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recommend better training for engineers and they may recommend weather having two crew members in the locomotive would be safer than just one. >> the boat two takeners were in when they disappeared during a fishing trip last year is now backing in florida. it arrived from the bahamas. security videos show perry cohen and austin stef knows leaving on their trip. they were never seen again. cohen's mother is asking authorities to conduct a forensic investigation of that vessel. the navy is days away from taking charge of its newest, largest and most expensive destroyer, the "uss zumwalt. it is 610 feet long. because of tats sharp angled geometric design, it's said to be 50 times more difficult to detect on radar as other similarly sized is vessels. the final price tag for the zumwalt expected to be nearly $4.5 billion. the man hon taught the world to sing
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died. bill backer created the classic coca cole ca commercial and the jingle featured in it 45 years ago. it became a hit record back then and even featured as a finale for madmen just last year. big backer, the real life ad man hop wrote the lyrics was 89 years old. another musical passion of note, jane little held the guinness world record for the longest tenure with a single orchestra. she joined the atlanta orchestra at 18. jane collapsed on stage during a performance and she died later at the hospital. the song the orchestra was playing snet "there's no business like show business." >> almost like she planned. >> if you're going to go, what a way. >> after so many years on the stage to, die on the stage to that song, fantastic. to berlin now and a shopping mall yesterday was filled with not shoppers but musicians. some 50 members of the
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symphony orchestra rounding out the flash mob of 1,000 musicians and singers >> they performed selections of wagner, bizet and verde let by american kent na gan know. they filled the ground floor of the mall while spectators watched from the upper level. a little different than the normal flash mobs we're used to seeing. > there were probably more people performing than actually watching. thousands as opposed to hundreds there. >> can you imagine filling the entire floor of a mall? >> yeah, it's a great time to check out the gap because you know, they're all bernie sanders listening to that music. >> quick, honey, quick, go, there's a sale. >> there's a sale. >> coming up, doctors are calling this a landmark procedure. the first of its kind ever performed in america. those doctors are at the massachusetts general hospital. they performed the first u.s. penis transplant in a 15-hour procedure by a team of more than
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transgender bathroom rights is the boiling over well beyond the boefrds north carolina where it all started. >> now one republican lawmaker is publicly breaking ranks with conservative leaders in support of her transgender son. here's abc's brandi hitt. >> reporter: amid the escalating protest offices bathroom use and transgender rights, a new message of acceptance from a republican congresswoman. >> our son is transgender. >> reporter: this public service announcement features florida congresswoman ilian nan ross late nen who says her transgender child she loves as maends she still loves as rodrigo. the conservative gop lawmaker is now supporting president obama's directive telling all public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender 50idity. the president speaking to buzzfeed monday. >> make sure that everybody is treated fairly and our kids are all loved and that they're expected. >> reporter: but it's a policy many republicans have vowed to
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presidential hopeful ted cruz who called it politically correct lunacy. >> demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into little girls bathrooms. >> reporter: it also comes on the heels of north carolina's showdown with the federal government over that state's new bathroom law, the justice department says discriminates against transgender residents. both sides are now suing each other as hundreds of protesters hit the streets again monday hoping to repeal the law. those dueling lawsuits over the controversial bathroom law could end up before the 4th circuit court of appeals and potentially the supreme court. >> our thanks to brandi hitt in l.a. coming up, fixing your home for summer. >> our giz wiz dick depar toe low is here with some of the latest do it yourself gadgets. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now"
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>> yes, it was. are you a handy person, are you building your own home. >> i give instructions. >> fix that, fix that, please. >> okay. >> so what do we have. >> this is from works. this is their switch driver. when you're working on a project, you drill a hole. instead of having to switch the drill out for the screwdriver, you just press that and bring up the second chuck and now you can use this to drive this. >> very hool it has twos-speed motor, it has a little torque control downer. >> in little guy down here. >> and comes with two batteries. >> okay. >> comes with a couple of bits. the driver and it's under $100. >> and it's a great price. good deal. >> from worx. >> to vegas for a minute via video to show you the shady breeze fan chair. so this is neat. this is a foldable chair. two-speed fan. it comes with a little usb
