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David Mure, [music] ABC's World News. Tonight. America's most watched. newscast. [music] Now streaming same day. with all the breaking news of the day on. Disney Plus. Most watched, [music]. most trusted, now on Disney Plus every. night. Tonight, there's breaking news as. we come on the air. In the West, there. has been a major break in that manhunt. in the Brown University deadly [music]. shooting. Sources telling ABC News there. had been a possible connection with the. murder of an MIT professor just days. later. And then tonight, police [music]. moving in. The images from the scene and.

Matt River standing by with this major. turn tonight. Also breaking this. evening, the plane crash killing a. NASCAR legend and his family. The. horrific moment of the crash in North. Carolina. A small jet going [music] down. in rain and fog, trying to return, crashing hundreds of feet short of the. runway. At least seven people killed, [music] including a NASCAR great, his. wife, and his children. And what we know. so far. Also tonight, we're tracking. this major storm moving into the. Northeast. More than a 100 million. Americans under high wind alerts.

Dangerous wind gusts, snow, freezing. rain hitting the Northeast tonight and. tomorrow. Sam Champion standing by with. the forecast. [music]. At the White House tonight, President. Trump acknowledging health care premiums. are about to skyrocket for more than 20. million Americans. [music] Where is the. plan from the White House or Congress. before they go home for the holiday? [music] Tonight, new images showing an. outofcrol car slamming into a hardware. store. There's news tonight nearly. [music] three decades after the killing. of six-year-old John Benet Ramsay. In.

New York City tonight, the major change, Pope Leo with his [music] first major. shakeup in the US, replacing Cardinal. Timothy Dolan. The flu fears tonight. right before the holiday. The new. warning this evening about a powerful. new flu variant. And our great made in. America Christmas, one week to go. From. the sunglasses JFK once wore to the. famous brass buttons, [music] the ideas. tonight with some American history to. put under the tree.

From ABC [music] News World Headquarters. in New York, this is World News Tonight. [music] with David Mure. >> Good evening. As we come on the air in. the West tonight, we do begin tonight. with the breaking news. There's been a. major turn in that manhunt after the. deadly mass shooting at Brown. University. Late today, sources told ABC. News there's a possible connection with. that shooting and then the murder of an. MIT professor just days later. And then. tonight, police moving in. You'll see. the images right here. Matt Rivers. leading us off with the breaking news. tonight. Tonight, after 6 days on the.

run, authorities say they have finally. located the suspect in the deadly Brown. University mass shooting. Sources say he. has now been found dead. Authorities now. investigating a possible connection. between the deadly mass shooting at. Brown University and the killing of an. MIT professor of nuclear science. Police. previously releasing images of this man. described as 5'8 with a stocky build. captured on surveillance walking in the. neighborhood near the location of. Saturday's attack.

Around 4 p.m., authorities say a shooter. fired more than 40 rounds inside a. lecture hall in an engineering building, killing two students, Ella Cook and. Muhammad Aziz Umar Zakov, and injuring. nine others. Soon after, a person of. interest caught on surveillance, appearing to walk away from the building. as a police car pulls up. Federal and. local law enforcement swarming the area, searching for the killer. >> PROMISE POLICE. Then 2 days later, about 50 mi away in. Brooklyn, Massachusetts, esteemed MIT.

nuclear scientist Nuno Lorero found. suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. in the entryway of this three-story. building Monday night. >> This street reported gunshots. Father. was shot multiple times. >> Lero, a husband and father of three, died at the hospital the next morning. David, authorities initially said that. they did not believe that these two. shootings were connected. But tonight, this blockbuster development, but so. far, investigators have not said what. connection, if any, the suspect might. have to either Brown or MIT. David. All.

right, Matt Rivers leading us off here. while we're on the air in the West with. the breaking news. Matt, thank you. In. the meantime, we turn now to another. breaking story tonight. The horrific. plane crash. Just a short time ago, NASCAR and loved ones now confirming. that former NASCAR legend Greg Biffle. and his family were killed in a fiery. plane crash in Statesville, North. Carolina. Take a look. The horrifying. images of the crash coming in tonight. Authorities say the jet was trying to. return to the airport, trying to land in. rain and fog shortly after taking off,

