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those new tariffs. global stock markets are falling overnight. so what happens next? >> also this morning another plane in the news flames shooting from an engine. more than 100 people forced off the plane. plus new details in the medical transport jet crash in philly and the collision near reagan national. >> music's biggest night paying tribute to los angeles firefighters and those impacted by the fires. plus, a very shocked beyonce. the night's big winner. >> finally, and we are counting down to the super bowl. one bakery is paying tribute to my qb patrick mahomes. look at it. oh, that looks good, doesn't it? monday, february 3rd. >> from abc news. this is world news now. >> good morning, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us on this monday. i'm rhiannon ally alongside andrew dymburt. i love when local bakeries and restaurants and other shops get
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involved and make these custom items for big games and things like that. >> i love that that donut there of patrick mahomes. it even had the headband. i don't know if you know we'll show you again, but it had the headband. i love the attention to detail there. yeah, it looks delicious too. >> i know. i bet it is. we will tell you more about that coming up a little bit later in the show. we're going to begin this morning, though, with reaction from the financial world over president trump's new tariffs. >> stock futures took a dive overnight, with tariffs set to take effect on imports from canada, mexico and china, and oil prices were surging. >> the tariffs are expected to drive up costs for americans on a range of imports, including certain types of liquor, fresh fruits, vegetables like avocados. and this morning, trump is set to speak with mexico's president and canada's prime minister. abc's selina wang has more. >> the united states on the brink of a trade war that threatens to hurt american consumers and upend the global economy. >> we may have short term, some little pain, and people understand that. but long term,
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the united states has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world. >> president trump signing a trio of executive orders imposing 25% tariffs on imports from mexico and canada, with the lower 10% tariff on canadian oil and gas and 10% tariffs on goods from china. the new measures, set to take effect on tuesday, could raise prices for americans at the grocery store and the gas pump. trump insists that tariffs are necessary to strengthen the u.s. economy, accusing those countries of allowing undocumented migrants and illegal drugs to enter the u.s. >> china makes the fentanyl and gives it to mexico, puts it through canada, puts it through different, different places, mostly mexico, but also a lot through canada. and so all three haven't treated us very well. >> all three countries. america's three biggest trading partners, rejecting trump's accusations and vowing to retaliate. the chinese government denouncing the tariffs, which come on top of
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existing tariffs from trump's first term, promising countermeasures and urging the u.s. to handle its own fentanyl issues objectively and rationally without threatening other countries with tariffs. mexican president claudia sheinbaum ordering retaliatory tariffs and slamming trump's assertion that her government works with drug cartels as slander, saying if the united states wants to combat criminal groups that trafficked drugs and generate violence, we must work together. but the strongest reaction from our ally to the north. prime minister justin trudeau says canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $106 billion worth of american goods, calling on his citizens to buy canadian. >> it might mean. >> opting for canadian. rye over kentucky bourbon. or. forgoing florida orange juice altogether. >> liquor stores in several canadian provinces already pulling american made products from their shelves. officials in canada perplexed u.s. customs
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and border protection data shows just 1.5% of migrant apprehensions and less than 1% of fentanyl seizures take place along the u. s. canada border. >> so it's hard to know what more we can do, but we're obviously open to any other suggestions that come our way. >> trump now claiming that canada is not a viable country without u.s. support, again arguing canada should become the 51st state. much lower taxes and far better military protection for the people of canada, and no tariffs. but canadians are outraged. thousands of hockey fans in ottawa booing the u.s. national anthem just hours after trump's tariff announcement. we're also learning about growing tensions between elon musk and the u.s. agency for international development. two top security officials were put on leave after refusing to allow staffers from musk's department of government efficiency to access sensitive information at
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the agency. selina wang abc news the white house. >> all right, selina, thank you for that. secretary of state marco rubio is on his first foreign trip since being confirmed visiting central america as president trump threatens to take back the panama canal. rubio met with panama's president, urging him to reduce china's alleged influence. abc's shannon kingston is there. shannon. >> andrew. shannon. it was a tense start to secretary of state marco rubio's first diplomatic mission. he spent about two hours meeting with the president of panama. but in the end, the state department says he laid out a simple choice either do something about what he called china's unacceptable control over the panama canal immediately, or face consequences from the united states. >> we've learned over time, the more prosperous, the safer other countries are, the safer and more prosperous it makes us. >> later today, secretary rubio will travel on to el salvador and then costa rica and guatemala as he looks to take on president trump's number one