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and that is what runs the fan. it picks up -- the fan is in the canopy. the canopy is adjustable up and down. the chair is under ten pounds all packed up. with the little included battery pack, there's the fan up there. >> great for some tailgating. >> it runs six to eight hours depending on the speed of the fan. >> you need aid beer there. >> it cops with a little charger to run the fan. there have been these before, but they ran on flashlight batteries. >> okay. >> was very expensive. with the rechargeable, you save money. the snappy mouse trap. i hate mouse traps. okay? so the nap-e mouse trap is easy to set. just bring that down. i have to make sure not to touch the back. now it's set. okay? you sound like you're dubious here. >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. the house. >> still one of those messy ones. and then if you watch a mouse, you can use this to carry account mouse away
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> what else would you like sfwhg. >> all right. >> they're great if you buy them in volume. i bought four on amazon for $9. >> you have that much of a mouse problem? >> i let the mice see them and they don't come in my house. so do you have a key for that? >> no. >> it doesn't matter. >> doesn't matter? why? >> this is really neat. called a not a lock lock. you think it's locked. but if you give it a sharp. >> huh, okay. >> this is for things where you're going to leave your locker for five minutes. you don't want to lock the lock and go back and do the combination. you just slam that closed. >> but can't the thieves do that, as well. >> i passed it around and people go, well how do you open it. >> so it's all a ruse. a clever deception. >> like fake security cameras, fake signs. that's the not a lock lock. i'm going to use there on my dock box. >> you know tev
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>> this is a real one. if you're at the marina, i have a real one. and then this final guy, this is the weirdest thing at the show. peel-and-stick sanding glove. okay? so now you put the glove on. it comes with three different grits. and they look like this. when it's time to sand, you just let me do that one. you slam it onto the glove. doesn't even mat fer it's not -- now you can go -- up on a ladder, don't worry about sand pape falling because it's attached to the glove. if you want to change to a different grit, you can actually, this is the grit for the other hand. >> it's cool. >> you can change grits real easy and it's not on amazon yet. the guy said he thinks the whole kit, the gloves, all different sandpaper. >> i could exfoliate my skin with this. >> i'll lend it to you. >> i think it's going to be under 20 bucks. >> for complete details on these and other tools
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k-y touch. ♪ all those things i should do you, dance, dance, dance ♪ ♪ can't stop the feeling so just dance, dance, dance ♪ ♪ i can't stop the feeling so just dance, dance, dance ♪ ♪ oh something magic >> the chair dance. justin timberlake. >> i like the spin move there. it's a good one. good thinking. >> all right. >> justin timberlake just dropped the official video for that new single that's number one. first newest sing in two years. >> i love it. very excited to hear the whole album. also excited for the upcoming x-men movie "apocalypse." >> there's a segue somewhere there. jesse palmer sat down with
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what's behind the x-men magic somewhere. >> i'm from the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one. >> reporter: it's an intense action-packed adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. >> it's all of them against a god. >> reporter: x-men is about to take theater biz storm with its ninth installment. x-men apocalypse with michael fasbender back income action as magneto. >> take everything from them. >> the great thing about the x-men movies and the come ming book franchise is this idea that there are people in have been pushed to the fringes of society. they're outcasts in some way. and i think people really can relate to that. >> reporter: the "a" lister making his debut five years ago in "x-men first class," and again in x-men days of future past. >> some call him apocalypse. >> reporter: the new film is set in 1983 when an ancient mutant awaken
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world as he finds it. his character is living a normal life in poland. >> he hung up the helmet and cloak and left the mutant days behind and he works in a steel factory. you know, with steel and metal but he's not using his powers to manipulate it. he's kind of doing hard labor almost like a sort of penance or a return to whatever human roots he had. we thought that would be pretty cool introduction to him in this film. >> feel the metal in the ground. >> reporter: but soon after, apocalypse wants to rule the world and recruits magneto to help him. it's been a wlirl wind for the two-time academy award nominee who has "the light between oceans" which he stars longside alicia vikander, also coming out "assassins creed." what's next for him? >> i think after this job, you know, i'll take a little bit of time off and get better at surfing. >>
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this morning on "world news now," donald trump fighting back. >> he's responding to those reports of negative interactions with women with an ex-girlfriend defending his behavior. calling out the reports as biased. meanwhile, hillary clinton is laying out how she would debate the donald but she's still battling bernie sanders on this primary day. >> extreme weather. flash flood warnings in the south. heavy rains completely submerging cars. lone star state getting hit hard and the tornado watch continuing overnight. >> three people saved after their boat split completely in two in frigid waters. the coast guard got there the just in time. we'll show that you dramatic rescue. and the thunder rolls. oklahoma city shocking golden state in game one. will the
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