this morning on "world news now," deja vu for the president's travel ban. a federal judge halting the revised executive order overnight, the president responding in front of his rallying supporters. >> and we're learning new details about the charges against alleged russian spies in the hacking of yahoo! e-mail accounts. the department of justice says these men republican responsible for it. >> and new this half hour, the federal reserve gentle taps the brakes on the growing economy by boosting its benchmark interest. >> how the hike will cost borrowers so much more and barely budget average american savings account. >> they're not your average couple. first daughter ivanka trump and canada's prime minister justin

broadway tonight and the show is about embracing strangers in "the skinny." interesting topics. it is thursday, march 16th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we do say good morning to you. welcome, eva, once again being here with us. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> we're going to talk about president trump who will present his first budget to congress today and it's likely to upset both democrats and republicans. >> the spending plan called for deep cuts to the epa and significantly boost the pentagon's budget by $54 billion. >> front and center for the president in nashville last night, news that a federal judge put a temporary hold on his revised travel ban. >> overnight, the president on a tear. >> a judge has just blocked our executive order on travel. >> reporter: a federal judge blocking his administration's revised travel ban just hours before it would have taken effect. >> the order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order.

that was also blocked by another jung and should have never been blocked to start with. >> reporter: the president breaking the news at a rally. the nashville crowd of thousands erupting in a chorus of boos. it was the second attempt at banning people from six majority muslim countries. the judge in hawaii calling the executive order discriminatory. >> this ruling makes us look weak which, by the way, we know longer are, believe me. we're going to fight this terrible ruling. >> reporter: but it's not just the muslim ban but health care and russia. the administration under siege on several fronts and now some republicans in congress increasing the pressure on the fbi and the president to produce evidence to back up the unsubstantiated claim that former president obama tapped the phones at trump tower. the president appearing on television overnight attempting to explain what he meant. >> wiretap covers a lot of different things.

some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> and a lot of people will be waiting to hear what the president said. i should point out, on his way back to d.c., he met with the reporters on air force one and said he plans to do more rallies, a rally he says at least every two weeks. >> it's clear he was not happy with that judge's decision. >> no, not at all. and neither were many of the people who were there. the crowd there in nashville at that location, they were wrapped around the building and waiting for several hours to see the president. so obviously, he's in his element when he does that. and the president has a new director, by the way, of national intelligence. voted overwhelming the senate that is, 85-12 to approve the nomination of former indiana senator dan coates, the fifth person to hold the position since it was created following the 9/11 terror attacks. he replaces james

retired at the end of the obama administration. >> a bombshell announcement from the justice department. it is bringing criminal hacking charges against twos russian officials and two hackers. russian intelligence officers are accused of a massive breach of yahoo! that affected at least half a billion user accounts. it's unlikely they'll ever set foot in a u.s. courtroom. >> we do not have an extradition treaty with russia. we would hope that they would respect our criminal justice system and respect that these charges and what they need to do. >> as for the other two hackers one is in custody in canada, the other is on the fbi's list of most wanted cyber criminals. >> a syrian diplomat is condemning what he calls a terrorist attack in damascus. six years to the day the nation's civil war began, at least 30 people were killed in the suicide bottoming inside a historic judicial building. it was the second major attack within a week in damascus. the u.n. special envoy to syria says the bla

hurt attempts at political talks. the u.n.-led negotiations are set to begin next thursday. and the new prime minister of the netherlands is celebrating what he calls the rejection of populism. mark rutte's conservative liberal party picked up 30 seats in the parliamentary elections. the populist challenger geert which woulders came in third with 19. he campaigned on a platform of closing mosques and banning the koran. >> a massive fire ripped through a chemical refinery in houston, next. firefighters were on the scene for several hours in houston, texas, before the blaze was contained. it was confined to a cooling tower and posed no threat to the community. the smoke from that fire could be seen for miles. no injuries were reported. it's unknown at this time what > okay.the fire. so the u.s. women's national hockey team plans to boycott the world championships that are schedule later this month. and it's all over a pay dispute.

decided not to defend their title. >> that's after protracted negotiations for increased pay and wages have now stalled. the u.s. has won the past three world championships. >> and speaking of ice, the end of the blizzard led to an epic battle in massachusetts. the snow shoveler versus the snow plow. and it was caught on camera. >> oh, yeah. a boston area homeowner said his kids were clearing his driveway tuesday. they tried to get the plow driver to hold off so their dad could get his car out. plow driver apparently didn't like that. >> so he drove off and then came back with a huge pile of snow. and dropped it right in front of the driveway. not once, but twice. he then reportedly told the son, don't mess with the plow man. there you go. lesson learned. >> that's kind of angry and mean. the plow man is in the car where it's warm. the dad is outside in the cold. why would you do that? >> it's a life lesson, don't you think?

