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this is "nightline." >> byron: tonight, time running out. >> we'll continue to put every available asset that we have in an effort to find the "titan" and the crew members. >> byron: can rescue teams find
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the submersible that vanished on a dive to the "titanic" with five people on board before it's too late? plus, center of attention. the 7'3" sensation expected to go number one in tomorrow's nba draft. >> here comes wemby. way too easy. >> byron: not before victor wembanyama went one on one with robin roberts. what the french phenom says about living up to the hype. >> i have such high expectations for myself, the expectations are others are nothing compared to what i expect of myself. >> byron: with nba cameras rolling as the big man takes the big apple, squeezing into the subway, throwing out the first pitch at yankee stadium. >> his skill setting simply something that we haven't seen before. >> byron: plus rock 'n' roll fantasy. the camp will adults can live out their dreams. ♪ the stay-at-home mom belting out "evil." >> like a rock star.
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>> byron: a reformed convict playing "outshine" alongside sound garden's guitarist. >> i'm really grateful right now for this experience. >> byron: why they say it's never to late to follow the music. are you looking at 4x4s on cars.com again? no. whenever you look at 4x4s, you turn into the version of yourself that drives a 4x4. i honestly don't know what you're talking about. really? really. i was thinking of something more sophisticated. ahh! fine, keep the beard. (laugh) 2 million cars for 2 million possibilities. cars.com where to next?
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there are prayers tonight for a miracle. search teams scramble more equipment in a last-ditch effort to locate the "titan" submersible and rescue the five people on board before oxygen runs out. abc's gio benitez says the latest from hall lax, nova scotia. >> reporter: tonight, rescuers running out of time and options to save the crew of the missing "titan" submersible. the fate of five explorers hanging in the balance. >> this is a as much as mission, 100%. we'll continue to put every available asset we have in an effort to find the "titan" and crew members. >> reporter: since yesterday, sonar buoys have detected several banging-like underwater noises but a search has turned up nothing. navy experts now studying those sounds. we need to have hope, right? but i can't tell you what the noises are. >> reporter: with it the clock ticking down, rescue options are limited. tonight there are no ships from the u.s. or any other country on scene that could lift the
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23,000-pound "titan" if it's still submerged. a navy deep salvage system has arrived in newfoundland but it's days away from the search zone. tonight the crew facing dire conditions, in the dark with temperatures below freezing. >> your body will start shivering to generate heat. and that will use up more oxygen. so that's not a good thing. >> reporter: mike reese was on that trip just last year. >> it is always in the back of your head that, this is dangerous, any small problem will turn into a major catastrophe. >> reporter: the crew on "titan expeditions" is locked in from the outside with 17 bolts with no escape hatch. >> finding them is the first step. they still have to get them on the ship, they still have to unbolt them. so plug that into your clock. >> byron: our thanks to gio. we'll have the latest developments overnight and on
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"gma." we turn to a basketball player being called a once in a generation talent. 19-year-old french superstar victor wembanyama, over 7 feet tall, the big man can also shoot the three and put the ball on the floor. he's here in new york city for tomorrow night's draft. here he's squeezing into the subway before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the yankee game. while his pitch may have missed the mark, most scouts say he won't. he's the most-anticipated nba prospect since king james. king james lived up to the will we wvictor wembanyama one wear the crown? >> reporter: it is slick for wection's time to. the 19-year-old parisian phenom projected to take the number one spot in this year's nba draft. the most-anticipated prospect of his generation.
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>> bonjour. i hear you come here often. >> yeah. >> show me, please. >> reporter: meeting at his favorite cafe right outside of paris. as the world awaits his league debut. >> word on the street is you eat quite a bit. how many meals a day? >> i eat whenever i can. before breakfast, before practice, before the nap, after the nap -- >> reporter: all that to fuel the 7'3" basketball star. >> that looks so good. >> i'll give you a piece of it. >> merci. >> reporter: who's eagerly trained his entire life for this moment. >> the first thing when people see you, of course it's your height. but you are so unique in that you play like a guard. how do you do some of the things you do out there on the court, victor? >> ever since i touched a basketball, i've never stopped. i've always practiced to play the way i play today. the agility, the dexterity. >> his skill set is simply
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something that we haven't seen before. from a talent perspective, person who can hit jumpers, particularly three-pointers, the going to be able to score very, very easily. >> reporter: wemby gaining attention from pro on players, including giannis, kevin durant, and the league's all-time scorer lebron. >> he's like an alien. he's for sure a generational talent. >> reporter: who can especially relate to the buzz around victor's journey to the nba. what they say about you, it's not just your game, it's your work ethic. how do you deal with the pressure that goes along with the anticipation of you? >> the most important for this is to have your goal in sight. i have such high expectations for myself. and i'm so into them that the expectations of others are nothing compared to what i expect from news. >> reporter: a strict routine on and off the court for victor, who has led his team to the finals of the top-tier french pro basketball league.
