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>> thanks for joining us tonight. law enforcement now scrambling to keep holiday shoppers packages safe and out of the hands of porch pirates. with record breaking cyber monday sales this year. authorities are turning the tables on thieves with elaborate stings. how? some are using tracking devices to outwit the thieves. it's perhaps the most wonderful time of the year for porch pirates on the prowl for iphones. >> basically, you know, i felt violated. you know, someone stealing from me in oklahoma city and neighboring edmond. >> police arresting these ten suspects who they say stole from over 20 victims, totaling thousands of dollars in losses. and outside atlanta, police in peachtree city arresting these two suspected porch pirates, stopping at a chick-fil-a after they were allegedly caught on camera snatching an iphone. with american consumers spending a record breaking $13.3 billion this year on cyber monday,

millions of packages are now en route to doorsteps everywhere. one of the hottest items for porch pirates this year the new iphone 16. the starting price usually around $1,000. now the urgent warning from police sounding the alarm on organized criminal groups targeting fedex deliveries of the gadgets. this law enforcement alert, obtained by abc news, says thieves may be disguised as legitimate delivery personnel, using doordash bags and wearing amazon or construction vests. >> they would go through the different tracking numbers and look at the location where it was going to be delivered. >> we're with one police department in crestwood, missouri, working with the fbi to crack down on porch pirates. >> the reason you're here is because there was a package stolen from a house on friday. >> officials say bandits seemingly getting more sophisticated than ever. >> you just kind of really the scheme of how he was obtaining the information from the tracking numbers and then using that to steal the phone.

>> i kind of freaked out because we've never had a problem with package theft here. >> some heists happening so fast, like this one in just under ten minutes. catching homeowner dan rohlfing off guard. the suspect, seen dressed in a fedex shirt, swapping the real iphone box with an empty one. >> my daughter shows up and i'm texting her and i said, hey, i wasn't really expecting to, but i've seen him come deliver to. and she said, there's only one box here and it's empty. >> police say the suspect was later caught alongside his alleged accomplice on that surveillance video. >> we were actually able to see their car and it had some unique identifiers to it. so within minutes we were able to find that on our license plate. >> readers police chief jonathan williams says he recently received a call from the fbi about this particular case. >> the fbi had been kind of tracking this case of stolen fedex tracking numbers and stolen cell phones from at&t throughout the nation, actually, and within the saint louis area,

there were active in the saint louis area in middle october. >> is that you don't know if he's headed to. >> okay. >> his officers brought in one of the suspects, originally from ohio. during the interview, police say he admitted to stealing the iphone. >> he was actually wearing a fedex shirt, which in our investigation found out that he had stole from an unhoused person in ohio. >> how did you know where this package was going to be? >> authorities say the suspect paid hackers to decipher stolen tracking numbers of deliveries, so they would just have the day, an approximate time that the truck would deliver it to an address, a specific address, and they would just sit there and wait for the fedex truck to arrive. at the time, the two suspects were let go because police did not yet have a warrant to detain them. >> now they say they do so both have active warrants for felony theft through saint louis county. and currently we have some people who are out looking for them to re-arrest them on

the charges. we do believe they're in ohio. >> we have a package like this. we placed a dollar in there. this is what the serial number is. so we're good to go. the next thing we use is an airtag. >> we're going to place it inside this package. >> police in washington, d.c, also doubling down on porch piracy and getting creative with it to catch suspected thieves. >> we started a decoy package program. we put a package out, we leave it there. we have what's called an arrest team. since we started the program, what we have seen is a lot of change of behavior. so areas where say we had a significant amount of package theft at one time, it might have sort of tapered off. >> but police here say they can't do this alone. >> we get citizens calling all the time, asking to be part of the program, and what we need from them really is just a place to put the package. >> law enforcement sources telling abc news thieves are specifically targeting at&t customers who order new iphones and have them delivered to their home. at&t says in a statement, we work with law enforcement agencies and parcel carriers to protect our deliveries from these sophisticated criminals and fedex, saying we have rigorous safety and security

