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we're getting our first look at the moment that pedestrian clinlg collapsed in miami. they were adjusting the tension rods on one end last week when it collapsed. that collapse killed six people. >> we have new video and audio of a police shooting in sacramento, california. he was unarmed when officers killed him. you can hear it right there. this was all playing out in his grandparent's backyard. >> police were responding to a call of a burglary suspect. they thought he had a gun. more information is needed before reaching a conclusion.
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my legal name is greg. i was bullied. unbelievably bullied. one day at lunch, i had my head shoved in a urinal. here i am covered in urine from laying on the ground under the urinal. my lip was busted. they sent me home. we, i went home and i got the .45 out of my father's drawer and put it in my mouth. at this point, i had nobody, nobody in the school system to help me. is that the way this is going to be? lance, you were the one that shoved my head in the urinal. >> the superintendent denies the allegation and claims he did not know the father. however, witnesses have come
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♪ skinny, just give me the skinny ♪ the skinny for this thursday and it is a throwback thursday and we're throwing back to the old henry cavill. facial hair fans everywhere. >> that's right. sadly, superman's moustache has been defeated and now he's making sure it's not forgotten. >> the stash no stranger to the headlines. causing a stir when it was discovered that cgi artists had to digitally erase it from his justice league scenes. and now that the stash left us, henry is honoring it with a very tasteful memorial on instagram. >> oh, hello. don't be alarmed. it's me, henry cavill. sometimes superhero and former secret agent. but now, completely clean shaven. i know, it's hard to recognize me without king stash. sometimes i even have trouble recognizing myself.
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it's hard for me to admit this is not cgi. he's really gone. i can tell you this though. i will remember him always. ♪ i will remember you >> the post goes on to all of these photos of him with the mustache with with sarah mclachlan's "i will remember you." he had the mustache for mission impossible and they had to shoot extra scenes for the justice league movie, so he had the mustache, so they had to cgi remove it. but king stash, i like that he named it. >> did you notice there was all this chest and body hair that the raiser never went near. that's too much work. >> that's staying. that's sticking around. but there appears to be a bit of a hair removal trend going on in
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hollywood. antonio banderas has shaved off more than his facial hair. check it out. >> his head hair. >> gone. >> and do eyebrows count as facial hair? >> that's a good question. they are on your face, right? >> i guess. >> this was his look on the red carpet in madrid. the national geographic series where he plays the accentric spanish painter. what he's standing in front of is a billboard from the movie. in the billboard he has eyebrows. so some are raising questions could this have been another part of the film or maybe he no longer has eyebrows or maybe this is his new look and he likes it. >> hair raising. it's raising many eyebrows. you look like you should be in star trek. >> what do you guys think? should i do it? >> looks perfect. >> okay. >> either that or you've been to a doctor in beverly hills.
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>> look, i'm sad, look i'm angry. i'm happy. it's all the same. another actor's body of work is getting notice. darren criss who played versace's killer is getting a lot of attention and not just for his amazing acting. some fans said, not only does he deserve an emmy for the role, his rear end does as well. >> he dropped his pants several times to reveal his co star. you be the judge. darren told e.t., he would lose a best butt category. listen to his reason why. >> i have watched ""game of thrones"" there's a lot of rock hard competition. no pun intended. >> that's why i gave up entertainment news. just go to the red carpet and ask darren criss about his butt. how would you like that conversation? >> i don't think i'd mind it all that much.
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>> really? >> let's get to it. no. let's talk about what the people really want to know, darren. the butt. how do you feel about it. >> man, but the pressure on squats days, on legs day. >> very true. no, he's being humble. he did a good job in acting and -- finally, shaquille so they battled on the court through the '90s. the rivalry continues. in the latest jab shaq sent a meme with with a message every girl on spring break posing in the sand like boom there's charley. nice legs, chuck. >> who wears short shorts? i guess he does. >> oh, yeah, he does. >> and there was another one last month, with shaq turning himself into black panther and
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fat panther. it even has the man boobs that we talked about yesterday. >> i want to see what barkley's response is going to be. he's been sitting quietly for a while, but i suspect not for long. >> one team has a good luck charm as they hit the court tonight. stick around, you are watching "world news now."
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the better the fit, the better it protects. always. ♪ ♪ not a single one. >> no? >> not at all. finally this half hour basketball blessings. >> the breakout star of the ncaa tournament returns to the hard court tonight. >> reporter: march madness,
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loyola chicago with those back-to-back victories. the fans thankful for their secret weapon. sister jean. you met jean delores schmidt right here. >> she motivates us before the game. >> reporter: motivates them with a prayer on the eve of another big game. we see them leaning over to you, kissing and hugging you at the end of the game. what do you say to them before they head out that could help all of us, honestly? >> i say a prayer but sometimes there's a little more talking to god in the prayer but i begin with with good and gracious god, we hope to win this game. we ask for your curage. we already have the confidence. i pray for the other team, perhaps not as hard. >> reporter: but we understand sister jean. the next game, against ayer rea. >> amen and go ramblers.
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>> thanks the david for that. sister jean will be watching along with us as the teams in the sweet 16 get everything under way tonight. >> do you think as they are hugging and whispering to her don't say how come you didn't have us in the 16 in your bract. >> here's the deal, she has them getting to the sweet 16 but not going beyond that. >> things could get awkward. check out this epic buzzer beater from iceland. >> the announcers are the best. listen to the call. >> so you their nay, nay, nay. nay means no in icelandic, by the way. they take their playoffs pretty seriously. that was all intermural basketball. just weird. >> nay, nay, nay.
