:00:00. > :00:00.That's all for me for tonight. Mike and we will be here at two o'clock.
:00:00. > :00:13.Now it is time for ABC world news with Diane Sawyer.
:00:14. > :00:16.Welcome to world news. New Year, new store. Temperatures plummeting below
:00:17. > :00:23.zero and more than a foot of snow in some places. Our extreme weather
:00:24. > :00:31.team in all of it all. Barbara Bush taken to the hospital with doctors
:00:32. > :00:38.now say. And the new diet you have never heard of. Any trick yourself
:00:39. > :00:53.into eating less just beating the other hand? -- by eating weeds. --
:00:54. > :00:58.with. Diane is back tomorrow night and not
:00:59. > :01:03.a moment too soon. The monster storm is moving across large part of a
:01:04. > :01:09.country tonight. Blizzard warnings, look at this. This is the scene from
:01:10. > :01:16.Chicago is our port. Low visibility of council nearly 300 flights. It
:01:17. > :01:21.has caused widespread delays. Driving is not any easier, the
:01:22. > :01:26.streets are taken snow. With all this snow comes the frigid
:01:27. > :01:32.temperatures. Temperature is below zero in parts of Wisconsin. Just as
:01:33. > :01:37.the storm hit, firefighters tackled a fire in Minneapolis. Several
:01:38. > :01:46.people are in critical condition. We have coverage of it all, beginning
:01:47. > :01:50.with Chicago. We've just arrived and we saw that
:01:51. > :01:55.airport and that runway. Take a look at how much snow has already fallen
:01:56. > :02:09.here. So much of the nation is seeing whether just like this. 2014
:02:10. > :02:23.bringing in a bone chilling blast of weather, they can look as fireworks
:02:24. > :02:29.put out a massive blaze. The water used by firefighters quickly turned
:02:30. > :02:34.to ice because of the extreme cold. Under the contingencies we had
:02:35. > :02:41.today, we've done very well. People trapped in the building were forced
:02:42. > :02:45.to jump out of windows from the fire. At least six of people are
:02:46. > :02:50.critical, many people waiting for help on the icy sidewalks covered in
:02:51. > :02:53.blankets. Danger in Indiana as snow covering roads made conditions
:02:54. > :02:58.slippery, wet and difficult for drivers. In the north-east, blizzard
:02:59. > :03:04.conditions are expected at the New England coast. Stores in Vermont are
:03:05. > :03:11.quickly running out of salt to battle as. The next shipment arrives
:03:12. > :03:15.next week. One day after ringing in the New Year, cruise in New York at
:03:16. > :03:18.cleaning up a ton of confetti in below freezing temperatures. The
:03:19. > :03:26.city is now expected to be hit by up to eight inches of snow. Here in
:03:27. > :03:28.Chicago we have already seen a personnel and much more expected
:03:29. > :03:34.tomorrow. Thanks. That stormers quickly moving
:03:35. > :03:43.east and we are talking about possible blizzard conditions. Here
:03:44. > :03:50.is our meteorologist. What are we looking at?
:03:51. > :03:54.It will grab moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and move of the Atlantic,
:03:55. > :03:58.where it will create a very large system, driving snow all the way
:03:59. > :04:07.back through the great Lakes. It is really cold. Frigid outbreak a, look
:04:08. > :04:12.at these high temperatures over the next few days.
:04:13. > :04:19.You are telling me that we are talking about a lot of snow.
:04:20. > :04:23.Yes, always in Nebraska to the north-east. Some places could pick
:04:24. > :04:30.up as much as a foot or a foot and a half of snow. Adding to that, very
:04:31. > :04:35.strong winds. Blizzard conditions, dangerous conditions.
:04:36. > :04:43.In Texas tonight doctors are keeping a close watch over Barbara Bush, the
:04:44. > :04:48.former first lady. She is said to be doing quite well under the
:04:49. > :04:51.circumstances. The latest from the Bush family
:04:52. > :04:54.spokesperson is that the former first Lady is in good spirits and
:04:55. > :05:00.taking business from relatives at this used in hospital. The same
:05:01. > :05:03.hospital were her husband, President George HW Bush, was struggling with
:05:04. > :05:11.a serious case of bronchitis last year. They see the 88 -year-old came
:05:12. > :05:16.in with early signs of pneumonia. She has a big, big heart. Friends
:05:17. > :05:21.report that the doctors have given her an excellent prognosis. She is a
:05:22. > :05:38.tough old gal who will out the bus all. -- at -- outlive us. To say she
:05:39. > :05:42.is beloved is an understatement. And now to see that same fellow that are
:05:43. > :05:50.used to drive around in car pools and he yellow to please pick up, to
:05:51. > :06:03.see him as president is amazing. No word yet on when she might be
:06:04. > :06:13.heading home. We are told she watched the football
:06:14. > :06:17.from her room in hospital. Back in New York tonight the big clean-up
:06:18. > :06:24.from the new year's party in Times Square with someone new in charge, a
:06:25. > :06:29.new year, a new mayor. Bill de Blasio sworn in my former President
:06:30. > :06:34.Bill Clinton outside a very chilly City Hall.
