12/02/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

legislation with a final vote now due in July. Time now for a look at

the news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago in ABC

world news with George Stephanopoulos. But the latest on

the flooding in an hour. Ice emergency, crippling winter storm

ready to strike. 100 million Americans in its path. New warnings

for drivers as the South braces for power outages which could last for

days. More and more women now our earning husbands. By that biggest --

the biggest obstacle to their happiness may be the men and their

lives. America's darling. On the good ship lollipop. Shirley Temple,

the original child star with dimples and curls, her skyrocket to start at

the age of three was just the beginning of a remarkable life. --

stardom. We begin with the new ice storm

powerful and moving fast right now. You can see just how much of a

monster it is from space. That is the tip of Florida poking through

the cloud. 20 states under winter watches and warnings. Bracing for a

new round of ice and is that experts warned, could be his Doric and

crippling. They are already feeling the pain across the South where we

start off. -- historic. Ready heartbreaking moments on iced over

roads across the South. Four people died in Texas including a Dallas

firefighter who fell off this overpass responding to an accident.

From Dixie to the Carolinas, authorities telling families to stay

at home. If you do have to travel, take precautions. Take some water,

peanut butter crackers, a blanket. 2,000. Flights across this region

are cancelled. Once again, Atalanta is in panic. This is one of Mother

Nature's worst kind of storms that can be inflicted on the south. That

is ice. The biggest enemy. Authorities sounding the alarm on

cellphones and answering machines, calling the potential ice possibly

catastrophic. Half an inch could look like this. And bring down

trees. Leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Help is orally on the

way tonight from Houston. Texas power company sending up 60 cruise.

Trees rate on the lines and send the lines down. The main thing is trees

and ice. The traffic nightmare is fresh on the minds here. Some

drivers are spent 20 hours trying to get home that night. This evening,

this woman says she is filling up on gas just in case. You do not want to

be called in this again? That was hard. We wrote with a sergeant from

the state petroleum said the timing of the storm is different. The thing

about the storm, we have a heads up on it, it will not hurt during the

commuting time. But still pandemonium at grocery and hardware

stalls will stop no bread, milk or bags of salt. State and city

officials slow to the draw weeks ago but they are front and centre

tonight, sitting up state parks as emergency shelters. Our

meteorologist has been tracking the huge storm, what is the latest on

who will get hit and when? So many folks. Looking at the maps, we will

get to it in our great city. All the way to Louisiana, through northern

Alabama, tomorrow morning, Atalanta, Colombia, then it feels in from

south to north. Virginia is covered with white. All snow, the pink is

sleek and freezing rain. Moving to the north as we go through Thursday.

That is when New York city is out to see it. Washington, DC may see a

change over to rain. That will cut down on the snow totals. Boston, it

starts by Thursday lunchtime. At the coast, sleet and freezing rain and

all rain. Spots. Looking at the significant ice, the bull's-eye for

parts of Georgia and South Goa rely on. The worst ice for more than a

decade. And up through parts of Virginia and North Carolina. The

snow totals are intense. Especially if you go West of I-95. That is

where the heaviest no totals will fall. That is the deep red and

magenta on the map. Some delicate diplomacy at the White house, where

the president of France as the guest of honour at the state dinner. The

same present making headlines for a very public breakup with his

long-time girlfriend, who was the first Lady. The split. White house

to juggle the seating chart, and V French President is attending the

dinner without a date. Across the capital, a rare success at Congress.

A clean resolution to an issue that sparked bitter feuds and government

shutdowns and threats of default over the past few years. We are

covering the back and forth on Capitol Hill. The huge reversal for

house Republicans? A huge reversal. A huge breakthrough for the

dysfunction that has held this capital hostage for nearly three

years. We have seen the government shutdown. The government being

pushed to the brink of default. This one vote tonight ended all of that.

28 Republicans joining the Democrats to announce enough of this

infighting for now. Time for to end. One Republican lawmaker told me, our

stomach is not your here for brinksmanship. The Tea Party had a

stomach for brinksmanship, can they do anything about it? They said they

are so upset Speaker Bain. They are calling for his ousting. He is told

Republicans and me, Republicans need to pick smart battles. They know

they want to keep the eye focused on President Obama and the unpopular

healthcare law in the mid-term elections and not make it about

them. Hopefully, they can pick up seats. That news sent stocks soaring

today. The new chairman of the Federal reserve speaking for the

first time. She indicated she will follow in the footsteps of her

predecessor and keep interest rates low and stimulus coming. We have a

new headline is not about the modern American family. We know that more

and more mothers are the main breadwinners. Now we have a report

that has uncovered something surprising about dads, chores and

keeping the family happy. Our correspondent has more. This woman

barramundi 40% of families where the kid is the primary breadwinner.