crashing just a few hundred feet short. of the runway, igniting a trail of smoke. and flames. At least seven people were. killed, including Greg Biffle, his wife. Christina, and two children. Authorities. say the plane slammed through a fence. Debris scattered on the runway. The. airport closed. Greg Biffle was well. known in the NASCAR world. Named one of. NASCAR's 75 greatest drivers. Tonight, investigators are on the scene at this. hour. And ABC's Victor Aendo with the. images coming in. >> Tonight, the horrifying moment a small. plane crash landed in North Carolina,

exploding in a fireball. The burning. wreckage skidding across the airfield, leaving a trail of smoke and flames. Late today, family confirming the. devastating news. NASCAR star Greg. Biffle along with his wife Christina and. two children among the seven people. killed. >> Aircraft emergency. Aircraft is down. Unknown subjects runway 28. >> That doomed 44year-old Cessna jet in the. air less than 10 minutes after taking. off from Statesville Regional Airport.

around 10:20 this morning. According to. flight radar 24, the pilot attempting to. return to the airport when it crashed. just short of the runway, smashing. through the trees, slamming through the. airport fence, carving a deep gash. hundreds of feet long. Witnesses. horrified. >> When I walked over there, you could. actually see the flames. And I mean, it. was huge. Huge. >> The mangled wreckage seen burning near. the runway. >> It will take some time to get the debris. off the runway uh to get it safe again. 55-year-old Biffle was a NASCAR legend.

winners in Michigan, winning 19 races. over his 14-year career, nominated for. the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He was also an. avid pilot, flying hundreds of rescue. missions into North Carolina after. Hurricane Helen devastated the region. last year. Biffl posting this incredible. moment when a man used a mirror to flag. him down in a helicopter. I just caught. out of the corner of my eye at the very. bottom of this ravine the flash of the.

mirror. >> Tonight, Biffle's family saying this. tragedy has left all of our families. heartbroken beyond words. Their absence. leaves an immeasurable void in our. lives. Tonight, NASCAR says they are. devastated by this tragic loss. The NTSB. is investigating this horrific crash. We. know there was rain and reduced. visibility at the time. David, >> Victor, thank you. And as you heard. Victor say, that crash and difficult. weather. And tonight, we're also. tracking this major storm, moving into. the Northeast next, just as millions. begin traveling for the holiday week.

ahead. More than a 100 million Americans. tonight now under wind alerts at this. hour. Gusts up to 70 mph from Montana. all the way east there on the map to New. York and right up to Maine. Snow, rain, and damaging winds moving into the. northeast overnight and tomorrow. And. here's the system that's coming. Blizzard conditions slamming Minnesota. In fact, a no travel advisory issue for. the northwest part of that state. Rain. and wind for the morning commute here. from Washington DC to Philadelphia, New. York, right up to Boston. Sam Champion. is here with the forecast and Morgan. Norwood with the images tonight.

Tonight, howling wind and snow shutting. down interstates as a massive coast to. coast storm takes aim at the northeast. Allout blizzard conditions in Brookings, South Dakota. This video shot by. stormchaser Justin Franson early this. morning. Minnesota State Patrol showing. the white out on Highway 2 east of East. Grand Forks. North Dakota Highway Patrol. shutting down Interstate 29 from the. Canadian border all the way to South. Dakota. In Colorado, the wind flipping.

at least one plane and damaging several. more at Boulders airport. And where. there's no snow, the winds are fueling. fires. Overnight, east of Denver, multiple fires breaking out in Yuma, Colorado. Flames tearing across the. horizon. And back in South Dakota, this outofc. control fire in Rapid City. Crews. scrambling to dig lines and attack the. fire with hoses. A nearby television. station reportedly forced to evacuate. for a time. This same system taking down. massive trees and knocked out power to.

hundreds of thousands in the Pacific. Northwest. A new system moving in there, bringing more high winds and rain. tonight. And David, here in New York, we're bracing for wind gusts that could. top 50 miles an hour today and tomorrow, which by the way is expected to be the. busiest travel day of the holiday. season. David, >> no question about that. Morgan, thank. you. Let's get right to Sam Champion. tracking it all tonight. Hi Sam. >> Hey David, it is a busy travel time. again. They say records and we've got. two storms on the board. One in the.

