this morning on "world news now," worldwide selloff. the worst day on the stock market in years. how foreign investors are rea reacting right now and how this impacts you. >> explosive crash. did an air traffic controller send a pilot in trouble to an air strip that closed 25 years ago? what investigators are revealing about the deadly crash. also new this half hour, campus controversy. a fraternity in trouble. >> the outrange eversexually suggestive banners hung from an off campus house. the immediate crackdown and demand for answers. later in the skinny, the guy who will be looking for love in the next season of "the bachlor"". our senior analyst is here with new insights you won't get anywhere else. it's tuesday, august 25th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now."

>> good tuesday morning to you. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm phillip mena. the stock market on everybody's mind this morning. >> china the secd largest economy in the world. a lot of people anxious. it's been a great six years with the stock market in the u.s. very, very strong. some people are saying it's just correcting itself right now. it will be fine. wait it out. this very moment, lots of people watching to see how the stocks will be performing. it's been a mostly positive day on the asian major marks so far. >> the only exchange suffering a seriously sharp decline shanghai, china, where the main index plunged more than 6% right out of the gate before recovering somewhat. >> all that followed by a wild ride on wall street. the dow plummeting it nearly 1100 points yesterday befor closing down 588 points. abc's rebecca jarvis has all the details. >> reporter: it started with a plunge. the dow cratering an unprecedented 1,000 points just minutes after the opening bell. >> it give you little butterflies in your stomach. >> reporter: even veteran

traders stunned by the drop. what's one word to describe the feeling on the floor today? >> anxious. >> reporter: moments later, stocks clawing back, reversing some of the losses. >> people were nervous, but there was not that sick feeling in your stomach that sometimes you get at times like this. >> reporter: before plummeting yet again. so what's driving the volatility? triggered by a massive sell-off that started in china last week, the dow now down more than 16 points in just five days. traders fearing the slowdown in china could lead to weakness here. the white house trying to calm those nerves. >> what i would encourage people to evaluate is the ongoing strength and resilience of the u.s. economy. >> reporter: but to many on wall street, with stocks up nearly 60% over the last five years, this slide was long overdue. there feels like there's this disconnect. the economy's chugging along, but the market has gone up exponentially. >> the market has gotten ahead of where the actual economy is. >> reporter: ending with an

unusual sigh of relief. the dow down 588 points. but it could have been so much worse. the typical 401(k) is now down about $9,000 in just the last week. all eyes now on china. what happens in their markets and the federal reserve's next move. when do they hike interest rates from 0% where they have been for the last six years. phillip, reena. >> rebecca, thank you. with oil prices plummeting, impacting the stock market, the dramatic downward price trend continues at the gas pump. the average price for a gallon of gas nationwide is now $2.59. the lowest average for this time of year in 11 years. analysts predict it will drop below $2 by christmas even though the demand for gas remains high. >> that would be a great christmas gift. >> it appears vice president joe biden is leaning towards a run for the white house. there are reports president obama has given his okay and the white house saying even in a

primary battle between biden and hillary clinton, the president may pick sides. biden is expected to announce his decision before the first democratic debate in mid-october. hispanic voters are showing little support for republican donald trump in a new poll. the gallup survey shows just 14% have a favorable opinion of trump. two-thirds view him unfavorably. 34% of hispanic voters consider jeb bush a favorable candidate. 23% think otherwise. the only democrat firmly recognized by hispanic voters hillary clinton. 58% have a favorable opinion of her. devastating news from the world of auto racing. driver justin wilson who was seriously injured in a race on sunday has died. wilson was hit in the head by a piece of debris from another car's crash during a race in pennsylvania. he was airlifted to a hospital where he was in a coma. he died of his injuries last night and he was 37 years old. >> so heartbreaking. a lot of people refer to him as the gentle giant of nascar. he has a wife, two young daughters.