>> nice guy, huh? >> not nice. all right. >> coming up, the dramatic high speed case caught on cram. >> what an undercover cop had to finally do to stop this yellow corvette and what we're just now learning what happeneded to that driver. >> and later, why the british newspapers are turning up the heat on the next king of england over this video of his bad dance moves. prince william is shaking what his mama gave him but there was more controversy to this. the story ahead in "the skinny." but first here's a look at today's forecast. >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by lysol. ♪ lysol max cover kills 99.9% of bacteria, even on soft surfaces. one more way you've got what it takes to protect.

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well, that yellow corvette led phoenix area police on a high speed chase first on an interstate and then on the surface streets. finally an undercover cop rammed the corvette with his suv. as you can see. and a few minutes later, the suspect died from a gunshot wound. it's not clear, however, if that gunshot wound was self-inflicted or from an officer. authorities say he was a suspect in a fatal shooting earlier in the day. >> and no one was seriously hurt when a collision in a new york suburb push add suv into a verizon store. somehow the vehicle crossed three lanes of oncoming traffic without hitting anyone and no one in the store injured. icy roadways likely to blame. >> very lucky there. a new study suggests a common pain killer increases your chance of heart failure. a danish study says taking ibuprofen can increase the risk

of a heart attack by 31%, but an american expert says that is warning may go too far since the study involved mostly elderly people with existing problems. ibuprofen is sold under brand names motrin. the federal reserve's latest interest rate hike is the second boost in three months. >> the central bank pointed to an improving labor market but for most ordinary americans it's a lose for borrowers and not much of a win for savers. here's abc's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: the impact of that rate hike on your wallet. 29-year-old nurse, ashley warren, has been searching for her first home for a year, all the while watching those mortgage rates creep higher. >> that's definitely made me more aware of the time that i have to buy a home, and i want to be -- make sure that i buy it in a timely fashion. >> reporter: mortgage rates already factoring in that hike.

rate mortgage will cost almost $100 a month more than it would have last year, a difference of more than $25,000 over the life of the loan. interest on private student loans, car loans, and credit cards also now going up. the average credit card balance now more than $5,000 with the fed expected to hike rates two more times this year, experts recommend moving fast. and paying it down, or consider converting to a 0% interest rate credit card, but pay attention to fees and when those teaser rates expire. but there is a silver lining for savers and retirees will get paid a little bit more to leave their money in the bank or in a cd. and in particular, we'll see that rate rise if the fed hikes interest rates two more times this year as they say they will. those savings accounts will become more attractive. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> you may want to avoid flying

that sunday will be the most expensive day to fly this summer, although the entire month is no bargain. in fact, you'll do well to avoid flying on sundays in general. according to cheapair.com, it's the most expensive day of the week. tuesdays and wednesdays are the cheapest in case you were wondering. july 9th airfares are nearly $100 more than the summer average. >> i guess that's the height of the summer travel season so that might be why it's so high. that's actually exactly when i plan to fly this summer. >> it stinks for me because mondays and tuesdays are my days off so sundays i'm always flying if i go somewhere. >> you're like one of the business travelers heading out of town. >> and i'm not. paying for it with my own money. >> exactly. when we come back, prince william and his dance moves. >> oh, it was something like that. >> and ivanka trump takes in a brdw

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♪ skinny, so skinny ♪ skinny, so skinny >> and your thursday "skinny" is going to start with what apparently is a growing backlash for the future king of england. >> it's kind of entertaining video to watch. by now you've all seen the video of prince william dancing pretty badly with his '90s moves at a nightclub during a friend's ski trip in switzerland. now there's new images surfacing of william possibly breaking royal protocol by putting his arm around the waist of a mystery woman. it comes as british newspapers are like really hunkering down on him like a ton of bricks. the 34-year-old prince skipped out on a royal event to go on that trip. he was spotted on the slopes with an australian model named so

having a boozy lunch. >> okay, but perhaps this was his last hurrah. >> this video, as you can tell, provided exclusively by tmz. last month he said he was leaving his job as a helicopter pilot and moving his family backing into kensington palace to focus on royal duties. you see prince william there dancing on his own. >> he doesn't care. >> he doesn't care but is he me in a club just by myself. >> solo dancing? >>. >> yeah. and nobody is impressed. those girls, do they look impressed? so you're a prince. that doesn't impress me much. >> i love that he's dancing like that and he doesn't care what anyone thinks of him just dancing along. >> under the spotlight. >> yeah. >> back here at home. >> yeah. america's first daughter and canada's prime minister together on the great white way. >> yeah, ivanka trump took some time out of her white house schedule last night to catch a broadway show