programs in place and regularly remind our team members of the importance of both personal and package safety. >> fedex is just kind of the middleman. they're just doing a job of delivering the package. >> rohlfing says the grinch has not soured his holidays. at&t has since replaced his stolen iphone. >> really, it's just about prevention, right? if you have a family member that maybe works from home or is always at home, maybe have that package delivered to their house, you can make sure that there's a signature required. there are special notes. please deliver to the back of my house. >> back in crestwood, missouri, police chief williams and his officers are on high alert for any porch pirates. so you don't have to be a message to porch pirates. >> just know that in today's day and age, you may have the technology, but we also have technology to be able to catch you and we will find you. >> and we're going to shift gears now to the utah mother, who found herself going from popular influencer to the subject of internet and police scrutiny. it all started with a viral video about diapers. this

viral mommy moment. >> i think if i counted right, that's 17 diapers lying around my house, turning into an online revolt over the struggles of new parenthood making headlines across the country. >> now, a police investigation into allegations this influencer vehemently denies in the video that you guys are all freaking out about. >> they're just playing. >> hannah hiatt, a mormon mom influencer from utah, is known as nurse hannah to her nearly half a million tiktok followers. >> so i'm counting just four diapers right here on the coffee table. >> sharing a seemingly candid moment of her life as a mom of a two year old son and a newborn baby. >> eight, nine, ten diapers. no wonder my house friggin stinks right now. >> she had 17 dirty diapers just laying around her house. not in the trash bin, just on the floor, on the counter, on the table. and people went bananas over this video.

>> some parents across the web relating to hiatt. >> some people said, oh my gosh, thank you so much for showing the reality of being an actual mom in the world. but then, of course, there was a backlash. a lot of people said, oh my gosh, her house is dirty. it's toxic. children shouldn't be living in that house. and it just began to pile on and pile on, as things do on tiktok. >> hiatt, earning viral fame and embracing her new hashtag 17 diapers. >> i am now known as the 17 diaper mom. that's probably going to follow me forever. >> last week, she appeared on tamron hall, explaining the origins of that viral video. >> i just got overwhelmed. >> a million things going on. okay, adjusting to having two kids, it's hard. i have got a two year old and a one month old baby. yeah. that's hard. my main priority is making sure my toddler isn't picking my newborn baby up by its legs. >> but her rise to internet fame came to a screeching halt after some people online started speculating that one of her videos was evidence of child abuse. in a since deleted video,

her toddler is seen putting his hand in front of his face when hannah's husband braxton handed him an item at the grocery store. >> the average commenter is not qualified to diagnose, primarily because the average commenter doesn't know this person's story. >> hannah, posting on her tiktok about the backlash defending her family. >> james is obsessed with dinosaurs and bears, and when they look away and they come back and they scare each other and they and they play like when they throw something they like, they'll play. throw it. you know, when you like, psych them out, you know, and they flinch and whatever. like that's what, that's what they're always doing. nothing. nothing's going on. >> the ogden, utah police department confirming to abc news has been opened and that a detective has been assigned to the case. >> i feel really badly for hannah hiatt that right now she is going through an investigation. but also, we have no idea what is going on in that house. and i think a lot of people have ptsd from the ruby frank incident, where we had a

mom influencer who was posting videos about disciplining her children, about taking care of her children, and it turns out that she was actually abusing those children the entire time. >> the now infamous mormon influencer ruby frank, gained online fame with her strict and often controversial parenting advice. >> i was really hoping that, like, keeping them home from school and wiping the floorboards would, like, really bring pain. >> last year, frankie and her business partner jody hildebrand pleaded guilty to abusing two of frankie's six children. the horrific abuse surfacing after frankie's 12 year old son escaped through a window at hildebrandt's home in southern utah and ran to a neighbor's house, pleading for food and water. that neighbor called 911. >> i just had a 12 year old boy show up here at my front door asking for help. he's emaciated. he's got tape around his legs, he's hungry and he's thirsty. >> hildebrand and frankie were sentenced to four consecutive

sentences of 1 to 15 years in prison. hiatt hasn't been charged with any crime. she fired back on tiktok, denying that she or her husband mistreat their children. >> the fact that i'm even being compared right now to ruby, frankie is absolutely comical. it's hilarious. really. oh, found two more. >> the case laying bare the drawbacks of sharing your parenting woes in the spotlight. >> you guys would be surprised at the amount of horrible, horrible dms i get on the absolute daily basis. >> i don't think it's fair that hannah is being tried in the court of public opinion right now, but at the same time, if you choose to broadcast your life to hundreds, hundreds of thousands of followers, then this is the price that you pay. >> and when we come back one on one with kiera knightley back in action in black doves, what she action in black doves, what she says it was like to take up like moderate to severe ulcerative colitis symptoms can keep coming back. start to break away from uc with tremfya... with rapid relief at 4 weeks.

