good morning, america. this morning, joyous celebration. pope francis leading easter mass in a packed st. peter's square, his message to the adoring crowd and to the world on this holiest of days. but, why was the pontiff checking the time right after the service? preventing a copycat. on the eve of the boston marathon, a look inside the high-tech bunker where they have one goal, stopping another attack. close encounter. a couple charged by a moose on this snowmobiling trail. >> oh, oh. >> how they finally managed to scare him off. and it's a royal animal house. the family adventure down under, taking will, kate and baby

george to a zoo. check out george's reaction as he adopts an animal only found in australia. ♪ be a ruler you can call me queen bee and baby i'll rule i'll rule ♪ ♪ i'll rule let me live that fantasy ♪ good morning, everybody. happy easter. we're all dressed up for easter. we've got bright colors on except sara haines who decided to wear black today. i don't know why. >> happy easter! >> but i love embarrassing sara right at the beginning of the show. >> we were matching this morning. >> i'll pay for this later in the day. prince george, once again, stealing the show during that family trip to the zoo. he couldn't get enough of the animal they named after him. it's a bilby, sometimes according to google, referred to as australia's easter bunny. there it is. and check this out when mom tries to hand george a -- no, thank you. yeah, look at that. slow motion.

rejection. >> yes. >> reminds me of jake. jake says, no, okay, no, okay. what all babies seem to do. did he have a mohawk, by the way? >> george. >> looks like a mohawk. still very cute. royal mohawk. >> also, will it be sunny this easter sunday? we're very happy to have meteorologist cecily tynan from our abc station wpvi in philadelphia watching it. happy easter. >> it's a beautiful morning so far. >> it's nice so far. most of the nation is looking pretty good. not everywhere. >> we should say ryan smith is in for ron claiborne. good morning to you, sir. always a pleasure to have you. >> oh, thank you for having me too. >> happy easter to you. >> happy easter. and we're going to begin with easter sunday celebrated around the globe. at the vatican, pope francis giving his second easter mass along with his message to the world before a jam-packed crowd in st. peter's square. abc's marci gonzalez is here with more. good morning, marci. and happy easter to you. love the yellow dress. >> reporter: oh, why, thank you. happy easter to you too, bianna, and jam packed is right. there are record crowds at the vatican.

officials there expecting 3 million visitors this week. and, of course, many of them gathered there this morning on this sundayny easter sunday. on the biggest day in the christian calendar, crowds go wild for the people's pope. cruising past the faithful in his open-air popemobile, a security risk that's always a concern, pope francis reportedly apologizing to the crowds that he couldn't stop to glad hand, kiss babies and take selfies like he did on palm sunday because he was running late to deliver his easter message. more than 100,000 people gathered in st. peter's square to hear it. [ speaking a foreign language ] from some of the oldest easter traditions, including the holy fire ceremony in jerusalem, at the tomb where christians believe jesus was resurrected, to more modern celebrations. across the globe, millions are marking this easter sunday. in peru, a colorful procession.

in greece, two rival parishes firing tens of thousands of homemade rockets at each other's churches during mass in what despite its look they call a friendly tradition. vladimir putin attending services in russia while in ukraine, the government unsuccessfully calling for an easter truce through the weekend. new yorkers up before dawn this morning saw the empire state building lit up in easter purple and are heading out for services as so many others are doing this morning around the world. and the easter traditions continue tomorrow with the annual easter egg roll at the white house. >> all right, thank you, marci. to a decidedly less peaceful story now, a new and lethal provocation in the tinderbox of the ukraine this morning. a crisis that is drawing america further into a new cold war with russia. for the latest now, let's get it over to abc's alex marquardt who is on the ground in ukraine. alex, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. ukraine had announced a pause in

its military operation to quash pro-russian unrest in part of this country but a deadly firefight this morning is deepening divisions and disrupting a country already on the brink. around 3:00 a.m., pro-russian forces say they were attacked outside of a town they say they control. there are conflicting reports on how many have been killed. we have been told up to four. they accuse the attackers of being prosecutor a far right nationalist group which is a aligned with a new far right nationalist group that has not been confirmed. further proof that that deal signed last week with secretary of state kerry that illegal groups disarm and leave those buildings that they've occupied have had zero effect here on the ground. dan? >> this crisis continuing to simmer. alex, thank you. back at home they're expecting 36,000 runners and possibly a million spectators tomorrow for the 118th running of the boston marathon. after last year's bombings, of course, there will be an