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priority. and that's cracking down on illegal immigration. i was going to do that in two ways. first, by convincing countries to take back more of their own deported nationals and then to do more to stop other migrants from ever crossing through their territory, preventing them from reaching the u.s. southern border. andrew. rhiannon. >> shannon. thank you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is heading to washington to meet with president trump there. talks are expected to focus on phase two of the cease fire. netanyahu saying they will also discuss victory over hamas and countering iran. palestinian statehood is still a major sticking point. hamas released three more hostages over the weekend, including american keith segal. >> we are getting a closer look at another troubling incident on a plane. a fire on a plane that was about to take off. abc's alison kosik has that and updates on the ongoing investigations in both philly and washington, d.c. >> please remain seated until further notice. >> terrifying moments on this
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united airlines flight headed from houston to new york city. flames bursting out of the wing. >> i could feel the plane going super fast, like we were about to take off, and all of a sudden it felt like it, like slammed back to the ground. everyone started screaming and the plane felt like it was kind of fishtailing. it was swerving all over the runway. >> smoke filling the plane. >> people were screaming. there were people jumping over the seats trying to get off the plane. >> passengers scrambling down an emergency slide onto the runway. the faa says takeoff was safely aborted because of a reported engine issue. an investigation now underway. meanwhile, new details about this medical jet crash in philadelphia friday. the cockpit voice recorder has been found eight feet down inside this massive crater where the learjet made impact the surrounding scene, littered with burned out cars. an 11 year old
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and her 31 year old mother, along with these four crew members, were killed. one person on the ground was also killed and 22 were injured, some critically. >> if you haven't seen somebody, you think somebody might have been in this area, or you have a relative in this area and you haven't seen or heard from them and you're concerned, call 911. >> the jet was returning to mexico after the child was treated at shriners hospital and outside washington, d.c. morning. 55 of the 67 victims have now been recovered after last week's mid-air collision between an american airlines jet and a black hawk helicopter. victims families visiting the site yesterday. today, crews will begin lifting pieces of the wreckage of both aircraft from the potomac river. the ntsb says some of the most trusted location data shows the crash happened at just over 300ft. that's higher than the 200ft the helicopter was supposed to be
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flying at. but data shows a conflicting altitude reading in the tower radar, which the air traffic controller was looking at before the crash. >> initial data indicates that he may have seen 200ft. that needs to be verified. >> over the weekend, there was also an outage affecting the faa's pilot warning system, which allows pilots to download their flight details before they fly. a backup system was activated, causing minimal disruption, but transportation secretary sean duffy says faa systems are antiquated and need updating. andrew. rhiannon. >> alison. thank you. last night's grammy awards included tributes to victims of the l.a. wildfires, as well as some of the city's first responders. >> there were also historic wins for some of music's biggest names. danny is here with details on that. hello, beyonce. that's just one of them, though. >> yes, a lot of the feedback on social media was that this is one of the most memorable grammy awards in years. there are, of
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course, a lot of electronic, electrifying performances like sabrina carpenter tap dancing before winning best pop vocal album for short and sweet, and chappell roan singing atop a pink pony with her song pink pony club. literal yes. literal pink pony. she won best new artist and taylor swift then presented best country album to beyonce, who you would never guess would be so shocked considering she has the most grammys in history. >> cowboy. >> cowboy. carter. beyonce. >> this became an immediate meme on social media. everyone was using that and she finally then also won album of the year for the first time, which was presented by l.a. county firefighters. there were so many moving tributes to the southern california community throughout the night. lady gaga, bruno mars they performed california or california, dreaming together and stevie wonder while honoring the late, great quincy jones, saying we are the world with singers from two local schools who actually lost the buildings of their schools in the fires. so they were up there with them.
