as you know. but i do believe cuba is responsible, yes. >> it is not clear if the president is saying cuba is behind the attacks or responsible because they feeled to keep americans safe. meanwhile, the u.s. is calling for calm on both sides after iraqi forces pushed kurdish allies out of kirkuk, seizing oil fields and other facilities. this comes after the kurdish vote for independence. >> the mover so soit could trig iraq. increasingly frantic workers made several calls on behalf of patients, but only once did a nurse mention that the air conditioning was not working. at least 14 deaths have been blamed on the sweltering heat inside the hollywood hills nursing home. staffers

problems answering the most basic questions from operators. >> how old is the patient? >> oh. trying to find her paperwork. one second. i'm coming. oh, my god, this is crazy. trying to load up the computer. the computer is slow. i'm down stairs, but the patient is upstairs with the nurse. so kind of bear with me. >> more than 140 residents were eventually evacuated from the firsting ho nursing home which is across the street from a hospital. that facility is now closed. security experts have found a serious crack in wi-fi kixs that could put every device on the planet at risk of hacking. it involves the protocol that protects wi-fi networks and changing your password won't help. but the attacker needs

range of the specific signal. google says an android patch will be ready in a couple weeks. the members of the university of central oklahoma frurnts turned cheerleaders for a night and managed to shake it without any of them breaking anything. >> that's an accomplishment when you see what they're doing. this is the brothers sigma tao gamma. they wint all out. the video has more than 2 million views on facebook and it's easy to see why. >> oh, my god. they did the splits. some of them also showed that they're not too big to be picked up. >> no, think went all out. and then they finished the whole thing off with, wait for it, the big basket toss flip and of course -- the splits. got to get the splits. this is my favorite thing ever. >> it hurts to even watch.

accomplished this. might i say, it's super impressive. but it's not like their form is perfect here. think probably could have hurt themselves. >> listen, i give them a 10. >> me too, absolutely. i give them a 11. >> bruno over there was like, i don't know. >> we're giving you a 10. >> coming up, the sudden plunge on board an airliner. a plane fell 20,000 feet as the flight crew screamed for passengers to brace for impact. we'll show you what happened next. and later, the photographer who captured these intimate, behind the scenes images of first lady michelle obama, what she calls her transformative experience during her time in the white house. but first, here's a look at today's temperatures. "world news now" weather, brought to you by cat's pride.

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there who pushed him off the track and drove on top of his opponent's car while the crowd cheered on. the driver of car 33, shawn cullen jumped out of his car and started punching. don't start none, won't be none. both drivers ended up on the track before a police officer used a taser on cullen. cullen was ticketed for disorderly conduct. >> it's like monster trucks. a plane suffered a terrifying ordeal. >> they plunged 20,000 feet in nine minutes. adrian bankert has more. >> reporter: terrifying moments as an airasia jet plummets. oxygen masks drop as the cabin loses pressure. >> one of the

running down the aisle screaming. remember it happened during a flight from perth australia to bali. dropping to 10,000 feet in just minutes. passengers sharing horrifying moments and videos with australia's channel 9. many thought they were going to die. >> i picked up my phone, sent a text message to my family hoping they would get it. >> reporter: he was planning to propose to his girlfriend in bali and instead grabbed an oxygen mask and proposed right thay there. what makes this so scary is passengers could see how panicked the crew was. adrian bankert, abc news, new york. >> when the crew panics, you're in trouble. we have diy gadgets to help take your home projects to the next level, right, vic?

and welcome back. don't you just hate it when you start a do it yourself project and then you realize you don't have the right tools to do it yourself. dick debartolo's joining us looking like -- >> a member of the village people? this is from pod life. it did win a diy for value. and this is like having someone hold the flashlight. what you do, i have it on bright now. it's magnetic. so you aim it where you want the light to be. and then it will just stay there for you. if you're working under the sink and you want to aim, i'm not going to aim it into the camera. it's 250 lumens. >> all right. so dick, like i was saying, great. >> so this part is

>> and the bottom is magnetic. in your car, you can attach it to the hood or under the sink. >> hard-to-reach areas. >> and it's under $20. from craftsman, this is pretty neat, a sidewinder tape measure. this guy lays flat and roll it out. and it doesn't fall off, because the broad edge is down. and then -- >> what's the practical use for that? >> when you measure lumber, the tape measure, you get to the end, the tape measure falls off. this won't fall off because this is the operating. it operates in this area. and something on the bottom is pretty neat. a little dry erase panel so you can write your measurements down and erase them. this is also from craftsman,

flex claw hammer. and at this press event they said hammer's not been redesigned in centuries or decades. >> which is a lie. he redefined himself when he did "too legit to quit." >> so this guy has an adjustable claw. >> uh-huh. >> up to four positions. so if you have heavy-duty prying, you lock it down in that position and you have tremendous leverage. but wait, there's more! there's a little magnetic channel here where you put the nail >> oh, i see. >> so now you can drive it in. we have an x right there. if you want to just drive that nail in. >> really? because i will. >> okay. and that comes in two weights. this is the heavyweight. two quickie projects that are easy to do. >>

>> this is a way to take an outlet and turn it into an outlet with a night light and a clip-closed cover so kids can't -- there we go. now you installed a night light and now you have shutters that close over the electric part so kids won't get shocked. >> you don't have to kid-proof your apartment or your home. >> two electric contacts make contact with the wires in there and it's wired. and hockey puck lights normally take 20 watts. these are 2 watts. plug them into this channel here, and the entire set of three was $18. >> not bad. >> and they use 2 watts. he is going to drive it in. >> he gets to use the hard hat. the

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the white house. >> reporter: amanda lucedon in her new book "chasing light." >> for me, the deep ermining was working at the white house was a transforming moment. i learned from her that you can be anything. >> reporter: for four years, amanda traveled with mrs. obama, capturing photos of the first lady. >> she has such a serious role but this lightness about her. she really loves to laugh. >> reporter: didn't the president tweet this photo. >> yeah, valentine's day, which was pretty cool. >> reporter: now one of amanda's most widely shared. >> i think that's thing about having good editors. i'm

>> reporter: how about the great wall. >> being a mother is her most important priority. >> reporter: how are you different from the first day you walked through the gates and the last day. >> everything about me is different. i found confidence. i learned about embracing my own story and the first lady taught us that the challenges that you encounter in your own life are your strengths, not weaknesses. they're the things that teach you resilience. if you are resill intient, you overcome anything. accepting all the sides of myself was transformational for me. coming out of the white house, i'm that light i was chasing. >> our big thanks to robin roberts. and amanda is donating a portion of her proceeds to low-income schools.

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this morning on "world news now," president trump playing nice. >> he stood side by side with the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell after weeks of blistering attacks. the president saying they're now friends. new this morning, senator john mccain takes a shot at the trump approach to world leadership. in an impassioned speech, he cautioned the u.s. turning away from the world calling it unpatriotic. and millions of people are speaking up about sexual harassment and assault, sharing their stories with the #me too. a-list celebrities and private