>> race course is set up in the house. consists of 50 mouse traps and 300 legos. but there's another catch. >> we've got blindfolds. >> blindfolds. i knew it. >> i'm scared. i'm not going to lie. >> wow. this is like parenting training. all new parents have to go through this. just fyi. >> go. >> oh! right off the bat. >> oh! >> one of them is winning though. one is sucking up the pain. >> no, they're both losing. >> the person winning is behind the camera. >> this is just it was posted to their youtube page. between these two guys they have five kids. they've all left the house. and this is what dads and the rest of the family do when the kids ain't around and it's a riot.

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that roar, right there, the sound of huge rock slide in the swiss alps. it happened near the italian border with switzerland. the slide forced dozens of evacuations. some buildings were damaged and a few roads blocked off. there weren't any reported injuries, but quite a sight. >> amazing. here at home, the world's biggest search engine is teaming up with america's biggest retailer to take on amazon. >> what they're attempting to do is change the way we shop for just about everything.

here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: word that google, the number one search engine is joining forces with retail giant, walmart. a partnership that promises to turn up the convenience for consumers and could change the way we shop, with hands-free help from google assistant. as of september, you'll also be able to make online walmart purchases with google assistant, similar to amazon purchases with alexa. the companies are taking direct aim at online retailing behemoth, amazon, which is diving further into the grocery business after recently announcing a deal to purchase whole foods. >> people may not be using these smart speakers as much now, but eventually, it's going to be so integrated into our homes and lives we won't know another way to shop. >> reporter: google is also hoping to lure new customers by scrapping that $95 express membership fee and offering free two-day shipping for orders that meet the minimum.

walmart's voice-activated grocery shopping will be available next year. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> walmart's website sells about 67 million items, up from 10 million earlier. amazon sells hundreds of millions of items. good luck walmart. >> but even if they get part of that business. >> they're not hurting. when we come back, the big announcement from taylor swift. >> and sesame street takes on despacito. "the skinny's" next. n -- "the skinny's" next. relief. ase allergy flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. when we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by overproducing 6 key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. flonase helps block 6. most allergy pills only block one and 6 is greater than 1. with more complete relief you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest. flonase.

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she's been showing a series of bizarre snake videos. she made a series of major announcements. >> first she said she'd be dropping a new single later today and she shared a new photo of herself in black and white with the word "reputation" written in script. >> and then she revealed that her new album would be called "reputation." i think we figured that out from the photo. the release date will be november 10th. this will be the first album since the record-breaking 1989 in 2014. >> and according to "people" magazine, she would also make a surprise appearance on the vma awards. >> and there's been lots of reaction online, on social media. one of her collaborators couldn't resist tweeting, in 30 minutes as a show of power, taylor swift will blot out the sun. >> elsewhere, the twitterverse blowing up with the news, ladies

and gentlemen, taylor swift has broken the internet. >> and one fan summed it up with this meme saying when you were only expecting a snake head video today and taylor swift gives you a single album title and release date. >> i'm sure it's a coincidence that her first single from this album is coming out on the same day that katy perry is releasing a new video. >> oh, did not know that. >> just a coincidence. >> probably totally a coincidence. >> it's only happened before with taylor. coming up next, the creative geniuses at sesame street have taken their parody shot, a family-friendly release of despacito. >> the video is called el patito. it is spanish for "ducky." ♪ [ singing in spanish ]

♪ el patito >> it's so catchy. >> the song by daddy yankee became the most watched on youtube with 3 billion views. the justin bieber remix has been the number one song for 15 weeks. one more, and it gets to the record. it will beat mariah carey's song. "one sweet day." >> i love the way you say despacito. next to a "game of thrones"-sized controversy. surrounding the creator of the series. >> it was reported that george r. martin doesn't watch the show because he's too busy writing and too many characters are being killed off. >> according to entertainment weekly, he's setting the record straight. he says he does watch the series like everyone else. but he told the magazine through

an e-mail that he just returned from a convention in russia and believed he was either misquoted or lost in translation. >> martin didn't watch any television during his trip abroad and therefore simply is behind on the current seventh season. see, if he had not been watching, i would have said that makes two of us. >> oh, my gosh. >> i know. >> you have to watch, like season three. >> i know, i got to catch that. >> awesome. but it wasn't that he wasn't watching "game of thrones." he wasn't watching anything. >> lost in translation, but we got it straightened out. >> need to get caught up on the bachelor, bachelor in paradise. all the important shows. and another controversy on twitter over tom cruise. >> a viewer watched the film valkyrie and noticed that his derriere looked a little bigger. than in other scenes throughout the movie. >> that looks like it's fake. >> it does. >> it sparked quite a bit of speculation as you can see from