they are all heartbroken, the debris hit his head and he died so suddenly. >> our thoughts too them. a new york traffic controller directed a pilot with engine trouble to a nonexisting landing strip at a closed airport just before the small plane crashed. that's the preliminary result of an ntsb investigation into the crash which killed a pilot earlier this month. experts say the final decision of where to land the plane rests with the pilot. >> you don't know exactly what he was dealing with. his passenger will be able to tell the ntsb what he saw. >> the passenger told investigators he heard some sputtering before the pilot lost control. some expect that the air traffic controller will get a letter of reprimand. no more victims have been found following that crash at a british air show. officials had feared the death toll would soar past the 11 confirmed dead. so far, that's not the case. abc's terry moran reports from the crash site. >> reporter: at the crash site, a crane gently lifted pieces of wreckage from the

roadside. they're still looking for human remains here from that almost surreal moment at saturday's air show, the 1950s hawker hunter t-7 high in the cloudless sky performing a thrilling loop above the ground, then failing to pull up and exploding on to a highway. >> oh! >> reporter: a terrifying, traumatizing sight. >> oh. >> there's nothing we can do except stay where we are. >> reporter: the huge fireball of impact, the plane, loaded with fuel. this whole scene is now a memorial, people leaving flowers and notes of sympathy and prayer. the inferno of the crash, just a couple hundred yards back there, and given that this is an area of many villages, local businesses and busy roads, it's a miracle there weren't more victims. alish southall was on that road when the jet came down. >> we just ran and just protected ourselves from the debris. >> reporter: survival and loss in an incomprehensible instant.

terry moran, abc news, england. >> japan is the latest victim of a killer typhoon that battered the southern parts of japan with rains and powerful winds. thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. the typhoon has been spinning in the pacific. it killed at least 26 people in the philippines including a 9-month-old boy and his sister. help is arriving from near and far in the northwest wildfire zone. 70 firefighters from australia and new zealand are doing orientation in boise, idaho before heading to the fire lines. some of them could be deployed to what is now the largest fire in washington state history. it's burned more than 400 square miles. thousands of volunteers have answered washington's call for help. so far hundreds with the right experience have been approved to work. >> sexually suggestive banners from members of a fraternity in virginia with going viral this morning. reading hope your baby girl is ready for a good time and freshman daughter drop-off hung at an off campus house where

members of sigma nu lived. some students found it funny. but a spokeswoman for old dominion university says the school is not laughing. >> rest assured student organizations and our students are subject to our student code of conduct and due process. we take that very seriously. >> sigma nu's national organization has suspended chapter activities at old dominion while it investigates. >> you know, for some of us the sound track to summer is i can't feel my face. i can't feel my face. >> it's a good song. >> my weekend, right. >> there you go. for millions of americans, late summer sounds like this. [ bugs chirping ] >> yeah, you're seeing right. those are a choir of cicadas back in huge numbers across a number of states including here where this video was shot. the quad cities. there could be more than a million per acre and an individual cicada can belt out a buzz equal to a jet engine.

how can those little guys do that? >> i don't know. but it's annoying. >> the outbreaks only last two to three weeks. coming up in "the skinny," our senior bachelor analyst is here in the building with his exclusive insight as the new bachelor is chosen. >> we look forward to that. also ahead, if you could choose your baby's gender before getting pregnant, would you want to do that? the pluses, minuses and the controversy. later, gourmet food trucks that do much more than serving up the latest delicious trend. it's a powerful idea you have to see. but first, today's weather. you're watching "world news now." >> "world news now" weather, brought to you by colonial penn life insurance. brought to you by colonial penn life insurance. >> important message for residents age 50 to 85. write down this number now. right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance life insurance with a rate lock through the colonial penn program. if you are on a fixed income,

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well, here's another truck crashing into a very low boston bridge. this less than a week after the roof of another truck was sheered off in a different accident. that bridge has been the scene of so many accidents, trucks trying to clear that very low bridge that police have decided to install a video camera. in recent years, the issue of gender selection for newborns has become a controversial one. the moral dilemma mixed with medical questions has made it tricky. >> what are the benefits and risks to selecting the sex of your child? abundance's amy robach finds out. >> reporter: it's the big question for every modern family expecting a new baby. >> so would you like to know if you're having a boy or girl? >> yes. >> no. >> i want it to be a surprise. don't you, jay? >> reporter: now a huge spike in the number of couples who are choosing the sex of their baby before they even become pregnant. >> this is the room where the magic begins.

