♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, flying fiasco. >> christmas was just ruined. this was the worst christmas ever. >> thousands of flights canceled and delayed. southwest airlines at the center of the chaos after that deadly holiday storm. >> please also hear that i'm truly sorry. >> the ceo apologizing, but now facing a federal probe. >> it's a shocking and unacceptable level of disruption. plus killer curves. >> i wanted a little cushion for the pushing. >> you wanted some jiggle. >> yeah. >> a look at the bottom some women are dying to get. idealized in songs like megan thee stallion's "body." >> i've seen cement injected, crazy glue, fiberglass, sand.

>> resorting to disfiguring and sometimes lethal injections. >> it's ce my life, at this point. >> rapper cardi b warning against the shots in a recent instagram post. >> whatever you do, don't get ass shots. and babbs. >> did your mom ever tell you? i'm here to tell you. >> the tiktok star. >> she's got millions of followers, what's that mean? >> it's like your family. you don't want to let your kids down. >> now a star in her own right popping up on talk shows and building a brand. a surprise second act she never saw coming. aah, it's a good day to cough. oh, no! bye, bye cough. later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! hmmm, ok. not coughing at yoga? antiquing not coughing?

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♪ good evening. thank you for joining us. a once in a century storm and the death toll climbs to 31. a stormy weekend being blamed for a massive travel disaster, stranding and frustrating tens of thousands of passengers. while most airlines were able to regroup within days, southwest airlines passengers are still suffering, trying to reach their destinations. >> we're on the plane for about three hours before they deplaned us and canceled our flight. then our next available flight

is december 30th. >> it's a shocking and unacceptable level of disruption, combined with passengers being unable to get anybody on the phone to help them. >> at the center of the travel nightmare, southwest airlines canceling more than 2,500 flights today on top of the thousands canceled yesterday and over the weekend. passengers forced to sleep at airports, luggage scattered from city to city. >> christmas was ruined, worst christmas ever. >> i spoke with transportation secretary pete buttigieg. mr. secretary, could southwest face consequences for failing its customers beyond what you've laid out? -- we're taking a look at all of that right now. there are a number of responsibilities they have, and things that we can enforce in terms of the way that they treat their customers and how their operations roll out. >> we're doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. and please also hear that i'm truly sorry. our plan for the next few days is to fly a reduced schedule and

reposition our people and planes, and we're making headway, and we're optimistic to be back on track before next week. >> reporter: unlike the major airline carriers that were able to rebound much more quickly from the storm, southwest operates on a point to point system, as opposed to a hub and spoke system. president biden tweeting this part, our administration is working to ensure airlines are held accountable. go to the u.s. dot's dashboard to see if you're entitled to compensation. >> when one airline loses this many flights and it ruins the whole travel system, i think we have a structural problem on hand. i mean, come on, folks. now to a dire warning. it's considered the elusive beauty standard, the perfect derriere. now women are getting risky procedures, like the brazilian butt lift, and others turning to extreme measures to get results,

even dangerous injections into their bottoms. they could be risking death and disfigure disfigurement. abc's janai norman takes a look back. >> growing up, i wanted to be a little bit thicker. i didn't like how skinniry i was. i wore padded underwear, i wore a booty pop, i was that thing. i wanted a little cushion for the pushing. so i heard about these injections from some friends of mine. i knew other people who had had them. and they had no issues. they absolutely loved them. >> reporter: taryn quinnteri's butt injections were supposed to be a dream come true. they ended up being her nightmare. >> you wanted some jiggle. >> yeah. >> and so these are the lengths that you went to, and you're not alone. >> yeah.

>> but it's cost you a lot. do you feel like it was worth it? >> absolutely not. one of the people that specialized in silicone injection removal told me that what i had done to my body was worse than cancer. >> reporter: whether photo editing, angles, or shapewear, our cultural fixation with beautiful bottoms is a trend that continues to get bigger. glamorized across pop culture, big, bouncing bottoms are everywhere. from songs like "anaconda" -- ♪ ♪ look at her butt ♪ ♪ body yada yada >> reporter: to megan thee stall stallion's "body." the obsession is real. whether the real return you're born with or the procedures you can purchase for thousands of dollars. last year in the u.s. there were over 61,000 buttocks augmentation surgeries, including the most popular, the

brazilian butt lift surgery, bbl. seeing women line up in wheelchairs returning home from getting cheap, out of state, even out of country procedures, common at certain airports. and the biggest marketing tool of all, social media. but the reality is, for all their popularity, procedures like bbl and injection also run the risk of severe complications and even permanent disfigurement. >> it's an epidemic that's actually getting worse as social media's becoming more popular. ♪ >> reporter: even cardi b, coming clean to glad tv about getting injectins in a basement before making it big. >> i was desperate to have a bigger ass. then almost every girl was going to this lady that was getting the the shots. in queens. it's like, give me her number, hook me up. i did what i did.

>> reporter: but eight years after getting those shots, cardi recently telling her fans over instagram -- >> i actually removed my ass shots off my butt. i removed 95% of it. whatever you do, don't get ass shots. don't get ass shots, bro, i'm really against them. >> reporter: for many, the price of their ideal bottom has cost them their lives. >> a lot of these people are duped. i've seen cement injected, crazy glue, fiberglass, sand, raw silicone purchased at a hardware store. >> this is the surgery. to remove the injection that i got done. >> yeah, go ahead and hop on -- >> reporter: taryn is an entrepreneur tattoo artist who specializes in camouflaging scars. initially she was thinking of getting a bbl. but -- >> there was nothing really available for me at the time. i couldn't get a bbl.