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>> and viewers raised $7 million so far, at least for wildlife relief funds. >> so wow, that was a qr code. like almost the whole show. they kept asking for. at one point, trevor noah, the host, said that for every second that acceptance speeches went over, they would charge them $1,000 and then give that money to the relief fund. >> i love those shirts too, with the big heart and the la on them as well, from those schools that you mentioned helped perform. >> hat tip to kendrick lamar, who won an award for everything. he was nominated. >> for. >> five awards. >> yes. >> he cleaned up. >> and he's born and raised in southern california from compton. so that was a big win for la. >> he made it extra special. >> for him. yeah of course. >> yeah. coming up why? super bowl tickets. why? the prices seem to. >> be falling. >> danny, can we afford them? >> they're only, you know, $10,000 now, right? plus, the new development in the dueling lawsuits between blake lively and jason aldean. justin baldoni. why they'll be in court today. >> and what exploded in the garage. oh. he's okay, by i got this $1,000 camera for
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we came to play. >> a mechanical failure is being blamed after a chair carrying a skier fell off a lift in new hampshire. investigators say it plummeted about 20ft on sunday afternoon. the skier was treated
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at the hospital. officials say the lift manufacturer is helping with the investigation. >> officials near columbus, ohio, are trying to find out who put an oxygen tank in a trash bin. look, it exploded just moments after a garbage collector dumped the bins contents into the back of his truck. the worker avoided any serious injuries, thank goodness, but officials say the tank was placed in the bin illegally. >> turning now to the hollywood legal tangle involving ryan reynolds and his wife, blake lively, and her it ends with us costar justin baldoni. all three are due in court today as reynolds and lively move to dismiss baldoni's lawsuit against them. here's abc's morgan norwood. >> reporter hollywood face off lawyers for it. >> ends with the stars blake lively and justin baldoni headed to court, where a judge will referee a number of several key disputes stemming from their increasingly bitter fallout around their blockbuster movie. >> it actually gets worse. yeah. >> no way. >> lively and her husband, fellow a-list actor ryan reynolds, are pushing to get
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baldoni's $400 million defamation countersuit thrown out after lively accused baldoni of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct, along with improvising intimate scenes without consent. allegations baldoni has repeatedly denied. lively's team also set to ask a new york judge for a gag order, accusing baldoni's lawyer of an aggressive campaign to influence the case by releasing a number of materials to the public, including these raw takes from the film set. >> we do a score. can we do a score? a couple scores. >> and just this weekend, baldoni's team launching this new website showcasing what they say is more evidence against lively. >> we're going to put it out there for the public to decide for themselves. >> and baldoni isn't stopping there. his team just amended the multi-million dollar defamation suit against the new york times, accusing the paper of conspiring with lively for months before she sued him. in a statement to abc news attorney brian friedman saying miss lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false
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accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications. >> the biggest decision that might come out of monday's hearing would be whether or not there's going to be a gag order, because it would greatly change the trajectory of this case, at least in the public eye. are we going to continue to see either party releasing information about this case that may sway us one way or another? or will it all just be silent until the trial date? >> and a new york times spokesperson responding to baldoni's accusations in a statement to variety, saying the baldoni wayfarer legal filings are rife with inaccuracies about the new york times, including, for example, the bogus claims that the times had early access to miss lively's state civil rights complaint. lively and her team, though, have not yet responded to our request for comment. >> all right. morgan norwood, thank you for that. it's certainly messy and we will keep following it for you. coming up, the special honor for caitlin clark. >> and later, why? one expert says a dog's life is more meaningful than our own. you're watching world lives of mormon
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wives tonight, after the bachelor on abc. >> in sports, rory mcilroy says
