24/01/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

a decent quality life. -- for him. Now for a look as the news seen

across United states. Welcome to world News tonight, a

deep freeze and the dangers that come with that. Frozen fire hydrant

is causing a second disaster. And we have a new storm warning. The

comeback, America's biggest enemy, where are they? Iraqi. America

sending weapons tonight and ABC News exclusive. They call the action

tonight about an ingredient in many sodas and questions about a possible

link to cancer. And they made in America victory, remember your

outrage when we discovered the Olympic uniforms were made in China.

Tonight we reveal what they look like now and who is making them.

Diana is on assignment in it. We begin with a dangerous windchill

warning will stop nearly 200 million Americans today, the temperature did

not get above freezing. A deadly pileup in Indiana. Trucks and cars

were tangled on the road. The problem is it is so cold, the ice is

not going anywhere for days. The Arctic blast is far reaching. 35,000

flight cancellations this month alone, twice as many as normal. From

New York to the midwest to the frozen north-east, people are

battling the ice and sometimes the ice wins. In Connecticut, a genetic

ice rescue. -- dramatic. Near Boston, an out-of-control blaze and

a nightmare for five fires. That firefighters. In Massachusetts,

crews are demolishing this house, the cold weather eventing

firefighters from putting out the fire before it was too late. Your

firefighters got to one and that one was frozen, the second and third one

was frozen. It was not until the fourth one. Until they got water. In

Quebec, Canada, another fire at the nursing home. At least three dead

and another doesn't missing. Today, 19 below in North Dakota. In

Minnesota, the extreme freeze is closing schools, with windchill

deepening, 35 to 45 below. The big crash in Indiana. Leaving one dead.

Cars backed up for miles. Even trains fall victim to the cold.

Hundreds of passengers on this commuter train from Manhattan to

Connecticut were stuck for two hours without heat or light. The extreme

cold also showing major's true beauty. These mesmerising eye

circles on a river in Woodstock, New York. Is not over just yet. Part of

the north-east will see at temperatures as low as 30 below zero

tonight. We have an ABC meteorologist and new attorney

before you came on air that you can't escape this. That is just for

the night. This goes really throughout next week. We have freeze

watch and windchill advisories along the Gulf Coast. Tomorrow morning

temperatures in Birmingham, Alabama will be 13. That is 20 degrees below

average. The freeze on the east side. We have put as a patient and

issues. Already slowing in Louisiana and Texas. Houston are unable to

storm warning. They have not seen one in three years and here is, what

to expect in the morning, freezing rain, ice accumulating up to a

quarter of an inch. From the deep freeze to the redhot debate, that

crosses the country, a damaging your report, the government panel calling

it a and effective. -- illegal. They're not even catching anyone.

They say it is illegal and they directly contradict the President on

how effective it has been. Last year the president said this programme

saving lives. We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted

because of this information. Look at what the report says. It is we have

not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United

States in which this programme has many concrete difference. Not a

single one. The White House today disagreed with that assessment. They

said the president listened to this panel and making his changes to the

NSA, has incorporated recommendations. This will fuel that

debate. In the meantime we look overseas, America's biggest enemy

making its return tonight and where? Iraqi. Al Qaeda taking over the very

city where we saw the biggest American losses during the rock war

and tonight American weapons on the way? When the sun goes down in

Baghdad, this is what happens. The American military moves in. ABC News

obtained of these images, a massive American cargo jet delivering

weapons to Iraqi military partners. 2400 rockets to arm Iraqi attack

helicopters in an all-out war against Al Qaeda. They wore Al Qaeda

is winning. The battleground is familiar. The loser, where so many

Americans fought and died. -- for the show. With US forces gone,

America's ambassador tells us the city has fallen to an Al Qaeda that

is rising in the country. They are capable of serious assaults. How

many Al Qaeda of their? Many people say there are 2000, in the country,

hard-core. What back and it could -- an astonishing number. The al-Assad

is not far from Fallujah is not far from Baghdad.

Five miles out of the loser, the road becomes more desolate and Iraqi

security forces warn us we should not go further. The violence has

spilled across the country. In Baghdad, bombings here have killed

more than 700 people in just the past month. More than double the

number last year. This family has lost three sons. All of your son

gone? The older son leaving behind three little ones. They tell us if

they could leave tomorrow, they would. The ambassador says Americans

back home should be very concerned about what is happening here. Is in

our interest to have an Iraq that is stable and not to have sectarian

conflict all in Al Qaeda presence that can be used to stabilise the

rest of the region and at some point as a platform to attack targets

beyond these. What back that is why in Baghdad the US will soon be

sending not just small arms but tank shells and hellfire missiles. There

is stunning news this evening about one of the most famous heists in

America. Unsolved for decades but five reputed mobsters are now under

arrest, tied to a $6 million heist at JFK Airport.

The heist in 1978. JFK International airport. $6 million in cash and

jewellery stolen. We are searching for at least five gunmen. Today,

five people were arrested in early morning FBI raids. Among them,

alleged key player in the heist. He played not guilty today and recently

came into FBI focus after agent searched the home of a fellow

mobster this summer. A tip led police to his home and new evidence

discovered helped crack the case. A major headline about your health

tonight, with a question mark for anyone who drinks so it is. --

sodas. A new report with a warning tonight.