i didn't have any fat to transfer. >> the cost of a brazilian butt lift varies on where you go in the united states. but in new york city and california, it's at a minimum $10,000, sometimes goes up to $30,000. if you take fat via liposuction, usually from the abdomen or flanks or thighs, process it, flip the patient over, do a little more liposuction above the butt, below the butt. we get the fat. we augment it by injecting it into the buttocks. >> some of the reasons why some people opt to get buttock injections as opposed to go through the bbl procedure is the costs. there's also the fact that some people may not have enough fat in order to graft to their butt buttocks. >> reporter: taryn was too skinny to get a bbl, so she did what thousands of other women do and turned to illegal butt injections. after four years of asking friends for recommendations and poking around, taryn found a

mother-daughter injecting team, libya dome and alicia gomas. >> i reached out and talked to them, she had done her own daughter are i completely trusted her. i was told it was a form of injection that would dissolve in a few years. i researched the product that she said it was, and it all seemed fine. >> reporter: so in 2017, taryn traveled to a swanky las vegas hotel for her shots. and outside the room, she joined a long line of women awaiting their turn. >> i went ahead and did it. and i loved it at first. everything was amazing. and then all of a sudden, i developed a rash. and it was just on my butt cheeks, so i knew it was the injections. i knew something was wrong. >> reporter: though taryn says she saw multiple specialists, she says she still doesn't know what was injected into her body.

dr. tan sarmir, a new york-based plastic surgeon who does silicone removals but hasn't seen taryn, says any injected substance is problematic. >> whatever it is, it's not sterile, it's not processed, it doesn't belong in your body. >> reporter: the fda doesn't approve any foreign substance being injected into the buttocks or used for body contouring, only your own fat. and they warn that injectable silicone can cause serious injury or even death. >> the problems that people tend to have are autoimmune problems. they feel tired, they get back pain, burning, itching in their butt, their legs feel heavy and numb, they have difficulty walking. sometimes it's three weeks from the time of injection, sometimes it's 30 years later. >> i could end up on dialysis in ten years. the product could migrate into different parts of my body. >> reporter: that same duo was

eventually charged with the murder of charissa raj paul, who died after allegedly getting injections from adame and glaas in 2019. she posted one of her procedures on social media. wearing ankle monitoring, the mother and daughter recently appeared in court for the first time where they were photographed by dailymail.com. both pled not guilty to murder and practicing medicine without certification.pwe reached out t lawyer for comment multiple times and have yet to hear back. alicia glaas' lawyer saying as much as the client would love to sit down and share her side of the story, now is not the appropriate time, given the pending criminal action. miss glaas vigorously denies and disputes the charges against her and looks forward to her day in court. for taryn, with the possibility

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♪ we'd like to reintroduce you to babs costello, you probably know her as the "branch with babs" lady. 73-year-old was living a glorious second act with more than a million followers on tiktok who absolutely adore her. abc's ashan singh found out why. >> where are we right now? >> light now we actually are in my daughter's kitchen where we shoot. >> where the magic happens? >> this is where the magic happens, at this counter. >> did your mom ever tell you -- >> reporter: babs costello is serving up culinary content. >> if you love lasagna and you

love soup, try lasagna soup. >> reporter: dishing out sage advice. >> when you appreciate someone, you need to tell them. >> reporter: at 74 years young, she's turned her treasured recipes into a booming brand. "brunch with babs." >> it tastes just like it. >> reporter: this grandma's social media pages are filled with tips and tricks. >> place your grates in the tub, they look brand-new. >> reporter: the perfect sheet pan dinner. >> add it to your week rotation. >> reporter: a lot of followers. over 2.9 million on tiktok alone. when you say to yourself, babs costello's got millions of followers, what's that mean to you? >> that i have to not disappoint them. >> a million kids? >> like your family, you don't want to let your kids down. >> reporter: babs part of a growing trend of glance influe grand influenzaers online. to grannies that can lift their

own body weight. >> i'll show you a few more exercises. >> we have a tendency to put older people on a shelf. i think older people have so much to offer. just their wisdom. >> reporter: babs has been a nurturer her whole life. she ran a preschool for decades. >> these are a lot of grandkids. >> reporter: a mom of four, a grandma of eight. >> here are my parents. >> reporter: up until recently, happily retired. spending her days alongside her husband of 53 years. becoming a social media star was something babs never expected. but that all changed at the start of the pandemic when she started helping her daughter, liz, care for her kids. >> a few years ago i was not on any social media whatsoever. one afternoon when the boys were napping, she said, "mom, i think you should try tiktok." >> she's like, absolutely not. just film one, i'm not even going to post it. >> elizabeth is a strong personality. all of my kids have strong -- i have a strong personality. >> i couldn't tell.

>> i'm like, okay, i only agreed to one, tell you the truth. >> grab this out of the fridge, marinate for an hour -- >> people had time, they were at home, they could maybe venture into cooking that they had never tried before. you know? not only that, people were separated from families. and here's this comforting older lady who is being normal. you know? hey, life is going to be okay. >> bon appetit. >> reporter: now they've filmed almost 800 videos. how do you come up with the content? >> i have a recipe box of 50 years. a lot of the recipes are in that old box. before computers we typed out our recipes. i come to the table with tradition, family, a history. we look at things, i think, through the eyes of an older person. >> what are you making today? >> reporter: back in the kitchen -- get the seeds out.

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grocery store? >> i do. so many different venues. the streets of new york with my daughter, somebody comes around the corner with a stroller, "babs c "babs, is that you?" "yeah!" >> reporter: it's that connection with her fans that keeps her going. >> fans say, "babs, will you adopt me?" i always say, "do you do dishes?" >> practice lifelong educate tore >> such a second act. my grand touches my heart. she saw in me something maybe i didn't see in myself. so she encouraged me to take a chance on this act two. and it's been very much an unexpected journey. >> our thanks to ashan. we'll be right back. i literally use this every day,

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