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mother's funeral. here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: it is the last image the world saw of diana, then learning of the crash. >> it is here on saturday that the funeral for diana, the princess of wales will be held. >> reporter: it is hard to believe a week from now, the world will mark 20 years since diana's death. new interviews tonight from a bbc documentary. prince harry on the paparazzi who followed his mother into that tunnel. >> i think one of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her through, into the tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying on the back seat of the car. she'd had a, quite a severe head injury, but she was very much still alive on the back seat. >> reporter: two boys walking alongside their mother's casket. prince william now revealing he felt his mother was there. >> it was one of the hardest things i've ever done, that walk. i felt like she was walking beside us to get us through. >> reporter: he says he now understands why his mother did

that interview when she talked about her troubled marriage. >> well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. >> reporter: prince william saying i can understand, having sometimes been in those situations. you feel incredibly desperate. and it is very unfair that things are being said that are untrue. the easiest thing to do is just to say or go to the media yourself. he now vows to stay strong for his mother. >> it will either make or break you. and i wouldn't let it break me. i wanted it to make me, i wanted her to be proud of the person i've become. i didn't want her worried or her legacy to be that, you know, william or harry were completely and utterly devastated by it, and all the hard work and all the love and all the energy that she put into us would go to waste. >> reporter: david muir, abc news, new york. >> hard to believe it's been 20 years, indeed, for those kids who never got over it. should point out that the princes will visit a memorial garden in her honor the day

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good morning. i'm lynda lopez in for diane macedo. >> and i'm kendis gibson. here are some of our top headlines on this thursday on "world news now." president trump's threat to shut down the federal government if the border wall isn't funded is upsetting some republican leaders. they stay isn't necessary and would hurt the party in next year's election. tropical storm harvey is bearing down on the texas gulf coast. it's expected to make landfall saturday but the heavy rain is expected to begin tomorrow, up to 20 inches. and at least 12 people are dead after a powerful typhoon struck southern china. packing winds of nearly 100 miles per hour and causing massive flooding. nearly 27,000 people evacuated to shelters and much of hong kong is closed. and there was a single winning ticket in last night's powerball drawing, it was sold in watertown, massachusetts.

it was worth more than $750 million. those are some of our top stories on this thursday, august 24th. from abc news, this is "world news now." we do say good morning to everybody on this thursday. if only we were among the lucky winner. lucky winner. >> one winning ticket. >> ah, that place. >> congratulations to them. well, less than a day after a controversial speech in phoenix, president trump delivered a kinder, gentler message to those in reno. >> this time the president stuck to more of his script that was prepared for him. this was while in phoenix the speech was more off the cuff. he slammed the media and critics in congress, an angry speech still drawing a lot of reaction. cecilia vega was that are. >> reporter: at the american legion, president trump calling on the nation to come together. >> it is time to heal the wounds

that divide us and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us. >> reporter: it came just hours after his own divisive rhetoric in phoenix, for 75 fiery minutes, he unloaded. pulling the statements he made in the wake of the violence. >> i hit them with neo-nazi. i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacists, the neo-nazi. i got them all in there. let's see. kkk. we have kkk. i got them all. so we're having a hard time, so what do they say, right? it should have been sooner. he's a racist. >> reporter: but the president never mentioned his most controversial line of all, the moment he blamed both sides and praised some of the people who marched with torches. >> you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> reporter: but in phoenix, he unleashed. his press secretary had promised

there would be no discussion of pardoning arizona's controversial sheriff, joe arpaio. but just hours later. >> do the people in this room like sheriff joe? [cheers and applause] i'll make a prediction. i think he's going to be just fine, okay? [cheers and applause] but i won't do it tonight, because i don't want to cause any controversy. is that okay? >> reporter: and he vowed to shut down the government if he doesn't get money to build his border wall. >> the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it, but believe me, we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. >> reporter: through it all, the president blaming the media for one of his worst weeks so far. >> and i really think they don't like our country. i really believe that. >> reporter: from the media platform, i used my phone to record the jeers of the crowd. outside, thousands of protestors rallied against the president,

police using tear gas to break up the crowds. also expressing opposition, the former director of national intelligence under president obama. questioning whether this commander in chief is fit for office. >> having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, i worry about, frankly, access to the nuclear codes. >> reporter: cecilia vegas, abc news, the white house. army commanders at ft. benning, georgia have suspended several drill sergeants after accusations they sexually assaulted female trainees. investigators were looking into claims of one when they discovered more. the army says so far no one has been charged. sudan is looking into the death of a diplomat. the fourth to die since december. the diplomat was found dead in his swimming pool yesterday. according to local officials he had been suffering from high

blood pressure and most likely died of natural cause. and we're learning new details about diplomats in cuba suffering from a reported sonic attack. some symptoms were more serious than originally reported. sources say the symptoms included hearing loss, memory loss, loss of balance and vision issues. and the state department says some of those americans had to be medically evacuated to miami for treatment and testing. and breaking overnight, a white nationalist who marched at the charlottesville rally has turned himself in. christopher cantwell was among dozens who marched at the university of virginia. carrying those torches on august 11, the night before the rally. a tearful cantwell made a facebook video saying he might be arrested. >> we've been coordinating with law enforcement the whole time. every time we've tried to dot right thing, and they just won't

stop. >> cantwell has said in interviews that he was wanted for pepper spraying someone but that it was in self-defense. he's being held in lynchburg, virginia and will be transferred to charlottesville. the nfl's second full-time female coach is also its first openly gay coach. san francisco 49ers coach said she is a lesbian. she says her sexuality hasn't been an issue. she also believes an openly gay male coach would be accepted by nfl players. pre-orders get under way today for the samsung galaxy 8. it was unveiled yesterday and emphasized that it has overcome the safety problems that plagued the note 7.