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surprised which characters the viewers really connect with? >> i think actually the piece of work that i did that people talk to me most about is bend it like beckham. and i think it's still because it means so much to girls who like soccer. so that's really lovely. now, there was nothing here for us girls. >> i mean, there was like junior boys stuff, but when he busted his knee, he set up a girls side. >> so let's talk about helen webb. i became fascinated with this character. it seems like you're just this very well put together. mother of two, wife of politician. but as it turns out, there's a deeper message here. and you're actually relentlessly in pursuit of your lover's murderer. i want to take a quick look, and let's talk about that. >> very good. >> so come on then. who's the boy? what's his name? what does he do? michael. >> he's an artist. >> what kind of art?

>> like abstract. you know, like some paintings and stuff. >> paintings and stuff? yeah. >> do you think that actually you with an artist boyfriend, from the knife throwing to the fight scenes, how did you train? >> how do you prepare for these kinds of moments? >> i had about a month beforehand, and we did, like, lots of jujitsu, and we did boxing and some sort of filipino knife fighting. i'm not quite sure what it was called, you know, but it was quite a surprise because when i first said yes to it, there wasn't any fight scenes. and then as we went along, sort of more and more got written into it. so it was a bit of a shock, but it was quite fun. >> and this is not just a high intensity series. it's also got equal parts humor as well. how do you find that balance? >> yeah, it's a little bit silly. you know, it's a spy thriller and it's got that kind of lovely melancholia to it, which i think you always want with a spy thriller, but it's also a bit silly. i mean, ben, ben whishaw's character gets blown out of two windows in one week, and he doesn't even have a scratch on him. we're in that world, and there's a lot of humor. it's very tongue in

cheek, and i think that's what i liked about it. it's a bit punk. >> i've read about you saying that from 17 to 21. that was really a high point in your career, but you've also said that it came with so much of a cost. yeah. and i'm just curious if you can elaborate on that. >> i think fame does have a cost. you know, i think when you give away your private life, there is a cost that comes with that. and i think when you're so public at such a young age and people are judging you so publicly at such a young age, obviously that has that has a mental cost to it. >> do you think that there is a burden to having early success as an actor or actress? >> no, i wouldn't say i haven't found it to be a burden. i think it just when you are becoming, you know, you need time and space to figure out who you are and who you want to be. and that's very difficult if you're being watched all the time. so i think that's what i found. i found that the pressure of being watched when i was still becoming very tricky. >> okay. pirates of the caribbean. >> i'll drop it. >> celebrating his 20th anniversary at this point. give us a sense of how you feel that that really kind of played

became a cultural phenomenon. >> i think it will be the biggest success i ever have. i mean, it was so extraordinary. i was 17 when we made the first one, and nobody had any kind of clue what sort of a success it would be. it has become sort of a part of the culture, and i guess five and nine are still too young to see pirates of the caribbean. they haven't. i did try and show. i did sort of say if you want to watch it, you can. and they watched a bit of it and they were like, no, this is too weird. i don't like this. >> have they suggested yet at all that they might be interested in pursuing mom's footsteps? no. >> they think it's a ridiculous thing to do. when i try to explain to them what i did, they were like, you pretend to be somebody else for your job. it's like, yes, i do. that's really stupid. yes, it is quite stupid. all right. >> keira knightley, we thank you so much for joining us. want to let our viewers know you can catch black dove? streaming now on netflix. >> our thanks to linsey. when we come back, apple's new emoji can help you actually be who you want to be, even if that's a want to be, even if that's a squirrel. dj.

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