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by oprah, so the if traveleze totes. >> these go with everything. >> with her kids now grown, when kept her message on point. >> starting to this day, joy is going to inspire the world. >> now jennifer lawrence scoring two more nominations this week for the samerole. part of three total nods from critics choice awards. also one from mocking jay part 2. and kevin frazier and i will be hosting the red carpet preshow so i cannot wait for that. now to another golden globe nominee, will smith. he got the live nod for "con kwugscussion." he sat down with espn. michelle is weighing in on this film. but we begin with will's premier in new york. >> will for president? he recently hinted at possible run for office.>> i was really kind of joking when i said that. you know. but playing this character. dr.
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view of america. i sort of got inspired as i was looking at current political landscape. >> of course, as dr. amalu who discovered deadly brain trauma in football playe the will is getting lots of award buzz. so he talks about how i got ate ward nod.rs, >> i was asleep and i was aggressively awakendned by a smack -- >> a good smack. >> good smack. on my glute. >> jada got him good. that meant going into the lab. >> i spent time with limb and watched him perform autopsies. >> what was that like? >> the complete dismantling of a>> and human body. the way he performs an autopsy
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spirituality. >> bennett amalu is going to war with a corporation that has 20 million peopln a weekly basis craving their product. >> how did it make you feel when you heard first of all we is going to play you. >> i wase o extremely excited for him. when i met will, i discovered he was such a good guy. >> how do you think this film is going to resonate withpeople? >> when people go through the three terry hope they do come out with that truth and with that reality. the irony of him being the first one to discover the brain disease that the players get in america's favorite sport. >> as a reporter for espn, michelle add unique take on the importance of the film. >> i have a chance to talk to a handful o former ant current players and it is pretty slick. some are cautious about seeing the film and others want to see the film.
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you've got the education on your side, awareness on your side, so you can make the decision. seeinformed decision about whether or not you can put your children or yourself into the game of football or other high impact sports. >> thanks to michelle for helping us out this week. stil an iahead, we are with lady gaga's proud fiance gushing about her. l golden globe. >> and we are talking to max and peta about their engagement. forever?
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meet hollywood's bod squad. >> we can get the curves and the booty.a star's secrets to getting ripped. that's monday. >> welcome back. from london still celebrating after star"star wars: the force >>s" premier. this is guaranteed to be the biggest story of the week. but let's look at other headlines. here are this week's top five stories.awaken number five, caylee cuoco's new beaurebound? how did this happen. >> we've learned that kay lee and paul have the same agent and the hollywood a he ultimate matchmaker but they have a lot in common. they both have a lot of animals. >> her animalthat t is pitbulls. paul takes care of elephants. >> her shirt says poach eggs, not elephants. >> are justin bieber and
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they were spotted together last weekend. >> justin added a lot of fuel to the fire. capturin racy photo, lord knows, which is a reference to g this kourtney's ex who calls himself lord she says she is not hooking up with justin bieber. they are just good friends. >> going to an after party then r after party and until about 2:00 a.m. and afterwards blake and gwen went home together. >> what is next now that "the voice" is over. blake will stay in l.a. since he alreadyneitherted shooting next season with returning coach christina aguilera. >> there is a report that says gwen met blake's mom and step dad in oklahoma. and that blake t sta her to his new lake house. there is also a few locals saying that maybe they like gwen lambert. home intruder.
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his way past security and into the generaljenner home. decorating crew. >> decorating. i wish you could see when the trucks aren't here. >> this is live stream video kim posted on december 10th showing off decorations. the video is erie. kim balks into kris's office just as the manleft. >> are you watching my live stream? i hear it. 911 was called immediately. sheriff deputies arr the hold. kim and her baby, saint, were home at the time. >> we were atested london and hollywood premiers. >> darth vader lives, everybody. >> lester thequare invieded by storm troopers stars and thousands of screaming fans. >> like you just step had right back into han solo. >> the shoes. s amazing that 40 years later is it still going strong.
