people are going to love that. you at home can win a travel collection. head over to extratv.com for your chance to win. >> welcome home. still pending now the victim's widow is suing the movie theater and an employee. she claims they didn't enforce the company's prohibition on weapons. to texas now and the affluenza mom is back home after being released from jail. tonya couch is wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet while she's out on bail. abc's lauren lister with more. >> reporter: the so-called affluenza mom, tonya couch, leaving jail. >> how are you feeling right now? >> reporter: saying nothing to reporters. posting bond after this texas judge reduced it from $1 million to $75,000. >> we're talking about a third degree felony here. we're not talking about a capital murder. i don't make my decisions based

upon the law and that alone. >> reporter: the judge pointed out tonya couch is accused of a non-violent crime, hindering the apprehension of a fugitive, her 18-year-old son ethan. the mother-son pair disappearing last month after this video was posted online, appearing to show ethan at a party where others were seen playing beer pong. he's been accused of violating his probation f killing four people in this 2013 drunk driving crash. his attorneys arguing the teen suffered from affluenza, that he was too spoiled to know right from wrong. the mother's arrest warrant says the duo drove to mexico after tonya took $30,000 out of her bank account. couch's older son, ethan's half brother, telling the judge authorities have frozen his mother's bank accounts and she has no access to other assets. >> your testimony under oath is that there is nothing --? there's all rigliterally nothin. >> reporter: as for ethan couch, he's still in mexico fighting extradition to the u.s. there will be a hearing in texas next week to decide if his case

will be moved from juvenile to adult court. reena and kendis? >> our thanks to lawyer nen los angeles. track and field's international government body reportedly knew about widespread russian doping but did nothing about it. documents obtained by the associated press indicate the international association was so concerned it feared some athletes might actually die. yet for six years the iaaf did nothing about the use of drugs and transfusions and only pretended to be shocked when the scandal broke last year. at least one nfl team is moving this summer. the league's owners have given the st. louis rams permission to return to l.a., which the team left in 1994. the san diego chargers can join the rams. if not the oakland raiders might get a shot at southern california. otherwise, the raiders are staying put. the rams will start playing in l.a. this summer. but the team's new stadium won't be ready for three years. >> looks pretty nice, though. college-bound students in one colorado town are getting extra scholarship money thanks to the pot industry.

yeah. back in november voters in pueblo approved a law which taxed marijuana suppliers. half of those taxes are being set aside for college scholarships. it's estimated that about 400 students will each get $1,000. >> never heard of that. >> it's an interesting concept. i don't know how they'll celebrate that extra scholarship money. a village in central new york state is sticking with their controversial village seal. and take a look at this seal. it dates back to 1883, and it shows a white settler with his hands apparently choking a native american man. town members have voted to keep it there 157-55. >> the whitesboro folks don't see it as racist. the settler is hugh white, who was actually adopted by the anaya tribe, and it apparently shows a friendly wrestling match, not an attack, but that isn't stopping the controversy over what it appears. >> so this was a friendly match. >> that was apparently a

friendly match. >> i think there was someone who lost out there. >> well, it could have been worse. it could have been the hamilton-burr. you know, the final moments for alexander hamilton. >> oh, yes. that well-known final moment. >> didn't end up that way. >> coming up, the water crisis so severe the national guard now getting involved. also ahead, more from the state of the union and how the obamas have been during this presidency. a look back and ahead. and later, a 1, 500-pound bear getting very friendly with his keeper. no, it's not "the revenant quoch." we're going to tell you xwrp but first today's forecast map. a very warm 47 degrees in great falls where they say happy birthday, ginger zee. >> oh. today's her birthday. >> yes. >> happy birthday, mama. >> announcer: "world news now" weather, brought to you by lysol wipes. human coronavirus... hepati- >>c virus.

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>> we need one up here. >> reporter: teams going door to door dropping off bottled water and water filters. a temporary remedy to the ongoing crisis here that has exposed this city of about 100,000 to water contaminated by lead. a health hazard. mom sonia austin worried for her son and furious. >> this is not right. it's not right. i wish they never would have even switched our water from the get-go. >> reporter: this all starting in 2014 when the cash-strapped city of flint stopped paying for water from lake huron and began to process water from the nearby flint river to save some $19 million. immediately, residents began to complain of bad-tasting, foul-smelling water. tests later revealing toxic levels of lead in the system. but it wasn't until more than a year later that authorities declared the drinking water unsafe. the city has switched back to lake huron water, but the river water damaged the pipe system and lead levels are still not safe.

alex perez, abc news, flint, michigan. >> that's a reminder not to go swimming in flint water anytime soon. but it is a serious crisis. >> very serious. we hope they figure that one out. >> 100,000 people. ouch. still ahead on this edition of "this happened" you won't want to miss. >> but first, state of the president. eight years later and many things have changed. perhaps he's gotten a bit grayer. actually a lot. some things haven't changed, though. that's next on "world news now."