extraordinary level of security. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross is in boston this morning. he's going to bring us a look inside the high-tech command center. brian, good morning. what is new this year in terms of security? >> reporter: good morning, dan. what's really new are all the cameras that have been installed along the marathon route. from the finish line here out to the starting point 26.2 miles away. the cameras will all be monitored in a high-tech underground command center called the bunker. last year surveillance cameras were able to spot the two people allegedly responsible for the bomb attack. this year the goal is to see if there's anything going on to stop it before it happens. along with all the cameras, there will also be 4,000 police officers along the race route. plus 500 undercover plainclothes detectives. spectators have been asked although not required to leave their backpacks at home. anyone who brings one will likely get a friendly tap on the she'll be searched. >> so what are officials pose worried about? >> reporter: well, the boston

police commissioner, bill evans, told me yesterday his greatest fear is a copycat attack that would mirror what happened last year. to that end, they had a dry run this past week on tuesday during the memorial tribute when a man was spotted carrying a backpack saying he had a pressure cooker bomb inside it that police took the backpack on the ground, detonated it, determined it was just a rice cooker with confetti. >> a huge day for boston, logistically and psychologically tomorrow. brian ross, thank you for your reporting this morning. bianna, over to you. >> dan, i know you'll be in boston as well tomorrow. but we're going to turn now to that big hit against al qaeda in yemen. the u.s. drone strike killing at least ten militants. and abc's martha raddatz who is hosting "this week" has done extensive reporting on terror in the region and she joins us now from washington. good morning, martha. what do we know about these militants? >> reporter: good morning, bianna. these militants have been tracked for some time. they apparently had been in some sort of training camp in yemen. not unusual. a u.s. drone and the drone operators tracked their pickup

truck as soon as they left that training camp, launched a hellfire missile, hit their pickup truck. ten of those militants, as you say, were killed. others were injured. unfortunately, there was another truck right there as well and three civilians were killed, apparently construction workers. but they say one of these was a recruiter, an al qaeda recruiter in the pickup truck. another one was some sort of radical preacher. and the others were likely al qaeda foot soldiers. >> and you mentioned the loss of innocent lives, and we know that drone strikes are very controversial for that reason. was this something that was cord anywayed with the yemeni government? >> absolutely, in fact, bianna, the yemeni government was the first to announce these drone strikes. and they did announce that civilians were killed but there's always some sort of consultation with the yemeni government before they do these drone strikes. >> yeah, yemen a hot bed for al qaeda. martha, our thanks to you and, of course, martha will have much more on the drone attack, plus all of the stories in washington

this morning coming up later on abc's "this week." meantime, there are other stories developing overnight. and for that we're going to go to abc's ryan smith who is in for ron claiborne. hey, ryan. >> hey, good morning, bianna, dan, as well. okay, this morning, we begin with new details about what's going on -- what was going on at the helm of the south korean ferry as it was sinking. this as the grim recovery effort resumes. and this morning, transcripts just released of communication with the ferry reveals confusion and indecision with a crew member who was questioning whether an evacuation was the right move. now, that was well after the ship began listing dangerously. meantime, divers have finally managed to make their way into the sunken vessel discovering dozens of bodies. 56 people, mostly high school students are confirmed dead and 250 others remain missing. the ship's captain has been charged with negligence after it was revealed that he was in his bedroom while a rookie third mate was at the helm during the disaster. and here in the u.s., problems mounting with general motors with yet another -- with news of yet another delayed

recall. new federal documents revealed the auto giant waited years to recall nearly 335,000 saturn ions for power steering failures. gm apparently held off on the recall despite getting thousands of consumer complaints and the recall affected the 2004 to 2007 model years of saturn ions. both gm and the national transportation safety board have been criticized recently to their slow response to the switch problem. it was in 2.6 million gm cars. a united airlines flight on its way to san francisco made an emergency landing in indianapolis on saturday after the crew reported a cracked windshield. take a look at that. united flight 766, which departed from new york's jfk airport, landed without any problems. all 146 passengers on board were safely transferred to another flight. and take a look at this enormous sinkhole. see that right there. that's in florida. the earth opened up. you see it's still going. this is in the villages