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waiting for a film like this. >> go to >> ietonline for the latest. >> you saw couples making news. you saw this on "dancing with the stars," maks and peta. they've been hard at work on the "dancing with the stars" tour which launched this week. and they are also hard work planning a wedding. we got them gushing about their engagement. >> can we see the sparkler? hold it up to the camera for us. how did you know this is forever? anybody else. so he's like literally the love of my life and that's it. >> wou say no when i was proposing? would you be like, let me think about that? >> no, i wouldn't. >> i don't know about loveould y at first sight. since oh, my god this is it. but we -- you know, it grew and
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but at the end of the day we just love each other and that's the bottom line. i'm no planning anything else. i'm done. this is it. >> no planning another wedding. >> zero. >> racing funds att winter wonderland balance benefiting the children's miracle network hospital. >> any child can come in with their parent and get treated forfree. no child will be turned away. no expenses. >> meantime, we found peta dancing up a storm with maks's brother, val, while p g for the live tour on the road right now. val is crazy excited to have peta in the family. >> if he wouldn't have done it, i would have done it for him.reppin we wanted her to be -- i wanted her to be my sister-in-law. my mom loves her. i'm glad that maks finally savedup some money and bought her the ring. >> but now that maks is off the market, val is feeling the heat. >> they are putting a lot of pressure on. especially my mom. it's your turn now.
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step it up. >> i wish, man. i love to love. >> and ons tour, you'll get to see plenty of val and the guys. >> you have any shirts for this tour? >> only thre thi actually. >> only three shirts? >> yeah. >> how many numbers? >> 25 on the show. >> and like one of those is --e, >> so three shirts, one spare and 25 numbers. we do the math. >> yeah. >> all the pro dancers have shirts off or open and you're still wearing a shirt. you just saving it for that -- >> by the enof the show, end of the tour, he will have a shirt off and wearing shorttheir shorts. >> there are some hot numbers in there. >> very hot, yes. >> this is such a hot show. and it is a good thing they don't have to haul around a lot of wardrobe. because they will be hitting 43 cities across america. now, while maks and peta made it official we are still waiting for lady gaga and her fiance taylor kenny to announce a
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we talked it taylor about his new movie project and h still going ga ga about his lady's big nomination. >> she just got nominated for a golden globe. >> she said you screamede is the phone at her. >> yeah, it has been a whirl wind year. but all good things, you know, both busy, both health down and yeah, i couldn't be more proud. >> oh he's got that right. ga ga's got american horror story hotel. hey. his hands full with chicago fire. now the work his lady will love. >> i'm here for my sister. >> i have has plans to go. >> we get paranoid. >> are you a fan of the genre? >> more her. she is likes date line. 48 hours. like the murder mysteries. and all of those things. it. >> you cannot stay after dark. >> i'm not leaving without a
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>> taylor plays a journalist who helpes a dte woman track down her missing sister. kinney got a kick film be with his co-star from game of espera thrones, natalie. her? >> i liked working with her. we were m serbia and she was getting ready for season 5. i kept through, give me something, give me something, as she went through the scripts. >> how did you keep your game of thrones skipts fromgoing taylor? do not be in my trailer again or you're in trouble? >> yeah. i hid them from him. >> nice people see bad things. >> very special actor. he is so hard to read. almost how i play marjorie, how he pli plays aiden. can you trust this person, can you not trust this person. one minute the audience loves him, the next minute they hate him. he does this very ll. >> this is cool. though this film is pretty
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their check out this star who got a big present this week p.m. a new baby girl. that's dwayne johnson posing with his hand on his girlfriend's baby bump. they are absolutely beaming. he and lauren were psyched to welcome this beautiful little girl. and just days before giving birth, lauren joked, hashtag, let's just hope big daddy doesn't equal 20 pound baby. he has a 14-year-old daughter with his ex-wife. her name is simone.
