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good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with that heart-pounding firefight, the capture of el chapo, captured on video as it unfolded.ay have been el chapo's covert rendezvous with sean penn and the mexican tele novella star that tipped off was he snared by his own lust for hollywood fame? abc's matt gutman in mexico tonight. >> reporter: it's a story worthy of a hollywood blockbuster.ng gun battles. the most wanted drug kingpin in the world. a secret meeting with a beautiful woman. even a major hollywood star but this was all too real.

moments before the world's most wanted drug lord is eo released today by the mexican government showing mexican marines storming the secret hideout of narco kingpinel chapo guzman. the gun battle erupted before dawn friday in el chapo's home state of sin elite commando unit busting into a safe house, weapons drawn, seen here in body camera footage. under heavy fire, the first marine through shot in the arm. another marine pulling the pin on a grenade, tossing it inside.sion shakes the house. >> this is where the initial gun battle happened. how many bullet holes pierced this door. and of course that window. and insidef this massive gun battle here.

this disaster of a kitchen. bullet holes everywhere. floors. a number of bullet holes up these stairs is mind boggling. this is where some of the most place. look at this. as marines went up the stairs, el chapo was heading down through this mirrored wall designed for this right through here is this trap door. this is the secret passageway and doorway that leads to the tunnel down there. it's incredible that right out of that closet and that this perfectly constructed secret passageway. we're going to go down the stairs here. where it is very dank. very wet. leading to aen the city's drainage system. as the gun battle above raged. five of his men were killed, four others arrested. we're going to go downay which is flooded.

this step, into this muck. there are all sorts of snakes into crawl under that to get over there. just beyond there is that door. looks like a door on a submarinee drainage system. hundreds of yards of chapo and his lieutenant crawl through here. i can't even crouch. it's about three feet high. obic. you can tell why they came out of here looking so filthy. we found the spot where he surfaced at this intersection. pulling up this manhole, where he'd been. the two of them reportedly popped out of this manhole now. you look inside. you can see that m-4 with the the two of them apparently used. they scampered out here, carjacked a car. right around here el chapo and his t white car, carjacked another vehicle, a red one. they took this left turn. then authorities say they headed right towards the highway.s finally catching el chapo and his lieutenant on the edge of town.

the closest protected area to where el chapo was yards that way. this is one of the furthest in back. they brought him inside. they got his identity. they sat him down on this bed. took that famous picture. the irony is that all this may have happened because a star-strucking about a movie. fugitive agreeing to secretly meet with sean penn and mexican soap opera star kate del castillo to talk about a about his life and give sean penn an interview for "rolling stone." del castillo, known for "jane the virgin" and "weeds" up through secret messages and burn phones. seen here in government surveillance photos reportedly arriving in mexico for that

el chapo thennd del castillo in two of his radar-jamming planes to a mountain hideout and prohibiting any phones brought in. here penn poses with the drug lord in a photo taken things authentication purposes. penn writes their seven-hour sit-down in october started with tequila and a hug. noting el chaporemarkably well-groomed for a man who'd been on the run since his daring prison escape last july. el chapo reportedly boasting to penn about his kingpin status saying, i supply more heroin, meth amp methamphetamine, cocape and marijuana than anybody else in the world. i have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats are later recording this video amidst theosters -- >> reporter: when asked if violence el chapo says, look, all i do is defend myself, nothing more.

never. but trouble found hties reportedly tracked him down through his communications with actors and producers. what we know right now, it's very unlikely sean penn would beith any sort of crime for going and meeting with him and interviewing him. journalists have done that many. >> reporter: el chapo's final attempt to dash to freedom this weekend seemed like his previous escape back in july from this prison cell, therea tunnel by come raids, even outfitted with a motorcycle. part of the el chapo expertise. after all he'd been using tunnels for years. but tonight mexicanve el chapo. they say it could take up to a year to extradite him to the u.s. for prosecution. so for now he's being held e maximum security prison near mexico city

this time it's fortified so another escape and this doesn't have to happen again. for "nightline," i'm matt gutman in mexico. the loss of a legendary performer, david bowie, a true original and shape shifter. now the eerie final message ofg after his death. i'm in heaven seen int pain. and clearer skin. that i can fight psoriatic arthritis with humira.ks by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. it's proven to help relieve pain,ther joint damage

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david bowie was a masterful musician, a pioneer of sexual liberation, and a world of pop culture. we lost the iconic performer after a closely guarded 18-month battle with cancer. but this fiercely rtist left a fans. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: david bowie didn't turn hiscer into a tabloid story, didn't even tell his fans he was sick. instead, from his deathbed, he turned it into art.e i'm in heaven >> reporter: this song "lazarus" released four days ago. n't be seen >> reporter: those buttons

everybody knows me now >> reporter: for a man about to die, this is af mortality. the deathbed as a piece of performance art. the whole thing very bowie. this is wh he knew the end was coming. and it was sort of like a parting gift to fans and a way of saying, it's okay. i'm making art out of my today in l.a., new york, london, and berlin, bowie fans were in shock. paying tribute and grieving. the pop star from anothers gone back to the mothership. he was born david jones and took the stage name bowie because davey jones of the ere first. a rebel long before he was famous. here he is age 17, a schoolboy champion for the society for the prevention of cruelty to >> exactly who's been cruel to you? >> well, i think we're all