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his pregame warmups krooshl to avoid injury. your athletic trainers, the way they get you prepped, there is something that i read about you take off your shoes and socks and you crawl? >> having your feet connected to the ground is really important as a basketball player. it gives the -- it gets the feet stronger. if your feet are strong, you can get better on all aspects of your boekd. >> some look at you and go, are you ready? the day in, day out, the grueling nba schedule. >> they can think that because they don't know my work ethic. i know how i work, my surroun surroundings, my environment. i could never have any doubt. >> when someone says, bluk up? >> why, why for? tell all this to skinny up. >> you're a renaissance man, meaning you can play your sport at the top, but then you have this really sensitive soul. tell us about your artwork. >> if i wasn't a basketball player, i think my second passion would be drawing.
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i've always wanted to create a comic someday. it's something i do pretty much every day. i feel it in my soul. when i got nothing to do, the first thing my mind is going to think about is grab a pencil and a sheet of paper and draw something. >> i hear that you'd much rather read than pick up your phone? >> i love reading. more and more, actually, in the last couple of years. before sleep, for example. i never use my phone. i know it's bad for sleep and stuff. >> he's not one of your stereotypical gen-z kind of guys. he's an artist. i think it's one of those things that's really going to be nice to see him bring over to the league. it's becoming more and more acceptable to begin to diversify and show that you're more than just an nba player. >> reporter: as athletes themselves, victor's parents, both proud and protective of their son. his mom, a former basketball player and little league coach. his dad, a former competitive long jumper. >> the thing is, they didn't really interfere with my sport.
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they let me be how i wanted to be. they made a lot of sacrifices. on the other hand, they're going to be able to retire early. >> oh, i like your confidence. the night of the draft, what's going to be going through your mind? >> it will be so high on emotions. it will be really special for me and my family. our life is going to change from one day to another. >> reporter: spending as much time as he can in his beloved country. >> merci, not mercy? >> exactly. >> your english is so good. it really is good. how did you learn? >> i've wanted to be an nba player for many years. so i have no choice. at some point, if you want to learn a new language, you've got to act like you already know the language. >> when i met you, i said, bonjour. >> yeah, good first step. i almost started speaking trench to you. >> oh, thank you. victor, let's dig in. are you going to miss the food? >> i'm going to find a way to
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bring european and french food back there. >> do you visualize what that must be like, to play against the world's greats? >> yeah. i think the most important is to not step on a court being too humble. you've got to be humble enough to be able to respect the game, but if you step on the court too humble ask scared, you can't do anything. >> you can see yourself on that court? >> of course. >> i love it. >> byron: our thanks to robin. watch the nba draft tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on abc and espn. up next, you'll have to let the dream die, just turn rock star fantasies into reality. i w. but here i am... being me. keep being you... and ask your healthcare provider about the number one prescribed h-i-v treatment, biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in many people whether you're 18 or 80. with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v
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♪ >> byron: many who dream of being a rock star eventually wake up to the far less glamorous reality. but there is a camp that helps hungry musicians get their taste. here's abc's megan wright. ♪ >> reporter: by day, alisa mounts is a stay-at-home mom. in san luis obispo, california. ♪ as the night falls, her transformation into a rock 'n' roll front woman begins. >> i love you. >> you have fun. >> reporter: heading out to her side hustle, a local gig with her band, rocking out to no doubt's "just a girl." she's dreamt of having a career in music her whole life but says she put that on hold to raise her and her husband's three
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children. how does it feel, looking back now, at the choices that you made? >> i don't want to say i regret anything. but i do sometimes daydream, like, if it was one of those movies where somehow you go back in time and they take this path instead, like where would i be? >> reporter: alyssa is about to explore the path not taken at rock 'n' roll fantasy camp. ♪ here, rock 'n' roll enthusiasts from all walks of life get to unleash their inner rock stars for four days straight. this time in los angeles. >> welcome to rock 'n' roll fantasy camp! >> reporter: they also get to jam with some of their idols like vanilla fudge and the deleo brothers of the stone temple pilots. ♪ david fishoff founded the camp 25 years ago. some campers have been returning