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good morning i'm diane macedo. >> and i'm kendis gibson. a major discovery hours after the hunts for the austin serial bomber reached a violent end. they say the suspect left behind a lengthy audio confession. rex tillerson is technically secretary of state for another week. today is his last day at the state department. he'll address employees one last time. when he spoke to them after his firing, he never mentioned president trump. toys 'r' us is going to begin liquidating inventory today at most stores. company officials say store shelves are likely to empty within 30-60 days. will loyola chicago get more
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help from above? march madness resumes tonight in atlanta and los angeles. those are some of our top stories on this thursday, march 22nd. announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and we do say good morning everyone. we're going to start with the confession from the austin bomber. >> the 23-year-old died in an explosion after authorities tracked him down wednesday morning. hours later, detectives discovered a 25-minute message on the man's phone. they say he confessed to the crimes, even describing the specifics of each explosive used during that spree. officials are still trying to unravel exactly why he did it. he didn't claim to be targeting any specific group. >> we are never going to be able to put a ration behind these acts. but, what i can tell you, having listened to that recording, he does not at all mention anything about terrorism. nor does he mention anything about hate. >> police do say the recording
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is the outcry of a very challenged young man. he also indicated he knew police were closing in on him. >> but neighbors say the suspect seemed smart and polite. one told reporters they attended bible study together. >> none of them, not even his parents suspected the young man, described as a computer geek, could be a killer. here is marcus moore. >> reporter: police say was the serial bomber. police say 23-year-old mark conditt lived in this home in austin. appearing to only have a traffic violation on record. 2010 to 2012 attending austin community college. a blog posting describing himself as not that politically inclined. he views himself as a conservative. arguing against gay marriage and release of terrorists by the government from jail. he studied business, but didn't finish.
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and reporting he was fired from his manufacturing job last august. people who live near conditt say they are shocked by what happened and the person described as a serial bomber is not the person they knew. >> he was a kid, neighborhood kid. always believed he was smart. >> reporter: those neighbors suggesting there was no sign he would be capable of harming so many people. >> as they put this together, they are going to see a kid with a built-in hostility. it reached a level of rage he was going to inflict on society. >> reporter: his family released a statement saying they are a normal family and had no idea of the, quote, darkness their son must have been in. their prayers are with families who lost loved ones. >> they are in a tough spot. they lost loved ones and he was responsible for so many deaths. the fourth nor'easter storm in three weeks.
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>> let's look at boston college. my alma mater is expected to continue to deal with this kind of weather and snow throughout the morning. all boston schools are closed today. >> and d.c. is letting the snow keep them from partying. >> they are partying in the dorms. the bars close at 2:00. i mean they're studying. because that's where we studied a lot. >> sure. flights had to be canceled at baltimore airport after a contractor ran out of desising fluid. overall, more than 4,000 flights were canceled throughout the region and hundreds more are already off the board today. and washington d.c. tradition was upheld with a massive two-hour snow ball fight on the national mall. let's find out where there might be snowball fights today. good morning, paul. >> good morning, diane, kendis. storm impact still having an impact from d.c. to new york but
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particularly in boston with regional power outages still tracking towards the north and it's having its effect on travel. it's melting and refreezing in the morning, causing black ice. then the wind's shifting tremendously. 20 to 40 mile-per-hour gusts along the entire eastern seaboard. we are bracing for another nor'easter if scenario one works out. to the west, stormy, throughout california with soaking rain, flooding. mudslides in burn areas. heavy snow, 7,000 feet and above. becoming chilly over the weekend. hopefully the rain comes to an end by the weekend. kendis? diane? >> no doubt a a long couple of days for folks on the west coast. newly released documents indication epa administrator spent over $100,000 in flights. in a letter, the epa says they approved the expensions based on security detail. the agency said scott pruitt has
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received quote an unprecedented number of threats. we have new reporting involving attorney general jeff sessions. sessions fires fbi director andrew mccabe, but there are questions about whether mccabe was actually investigating the attorney general. >> reporter: abc news has learned former fbi director, andrew mccabe fired by sessions just two days before his retirement had once launched an criminal investigation into sessions, himself. investigating whether sessions intentionally misled congress about his interactions with russians when he was a top adviser to the trump campaign. triggered in part by this moment in sessions' conformation hearing. >> i have been called a surrogate at a time or two and i did not have communications with the russians. >> reporter: turns out, sessions actually met twice with the russian ambassador, prompting calls. mccabe launched that. it was closed with no action.
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just last week, sessions fired mccabe. critics say the attorney general acted under pressure from president trump. but they said mccabe was less than candid during an investigation into the clinton foundation. a source told us he was unaware when he fired mccabe last friday. they declined to confirm that. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. some say there's gridlock on capitol hill. they were voting on a new boarder agreement yesterday and one group long opposed to it set off tear gas canisters right there in the chamer. they have done this once before. the measure still passed. >> give us time. we have a budget battle tomorrow. so we might be joining you, kosovo.
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scientists may have stumbled upon a new and life saving use for viagra. they say a daily low dose reduced the number of tumors in lab mice by 50%. the drug's active ingredient helps prevent the formation of polyps in the intestines. and maybe to help with the research. >> are you volunteering? >> i don't need it. i'm just saying some men may want to help out. >> a pennsylvania police department took a different approach of keeping drivers off the road. >> the bridge's facebook page cautioned residents to leave home early and allow themselves extra time to get to work. so they let everyone know traffic in one area quote absolutely sucks. >> later in the day used a scribbled traffic report with the words, everybody crashed or
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everyone crashed, rather. the caption on the picture read today's traffic report, stay home. >> all right. gets to the point. coming up the alert for facebook users after the data breach involving 50 million accounts. we're going to show you how to find out what data is being collected. and the two-fingered push ups. how did he do it. we have a, this happened for you, ahead. you are watching "world news now."