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hollywood is filled with kids who look like their star parents. check it out. my daughter sent me a sweet to me. that means everything. >> >> it is a mergeother/daughter relationship. reese and her daughter came up with a perfume together. >> we went through and found out what she did like and didn't like. it was fun. >> david admits that he keeps his boyes this check but he's not so tough on daughter, harper. >> i have no power with that little girl. no power whatsoever. i'm definitely stricter with the boys than i am with harper. which gets me in trouble with my wife. when she asks something, i
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>> at a best buddy weekend last weekend, her daughter, taya, looks just like memom. >> your dead ringer. >> and o' shea jackson jr, looks so much like his dad, ice cube, played him right out of compton. >> what do you think people saw in your father after this movie. >> cour he displays incredible courage and confident in himself and that's why he is the man he is today. >> these gorgeous age.sisters, get their good lookes from their momma. real housewives yolanda foster. >> she is the best in the world and she supports us. >> everyday on the set. she bants to know how it's going and who we are working with. >> and rob lowe's son, now20, so much like his father, scoring a recurring role on dad's series "the grinder." >> don't know what you're talking about bro. >> he was one of t leading interns in stem cell research. but look, the world doesn't need
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>> no, they don't need hethat. >> what the world needs are more actors. >> he will be on the show again in january. and rob and his wife, cheryl, sure know how to make smart kids. their oldest son, matthew, is gearing up for law school. new scenes from mariah carey's christmas movie airing this weekend. >> just have fun. >> then it is time for the holiday movie marathons. but whatever happened to the little kid stars? >> still in the film industry. >> still ahead, which actor's family knew he would be a performer when hjust 2. today people are coming out to the nation's capital to support an important cause that can change the way you live for years to come. how can e was lp? by giving a little more, to yourself. i am running for my future. people sometimes forget to help themselves. the cause is retirement, you heday thousands of people came to race for retirement
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welcome back, everybody. to the site of "star wars: the force awakens" here in london. when i was at the hollywood premier earlier in the week, i grabbed my surface tablet and let fans ask the questions. >> what the craziest experience you've had with the fans since you've become part of star wars. >> i met this lovely woman the airport. and she started to cry. and said, him, him.at i'm not used to that. >> it is only the beginning. >> which characters from the old series that return from where you are most excited to write?
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the most fun. >> what is your earliest star wars memory? >> being off of school in kenya and curling up on a poof in our living room watching the movie. >> now look at this tonight. >> worldly. >> stars connect with fans like that. mariah carey gave letter fans something it talk about this week singing alongside santa claus at the beacon theater in new york. she just wrapped up hefr eight-night run of all i want for christmas is concert series. she and i got into the spirit earlier this year on the set of airing this week. we you all new scenes courtesy of director mimi. let me start by saying with that's how you make an entrance laid have and gentlemen. that's how mariah carey rolls. >> it's christmas. come on. >> mariah in santa's sleigh. greeting fans and me. on the of christmas melody
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>> my husband is a dentist. tenth anniversary present. set >> you want me to get something with carrots? >> just one of her jobs tont v movie. her other job, director. >> guess today is your luc day. >> hollywood needs more female director, right? >> that's what they are saying. ? >> how are you handling the dual responsibility? >> it is aky lot to handle the dual responsibility. it's not easy. >> just have fun, okay? >> lacy chabert remembers getting the call to do the movie movie. >> great, what is it?a christmas movery. oh, okay, i love christmas movies. and mariah carey is directing it. oh, lucky me. >> how is she? >> she has a great point of view but lets you go and do your own thing. >> becoming synonymous with chri and the song -- all i want for christmas is you .
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broadway star take on her 2010stmas hit "oh, santa" in the movie. >> let's talk about cena. >> yeah. >> singing oh, santa your song to you. >> a new version mif song. >> a new version but she's got to be did-like how nervous is she? >> i don't think she is nervous. she is a professional you know. as soon as you leave the north pole, santa why don't you come and make this christmas right . >> what. >> now mariah does get to sing during mariah carey's music special where i got to catch up with the cast. >> favorite christmas movie? >> hands down, all i want for christmas. one of my favorite songs.
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with her kids and she told me that one of her favorite holiday traditions, taking them for a mountains. >> samantha? aspen. one of my fe tradition says seeing the marathons on tv of some of the best holiday movies. but whatever happened to the kids of christmas movie past? we found out.avorit >> you'll shoot your eye out kid. >> oh, my god, i shot my eye ou >> ho, ho, ho. >> you ever wonder what happened to ralphy after giving us some of the most iconict. soap-eating, shoot-your-eye-out movie sings? check him out. now at 44 pete every billingsly is a hollywood producer hp biggest film, maybe you've heard of it?
