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as we terrorize the streets allan's head's out the window cigarette in his teeth ♪ ♪ the neighbors tellin' us to slow it down shake their heads in disbelief ♪ ♪ well we're breakin all the rules cuz they're getting in the way and we'll never be as ♪ ♪ young as we are today and they're claiming i'm a fool but i look the other way ♪ ♪ they can tell me what to do when i'm old and grey now the stars ♪ ♪ are ours tonight we'll worry 'bout tomorrow when the sun starts shining bright ♪ ♪ then we'll sleep but now the stars are ours tonight we'll worry 'bout tomorrow ♪ ♪ when the sun starts shining bright then we'll sleep ♪ ♪ hey
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ho hey ho ♪ ♪ hey ho hey [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: mayer hawthorne, you can see the bonus song from jimmy kimmel live.com. and apologies to matt damon, we ran out of time, tomorrow, music from joan jett and the blackhearts, thank you for joining us, we're out of time.
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tonight, on "nightline." abc news exclusive. we talked to the sole survivor from one of the biggest firefighting tragedies since 9/11. and an entire team gone, he tells us what happened that day, what he heard and how he survived. >> you torment yourself, thinking i wish i would have done this or that. it is the girl next door, kicked up a notch. america's sweetheart like you have never seen here, jennifer aniston is getting down and dirty. opening up to us about fame and family and sliding down a stripper's pole. >> have some respect, that is
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your mother. >> and we would say this is their big break if they were not already famous. eli and peyton manning are having a moment in the sun with a new viral rap video, tonight on "feed frenzy". >> keep it right here, america, "night
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from new york city, this is "nightline." with dan abrams. good evening, and thank you for joining us. how did a wildfire cause the deaths of 19 of the most prepared and bravest firefighting pros? and why did only one of their members live to tell the tale? it seemed like a manageable fire until the shift in the wind changed everything. tonight, the lone survivor talks
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about the last hours, who made the final calls, including the decision that saved his life. here is abc's brian ñrross. >> reporter: the first report of what happened on that fateful day in yarnell's arizona, came from this terse call from a paramedic, lowered down from a charred scene. 19 fatalities. 19 of the 20 members. >> just started to pop up right away? >> yeah. >> reporter: what led to the deaths of the experienced team of hotshots remains under official investigation, but now for the first tomorrow, the lone survivor, brendan mcdonough is talking about what he saw, heard and how he survived. >> i asked a million times, why am i sitting here and why isn't
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-- why aren't they sitting here with me? >> reporter: all wildfires can become dangerous. >> everything seemed normal, not threatening. just a typical day going direct on a fire. >> reporter: but at first, this one last june, on a rocky hill side, outside the town of yarnell, seemed nothing out of the ordinary. >> rocky country, pretty steep, and we're going to be on the move. >> reporter: one of the hotshots, andrew ashcraft, even took a moment while they ate lunch and texted a photo to his wife. >> just like a normal work day. >> reporter: hardly, by the time brendan and the other firefighters arrived, aerial chemicals were dropped, to no avait. but their chief said the team was up to the task. >> they're all excited. they're going to a fire. it is their day off, they're
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excited about working on their day off. they're going to make some overtime. from where you can see the fire, it is up high. that is when our superintendent and the captain asked me to be the lookout. >> reporter: that would be the assignment that separated him from the others and saved mcdonough's life. based on his description and the other firefighters, the 19 others were here, unable to see the fire from a ridge line. mcdonough was stationed here, able to see the fire and the other hotshots. >> so i was down, able to look at them and the fire, too, at the same time. >> reporter: and everything seemed normal, not threatening? >> yeah, everything seemed normal, not threatening. >> reporter: around 3:45 in the afternoon, everything changed. the winds that had been driving the fire away from the hotshots began to shift dramatically. >> at that point i could see the fire already -- instead of moving north it started moving
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south. >> reporter: towards you? >> yeah, instead of backing towards us, it was starting to come ahead. >> reporter: racing towards you? >> yes. >> reporter: mcdonough said the team around the ridge could now see what was happening, contradicting some accounts that they were unaware of the fire. >> they could see it as well. they said if you need to go out of there, go ahead and get out of there. we can see what is going on, we want you to be safe, too. i just wanted to keep it short and simple. if you need anything, call me, i'm on the other end of the fire, if you need anything, buggies are parked. okay, see you soon. >> reporter: are who said that? >> my captain. said all right, i'll see you soon. >> reporter: that was the last time mcdonough talked to them. he was at what they call the trigger point, time to make a move. so you said you're at the trigger point? >> yeah, i'm going.
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>> reporter: should they have left then, too? >> that is not something o-- tht is not my decision. >> reporter: do you wonder about that? >> no, i never questioned the decisions they made, i never did before. it was not a bad decision. >> reporter: as the fire picked up speed, now moving about a quarter of a mile a minute. mcdonough made his way out of the path of flames. and then very bad news, his team had been forced to deploy their emergency shelter fire shelters, a last ditch step. >> it is not something you want to hear. there were a lot of cases that people survived, so there was hope. >> reporter: but the fire was incredibly intense, flames 50 feet high with thick smoke and the radios were now silent. what were you thinking what you heard that? >> why wasn't i there with them? and to pray. for their safety. and to pray that they would be able to see their families
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again. >> reporter: once the smoke began to clear, the paramedic found what he later called a moon scape appearance, as he got clos closer, i could hear voices, i yelled up to the shelters repeatedly, but received for response, as i approached the shelters, i observed multiple firefighters who were obviously deceased and burned black. i walked up to the shelter deployment site and determined that the voices i heard were the firefighters. the paramedic radioed in all the discoveries. >> i need you to contact -- advise them that i have 19 fatalities. >> i sunk, i was still with one of the vehicles, with the buggies. whoever didn't bring their phones, i could hear phones ringing, knowing it was their wives, their families. i sunk into my seat, myself, i
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couldn't think. >> reporter: in the six weeks since, brendan mcdonough has suffered the guilt of the survivor. grieving in private, and facing the public. >> that was the worst feeling ever, knowing the families would see me, but nobody else off that crew. no one. i was the only person i would see. >> reporter: do you torment yourself, thinking you wish you would have done this or that? >> there is nothing else i could have done except be on the hill with them, if somebody else had been in my position, to be with them in my boots. there was nothing else that i could have done. i did everything that was expected of me. >> reporter: the chain link fence is a memorial of sorts, welcome but pain of reminders for the young man who says he is no hero. do you think of yourself as a hero? >> i just think of myself as doing what i had been told.
