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temporarily replace charlie rose on public broadcasting. it will be offered to other pbs stations next week. the 11:00 p.m. hour is a repackaging of the veteran correspondent's cnn show. rose's show was taken off the air after he was accused of making unwanted sexual advances. pbs still needs to find another half hour to follow amanpour. and "house of cards" is coming back without kevin spacey. it will feature robin wright who plays the wife of spacey's character. it's not clear how underwood will be written out of the show. but there are only it's episodes rather than 13. production was suspended amid allegations against spacey. a florida soccer coach who was the subject of a nationwide search along with his 17-year-old student is behind bars in central new york awaiting extradition bac
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florida. ryan rodriguez disappeared with 17-year-old caitlyn frisina last sunday after she climbed out of her bedroom window and erased her phone. they were on the run before being detained less than 100 miles from the canada border. frisina's parents are speaking out. >> we so grateful and blessed to have our beautiful daughter caitlyn frisina back with us. >> i know i can protect her and keep her safe as a father always wants to do. >> rodriguez has not entered a plea. break overnight, two fisherman are missing off nantucket, massachusetts. two others were rescued by another boat. the misty blue went down around 6:00 p.m. the coast guard is leading the search
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through the midwest bringing arctic temperatures. a line of severe storms stretches nearly 1400 miles from texas to the great lakes pushing to the east of course. behind those storms is a cold front driven by high winds with gusts up to 50 miles per hour, collapsing that gas station canopy just south of chicago. luckily, no one was injured there. those winds are also driving blizzard and even whiteout conditions overnight across parts of the dakotas and minnesota, dropping up to a foot of snow? so -- in some areas. and bryce love was second in the nation in rushing, despite missing a game with an injury. love averaged more than eight yards per carrie. -- carry. >> baker mayfield is the favorite. he
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where they will play against georgia. a high school teacher outside huntsville, alabama is bragging about his students on social media. >> it has nothing to do with their grades. troy rogers' senior class surprised him with a golden retriever puppy, a few weeks after his 11-year-old dot rg ra away. >> the proud teacher posted this photo holding his new little girl, whom he has named clementine. >> oh, cute. he posted on facebook, i love these kids. there are no words, i am completely floored and blindsided by their kindness. >> a cute dog as well. >> absolutely. i want one. coming up, the couple who may have more christmas spirit than santa himself. we'll show you what they did to their own home sweet home and how they made it into a gingerbread house. and the girl who died after go
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girl from houston, texas boards a bus and walks across the border to mexico. she may have been meeting a 29-year-old man whom she was chatting with for more than a year. the man she was reportedly going to meet has not been found. experts say it appears she may have been groomed for sex trafficking. now to new developments in the death of a girl in minnesota who died while having her wisdom teeth pulled. >> there are new questions about how something like this could happen. adrian bankert breaks it down. >> reporter: sydney gallagher was a vibrant teenager, she died in 2015 after going into cardiac arrest while under general anesthesia while getting her wisdom teeth pulled. her parents sued the dentist. the minnesota family alleges that during the
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heart rate dropped dramatically. she had no pulse and became unresponsive. she was declared brain dead at the hospital a week after that routine dental procedure. the family ultimately settling out of court for $2 million. dr. tombach did not admit wrongdoing and had his license reinstated. parents should always ask, will my child be conscious or unconscious during the procedure? and does the person administering the anesthesia have up to date training in emergency resuscitation. and the ada says to ask for instructions or emergency contact information in the event there are concerns or complications after surgery. adrian bankert, abc news, new york. >> and that case is scheduled to go to court in may of 2018. but a frightening thing. >> almost all of us went in and had that same procedure done. >> they never give a second thought to it. things can happen.
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♪ silver bells ♪ silver bells ♪ it's christmas time ♪ time in the city >> you have to go deep, deep, deep. robert goulet there with that. some people sing that. others are like, we've got spirit, yes we do. we've got spirit -- >> great! >> how about you, that's the way it goes. but some people during the holidays take that way too seriously. >> we're up all "nightline" with david wright.