>> it's called gender selection. dr. jeffrey steinberg, director of fertility institutes says up to 90% of his patients come to him specifically because they want to decide whether they have a boy or a girl. >> thousands of cases we have never, never ever gotten the wrong gender. the demand has increased almost tenfold in the past ten years. >> reporter: gender selection for nonmedical reasons is not without controversy. the united states is one of only a handful of countries that allows the practice. >> there's nothing diseased or disorder about either gender. so you're asking for something that's a preference. are we going to have people pick traits of their kids down the road, height, eye color, strength, musical aptitude, sexual orientation? >> reporter: for some parents who already have a chide, gender selection is the way to guarantee a baby of the opposite sex. >> i thought since it's there and we have the option to do that, i would -- we would very much like a girl. >> reporter: this couple who didn't want us to use their

names says when they learned about the option of gender selection during their infertility treatment, decided to select a daughter. >> i come from a family of all boys. really said i'd like to have a daughter. >> and we got two. >> reporter: now they have twin daughters in addition to their older son and haven't ruled out using the selection again. >> are you happy with our decision? >> definitely not. wonderful, couldn't be happier. >> reporter: amy robach, abc news, new york. they are cute but slippery slope. >> uh-huh. >> coming up, a look at the new bachelor revealed last night. our senior analysts weighs in. >> the superstars getting caught intimate with each other. "the skinny" is next. "world news now" continues after this from our ab

♪ skinny, so skinny >> so we're going to interrupt this broadcast. we have breaking news overnight. we have a new bachelor, repeat a new bachelor has been named to "the bachelor." >> and taking on that role for the 20th season will be ben h. it was announced last night at the end of "bachelor in paradise" after paradise with chris harrison bringing out ben whose last name is higgins. he was asked if he was ready to get down on one knee and propose after it was all said and done. >> i get that question a lot. 26 years old, people think that's young. a lot of my closest friends are married. they're starting their families. i have a great example of love through my parents.

and through grandparents and family. i'm ready for it. i'm excited to start now sharing life with somebody. >> are you ready for the shirtless scenes? >> now we know who it is. let's ask our senior bachelor analyst jack sheehan, give us your take, jack. welcome. >> thank you. thanks for having me. what do i think of ben? he's a nice guy. what can you say? he's unoffensive. >> that's not a great endorsement. >> you know, obviously we saw him on what became kaitlyn's season here. what is he, a salesman. he lives in denver. grew up in indiana. didn't he just grow up? this fellow is 6'4". >> wow. >> so bachelor ben is a big boy as they say. yeah. he says he's an avid traveler. we saw him with kaitlyn over in ireland. >> is this the fantasy suite? pa. >> in the fantasy suite right there. think things went well for them

that night, but it didn't go too well for ben h in the end. so much for that. he says he likes hoops, hiking, fishing and stimulating conversation. >> okay. >> we all like that. i mean, right? >> sounds like a winner, jack. >> i'll tell you right now. some advice from the analyst if i can going rogue here, ben, be yourself. you can't be anyone else. don't be as boring as chris the farmer, and ben, please, just don't be juan pablo. >> oh. >> season 20 of "the bachlor" is here on abc in january of 2016. >> i got to tell you -- >> that means that nick v. should be back here on abc in february of 2016. it's time for "the bachelor" to go, thanks for having me. >> very impressive. thank you very much. senior analyst jack sheehan, everyone. thank you very much. >> he's always got an interesting take. >> learned everything i need to know about "the bachelor." >> he always fills everyone in. we are turning now to

