:00:00. > :00:08.An update on the news in just under 20 minutes. Time now for a look at
:00:09. > :00:11.the news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago, in ABC
:00:12. > :00:14.World News with Dianne Sawyer. Welcome. Tonight, another massive
:00:15. > :00:21.snowstorm has blanketed trees and streets and many Super Bowl fans are
:00:22. > :00:25.trying to get home. Thousands of flights cancelled and delayed around
:00:26. > :00:31.the country. I just want to get out of here! Cars off the road and
:00:32. > :00:37.ploughs up when the snow. More storms on the way. Fallen star. The
:00:38. > :00:41.death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Tonight, please describe the hidden
:00:42. > :00:48.struggle with heroin at the height of his career. -- police describe.
:00:49. > :00:59.Good evening. As we start this week together, 163 million Americans are
:01:00. > :01:06.in the path of three winter storms that are a chain reaction for travel
:01:07. > :01:11.trouble. Each new storm is more powerful than the last. We start
:01:12. > :01:20.with all the people caught in a conveyor belt of wicked weather.
:01:21. > :01:25.From the midwest to the north-east, another wet, heavy, slippery mess.
:01:26. > :01:34.An army of ploughs in New York can barely keep up. The new mayor had
:01:35. > :01:40.trouble handling Staten Island's answer to Tiny Phil. I am learning
:01:41. > :01:45.about snow removal more than I ever expected to. School closed from the
:01:46. > :01:53.north-east to Ohio. Whiteout conditions in Illinois. Trucks
:01:54. > :01:59.pushing trucks in Oklahoma. It is also busting budgets. Cities like
:02:00. > :02:02.Milwaukee running out of salt and others cancelling some projects to
:02:03. > :02:06.pay for winter cleanup. For the thousands of Super Bowl fans
:02:07. > :02:12.expecting cold and snow, they got it, just a little bit late. I was
:02:13. > :02:17.walking the dog. Now the dog won't come out? The dog is smart! Across
:02:18. > :02:25.the country, many flights cancelled and over 4000 delayed. It has been a
:02:26. > :02:29.horrible year for flying. Airlines have lost up to $150 million and it
:02:30. > :02:36.has cost them 30 million passengers affected. Here, 40% of flights have
:02:37. > :02:41.been cancelled today and it looks like the travel misery is set to
:02:42. > :02:45.continue. Meteorologists say this is the first of three storms to hit the
:02:46. > :02:50.midwest and north-east between now and early next week.
:02:51. > :03:02.Thank you. When did the next two big storms hit adware? -- and where?
:03:03. > :03:06.It's a very vigourous storm system. Over the next seven -10 days, one
:03:07. > :03:10.storm after another repeating itself, in the same path. Lots of
:03:11. > :03:15.snow in the Ohio Valley, lots of rain down south. The storm we have
:03:16. > :03:21.now is exiting and producing something like seven inches of snow
:03:22. > :03:27.in central park, some parts to the interior of New Jersey around 11
:03:28. > :03:31.inches. It will move through the centre again and create
:03:32. > :03:37.thunderstorms. Then it goes into cold air and it will create ice.
:03:38. > :03:42.Again into the New York City area and Boston. On top of that, there
:03:43. > :03:49.could be a major storm, even bigger, coming for Sunday.
:03:50. > :03:56.Now we look at the stock market falling. The Dow is down almost 300
:03:57. > :04:04.points after last week. What is driving this? Is it time to change
:04:05. > :04:09.plans. --? Wall Street slammed. News today that
:04:10. > :04:16.American factories are turning out on a at their weakest rates. Also
:04:17. > :04:20.affecting the markets is the weather. Cold and snow are grinding
:04:21. > :04:26.businesses to a halt. There are concerns it will affect jobs. The
:04:27. > :04:35.average American family's 401(k) hit hard down as much as 5.8% this year.