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it was really cool to win at one of the cathedrals of golf. the former world number one picked up a two shot win at the pebble beach pro-am. it was the 27th pga tour win of his career. that's third among active players, behind only tiger woods and phil mickelson. >> wow. and talk about a legend already. women's basketball. some special honors on the court. >> yes, two of the sport's greatest players have been given a very special recognition. and here's abc's whit johnson. >> two women. two undeniable legacies. their jerseys raised to the rafters. a'ja wilson, a two time olympic gold medalist, three time wnba mvp, winning two championships with the las vegas aces. emotional holding back tears as the south carolina gamecocks retired her number 22. >> chase your dreams without fear. >> from west des moines, iowa. hours later, caitlin clark's number 22 jersey for the university of iowa also retired the all time women's ncaa
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division one scoring leader, bringing one more sellout crowd to carver-hawkeye arena. the basketball phenom drafted number one overall in 2024, going on to play for the indiana fever, where she broke the wnba rookie scoring record with 789 points, and was named rookie of the year, inspiring future generations. >> she's my idol. it's really exciting to see how she plays. you learn a lot of moves because of her. >> in a previous interview, clark telling our robin roberts about her impact on the sport. >> somebody that inspired, you know, not only the state of iowa, but people around the country to, you know, hopefully chase after your dreams, whether you're five years old or whether you're 90 years old. one morgand
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morgan. >> call one 800 602 3400. >> we are back now with the mix. starting with the other animals. not just groundhogs. weighing in on how many more weeks of winter we'll be having. >> punxsutawney phil is not the only prognosticator in the game. yesterday brought out of his warm home in 20 degree weather by men in top hats supposedly
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seeing his shadow, which means another six weeks of winter. >> okay, so let's check in at nantucket. look at this. this is quitting the quahog. basically, a clam without eyes opened and squirting to the right. that indicates an early spring. >> they ate him. they ate the prognosticator. >> oh, my god. >> could literally be sickening. and the florida keys. a mollusk emerged from its shell and saw its shadow. agreeing with phil. more wintry snow down south. >> i think we'd have, like ali the alligator or something in florida. >> you want that? you want to talk to an alligator a little bit, yeah. okay. >> how about oregon filbert? >> the beaver is. >> also calling for six more weeks of winter. >> wait, can we can we just rehash for quentin, who is now no longer with us? >> yeah, it's a one and done for chief meteorologist quentin the quahog. >> okay. >> was he right? do you remember. he said early spring. >> but he was delicious. >> next to dogs. loving their lives. apparently more than we love ours. >> all right.
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>> philosopher. >> professor and serial dog owner mark rollins, who for more than a decade actually lived with a wolf, says dogs are inherently happier than humans because they live life with all they have. >> he writes in his new book that because dogs are not burdened with, quote, reflective self-awareness like humans are, they can experience joy in a far deeper level than we can. i obviously can see this. yeah, i get it. absolutely. >> yeah, i'm all for it. i've seen enough research, i believe. >> yeah. they're dogs. >> and next to the super bowl becoming more affordable to attend. by the way guys. >> do we. well how affordable are the super bowl. the two champs right here on world news now. counting the days to the end of our friendship. >> yes. so since last monday, the new york post reports ticket prices have dropped by over a thousand bucks. >> okay. >> 600 level seats were selling for more than 4500 bucks each. last week, and at last check this morning, they're down to 3200. >> oh. >> how low. >> can they go? >> they'd have to be, i don't know, 100 for me to go. right?
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>> no. yeah. >> probably actually. >> with fees. >> you know what? the tv experience is so good, why not just watch it? >> i want the commercials. and finally, to the donut shop in kansas, paying tribute to your quarterback. >> yes, it's a super bowl ring we can all enjoy. even danny here, johnny chen, owner of mr. d's donut shop in shawnee, kansas, says he uses maple icing for his face and chocolate icing with chocolate jimmies for his hair. >> they look pretty amazing. >> i was. using eat. >> this. >> like
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