major wireless carriers are charging more than $900 for it. it will be available in mid september. >> i know it has a great camera and all, but $900? >> wow. >> holy cow. the note 8 will be available next month. so happy #anniversary. ten years since the #, previously known as the pound sign was introduced on twitter. a former google designer came up with the idea but never got a patent for it. the most common # is now playing. it has been used more than 1 billion times since 2007. second and third are follow friday and throw-back thursday. >> i thought it would be throw-back thursday. >> fall-back friday. >> now playing? i guess that makes sense. everybody's always tweeting about what song's on their radio right now. >> i've never used that as a hash tag.

you know what i'm annoyed at? folks who use hash tags for their vacations. >> hash tags for weddings, #kateandben, stuff like that. now to an amazing story about an invention to help an equally amazing young lady. >> the 5-year-old was born without arms. she doesn't use prosthetics, but she did have one wish -- to ride a bike. so a specialist at a health center went to work. >> they used pvc pipes and braces to use this device that attaches to her back and handlebars of the bike. >> she steers with her shoulders. >> ari says riding her bike makes her feel like she's flying. >> about the most beautiful thing i've seen all day. >> that's awesome for her. coming up, the new development in the latest

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spilling alcohol onto the road and catching fire. and one of the drivers says he may have fallen asleep and ended um on the wrong side of the road. you think? remarkably, both drivers survived the crash without any serious injuries. >> scary. there's new information in the photo hack involving tiger woods and lindsey vonn. >> the former couple has reportedly gotten a web site to take down those photos, but that's probably not going to be the end of their legal action. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: olympics skier lindsey vonn is contemplating legal action after nude photos of her and tiger woods were posted online. the couple who broke up in 2015, they reportedly shared intimate photos and videos while they were dating. vonn's phone was reportedly hacked. her pictures leaked and posted for all to see on a gossip website that features nude photos and videos of celebrities, including kristen

stewart and kathryn mcphie. a representative said if is an outrageous and despicable invasion of privacy. adding websites that encourage this conduct should be prosecuted under the fullest extent ever the law. attorneys for woods and vonn said to act expeditiously to remove and deny access to the photo. but they deny they stole them directly from the celebrities, saying we got them from different message boards around the internet. we did not hack them. >> the website that is sharing photographs without the consent of the individual also subjects itself to liability. >> reporter: hackers frequently target female celebrities. miley cyrus, emma watson and jennifer lawrence have all had private images exposed on the internet. the 29-year-old who hacked lawrence was sentenced to prison.

they said it's scary when the whole world judges you. i think people saw it for what it was, which was a sex crime, but the feeling, i haven't been able to get rid of it. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> knowing those sentiments are of tiger woods and lindsey vonn as well. tiger's had a rough year, back injuries, not playing all that well, relationship issues and now this. coming up, the latest fitness obsession, sparkling water. >> so many people are drinking it as a substitution for soda. but could so much carbonation cause us more harm than good. >> first, lynda is joining the giz wiz on the other side of the set.

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>> well, it's almost time to send the kids back to school, and what better way to get them ready than to gear up their gadgets. so this morning, look who's here, our giz wiz. dick debartolo. you found some interesting gadgets. >> this is really fun. what it is on amazon, when it came, i said where are the pockets. >> i thought were you covering something else and were going to reveal. >> we are revealing. but's unpacked it, i realized it comes with a free rain cover. >> nice. >> so if you're running through the rain put this in the backpack and throw it on when you go outside. >> that's amazing. >> it also has hidden zippers, so it's going to be more water repellant than you would expect. a place for laptops up to 15.6 inches. but something else, there's a usb cable here and a pocket for you to put your external phone charger, and you plug the usb into the phone charger.

and then if you're in class and anything starts running out of power, you have usb out on the outside of the backpack. >> so can you charge it while it's still sitting in there. you don't have to take it out. >> exactly, exactly. >> that's amazing. >> and this guy's under $40. >> i love this even for our little ones. our little one is 8, and i would love to get her to cover her things. >> perfect. a lot of students are going back to school with tablets and ipads. this is from iclever. this is the tri fold. let's do one fold out here, one fold out here. it becomes a full-sized keyboard. and it's back lit. it's very hard to see. we're going to run a little video so in the dark you can have green keys, blue keys, red keys. the green keys read the brightest to the eye. >> the purple gets a little

dark. >> it also can use usb in case you have a device that doesn't have bluetooth. and this is also under $40. >> is this just for a mac or -- >> it is for when you first set it up, you tell it if you're using it with an ipad or windows machine or an android. and it adjusts some of the keys for you. it's great. it's great. my charge, hub plus c, now the new phones have usbc. >> right. >> and c is the plug where you can put it in either side. let me just get that out here. and -- >> so it's not specific to one direction that you have to plug it in. >> exactly. it carries twice the power. this is micro, usb, a full usb out at top and when it's time to charge it, there's a fold-out plug. >> that's great, so for multiple devices. >> actually, you can charge three devices at once. >> love that. >> this is to charge one device. but this is a clever idea. so you're going back with lots

