markets here. >> tonyia couch has a date in court this morning. she's the mother of the so-called affluenza teen brought back to texas yesterday. couch will be arraigned on charges she helped her son flee to mexico. ethan was convicted of killing four people while driving drunk. ayew tube video allegedly shows him violating his probation. he remains in mexico fighting extradition. >> on the other side of the country, donald trump packed a full house last night in burlington, vermont. thousands of trump supporters waited for several hours in the cold as well as hundreds of protesters. it came as trump unleashed a new attack on the clintons with a new ad challenging hillary clinton's record on women's rights saying she enabled the former president during his sex scandals. but mr. clinton on the campaign trail in iowa refusing to take the bait. >> it hasn't been a very pretty picture for her or for bill because i'm the only one willing to talk about his problems. >> and are you worried that your past could hurt your wife's

campaign? >> i don't have a response. if he wins the republican nomination, we'll have plenty of time to talk about it. >> you know, it really is a distinct possibility actually. just yesterday, "time" magazine put trump on their cover with the headline "how trump won." >> well, in the meantime, trump is also throwing punches at his closest competitor in the gop race. we're talking about ted cruz. he's again raising the question of whether the canadian born senator is eligible to hold the nation's highest office and now trump is finding an unexpected ally on capitol hill. abc's tomlamas is on the campaign trail in iowa. >> reporter: as senator ted cruz drove through iowa today, donald trump tweeted him a helpful message -- "ted, free legal advice, how to preempt democrats on citizen issue. go to court. you will win." the senator's answer. "thanks, but no thanks." >> i'm not going to be taking legal advice any time soon from donald trump. >> reporter: trump relentlessly jabbing cruz for being born in canada. >> do you believe senator ted

cruz is a natural born citizen? >> i don't know, to be honest. >> reporter: and now, he's finding an unexpected ally in senator john mccain, someone he insulted last summer. >> he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero. >> he is a war hero -- >> five and a half years -- >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured. >> reporter: but despite their bad blood, mccain says he agrees with trump that cruz has some explaining to do. >> i think there is a question. i'm not a constitutional scholar on that, but i think it's worth looking into. i don't think it's illegitimate to look into it. >> reporter: mccain's comments, particularly notable sincee, too, was born outside the u.s., and faced questions about whether he was fit to be president. but mccain says his situation is different, because he was born on an american military base in the panama canal zone. senator mccain is questioning whether legally, if you can become president. do you have a problem? >> oh, listen. it is no surprise, everybody knows that john mccain is going to endorse marco rubio. >> reporter: when he tells his life story, cruz talks about

growing up in texas. >> so, i grew up in texas. >> reporter: he moved there when he was 4. but he never says anything about canada. which surprised some supporters. >> i was surprised today, when he went through his bio, he just jumped right over that. i wanted him to speak to that, and he didn't. >> reporter: so, you think he should explain how he was born in canada and why? >> well, at least just mention it. >> reporter: and we did speak with constitutional scholars. the general consensus is cruz is eligible to be president. the supreme court has never ruled on this issue. if cruz were to take this to court, the experts tell us, he would win. tom llamas, webster city, iowa. >> cold and rainy in iowa. >> that issue is gaining traction. >> put it out there and then boom. >> now this story. a seemingly frantic doing in massachusetts did its best imitation of lassie running for help to save a friend in danger. >> except that friend wasn't a danger like lassie's owner

timmy. it was another scottish terrier like himself, jock and anna bell had run off into the woods near their home where they were missinging for hours. police tracked down jac but they couldn't find young annabelle. >> jac led them to an embankment where a shivering annabelle was trapped at the bottom of a ravine. they rescued her. both dogs are safe and at home this morning. >> i think that's a really cool story. for the rescuers let the dog lead them you know. >> yes, towards it. >> especially for little dogs like that, you want to cuddle them up. >> annabelle's last name is skywalk skywalker. annabelle skywalker. >> coming up "insomniac theater." leo dicaprio's new movie and a horror show. the reviews are in. >> also ahead a liver donor and the recipient sharing more than a transplant experience. the unbreakable bond. >> and the broken hearted man accused of a string of arson

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marriage fell apart. apparently he was disappointed in his friends' lack of support. abc's gio benitez has that story. >> reporter: a groom who says he was scorned leading to accusations of a bizarre trail of property scorched. joshua van bus kirk is in a cafornia jail after police say he confessed to an arson spree allegedly fueled by anger after his divorce. among his targets three of his own groomsmen. he's accused of throwing malla to have cocktails at their homes and cars leaving behind a twisted clue, joker cards like in the batman movie. >> leaves a calling card. >> suspected arson one in october, a grooms men's truck, gasoline poured on the hood and set on fire. suspected arson two, december 23rd, another groomsmen's truck lit on fire. christmas eve, a groomts men's fence catching on fire. extinguished before reaching the house.

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it is time for "insomniac theater" which means it is time to check out what's hitting the box office this weekend. >> we have two movies that take place in the woods. i should be a movie critic. one is apparently very good and the other one's not faring well. we'll start with the revenant" written and directed by al hand droed who won the best picture oscar last year for "birdman." it stars leonardo dicaprio as legendary front tears man hugh glass attacked by a bear left for dead by a former confidante. in his quest for vengeance, he's fighting the whole time for survival.

>> wow. as we lead up to the oscars this one definitely in the running getting a lot of praise. minneapolis star-tribune calling it a brooding western on an epic scale. it will surely be ranked as one of the great films of this decade. listen to this next one, calvin wilson of the st. louis post dispatch saying it puts everything else playing at multiplexes in the shade. there you go. >> we'll see. next, "the forest" a horror film starring natalie eoin macken her character goes looking for her identical twin sister who

disappears in japan and discovers can her sister was last seen in a forest. a real place where many who enter do not make it out known as suicide forest. >> okay. that's weird. why is that happening? >> iron deposits in the mountain. it's crazy, huh? >> look. people sometimes see things in the forest. important to remember. if you see anything bad, anything strange, it is not real. okay. >> it's not there. >> i'm already bored. so is michael phillips who says it's roughly 40 minutes of story surrounded by 45 minutes min more of dormer in nonverbal distress. and one says "the forest" is one of those movies that starts with an intriguing idea but has no idea what to do with it. >> yikes. all right. that is our news. >> oscar nominations next week

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