:35own family.
11:36One of the victims was his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, and also his son, adult son Aiden Dorgan.
11:43They say Dorgan also shot and wounded two other relatives who were in the stands.
11:48Police looking at this video that appears to show a man in a white hat pulling a gun, moving through
11:53the crowd, then a struggle, and another man appears to grab the suspect.
11:58Authorities crediting those brave bystanders who grabbed Dorgan, preventing more bloodshed.
12:03One of them, Michael Black, telling ABC's Boston station WCVB when he realized what was happening, he told his wife
12:11to run.
12:11I stood on the bleachers and I saw the gun and just, you know, just grabbed, went for the gun,
12:17and I got my hand caught.
12:19He was trying to pull the trigger, he couldn't fire it.
12:22At that time, the suspect did reach for a second firearm, and he did inflict a self-inflicted gunshot wound,
12:28which is what he succumbed to on scene.
12:30My father was a shooter.
12:31After the shooting, a woman seen leaving the Pawtucket police station, telling our Boston affiliate WCVB she's the suspect's daughter.
12:39Any idea why he would have done this?
12:42He's sick. He's very sick.
12:44Authorities say Dorgan also goes by Roberta Esposito and had attended games in the past without any incidents.
12:50They're still searching for a motive.
12:52David, those two other relatives who were shot are still in critical condition.
12:57David.
12:58Just a horrific story. Stephanie, thank you.
13:00In upstate New York tonight, massive explosion and fire destroying a church.
13:04Five people critically injured, including four firefighters and a pastor, when that blast tore through the Abundant Life Fellowship Church
13:10in Boonville.
13:11That's northeast of Syracuse.
13:13Firefighters inside the church investigating a gas odor when the explosion happened.
13:17State police say the cause might have been propane tanks used to heat the building.
13:21Tonight, the nation honoring a civil rights giant, Reverend Jesse Jackson passing away at the age of 84.
13:26A two-time presidential candidate, the founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition, mentored by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
13:33And tonight, right here, the archival video of Jesse Jackson, there when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and what
13:40Jackson said.
13:41And tonight, former President Obama giving Jesse Jackson credit for paving the way so he could make history.
13:46Here's Pierre Thomas.
13:49Tonight, the nation mourning the loss of a civil rights legend whose legacy was built on trying to overcome.
13:55I am!
13:56I am!
13:57I am!
13:58I am!
13:58Jesse Jackson Sr. passed away peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by family.
14:04He was born in Greenville, South Carolina, under Jim Crow segregation.
14:08A mama was not supposed to make it.
14:11And I was not supposed to make it.
14:13Dedicated civil rights nonviolent soldier at the side of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
14:18At just 26 years old, he was there on that fateful April evening when King was struck down by an
14:25assassin's bullet.
14:27I asked him, I said, Dr. King, do you hear me?
14:30Dr. King, do you hear me?
14:32And he didn't say anything.
14:34Black!
14:35Black!
14:35Beautiful!
14:36Beautiful!
14:36Wow!
14:37Moving from the South to Chicago, he would later form People United to Save Humanity.
14:43Push.
14:44He broke boundaries in politics, twice running for president, first in 1984 under the banner of a rainbow coalition.
14:52Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is rainbow, red, yellow, brown, black, and white.
15:00In 1988, he was, for a time, the Democratic Party's frontrunner for the presidential nomination.
15:06Jesse!
15:07Jesse!
15:07Jackson also took on the role of freelance international negotiator.
15:11Overseas, the American black activist Jesse Jackson has become an intermediary in the Middle East.
15:16At times, he was spiritual advisor, counseling President Bill Clinton in his darkest hour.
15:22Clinton later awarding Jackson the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
15:28And Jackson saw one of his hopes realized on election night in 2008.
15:33America, I have never been more hopeful.
15:35Tears flowing as he witnessed President-elect Barack Obama deliver his victory speech.
15:42Today, President Obama paying tribute, saying,
15:45He laid the foundation for my own campaign to the highest office of the land.
15:50We stood on his shoulders.
15:52But Jackson, an ordained minister, was by no means perfect.
15:56There was marital infidelity.
15:58In the mid-1980s, having to apologize for making a highly offensive remark about the Jewish community.
16:05Although somewhat diminished, Jackson leaned on his faith of forgiveness and redemption and kept on fighting, keeping his eyes on
16:13the prize.