of different devices. >> sure. >> this is usb micro. >> mm-hm. >> this is usbc, actually, that's the lightning connector. usbc, just plug that one on and the one cable can be used for three different devices. >> one charger, no matter what you have. >> exactly. and it's apple approved. >> that's one of the most frustrating things when you are looking for the right charger of the 19 you have in the house. >> and our final guy is take one plug in, not only turn it into four plugs. but also in the front there we have four usb plugs. and it's illuminated. so you can tell that it has power where you plugged it in. and it has two free charging cables. >> it's perfect for the dorm room. >> great. >> you can find more on giz wiz.biz and on our website. we'll be right back. you're watching "world news now." web

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>> reporter: it's a fizzy favorite. sugar free, calorie free and hydrating. it's sparkling water. and some people just can't live without it. >> it makes you feel like you're drinking something that isn't water. so psychologically there's like ooh, effervescence. this is an exciting mouth experience. >> reporter: water sales are booming. americans spent $2.3 billion on seltzer or sparkling water last year. often many are trading in sugar-heavy drinks for seltzer. is it good for us? trying to create healthy habits, this writer started making s earthquake ltzer her go-to drink. how much do you drink a day? >> right now i'm doing really, really will, it's only five or six. we'll say ten and put an asterisk to it. >> reporter: there are new questions as to whether all those bubbles are really good for us, with some saying it could cause bloating, heartburn and damaged teeth by eroding your enamel.

>> everyone e-mailed me the link, mary, your teeth, you're done for it. >> reporter: everybody knows you as the seltzer girl. >> i am a little scared about the teeth thing. >> reporter: carbonated water is basically harmless. while it may cause heartburn in some people, there's no evidence it poses a serious threat to teeth enamel. >> i think someone drinking it all day may want to hold back an a little bit and look at diversifying their beverages. >> so by diversifying, you should choose not a vodka soda, but maybe a manhattan. >> right. nothing fizzy. >> nothing fizzy. it doesn't dehydrate you. >> sometimes i felt like the fizzy stuff made you thirsty. >> bloated i guess.

this morning on "world news this morning on "world news now." the president appearing to stick to the script. >> after tuesday's fiery campaign rally where president trump took aim at the media, he appeared in front of veterans with a more unifying tone. and a threat regarding payment for the wall. more jitters in europe following recent terror attacks. an american band forced to cancel a concert after police stopped a man driving with gas canisters near the venue. the band's name includes the arabic word for "god." then, as charlottesville tries to move past the violence, it's covering up the statues. but this, too, is controversial. we know people act like kids in the newsroom, but this is a ridiculous. this is a workplace.

this is a serious place. where are the parents! i'm really, really jealous. it is thursday, august 24th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> usually jack would be crawling on the desk, but he's not. >> it's weird today. >> it is weird not having him there. so this is a huge day for our new relatives in new england. >> right. in massachusetts. >> in massachusetts. these are the brand-new powerball numbers that were drawn just a couple hours ago. >> and now we know we have a winner. >> yes. there you have it. 6, 7, 16, 23, 26. >> with the powerball 4. >> yes. and it was sold, actually, at the handy variety store there in watertown, massachusetts. >> wow.

>> i was looking for a yelp rating. they don't have, they don't have a yelp rating yet. >> we're sure it's a fine establishment. >> right about now it's getting a five from somebody. >> so one winning ticket sold for that powerball. >> incredible. >> it was going to go to a billion after tonight. but no, someone's going home with 700-plus million. >> so we say congratulations to our kinfolks there. and we're going to move on. there is new reaction to the president's three speeches in the last three days. >> his new speech called for unity, sparking a softer tone than his fiery speech in phoenix. >> in that speech he threatened to shut down the government if congress doesn't fund the wall on the border. the republicans say it will hurt their party more than democrats. we get more from lana zak. >> reporter: after meeting with veterans in reno. >> you help keep history alive. >> reporter: president trump has returned back to the white house with a budget fight looming in washington. >> believe me, if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall.

>> reporter: previously, president trump had promised voters that mexico would pay for the border wall. now the president is threatening a government shutdown if congress doesn't fund it. the president issued the threat during a campaign rally in which he relitigated his response to charlottesville. >> here's what i said on saturday. we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. >> reporter: but he omitted his two most controversial points. >> on many sides, on many sides. you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> reporter: instead, blame being the media for the charlottesville fallout. >> if you want to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media. >> reporter: but the majority of americans think that the president's behavior has encouraged white supremacists, according to a new quinnipiac poll. that poll also finds that the president's public approval rating currently stands at 35%.

