trying to say hi, they didn't want to do damage. >> exactly. tim tebow the former quarterback and heisman trophy winner is hanging up pads for bat and glove. he has signed a minor league deal with the new york mets and now he joined the team for spring training in port st. lucie, florida. >> caught some balls. look at him. he hit some. and he held a news conference where he discussed the pressures that he's feeling after switching sports. >> i'm not going to worry about, you know, what everyone's writing or what everybody's thinking or however i'm being marketed. i think for me i just want to be able to continue the process. enjoy the process, enjoy every day. get to know my teammates and you know have fun out there. >> is he dreamy? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes, he is. it's on my list. >> hotter than tom brady? >> he's got a different kind of appeal to him, yeah.

not hotter than ryan gosling. ryan is still number one. >> we had important notes to mention about tim tebow after that but figured that was more important discussing whether he was ought hot or 0 not. an atlanta hawks dwight howard has posturerized a few months in his career. >> now he's done it to a fan. it's just as cold as if he had taken them to the rim. howard had just been ejected from the hawks game with boston. he's leaving the court and decides to give his jersey to a fan. oh, that's cold. >> oh, denied. >> that he celtics fan rejected. she was all excited. >> oh, look at the reactions of everyone around them. >> like man, that's cold. >> oh. >> like, oh, no, you didn't. >> she's like you know all those rumors about you, d. howard, are true. >>sley give him the stink eye big-time. >> deservedly. coming up, the health scare

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>> reporter: he was a hollywood favorite. and the world learned of the loss just hours before the oscars. >> can you tell us who the woman in the picture is? >> reporter: bill paxton was a prolific actor known for roles blockbuster movies like "titanic." >> tell us, rose. >> it's been 84 years. >> reporter: one of paxton's first big breaks, the obnoxious older brother chet, in "weird science." >> do you realize it's snowing in my room? >> reporter: then, "aliens." >> looks great! >> reporter: and later taking the starring role in "twister." >> tighten your seat belt. >> reporter: one of his most critically acclaimed roles, "apollo 13." >> houston, we got a pretty large bang there, associated with a master alarm. >> reporter: tributes pouring in. co-star tom hanks tweeting, "bill paxton was, simply, a wonderful man." the two also starring in the upcoming movie "the circle," a film that's now paxton's final farewell to tinseltown. paxton was just 61, and abc news has learned he suffered a stroke after undergoing heart surgery. paon

>> i'm a believer. >> kayna whitworth, abc news, los angeles. >> so young and on that note, celebrity fitness trainer and host of "the biggest loser" bob harper is recovers from a major heart attack. >> it reportedly happened two weeks ago during a workout at a gym in new york city. luckily, there was a doctor in the gym who jumped in to perform cpr and use a deprib later. >> the 51-year-old tells tmz he spent eight days recovering inside a new york hospital and still hasn't been cleared to fly home to los angeles. just 51 years old. unbelievable for someone whose life resolves around fitness. >> for 51 also. he looks as if he's in great shape. you can never tell. hopefully on the mend now. coming up, it's all fun and games as our own giz wiz dick

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♪ we're playing games with my heart, my heart my heart my heart ♪ >> figure out why. >> because of games. >> oh, games, that's it. i also realized i was doing britney spears whose "i did it again," instead of, i don't know what the dance was. ♪ i played with your heart got lost in the game ♪ so the whole point of playing that song was we're talking about games. we're taking a special look at the cool and crazy new hi-tech toys coming out this year. >> each year around this time our giz wiz dick debartolo is 71 years old but he turns into

fai fair. >> it's toy fair. what can you say about toy fair. it's toys, it's fair. no, it's toys, it's a lot of fun. and we're going to find out the trends of 2017 toy fair and adrian is going to help us by doing that. >> we're seeing a lost fun trends as the this year's show. >> we've heard of a go cart. this is a notch above that. this is a smart car. >> there's a wi-fi connection so the parent can remotely supervise their kid that's driving the cart around using the mobile app. >> he's going about 7 or 8 miles. how fast could it go. >> maximum smeed is 12 miles an hour. the parent zk dial that down if they want to. you can stop the cart immediately if they get in a dangerous area. because there's gps, we can define a geofence that will not let the car outsi

