this morning on "world news now," the deadly and destructive wildfires sweeping across northern california. homes and businesses burned to the ground, and there are new evacuation orders overnight and high winds returning today. and new tension between the president and his secretary of state. days after rex tillerson was accused of having called the president a moron, the president is now challenging tillerson to an iq test. and a couple discovers a hidden camera in an air b and b home. they were reptding while on vacation. >> and the camera was pointed right at their bed. and there's no hiding from mom, especially if you're a big star like seth rogen. hear what she did to shame him into calling h b

that's in the skippy -- skinny on this wednesday, october 11th. from abc news, this is "world news now." we're going to start things off with the overwhelming devastation in california. it is now blamed for at least 17 deaths. and still many people are unaccounted for. >> this is what it looked like before the flames erupted. a lot of vegetation there. and take a look now. home after home burned to the ground there. it's hardly recognizable. and the fires are still raging, sending thousands fleeing. donya baucus has more. >> reporter: the out of control fires now twice the size of washington, d.c., stretching firefighters thin. >> we have folks on the fire line starting their third shift right now that have not been relieved. >> reporter: sunday, the

so-called diablo winds pushed hot, dry air across california, exploding in size so quickly many didn't have time to evacuate. >> we got out without anything except for our dogs and medicine. >> reporter: nancy cook returns to what's left of her home, sifting through the rubble, trying to salvage anything she can find. >> this is the kitchen. >> reporter: across sonoma county, entire neighborhoods are now unrecognizable. at least 2,000 residences, businesses like this winery and hotels destroyed. >> it's with sorrow that i tell you today that we have confirmed two fatalities. charles and sara rippey, ages 100 and 98. >> reporter: the rippeys were married for 75 years. tuesday, their son mike helped sift therough their home. >> my father, he never made it to her room. and even if he had made it, there was no way he was going to leave her. >> reporter: in southern ca

getting the upper hand. dowsing hotspots in the charred skeletons of homes. everywhere you look behind me you see signs of the intensity of this fire. just days ago more than 100 mobile homes were in this park. now you can't tell where one begins and the other ends. >> diane and kendis? >> unbelievable to think that is a neighborhood behind her. >> it is absolutely striking looking at those images. and the fires burned with such intensity they even melted glass. >> families returning to the scorched remains of their homes found many of their belongings scorched beyond recognition. >> armageddon. >> it looks like a bomb went off in this area. it's devastating. >> and the winds were blowing so hard. the gusts were coming south, like 60 miles per hour. there's nothing you can do. >> every house was on fire, including mine, as i was driving through here, driving through flames, that tree was on fire.

of my truck. smoke and embers just pounding. >> when i ask the police there, i cannot get in. my son, i'm not sure if my son is still there, and i really need to make sure that he's not there. and i'm so happy, thank you. >> reporter: her son was safely outside the evacuation zone. >> it can't get any worse, you know, despite everybody's safe, but literally, everything's gone. >> reporter: it's your business and your home. >> yeah. it's not every day you lose both, you know, so it's been tough. my dad was raised here. there's just, there's just so many memories. there's so many, i think about all the pictures that were lost and all the, just irreplaceable things. >> now i don't know where to go from here. be a long road. >> the strength of the winds could make all the difference for thousands of firefighters on the ground trying to get that under control. >> we turn now to paul williams for a look ahead. >> good morning, kendis, diane. we have a serious scenario

actually. right now it remains dry for wednesday with cooler breeze along the coast, scattered showers but unfortunately well to the north and away from the most problematic area. by friday we'll have more moisture, that's a little bit of a help for us to not have to deal with so much dry air and so much of the dry winds, but now here's the monkey wrench to the whole thing. unfortunately, the flow changes. the high pressure system strengthens, the offshore winds change and the coast warms back up and it becomes even drier, once again, increasing the fire danger as we go into the weekend. kendis, diane? we have new images of an unprecedented show of force by the u.s. against north korea. the pictures show two bombers taking off from guam on the way to the sea of japan. it's the first time japanese and south korean fighters flew alongside u.s. planes.

