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into you ♪ ♪ i'm ready to dive right you ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ maybe it's the fact that every time i fall i lose it all ♪ ♪ but you got me from my head to my feet ♪ ♪ and i'm ready to dive ♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, breaking news. israel has retaliated against iran, according to a senior u.s. official. we have the latest from the region. and super fakes.
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>> some of these are chef's kiss. >> is your luxury handbag real or a replica? >> i'll say this one is real. thinking one is the genuine counterfeit. >> from the birken to the louis vuitton, the alarming rise in counterfeits and the quest to seize them. >> louis vuitton, the prada, the christian dior, gucci, we get everything. it's an endless fight we do. >> with fakes looks just like the real thing, the clues to help you know whether your bag is real. plus, the handsome henrys, cavill and golding. from superman to "crazy rich asians." the actors now starring together. >> we get to play every day. it's the world's greatest sand pit. >> ready? >> their new film is a rarely told world war ii story. >> good way, fredrick. >> thank you, captain. >> they managed to change the course of the war with a single mission. >> is this onscreen partnership only the beginning?
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>> are we going to see the henrys back on set together again? and the new taylor swift album. breaking a record before it was even released. >> "nightline" will be right back. i love that my daughter still needs me. but sometimes i can't help due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands, so i use nervive. nervive's clinical dose of ala reduces nerve discomfort in as little as 14 days. now i can help again. feel the difference with nervive. we all need fiber for our digestive health, but less than 10% of us get enough each day. good thing metamucil gummies are an easy way to get prebiotic, plant-based fiber. with the same amount of fiber as 2 cups of broccoli. metamucil gummies the easy way to get your daily fiber.
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thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. israel has retaliated against
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iran, according to a senior u.s. official. it comes five days after tehran launched a direct military assault on israel, firing more than 300 drones and missiles. most of those were intercepted with the help of allies, including the u.s. and since that unprecedented weekend attack, israel had vowed to retaliate. video posted online tonight showing air defense weapons use over haisfahan. matt, what are you seeing from tel aviv? >> hey, juju, it's morning here, the start of a major holiday weekend. they are answering texts, but they're saying nothing about this strike. we do have, as you just mentioned, a u.s. official telling us that israel did strike iran. we don't know if there are casualties. we don't know what facility they targeted or hit. iranian media saying it's near isfahan, a central iranian city. they say it's an area that has an international airport, a military base, and possible
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iranian nuclear assets. and of course israel has been telegraphing, especially the military that there will be some sort of response. they haven't specified what it will be. the israeli government has been silent until now. juju? >> juju: matt gutman, thank you. we'll have all the latest developments online and on "good morning america" in the morning. we switch gears now to an alarming rise in counterfeit purses. they've become the most seized items by u.s. customs. luxury handbags have long been one of fashion's most sought after status accessories. but along with that rise, there has also been a rise in super fakes, so close to the real thing they fool all but the experts. could your purse be a fake? here's what you need to know. here is abc's janai norman. >> these are i'd dall, but one is real and one is fake. can you tell me which one is which? >> reporter: dupes and replicas are taking over. >> this feels like real. >> dior dupe.
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>> reporter: at a time when high-end luxury brands like herms me, chanel and prada continue to boost their prices, buying luxury feels less obtainable than ever. some consumers are turning to the resale market to get luxury goods. can we go look back there? >> yes. >> while others are turning to so-called super fakes. they're considered high quality fakes, nearly as good as the real thing, but for a much lower price. >> this is the new hardware. >> reporter: a study from michigan state university says counterfeiters are normalizing the stigma of owning counterfeits, in part by using influencers to peddle their products. the handbag, america's forever status symbol, is a fashion statement showing who's who. with shows like "sex & the city" -- >> it's $4,000.
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>> i know. >> and there is a weight list. >> i assumed. >> five years. >> reporter: but now sometimes it's the celebrities sporting the fakes. >> how are you doing? >> real housewives jen shaw madeheads headlines for being found to have dozens of counterfeit luxury handbags following her arrest for federal fraud. in 2023, handbags and wallets ranked as the second most seized counterfeit item by u.s. customs, worth over $600 million in estimated retail value. >> so we've got hundreds of birkens available. and when you come into one of our flagship locations, you can literally shop between hundreds of birkens at your disposal. >> reporter: sarah davis runs fashion file, a resale platform that sales second-hand luxury handbags. so what have you learned about our society's obsession with
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luxury and the kind of person who can afford a resold bag that's still thousands of dollars? >> i feel like there is a gravitation on the other side to things that are tangible, things that have history that just -- there is story behind it. like louis vuitton, peek talk about the monogram. oh, is it overplayed? you see ate lot. but it was designed in the 1800s. what else has been cool that long, you know? it's amazing! >> reporter: each bag sent for resale to fashion file undergoes an authentication process. and they keep some bags determined as counterfeits for educational purposes. but being able to tell the difference between a real and a super fake isn't always easy. >> i can see the difference between the prints, but this looks glossier. that's probably fake. >> inside is super important. >> yeah. this is thicker than this. this looks higher quality. i think this one's real thinking is a real counterfeit.