:04:36. > :04:39.This means the typical $100,000 has lost almost $6,000 and just the last
:04:40. > :04:43.month alone. A tough first day on the job for the new Federal Reserve
:04:44. > :04:46.chair Janet Yellen whose chief mission will be to address the
:04:47. > :04:51.sluggish economy, especially jobs. And now by ten. Only met this couple
:04:52. > :04:55.of Illinois last December, things were looking good.
:04:56. > :05:00.Now that you have stayed the course, how do you feel?
:05:01. > :05:04.Very good, a great care. Now they join many others who face
:05:05. > :05:09.an uncertain future. For perspective, we should look at
:05:10. > :05:13.this, the last month of your retirement savings account. A weak
:05:14. > :05:19.one. So far, if you look at the bigger picture, last year, stocks
:05:20. > :05:24.were up at record highs. On average, you are still looking much better
:05:25. > :05:30.than you did a few years ago during the great recession.
:05:31. > :05:34.Thank you. Now we turn to the news that stunned many Americans
:05:35. > :05:38.yesterday. For anybody who loves films, it is like a death in the
:05:39. > :05:48.family. Philip Seymour Hoffman at 46 years old, an actor who was famously
:05:49. > :05:52.shy and generous. Part of an actor's craft is to look at the
:05:53. > :05:56.journey of life and find meaning in its destination. Somebody who lived
:05:57. > :06:00.brilliantly inside of so many different people, the world and so
:06:01. > :06:06.baffled today at how Philip Seymour Hoffman wound up here. Police
:06:07. > :06:12.revealed new details about his death scene, finding nearly 70 bags of
:06:13. > :06:21.heroin in his apartment. He was found with a needle in his arm.
:06:22. > :06:29.On Wednesday night lights on Bordeaux will -- lights on Broadway
:06:30. > :06:36.will be dammed and has no. An anxious night because of a prison
:06:37. > :06:42.break. Authorities are in a race against time to find this man. The
:06:43. > :06:47.hunt is on to track down is convicted killer. His getaway car
:06:48. > :06:53.was found in a small town this afternoon. Schools have put on
:06:54. > :06:56.lockdown as officers move door to door.
:06:57. > :06:59.I have a little boy so it is scary. He was convicted of killing four
:07:00. > :07:06.people in 1993 and was serving a life full stop he escaped from
:07:07. > :07:09.prison in Michigan on Sunday night. Authorities believe his stall and
:07:10. > :07:18.kitchen uniform and use his hands to pull apart two security fences.
:07:19. > :07:23.There are flaws in the security that we need to assess.
:07:24. > :07:28.He carjacked and abducted a woman driving this car and drove the
:07:29. > :07:33.Indian. And for gas. She asked to use the bathroom and made a call to
:07:34. > :07:43.911 from behind a log. -- behind a locked door.
:07:44. > :07:51.He left her in the bathroom and laughed. Nerves on edge as
:07:52. > :08:00.authorities race to get him behind bars. Avoiding crashes like this
:08:01. > :09:27.one. How your car can keep you safe, keep cutting accidents by 80%.
:09:28. > :09:31.Now, imagine your car avoiding a crash by talking to the other cars
:09:32. > :09:35.around you. The US government says there is a new technology that they
:09:36. > :09:40.want people to have by the time you buy your next car. Something as
:09:41. > :09:47.important as safety as seatbelts. We find out how it works. Alert cars
:09:48. > :09:55.are designed to survive this. What if we could keep those accidents
:09:56. > :09:58.from ever happening? Cutting accidents by 80% by having your car
:09:59. > :10:07.talk to other cars around you ? We can't understate the significance
:10:08. > :10:11.of having vehicles that can be able to stop accidents.
:10:12. > :10:15.They want every vehicle to have this technology. This rule will be in
:10:16. > :10:19.place with the end of 2016. Ten times every second your car will
:10:20. > :10:24.transmit its speed, direction, and other information. It will receive
:10:25. > :10:31.the same information from cars around it. If somebody is braking
:10:32. > :10:34.hard, cars in front of you, if you are pressing a vehicle, you will get
:10:35. > :10:43.a warning of things happening. The technology will cost between
:10:44. > :10:47.$100-$200. In the future, it could be paid with other systems like
:10:48. > :10:51.automatic brakes which we tried out for a test drive.
