breaking news on "world news now," hurricane harvey, gaining strength overnight as it approaches the texas coast. highways packed as residents flee for safety. forecasters warning that the rainfall could turn deadly by this weekend. the latest projections just ahead. and new details about the dreamers act, allowing children of undocumented immigrants to remain in the united states. so will president trump decide to end the program? and new this half hour, america's newest megamillions multi-millionaire steps into the spotlight. >> the 53-year-old mother of two who broke a record winning the powerball drawing and how she says she picked those numbers and her first order of business

>> quit your job. ♪ look what you made me do ♪ look what you just made me do ♪ >> and it finally dropped. >> yes, it has. taylor swift's new single is out, but are the fans loving it? and what katy perry's star-studded video just released. is the super star feud just a stunt to beef up sales? as we say, swish, swish, swish. on this friday, august 25th. from abc news, this is "world news now." ♪ my name keeps comin' out your mouth ♪ >> they're both fairly catchy. we're going to delve into this scandal a little bit later on. good morning. well, what's shaping up to be a monster storm is bearing down right now on the texas coast. >> hurricane harvey is expected to bring as much as 30 inches of rain to some areas.

the storm surge could be as high as six to 12 feet. >> take a look at this scene from the space station. harvey's effects are already being felt along the coast. a full day ahead of landfall. and texas and louisiana will be feeling the storm days from now. >> forecasters are calling harvey a life-threatening storm that poses a great risk. and residents are taking it seriously, boarding up and getting out. abc's jessica willie is there. >> reporter: hurricane harvey churning in the gulf of mexico and gaining strength, expected to make landfall near corpus christi early saturday as a powerful category 3. >> it's getting stronger and stronger. >> reporter: from texas to louisiana, to mississippi, people loading up and laying out sandbags, preparing for more than 35 inches of rain in some places. >> that's a lot of flooding. >> reporter: and a storm surge up to 12 feet. >> we need people to be aware. >> reporte

gas stations. >> absolute insanity over this hurricane. >> reporter: and supermarkets. >> oh, my gosh, look at the line. >> reporter: shoppers planning to ride out the storm, stocking up on essential, clearing out store shelves. >> there's no more water. there's no more bread. the bread's running out as well. >> reporter: others in the lonestar state packing up and leaving town. >> we're going in the strong els possible terms encourage the residents in the low-lying areas, as they say, get out of dodge. >> reporter: with some mandatory evacuation orders going into place. >> it's better to go now than waiting until the last minute. whenever everybody decides, oh, it's time to go. >> reporter: and as the winds and waves pick up, the governor has issued a disaster declaration for 30 counties. louisiana's governor has also done the same for the entire state. jessica willie, abc news, surf side beach texas.

>> you can see the wind picking up, and harvey's still well off the coast. as a result, you may realize that some schools and colleges have already started classes for the fall semester. others are getting ready, but nearly all have canceled activities today. >> and houston wasn't expected to resume classes until monday, but officials aren't taking chances. with heavy rain forecast for after the hurricane, students and teachers are getting an extra day of summer vacation. >> we want to make sure that we have clear roads, and more than anything, with 216,000 students and 31,000 employees, we don't want to add that additional element to the transportation scene and have our emergency responders be complicated by even more people out on the road. so we want to make sure that our families have enough time to be able to take care of their families. so we decided to make at that call early. >> and private and parochial schools as well as colleges and universities in the area will

there are no athletic activities scheduled throughout the weekend. >> and ten of the smallest and sickest patients in corpus christi are being evacuated. the hospital is worried power outages may disable their ventilators. they're on their way to a children's hospital in ft. worth. >> harvey's greatest threat isn't so much from the wind as from the water. >> justin povick is here with the details. good morning, justice. >> kendis and linda, thanks and good morning to you. dangerous hurricane harvey still churning its way to the north and west this morning. a strengthening hurricane. we're looking at hurricane warnings here setting up shop from corpus christi north and east. tropical storm warnings from houston to galveston. expect impacts later on today. landfall late tonight to early saturday morning. and this is expected to become a major hurricane as we go throughout the daytime hours, making landfall as a major hurricane.

big impacts in terms of beach erosion, dangerous surf, power disruptions and damaging winds. one to two feet of rain as we go into early next week. and we're also talking about heavy rainfall throughout south and central florida into the late week hours as well. >> two major areas of concern there. thank you. and of course we'll have much more on harvey's path in the next hour. but first politics. we're getting word that president trump is likely going to end daca, the program began during the obama administration to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children. >> senior administration officials say the president could make the announcement very soon. he is facing a september 5th deadline of sorts. that's when at least ten states say they'll sue the government to end the program. jared kushner is trying to revive a possible peace deal between palestinians and israelis.

