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good evening. we start here tonight with a story that could not come at a worse time for america's beleaguered airline industry, already facing a tower frg g pr

problem. a government survey found consumer reports have soared 55% because of delays missed connections and cancelled flights and today a more explosive allegation discrimination against a young girl with autism and it plays out on camera. here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: the cameras were rolling when this portland-bound united airlines flight made an emergency landing in utah. the major disturbance that brought flight 285 to a grinding halt, not another case of another unruly passenger but this 15-year-old girl. >> that's going to be a lawsuit. >> oh yeah. >> if she doesn't get understood, she will start moving her hands or start making sounds, like woo. >> reporter: juliette beegle was diagnosed with autism just before she turned 3. she has difficulty speaking and becomes upset if he doesn't have a warm meal and her mom donna said that is what happened on that flight last tuesday.

juliette didn't want any of the snacks her family packed for her and started to cry. >> so i asked the flight attendant if she had anything that was hot. >> reporter: donna offered to buy a warm meal from first class but was refused. >> i said well maybe you can make an exception. everything i asked it was no. no we can't do that and then he laughed and juliette is howling louder. her sounds are getti louder. i'm thinking come on just help us out. i called them back again. i was so frustrated. i said you know i'm trying to prevent a meltdown here. if you could give me something that is warm and hot, it would so help us out. he said again, no he couldn't. >> reporter: eventually donna said the flight attendant brought juliette hot food and that calmed her down but by then it may have been too late. >> he said we're going to make an unexpected emergency landing in salt lake city. we have a passenger at the back of the plane who has a behavior

issue. >> reporter: paramedics and police board forcing the beegles off the flight. i said why. he said he doesn't feel comfortable flying with your daughter on this flight. that hurt. that took my breath. she shouldn't be treated like that. >> reporter: many fellow passengers on board not happy. >> it's ridiculous. >> reporter: angry about how juliette was treated. >> she's a little girl. it's not like she was up screaming, lashing out at anyone or running up and down the aisle. >> reporter: chris hall was headed home after vacation in mexico when he recorded it on camera. he was sitting right behind the beegles and says none of the other passengers appeared bothered. he said the flight crew could have handled the situation much better. >> the whole thing is ridiculous. they should have said we don't normally give hot meals from people in first class to coach buff we will do this for you out of kindness.

>> reporter: the anger spreading to social media. the #boycottunited on twitter. after seeing the way you handle people with autism i will never step foot on your airline. they say the crew made the best decision for the safety and comfort of all of our customers. diverting the plane after the situation became disruptive. >> their claim about a safety issue, he was in the window seat. she's 120 pounds. her dad is sitting next to her. he is 200 pounds. this was sheer ignorance about autism. >> it does appear to be overreaction by the crew. if that is true, this is something that should be a cautionary tale. >> it is not cheap. by some estimates a diverted flight can cost an airline up to $200,000. >> ultimately the captain is the final authority for any diversion decision because of an unruly passenger by he does that

in conjunction with talking to his company. >> reporter: a study found in march alone the transportation department logged 1700 passenger complaints. many of them about flight troubles. the complaints were loud on a flight last summer after a flight attendant refused to let a 3-year-old girl use the bathroom during a long delay on the tarmac. the little girl well you can imagine what happens next. >> i didn't have any towels or napkins with me. no one offered to bring me anything to help clean it up. i took the sweater off my body and soaked up the mess with my clothes. >> reporter: the fasten seat belt light was on when mom got up to help her daughter. the jetblue crew was let than sympathetic. >> we have a noncompliant passenger on the fliechlt we are bringing her back to the gate to security. >> reporter: over passengers who witnessed the incident intervened on the woman's behalf and jetblue offered her an apology. it is not just the airlines.