:10:52. > :10:55.It's just takes over. That is amazing.
:10:56. > :10:59.We can build a foundation of avoiding crashes before they happen
:11:00. > :11:01.in the first place. This could save at least 20,000
:11:02. > :11:08.lives on American highways every year.
:11:09. > :11:11.Our instant index tonight begins with a man who was a plumber by
:11:12. > :11:17.trade at road into history. Look at this. This wave is 80 feet tall. It
:11:18. > :11:22.is off Portugal and may be the biggest ever surfed. Look again.
:11:23. > :11:28.There is the ways and there, that tiny speck, that is a man. He is a
:11:29. > :11:32.plumber and so thinking. Another high seas adventure in the news.
:11:33. > :11:36.Last week we told you about the mystery surrounding a man claims he
:11:37. > :11:40.was adrift in the Pacific for more than one year living on turtles and
:11:41. > :11:47.seagulls. Tonight, we see him. Here he is. Rwanda was discovered
:11:48. > :11:53.shipwrecked on a remote island halfway between Hawaii and
:11:54. > :12:02.Australia. -- he was discovered. It is easy to compare him to Castaway
:12:03. > :12:05.from the film Castaway. Is the story real?
:12:06. > :12:10.Style advice to Kate Middleton? A newspaper is claiming the Queen has
:12:11. > :12:20.seen at the affordable dresses that has made Kate Middleton famous and
:12:21. > :12:23.has suggested that she should wear longer hemlines when she visits
:12:24. > :12:27.Australia including jewellery from the Queen's personal collection. She
:12:28. > :12:32.has offered to send a stylist to help her.
:12:33. > :12:42.We have a note tonight about the pressing. Joan Mondale has died. She
:12:43. > :12:44.was a passionate advocate for the arts and pushing Congress to
:12:45. > :12:53.increase funding for public arts programmes. She was so devoted, she
:12:54. > :13:00.was given the nickname, Joan. She died with her husband and children
:13:01. > :13:04.by her side. She was 83 years old. Now, we want to thank all of you
:13:05. > :13:10.that responded powerfully to our special report on guns and children.
:13:11. > :13:16.Every third day in America, a child dies of an accidental shooting. We
:13:17. > :13:21.heard from so many of you with ideas about what we can do to save lives.
:13:22. > :13:35.Your response was overwhelming. On one side, so many people leave
:13:36. > :13:39.their guns on locked and loaded. On the other side, people say you can
:13:40. > :13:44.still defend yourself but lock up your gun. After the special, many of
:13:45. > :13:47.you went online to start a conversation about this in your
:13:48. > :13:52.neighbourhood is about play dates and the guns. So many members say it
:13:53. > :13:56.is time that we talk to each other. Even couples on different sites on
:13:57. > :13:59.now talking, saying that we watched this and it helps them understand
:14:00. > :14:08.each other. This is what some people said.
:14:09. > :14:17.We also received messages from police. They were offering free gun
:14:18. > :14:23.locks for those who want them. This officer and his wife are parents of
:14:24. > :14:28.a young boy who got a hold of a gun and was lost to an accidental
:14:29. > :14:31.shooting. They say that they heard from fellow police officers and
:14:32. > :14:38.strangers alike saying it is time to change. The father of this little
:14:39. > :14:41.boy seen in this video, a father believes that even very young
:14:42. > :14:46.children should learn how to use guns. Charlie is four years old but
:14:47. > :14:50.after watching a special, his father has told is that he will no longer
:14:51. > :14:54.be leaving has guns out after use. He immediately lock them up.
:14:55. > :14:58.I am glad you are watching tonight. We are always here online. I will
:14:59. > :15:22.see you tomorrow night. A very unsettled week ahead. Wet and
:15:23. > :15:30.windy weather associated with deep areas of low pressure. It is moving
:15:31. > :15:31.in off the Atlantic. In a sequence of events on Monday. Monday