he held separate meetings yesterday with benjamin netanyahu and mahmoud abbas. the white house says both meetings were productive, but so far, there's no evidence of a break through. several white national protests and counter protests are scheduled for this weekend. one of the biggest rallies expected in san francisco on saturday. organizers of the freedom rally say it's for moderates. but some california politicians say it's a white supremacist event. they are worried about violence as several groups are planning counter protests. and on the same day in the other side of the country, knoxville, tennessee, white nationalists are protesting the possible removal of a confederate statue. amazon is set to deliver a gift to whole foods customers. they finalize their $13.7 billion buyout of the supermarket chain monday. once the deal is complete, amazon says it will cut prices on a number of staple items, including eggs, beef and bananas. amazon has plans to offer discounts to prime members who

shop at whole foods. the lives of hundreds of dogs were likely saved after they were airlifted from puerto rico. they faced a grim future because shelters are generally overcrowded there. the airlift was organized by animal welfare advocates. they were sent to florida, north carolina and new york. as you know, more than a few homes have hidden gems, but not that many homes have hidden houses inside them. >> a home inside the home. kevin kemp and jennifer alexander were set to demolish a home. outside columbus, ohio. then they discovered something so cool hidden underneath the walls. >> it was the remnants of a log cabin. dating back to at least the 19th century. >> i grabbed a piece, pulled on it, and it came off. and i said larry, i think that's a log. so i walked over and pulled off another piece. and that's what we found. we found, i said i think we have a log

in dublin, ohio estimates that two-storey cabin was built in the early 1800s. >> they gave the home to the city, which took it apart, log by log. the logs will be stored for a few years until officials decide whether to rebuild the home. >> i can't believe they're taking it apart. why wouldn't you leave that in tact? >> shouldn't that be part of history? >> early 1800s, it's so cool. >> maybe their ventilation was not very good. >> it was terrible. >> it was terrible. well, coming up, the mother from massachusetts who is an instant multi-millionaire. she's richer than she ever could have dreamed. so what's she going to buy first? later in "the skinny," katy perry's latest video, a who's who in everything sports to internet meme fame. it's also pretty weird. here's a look at today's forecast. ♪ ♪ so keep calm, honey ♪ i'ma stick around for more than a mut

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so there's a lawsuit stemming from that crash landing of that car inside an austin, texas garage last month. the woman driving it wants $1 million in damages from the garage owner. she suffered multiple broken bones after her car took a seven story fall. the driver admits to hitting the gas by mistake as she approached a cable barrier, but she says the cables weren't strong enough. another car nearly fell off the same garage last year. >> scary. it didn't take long to learn who won the second-biggest powerball jackpot in history. >> yes, so this morning, we'll tell you how mavis wanczyk chose her winning powerball numbers and what she plans to do with her jackpot. >> reporter: after two months of rolling jackpots, a record-breaking winner has come forward. >> i had

pipe dream has finally come true. >> reporter: mavis wanczyk from chicopee, massachusetts, going home with the largest jackpot ever won by a single ticket, $758 million. sharing the moment she and a friend realized she'd won. >> i was reading these numbers, and i pull mine out, and i go, hey, i have that, i have that. and i goes let me see that ticket. and he goes, you just won. and i said, are you joking? >> reporter: those winning nudges pick the by wanczyk herself. >> they were random, maybe birthdays, one in here, one from there. >> reporter: but the big win also bringing big confusion. the massachusetts lottery making a mistake, at first telling the wrong store owners they'd sold the winning ticket and had won $50,000 for the sale. for seven hours, lottery officials said this is where that winning ticket was sold, but it was actually sold an hour and a half away. while the store didn't sell the jackpot, it did sell one of 34 tickets around the c

the store now getting $10,000 from the lottery. >> we still had a million dollar winner, that's better than su $ >> i've called them and told them i will not be coming back. [ laughter ] >> reporter: so what's she going to do with all that money? she says she's going to sit, relax, pay off her car. but she said on facebook that she really needs a vacation on a beach. gio benitez, abc news, braintree, massachusetts. >> on a beach, she can afford the island. >> right, three can get the whole island. >> with $480 million for a lump sum? >> good luck to her. that's awesome. >> that's great. call us. when we come back. taylor swift. >> and what's inside katy perry's new video that you don't want to miss. "the skinny" is next. want to miss. "the skinny" is next. start by taking care of families for 70 years.