passengers themselves are behind much of the chaos in the friendly skies. there were more than 8,000 incidents of air rage in 2013 from drunken behavior to plain old rudeness. this man got so drunk on a new year year's eve flight he began to scream and spit at fellow passengers. they took matters in to their own hands by taping him to his seat. a passenger on this jetblue flight from new york to las vegas last year was so distraught he punched and kicked the seats of his neighbors as flight attendants struggled to restrain him. >> all of a sudden this guy who was sleeping just woke with up out of nowhere and started flipping out. >> reporter: former flight attendant sean kathleen said she has seen it all in her seven years in the air and now posts

it all to see. from garbage in seat pockets and yep, that's a condom to bare feet. >> the most unruly passenger i ran in to is a gentleman in the front lavatory who was smoking crack and he caught his hair on fire. >> reporter: kathleen said she has experienced flying with passengers with autism but said she never received any special training. >> there could have been other methods of dealing with the situation. definitely education with crew members, especially with autistic passengers, people would be beneficial. >> that is what the beegles are demanding. they plan to sue. >> if there had been awareness on the part of the crew, we would have gotten that help when we asked for it. they would have listened to us. we're not trying to get special privileges. when you have a child with special needs, you need aittle support from your community. >> reporter: they did finally make it home.

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♪ okay i'm going to let you in on a hollywood secret now. generally when big movie stars have a new film to publicize they agree to do media interviews in which they grit their teeth and reluctantly answer a few personal questions.

in this interview with a newly married andmuch in love george clooney there appears to be no such tengs tension at all. nick watt on clooney and his highly anticipated new movie "tomorrow land." the clooneys are the spring's a couple. forget kimye, they are so hot did you see them at the met ball. >> i made the mistake of being in venice when you were getting married. >> i'm sorry. >> i was shooting a travel show and everyone came up to us. >>. >> we had not told anyone we were getting married and thousands of people out and it was crazy. i was like this is what it is going to be like the next three days. >> i'm surprised she didn't leave you. >> believe me. it was in the middle of the ebola scare and all of this bad news and people were in a good mood for that. it made it fun for all of us. >> was it annoying to have your private moment?

>> no inside where we got married we were able to keep the 100 of us. >> you don't have any good video of me dancing which was terrible. >> as i say you ruined my shoot. >> sorry about that. sorry my wedding, my happiness ruined your travel. [ laughter ] >> there's tomorrow land cast mates. >> who are you? >> clooney is actually kind of cantankerous in the movie but real life the witty matinee idol and amal a human rights lawyer. >> my next door neighbor is a brain surgeon. he says nick what did you do today. i did a story with 85 christmas trees. >> i was shooting in new york, strapped in to a bomb vest and i come home. my wife just came back from straussburg where she was in the middle of a trial over the armenian genocide and asks me

about my day. i was like i had a fake bomb strapped on me. everything she does has actual consequence. >> he's a proper person doing a proper job. dare i say it george. >> i'm not. >> what if there was a place -- >> dad, i need you to look at this. does it look real. >> a secret place. >> his latest project "tomorrow land" a movie that defies cat gorization. >> the pen -- [ screaming ] >> reporter: eagerly anticipated, highly secretive. >> how much are you allowed to tell me about this film? >> nobody's stopping us. >> no. >> everyone dies in the end. >> reporter: not true. clooney plays a disillusioned dreamer in what the director describes as a sci-fi action adventure fable made by disney our parent company. >> we are not being mysterious to be mysterious. we are mysterious because we don't want to tell the story

before they see the film. >> reporter: country star tim mcgraul grau plays dad to brit. >> have you seen it. >> haven't seen it. no. >> should we tell him, he's not in it. >> you are completely framed out. i don't want to give too much away. it is entertaining, thought provoking and surprising. >> how is this a good idea? >> turn on the television and there's a lot of doom and gloom out there. there really is. it feels like that's what the whole world is. your future doesn't have to be this. there's the ability to be involved and make a difference. when i saw that in the script i thought it was a really good thing. >> reporter: this movie he plays second fiddle to an 11-year-old who has a dark disney character called athena. >> reporter: she stole the screen from you a little bit. >> that's why they tell you not to work with kids and animals. isn't that the rule? >> she is perfect for that