retirement community which had sinkholes before. check out that collapse but never one this big. this one, about 50 feet deep. and so far residents from two homes have been evacuated but more may be asked to leave if the sinkhole spreads and crews are working to fill the hole which they believe opened up after all the rain in the area. and finally, well, everybody wants the president's attention. but how do you get it? this is one for ingenuity. this band in pittsburgh knew the exact time the president's motorcade was going to drive by so they turned their driveway into a stage hoping to get the president's attention. and they got it. this was as he was passing by on his speech at a local community college. turns out mr. obama liked what he heard and that happened. the band was given a backstage meet and greet. the group also got a presidential shout-out and a thumbs up at the end of wednesday's speech. how about that? >> good for them. >> see what happens when you're creative? >> right. and here's the kicker, the president said he wants a copy of the cd when it comes out. >> really? >> album sales up.

how about that? >> at least by one. >> yes. >> go on itunes for that. >> yeah. >> thanks, ryan. >> sure thing. we're going to turn now to a slow moving landslide suddenly accelerating and threatening an area in a popular resort town. rattled residents watched helplessly as houses and roads ripped apart. abc's michelle franzen has the very latest. >> reporter: the force of mother nature in jackson, wyoming. this time a slow-moving landslide that ripped jeremy budge's home into two. take a look at the damage captured by an aerial camera. >> it's basically broken in half now. it's been quite amazing to watch the progress of the slide. >> reporter: budge moved from his home last november but this week things went from bad to worse when the slide split the house. the longtime resident grew up in this town known as the gateway to yellowstone national park. in the past ten days, dozens of residents have been forced to leave their homes. >> they said we had a couple of hours to get out of the house.

so, we grabbed some clothes and we took off. >> reporter: the ground has been shifting for weeks, but in the past few days, officials say the slide has doubled in speed and force. take a look at the parking lot of this walgreens, now closed and right in the slide's path. >> there is a possibility that this big cliff face could suddenly collapse. >> reporter: crews are braving the crumbling and fractured slope to put up barriers and help guard the town's water main and sewage lines. meanwhile, residents including budge's daughter remain on edge. >> really stressful and really sad. kind of makes you feel like your whole life is up in the air. >> reporter: experts are looking at a number of possible causes for this slide, including including man-made. but the main focus now, stabilizing all that dirt, clay and rock before it moves any further. >> a stressful time for them. michelle, thank you very much. moving on now, plenty of men have run for president while being grandfathers and yet this weekend the entire political world is abuzz with talk about

what impact chelsea clinton's impending baby might have on the presidential campaign that her mom hillary might launch in 2016. abc's susan saulny is in washington with more on this. ♪ >> reporter: who doesn't love a baby, especially politicians and other public figures. prince george is doing wonders for the royal family's popularity. look at those cheeks. this morning, speculation abounds. could chelsea clinton's own baby announcement have a similar impact on an american dynasty? >> mark and i are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: if hillary clinton ran for president in 2016, she would have a grandbaby in the heat of the presidential campaign season. it's something she's publicly longed for. >> i wouldn't mind one of those grandchildren that hear so much about. >> reporter: that was just a month ago with jimmy kimmel. was she already in the know? imagine the photo-op. instead of hugging and kissing strangers' babies, she would hug one of her own.

a warm, maternal image to counter the critics who call her cold and calculating. >> i think she's going to have to deal with how americans react to unchartered territory. whether it gives them a sense of comfort or a sense of discomfort, and she's going to have to manage herself through all of that in a place that really nobody has ever had to manage herself through. >> reporter: hillary clinton's upcoming book titled "hard choices" deals with her time as secretary of state. but now a harder choice to make. what will chelsea's baby call her? >> grandmother in chief. >> gigi clinton. >> gigi just seems like a really cool name. >> some people don't like to be called grandma. >> no, they don't. >> so maybe mama hillie. >> i think a good name would be mimi. >> reporter: now, whatever her decision, bianna, you can bet that none of the 4 million babies expected to be born in the u.s. this year will be as closely watched as this little one. >> yeah, none of the 4 million babies will likely have security detail, as well. >> exactly. >> so we're excited to see this baby. >> absolutely. well, we're going to turn now to a couple's frightening encounter with a moose that was