but for the last two years we've had comments like darling, and can i carry your handbag,s. things just have to stop now. >> reporter: he was a struggling artist for years, a bit of a misfit. his first big hit was inspired by the space program. >> e a liftoff. this is major tom to ground control >> reporter: "space oddity," 69 a few weeks before the moon landing. and i'm floating in a most peculiar way >> reporter: on the bbc's coverage of apollo 11 the imagesarmstrong, the soundtrack was "major tom." one small step for bowie. his giant leap would actually come later when he borrowed a andy warhol and pop art. the rock star as a performance piece. a fictional character. blurring reality and fantasy. male andthose costumes inspired by

that otherworldly androgynous look. there's a >> reporter: positioning bowie as the outsider. the freak triumphant. the nonconformist who's quit worrying about fitting in, a huge part of his appeal american viewers had their first chance to hear bowie speak at length on abc, talking to dick 1974. >> what do your parents do? >> my father's dead and my mother's got a small flat. i think she's got a day job. >> does she have trouble explaining you to the>> i think she pretends i'm not hers. >> reporter: bowie collaborated with john lennon, as lennon himself described to o big deal, we just sort of, oh, boom, boom, boom. like that. >> reporter: the song was "fame." fame r: bowie classic. he wrote "under pressure" with

pressure pushing down on me >> reporter: and in a more unlikely duet for bowie sang a christmas song with bing crosby. our finest gifts we bring >> reporter: a new generation, bowie is every bit as iconic as bing was >> wasn't just his music, it was the way he packaged himself, his style. >> reporter: his androgyny and ambiguous sexuality were era. >> england in 1972, which is when he came out as bisexual, although he said he was gay, it had just been years earlier. it was an enormously controversial thing to say. >> reporter: his sublime decadence even beckoned across the berlin wall. >> mr.his wall. >> reporter: days before ronald reagan's famous speech there in 1987, david bowie

today the german foreign minister credited bowie with down the wall. he was an actor too. a vampire before vampire movies were a thing in "the hunger."an who fell to earth. >> i have a passport. >> reporter: he did a cameo -- >> i believe i might be of service. >> reporter: as himself in most of all, bowie will be remembered as the father of glam rock, a performer whose artistic dna you can trace down through kiss, through kanye, all the way to today madonna posted, david bowie changed the course of my life forever. mick jagger tweeted this picture calling bowie ana true original. now gone and sorely missed, but like lazarus, yet shall hem david wright for "nightline" in new york.

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it was a charmed night. it seemed to be all about leo. a titanic reunionle swooning. a golden globe win for his raw performance in "the revenant." it might have been a run-in with the show.

>> lady gaga, "american horror story hotel." >> reporter: last night the social media was in agreement with this hilariously eyebrows-up reaction to a passing-by lady gaga. in this off-camera reunion with costar kate dicaprio had won the golden globe even before he won a golden globe. >> ando leonardo dicaprio. >> reporter: his best actor drama victory, one of three globes for "the revenant." >> i need a meal, do you understand. >> this film is about survival -- >> reporter: "the revenant" exposed its actors to weeks of deep freeze filming. >> werailers and warm homes to go to. but it was a difficult shoot in the context of making a movie. when you watch this film and you watch what these men actually

only fascinating, it's why were these conditions necessary in which to shoot this movie? >> yeah, why? >> the story that we were telling was about these men 200 years ago. so what otherd have made? >> reporter: leonardo dicaprio plays lou glass, the real-life 1820s frontiersman attacked by that bear and left for dead. only to set off on arough the wilderness to find those who'd abandoned him. >> it was a revenge story but it became something sort of spiritual and poetic in the the safe thing to do is track a new course back up -- >> reporter: to play glass' nemesis, fitzgerald, it was leonardo dicaprio himself who reached out to tom hardy. then about to star in arary action film. >> what'd you really say to him? >> he knows what i said to him. >> before you take off jumping out of helicopters and shooting guns and whatever the f you're doing, youhis script i'm doing next with alejandro, it's awesome.

leo, i got the job. leo bailed and went off to a yacht. and decided he needed to think about it. >> reporter: leonardo dicaprio, who signed on for "the revenant" before shooting "the wolf of gives a performance that has again landed him in the best actor oscar observation. >> i ain't afraid to die anymore, i done it already. >> i think leo was basicallyul work all the time with his body and his size. in this choreographed dance. that is what i think cinema now, the big >> what are you proud of, of your performance? >> i'm proud of this whole movie. for a performance aspect, look, i always need at least a decadege what the hell i did, you know. it takes me at least ten years to not know exactly what's happening in a shot next and where i was on that what i was thinking, my emotional connection to a certain scene or how i was feeling that day.

academy voters will have just aheir determination. for "nightline," i'm chris connelly in los angeles. >> now that's gratitude.ing. tune into gma tomorrow. and as always we're online on our "nightline" facebook page