kendis, lynda? >> lana, thank you, and as you heard there, the president tries to blame the media for the reaction to charlottesville, defending that what he said could not have been a stronger condemnation of the hate group that sparked the violence. >> and our on cecilia vega to covers the white house shared video on her instagram of what it looked like from her perspective each time the president attacked the press. look at that young lady. i think she's saying we go for happy hour later? or maybe not. >> many saying journalists hate the country. cecilia's been through pretty much a war zone. she covered the campaign, and it was pretty rough. >> she was on the campaign trail for all that time during the 2016 campaign. >> did she say this was the most concerned she was? >> most concerned. and by this tone, she feels something bad will happen at some point if we continue this kind of rhetoric. we hope for the best there. we're going to move on to a

security threat in the dutch city of rotterdam caused police to cancel a concert by a group the allah-lahs. based out of california. they thanked authorities for detecting the threat. and it turns out some symptoms were far more serious than originally reported. sources tell our miami station wplg symptoms included hearing loss, memory loss of balance and some had to be evacuated to miami for testing. >> the best equipment is not going to be on the ground in cuba.

we are bringing people to the best medical experts in the mainland in the united states. i'm not going to confirm the status of any u.s. government personnel. but what has happened there is a great concern. >> experts say sound waves above and below the range of human hearing could potentially cause permanent damage. cuba denies any involvement. at least 12 people are dead after a powerful typhoon slammed southern china. the storm ravaged hong kong and macau with flooding and high winds. take a look at these scenes. you see the cars floating in the streets. it's causing widespread power outages and forcing thousands to shelters. the storm triggered hong kong's most severe typhoon warning, a ten. it's only the third time a storm of such power has hit the financial hub in the past 20 years. the city is at a stand still this morning with markets, schools and businesses closed. and here at home, a major weather threat is barrelling towards the gulf coast.

tropical storm has formed, harvey, set to slam south texas this weekend. harvey is in the gulf of mexico right now. the projected path takes it friday into saturday, somewhere between brownsville and houston. by then, it may be a weak hurricane. a four to six-foot storm surge is expected along that coast, but the real danger is from the rain, up to 20 inches. many store shelves looking like this. this is in corpus christi. and evacuations are set to begin later this morning. they're stockpiling sandbags, getting ready for the storm surge. the texas governor has declared a state of emergency in some 30 counties in that state. in charlottesville, a controversial confederate statue has been covered. it's a symbol of mourning for heather heyer. she was killed protesting at a white nationalist rally. they decided to cover the statue and that of stonewall jackson located at another nearby park. a few hours later, a man tried

to cut the black covering, but he complied when police asked him to stop. and the fate of nearly two dozen monuments will be in president trump's hands. after a four-month review of a site of bears views and others. ryan zinke is said to ask to scale back on federal protections. that could open up to commercial uses like oil wells or drilling. some threaten lawsuits if changes are made. the controversy of colin kaepernick made its ways to league headquarters. more than 1,000 people protested outside the headquarters in new york. they say the former san francisco quarterback has been black balled or white balled, some have said, for kneeling during the national anthem. they want a rule protecting players from retaliatory actions. susan sarandon among the protesters.

and the dodgers saw a near perfect night booted away. lefty rich hill was perfect into the ninth inning. first batter, his grounder is botched by logan forsythe. the error ends the perfect game. hill still had a no-hitter in the tenth inning until what happened was -- harrison hitting it out of the park. so pittsburgh winning that game, 1-0. >> oh, my gosh. you were saying earlier, you go from a perfect game to maybe you'll still get a no-hitter. >> to none of it. you get an l. he's great. great story there. here's a little bit of good news. a little league slugger who missed out on a shot at the world series is still taking big swings. >> you may remember jace blaylock. the 13-year-old hit this mammoth

homer 375 feet. >> the georgia teen got a chance at the big time. he proved that last home run wasn't a fluke. he drilled one off the second deck. >> congratulations. not bad. they should sign him up for the mets. coming up, someone is hundreds of millions of dollars richer this morning after winning the huge powerball jackpot. what would you do with all that cash? we hear from some kids. but first, the nationwide crisis of opioid addiction and overdoses. we ride along with the people on the front lines of this battle. find out what can be done to stop it. and check out pics on abcwnn. you're watching "world news now." wnn. watching "world news now."

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>> we show one week from inside the worst drug crisis america has ever seen. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: jfk airport. agents in protective suits. finding the powerful opioid, fentanyl, in a package from china. tempe, arizona, another front line in the opioid epidemic. with the tempe police. today's target alleged to members of a drug ring with suspected ties to a mexican cartel. it's time to strike. >> got him. you definitely already found a large sum of money. we'll continue to tear the vehicle down until we see if there's more dope. >> reporter: during our week-long look into the crisis, others grappled with heartbreak, with one family 1500 miles away in kentucky. she doesn't make it through a weekend break from rehab.