in no mood for fun. their snowmobiling adventure taking a crazy turn when this animal decided to, well, defend its territory, and ryan is back with this story. this is frightening stuff. >> yeah, it is when you look at it. this morning, a couple is glad to be alive after coming face to face with an angry moose. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: this terrifying run-in with a moose was caught on camera by janice and bob powerful powell during a snowmobile trek in maine. moments after sharing the trail with the beast, the one-ton beast comes to a sharp halt. >> his fur was standing up. his ears was back. his head went low. >> reporter: the powells say wild animals, a common sight on these trails, generally keep their distance but this time was different. watch as the moose stomps toward bob, forcing him to duck behind his snowmobile. >> the only thing i could think of is what i had to put myself between myself and the moose and unfortunately, that was just the snowmobile. >> reporter: the moose charges again and bob makes a

break for his wife's machine, nearly missing a head-butt from the moose. not taking any chances janice fires a warning shot. >> i knew what kind of time i had and that i might make it even more angry. >> reporter: at first, nothing. but soon enough, a retreat. no one, human or moose, was injured in the standoff. >> oh, my god. >> we both have a new appreciation for moose and wildlife in general, and we'll definitely be keeping more of a distance. >> absolutely. and the couple says this may be their last snowboarding trip after that, dan. >> i wonder why. >> no surprise. >> was she rolling the whole time her husband was being chased by a giant moose? >> you know, the moose don't like to be videotaped. >> yes. >> no video cameras. >> yes. they've been writing a lot of anti-paparazzi legislation. thank you, ryan. appreciate that. from a large land mammal now to a ginormous fish. the joke about fisherman, they tend to exaggerate the size of their catch.

but one guy who recently reeled in a huge shark tried to keep it quiet. he's explaining why now and our sara haines is on the story. >> well, the only time you don't have to exaggerate the size of the fish caught is when your catch is probably a record-setting shark. the truth will probably be enough. how do you get that fish home maybe throw it in the bed of your pickup truck. that's exactly what joey polk did. take a look. an incredible catch of this enormous 11-foot, 800-pound mako shark on the gulf coast of florida. >> look at that fish! >> reporter: the shark's still flapping fins up on the shore when the fearless fisherman jumped in. joel which polk, who's been fishing since he was a little kid, could not let such a large prize go, deciding to get the rope and take him in. >> probably the best feeling you've ever felt in your life a thousand times over. it's unexplainable. >> reporter: polk and his two cousins took that feisty fish on and knew they had to get him home for dinner. >> he's just a real hard fighting fish, a vicious fish. and he's probably one of the fastest sharks in the sea.

>> reporter: this photo of the massive predator of the deep in the bed of polk's truck was snapped as he filled up for gas. it created a feeding frenzy online. eager fishermen trying to find polk's secret shark bed. so, where did this epic battle of man versus fish take place? if you ask polk, he won't bite. >> this is a spot handed down from our grandfather down to us. we'd like to keep it a secret and maybe one day i'll be able to pass it on to my kids. >> reporter: but what he's not afraid to share is the meat. hundreds of pounds of edible shark have been fried to perfection for a big community barbecue. >> we don't sell any of our fish. we just disperse it among the community. family and friends and a lot of people will be eating very good off of this fish. >> and he told us that this is very dangerous, they can attack at any moment. you really need to know the right time to step in. he strongly suggests only going out there if you're with someone who's extremely experienced, which he is, and he did mention that they always usually throw back the fish. this was one time they decided to dig in.