:06:35. > :06:37.With the new year comes new laws as well and one led to major lines
:06:38. > :06:41.today for the first time you can buy marijuana legally in parts of
:06:42. > :06:46.Colorado, purely for recreational use. Tonight there's already talk of
:06:47. > :06:53.shortages and a different kind of after-effect - new jobs. Have your
:06:54. > :06:59.IDs ready. They lined up before dawn. We drove 17 hours to get. Some
:07:00. > :07:03.sleeping in their cars. Well it is a historical event. For a chance to be
:07:04. > :07:09.early through the door at one of the world's very first recreational
:07:10. > :07:14.marijuana shops. Even in Amsterdam it is toll -- tolerated but
:07:15. > :07:23.technically illegal. Scoring weed now as easy as buying coffee. Your
:07:24. > :07:27.total is $59. Anyone over 21 can buy it helping fuel a Colorado green
:07:28. > :07:33.rush. In the first year alone sales are predicted to hit nearly $400
:07:34. > :07:39.million. This room is filled with about 25 different strains of
:07:40. > :07:43.cannabis. Shop owner Tony foks is expanding and hiring. Today she has
:07:44. > :07:47.nine employees. By the end of January we should have about 30.
:07:48. > :07:51.Matt brown started a company for pot tourists. He has 4,000 people on a
:07:52. > :07:54.waiting list. This is legal, this is real and douk this and have a good
:07:55. > :07:59.vacation and go home and not get in trouble. But not everyone is on
:08:00. > :08:04.board. Marijuana is still a federal crime. There are worries about
:08:05. > :08:10.increasing teen pot use and driving while high. Even ski resorts here
:08:11. > :08:16.worried about a family-friendly image are warning stoners to stay
:08:17. > :08:21.off the slopes. Here in public it is illegal Are your receipts. Others
:08:22. > :08:26.states are now watching to see how this experiment works out as
:08:27. > :08:30.marijuana moves from underground to mainstream. Thank you. A break in a
:08:31. > :08:35.national case tonight - a banker wanted by the FBI for $20 million of
:08:36. > :08:39.wire fraud. He vanished after staging his own suicide in 2012.
:08:40. > :08:47.Tonight he has been found. Look at the before and after photos, showing
:08:48. > :08:51.the 47-year-old, stopped by police in Georgia on a minor traffic
:08:52. > :08:56.violation. He is now facing questions in connection with that 20
:08:57. > :09:02.million dollar fraud scheme. Weeks now before American and the
:09:03. > :09:06.looets the terrorist attacks. Vladimir Putin has travelled to the
:09:07. > :09:13.site of those blasts and sent a message to Russia and the world.
:09:14. > :09:16.President Vladimir Putin arrived in Volgograd before dawn to pay his
:09:17. > :09:21.respects to the dead and wounded of this week's two suicide bombings
:09:22. > :09:25.that killed 34. TRANSLATION: There can be no
:09:26. > :09:34.justification for crimes against civilians. The attacks have shaken
:09:35. > :09:39.Russia and the world ahead of next month's Sochi Winter Olympics. He is
:09:40. > :09:43.trying to quell those fears, vowing to annihilate the terrorists who
:09:44. > :09:48.threatened the games and tried to disrupt them. They may be soft
:09:49. > :09:52.targets but closer to the actual Olympic site. It will be virtually
:09:53. > :09:55.impossible to cover all of it. The US is working closely with the
:09:56. > :09:59.Russians and will play a key role during the games collecting and
:10:00. > :10:01.sharing intelligence. US diplomatic security will be on the ground
:10:02. > :10:06.co-ordinating with the authorities, but at the end of the day it is the
:10:07. > :10:10.Russian's show. And back here at home this evening, after so much
:10:11. > :10:13.reporting on that security breach for shoppers at target, tonight a
:10:14. > :10:20.new concern over your information. It involves 4 million users of what
:10:21. > :10:23.is called snap chat. Quick messages and images sent on your smartphone
:10:24. > :10:26.and then disappear. If haven't heard of it chances are your kids have and
:10:27. > :10:31.now comes a warning about user names and phone numbers on those accounts.