>> she was so good at hiding it. this is the first time we've heard heroin and veronica's name mentioned. >> reporter: by 2:30 p.m., veronica's pronounced dead from a heroin overdose. >> she was gone. our daughter. she was gone. >> reporter: veronica leaves behind her own 4-year-old daughter, ray lynn. according to the cdc, more than 33,000 americans died of opioid overdoses in 2015. some of the blame lies with doctors. during the week we tracked, three doctors stood accused of illegally prescribing pain medications to their patients. dr. howard diamond is one of them. according to diamond's indictment, his action resulted in the overdose deaths of seven of his patients. he has pled not guilty to all charges. >> this is the main target of the investigation. >> reporter: back in arizona, we're with d.e.a. agents as they

continue to take down that suspected ring. >> looks like they're getting ready to go in. >> reporter: agents search the house, then jackpot. >> we pulled out 15 pounds of heroin. worth over $1 million. >> reporter: in kentucky, veronica's parents are saying their final good-byes to their daughter. ♪ >> reporter: but for her parents, there's one silver lining. veronica was an organ donor. she gave three other people a chance to live. >> there would have been not one, not one good thing that would have come out of this. it made little sense of a senseless situation. >> reporter: during the week we tracked, veronica was one of 28 overdose victims who also donated their organs, according to the united network for organ sharing. it turns out, there are no

adverse effects on the recipients. she was also one of those who die every week from an opioid overdose. for "nightline," pierre thomas in phoenix, arizona. >> 637 americans every week. >> 91 americans every day. >> it's definitely an epidemic there. coming up in the next half hour, google and walmart taking on amazon. how a partnership between the world's number one search engine and the number one retailer will change the way we shop. but first, how much would $750 million change the way you live? we will hear from a group of kids about what they'd do with that powerball jackpot. they have a couple ideas. that's coming up next.

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treat. >> did you get a yelp review? >> no yelp review but six likes on facebook. >> it's kind of impossible for regular people to fathom what you would do with that kind of jackpot. so we have to go to the people who always tell you the truth. the kids. a group of kids from austin, texas isn't short on ideas what they would do. our austin station caught up with them. >> my mom wanted a yellow jeep and my dad wanted a mustang. >> i would probably buy a lego set. >> i would save it, and i can get more money to spend on something and save it so i have a lot of money. >> i think i would do that. >> i would buy a really good house and buy my mom and dad some stuff and buy myself some stuff too.

>> a mansion with a fair in the back yard and a robot maid. >> a boat, a house, a lake, a -- my mom's dream car and my dad's. >> a rollercoaster. >> buy some basketball tickets for the golden state warriors. >> race car track or something. >> i would get room service, be a super star. >> i would probably buy a treehouse in my back yard. because you can't do it in my front yard. and i would also probably donate some of the money to all the people like that need food and all that. >> i would also save some. >> keep some money for you. >> for college. >> keep some money for you. >> and if i need extra help later or some of my family needs extra help. >> you need to keep some money for you. >> she's like, the financial adviser. >> she's like, i'll help other people, my family. >> i'll give some to the gates foundation. >> she has a hamilton shirt on. >> she'll get two tickets out of

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this is fazing him not at all. at the end, he gives a little high-five. >> while i would be freaking out, probably. you want to see some really cool street art that took place in the bay area, the city of redwood. the artist, damon bellinger. take a look at this shadow art. do you see what he did there? >> how did he do that? >> he makes them by chalking out stencils on the sidewalk. he uses a shadow from those items. >> he draws something else. that's so cool. >> and incorporates it into it. >> and a little freaky. >> a little weird. >> can we show you the favorite photo of the day, a mom and son celebrating first day of school. first day of pre-k for the boy. and she's going to be a dentist. they were starting together. they commemorated with a photo. >> i ate a cookie. >> i ate a cookie. >> i'm going to eat mine now i thought, "the red cross does katrina.

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this morning on "world news now." southern states bracing for a washout, as harvey hovers, gathering steam in the gulf and now upgraded to a tropical storm and threatening to drop 20 inches of rain in some regions. the latest track ahead. and after that raucous rally in phoenix, the president taking a different tone in front of a new audience in reno. but back in washington, plenty of work awaits. and new this hour, lookout below. >> a huge rock slide caught on camera. what caused this part of the mountain to crumble? and breaking news right now, we have a winner. the massive powerball jackpot will not advance. we'll tell you where the winning ticket was purchased on this thursday, august 24th.

from abc news, this is "world news now." >> one lucky winner in massachusetts. >> just to give you a sense of what it looks like inside their home right now. probably along the lines of -- so it was sold at this little place. who knew, the handy variety store in watertown, massachusetts, which of course is a suburb of boston. that place is going to be flooded by media within the next few minutes. they have six likes on their facebook page, they don't have a yelp rating. >> now they will have 750 million likes. >> isn't it funny it's something as obscure as that. >> a tiny little store somewhere. >> it sells groceries, and now it's where winners are champs. >> congratulations to the one winner. and in the meantime, we're

going to talk about what's happening in the southern part of the country, in texas, bracing for severe weather, a direct hit from topical storm harvey. >> it's drifting erratically and slowly. currently 400 miles from texas. maximum winds are about 35 miles per hour. >> but it could become a hurricane before making landfall friday night or saturday morning. the heavy rain begins tomorrow. >> and residents aren't waiting. the governor has declared a state of emergency in 30 counties, and store shelves are emptying in stores along the coast. >> these are the scenes. evacuations will begin this morning. that is not good news for the houston area, which floods easily with low-lying areas. as you can imagine, people are paying attention to the forecast and looking at the possible track for harvey that it could take. >> so let's get the latest from accuweather's justin povick. >> we're tracking tropical storm harvey, very slowly moving its