>> yeah, dan actually said he felt bad for the fish. >> i do feel a little bad when i see this. >> i'm not a big fisher, but they do normally throw them back, dan. that should make you feel better. >> not this one. >> 800 pounds changes the rules. >> that's a lot of fish. time now for the easter forecast and as we said at the top of the show, we welcome back wpvi's cecily tynan from our powerhouse station in philadelphia. good morning once again. >> well, good morning and i have got a basket full of beautiful weather on this easter important for most of the country but not everywhere. i want to show you some video out of el paso yesterday. this is from kvia and they received two times the normal april rainfall in only one hour yesterday. in addition to this, this looks a little bit like snow. but they had hail. pea to quarter size covering the lawns sending people running for cover. and this severe weather will be shifting a little bit farther to the east today. so, in western texas, from lubbock, midland to abilene

you will see some strong to severe storms. with not only hail but gusty winds. the potential for flooding rains. it will be somewhat unsettled as we head up towards the great lakes. but it's going to be warm. des moines, 80. kansas city, 80. fargo up to 75. so your easter forecast for some select cities on this easter sunday, hopkinton, massachusetts, beautiful sunny, 56. egg harbor, new jersey, 59. lily, kentucky, checking in at 78 degrees. two egg, florida, 73 and easter, texas, they'll be celebrating temperatures in the low 70s. that's a look at your national forecast.

>> and i'll have a look at the all-important boston marathon race day forecast next half hour. it's heating up a little bit. >> that's good though. >> not always good. >> okay. i always want to call you cecily tyson. do you get that? >> all the time. >> she will now. she will now. >> thanks. all right, coming up on "gma," meth mansion bust. police raiding a million-dollar lakefront home and arrest the owner. in this story it soups a lot like "breaking bad." and what happened when baby george met the beast australia calls the easter bunny? highlights from the royal romp down under. the dog is gone. no, literally, the dog is gone.

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♪ we'll never be royals ♪ royals it doesn't run in our blood ♪ and the world's most popular and adorable prince upstaging his own glamorous parents, baby george captivating crowds down under during a big family trip to the zoo. the special honor he received and could that little animal called the bilby actually be george's first word? his dad says it could be. >> yes, his dad is enthusiastic about that. instead of dad or mom it's going to be bilby or also coming up, thanks to a little photoshop magic from "people" magazine, celebrities are now getting to hang out with themselves. check out cindy crawford, then and now. plus, gwyneth paltrow. and we have also got jared leto. much more coming up in a breaking news edition of "pop news" this morning featuring sara haines. she's laughing at me already. we're starting off on the right

note. >> just another day. >> but first this half hour it's the crime story with distinct overtones of "breaking bad." authorities saying a sophisticated meth lab was found in a million-dollar mansion. >> neighbors in the wealthy suburb shocked that something like this was being set up right under their noses. there was actually a police officer who lived in this neighborhood, and abc's linzie has all the details. linzie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. it's incredible how much this sounds like a plot of "breaking bad." police searched the mansion outside of cleveland wearing equipment to protect themselves from the potentially explosive mixture of chemicals. they say they found sophisticated equipment needed for a meth lab rivaling the ones portrayed in the tv show. >> i am the danger. i am the one who knocks. >> reporter: meth labs, loaded guns and drug busts, all expected in an episode of amc's "breaking bad" but in a wealthy cleveland suburb, neighbors are feeling duped after learning the man living next door in a million dollar mansion is allegedly a real-life walter

white. >> the chemicals that were located in clandestine labs are very difficult and dangerous and, of course, explosive and fire hazards and we acted as quickly as we could. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies arrested 51-year-old madhu dutta after they say he put together a unique meth lab., police say dutta built a cyanide chloride lab, a heisenberg-like method that results in what's considered a superior product. >> methamphetamine was located in the bedroom along with some manuals, as well as equipment for this actual method, which is significantly rare. >> reporter: but it wasn't all flasks, masks and chemicals, police say deputies uncovered guns. they confiscated 11 shotguns and 3 handguns. one of the handguns locked and loaded. >> you don't think that that's going to happen on the shores of lake erie in a million dollar home.

>> reporter: police say dutta did all of this while living right across the street from a police officer. he's now facing two counts of possessing and assembling chemicals and one count of permitting drug use. well, dutta's due back in court on thursday. the investigation is ongoing. police say they know where he got his chemicals and they're working with the commercial suppliers to find out more. they say neighbors are lucky that this lab was not fully functional because, of course, once you start mixing those chemicals, you get fires and explosions. you've seen it all on "breaking bad." >> life imitating art. all right, linzie, thank you. a lot of other news overnight. we want to check in once again with ryan who's filling in for ron this morning. good morning, once again. >> good morning, good morning. all right. in the news, we begin with easter celebrations this sunday, the holiest of days for christians across the globe. pope francis presided over easter mass before a packed crowd at st. peter's square. more than 150,000 tourists, romans and pilgrims came together to listen to the pontiff. and in yemen a drone strike saturday killed at least ten suspected al qaeda militants, the attack coming just days after video surfaced showing a