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police body cam video capturing the moment officers in cleveland saved the life of a choking baby girl. she stopped traffic, right there, the moment she realized her 2-month-old daughter, tyra, was choking in the backseat. she says it's a miracle the two officers were right behind her. >> i was praying. >> praying and the training actually paid off. within seconds, they had the young girl, tyra, breathing, yet again. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg is breaking his silence.
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>> in his first tv interview, he admitted to cnn his company made mistakes that allowed the company to access 50 million users without their permission. he says the company is taking steps to make sure user data is protected. >> rebecca jarvis has more if you want to know what facebook's clients can learn about you. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller is closing in on a political consultant firm hired by the trump campaign in 2016. in undercover video obtained by britain's channel 4, the company's ceo boasting of his influence. >> have you met mr. trump? >> many times. all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, television and strategy. >> reporter: mueller now looking into that relationship, a source with direct knowledge who met with the special counsel's team
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who says investigators have asked houda ta was collected and used, specifically in the battleground states. christopher wiley said before the campaign began, the firm was gauging public opinion on phrases that would become trump staples. >> we are going to drain the swamp. >> we tested drain the scamp before they gained prominence in american discourse. >> reporter: recently the president acknowledged drain the swamp was not his own creation. >> it was a term that was actually given to me. usually i like to think of them myselves. this was given to me. i hated it. i thought it was so hokey. >> reporter: cambridge analytica allegedly using information to target voters with messages tailored to sway them. they obtained that information
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from this man, russian american scientist alexander kogan, who insists he didn't know he was breaking any rules. >> did they tell you what they were going to do with with the data? >> i knew it was for political consultant but beyond that, no idea. >> reporter: brad, who ran the 2016 strategy and now the 2020 campaign manager described facebook as their ace in the hole. >> i understood early that facebook is how he was going to win. >> reporter: rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> they deny using the personal data on the trump campaign and insists they destroyed it all. >> so if you're wondering how to find out what information is being collected on facebook, work with me here. here is how you can do it. click on the drop down menu in the upper right corner and click on settings. that will take you to the general account settings there. now, on the left of that, left hand side of the screen, click
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on apps. under your information, click about you. and your categories. >> that will take you to this page, where you see all the information that facebook is collecting on you, your birthday, your travel, political leanings, even if you haven't made posts, they can track what you click on. >> facebook knows i have an iphone x. my close friends are men with birthdays between seven and 30 days. okay. thanks. birthdays between --. my bargain detergent couldn't keep up. it was mostly water. so, i switched to tide pods. they're super concentrated, so i get a better clean. i mean, i give away water for free. i'm not about to pay for it in my detergent. #1 trusted. #1 awarded it's got to be tide. and for a plant-based clean, try tide purclean
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welcome back. so we're almost at the point, technology wise, where our kitchen gadgets can cook our food for us. almost. until that happens, there are plenty of gadgets that can make your lives easier. you're just back from the housewares show. >> housewares show. the preview was here in new york. these are from both. do you make coffee? >> not familiar. >> cold brew coffee is different.
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you add water and grinds and more water. the company says it's up to 80% less acidity. they say use filtered water, yorks water is fine with me. then you have to wait 12-24 hours. you push that button. one of two things can happen. you can can just drink a cup of coffee. i made it a little bit weak. that was my first try. this is neat. it goes directly into a thermal carafe. >> yeah. >> then you throw ice in there and put the cap on. >> it's good to see the video because when you started brewing it, your hair was dark and boom. not only did you lose it but a little gray. >> about 50 bucks. this is really need. this is the easy pour waffle maker. you don't open the waffle maker. so you mix up the batter.
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you take a cup, they give you the cup. you pour it directly into the waffle maker. now that's on and the waffle batter slides down and there's a green light that will go on and off to tell you it's making the waffle and then you open it and you have a perfect belgian waffle. i'm inept at getting the waffle out. it's about a a seven-inch waffle and a an inch thick. it tastes good. >> and the benefit is what? >> you don't take a cup and it runs out the sides. easier to clean. turbo pot, this is a neat idea. so it a has fins on the bottom and the company says that increases the cooking surface. >> okay. >> so, pg&e did tests and you can cook 30 to 50 times faster with all these fins and there's a line of them.
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turbo pot is the line. that's pretty neat. >> that's pretty neat. >> so there are something like 5 billion pounds of styrofoam going to land fills. >> yes. >> this company takes tons of it, makes little pellets and out of the pellets, they produce picture frames. so you have picture frame that is are good looking, but you are doing good for the environment because they are getting rid of styrofoam and reasonably priced, they start add seven bucks. >> and you can't even tell they're made of sunshine. from a distance, they look like different materials. >> how many years away are we from having actual robots that will be cooking for us? >> the way we're going friday. >> all right, i'm down with that. >> a year from friday. >> thank you so much for being here with us. of course you can get more on gizwiz.biz. we'll be right back, you are
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special thursday edition of this happened. so what had happened in philadelphia the 76ers were playing the grizzlies. their superstar there, joel embiid was trolling a reporter just trying to do her job. molly sullivan there for nbc sports. and embiid there, ben simons trying to talk. there you go again. >> she just can't get a straight report out, can she? >> did you catch my good side? that was embiid who peeked over the reporter's shoulder. he was having a good time and there was a reason for it. the sixers won 119-105 over the grizzlies. they are doing great. >> all right. there's another moment in sports world capturing attention.