president trump and military officials have been discussing options on dealing with pyongyang. and the u.s. navy has fired the commander and executive director of the "uss mccain." the warship's top two officers. it collided in august killing ten sailors and injuring five more. in a statement, they called it preventible, saying the commanding officer exercised poor judgment and the executive officer exercised poor leadership. president trump is firing back at republican senator bob corker, mocking him with a new nickname, and the president appeared to take a swipe at the secretary of state. but the white house insists he was only joking. abc's jonathan karl with details. >> reporter: president trump seemed to lob a new insult at his new secretary of state after the report that rex tillerson called him a quote, moron. i think it's fake news, the president told forbes, but if he did that, i guess we'll have to compare iq tests, and i can tell you who's going to win. the president was asked if he was undercutting his own secretary of state

undercutting people. thank you very much everybody. >> do you still have confidence? >> yes. >> reporter: but the new comments came after he said he would like tillerson to be quote, a little bit tougher. >> why would the president want someone who is not tough or particularly smart as secretary of state. >> the president never implied that the secretary of state was not incredibly intelligent. he made a joke, nothing more than that. >> reporter: the white house insists the relationship is fine, but that's not what they're saying about republican senator bob corker, who infuriated the president by saying this to the "new york times." >> he doesn't realize that, you know, we could be heading toward world war iii with the kinds of comments that he's making. >> the failing "new york times" set little bob corker up by recording his conversation, the president tweeted, was made to sound a fool, and that's what i'm dealing with. and we're now learning it was corker who asked the interview to be recorded.

and now two republican senators, the only two so far, have come forward to defend the president. both of those senators are up for reelection next year. jonathan karl, the white house. police say a texas tech student has confessed to killing a police officer. 19-year-old hollis daniels was arrested for drugs. inside the station he pulled out a gun and shot officer floyd east jr. he is charged with capital murder and held on a $5 million bond. we're learning new details about an alleged airport bombing plot in north carolina. the suspect confessed to leaving a bomb at the asheville airport. michael estes said he wanted to find a war on u.s. soil. in indiana, a couple vacationing found hidden cameras in their a airbnb bedroom.

they noticed something weird about the smoke detector in their bedroom. it was a camera pointed directly at their bed. the homeowner has been charged with one count of video voyeurism. he said the cameras were for his personal use. he'd been renting the property through airbnb for two years. >> good thinking on their part. turning now to one young girl in utah whose priceless reaction was caught on video when she heard the news that her life was going to change forever. >> so this is the moment right here. that 11-year-old, tanna butterfield was told that a judgment had just allowed her foster parents to become her forever parents. >> that school manager, jackie alexander posted the video to instagram saying in 12 years of this job, this is by far my best moment ever. >> what a wonderful moment there, you can see the happiness. >> i think she's a little excited. >> i think so, too. >> good for them. congratulations to the whole family. coming up, the nfl commissioner officially weighs

debate, saying he wants players to stand. the new reaction overnight. and miley cyrus like we've never seen her of about, belting out party in the usa. we'll tell you why, ahead in "the skinny." first, here's a look at today's forecast. "world news now" weather, brought to you by my pillow.

the nhl's newest franchise played an emotional home opener. in las vegas. the golden knights played tribute to the victims of last week's massacre. they replaced all the advertising on the boards with the message you see there, "vegas strong." >> they escorted first responders onto the ice, and a moment of silence, one second for every victim killed. and the nfl is preparing to take on the take a knee protest. >> roger goodell sent a letter to team owners that reads in part, we believe everyone should stand for the national anthem. we need to move past this controversy. it goes on to say that the nfl has developed a plan that will be reviewed next week.

goodell's statement came on the same day the president asked on twitter why the nfl gets massive tax breaks while in his opinion disrespecting the flag and the country. mike ditka has jumped into the national anthem debate. he told jim gray on westwood one's radio pregame program that all of a sudden it's become a big deal now about oppression. there's been no oppression in the last 100 years that i know of, ditka insisted he wasn't condemning anyone but urged players to protest when the game is over. >> and the rapper eminem is criticizing the president for inflaming the nfl protest. >> this is getting a lot of attention overnight. he went beyond that issue, including colin kaepernick and lebron james. this is all at the b.e.t. hip-hop awards, he calls it his form of distraction. in a rap he sa

gets an enormous reaction when he attacks the nfl so we focus on that instead of talking puerto rico and gun reform for nevada. the four-minute rap, vulgar at times, actually, he called out his fans who are supporters of the president. no reaction from the white house but a lot of reaction from many of the president's supporters. >> mm-hm. all right, when we come back, don't mess with seth rogen's mom. >> plus, something oprah hasn't done in 29 years. "the skinny" is next. "the skinny" is next. are yellow. time for whitestrips. crest glamorous white whitestrips are the only ada-accepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. and they whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. your toilet is germ-ridden with mineral buildup. clorox toilet bowl cleaner with bleach is no match against limescale. but lysol power toilet bowl cleaner has 10x more cleaning power against limescale. so switch to lysol. what it takes to protect.

♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >> it is skinny on this wednesday and more proof this wednesday. the stars, they're just like us, and that includes star moms, including seth rogen's. >> so seth rogen's mother didn't think it was very funny when he wasn't answering his phone. so she did what any mother would do. she went to twitter. >> amazing she knew what the twitters was. putting her son on blast saying "where are you"?

tweeted, when you don't answer your mom's phone calls for a day, and he links to the original post. >> everybody is wondering, did he ever call her back? >> yeah, seth, did you call mom? >> which she later confirmed on twitter he did. so there you have it. >> whew, i'm glad my mother is not on twitter. >> i thought parents were all on facebook now as opposed to the twitters. >> my mom makes comments on other people's photos, and she thinks that all her friends can see them, so she's writing in portuguese on all her friends' facebook posts, and i'm like, mom, no one understands what you're writing, maybe we'll keep it that way, this way i don't have to worry about this kind of situation. >> miley cyrus has been having a pretty good year so far, and she released her new single, reinvented herself again. and now she's hitting the road. >> yes, i love these. all right, buckle up, everybody, because miley's teaming up with james corden in the latest edition of carpool karaoke. ♪ they're playin' my song

♪ i'm nodding my head ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ it's a party in the usa ♪ it's a party in the usa >> little do people know that you actually have choreographed this music video for miley cyrus. >> well, i actually develop my own choreography to this song. it is not miley cyrus approved, but i do enjoy it very much. do you want to learn it? >> yes. >> my hands up, playin' my song. butterfly fly away. nodding my head like yeah. moving my head like yeah. hands up, playin' my song. you know i'm going to be okay. yay, yay, yay, yay. it's a party in the usa. it's a hit at weddings, i tell you.

do that baby in the dance circle, everybody will want to be your friend, right? right guys? >> jack's got it. >> i got it down, i'm doin' good. >> corden had a lot of fun. he did not learn my choreography, but they did something else. they made fun of miley's tongue and he made her lick some stamps, so he could hit the post office. he said your tongue makes less of an appearance today than it used to. so this was a good way for him to get it back in the spotlight. >> holy cow. that's crazy. look at the size of that. >> do they still make adhesive stamps now? don't you not have to lick them anymore? >> he's british. when's the last time you went to the bank to deposit a check? >> ooh, it's been a while. it has been a while. >> well, oprah hadn't been inside a bank since 1988. >> it hasn't been that long for me.

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the gal, the punta. >> oh, well thank you. >> okay, that's fine, might be biassed. janel said she was better than you. >> all right, let's see. let's take a look. debbie says kendis, lol, a little stiff. but she says, not too bad. endeara has your back. she didn't say you were good. she said keep practicing my belizean brother. >> keep practicing. >> do you want to practice? >> all right if i got any better. i have my usa pants on. >> he would need music. ♪ >> i think i nailed it. nailed it. >> a little more hip, no? >> exactly. >> all right, we'll keep working on it.

viewers who haven't seen the other shows are wondering, why is he wearing red pants. >> we'll have more on that coming up. >> in case you missed yesterday's show, which i know you never did. they are was a story about kit harington, playing a prank on his fiance. putting a fake head in their fridge. so our staffers did the same to me. i reacted very manly. >> you were very brave. >> mm-hm. >> so we all saw kendis scream like a baby. >> that's an insult to babies. >> that's true. what you didn't see was my reaction to his reaction, but we did post it online. and some of you had a good laugh. >> oh, yeah. >> but this was the cleanup mode. i was trying desperately to get the popcorn off the desk before the end of the commercial break. >> we need to get to our new viewer. our new family member, our producer of america this morning

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making news in america this morning, firestorm. the disaster in california taking more lives. and burning more homes. >> there were embers everywhere and the wind would just go crazy. >> the new risk, the shocking scenes of devastation and the forces now joining the firefight. new overnight, the president fights back. what he's saying about reports that he's about to fire his chief of staff and what he really meant when he challenged rex tillerson to an i.q. test. bombshell allegations. gwyneth paltrow, angelina jolie and now more women are coming forward against harvey weinstein. >> he returned in nothing but a robe with the front open and he was buck naked. >> hear the new