middle of the country, one in the. Northwest. Look at the wind, rain, and. snow involved with both of them. We'll. go right to all the watches and warnings. that are out across the country and they. really are coast to coast. More than 30. states how are involved in some kind of. wind watch warning or advisory. And look. at those blizzard warnings that are in. the Dakotas into Minnesota as well. Watch this cold front. This is the. biggest storm on the board and it's. working toward the New York and. Washington and Philly and Boston area. right in time for rush hour in the. morning. Travel depends on some bad. rain, but it also depends on the rough.

winds and we'll have both of them in. this system. Could be anywhere from a/. inch to 2 in of rain in this. Some. kickback snow and the cold winds that. come along behind it and those winds. will be 40, 50, 60 mph on the east. coast. Now, look at the wind and snow. that's back up to the northwest. This is. another storm that will move across the. coast in the next couple of days. David, >> some rough weather for sure, but always. great to have you, Sam. Thank you. At. the White House tonight, President Trump. acknowledging health care premiums are. about to skyrocket for more than 20. million Americans. The president was. pressed. Where is the plan from the.

White House or Congress before they go. home for the holiday? And there's news. tonight. The White House now says the. famed Kennedy Center has been renamed. the Trump Kennedy Center. Mary Bruce at. the White House. >> Tonight, President Trump making it clear. he does not want to extend the expiring. Affordable Care Act subsidies, which. means in just two weeks, insurance. premiums for millions of Americans will. sore. >> More than 20 million Americans are now. bracing for their premiums to skyrocket. Are you going to let this happen or will. you intervene?

>> Okay, they will skyrocket because it was. never any good. >> Reporters pressing again. What will. happen to those 20 million Americans who. rely on the expiring subsidies? >> Do you want Congress to extend these ACA. subsidies? >> I'd like to be able to do it. >> The president claims he somehow wants to. bypass insurance companies to pay people. directly, but he hasn't explained how or. what this would mean for Americans. healthcare, and he has not released a. health care plan of his own. During the. campaign, he said he was working on one. >> I have concepts of a plan. I'm not.

president right now. >> Now, 11 months into his term, still no. plan. Today, the president turning to. one of his top health advisers, Dr. Memed Oz. >> We have some ideas out there. Congress. is working through some concepts. >> Meanwhile, today the White House with a. different announcement. The board of the. Kennedy Center, handpicked by the. president, had voted to rename the. performing arts institution the Trump. Kennedy Center. Trump had already named. himself chairman of the board, recently. hosting the Kennedy Center honors.

>> A very big hello. >> For months, Trump teasing putting his. name on the building. >> Some people refer as the Trump Kennedy. Center, but we're not prepared to do. that quite yet. >> But today, he said he was surprised. >> It's a board is a very distinguished. board, most distinguished people in the. country, and I was surprised by it, and. I was honored by it. But David, legal experts we've talked to. say the board can't actually make this. name change, that it requires an act of. Congress. But take a look at this on the. website tonight. There's that new name.

Anyways, the Trump Kennedy Center. David, >> Mary Bruce at the White House again. tonight. Thank you, Mary. Late today, the owners of Tik Tok signing a deal to. sell the app to mostly American. investors, including Oracle and. Silverlake. The sale has been in the. works for months. Congress passed a law. last year banning the app in the US. unless it was sold. President Trump has. postponed the ban through a series of. executive orders. Tonight, President. Trump signing an executive order easing. federal restrictions on marijuana. The. move paving the way for the FDA to study. its possible medicinal benefits.

Marijuana is currently in the same. category as heroin, ecstasy, and LSD. The president's order reclassifies it as. a drug with a low to moderate risk of. dependence. It does not legalize. marijuana or allow it for recreational. use at the federal level. When we come. back here tonight in New York City, the. major shakeup tonight, Pulp Leo with his. first big move, replacing Cardinal. Dolan. Also tonight, take a look, an. outofcrol car slamming into a hardware. store. A very close call for the people. inside. There's also news tonight nearly. three decades after the killing of.

six-year-old John Benet Ramsay in that. case. We'll have it here. And our made. in America Christmas, one week to go. Tonight, some ideas with some real. American history behind them. From the. sunglasses JFK once wore to the famous. brass buttons and cufflinks. A lot more. news ahead tonight. Stay tuned. Tonight, a close call for the people. inside a hardware store in Redwood City, California, south of San Francisco. Take. a look. A car smashing through the. store's wall, nearly hitting the. employees by the checkout. The car. igniting a fire that quickly spread. No.

one was hurt, and officials believe the. driver confused the brake with the gas. pedal. Nearly 29 years after the death. of six-year-old John Benet Ramsey, Boulder, Colorado police say they're now. considering new evidence in the case. Police giving an annual update in the. case, saying they have conducted new. interviews now and have reintered. [music]. several people based on new tips. John. Benet Ramsey was found dead in the. family basement on December 26th, 1996. Tonight, Pope Leo with the first major. shakeup in the US, replacing New York's. Timothy Cardinal Dolan. Chicago native.