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this is actually two sports fans and they were caught on video. see if you can tell what they're eating. >> this is a basketball game. >> and they're sharing a jar of what appears to be some mayonnaise. >> are you kidding me? >> yeah. so they tweeted this video out saying you know there's food you can put that on. let's say social media had a strong reaction. lots of people kind of were grossed out by the whole thing. but i don't really -- i mean mayo is good. what's the problem. >> i dare you. no, you wouldn't. oh, my god. >> mayo. delicious. >> what? there is no -- oh, my god. there's no way. what is wrong with you?
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>> bring out the hellmann's, bring out the best. now to another athletic fete. i can't even watch. this guy deceptively strong performs 102 one-finger push ups, two-finger push ups. look at that. 102 of them. >> he's cheating. >> no. if you can do the mayonnaise. >> let's see, kg. need the extra wide shot. cue the extra wide shot. >> extra wide? i worked out last night. >> finger tips finger tips. fingertips. >> did i do it? >> i'm not sure you have the same form that guy does. also he did 102 of them. >> i did half of one. >> you going to be okay? >> yeah. >> you may need a little mayo to boost your energy. this is deliciou
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new details about the suspected austin bomber. >> police are revealing more about the man who blew himself up, saying he left behind a details confession, plu how pink gloves helped police track him down. also a powerful east coast storm is on the move. it still threatens millions in its path. boston is closing schools today. the heavy snow and ice are making driving conditions dangerous. we have the latest storm track ahead. and a self-driving car in a deadly collision. if a human was driving this vehicle, would the crash have been preventible? and later, the dangers of reporting from the storm zone. the heavy snow and intense, bone-chilling wind and your competitors pushing you out of the shot. we have the small surprise in the mix on this thursday, march 22nd.
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>> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i don't know who would do such a thing. really, really inconsiderate. >> it's normal here. >> i can't push him anywhere. >> we'll get to the small surprise in pittsburgh. but we're going to start with the details we're learning in the austin serial bombing. detectives say the suspect left behind a 25-minute recording confessing to the spree. >> police say the recording is the outcry of a very challenged young man and gave specific details about the seven devices he made. surveillance images from the fedex store put detectives on the trail. pink construction gloves he wore dropping off the packages helped police track him down. matt gutman goes through the moments that led to a final and deadly confrontation. >> reporter: that 19-day bombing spree ended as it began, with an
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explosion. in the predawn hours, a s.w.a.t. team that had been trailing the suspected bomber, marc anthony conditt. that white van ramming conditt's maroon suv from behind. >> the suspect detonated a bomb from inside the vehicle and one of our swat officers fired at the suspect as well. >> reporter: this is i-35, it is completely shut down. it is one of the busiest freeways leading to dallas. tremendous amount of police activity. the explosion startling clients in a hotel. after the impact a device detonating, killing the suspect, wounding an officer. police say mark conditt left a recorded confession on his phone describing how he constructed those six devices and the one he used on himself. >> i know everybody is interested in a motive and understanding why. we are never going to be able to
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put a ration behind these acts. >> reporter: after triggering the bombing spree that killed two, wounded at least five and terrorized the major american city, breaking the case authorities needed. five bombs exploded, but the sixth was unexploded at fedex. police zeroing in on conditt after spotting him on surveillance video, trying to mail a package in southwest austin. seen here, in an apparent disguise, wearing gloves. investigators then match these images with his receipts from fedex where they say he used the pseudonym can kelly kilmoore. they also found his receipts for the nails, which he bought at home depot and the batteries, which he bought online. for weeks he eluded police by changing his tactics from package bombs to a device triggered by a trip wire. the atf may not have had a name for the suspect, but they had a signature. so you actually had atf
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technicians piece together these bombs after they exploded? >> yes, after the second one, we knew exactly what the first two looked like. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams swarming his home where inside, they found explosive materials. a five-block radius evacuated, robots sent in. officials are are still trying to determine whether there were additional explosive packages circulating in the mail. they don't think that's the case. what continues to elude them is a motive. and without that they can't have a full assessment of the threat. matt gutman, texas. >> matt, thank you. and on that note of a motive, the case isn't legally being called terrorism because the confession didn't target a specific group. we have a few questions about that on social media. >> quite a bit of relief in austin after all that's transpired in the last 24 hours there. also, another breaking story to get to. the latest major winter storm isn't done with us yet.
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>> the storm is barely moving. it is just churning over the northeast right now from washington, d.c. up to new england. >> a look at new york city, schools in washington as well as philadelphia will be open today. schools in boston will be closed. >> there were hundreds of accidents just in lancaster county, pennsylvania alone. including this one that closed the turnpike for several hours. >> a jackknife tractor trailer closed part of the george washington bridge outside new york city. just a few hours ago, as well, at the airports more than 4400 flights in the northeast have been canceled. gio benitez has more on that. >> reporter: here at laguardia airport, it's an incredible scene because it's more like a ghost town. we haven't seen passengers since wednesday morning. they haven't come to the airport because so many flights were canceled. of the more than 4,000 flights canceled across the country, nearly 3,000 of them were here
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in new york at three airports. they were causing the biggest problems for the rest of the country. i want you to take a look at this video right now because airports have been trying to keep up all day wednesday, plowing those runways. over at baltimore's airport, there was another problem. the contractor that supplies deicing fluid for airlines ran out of it, grounding even more planes. flyers, thursday, you've got to be careful, too, because hundreds of those flights on thursday have already been canceled. you have to go ahead and call those airlines because a lot of them have already issued these travel waivers. get those in and get your flights rescheduled. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> quite a ripple effect there in the air as well as the rails. amtrak, also, again, operating on a reduced schedule in the northeast today. >> let's check in with accuweather's paul williams to see how much longer this weather emergency will last. any good news for us? >> good news is it will eventually come to an end. eventually.