Breadwinning mums have more stress. They are asked to do more. A recent

study found that the total family income is higher when the mother,

not the father, is the primary breadwinner. When I got a new job,

he was making jokes about how he was not needed any more. The biggest

burden is down. Only 60% of breadwinning women said that they

were satisfied with the division of housework. Women like this woman

from Chicago told us: This woman told us that she and her

husband are always fighting over childcare. I feel like they have to

call in their favour, or ask my husband to help out with the kids.

There can be an overwhelming sense of responsibility. It is scary,

everything rises and falls on you, the kid 's ability to go to college,

your home, the car. This family think of themselves as a team,

pioneers on a new frontier. They are committed to making it work.

We are just hideous and news about our friend at ABC News. The

long-time anchor at NBC revealed that he has been diagnosed with

blood cancer. He says doctors are optimistic his treatment. He remains

the luckiest guy he knows. We send our good thoughts to him is about.

All day long, tributes pouring in for Shirley Temple. An American

original who died at the age of 85. That is the Hollywood Walk of Fame

tonight. Flowers I ring the pint sized girl who lifted America's

spirits. -- 15 starring roles but the time she

was ten, each with a happily ever after, because she really could

dance. She really could act. I'll never see

you again. She really could sing. Shirley Temple was not just the

biggest child star of the day, she was the biggest star. Photographed

more than the President. She always play the kid who figured out while

shoe -- who she was, often wiser than the grounds around her. Her

scenes with Bojangles Robinson has been described as the first time

that Hollywood had allowed two races on the screen, while allowing their

fingers to touch. We would hold hands, and I would have the steps

with him. It was magic. That it was over, the later films stop pulling

audiences. Her fame was going, so was the money. At the $3 million

that I had earned from everything, coal sales, looks, clothing, I had

$44,000 left. Rather than crash, she figured out who she was, and would

be, in this part of her life, a wife and mother, and then, emulating this

well-known actor, she turned to public service. In the middle of a

democratic revolution, she was the US ambassador to Czechoslovakia. He

was how she handled this personal challenge, a mastectomy, that lifted

the secrecy around breast cancer. As for her life, 85 years of it, from

this... Thank you very much. Can I go home now? To theirs. Thank you to

the industry. In the have an enchanted and busy childhood. It was

three great acts, plus, happily ever after, for real.

So much service, so many roles. She said her greatest was as a wife,

mother and grandfather. Still ahead: a father's plea during a road

rage attack. His daughter in the car. What you do once in the wake

this happens and you are behind the wheel? We are back in two minutes.

It can happen in an instant, the kind of road rage eruption that

kills 1500 Americans are yet. Tonight, we hear the terrifying 911

call from a father and his daughter when they were attacked. Our

correspondent has more. The 4-wheel brawl, a scourge of American

highways. From this flying, to this lawyer and retired police officer

checking it out on the highway. Now, what it is really like to be inside

that moment of terror. A vicious attack on a N. Carolina St that left

this career crumpled mess, and a father desperately calling 911.

Twice was not enough. No argument between drivers, just a father and

daughter on their way home. The dad looking for someone to hide, hoping

police arrive soon. The Terra ending it only when he

grabbed his daughter and ran into a stall. Followed by the mad driver on

foot. Police believe he was on drugs. Finally subdued by store

workers and police officers. He did the right thing, yes? Absolutely.

Remember this. Not engage the other person. Do not look in the eye,

gesticulate. Get weight populated, well lit area. -- get to a

populated, well lit area. Finally tonight, twin sisters separated at

birth, 5000 miles apart, speaking different languages. Neither aware

of the other, before a random click of a mouse problem together as a

family. An amazing two incidents and the journey of discovery it sparked.

This girl was adopted at the age of four months. Like most, her entire

essence of family was shaped by those immediately around her. I

never felt like it was missing anything. One day, a random Facebook

message, sent by a stranger living 5000 miles away. A French fashion

designer. She had also been adopted. She had seen Samantha in a YouTube

clip. My friend was watching one of your videos and thought we looked

very similar. They discover that they were both born in the same

Korean city, on the same day. A relationship born on social media.

It moved to Skype. This is a really weird experience. That first

meeting, three months later in London. What was the first thing you

said? I had to make sure she was real. They shared not just a

birthday, but a laugh. I will ask you a question. Enter at the same

time. Coke or Pepsi? Despite the resemblance, they wanted

to be sure. They had their DNA tested. It was exactly the same. The

good results. -- we got our results. You are sisters, an shoe? Yes. There

are both parents identity, and how they were separated, remains a

mystery. While they do not have a pass, they do have the future. Now

that I have a twin sister, anything is possible. What a lovely story.

That is all for us. It is not good news, I am afraid.

More unwelcome rain on the way and some severe wind gusts. A look at a

satellite picture. But those of us working overnight, we will be

looking at the