Tonight the powerful winter blast, snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, sending early winter shockwaves through much of the country.

Heavy snow pounding parts of the east coast, cars and trucks spinning out.

Hundreds of crashes reported.

This semi-truck left in pieces after being hit by a train.

And the brutal cold freezing out the south,

beachgoers bundling in Florida and frozen iguanas falling from trees. More drastic cuts at the nation's

airports, more than 1,000 flights canceled again today and the warning, it could get much worse

if the government doesn't reopen.

Those cuts impacting the race back to Washington for members of Congress, with a key vote to

end the shutdown set for tomorrow. One House member even riding his motorcycle all the way from

Wisconsin, but the question tonight, do Republicans have the votes to reopen the government?

Show of force the Pentagon's largest aircraft carrier arrives in the Latin American region.

Richard Engel on the ground in Colombia,

with the fishermen now more worried about taking their boats into the water.

Dozens of tourists rescued after their

catamaran sunk off the coast of the Dominican Republic, life preservers thrown to safe passengers

stranded at sea. The president's controversial proposal could a 50-year mortgage help more

Americans afford homes? We crunch the numbers. Massive bridge collapse, a landslide,

sending rocks hurtling down, crushing a bridge just months after it opened. The terrifying moments

a tram hurls past stops because of a dozing conductor. And on this Veterans Day, the World War II

vet reminding us all of the power

of service for both country and community. Nightly News starts right now.

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