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the storm still havingen impact along the east coast. the storm tracking to the north travel disruptions, down to d.c. windy along the coast and regional power outages. the nor'easter effect is the problem, too. all of the snow melting during the day and refreezing through the overnight period making black ice from ohio valley to the mid-atlantic to the northeast and the winds are acting up terribly, 20-40-mile-an-hour winds along the entire east coast. >> our thanks to paul williams. it will be moving out eventually. >> eventually. all right, thanks, paul. now, we have to move on to the controversy of president trump's congratulatory phone call to vladimir putin. >> the white house is threatening to fire whoever leaked the president's briefing notes, which told him not to congratulate the russian president. meantime, the president defended himself on twitter saying getting along with russia is a good thing and his predecessors failed to see that. mark zuckerberg saying his company made mistakes.
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he's outlining new steps to protect user data in the wake of the cambridge scandal. zuckerberg says they'll only get names, profile photos when users sign in through facebook and be cut off from access when users stop using their apps for three months. he told cnn, he wishes facebook wouldn't have waited so long to take those steps. >> this was a major breach of trust and i'm really sorry that this happened and we have a basic responsibility to protect people's data and if we can't do that, we don't have the opportunity to serve people. >> he also said he's open to testifying in front of congress. he said it's time to impose more regulations on the tech industry, but didn't detail what kind of rules he would support. >> interesting there. what he had to say about it. a lot of people are dumping their facebook as a result of this. i keep telling my grandma and mom, it's okay, stay with facebook.
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>> are you sure that's the right move? are you afraid they'll be on twitter? and then they'll really be in touch. >> and they start sliding in the dm. television reporters try to prepare for anything when they are live. sometimes, little things can trip you up. >> there is a mouse underneath my foot right now. sorry about that. >> just a little friend giving a pittsburgh meteorologist a surprise. she managed to keep it together and finish that report. i'm not so sure we all would have remained so calm in that circumstance. >> no, i would have been gone. that would have been it for us. what kind of a sound effect. >> you know, paul used to work with cam tran. >> oh, really? >> paul? >> yeah. >> were there mice crawling around there, what would you
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react to? >> well, i'm not going to jump, but that was my co-anchor with accuweather. she went to pittsburgh. poor cam. i told you, that's what happens when you go to pittsburgh without your pet cat. >> you would have totally kept your cool, right? >> i would try to. i wouldn't jump, i'd just stomp real hard. >> don't mess with paul williams. >> exactly. thanks, paul. coming up a closer look at the return of "roseanne." >> dvr alert, the '90s show that tackled so many issues comes back next week. how will it translate to the political landscape. an unsolved missing child case, a written message on a dollar bill that could have been a last cry for help. you are watching "world news now." a missing dollar bill that could have been a last cry for help.
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breaking overnight a fire at a hotel in dublin, ireland. some guests escaped in just their pajamas as the fire raced through the upper floors of the building. windows exploded because of the heat. there are no reports of injuries and the cause of the fire is not yet known. police in tempe, arizona have released videos off the deadly crash involving the self-driving uber car.
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it showed the moments just before impact as the woman was walking her bicycle across a very dark road. it shows the human back up driver appearing to look down and surprised at the moment of impact. the crash in tempe is the first pedestrian fatality involving a fully au fully autonomous vehicle. they have suspended self-driving cars while they investigate. and police in mesa, arizona are looking at a case that's 11 years old. >> she disappeared while waiting for an ice cream truck outside her house. now a $1 bill appeared. it has the message, my name is michelle bigs, i was kidnapped in mesa, arizona and i'm still alive. >> it's our obligation to do what we can. is it a hoax or a prank? was it done mean spiritedly?
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is there something else? we need to do the best we can to figure that out. >> authorities in mesa say it's still an open and active investigations. bigs would be 30 years old today. >> so many questions in this case. the bill was printed in 2009. that would have been ten years after she disappeared. but the way her name is spelled, it's missing a few letters. there are questions as to whether or not it was a hoax, maybe it was written quickly. it's a head scratcher. >> it does give a slight little bit of hope after so many years. coming up in the next half hour the superintendent called out for bullying 35 years ago. his accuser giving a surprise speech in front of the school board. and first the conors are back as if nothing happened? where will roseanne pick up? where it left off? we'll find out next on "world news now." roseanne pick up? where it left off? we'll find out next on "world news now."
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so the grateful dead would not fade away. that sort of sums up the conors. the tv family that never seems to fadeaway. >> next week "roseanne" returns. for "a closer look" at the show then and now, we are up with david wright. >> reporter: on tuesday night a family reunion for the ages. >> you look great. >> ah, baloney. >> reporter: the connor family, together again for the first time in 20 years. that same house, that same couch back in the '80s "roseanne" was the number one show on television, a huge hit well into the '90s. an ordinary family, facing the issues of the day with humor. >> we're paying more taxes than the rich people because they can find out the loopholes.