character. we were just thanking the movie gods that she managed to get in front of us. >> reporter: there's also brit who really wanted this role. >> i sent in tapes for brad and went back in for the casting director and he didn't remember me at all. >> reporter: flattering. and i hear you love being called the next big thing. >> it's my favorite thing. i don't mind it but it doesn't mean anything to me. >> reporter: another great kid plays the young clooney character. >> i'm not giving up. >> reporter: the kid who plays you, is that actually your kid? >> here's what we did. we found a kid that looked enough like me and had him get a little plastic surgery. >> reporter: good idea. >> we told him you want to be in showbiz, you have to pin back the ears and shorten up the nose. >> reporter: i don't know what you looked like as a kid. >> that's what i originally signed on to play.

>> reporter: have you been working out? you look rather buff. >> i'm trying to stretch a few years out of my career. not everybody looks like george. >> yeah. >> reporter: back to the movie, it is parallel world of image of an ideal future from the 1964 perspective, hovering monorails and not the future we are now in. >> whe when we were kids we weren't dreaming of staring at a phone. >> i have three daughters and i'd like to see their faces occasionally. that's all i see is this. >> clooney doesn't do that. or twitter. >> it is the dumbest thing a famous person famous actor could codo. there aren't more people that will see your movies. if they did kim kardashian would be the biggest movie star in the world. for me the only thing that could happen is bad. i had two drinks i go home and make a mother teresa joke and wake up in in the morning and my career is over. >> reporter: so thank goodness he is sticking to the acting.

a movie i'm still thinking about and unraveling five days after i saw it. i'm nick watt for "nightline" in los angeles. >> our thanks to nick watt and george clooney tonight. tomorrowland opens may 22nd. up next ginger zee taking us on an adventure through an upside down underwater world where clams can weigh hundreds of pounds and jellyfish don't sting. >> announcer: abc news "nightline," brought to you by progressive. and every day brian drives carefully to work, there are rate suckers. he's been paying more for car insurance because of their bad driving for so long, he doesn't even notice them anymore. but one day brian gets snapshot from progressive. now brian has a rate based on his driving, not theirs. get snapshot and such your good driving could save you.

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finally tonight, summer is near and you may see cool fish when you hop in the water but i

pretty much guarantee they won't come close to what abc's ginger zee found on this journey to the other side of the planet. >> reporter: majestic magical, mysterious. a swirling color palate of blue waters teaming with the magnificence of marine life. welcome to palau. a string of islands in the north pacific ocean southeast of the philippines. this tiny island nation is an underwater utopia with the world's first shark sanctuary. giant clams and my friend here a 400-pound napoleon rass palau is home to a fluke of nature called jellyfish lake and i'm about to find out why. now we are going to hike 20 minutes to jellyfish lake. >> reporter: our hike will take us to the other side of these

tree tops. >> welcome to jellyfish trail. definitely humid. you can feel it everything we need, cameras, gear my crew and local guide carrying through the woods. >> not some he carrying my gear but no shoes. >> my working shoes. >> few more steps and there it is. we're getting in to it now. as we swim out, i spot a few. and then boom jellyfish nation. oh, my god! there are so many. this the miraculous thing about these jellyfish -- they don't sting.

>> reporter: like floating through a living lava lamp swirling globes golden marshmallow puffs. oh, my god, so cool. this is unbelievable. it really is. so special. ♪ >> reporter: but the truth is whether you come to palau to snorkel at this sunken ship/barrier reef, scuba dive with sharks and napoleons or swim with the jellyfish just being in this place, witnessing the wonder of nature will make you feel like kid again. beautiful sunset. so long palau and thank you. >> another ginger zee extravaganza. our thanks to ginger tonight. memorial day is around the corner. where are you dying to get away

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