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for years. what do you think it is about the experience of the fantasy camp that not only gets people interested in being a part, but then gets them coming back? >> we take them back to their childhood. before they have any issues in life. they find happiness through the music. >> if you guys are raring to go -- >> reporter: but it's not all just fun. there's also hard work. >> maybe throw something in there. >> yeah. >> reporter: alisa is trying to hone her craft. >> i'm so nervous, i'm shaking. >> reporter: nerves kicking in as she's about to perform an original song about a vulnerable time to the camp counselors. >> i wrote this when i was 11. then i wrote the rest of it as
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an adult after stuff had happened. >> let's hear the song! >> oh, god, i'm nervous. ♪ i been wasting years thinking about you baby ♪ ♪ and the love i don't want anymore ♪ >> wow! >> good! >> for you to just sing that on your own, that really says a lot. >> i just kind of felt more empowered. like, i don't have to go -- i'm important too. it's okay to fight for what you want and how you feel. ♪ >> reporter: this is only the first step. in less than 48 hours, the work that alisa and all the campers do will culminate in a love final performance on stage. alisa isn't the only one who
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lives a different life outside of camp. there are lawyers, navy veterans, business owners, and then there's jeff kates. >> i'm really grateful right now, just for this experience. >> reporter: the last four decades of his life have had challenges. >> no matter where i'm at, no matter what i'm doing, life is really good when i'm playing music. >> reporter: he ended up in prison when he was 21 years old after a series of robberies that he says he committed to support his addiction. >> i had a bad drug habit that made me sick when i didn't have it. i feel this justified shame at having created the chaos that i created. i regret scaring people and hurting people in that way. >> reporter: his road to rehabilitation, hard fought. >> there were times i thought i couldn't keep going. but i didn't give in to that. >> reporter: behind bars, he would find hope through music in a prison rock band. what kind of feeling did it give
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you to be able to find something you love when you are in such a difficult situation? >> for that three or four hours, i was at band practice, i wasn't in prison anymore. you know? i was somewhere else. ♪ >> reporter: the bass player and vocalist now has a second chance at a dream he thought he missed out on. going on tour with a band. something he hopes rock 'n' roll fantasy camp can bring him closer to. >> that's the dream. is to find a place to belong again. to find a room and a band family. to experience life. >> reporter: finally, tonight is the big night at the historic whiskey a go go on surgeon set boulevard where jeff, alisa, and all the campers will perform with sound garden's legendary
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lead guitarist >> i see something of myself in the campers. i didn't have the courage they have to come here and play with strangers. the fact that they had that kind of interest and courage to do it and take that step, i think that's inspiring. >> reporter: jeff's up and down performs sound garden's "outshined." ♪ >> whoa, what just happened? >> what's going on in uri do head right now? >> come on, this is fun -- really. overwhelming. >> what do you think is the biggest moment? >> you can be a band with just about anybody if you've got the i don't know mindedness to try. these people who are rock stars are people just like us. >> you officially get rock star status. >> yes!
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finally! >> reporter: as for alisa, this is the moment she's been waiting for. ♪ >> reporter: belting out "evil" by cactus. >> like a rock star. it's nerves and anxiety, but power and freedom and expression. >> reporter: for these rockers, camp isn't about making it big, but giving your dreams and yourself a chance. ♪ >> byron: our thanks to megan. up next, how the late civil rights giant john lewis brought a deeply divided congress together for a moment.
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♪ >> byron: finally tonight, a powerful reminder that unity is possible in our nation. >> by adding john lewis to this collection, we are honoring an extraordinary contribution to the american story. >> byron: house speaker kevin mccarthy and democratic leader hakeem jeffries came together to unveil a new stamp featuring the late georgia congressman and civil rights giant john lewis, a leader known as the conscience of congress, now celebrated forever for all the good trouble he made.

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