and then around noon was when, you know, he started this notice things were wrorng and she said that quote about missing her daughter and wanted to see her again and 30 minutes later she was gone. aparparently a year and a half o she had a stroke, recovered, but she was not in great health. she was fragile, and this took its toll, just heart breaking and stressful and couldn't cope with it. >> abc news entertainment correspondent joining us earlier. in this half hour, diane sawyer's sit down about her story and life. live team coverage this morning. tracking a major storm headed to the northeast. >> snow made driving a mess yesterday in the high country of colorado. crashing close the parts of busy interstate 70. the storm is now on the move with states in the east

for significant snowfall. paul williams has more. good morning. >> good morning, kendis, diane. looking for it to stay chilly in the northwest to boise to billings for thursday, but not just that, look for another blast of coal air for next week. 10-20 degrees below normal for early next week. in the next week, a blizzard story. gusts of 45 miles per hour. lake snow and flurries, major travel disruption from pittsburgh to buffalo and maine and two feet of snow. kendis, diane. >> making new year's eve travel tricky. thank you. president obama designated two new national monuments in effort to protect environmentally sensitive area. utah's bear ears national monument covers a million acres, and tribes say it's home to countless archaeological sites. the gold about national monument in vegas spans

close to where ranchers staged a standoff with the government two years ago. now to a giant rooster which looks a lot like a certain president-elect and is in china the rooster is outside a mall and featurers donald trump's hairs and gestures. >> the mall mascot is a nod to the upcoming chinese new year, the rooster. >> okay. >> replicas of the statue are available for $57, and some, wait for it, more than 1700 if you want one that's 32 feet tall. >> which we do. >> we kind of do. >> if only if we could figure out how to put it in here. >> can we fit a 32-foot rooster in the studio? >> that's just the hair part, nothing to do with the rest of the rooster. let's check in, again, speaking on rooster

hatch watch 2016 riveting tv. a live stream of two bald eagles expecting little babies to hatch. >> the eagle cam here, thousands of people are logged into this feed from southwest florida at any one time. so the eggs we laid in november, and since then, the parents have been taking turns keeping them warm. >> but this could happen any second or could also not happen until after the new year, so we just could be here a while. >> we have not left the studio, actually. just been watching this. >> i can't get enough. >> abc news continuing coverage, special report once it hatches. all right. coming up, this morning's new edition of the wnn inbox. you'll laugh. we promise. first, a base jump that didn't go as planned. the daredevil crashing against the face of a rock. his condio

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jumping, of course, is the possibility of danger. >> okay. then you have this scene on cam camelback mountain in phoenix. it was more than a possibility. here's the story. >> reporter: this guy way up there is about to jump off a 300 foot cliff on purpose. >> this is unpleasant to watch. >> reporter: he's got a parachute, and it opened. >> oh, my. >> reporter: but he's in trouble. >> oh, no. oh, god. >> oh, no. >> oh, no. >> reporter: slamming into this rocky canyon near phoenix. offduty firefighter was hiking with his family when it happened. >> we, from a direct location below witnessed him make contact with that wall about 200 feet down from his jump. >> reporter: the 39-year-old man and his companions were base jumping. the extreme sport done from buildings and spans on bridges. this stands for earth, in this case, a cliff, but compared to

closer to the ground with far less time to react. this jumper needed surgery after fracturing his pelvis and shattering his heels. abc news, denver. >> it was actually a dangerous time there. the base jumper was one of four accidents at phoenix fire department responded to there within a few hours. >> no thank you. >> yep. i'm all right. coming up, debbie reynolds talking about her ups and downs of life. you're watching "world news now." "world news now"

debbie reynolds passing away at 84. her star there. makeshift vigil, i guess, for her. >> that's right. of course, e she passed a day after her daughter, carrie fisher, also passed away. many saying that -- at least her son saying, the stress contributed, but speaking to the walk of fame, some fan gathered there for a makeshift because she didn't have a star on the walk of fame, so fans created -- >> they wrote her name in for her. while reynolds gave us happy movies, her life was difficult. she spoke with diane sawyer on