perimeter. >> can you pick me up at 35:00? >> this year at toy fair, an entire digital line. so if you want to learn how to play pianos get your favorite app ios or android. now i will play rhapsody -- there is no time. well, you're lucky. let's go on. >> we're seeing a lot of wearables, music, a lot of coding and robots. >> there are tons of drones but we've done drones forever. i'm looking for different things like weird bugs. look at there here. >> dick, that is a drone. >> this is a drone? >> this is a drone. this is drone force. a team of creature inspired drones. each has a different feature. angler attack lights up. morphzilla morphs drive on the ground, take off and fly into the sky. >> you learn something at every toy fair. and oh, oh, i think i'm learning that i've got to get out

here. >> learning foys, educational toys. they're really that wow moment that kids have so much fun playing they don't know they're learning. >> amazing toys. why is it amazing? i'm going to show you. steve is like he's whacko. he brings all these chemicals. last year when i left here, i was frozen for two weeks. it was so strange. so what do we have now? >> cheerios. >> liquid nitrogen. area sauteing them. this goes inside. >> oh. >> so good. >> are you hungry? >> yeah. >> inside. >> oh, yeah. that's perfect. >> don't worry, man, it's only slightly toxic. >> we'll be back in 2018. where did he go? >> dick, where are you. >> another trend we're seeing are movies. movies are always hot. licensing is a big part of the industry. 2017 promises to be a blockbuster year for movie toys. >> i was going

the puppets. i oh, i guess we have to -- look at you. colorful disney characters re-created from 1939. how is it going? >> hi, how are you. >> oh, so classic trends. all those classic toys we both had as kids. sometimes that classic styled vintage and sometimes we pressured for a new generation of kids. >> the gis giz wiz loves trains and bluetooth. lionel now has bluetooth trains. look at this you can control it with your smartphone. so we have a throttle, we have the whistle. now if they had a bluetooth subway train, i would like that. that's toy fair. we'll see you next -- did you want to go inside? let's do that. ♪ >> and covered a lot of ground. >> very fun

speaking of fun, see how we are celebrating mardi gras next. >> would you like a bead? know what you got to do. >> how did you get purple ones?

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r with rid-x. new orleans, you ought to go see the mardi gras ♪ ♪ >> i don't know if that's what they do. >> happy fat tuesday, everybody. >> are you -- it's just like that's what we do in these suits. >> i'm going to do a little samba. >> be careful, they might catch fire doing that. >> yeah. >> see today of course, lots of celebrations happening all over the place. >> yes, it's time to drink and eat everything you want because lent is about to start. >> exactly. these are like videos of the celebrations happening in new orleans. plenty of parades planned today. i think about a dozen parades planned today just in new orleans. >> fun. >> yes. >> and even though we're not going there, we figured we'd

now we're having our own party here. >> we're jamming to music. we don't have a king cake but we do have a queen. i was referring to pliz. kidding. let's open up our "world news now" inbox, shall we? your reaction to that huge awards ceremony. the wnn now cars. >> obviously. >> it was such a hit. that the power actually went out. >> yeah, that's how many people were tuning in. >> just imagine the panic in the studios here. this happened in the commercial break before like two minutes before we were coming back on air. >> right, just the way there was this huge question of what caused the mix-up at the oscars, lots of people wanted to know what happened at blackout at the "world news now" nowscark. one lad had had an explanation. you were playing is clips of kendis singing and dancing.

power. >> i resthaempl market. >> we had a rid carpet watch party with aunt barbara. >> she wasn't holding back when it came to who she thought was hot and who was not. >> wow. >> the lower part looks like a tornado. >> it kind of looks like a muppet. >> they should have saved is the feathers for just the bottom of the dress. >> yeah, jim henson was designing something for the oscars. >> wow, she looks like an oscar. >> she really does. >> she dressed the part. >> she does look like an oscar. >> maybe she's trying to bring him good luck. >> i've got her doll right here senator the hit quote from the aunt barbara of the night was it's a mullet dress. someone had a dress very high in the front and low in the bottom. >> lots of reasons to celebrate mardi gras. you deserve it. you at home. >> you insomniacs need to join the party. >> there you go. we know what you're dressed like atho

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