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where christmas competition in new york, out on long island, peter is feeling pretty good. how many lights do you have? >> you know what? we don't have a huge light count. >> reporter: what he does have is a christmas display worthy of a fifth avenue department store window. it's not just about the lights for you. >> it's not. it's not. >> reporter: there's a santa's workshop. i hear darth vader nothing says christmas like darth vader, complete with a candy cane li t lightsaber. >> we're going to smash the competition. >> reporter: he is one of the contestants on the "great christmas light fight" where families across the country compete to win
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for creating the most over the top display, kind of a christmas version of "extreme home makeover". the bigger, the brighter, the louder the better. it strikes me that there's this arms race for christmas lights. like every year, houses are pressured to do it bigger and better. >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: do you feel that pressure every year? >> no, not really. i design a display and make it come to life. >> reporter: he's got a talking lucy. >> merry christmas, you blockhead! >> reporter: and there's a reindeer. >> hello, everybody. >> reporter: doing standup comedy. >> which reindeer can jump higher than a house? >> ah, look at that. >> they all can. houses can't jump. >> reporter: how long does it stay up after christmas? >> our last actual day of lighting is typically january 6, which we call little christmas. and after that we try to take it
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down as fast as we can. >> reporter: they say good fences make good neighbors, but christmas displays that stop traffic, not so much. do the neighbors ever kind of knock on the door and say can you turn it down an a little bit? >> we have not had that yet. so what i like to say is no news is good news. "let it go, let it go ♪ >> reporter: the big finale, a dancing elsa, let it go all the way to christmas. i'm david wright in new york. >> so the great christmas light fight airs monday at 8:00 p.m. what do they do with all this stuff in the offseason? is there a massive warehouse? >> imagine what their display
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♪ ♪ and i ran ♪ i ran so far away ♪ away >> got a little flock of seagulls for you today, to start off "this happened", and you'll understand the music choice in a moment. let's go over to clearwater beach where a woman decided she wanted to be nice and feed one of the seagulls. it sounded like a good idea until the entire flock swarms her. this is like straight out of nemo and the birds combined, mine, mine, mine, mine. >> until she goes into the
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ocean. she tried to get away from the flock of seagulls. there are a lot of people on the internet, the instagram machine trying to show all their different yoga poses and such. >> ohm. >> in different places. >> oh! ooh, that didn't go very well, did it? >> yeah, she was trying not to show it, on a fallen tree. >> she did a good job. >> stretch across a creek here. she posted the clip back in may, but we're now just enjoying it. people were pretty concerned for her well-being. she said that she successfully pulled off the post near the same river on a much-safer rock. >> glad she did not hurt herself. it's called the invisible box. watch as this cheerleader does it. jump right over it. it's catching on like wildfire. everybody out there is trying it. so we decided -- >> so she's stepping on something? >> you
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there. and you pretend -- >> you step on it. >> exactly. >> it's an invisible box. >> it's not that hard. try it, you'll see, you can do it. >> i'm just going to pretend my box -- >> there's the box. >> hello, box. >> graceful, that worked. >> have the box. and then, see? >> wait. no, no, no. let me try it one more time. >> look, i'll do it in slow motion for you. have the box. >> what? how, how are you doing that? you've got to be kidding me. >> look, i can even just -- i mean -- >> there's got to be some sort of -- i swear, i am definitely dumb founded. you're like mrs. david blain. >> you try it. kendis, i
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this morning on "world news now," dangerous weather impacting millions. >> warm, dry winds are getting stronger across california, fanning a large brush fire overnight. and in the plains and midwest, dangerously cold temperatures are moving bringing whiteout ski conditions and snow. the russia probe is getting closer to the president. one says no matter what the president has done it can't be obstruction of justice. now the plan is being faced with multiple lawsuits. we're talking to people on both sides of the
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