"good morning america." >> coming from a dirt poor family, from unthinkable molly brown to singing in the rain, we believed she was a golden girl next door. >> reporter: how did this happen that you can suddenly burst on to the scene and know how to dance like that? >> i think i'm just a natural shaker, you know, i can shake any step and get away with it. >> 1955, she was a naive, trusting girl scout from el paso with no found stardom and a light about to become our soap opera. >> i was raised victorian, very victorian, and that's been a problem of mine because i think that the men are supposed to take over and do the right thing, and then i've been slaughtered a few times with that attitude. >> reporter: slaughtered first by fisher, four

marriage while she was pregnant with their second child, he began an affair with her friend, elizabeth taylor. when he married taylor, it was a big public humiliation. >> marriages never worked for me because i have poor taste in men. >> what do you mean? >> quite obviously, i have none. some people eat wrong foods -- >> if you tried to diagnose the thing that was wrong when you met eddie, what did you not see? >> i wouldn't have seen anything. i was 22, and he was darling and sweet, and he forgets this, of course, but had a red thunder bird, you wouldn't be impressed by that? i was really, really very young girl. he was adorable. that was -- >> he said he was going to marry you? >> on the third date he wanted to marry me. he doesn't remember this, but he gave me a big diamond

just -- just bowled over and fell in love, got married, and it didn't work out, but that often happens. >> you still believe in love? >> i don't know that i believe in certain types of love. i believe in love for your children, your family, the people that love you always look carefully at. >> would you trust yourself with another husband? >> i don't believe i should do that at 67. i have to give the time that i have to the years that i have, which i don't know what that is. i don't know how much time that is, so i want to take each precious moment and enjoy it to the fullest. >> so there is a sentence that says this is a life that what? >> well, this is a life that's been unexpected, beautiful, exciting, and i'm glad i got it. >> it was a long

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all right. yeah, yeah. enough of the other top list things. it is time to get to the wnn inbox. this is when hand the show over to you. >> this is when we get scared. recently, diane posted snapchat videos of us singing together the words to rudolph the red nose reign deer. >> had a shine yi nose, and if you ever saw him. >> i think i hit all the

>> you sound great. we should add there's a voice changer element to the filter as well. but you guys gave us your reaction to that. one says, please, please keep your day or nighttime show. you're good at that. hint, hint. >> what are you saying? i don't get it. >> did not appreciate our music too much. >> then there was mr. herman who said, you both look ridiculous, lol. >> thanks, herman. >> yeah. >> and, again, quit laughing, diane. >> again from the top -- that's what you just read. >> exactly. >> i was laughing because, hey, you want to sing? he said, sure. i started, and he says, rudolph and that was it. he didn't know the rest of the words. >> absolutely. i do not a lot of words. george michael's songs, and we have

this week of which is your favorite george michael's song. on twitter, we can only pick four songs. mine is kissing a fool. clearly, that's not everybody's favorite song. >> it is not. you don't have great taste. my favorite was freedom, however, i also kind of missed the ball on this one because i didn't realize that there were two freedoms. >> yep. >> freedom and freedom 90 and 90 is what we meant. >> and others were not close. we could not put on father figure, one more try, last christmas. so many others that he had. >> i love father figure. >> we have been doing the eagle cam all morning longer, and one viewer, john rays, dream come true, more eagle cam. he'd rather watch that. than us. >> so topping off the wnn inbox segment, just in time, thanks for that, john ray, appreciate it. glad you're enjoying the eagle

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this morning on "world news now," a family tragedy, legendary actress debbie reynolds passing away only a day after her daughter, carrie fisher, emotional reactions coming in mourning the loss of both women. twin tragedies raising the question, can somebody die of a broken heart? we'll ask an expert here life. the winter wallop working its way into the northeast, the same storm that dropped feet of snow in the west, and now millions are bracing for the same. then punishing russia. the obama administration set to make good on a promise to retaliate for computer hacking during the presidential campaign. and debbie reynold's view about the breakup of the century. >> you love somebody, if you care for somebody, you want them to be well, and not be unhappy. she loved life, and elizabeth loved life, and i know because