way off to the north and west, not very organized yet, but that will change here as we go throughout the next 24 to 48 hours. hurricane watches now in effect in southeastern texas, also tropical storm warnings out toward houston. we're looking at gusty winds down the road as we venture into friday night and saturday. with the potential this could become a category one hurricane. by far, the biggest impacts will be from heavy rain and life-threatening flash flooding. eight-plus inches of rain with locally over a foot of rain possible in southeastern texas. kendis? lynda? back to you. >> thanks, justin. turning now to politics. president trump is at increasing odds with congressional leaders. >> many disagree with his threat to shut down the federal government if the border wall isn't funded. speaker paul ryan says he doesn't think it's necessary. and others say it would be fatal

for the republican party. the president made the comment during his campaign-style rally. he spoke to the american legion in reno, nevada. he told the veterans that the u.s. will overcome challenges by reaffirming shared beliefs. >> it is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity, based on the common values that unite us. we are one people with one home and one great flag. >> the president sticking to the prompter there, as in phoenix, reno police kept protesters and trump supporters apart with a metal barrier with as much as 50 feet between them. the groups were smaller than in phoenix. the white house is moving forward on the president's ban

of transgender people. the pentagon will be getting formal authority to deny enlistment of transgender individuals beginning in six months. jim mattis will have discretion on whether to remove transgender individuals who are currently serving. but the guidelines will direct the pentagon to stop paying for their related medical bills. and a chilling new video from isis appears to feature a 10-year-old boy threatening president trump. the boy claims to be the son of an american soldier who fought in iraq. he moved two years ago with his mother. he speaks both in arabic and english in the video. white house officials say the boy is unknown to them. the first audio excerpts from hillary clinton's book already out. everything on her own candid view of the presidential campaign. >> she admits she let millions of americans down and details her real feelings about one especially disturbing moment from a town hall debate last october. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: in her new book, hillary clinton offers a candid

view of what it was like to run against donald trump. >> i want to pull back the curtain on an experience that was exhilarating, joyful, humbling, infuriating and just plain baffling. writing this wasn't easy. >> reporter: as she now watches his presidency play out on the news, clinton says she let down millions of americans. >> every day that i was a candidate for president i knew that millions of people were counting on me, and i couldn't bear the idea of letting them down, but i did. i couldn't get the job done. and i'll have to live with that for the rest of my life. >> reporter: clinton questions that second debate when trump hovered behind her. >> this is not okay, i thought. it was the second presidential debate, and donald trump was looming behind me. two days before, the world heard him brag about groping women. now we were on a small stage, and no matter where i walked, he followed me closely, staring at

me, making faces. it was incredibly uncomfortable. he was literally breathing down my neck. my skin crawled. >> reporter: she writes she had a choice. >> do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren't repeatedly invading your space? or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, "back up, you creep, get away from me. i know you love to intimidate women, but you can't intimidate me, so back up." >> reporter: she chose to say nothing. >> maybe i have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist. >> reporter: she chronicles moments she wants to relive forever, her young granddaughter running into the room and becoming the first female nominated for president of the united states.

mary bruce, abc news, washington. >> and she also talks about the former fbi director james comey in that book due out this fall. and speaking of comey, he has a new job. he's joining the staff of howard university for a lecture series. he will consult with student leaders and others at the historically black college to develop ideas for his five-lecture series. he says he will donate his salary to students from foster homes. a paddleboarder had a close call with a shark at cape cod. the shark took a bite out of his board. he wasn't hurt by the shark but hurt his leg when he fell into the water. he said it was like being on a motorcycle and being struck by a truck. cape cod politicians have suggested killing sharks in the interest of public safety. and there was what little less of a scare on land.

the yankees and tigers game. a praying mantis found its way into the crowd, onto a man in the crowd in detroit. it add some excitement to what was otherwise a yankees blowout. oh, my god, that thing is huge. >> and he's so calm. he's like, come on, guys, what's the big deal? he's just looking for love. oh, man. >> he's just hanging out. >> i love how everybody around him is clearing out of the seats. >> he's fine. cool with it. two new york city cats. thanks to their dear departed owner. >> troy and tiger are the richest cats in town, splitting $300,000 left to them in their late owner's will. >> so their owner was an 88-year-old childless widow and an author who had a $3 million estate. >> they are being cared for by two of her home health care aides. >> city is used to fat cats.