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i want loopholes. >> in my culture, it was a strong mother based home with a loving husband and some problems and loud mouth kids. so i wanted that. >> he started it. >> did not. >> reporter: nothing was off limits. at a time when the rest of america only whispered about such things, roseanne dealt openly about birth control -- >> you mean about the pill? >> reporter: -- domestic violence. >> i don't want anybody to know about it. >> reporter: masturbation. >> this is something everybody does. >> really? >> yeah. >> okay. >> okay. >> do you do it? >> i do. >> reporter: same-sex marriage and gender fluidity. >> i now pronounce you man and -- i now pronounce you men. >> reporter: you name it roseanne took the culture wars head on. now she and the cast are back for nine episodes with a growing
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list of new issues to deal with. >> "roseanne" reboot is going to be huge. i hope we do it proud. >> can't help but wonder if they're trump lovers. >> never know. there might be one or two in the mix. >> reporter: in fact dan and roseanne are both trump voters. the election of 2016, the dividing line for the connor family. >> our last election the jokes were just writing themselves. we wanted to show an accurate depiction of america and it's very divided. >> reporter: where these characters ended up, how they are doing now is a big part of the fun. >> they kept everything exactly the same as it was when you were kids. >> it's a decorating choice called poverty. >> reporter: the grown up darlene moves back with her parents because of money troubles. >> i don't know, mom, can i have some money? >> i don't know. can i have some money? >> they're up against it. it's paycheck-to-paycheck pretty much.
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>> do you get points on your credit card? >> we get threats, is that the same thing. >> reporter: they are confronting mortality because they are getting older. >> did you get the pain pills for my bad knee? >> wouldn't be the candyman without the sunshine, babe. >> after all these years go by and we experience life more, i feel like we've gone to another level of that. i just wanted to do my best work. we do push ourselves and each other to have -- be funnier, be boulder. the work is what's fun. >> reporter: "roseanne" returns starting next tuesday right here on abc. i'm david wright for "nightline" in new york. >> and one of the big questions, which becky is coming back? i don't know if you notice both actresses are coming back but apparently the later one is playing a different character. >> both beckies. >> both beckies are back. >> and you know the house that was used for the facade was in
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it's time now for the mix it's time now for the mix and we're going to start with a round of applause, shall we? for the latest edition to the guinness book of world records. >> bravo! sock, 9-year-old seven wade from florida has become a record holder for clapping. >> his name is seven? >> but he's nine. and he claps over 1,000 times in just a minute. 1,080 times in just a minute to set the new record. the old record was 1,020 claps. he apparently set time aside every day to practice the technique and get it down. his father says he thinks it was important for his son to learn that a lot of preparation goes. does this count?
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am i doing it? that's what it looks like, right? it doesn't sound the same as when he does it. >> you look like the shark from katy perry's performance. i don't know, it's a little weird. and congratulations to him for being able to get this record in. >> i don't think i'm doing it. this is tiring. >> you're doing something. you all right? >> that was a workout. so there's a new trend happening on the internet right now or just in general. people who are believers in the thing called marriage. so they're piercing their wedding ring. instead of getting a wedding ring, they're getting these piercings. diamond dermal piercing. >> what's it holding on to? >> some are doing it as engagement rings. it is pierced in there. it's a microdermal anchor.
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they said they are safe and the body will hold them for several years. some couples are going full monte with their wedding ring. just a way of commemorating your love >> oh, that looks weird and painful. >> yes, but love is painful. >> it's not supposed to be. >> to quote the poet, love hurts. i know, love stinks. >> that's a different song. shall we move on? last week we showed a dog with a human face, now we have the monkey with the human face going viral. this is #monkey with a man's face is trending after 1.3 million views, after that monkey looked into the camera. hey there, guy. >> what's up, bro. that baby still kind of freaks me out that they had way back when that had the monkey face.
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this morning on "world news now" two massive storm systems this morning on "world news now" two massive storm systems effecting travel coast to coast. mandatory evacuations are being ordered in southern california as parts of the east coast get buried in over a foot of snow. we'll have the latest forecast, live. new details about the suspected austin serial bomber. police say he left behind a 25-minute recorded confession. hear what's on it, ahead. and new this half hour standing up to his bully 35 years later. >> a father shows up at a school board meeting with with his painful story and reveals his alleged bully is running the school district. and superman's cryptonite is his razor. in "the skinny," he gets emotional paying tribute to his gone, but not forgotten facial hair. it's thursday, march 22nd. i love the head wrap.
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>> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now." video is so funny i can't wait to get to it. but we have news to get to first before we can enjoy the silliness. we are going to start things off with the severe storms on both coasts. >> the latest nor'easter is still hanging around. dropping snow along the i-95 corridor from washington into new england. >> more than 4400 flights in and out of the region were cancelled yesterday and hundreds more have been scratched today. >> the villanova men's basketball team nearly didn't make it to the airport. the team bus got stuck in the snow while on campus. eventually they boarded a charter flight to boston where the weather is no better but they'll make it to their tournament match up tomorrow. >> residents are getting fed up with all that snow. we begin with abc's maggie rulli. >> reporter: a snowy spring storm barrels through the northeast. >> i'm tired of it. >> i'm done. >> absolutely, this is crazy.
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>> give me the summer. >> enough, enough, i surrender. >> reporter: fourth nor'easter to hit the northeast in less than four weeks. >> just shoveling again here. >> again? >> yes. >> i'm tired of it. >> reporter: and once again it's slamming into the same hard hit areas. new york and new jersey declaring states of emergency. heavy snow and sleet is making for dangerous driving conditions. >> it's like there's ice on the bottom, then snow on top that makes it extra slick. >> reporter: tractor trailers flipping over in virginia. in lancaster county, this crash shut down the pennsylvania turnpike for more than six hours and others turning deadly like this crash on new york's long island. >> there's no reason to be on the roads, unless it's an emergency. >> reporter: at the airports, flights are at a standstill. workers desperately fighting to deice planes as more than 4,000 flights have already been canceled. schools across the region were cancelled. although not everyone hated it. >> snow day! >> reporter: jordana and liam
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were taking full advantage of their day off, sledding in central park. in d.c., some broke out their cross country skis as a giant snowball fight took place in the national mall. they have had so many snow days already, some districts are having to hold classes on saturday to make sure their school year doesn't go into july. diane and kendis? >> don't tell the kids that, yet. >> snow day. >> you're going to have class on saturday. >> oh, all right. let's move on to california because there's steady heavy rain and more fears of mudslides. >> school districts will be closed as a precaution. we are there. good morning. >> reporter: here in montecito, they have evacuated more than 30,000 people ahead of the storm and i'm standing over one of the major areas of concern right here. so, this is one of those creek that is was overflowing with debris on january 9th, that storm that killed 21 people, two of them still missing.