♪ live picture at capitol hill, where i think many of the politicians have gone right now. but last night there it was the end of an era. the final state of the union address from president obama. >> a lot has changed over the years. here now with the evolution is abc's terry moran. >> the president of the united states! >> reporter: for the last time barack obama heard that famous shouted announcement as he strode into the house chamber to give his state of the union address. it's startling now to think back. >> sorry i'm a couple minutes late. >> reporter: i first met the then senator obama in cleveland all the way back in 2006. >> we love you! >> i love you back. >> reporter: back then they were naming babies after him in iowa.

>> how are you? >> he's so cute. >> this is baby barack right here. >> reporter: and right now you're on a roll. people -- obamania they call it. the rock star. >> yeah. you know, this is -- >> you get a big cheer when you get up there. >> this has been an interesting ride. 2 1/2 years ago nobody knew my name. >> reporter: then came 2008. a longshot first term senator challenging the clinton machine. the campaign became a mass movement. >> yes, we can! >> reporter: a wave of hope. what's the one thing in your life you that think prepares you best for that moment? >> in difficult or stressful moments i don't get rattled. >> reporter: and obama himself turned out to be a highly polarizing president. polls show he's never become either hugely popular like ronald reagan and bill clinton or hugely unpopular like jimmy carter or george w. bush. his favorability hovers under 50%. his presidency a time of turmoil

and division and bitter, angry politics. the opposite of what he promised and hoped when he burst onto the scene with a speech thagnighted t that ignited the 2004 democratic convention. >> we are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the united states of america. >> reporter: america has come to know this couple, this historic first family, and watched as their girls grew up and watched as their dad grew gray. >> thank you. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm terry moran. >> it's one thing a president never gets away with, is those videos we do in the media of how they've aged and grayed. >> showing how they've grayed over the years. and he certainly has. and the first lady seems just to have just gotten younger and looked more stunning. she was in this beautiful yellow dress last night. >> yes, she was. >> listening. >> but you know, on the substance of this he really hit home hard, that the economy is the strongest that it's been in two years. great deal of job growth.

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♪ oh, yeah. it is that time again. time for a roundup of special stories in our favorite "world news now" feature, "this happened." >> and we've got a bunch of animal-related things that happened including a pachyderm roadblock. take a look at this. it's a gopro footage of some folks riding along a road in a national park in thailand when yep, look at that. there's an elephant, pops out. yeah, not going to go that way. elephant stayed calm. stayed calm. simply checking out the abandoned motor bike. >> but that elephant will remember their faces. >> the point is to stay calm. >> yes. so bears have been getting a bad rap recently, especially after that fight scene, or if you want to call it a fight scene with

leo dicaprio in "the revenant." but check out this bear. an alaskan grizzly named jimbo who's playing with jim kovacik, who found jimbo as an injured cub. now jimbo's 22 years old, 1,500 pounds, ten feet tall, and loves a back rub. aw. and cuddling. jim is a retired corrections officer who runs an orphaned wildlife center in otisville, new york. they have 11 bears there on the property. raising them from an early age, which is why they are so friendly. >> this video makes me very uncomfortable. partly because of the manicure. but also because of the size. >> the size of that bear? >> yeah. the lack of a manicure and the size. >> yeah. >> well, how about some more bears? this one's a little more rough. but a lot smaller. here are a couple of pandas lounging on a lazy day in china. when one of the pandas can't just chill out. biting and trying to eat the other, you see. but pandas are not herbivores apparently. they're designed to eat meat.

but they apparently chose not to, you know, make them essentially vegetarian, making them essentially vegetarian. >> this segment has had more bears than west hollywood. and finally, if you ever catch yourself staring at your reflection in the mirror, don't worry, it's perfectly natural. it's normal. for humans. and apparently cockatoos. this is harley either doing some sort of performance art or he's really impressed by what he sees. surprised by how good-looking of a cockatoo he is in the mirror. >> or maybe he just knows he has a good hair day. >> yeah. that is quite -- >> right? he's got a good hair day. you've got to rock it when you know you've got a good hair day. >> if don king was a cockatoo, you're looking at it right there. >> that's the news, folks, for this half hour. >> for more things that happened follow us on facebook at wnnfans.com.

this morning on "world news now" -- making history on capitol hill. >> president obama's final state of the union address. his accomplishments, his hopes for the future, and failures of the past. last night's message and new reaction overnight. we are live on capitol hill. military tension in iran. the ten american sailors detained after their boat ran into trouble. the breaking developments overnight from the persian gulf. moving to california. big news for football fans in los angeles as the st. louis rams are returning west. but how soon? and the challenges as yet another team may join them. and later, the state of the union audience, caught in the act of being themselves and not necessarily paying attention to the president's every word. that's in "the mix" on this wednesday january