another bachelor and bachelorette, the single superstars sparking rumors of a possible romance. we're talking about drake and tennis phenom serena williams. >> drake was seen cheering serena on, the top women's player in the world. judging from new photos from tmz, drake seems to have moved in as serena's new doubles partner. there they are, cincinnati, apparently celebrate agafter williams big win in the tournament this past weekend. >> can't get privacy. although the two are said to be close, the reps for the stars denied relationship rumors despite those pictures. we should note the u.s. open starts today. keep an eye out for our favorite canadian over the next couple of weeks. >> they do look close. >> but they're denying it right now. >> thanks for straightening that out. >> very important. the first contestant from next season's dancing with the stars, they've been announced ahead of the rest of the back. bindi irwin. >> the 17-year-old has been following in the footsteps of

her late father, crocodile hunter steve irwin documenting wildlife and yesterday talked on "gma" moving to los angeles with her family for the competition. >> my mom and little brother robert are here with me at the moment. that he support me throughout. i hope my dance partner whoever it is very patient and likes animals. you never know what i'll bring to rehearsals. >> i and a huge fan of hers. this is wonderful. she said she's more scared of the show's judges than wrangling crocodiles. >> the new season of "dancing with the stars" premieres monday september 14th on abc. >> look forward to watching her. finally, george clooney having fun doing a little photobombing. you could argue he's the least good looking one in the photo. >> okay. well, let's see. phillip, there's clooney popping up in the background while cindy crawford and her husband randy gerber sharing a romantic moment in ibiza. >> see what i mean? crawford posting this picture on instagram. they were there for clooney's brand of tequila. now it all makes sense to you.

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i cannot believe what you told me on commercial break. >> oh, about the food trucks. >> phillip says the food trucks in texas are way better than the food trucks in new york. i just outed you on national television. >> i've got to say, i mean, when the moment though, when you need it and it's right there, they're here. they're here. they can give you exactly what you need. >> well, stumbling on food trucks can be like finding a meal in an oasis. you can get exactly what you need in a moment. there's growing popularity. abc's tech contributor trina trinh shows us an echo friendly future of food trucks. >> reporter: wow, that's definitely bigger than our american hot dog. >> yes, it is. it's absolutely delicious. >> i'm on board a food truck with south african chef hugo showing me his version of the hot dog. everything about this wiener is

unique right down to the dressing which includes a mustard made from figs. what else makes it different? this dog was grilled with solar power. it's all part of an initiative by move systems to get food trucks to go green. >> right now vendors are forced to use generators that are run on gasoline or diesel up to 14 hours a day. >> reporter: with nearly 8,000 food carts in new york city alone, that adds up to a lot of air pollution. >> taking one food cart off the road and replacing it with a move systems cart is like taking 200 carts off the road. >> the tanks also pose a safety threat. >> vendors don't need to worry about handling propane tanks built for your backyard barbecue. not for the heavy use of an urban population. >> reporter: move systems truck uses compressed natural gas as a cleaner fuel alternative along with solar power and rechargeable batteries. >> charging an electrical battery over night drives the savings. the generators are running about

two hours a day on much cleaner natural gas. that's where we see the dramatic emissions reductions. >> reporter: one of the most noticeable things you notice right away is the huge solar panel on the top there. that's pretty cool. >> one to two hours of power just from a solar panel itself. it also serves as a great sunroof that can provide increased ventilation. >> reporter: so it's open inside. >> exactly. >> reporter: great. >> i can cook anything here. what's great about this unit, they will allow you to custom build it and the fact that it's echo friendly, how can i ask for more. >> reporter: whether you're a foodie or environmentalist, the end results can be save ordered by everyone. delicious. trina trinh, abc news, new york. >> the first 100 trucks in new york will go to veterans because the president of the company is a veteran himself. >> help us out. tell us your favorite food truck on wnnfans.com. >> we've got to hook phill

making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, free fall. another market plunge in china. stocks tanking. traders in the u.s. bracing after yesterday's major sell-off. will the market mayhem happen for a second straight day? back to bashing. late night tweets from donald trump reigniting his feud with megyn kelly with a barrage of comments about the host. lost in the woods and all by himself. a 10-year-old boy reunited with his family and talking about his 29-hour ordeal. and jumping the gun raising her arms in victory. an american runner learning the hard way to always finish strong.