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so all the debris caught here. it was overflowing. it would have been over my head. we're talking 30 feet of water and debris. these giant boulders and trees and branches. and in that debris are other peoples' homes. it's unimaginable what happened here. ahead of the storm, they brought in the national guard that is on stand by. santa barbara fire bringing in extra resources and prepositioning vehicles. also they have dug more than 50,000 truckloads of debris out of these catch basins. so they can work like this. let the water flow down to the ocean. we remain under a flash flood watch through thursday. they expect this to be the biggest storm of the season. abc news, montecito. >> thank you. now, let's get the forecast for that region. >> paul williams is standing by for us, good morning, paul. busy times at accuweather, earning your keep. >> busy times.
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business is good, but not all that good for the folks on the west coast. here is the storm she was talking about. it's pushing through. here's what we're expecting 8ee to los angeles. with a chance of heavy snow above 7,000. mudslides in the burn areas. it's all about how there's no more vegetation to keep that water from trickling down to the south. this weekend, we'll have temperatures dropping 5-10 degrees below where they should be. we'll have wet weather for the northwest corner and tropical weather will feed into the frenzy of additional flooding showers. >> what about the east coast? are we through the worst of it now? >> the east coast is still dealing with the nor'easter. it's still cranking up along the east coast. problems in portions of boston, especially with the snow lingering on for thursday. becoming blustery as well, as a result of this. this storm is going to move out of the way. but here's the good news. 6:00 over boston. but by the time we get into the afternoon hours, it starts to ease its way out of the way and finally moves totally out of the way. the problem is, we will stay
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windy with 20-40-mile-per-hour winds along the east coast. if that wasn't enough, we're worried about black ice because all the snow in the midatlantic, northeast, it's melting and refreezing throughout the overnight period. >> that makes for very dangerous road conditions. paul, thank you so much. be careful on the roads out there. >> to the violent end and the search for motive. >> authorities tracked down the suspect thanks to a combination of surveillance video leads and what they call old fashioned police work. they also find out why he went on that deadly rampage. here is danya bacchus. >> reporter: a 19-day bombing spree is now over. authorities say suspected bomber, mark conditt left a 25-minute recording they are considering a confession. >> on the recording, the suspect describes the six bombs that he constructed with the level of specificity that he identified the differences among those six bombs.
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>> reporter: authorities say a s.w.a.t. team followed conditt for hours before they moved in, ramming his maroon suv. he set off another explosion that killed him. >> the suspect detonated a bomb inside his vehicle. >> reporter: he was able to allude authorities for weeks after allegedly triggering a bombing spree that killed two and wounded at least five. investigators matching these images with his receipts, saying he used the alias kelly killmore to spend packages. wednesday, authorities searching conditt's home saying they found components and explosives in one room, but no completed devices. >> i wouldn't call it a bomb making factory. there's definitely components consistent with what we have seen with the other devices. >> reporter: until now, conditt was not known to authorities, appearing to only have a traffic violation on his record. neighbors never suspecting he was the bombing suspect. >> he was a kid, neighborhood kid. always believed he was very smart. >> reporter: his family left a statement saying we had no idea of the darkness mark must have
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been in. authorities say on the recording, there was no mention of terrorism or hate, but, instead, this was the outcry of a very challenged young man. diane and kendis. >> thank you. we have new details in the looming government shutdown. government funding runs out at the end of the day tomorrow. congressional leaders reached a $1.3 trillion spending deal to keep them from operating in september. a big increase in military spending. the white house supports it but any one senator can can delay approval of that bill. the federal reserve raised the key interest rate to a quarter point. it's the highest level in years. they say the modest increase shows the federal reserve is under recently appointed chair, jerome powell, shows faith in the economy's strength. this morning trading is mixed on overseas markets and wall street opens lower. >> we'll have more news ahead, including video of the deadly
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bridge collapse in miami. see the moment it gave out. and, in the skinny t growing calls for an actor to be rewarded handsomely for his behind. >> oh, that behind. >> but first a look at today's forecast. is behind. >> oh, that behind. >> but first a look at today's forecast.
