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is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water. everyone in this country's going to say, oh, it's so great. that's not great. that's not great. >> reporter: last friday, russian jets buzzed a navy destroyer in the black sea, and russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile. a move that would violate an arms treaty. the president pressed about the provocations. >> you mentioned the vessel, the spy vessel off the coast of the united states. >> not good. >> reporter: there was a ballistic missile test that many interpret as a violation of an agreement between the two countries and a russian plane buzzed a u.s. destroyer. >> not good. >> reporter: can we conclude there will be no response to these particular provocations? >> i'm not going to tell you anything about what response i do. i don't talk about military response. >> as for that spy ship, u.s. officials tell us they are not worried about it currently but are monitoring it closely. this ship has made this trip before. at the moment it is about 30 miles off the east coast, firmly planted in international waters. cecilia vega, abc news,
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paying attention to. >> everybody is watching. > nervously. it seems like the cold war era all over again. coming up, turning the clock back on mother nature. about 4500 years. scientists are now said to be just two years away from bringing the wooly mammoth back from extension. but is it really a good idea? >> and dialing the clock back by only about 1,000 years. can matt damon really save the world from the monsters attacking the great wall of china? that's the real question we want answered today. our "insomniac theater" still ahead. >> it's based on a true story. >> right. here's a look at today's high temperatures. "world news now," brought to you by oral b. i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans... ...better than a manual, and my hygienist says it does. but... ...they're not all the same. turns out, they're really... ...different. who knew? i had no idea. so, she said look for...
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battery exploded in his living room. it caused several small fires burning a blanket and a hole through a coffee table. >> my goodness. >> that's not even recognizable. >> rodney and carroll johnson ordered the replacement lithium ion battery for about $11 online. mr. johnson says that he kept going boom, boornlgs boom, it kept going. >> state regulators trying to determine if there's a problem with the battery brand. >> that's why i put the plastic cover on my couch just so to protect it from you know incidents like that. >> you have a plastic cover on your couch. >> yeah, like your grandma used to to protect it. >> right. breaking overnight a dangerous close call as two planes collide in phoenix as we imagine kendis's couch. a departing frontier airlines plane clipped the wing of a southwest airlines from oklahoma city. >> no injuries have been reported. the faa however is investigating the incident. now to a consumer alert. the
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britax says a connector linking the car seat to the stroller frame could fail causing children to fall. at least 26 injuries have been reported. consumers can contact britax for a free repair kit. find more information on wnnfans.coming. >> france is using eagles to discipline rogue drones. they're being trained to regard the drones as prey. they are rewarded with meat for bringing down a drone. >> my gosh. >> that's kind of cool. >> i like it. >> the training starts even before the birds have hatched. use of the eagles was caused by drones flying over the presidential palace and military sites. dutch police have also trained eagles to bring down drones. >> i wonder if they would start doing that here in the u.s. to protect pilots who might get drones in the air space or lasers on a drone distracting them. interesting. >> there's some interesting technique. >> and
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just because you're gone doesn't mean you're really, really gone even if you haven't walked the earth for 4,000 years. >> a harvard geneticist. >> there you go. >> is working with a team that has designs on bringing back the wooly mammoth. they're reconstructing the animal thanks to dna found in frozen remains in the north pole. the plan is to combine the material with elephant embryos and make a mammoth elephant hybrid. >> this is making me think of jurassic park and i don't like it. >> we saw what happened in jurassic park. >> i don't know what wooly mam mogs, are they like scary. >> they're scary looking, big and not too cute. >> but they don't bite you like those dine sewers did. >> who knows. >> coming up, our mom is going to give me a sneak peek at the fair coming up. take mucinex dm. it'll take care of your cough. fine! i'll text you in 4 hours
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♪ >> the world famous toy fair kicks off tomorrow right here in new york city. it is filled with hundreds of thousands of toys and games that are all new for 2017. so we get a sneak peek this morning. the hottest and newest toys that are out there this year. our very own on toy insider mom laurie schacht is here. welcome back. >> thank you. it gives me such pleasure to get into toy fair. sneak out some toys and bring them here to share them with you. >> this is great. >> we'll start with something for our littlest ones. leapfrog has an amazing array of toys that teach for little kids this year. we'll start with our stack and tumble elephant. look how cute this is. sneezes. and watch. now. what the kids would be doinging is stacking these right back up on his trunk. >> yeah. >> and he's going to say colors an
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the kids. >> everything coordinates. >> created a mess up on aisle 2. >> that's okay. we know that boys love action figures. >> yes. >> they love plush. we'll put it together and have something brand-new called the wonder crew. these are buddies for boys. i'm going to let you hang on to him. there's four different kinds, arf can caucasian, an african-american, asian and hispanic. each buddy comes with something for them to wear. matching capes for the children and mannings and we even vin adventure kits. you get more clothes for your buddy and kids. >> does he do tricks? does he fly. >> no. doc mcstuffens. from the show, there's a hospital toy nursery. so for the very first type, we have our little nursery pals. they're beautiful. feel it, nice and plush, vinyl. each have their little pacifier. they're adorable. there's four in the collection.