massive al qaeda meeting. its leaders openly vowing to strike the united states. and take a look at this. dash cam video from russia, take a look. look at that. that strike right there. a fireball explosion looking a lot like a meteor. this explosion appears to not have caused any damage. a dramatic difference from last year's meteor sighting in siberia which blew out windows and rattled a lot of nerves and scientists have yet to confirm whether the new streaking light was an actual meteor. and finally the easter bunny made quite the entrance at this egg hunt in dallas texas. there he is in a copter hovering around -- >> he's not flying that thing, is he? >> no, but he's dropping eggs out of that window. i hope they don't break. there they go. dropping 30,000 treat-filled eggs. look at the kids, loving every minute of it. they had to wait patiently, 5,000 of them, for their chance to get at that candy, but they got at it. you see that. >> that's an enormous easter bunny. >> exactly.

>> the helicopter -- >> so much candy. right. >> and 5,000 very excited kids right now. yes. they had good weather too. thanks, ryan. >> sure thing. and speaking of weather, time for a check of the weather and back to meteorologist cecily tynan from wpvi in philadelphia. hopefully a lot of the country will have good weather today, cecily. >> most of the country is having very nice weather for this easter sunday. there is a lot of focus in boston, though. let's take a look at the live area. this is really beautiful, boston downtown brought to you by wcvb. it's sunny, temperatures in the low 40s. more than 35,000 runners are resting their legs right now hoping for nice weather for the race. i have some good news as far as the weather conditions. it'll be sunny. winds will be out of the southwest, so you will have a light breeze, a light tail wind, which is pretty nice, but the temperatures will be warming. at 10:00 when the elite men, the first wave kick off, temperatures in the low 50s. very nice, 51.

by noon when all the runners are on the course, 55 degrees. my only concern is what happens into the afternoon. it won't be oppressive heat like two years ago but temperatures will be rising into the low to mid-60s so this is a little bit warm for the runners who aren't acclimated to the heat so my advice, i'm a runner too, drink lots of water, maybe back off your pace a little bit but perfect weather for the spectators. taking a look across the midwest it will be warm today. temperatures in the 70s from pittsburgh to minneapolis but then dropping down into the 50s by wednesday, and the southwest, it will be warm, temperatures >> tweat >> this weather report has been brought to you by las vegas. >> cecily, thank you. brought to you by --

i like how you said that las vegas! >> yes. like someone who has done a lot in vegas. right. memories are coming back to cecily right now. >> they're going to stay right there. >> we'll ask during the commercial break. meantime, coming up on "good morning america," a very special honor down under for baby george and why his reaction may not be fit for a future king. >> and wait till you see this baby's adorable take on a cult classic. her rocking moves ahead in "pop news."

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♪ and we'll never be royals royals ♪ it's always weird to play a song that says "we will never be royals" for people who will always be royal. by the way they're reunited from their side trip back at baby george's side ready for more of their big down under adventure. >> and, of course, what better way to spend some family time than with a trip to the zoo. prince george, the talk of the town this morning, ringing in his first easter at the taronga zoo. greeting him, his namesake bilby, a type of endangered marsupial. the 8-month-old royal even getting the bilby enclosure dedicated to him. here's the duke on daddy duty

holding his son tightly. a clever prince george already showing his feisty side, clearly not fooled by the stuffed animal version of the bilby slapping it away. >> i understand the little animal ran in front of him and george tried to grab his tail at one point. >> reporter: kate's fashion was the talk of the town. she opted for a cream broderie angalise dress. while the duke and prince went with royal blues. the happy family toured the zoo, feeding kangaroos and learning about australian wildlife. earlier hundreds gathered to catch a glimpse of the duke and duchess as they attended easter service at st. andrew's cathedral. the duchess looking regal in a dove gray alexander mcqueen coat and jane taylor hat. >> one of the moments people are most looking forward to when they go there and naturally invoke memories from when prince charles and diana went there 30 years ago.