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>> really? >> this is a counterfeit. >> reporter: especially for the untrained eye. the key differences can lie in the smallest of details. from zipper engraves. >> the zipper profile on a louis vuitton zipper, it should never have any kind of shape or engraving there. and you look on the authentic one, you'll see there is nothing there. >> reporter: to logo placement. >> we have a leather maid in patch that says louis vuitton, made in france. it actually kind of falls right around this bend here, which really doesn't lend itself to a nicely made piece. and the authentic piece, it's distinctly in a different place. it actually is placed on the back of the bag here rather than under the top. so we have another louis vuitton style, two identical bags. >> i'll say this one is real. >> this is the genuine counterfeit. >> oh, my gosh. >> you're two for two!
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so what you noticed on this, they copied the engraves pretty exactly. they both say the same thing. there is just a difference in the finish. this is actually overpolished. so it kind of gives a wavy finish. where the genuine one, i can see it's a much cleaner engraving. >> the growth is there has never been more counterfeits that are better, the super fakes like today. and yet the luxury brands have never been stronger. >> reporter: last fiscal year, customs and border production seized nearly 23 million counterfeit goods nationwide worth more than $2 billion in estimated retail value. the most common counterfeit items continued to be luxury goods. in november 2023, federal prosecutors executed the largest seizure of counterfeit goods in u.s. history. >> we're talking about a whole storage facility that was fill of counterfeit handbags. i have just never seen anything like that. >> reporter: the storage
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facilities held over $1,000 counterfeit luxury items valued at over $700 million estimateded retail value, calculated as if they were authentic. >> they're bringing in so much that it's just hard to stay on top of it. technology, you know. the ability to make a super fake is easier now than ever before. >> reporter: we went to a shipment processing warehouse at jfk airport in new york. customs agents led by director of field operations frank russo inspect cargo coming in from all over the world. >> we were developed as a result of 9/11. and, you know, our job is to protect a country through terrorists and instruments of terror. counterfeit goods are a direct link to terrorist organizations. there is no doubt about it. >> reporter: when we asked the cbp for evidence linking counterfeits to terrorism in the u.s., they cited the 1993 attack on the world trade center.
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they also asserted that other terrorist organizations have engaged in the sale of counterfeit goods and stolen cultural artifacts to help fund their organization, but declined to provide specifics. officials say weapons from the 2015 terror attack on french magazine "charlie hebdo" was financed in part by fake nike sneakers. >> our officers and import specialists are the first ones to look at that cargo coming in and determine on the spot whether it needs to be opened up or not. we are what keeps the stuff from getting on to the streets of our cities. >> reporter: the inspection team opens up hundreds of boxes, averaging 82 seizures a day. but given the volume of shipment, a lot still end up falling through the cracks. >> take a walk in manhattan, and those bags you see on the sidewalk got through. we do the best we can. but we're outnumbered, i guess.