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that roar, right there, the sound of huge rock slide in the swiss alps. it happened near the italian border with switzerland. the slide forced thousands of evacuations. some roads were damaged and a few were blocked off. there weren't any reported injuries, but quite a sight. >> amazing. here at home, the world's biggest search engine is teaming up with the world's biggest retailer to take on amazon. >> what they're attempting to do is change the way we shop for just about everything.

here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: word that google, the number one search engine is joining forces with retail giant, walmart. a partnership that promises to turn up the convenience for consumers and could change the way we shop, with hands-free help from google assistant. as of september, you'll also be able to make online walmart purchases with google assistant, similar to amazon purchases with alexa. the companies are taking direct aim at online retailing behemoth, amazon, which is diving further into the grocery business after recently announcing a deal to purchase whole foods. >> people may not be using these smart speakers as much now, but eventually, it's going to be so integrated into our homes and lives we won't know another way to shop. >> reporter: google is also hoping to lure new customers by scrapping that $95 express membership fee and offering free two-day shipping for orders that

meet the minimum. walmart's voice-activated grocery shopping will be available next year. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> walmart's website sells about 67 million items, up from 10 million earlier. amazon sells hundreds of millions of items. good luck walmart. >> but even if they get part of that business. >> they're not hurting. when we come back, the big announcement from taylor swift. >> and sesame street takes on -- "the skinny's" next. n -- "the skinny's" next. relief. ase allergy flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. when we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by overproducing 6 key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. flonase helps block 6. most allergy pills only block one and 6 is greater than 1. with more complete relief you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest. flonase.

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♪ ♪ haters going to hate, hate, hate ♪ >> now to "the skinny," and apparently, taylor swift isn't shaking it off at all. big news from t. swift. >> i'm sorry, taylor who?

she's been showing a series of bizarre snake videos. she made a series of major announcements. >> first she said she'd be dropping a new single later today and she shared a new photo of herself in black and white with the word "reputation" written in script. >> and then she revealed that her new album would be called "reputation." i think we figured that out from the photo. the release date will be november 10th. this will be the first album since the record-breaking 1989 in 2014. >> she could also make a surprise appearance on the vma awards. >> and there's been lots of reaction online, on social media. one of her collaborators couldn't resist tweeting, in 30 minutes as a show of power, taylor swift will blot out the sun. >> elsewhere, the twitterverse blowing up with the news, ladies

and gentlemen, taylor swift has broken the internet. >> and one fan summed it up with this meme saying when you were only expecting a snake head video today and taylor swift gives you a single album title and release date. >> i'm sure it's a coincidence that her first single from this album is coming out on the same day that katy perry is releasing a new video. >> oh, did not know that. >> just a coincidence. >> probably totally a coincidence. >> it's only happened before with taylor. coming up next, the creative geniuses at sesame street have taken their parody shot, a family-friendly release of despacito. >> it's called el patito which is spanish for ducky. ♪ [ singing in spanish ]

♪ el patito >> the song by daddy yankee became the most watched on youtube with 3 billion views. the justin bieber remix has been the number one song for 15 weeks. it will beat mariah carey's song. >> i love the way you say despacito. next to a "game of thrones"-sized controversy. surrounding the creator of the series. >> it was reported that george r. martin doesn't watch the show because he's too busy writing and too many characters are being killed off. >> according to entertainment weekly, he's setting the record straight. he says he does watch the series like everyone else. but he told the magazine through

an e-mail that he just returned from a convention in russia and believed he was either misquoted or lost in translation. >> martin didn't watch any television during his trip abroad and there for simply is behind on the current seventh season. see, if he had not been watching, i would have said that makes two of us. >> oh, my gosh. >> i know. >> you have to watch, like season three. >> i know, i got to catch that. >> awesome. but it wasn't that he wasn't watching "game of thrones." he wasn't watching anything. >> lost in translation, but we got it straightened out. >> need to get caught up on the bachelor, bachelor in paradise. and another controversy on twitter over tom cruise. >> a viewer watched the film valkyrie and noticed that his derriere looked a little bigger. >> it sparked quite a bit of speculation as you can see from these other tom cruise rear end shots.

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♪ oh, really? huh. >> i do. >> so prince william and harry have been opening up in recent weeks about princess diana. of course the 20th anniversary of her death is approaching. >> but now the brothers are

sharing new revelations about the difficult and emotional moments leading up to their mother's funeral. here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: it is the last image the world saw of diana, then learning of the crash. >> it is here on saturday that the funeral for diana, the princess of wales will be held. >> reporter: it is hard to believe a week from now, the world will mark 20 years since diana's death. new interviews tonight from a bbc documentary. prince harry on the paparazzi who followed his mother into that tunnel. >> i think one of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her through, into the tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying on the back seat of the car. she'd had a, quite a severe head injury, but she was very much still alive on the back seat. >> reporter: two boys walking alongside their mother's casket. prince william now revealing he felt his mother was there. >> it was one of the hardest things i've ever done, that walk. i felt like she was walking beside us to get us through. >> reporter: he says he now understands why his mother did

that interview when she talked about her troubled marriage. >> well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. >> reporter: prince william saying i can understand, having sometimes been in those situations. you feel incredibly desperate. and it is very unfair that things are being said that are untrue. the easiest thing to do is just to say or go to the media yourself. he now vows to stay strong for his mother. >> it will either make or break you. and i wouldn't let it break me. i wanted it to mike me, i wanted her to be proud of the person i've become. i didn't want her worried or her legacy to be that, you know, william or harry were completely and utterly devastated by it, and all the hard work and all the love and all the energy that she put into us would go to waste. >> reporter: david muir, abc news, new york. >> hard to believe it's been 20 years, indeed, for those kids who never got over it. should point out

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