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bald and making a cameo. >> just keep your n straight and dot work. >> come on. cry. >> somethinghead o had happened. a fuse blew. >> but what about the other kids in that beloved film? the raccoon skin hat -- >> yes. i was a bully and i was bullied. i went to eight different schools before junior high. my name is zach. i have red hair. i fetched quite a few beatings in my time. >> now 45 years old and lives in l.a. >> i'm still in the film industry. p. there a film out i did called "don't blink" that i produced it netflix. >> daddy is going to kill ralphy. >> no he's not p. >> remember rafflelphy's little bro randy whoouldn't put his arms down in that snow suit?
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>> there a scene where randy is thro c down the slide and terrified. good. i'm like, no, i'm just really scared. >> it wasn'twn the most stable of sets. it wobbled a lot. >> christmas came early, on the slide. how? the side exists back where the film was made in cleveland and the actual home used in the movie was bought off ebay by this guy for oment$150,000. he turned it into a museum. all the iconic rooms, vintage cars, hideous leg lamp, even the red rider beeb gun is there. >> i would have no problem giving someone a bb gun for christmas. >> all fun and games until someone is shot in eye. >> and now michael does most of his work, however, behind the scenes.
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jonah hill is 32. alisa ma alisa ma lano, h 43. and which actor's family knew he would a an actor at 2. >> my family is in acting and they thought i would never be anything but since i was 2 years old and lip syncing to b springsteen. >> that is jakeruce jake gyllenhaal. >> what work has she had done in. >> i don't ever do that again. >> how do stars gain and lose weight so fast? meet hollywood ebod squad. >> you can get the curves and get the booty. >> star secrets to g ripped. that's monday. we're almost out of time here this weekend. but for the late-breaking
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the term confident inform apt can conjure up images out of a hollywood movie. a police officer going undercover to infiltrate the mob and bring killers to justice. but in reality, many confident informants are just kids ss ss koerksed into working for the police after a minor drug bust. the work can be dangerous or even deadly. >> it's your birthday today? >> yeah. >> not what you want to be doing on your birthday, huh. >> reporter: what you're looking at is the police footage of the making of a confidential informant. narcotics officer jason webber is recruiting a college student
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marijuana sales to become a ci. >> you expressed interest you'd >> yeah. >> we're always trying to go up the chain. so what we want to go is have them buy from their supplier or suppliers. >> reporter: webber is the chief of a four-county drug task force in eastern north dakota and western minnesota. how important do you think confidential informants are to your task? >> confidential informants are really important to law enforcement across the country. they make our jobs easier because they are already the ones that know the drug dealers and rely on them. >> most of the kids that you're recruiting are caught for marijuana sales? >> the big majority, yeah. >> reporter: webber's jurisdiction includes the campus of the north dakota state college of science with some 3,000 students. marijuana is now legal in four states and the district of columbia columbia. but not in north dakota.
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amount on a campus is a class "a" felony with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of $20,000, or both. >> two felonies. >> reporter: this young man andrew saddic was caught on tape by another confidential informant making two sales for a total of $80. webber has called saddic in before charging him to present a choice. agree to work as a ci, wear a wire, and make undercover drug buys from three people, twice each. or be charged with two class "a" felonies. >> potentially the max is 40 years in prison, $40,000 fine. do you understand that? >> yeah. >> obviously you're probably not going to get 40 years. but there's a possibility you're going to get prison time. if you don't help yourself out, yeah, there is. okay? these probably not a way to start off your young adult life and career, right? >> reporter: saddic took the deal. webber told us most students do.