When you sit flat soda, -- that soda, you may be drinking an

ingredient that could cause cancer. Reports tested 110 sodas and found

some had an ingredient that can cause tumours in mice at high

levels. California warns consumers. Consumers shouldn't be subjected to

that risk, just because it covers food. It was made clear they believe

sodas are safe to drink but the American association disagreed with

the concerns. Pepsi said all of its products are in full compliance with

the law. As to what we know, you would need to drink more than 1000

cabs everyday to take as much of the chemical to cause cancer. But look

for these labels. You are not concerned yet? White we are not. We

have seen so many of these cases. Child stars with so much promise and

wealth, suddenly suffering staggering falls. This is the

mugshot now viral. Justin Bieber has 40 million followers on Twitter. He

has been charged with resisting arrest and driving with a expired

licence. We have been asking what so many are. What happened? Strutting

out of jail, it was Justin Bieber clambering atop these SUV, saluting

the crowd, after his arrest overnight. Earlier in court, a very

different Justin Bieber. Dressed in prison Orange. He faced charges of

GUI and resisting arrest. He was accused of dragracing in the middle

of the night in a yellow Lamborghini. He and his friend were

allegedly dragracing down here at up to 60 mph. Police say he admitted to

drinking, smoking pot and taking prescription beds. Experts are

wondering if he is heading down a well-known path he became too famous

too soon. -- prescription meds. Not many people tell you know. Others

like Michael Jackson, who is post caught antics are mirrored by Justin

Bieber today, ended in tragedy. The question tonight, which road will

Justin Bieber travel? Now to a made in America victory.

Elite -- the Olympics are weeks away. We asked what about our other

American team? Check this out. It's our first look at Team USA's Opening

Ceremony uniforms at the Winter Olympics. The traditional design,

the Stars and Stripes, and of course the American flag. For the first

time, those uniforms are being made in America. We revealed that at the

last Olympics, the American uniforms were hardly American-made.

The US uniforms were made in China! You remember our produce is dressed

in head to do, every piece of the American book, made in China.

From your living room to Washington, in uproar!

They should take all of the uniforms and burn them! And then the promise

from Ralph Lauren, promising to make them all here. Tonight, the proof.

More than 40 American partners designing and manufacturing these

uniforms. Hundreds of jobs now staying here. Hello. We were

honoured to be able to work with Ralph Lauren in this effort to make

the team uniforms in America. She will be flying her American flag

35,000 acres away, in preparation. Ralph Lauren doubling her yarn

sales. That will travel to Pennsylvania to be spun. Over 5

million yards spun for the Olympics. They couldn't be proud tonight. This

is going to be extra special. Finally, the cotton from

California, knitted together. 650 uniforms made for Team USA. All

manufactured here. Team USA is standing tall and entirely... Made

in America! Is still much more ahead. A famous

Kennedy blaming the dangerous game on a highway on ambience. What did

the judge say? Next, to a member of the famous

Kennedy family back in court after a moment on the highway, blaming it on

an ambient mixup. Good morning. Despite a request by

her lawyers to have it dismissed, for now, her drug driving case is

moving forward. Kennedy, the daughter of Robert Kennedy, was

arrested back in 2012 after state police said she swerved her Lexus

into a trailer on the New York high wage and was later found slumped

over the wheel of her car. -- highway. She told reporters she only

remembered getting on the highway. I have no memory, until I was stopped

at a traffic light and a police officer was at my car door. She told

police she may have taken a powerful sleep aid that morning after

mistaking it for her thyroid medication. And then she got behind

the wheel. It carries a warning against taking it and then driving.

Basically, the brain is shut off. But your body is moving. You would

be driving but almost as if you were asleep? Yes. In and have the state.

-- hypnotic state. I want to apologise to the driver of the truck

who are apparently hit and all of those people are endangered. Today,

she waived her right to attend to reselection because she would be out

of the country, continuing her late father's efforts to fight child

labour and end child slavery. The prosecution is going after Kennedy

fought dropped driving, a misdemeanour. She has pleaded not

guilty. That will be up to the jury to decide.

Thank you. For anyone who has ever hoped for a catch in the water,

check this out. This person caught a full-sized marlin and after 40

minutes he unhooked the fish. Let's remember a Boston gentleman.

Many people tuned into watch him for many years.

Today, we learn he has died. The long-time anchor at the ABC station

was at household name. He and his then wife were the number one team.

When their daughter was born, it was the city's lead story. He led Boston

through so many tragedies and triumphs. On a personal note, I was

honoured to work there before coming here and I still remember the first

night I tossed back to him. Finally, a two decade mystery left

behind by a grandmother loved puzzles. How did they finally solve

this? When Dorothy, who hated the

limelight, but was close to her four grandkids, departed 18 years ago

from brain cancer she left this behind. A message inside a mystery.

Letters she scribbled in her last days that spells nothing... Or did

they? Her daughter was 11 at the time. -- granddaughter. I thought it

was a secret code. But if it was, nobody could break it. This week,

the lightning bolt when they decided to take the mystery to a world of

strangers, posting the letters before the online community. They

were honoured immediately. One person asked, did they ever sing

songs? Was she a religious woman, another asked? Religious, wait a

minute. Maybe, one person posted, it is amen, amen. Then, the

breakthrough. Recognise that? Someone did. It's a prayer. Our

father who art in heaven, hallowed be they name... For 18 years, she

was settling with God. The codebreakers are still at it. But

they do mean something. A grandmother and a prayer. Have a

good evening and good night.