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♪ so skinny there's a reason we've waited all week for the friday skinny, because it is a huge, huge event. taylor swift, while many of us were asleep or not doing anything yesterday, released her new single from her upcoming album. it is called "look what you made me do." we don't have the video yet, but we do have the words. >> yeah. interesting lyrics. ♪ ♪ i'm sorry, the old taylor can't come to the phone right now ♪ ♪ why? ♪ ♪ because she's dead >> wow. that's not a feel-good tone that i thought. >> that taylor swift normally gives us with happy songs. she's a little darker in this one, throwing a

>> it definitely is a long way from her country days, don't you think?.

>> the new single is called "swish swish." video is very od very typical of katy perry. >> yes, very kay at the perry and meant to be funny in a lot of places. let's move now into friend of the show. i know that this is a reason that you've wanted to be part of the show is because we had the likes of jeff timmons. >> of 98 degrees. >> of course. >> of course. >> he doesn't even need like the 98 degrees subtitle. 98 degrees has a new album coming out this winter, but they put this out yesterday. they re-did the circle of life from lion king. do we like it? >> that's cute. i mean, they're clearly having fun. ♪ >> not bad. i kind of like it. so jeff said that he remembers the first time he saw "lion king".

couple friends, had just moved to l.a. and was like let's go see a disney movie. this came full circle for him. >> i was thrilled to hear he was a friend of the show. he has visited you guys. >> yes, he sang with us, danced with us. might have taught us how to, might have done the polka ♪ that's world news polka ♪ ♪ if you are an insomniac >> i love this next story, because, as you now, i just can't quit despacito. >> despacito. >> that's my jam. and luis fonsi says people should take it easy on justin bieber. bieber getting all the flak for not knowing the lyrics. and saying words like dorito instead. latinos online have some issues with that. but luis fonsi says he's not a spanish speaker. >> how do you forgive that?

>> it's a little hard. he says take it easy on him. he doesn't know spanish. it's a hard song to learn. >> that's because luis is cashing those checks. he's fine, he can sing whatever he wants, taco, whatever you want, justin. g whatever he wants, taco, whatever you want, justin. (grunts of effort) can we do this tomorrow? if you have heart failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. but entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest heart failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. if you've had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, don't take entresto. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood.

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♪ so the last week of august has been busy for plenty of news headlines. >> from extreme weather here on the ground to a rare cosmic event in the sky, and a brand-new multi-millionaire. here now is our weekly, friday rewind. >> we're going to get started right now with the breaking news, the search for ten american sailors after the second collision in two months between a navy destroyer and a commercial ship. >> the commander of the seventh fleet has now been dismissed, weeks before he was set to retire. >> evacuate the area. >> the deadly flash flood emergency, trappin

their homes in parts of the kansas city metro area getting up to ten inches of rain. and you can see this massive propane tank slammed into this building. >> president trump on the attack, lashing out at the media. >> i really think they don't like our country, i really believe that. >> whipping up the crowd and doubling down on controversial comments on charlottesville. >> this was incitement, plain and simple. i turned my cell phone camera on the crowd just so you could see the reaction there as we were on the stage. that's what it looks like when the president turns the crowd on you. the president said that journalists hate this country. >> we were right there as police in riot gear advanced on demonstrators outside of president trump's phoenix rally. >> the phoenix police department, they're marching through downtown phoenix right now. they've put tear gas in the air. >> jackpot. one single ticket claiming that massive we

than $750 million. >> and i had a pipe dream. and my pipe dream has finally come true. i wanted to retire early. >> this is our eclipse-viewing attire. >> they're just waiting. >> these glasses actually work. i can't see a thing. >> completely blacked out. it's weird. >> we have reached totality here on the oregon coastline. i'm going to have our cameraman glen turn down the lights -- turn it off, glen. let's see how dark it really is. it's pitch-black here. this is the most incredible thing i've ever seen. >> we did such a great job. abc news had exclusive access to the great american eclipse, and you slept through it. >> at least your daughter watched it. >> didn't you sleep through it too? >> no, no. our producer, brian, dragged me out to watch it. big weekend ahead. >> yes. >> the vmas.

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making news in america this morning, hurricane harvey gaining strength overnight reaching category 2 and taking aim at the texas coast. evacuations are under way, even babies rushed out of the hospital after forecasters increased the rain totals to up to nearly three feet in some areas. we have the latest. president trump in a showdown with his own party taking shots at senate majority leader mitch mcconnell while the white house dodges questions about his threat to shut down the government over the border wall. a hiker survives a lightning strike. what's left of his shoe and the picture that he took the moment the bolt struck. and countdown to fight night. mcgregor a