canadian prime minister justin trudeau. >> the show titled "come from away" has a central theme about embracing strangers and describes how canadian citizens helped americans stranded in knew found land in the days after 9/11. >> trudeau opened the musical with praise for the relationship between his country and the united states. >> there is no relationship quite like the friendship between canada and the united states, the deep tise. >> trump and trudeau were joined at the theater by the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley. >> but before we start any rumors, they weren't together. well, okay, that is a together shot. she has had an eye for him before. but they were at the same event and she was his guest. >> right, but that is bringing up all of these memories of those longing looks, what people are describing as longing looks that she had for the leader last month at the white house in that roundtable

industry. she's not the only woman. he's a handsome man. he's also married. >> yes. >> very much. >> but still, a lot of people like to look at him. next to some glad tidings for one of the nation's foremost drag queens. >> just two weeks before the preppyer of the ninth season of his show? >> drag race," rupaul has just revealed that he's secretly tied the knot with his partner of 23 years. >> the 56-year-old spilled the beans on hollywood today live. he married ranch georges lebar at the 23rd anniversary that they met on the dance floor of the limelight in new york city. >> i didn't think the lime light existed nim. >> i don't know what the limelight is. >> i think it's a restaurant now in chelsea. so lebar owns a 600,000 acre ranch that straddles wyoming and north dakota. that's an excuse to get married to him. don't expect rupaul to be herding cattle full-time. he told the show, god bless you, wyoming, it's ve

isolated place on earth. ouch. wyoming is beautiful. >> it is beautiful. sometimes you want to be isolated. >> exactly. >> but could you imagine rupaul in like full-on drag and high heels, and you know? >> no. >> doing what what cattle herders do? >> even when he's not in full on drag and high heels, he's still fabulous. >> finally to something about as far away as you can get from a drag queen on the runway. mark zuckerberg on the basketball court. >> oh, the facebook ceo was caught on camera air balling while visiting the university of north carolina. solid basketball school. in fact, his shot was so bad, look at that, it barely, barely brushed the bottom of the net. the school's team nicknamed him zucker buckets. >> but the tech giant is in good company. just last month at the home arena of the houston rockets, steven a. smith, who's made a career out of talking smack

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>> do you have your bracket done? >> no, i still have a few hours though, but i do need five bucks. not for the bracket because that's not legal, of course. >> for lunch. >> exactly. >> so we're hearing some really cool and fascinating audiotape for the first time that shows you the training that pilots go through to keep us safe in the skies. >> but a heroic effort of air traffic controllers during a frightening incident is reminding us how flying is really a team effort. here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: veteran pilot, cathy lewan, met mason braddock on the radio. the throttle on kathy's small plane damaged and stuck. basically no way to slow down above atlanta's hartsfield airport, the country's busiest, and then help. >> i could hear that she was very distressed. >> all we're gonna do different is just cut power right before we touch down. it's gonna be fine. >> reporter: for 50 minutes, mason talked cathy down. >> we'll have equipment standing by to help you on the runway. >> all righty. could i ask you one more favor? would you call my husband for me? >> when you are faced with

death and in a moment, you don't really know how it feels. >> and if you could ask him to put a prayer chain out to my church. >> and at that moment, you think about the people you love, and it's still hard to think about it. you don't want to lose them. >> reporter: cathy approached, killed the engine, touching down safely. still thankful a year later. with mason now set to be honored. >> the attitude of gratitude, it just, it spills out of my heart. you're amazing. >> reporter: david kerley, abc news, washington. >> amazing, like one year after that incident happened, how she still gets choked up all about it. >> yeah, i mean, i can only imagine that your life completely flashes before your eyes in that moment. >> don't miss our updates on facebook @wnnfans.com. >> coming up, more from abc news.

making news in america this morning, president trump's travel ban blocked yet again. the executive order was just hours away from going into effect when a federal judge stepped in the way. plus, new details about the president's budget proposal. we're live in washington. meanwhile, pressure is building on the trump administration to provide some evidence backing up the president's wiretapping claims. president trump talking about why he sent those tweets for the first time. a health alert. concerns about painkillers and their effect on your heart. the snowy situation on the platform. wait till you see what happened when that train came through. >> it looks fine. >> oh. uh-oh.