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we're getting our first look at the moment that pedestrian bridge collapsed in miami. investigators confirmed that workers were adjusting tension rods on one end last week when it collapsed. that collapse killed six people. >> we have new video and audio of a police shooting in sacramento, california. stefan was unarmed when officers killed him. you can hear it right there. this was all playing out in his grandparent's backyard. >> police were responding to a call of a burglary suspect. officers thought he had a gun. sacramento's major says more information is needed before reaching a conclusion. next to a texas father who
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showed up to a school board meeting accusing the superintendent of once bullying him in the very district he is now in charge of. my legal name is greg. i was bullied. unbelievably bullied. one day at lunch, i had my head shoved in a urinal. here i am covered in urine from laying on the ground under the urinal. my lip was busted. they sent me home. well, i went home and i got the .45 out of my father's drawer and put it in my mouth. at this point, i had nobody, nobody in the school system to help me. is that the way this is going to be? lance, you were the one that shoved my head in the urinal. >> the superintendent denies the allegation and claims he did not know the father. however, witnesses have come forward. "the skinny" is next. that was once
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♪ ♪ skinny, just give me the skinny ♪ the skinny for this thursday and it is a throwback thursday and we're throwing back to the old henry cavill. facial hair fans everywhere. >> that's right. sadly, superman's moustache has been defeated and now he's making sure it's not forgotten. >> the stash no stranger to the headlines. causing a stir when it was discovered that cgi artists had to digitally erase it from his justice league scenes. and now that the stash left us, henry is honoring it with a very tasteful memorial on instagram. >> oh, hello. don't be alarmed. it's me, henry cavill. sometimes superhero and former secret agent. but now, completely clean shaven. i know, it's hard to recognize me without king stash. sometimes i even have trouble recognizing myself. it's hard for me to admit this
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is not cgi. he's really gone. i can tell you this though. i will remember him always. ♪ i will remember you >> the post goes on to all of these photos of him with the mustache with with sarah mclachlan's "i will remember you." it is hilarious. he had the mustache for mission impossible and they had to shoot extra scenes for the justice league movie, so he had the mustache, so they had to cgi remove it. but king stash, i like that he named it. >> did you notice there was all this chest and body hair that the razor never went nearby. that's too much work. >> that's staying. that's sticking around. but there appears to be a bit of a hair removal trend going on in hollywood.
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antonio banderas has shaved off more than his facial hair. check it out. >> his head hair. >> gone. >> and do eyebrows count as facial hair? >> that's a good question. they are on your face, right? >> i guess. >> this was his look on the red carpet in madrid. the national geographic series where he plays the accentric spanish painter. what he's standing in front of is a billboard from the movie. in the billboard he has eyebrows. so some are raising questions could this have been another part of the film where he no longer has eyebrows or maybe this is his new look and he likes it. >> hair raising. it's raising many eyebrows. you look like you should be in star trek. >> what do you guys think? should i do it? >> looks perfect. >> okay. >> either that or you've been to a doctor in beverly hills.
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>> do i look really surprised? look, i'm sad. look, i'm angry. i'm happy. it's all the same. another actor's body of work is getting notice. darren criss who played versace's killer is getting a lot of attention and not just for his amazing acting. some fans said, not only does he deserve an emmy for the role, his rear end does as well. >> he dropped his pants several times to reveal his co star. you be the judge. darren told e.t., he would lose a best butt category. listen to his reason why. >> i think i would louisville. i have watched "game of thrones." i have a lot of stiff competition. there's a lot of rock hard competition. no pun intended. >> imagine that assignment. that's why i gave up entertainment news. just go to the red carpet and ask darren criss about his butt. how do you start that conversation? >> i don't think i'd mind it all
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that much. >> really? >> let's get to it. no. let's talk about what the people really want to know, darren. the butt. how do you feel about it. >> man, but the pressure on squats days, on legs day. >> very true. no, he's being humble. he did a good job in acting and -- finally, shaquille o'neil. the ruthless assault on charles barkley trolling him on social media. so they battled on the court through the '90s. as broadcasting colleagues, the rivalry continues. in the latest jab shaq sent a meme with with a message every girl on spring break posing in the sand like boom there's charlie. >> whoa! >> nice legs, chuck. >> who wears short shorts? i guess he does. >> oh, yeah, he does. >> and there was another one last month, with shaq turning himself into black panther and charles into the fat panther.
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>> slightly doctored from the original. >> just slightly, i would say. it even has the man boobs that we talked about yesterday. >> apparently his nickname is the round mound rebound. maybe a play on that, perhaps. >> very, very nice. >> i want to see what barkley's response is going to be. he's been sitting quietly for a while, but i suspect not for long. >> it's coming up. coming up, the sweet 16 begins. one team has a good luck charm as they hit the court tonight. stick around, you are watching "world news now."
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the fans overjoyed and thankful for their secret weapon. 98-year-old team chaplin, sister jean. you met jean delores schmidt right here. >> she motivates us before the game. >> reporter: motivates them with a prayer on the eve of another big game. i'm curious what you say to the team. wem aning over to you, kissing and hugging you at the end of the game. what do you say to them before they head out that could help all of us, honestly? >> i say a prayer but sometimes there's a little more talking to god in the prayer but i begin with with good and gracious god, we hope to win this game. we ask for your curage. we already have the confidence. i pray for the other team, perhaps not as hard. >> reporter: but we understand sister jean. the next game, against nevada, and another prayer ready to go. >> amen and go ramblers.
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>> thanks to david muir for that. sister jean will be watching along with us as the teams in the sweet 16 get everything under way tonight. >> do you think as they are hugging and whispering to her any are like how come you didn't have us in the sweet 16 in your bracket? >> here's the deal, she has them getting to the sweet 16 but not going beyond that. >> things could get awkward. check out this epic buzzer beater from iceland. >> the announcers are the best. listen to the call. >> so, you hear the nay, nay, nay. nay means no in icelandic, by the way. they take their playoffs pretty seriously. that was all intermural basketball. just weird. >> nay, nay, nay.
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making news in america this morning, confession revealed. police say the serial bomber who terrorized austin, texas for weeks left behind a 25-minute video explaining the attacks but this morning the questions that remain. what his former friend is now saying and the pink gloves that helped police track him down. plus, the new surveillance video of him at the electronics store. >> mark zuckerberg makes his first public comments about the data privacy scandal rocking his company. the mistakes he says were made and what he's doing about it. a custody battle in florida being called a kidnapping after a newborn is taken from her mother at the hospital. >> i don't know what is going on. he told me i no longer have custody. >> did a native american tribe kidnap the baby on buy half of the grandmother. the court

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