16:14His daughter today sent Tita remembering her father.
16:17He was part of a group of men and women who were willing to die for their beliefs.
16:23Through it all, Jackson's faith and hope in what America could be endured.
16:29America will get better and better.
16:33Keep hope alive.
16:34Keep hope alive.
16:37Keep hope alive.
16:38Jackson was defined by his deep connection to the struggle for equality.
16:42David, he loved his people.
16:44All right.
16:44Pierre Thomas with us live from Washington.
16:46Pierre, we appreciate the tribute tonight.
16:48Overseas tonight, the U.S. involved in high-stakes diplomatic talks on two fronts in Geneva, meeting with Iran and
16:54with officials from Russia and Ukraine.
16:56Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leading indirect nuclear talks with Iran.
17:00Vice President J.D. Vance saying some progress was made, but that Iran having nuclear weapons remains a red line
17:06for the U.S.
17:06President Trump also urging Ukraine to make a deal with Russia, quote, fast.
17:10Key differences remain tonight over disputed territory in Ukraine.
17:14When we come back here tonight, we'll go to Italy, the bittersweet night for Team USA.
17:18Also, much more news ahead.
17:19A schoolteacher killed in a crash.
17:21Police say a driver trying to escape immigration agents causing that crash.
17:25Also, the harrowing scene, a man grabbing a one-year-old girl at a supermarket right from her mother.
17:29What happened next?
17:31Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested tonight, what he's accused of.
17:34And the rescue, look at this, the bald eagle trapped on the ice right on the Hudson River here in
17:38New York.
17:39How they get to that bald eagle in a moment.
17:41Don't go away.
17:43Tonight, authorities say a schoolteacher was killed in a crash that they say was caused by a man trying to
17:47escape immigration agents in Savannah, Georgia.
17:50Police say agents were trying to pull over Oscar Vazquez Lopez when he hit the other car.
17:54Lopez was treated for injuries.
17:56Homeland Security tonight saying he was in the U.S. illegally with an order of removal.
18:00In northern Italy tonight, a man trying to kidnap a little girl right from her mother at a supermarket.
18:04The one-year-old holding hands with her mother.
18:07The man attempting to violently yank the child away.
18:09The mother and other shoppers fighting back until police arrived.
18:12The girl suffering a broken leg in the chaos, but she is okay and with family tonight.
18:17When we come back here, actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested, what he's accused of.
18:21And saving that eagle on the Hudson River tonight will take you right out onto the river.
18:26To the index, actor Shia LaBeouf arrested tonight, accused of attacking two men during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
18:32Police say he punched a worker who asked him to leave a business near Bourbon Street.
18:36LaBeouf reported leaving the scene and then returning, allegedly attacking that same worker again and punching another person in the
18:42nose.
18:42Tonight, a bald eagle trapped on a chunk of ice on New York City's Hudson River.
18:46An NYPD Harbor unit spotted the eagle after hearing its cries.
18:49The bird appearing to be injured, unable to fly, police using that catch pole right there to bring the bird
18:55back to safety.
18:56When we come back tonight, we'll go to Italy, the bittersweet night at the Winter Games for Team USA.
19:02The Winter Games, a bittersweet day for Team USA.
19:04Not quite the gold, still very proud tonight.
19:07Janae Norman in Italy.
19:09Janae.
19:09David, a pair of silver medals for Team USA tonight.
19:13Mack Forehand with a standout performance in the men's Big Air, helping notch his first medal in his second Olympic
19:19appearance.
19:20And the U.S. men's team also taking home silver in speed skating after dominating China by nearly eight seconds.
19:26And it was a bittersweet night for the Blade Angels, as they're nicknamed.
19:29Alyssa Liu, currently in third place as the highest-ranked American, heading into competition tomorrow.
19:35And after heartbreak on the slopes for Lindsey Vonn, she's back on American soil sharing this new video,
19:39thanking the medical staff, taking care of her, and fans sending love.
19:43And, David, we now know the USA men's hockey team will play Sweden in the quarterfinals Thursday.
19:48That is the same night that the women's team goes for gold against Canada, David.
19:53We'll be rooting for them both, Janae.
19:55Thanks so much.
19:56I'm David Muir.
19:56I'll see you right here tomorrow.
19:58Good night.
19:59David Muir, the most trusted anchor in America, the most watched anchor in America.
20:04Thank you for making World News Tonight with David Muir, the number one newscast in America.
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