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>> reporter: a package's origin is the first clue that a shipment of handbags is likely filled with fakes. >> there is no concealment here. it's like shooting fish in a barrel, you know. we go to a warehouse. we check the country of origin, we look at the bags, we look at the shipper, and 99.9% of the time, it is what what it is. >> china and hong kong are probably closer to 70% of all the counterfeit goods that we see. >> reporter: the second clue, when a variety of luxury brands are shipped in the same box. >> well, i mean, they'll pack them up good. in a little box like this you'll get 50 items sometimes. >> custom agents inspect cargo from bags that are violating u.s. intellectual property rights. once an item is seeds, it's repacked for processing. >> usually, it doesn't fit quite the way it did when it came out. my wife does all the packing when we go on vacation. it's not one of my strong points. >> reporter: import specialists confirm if the seized items are
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actually counterfeits. >> so like louis vuitton, chanel, they've trained us how we can tell if their products are real or fake when it comes through the port. >> once it's confirmed an item is fake, they determine the manufacturer's suggested retail price and pass it on to the special enforcement team where it's eventually destroyed. >> i have this phrase that i use. the bitterness of poor quality lasts much longer than the happiness of a good price. >> juju: our thanks to enai. see more super fakes, the shadow world of counterfeit purses. streaming now on hulu. when we return, henry cavill and henry golding on screen together in a rarely told war story. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up, i've got symptom relief. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪
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♪ >> juju: welcome back. you know henry cavill and henry golding from huge hits like "super man" and "crazy rich asians." they're combining their star power in a new action comedy about world war ii, directed by guy ritchie. here is any "nightline" colleague ashan singh. >> welcome to "nightline." everybody has been asking about this star henry duo. what is it like being on set together? this is your first time working together? >> yeah. >> yeah, it is. >> it was confusing a lot of the time there was a lot of henrys and a character called henry as well. >> well, there is henry gay as well. >> and henry gay. >> it was an awesome cast. what was it like working with
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everyone on this picture? >> absolutely amazing. terrible. >> the whole thing was an adventure. working with guy especially is one of those things where each day is a creative process. guy creates a real sense of freedom on set. >> i was going to say, when you're watching a guy ritchie film, you can really tell it's a guy ritchie film. you worked with anymore in "the man from uncle". >> you actually worked this through. >> don't play with me, i'm a busy man, and i would like you to consider an offer. >> can you tell when guy ritchie is on set? . there is a huge camaraderie. so when you're on set, i think the best moments in his films are lines that have either come out from like just from ad-libbing or the moment of or literally you've made a couple cheeky suggestion. and that, that, that. and he roms with it. >> this is a movie that's based on an actual world war ii mission. and then later on a book. i want to talk a little bit about it. but first, let's watch a clip.
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>> freddie, should we be worried? >> oh, i don't think so, simple. it's a rather large explosive. so i set a rather large fuse. i located it outside of the powder room. so when it goes bang, it merely should go bang. >> closer. >> it should be any second now, chaps. ♪ >> freddie? good work, fredrick. >> thank you, captain. >> operation post masted, did you know about this before you read for the film? >> i didn't. >> i wasn't familiar with it. and a lot of the character, especially cavill's character has so much history behind who he's influenced and what the missions were so sort of evolved into. >> navy s.e.a.l.s, delta force, that kind of stuff. they came from these people doing this kind of mission. and they managed to change the course of the war with a single
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mission. it was suicide mission. on paper, and yet they snuck in there, and they shut down the nazi submarine operation essentially in the atlantic all by themselves. >> so many fans know you as superman. >> thank you. >> for what? >> for believing in me. >> but gus is a different kind of super hero. how did you prepare for this role? >> i just grew a funny mustache, really. >> lots of wax. >> the incredible facial hair in the movie by the way. >> it's a lot of fun. i wanted this to be a bit of fun as well. i really wanted to lean into falling back in love with filmmaking. and who better to do that with than guy ritchie. and it's -- i was growing the mustache. >> was growing the beard out. and i spoke to guy and what do you think? he said it's great, yeah, go with it. always a sense of hyperbole to it. we're always slightly dialed up. so the mustache i thought added
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my ■littlebit too t. >> i attempted to grow a mustache, but being asian, ver patchy. i didn't get the twirl iesh. >> i thought you were okay. >> best effort. >> you blew up on "crazy rich asians," a rom com. >> we were literally just talking about that. how could you know? >> freddie alvarez is a very different character. what was it like channelling this action hero? >> it's a lot of fun. it really is. the joyful part of being in an ensemble that thoroughly love what we do is we get to play every day. it's the world's greatest sand pit. >> i got to ask you on a personal level. so many people know you as superman, but you're known on social media, sharing the dogs, cooking on instagram. 2 million followers. why it is important for you to be able to connect with your fans on a personal level when they know you as someone who is wearing that cape? >> when first wearing the cape,
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it was important to me that i didn't just wear the cape on set, that there is a responsibility as an actor to represent that character, to stand for what he represents, especially to young people. and social media is a great way of providing a window to people to set examples as well. and just try and get some good messaging out there. >> i got to ask you, one last question. are we going to see the henrys back on set together again? >> i hope. >> so i hope so too, yeah. >> henry cavill and henry golding, fellows, thank you so much. . >> juju: our thanks to ashan. "the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare" hits theaters tomorrow. when we come back, swifties rejoice. a new taylor swift album has arrived. to help protect from hiv, i prep without pills. with apretude, a prescription medicine used to reduce the risk of hiv without daily prep pills.
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