:10:32. > :10:36.Some of them are now posted on the internet. That embarrassing picture
:10:37. > :10:41.you take on the social app snapchat ten seconds after viewing it, but
:10:42. > :10:45.the information on your account stays president. And an anonymous
:10:46. > :10:48.hacker or group has exploited that, uploading to the internet the user
:10:49. > :10:54.names and offering up the phone numbers of an estimated 4. 6 million
:10:55. > :10:57.snapchat users. The biggest danger is stalking, I think, and you can
:10:58. > :11:01.see how something like this could lead to some bad results. Making the
:11:02. > :11:07.security breach even worse, many users tend to have the same user
:11:08. > :11:12.name for multiple apps like Facebook and Twitter. Snapchat is a sharing
:11:13. > :11:17.app, so popular with kids that Facebook want today buy it for $3
:11:18. > :11:21.billion an offer the two young owners turned down. It is unclear
:11:22. > :11:26.whether the security breach will affect the company's value. Snapchat
:11:27. > :11:28.says it has recently counter-measures will continue to
:11:29. > :11:34.make improvements to combat spam and abuse. It is a wake-up call we keep
:11:35. > :11:40.getting tour 20 years now and we keep hitting the snooze button. This
:11:41. > :11:45.security firm said it discovered the problem back in August, but when it
:11:46. > :11:48.told snapchat the company responded it was a "Non-issue". Seeing double
:11:49. > :11:51.tonight, the wonder twins that have become a viral sensation this
:11:52. > :13:03.evening - you've got to hear the story behind these little ones.
:13:04. > :13:10.Our first instant indecks from the new year and we remember a face you
:13:11. > :13:14.will recognise from the fresh principles of Belair. James Avery
:13:15. > :13:21.passed sfla loss anxiety from complications due to heart surgery.
:13:22. > :13:25.He was 68-year-olds. With the big storm hitting Chicago in the
:13:26. > :13:32.bullseye some are not complaining there. Jewellery store owner there
:13:33. > :13:36.promising to refund all jewellery purchases, making the promise if you
:13:37. > :13:40.bought it over the holiday and it snowed more than 3 inches on New
:13:41. > :13:44.Year's Day he would pay it back. Well, up to 35 inches have fallen
:13:45. > :13:49.and he says his business will pay up. And after a night of heavy
:13:50. > :13:55.partying, perhaps you are seeing double today but for two moms it had
:13:56. > :14:00.nothing to do with that, but check this out. A mom gave birth to twins
:14:01. > :14:05.one just before midnight and one right after. The baby in the pink
:14:06. > :14:11.hat was born just before midnight and her brother, in the blue hat, a
:14:12. > :14:19.2014 baby. These little baby girls in Toronto, the one on the left born
:14:20. > :14:23.at 11. 52 and her sister arriving 28 seconds into 2014. And we are
:14:24. > :14:27.wondering what one might say to the other, tweet us your captions.
:14:28. > :14:32.Finally we've heard the saying a new year, a new you and easier said than
:14:33. > :14:37.done what it comes to our weight. But can a novel idea of switching
:14:38. > :14:45.the hands you eat with trick your mind into eating less? American
:14:46. > :14:51.movie-goers love their popcorn but those mindless handfuls can really
:14:52. > :14:55.add up. So how can you snack less without going snackless? To show you
:14:56. > :14:58.secret we invite add group of people to a movie theatre. Everyone in the
:14:59. > :15:04.theatre was right-handed so we asked half the group to grab their popcorn
:15:05. > :15:09.with their left hand. Our goal? To observe a concept key to changing
:15:10. > :15:13.mindless eating habits. Eating in a non-standard way, like eating with
:15:14. > :15:17.your non-dominant hand, makes you think about what you are. Sure
:15:18. > :15:21.enough, when the lights went up we saw a real difference. If I had it
:15:22. > :15:29.in this hand it would have been easier to just snack. Let's see how
:15:30. > :15:34.you did. We weighed the bags and found those eating with the
:15:35. > :15:39.non-dominant hand eat a sixth less, which means over the quarter of the
:15:40. > :15:43.year they could lose 6lbs if they snacked like this. But it's not just
:15:44. > :15:46.about what food you eat. Take the Google office insist New York.
:15:47. > :15:52.Switching treats from a clear, easy to pull gravity bin, to containers,
:15:53. > :15:58.meant that over a seven-week period alone, Googlers consumed 3 million
:15:59. > :16:04.fewer calories - and that he is just from M Everyone sees these, they
:16:05. > :16:09.know they are, but they have to put in more effort. Some simple ways to
:16:10. > :16:14.trick yourself into a smaller size. That is World News tonight. And it
:16:15. > :16:16.wouldn't be a new year without Diane and she right back here tomorrow
:16:17. > :16:29.night. Goodnight. Hello, there won't be much let-up in
:16:30. > :16:32.all this wet and windy weather although having said that today will
:16:33. > :16:36.probably be the best day of the next few, certainly in terms of dryer and
:16:37. > :16:37.brighter weather