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>> this is for what age. >> this is for little kids, 11/2 and up. >> great, very cute. >> let's talk about some technology right on your fingertips. these are the fingerlings. these won't be out till the fall but we put them on our finger. they're really cute. there's little play sets you'll be able to get. they respond. there's 40 different ways to play with them. you can talk to them, clap, hang them upside down. they have over 50 different sounds so you'll always know exactly how they're feeling. > not creepy at all. >> like $15 to $20. they're adorable. so these will be a hot item come holiday season. >> that's kind of cute. >> there's nothing like magic. right? we all love some magic. cosmos has been making it great kits. this year they have the world's greatest magic show. there's 415 magic tricks for kids to learn. i'm going to do one for you. okay? >> we
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>> we're going to get a magic trick. this is a simple one for me. we have our cups, our empty cups can our little bowls here, right? so i'm going to go one, two, three. >> i've lost so many money on the streets of new york with these sorts of tricks. >> i'm going to put this right on top. cover it, cover it. say the magic word for me. abbra ca drab bra. ready? ta-da. >> wow, how did that happen. >> i only have 414 more tricks to learn. >> ah. >> >> all right, all right. >> it's magic really. >> the instructions anyway. >> all right. let's talk about a little augmented reality. real technology in games. this is called beast of balance. so basically we very an app we've downloaded. we have this platform and all these pieces. i only have a few out you. need to balance the world you build and you need to balance it on the platform. so by simply touching this and put this
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in this game. then i'm going to put something else in. i'm going to touch it and stack it. but as i'm building, they might fall off. and when they fall off, i'm going to have a few seconds to build that world back up or or it's over. >> really quickly. >> finally nothing like a drone. drones are big this year. bigger this year than last year. what i want to show you. >> actually can you can see the camera. >> whatever i but the in here, if i put this on you. >> you can see my mug. >> this is a prototype. this will be out later this year. but when we're flying this around, we're doing video, streaming, we can take pictures, everything. >> it's all trippy. >> really cool. this is a pocket drone two. >> great toys this year. >> really fun stuff. >> as always, thank you for being here. if you're interested in learning more about these hot toys visit
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just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this. okay, now i'm hungry for popcorn. that music, music to my ears at this "insomniac theater" moment we're previewing two movies opening this weekend. >> we've sent matt damon to mars and he's been born again. this morning he's going to the great wall playing a british mercenary in 11th country china who joins soldiers against man eating monsters for which the wall was really supposedly built. >>
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. >> that was a long time. >> we saw a halftime show with a woman who is called the red panda and it was more exciting than that. they will spent $150 million making this movie. it's getting plenty of yawns from critics giving it a 32% splat on rotten tomatoes. clarence says it's easily the least interesting and evolving blockbuster of both its director and star. >> it's a soup bowl. i want some cereal now or some soup. >> jami fullerton, clunky plot, rigid script and equally stiff acting makes this a crumbling disappointment if not quite a disaster. >> man, that's harsh next to fistfight starring ice cube and charlie day on the last day of high school. mildan
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andy campbell accidentally crosses his much tougher colleague ron strickland who challenges him to a fistfight in the school parking lot. >> okay. >> one man wins. when the other's unconscious. then and only then is it over. >> you really want to have a fistfight after school like we're a couple of students? >> i want everybody to see this. >> teachers detainee night. >> we're going to handle our differences like real men. >> i think mommies will be hike this is not a good example for my children. the critics not impressed. >> neither. >> no, giving it a dismal 30% splat on rotten tomatoes, peter brights charlie day and ice cube doing their part to lower the collective iq of american audiences in this regrettable school yard showdown. >> nick lasalle calls it repellent in every way. >> it looks like the poor man's friday. i don't know. >> it's not a good way to spend your friday according to
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this morning on "world news now," the presidential press conference as we have never seen it before. >> president trump surprised everyone by turning a cabinet pick announcement into a full contact q & a. battling reporters over the many issues plaguing his first few weeks in office. here what got the president and the press corps so fired up. >> while the president tried to frame leaks about staff communications with russia as fake news, he offered little response to the country's recent provocations. hear what he did say. and the bizarre bomb plot aimed at retail giant target. suspect may not have intended on harming anybody at several stories along the east coast. his motive might have been a financial one. we'll explain. and it's time to say bye, bye, bye to bao bao, the beloved panda now heading
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