Pope Leo appointing Bishop Ronald Hicks. of Juliet, Illinois to succeed the. retiring 75-year-old Dolan. Tonight, Dolan calling Hicks quote immensely. qualified. Hicks will be installed in. February. When we come back here. tonight, the flu fears just before the. holiday. The new warning about a. powerful new flu variant here in the US. And take a look at this tonight. The. koala saved from oncoming traffic in. fact given a place on the bus. Holding. on tight there in a moment. To the index. of other news tonight, a new flu variant.

is spreading in multiple countries, including here in the US. Early data. from the CDC tonight suggesting this. season's flu vaccine may not be as. effective against this new variant, but. medical experts tonight saying the. vaccine still reduces the risk of. serious disease. A bus driver in. Brisbane, Australia, helping to rescue a. koala dodging oncoming traffic. The. driver bringing the koala back onto the. bus. The koala there clutching onto a. pole. The koala released into a nearby. nature reserve the next day. Back in the. US, no winner. So, the Powerball jackpot.

on Saturday now 1.5 billion. That would. be a very merry Christmas when we come. back. Speaking of Christmas, our Made in. America series, one week to go. Some. history tonight. From the sunglasses JFK. once wore to some very famous buttons. and cufflinks in a moment. Finally tonight here, as you know, we. celebrate Made in America year round. But this Christmas, you've outdone. yourselves with your ideas. Tonight, it's hard to believe Christmas one week. from today. >> How you doing? >> How you David?

>> Our 14th year. >> Hey, David. Come inside. >> With your help every corner of the. country this year for Made It America, Alabama, Nevada, California, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, New. Hampshire, Massachusetts, Missouri, Maine, and Maryland, too. >> Made in America. >> Your one thing made in America under the. tree this year. Hi, David. >> World News Tonight viewer William Lman. with his idea and he's wearing them. >> As you can see, I'm wearing my American.

Optical Pilot glasses. >> We thought it was a classic look for. William, who played us a Holiday. Classic. >> Merry Christmas, David, to you and your. staff. >> You, too, William. His idea, American. Optical, outside Chicago since 1833. >> Hi, David. >> CEO Scott Shapiro. I'm proud to say that. our sunglasses and eyeglasses are still. made right here in the United States. >> They're Saratoga sunglasses, a favorite. of President Kennedy on Cape Cod,

[music] the boat in Hyannisport. >> This is the Saratoga, famously worn by. President John F. Kennedy and looking. just as fashionable today as it ever did. before. >> The NASA Gemini astronauts of the 1960s, [music]. the pairs they're wearing, the original. pilot. The entire team was outfitted. with these sunglasses when they took. that amazing journey for the first time. And today, our original pilot is our. most popular style. Decades later, still. going. 200 workers, more than 5,000.

frames a month. >> America. >> Tonight in Cheshire, Connecticut, the. Waterberry Button Company since 1812. >> Hey, David. >> Owner David Fraser. >> Come on in. It's snowing. I'll show you. what we got going on. >> 38 workers and tonight they tell us. they're hiring. Hi, David. >> The button assembly team. >> Merry Christmas and have a happy. holiday. >> John, one of the new hires. >> We're just putting the finishing touches. on these buttons. >> The brass for their buttons from Iowa. and New York. A storied history, too. Making all the brass buttons for the US.

military. >> Got much left. >> And Hollywood, too. This scene from Gone. with the Wind. Even the crew on the. Titanic, their uniforms had the brass. buttons back in 1912. 85 years later, they made the buttons. for the Titanic movie. >> And tonight, they're hard at work with. one week left, still making their. buttons and their cuff links, hoping. you'll think of them for this [music]. Made in America Christmas. >> We love those words, made in America.

I'll see you right back here tomorrow. night. I'm David Mure. Good night. >> David [music] Mure, the most watched. newscast in America. And now ABC's World. News Tonight has [music] won the Emmy. for best live news program for the third. year in a row.