>> reporter: the royal duo delighted in a rare date night friday at a rugby match against south africa. prince william kicking back with a cold beer and kate, casual chic in a gray sweater and printed scarf caught chatting with a friend. >> be careful, we have a live bilby on the set. this is a major booking effort. we actually tried to get a live one. >> they're rare. >> they're apparently hard to find in new york city. >> yeah. >> we have a lot of animals that look like bilbies that live in the subways. >> called rats. but they're actually an endangered species. >> sorry. >> and they're nocturnal. and as you're probably not going to be surprised to learn, they have great hearing given their large ears. i don't know what else to say about it. >> i think it looks like a chihuahua. >> yeah, it looks like a chihuahua a little bit. >> like my chihuahua. >> from the new york subway. >> yeah. >> hey, can i have my bilby stuffed animal back, please? >> you're going to give that to the kids. >> no, that's ryan's.

>> i can't do a broadcast without it. >> your security bilby? >> yes. >> it's going to be hard to extend this segment further to come up with nice things to say about that. we're going to tell you what's coming up next here on "gma," it's the dog with the harry houdini moves. how his owners got hip to his disappearing act. coming up in "pop news" with sara haines. the one and only. >> dan's favorite segment. >> yes. sara haines. >> dan's favorite segment. >> yes. fe. especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin but wondered, could i focus on something better? my doctor told me about eliquis for three important reasons. one, in a clinical trial eliquis was proven to reduce the risk of stroke better than warfarin. two, eliquis had less major bleeding than warfarin. and three, unlike warfarin there's no routine blood testing.

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photoshop magic to show us a 45-year-old julia roberts posing with her 22-year-old self. >> she looks great in both. >> she does. the point of the exercise is that beauty doesn't age but leonardo dicaprio, he was pictured last year and just looking the same actually. 1989. >> slightly different hairdo. >> he had a growth spurt. >> and the beautiful jennifer aniston closing up to herself from 1999. she looked the most different with the dark hair. >> she looks better now. >> she does look better now. >> and this is my favorite, because i'm a big drew barrymore fan. this is her posing with her 9-year-old self. >> "poltergeist." >> no, "e.t." she wasn't in "poltergeist." >> "fire starter"? >> yes. >> "people" is actually celebrating 25 years of the world's most beautiful celebrities with their brand-new edition set due to hit newsstands nationwide on friday. and with plenty of folks hunting easter eggs this morning, we're pleased to see the ones

here at the monterey bay aquarium were pleased to see they're not going without. these cheeky little sea otters couldn't be happier with their specially made ice eggs. the frosting is made from a delicious mixture of ground clams. sounds amazing. an eggs-cellent treat for some of the aquarium's cutest residents. i had to do it. props to me for that one. next up, a 6-month-old with some serious head-banging skills. this is audrey, and she might be in the middle of eating dinner, she's ready. that won't stop her. she's clearly ready for a night at the roxbury. bobbing away at "what is love." that food isn't getting in the way at all. someday she'll realize how someone spoon-feeding you is an excellent moment and she won't pass that up for dancing. >> i haven't had that in a while, spoon-feeding, i would definitely not try to avoid it. >> get ready for dan to come home. now to a dog named dexter with houdini-like escape skills. fed up with dexter's impromptu vacations from the backyard, his owners attached a gopro camera

to find out how he was getting out. now, this is exit strategy number one, the back gate. that latch is clearly not dog-proof. and check him out. he's actually running free to ac/dc's "jail break." and he is breaking out. the next escape route, which you'll see in a second, is actually a fence panel. this guy has all the moves figured out. look at his ears flopping. this is freedom at its best. >> yes. ♪ and we suspect that dexter's owners may have since overhauled their backyard fence if they want to keep that dog. >> i hope they capture more of these videos. >> the video's epic. that guy is on the loose. >> fast, fast dog. all right. we'll be right back with more "gma." keep it right here. orning america." keep it here.

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sara is going to run home and put on a colorful shirt. >> yes. >> to celebrate easter. >> today is easter, you guys. oh, we want to thank ryan for coming in, cecily as well. happy easter to everyone at home. >> great to have you. >> good to be here. >> thank you for watching abc news. we're always online at goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! we're always online at goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! online at "good morning america".com on yahoo!.

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