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keep the whole thing strictly to himself. >> you can't tell anybody you're for obvious reasons. >> reporter: an award-winning student of electrical technology, andrew saddic did as he was told. never told any of his close informant. never called a lawyer. and didn't breathe a word to his parents, tammy and john saddic. the saddics are a ranching family, still struggling with the dead of their older son in a train accident years earlier, leaving andrew an only child. >> if andrew had told you that he was thinking of becoming a confidential informant what do you think your reaction would have been? >> oh -- well, we'd have gotten him a lawyer and told him no. >> we've never heard of such a thing. he's a college student. snitches, whatever you want to call them, stool pin johns, i don't know what you call them, you know.
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who would allow or want their child to serve as a confidential inform ant. >> to set up a drug deal. >> yeah. it's too dangerous. i wouldn't want my child to do it. >> reporter: lance block is an attorney in tallahassee, florida, who opposes using young people caught for relatively minor offenses as confidential informant informant informant informants. >> these kids are being recruited to do the most dangerous type of police work, going undercover with no background, training, or experience. academy. >> they are basically doing the same work as a trained undercover cop? >> absolutely. >> reporter: block says he was unaware police were using young people as confidential informant informants until he was hired seven years ago by the family of rachel hoffman, a recent college graduate who was caught with a large stash of marijuana and a few valium and ecstasy pills. it was her second marijuana arrest. >> she was caught by a tallahassee police department
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become a confidential informant, prison. >> reporter: she signed up. and a few weeks later was sent drug buy. it was to be one of the biggest in tallahassee's recent history. 1,500 ecstasy pills, 1 1/2 ounces of cocaine, and a gun. >> had she ever dealt in any of those things? >> no. >> had she ever fired a gun? >> no. rachel was a pothead. and rachel sold marijuana to her friends out of her home. but rachel wasn't dealing in ecstasy or cocaine, much less of course not weapons. >> reporter: rachel drove her car alone to meet the dealers in this park with $13,000 cash from the police and a wire in her purse. she was to be monitored by some 20 officers. but then the dealers changed the location of the deal, so rachel drove away from the police
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things went essentially wrong. >> the drug dealers have her out on this road. one drug dealer gets into the car with her. nearby? >> they lost her. >> hoffman is 5'7", 135 pounds -- meadows park -- >> they shot her five times when they found the wire? her purse and dumped her body? a ditch 50 miles away. >> reporter: rachel hoffman's tragic death turned block into an advocate. he sued the city of at least and won a $2.8 million settlement for rachel's parents and he has argued for more openness and greater protection for confidential informants ever since. >> do you have any sense of how many confidential informants there are? >> law enforcement is loaded with statistics. but you cannot find out any information about the number of confidential informants that are
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much less the number of people who are being killed or injured -- >> no one's keeping statistics? >> no one. it's a shadowy underworld is what it is. >> we want to make more cases, we want to make better cases that can get prosecuted, informants can do that. >> reporter: brian solie is a longtime undercover narcotics officer who believes a shadowy underworld is exactly what working with cis should be shadowy to protect inform ants' identity, an underworld because that's where cops like him want informants to take them. >> who knows the most about the dope trade? us, working narcotics? no. who is it? the sellers. the dopers. >> reporter: solis says he's works with hundreds of informants and now trains police officers around the country on how best to use them. >> if you had not been able, personally, to use confidential informants, would you have been as effective? >> nowhere near as effective. >> you really feel you need to?
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i may have to watch a house for days or weeks to establish probable cause. my informant makes a buy, i have probable cause in five minutes. you can get into cases quicker, easier, some respects safer. >> i'm surprised you say safer. because we've heard about kids who have been killed doing these operations. >> it's a dangerous trade that they're involved in. >> yeah. >> they are in that drug trade, they've always been facing that potential passenger. >> any informant -- >> reporter: he estimates there could be as many as 100,000 confidential inform apts working with police across the country. and he said with just a few tragic exceptions, it's a win-win. a win for society and a win for the ci. >> they have agreed to do what they are doing in exchange for something. that's the bottom line. when somebody comes to work for me as an informant, it's their decision.