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i look at a hero as somebody who laid their life down. >> reporter: you were prepared to? >> yeah, i would have. >> bless my hotshot crew, my fami family, one and all. >> reporter: at a memorial service in front of the families, with the governor and the vice president, the young man led a prayer for his firefighting brothers. >> thank you, and i miss my brothers. >> reporter: for "nightline," this is brian ross, abc news. >> such a sad story, our hearts are with all 20 of those families. more photos are available on abc news/nightline. next, we switch gears with jennifer aniston and show you a side of her we've never seen before.
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there may be no celebrity on the planet whose personal life has been cut up as thoroughly and often inaccurately as jennifer aniston's. think about it. when is the last time you passed a news stand with "she is pregnant" headline. it is often played out in the most public of forums. abc's amy robak sat down to talk to jennifer aniston about all
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the attention in tonight's "nightline" interview. >> reporter: this is jennifer aniston like you have never seen her before. >> what do you want? >> how would you like to spend fourth of july weekend making ten grand? >> reporter: in jennifer aniston's latest movie "we're the millers" america's sweetheart gets racy, playing a burned out stripper. >> i'm not buying you, all right? i'm renting you. >> from the beginning, i said yes, thinking well, wouldn't that just be great? i have never played a stripper, at least not in film. and then this panic sets in about two or three weeks before, a week before the actual day of shooting. >> reporter: for nearly ten years, jennifer aniston has played the role of america's sweetheart, on screen o-- and i real life. >> jennifer. >> reporter: her path into her heart was carved out of sympathy
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for her very famous, public split from her husband, brad pitt, who was cast as a victim. who seemed meant to be more of a bridesmaid than a bride. i wonder why it is that people of are so invested in your happiness, whether or not you have children? >> what is it that defines happiness? it is different for everybody. it is a lot of projection, i am so content and happy that wherever i am, knowing that whatever is going to be will be. >> reporter: she has dominated the covers for decades, listed as one of the most intriguing. voted as one of the most beautiful, the sexiest, and earned her way onto the top of the forbes list. but it is clear the tabloid fodder about pregnancies or
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marriage, is still a source of stress. >> reporter: i read the cover again that you're pregnant, what is it like, being the focus of so much attention? >> i am not comfortable with it. the center of tabloid fodder is not a career aspiration that i have. >> reporter: her beau popped the question a year ago, she seems to have it all. she is one of the highest paid actresses. in her latest film "we're the millers" her character decides to pose as a normal housewife, to help jason sudeikis smug drugs over the mexican border. >> oh, you have a baby! oh, i love babies! oh, look at that -- what is that
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beautiful little baby's name? >> this is our little lebron. >> name's lebron. >> little french fella. >> reporter: what was it like to create this faux family to you? >> honestly, it was kind of fun we sort of got to walk the line of real sweet and wholesome, and then walk this dark line. >> my wife is just a cheap stripper. >> has some respect, that is your mother. >> how many hours a day did you have to work out? >> just one. >> you're in your 40s, is it a best age for you? >> my 40s, 100%, i just feel great. much better shape, feel better than i did in my 20s for sure. >> reporter: this comedy is steeped in irony, mixing racy
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themes with family drama. did it make you think about what family means to you in this 21st century? >> well, what family means to me is the family i have chosen. and my friends and my partner are truly my family. >> reporter: in a world of instant tmi, privacy is wishful thinking, but aniston is holding onto what she has left, refusing to join twitter. >> reporter: what kind of tweets would you put out there? >> probably just correcting every false rumor. >> reporter: what is the dumbest question somebody asked you today? >> if i was to have a child, would i want a boy or girl? i didn't realize you could place orders. >> reporter: it has left her somewhat soured for the price of freedom. >> yet she always handles herself with great poise. next, the nfl's manning brothers are moonlighting and it has gone
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using gots -- goats to keep a lawn green, and burglars who return to the scene for their loot. on feed frenzy. breaking back in, burglars in southern california successfully ripped off an office center making off with computers and other valuables. but once they took the loot, they realized they unknowingly targeted a charity, and broke back in with an apology letter saying we had no idea what we were taking, here is your stuff back. hoping you guys can make a difference in people's lives. god bless, maybe not exactly robin hood, but maybe hoodlums with heart. and manning the phones, eli and peyton manning, now rap stars? in a three-minute long video for directtv that has gone viral, they promote using your phone to keep up with the game any time,
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any place, it has some sexy ladies. and a tattoo moment. two of the greatest sports stars ever, rocking a whole new kind of uniform. you never know, maybe life after football will include a variety show. and living lawn mowers, an unusual threat, trees that were on head stones. they apparently found a great solution, it is a win-win game. the goats ingest the seeds of invasive species. who says there is no free lunch. thank you for joining us on abc news, tomorrow, an exclusive interview. a shocking case that captivated the country and led to the film "capturing the freedmans."

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