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is completely voluntary and they want to do this to get rid of the charges. >> it's not something that college kids are standing up saying, i want to be a ci. it's not voluntary, they're being told they're looking at prison time unless they agree to do deals for the police department. >> reporter: and there are some important things they're not being told. >> what if you catch me selling $60 worth of marijuana? what do you say to me to become an informant? >> i'll say, this is the charge. this is a felony. out? >> do you tell me that i have a right to talk to a lawyer? >> no, i do not. i tell you you have a right to talk to a lawyer if i'm going to ask you incriminating questions. if we're talking about you becoming an informant, i don't have to tell you that you have the right to a lawyer. >> you can see lesley stahl's full report on our website cbsnews.com.nsurance. with great coverage it protects my personal belongings should they get damaged,
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. adele's new cd has only been out a few weeks but it's hare the biggest-selling album of 2015. and when she announced her first north american tour in five years, the tickets went like hotcakes. fans lined up outside ticket windows for hours. others sat by their computers trying to buy seats online. and most of them came away empty empty-handed empty-handed. >> tickets went on sale for 56 shows thursday, many in huge arenas that seat thousands of fans.
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lengths to keep tickets out of the hands of so-called secondary sellers who buy at retail then jack up prices. tickets are showing up on sites like stubhub for thousands of dollars. hello it's me >> reporter: adele is the reigning queen of heartbreak. now many fans feel her pain. after trying to buy tickets on the phone and online for hours thursday, some received this message instead. no seats available. hello from the other side i must have brought us down to size >> reporter: memes like this made the rounds on social media. hello from the ticket line. i've clicked refresh a thousand times. at least i can say that i've tried >> people were upset. they were weeping big adele tears while listening to adele music and trying to buy adele tickets. >> reporter: her album bum "25"
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is is the top seller of 2015. the tour sold out and almost immediately tickets were posted on sites like stubhub, premium seats almost $10,000 at madison square garden in new york city. i will wait for you >> reporter: a secondary ticket market now estimated to be worth a reported $8 billion a year. earlier this week mumphord and sons posted on a blog saying, we want fans of band to get into our shows for the right price to see that they've got value for money. adele's team says it worked hard to ensure her concert tickets went directly to her fans. she's one of many artists who work with songkick, the site works to weed out secondary sellers by managing ticket sales through an artist website or fan club. still -- >> virtually everything that has been created to try to shut out scalpers. >> reporter: adele's management
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tickets as steve hartman found a story of christmas kindness on the road. >> i remember kind of just like looking up at the sky and being like, god, are you sure about this? because i'm pretty happy right now. >> did it feel like that, a calling? >> it felt like a calling but i tried to reject it for about two months, it was too outlandish. >> reporter: what eugene felt called to do was one really big random act of kindness. he didn't know who he was supposed to help or how. all he knew was that he had to help someone and it had to be life-altering. and that's when a video came across his facebook page. it was a video of a guy he never met, arthur renowitzki, a pair pledge of allegiance yeah in a t-shirt with bold letters of bold defiance.
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paralyzed eight years ago arthur vowed he would walk again someday. when eugene heard about that he called arthur immediately. >> he wasn't going to give up until i was walking again. >> to walk again? >> to walk again. >> you don't have a medical degree? >> i have a film degree. >> which makes you wonder, how were you going to make him walk again? >> this is the part i had no idea. at the time. >> reporter: eventually, though, he learned about this exsew exoskeleton device that can help people walk again. unfortunately it costs $80,000. to pay for it eugene quit his job at a research company in northern california to hike. border to canada. >> we're going! >> reporter: along the way he posted videos of the at adventure and asked people to donate on social media follow state -- >> we did it! >> reporter: eugene learned that goal. >> you're going to walk! >> reporter: and again, all this
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>> yes! >> to quit his job. to go into debt from doing this. >> reporter: eugene yun felt called to make a difference in someone's life. but when he heeded that call he had no idea what a difference he'd make. until proof rounded the corner. this is the first time eugene got to see arthur walk. >> oh my god. i'm so happy for you. >> thank you, brother. i call him my brother now. we are brothers. i'm just very thankful to have a friend like him. i wouldn't be here honestly fit wasn't for you. >> reporter: makes you wonder. that little voice eugene heard, was that ever about helping someone with a hardship? or was it about helping two someones with a friendship? steve hartman, on the road in castro valley, california. >> that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news
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