this morning on "world news now," fires burning out of control, right now in southern california. homes destroyed. thousands of people evacuated. schools and even a nfl team impacted by all of this. how long will the high winds last? today president trump will announce a controversial shift in u.s. policy. he'll recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and announce a plan to move the u.s. embassy there. that's a dramatic shift that some say could put the peace process in jeopardy, but the white house disagrees. and the alert for holiday shoppers. >> online sales

robust, it's taking longer than expected to deliver all those packages. the company is out with its list of the most tweeted-about moments and people of 2017. can you guess who they are, can you guess who these people are? look at their dance moves.th >> i know! it's wednesday, december 6th. from abc news, this is "world news now." we're jamming to some k-pop there. >> i doesn't think i've ever seen you so upset that the song has faded out. >> the music came on instead. we'll get plenty of k-pop later, but you see the flames lighting up the skies there, the thomas fire is the biggest one in ventura county. we're told moments ago it jumped a major highway, the pacific coast highway in calif

>> it's one of half a dozen fires burning right now. tens of thousands have been ordered to evacuate. >> now dozens of buildings have been destroyed, including a large apartment complex in ventura. the exact number of homes and businesses lost isn't known because firefighters can't get into some areas to check. and it is still burning far out of control right now, nearing the beach. abc's donya baucus with more. >> reporter: fires are raging in california. the thomas fire in ventura county northwest of los angeles expanding to over 70 square miles in a matter of hours. >> they're attacking it the best they can, that's all we can do. the wind is moving in every direction. >> reporter: these fenced-in horses rescued just in the nick of time. >> i just don't want to let her go. i don't know where to take them, where it's safe. >> reporr:

lost everything. >> it's just devastating. >> this was going to be my dying-in house. the only thing is the house died before i did. >> reporter: this apartment complex destroyed. the vista del mar hospital razed to the ground. all patients and staff making it out in time. >> don't know what we're going to do without it, because i know a lot of people who got help from this place. >> reporter: the thomas fire is just one of many infernos the creek fire at the northern edge of los angeles forcing more evacuations. >> i cannot emphasize the need to evacuate. if not for yourself, but for the safety of our first responders. >> reporter: and in santa clarita, the rye fire forcing the highway to shutdown. firefighters have not been able to examine the scope of the damage done here. they are calling this firefight an uphill battle because of the santa ana winds expected to last throughout the week. diane and kendis?

there in ventura for a moment. there's a seaside town home to 100,000 people. >> kabc chopper pilot was above ventura, showing us how close the flames are to the ocean and to more homes. >> reporter: we are back over the thomas fire, you can see highway 33 come into frame. we're going to fade into satellite. and ojai is up in that area. there is a lot of activity up highway 33. fire on the east side and west side. we're seeing a lot of strike team activity in this area. we believe there are some homes in there. we're going to fade-in to sky dot satellite. you can see all those homes. the fire up on that steep hillside gives you an idea of how steep that terrain is that the fire is on. you can see all the fire here on the north side of the 101 and west side of 33. it is making its

forest. a little bit further to the north and to the west. now there are hotspots all along the fire line, all the way back to highway 150. so there are hotspots all the way around. the bulk of the main fire, the head fire at the left flank, if you will, the south flank continuing to burn here on highway 101. >> what a fascinating look at where the fire's burning, and the update to j.t.'s report there, the fire has now jumped the 101 freeway and has reached the pacific ocean. all the smoke from the fires is making the air quality in that area much more unhealthy. >> you can even see the smoke from space. check out that image. and the l.a. rams are cutting today's practice short because of the air quality. let's check in with paul williams for the forecast in southern california. >> what we have here still a big-time problem with the fire threat throughout southern california bringing windy conditions.

it's been try here anyway. for the last 30 days, it's been a drought situation. then you add to that this high pressure system perfectly place, creating gusty winds, gusting 70 to 80 miles per hour making for critical fire conditions that are only going to get worse. kendis, diane? >> 80-mile-per-hour winds. impressive. and leaders in the middle east and beyond are denouncing president trump's plan to make recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and move the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv. >> this would mark a major shift in u.s. policy and could undermine peace efforts. some groups are calling for days of rage. the policy also has many supporters. and in the russia investigation, donald trump jr. is sed

a closed-door interview with the house intelligence committee. lawmakers are expected to question him about a 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer and other officials. nbc news is reporting that the russian attorney told the senate judiciary committee that don jr. asked her if she had evidence of illegal donations to the clinton foundation. she reportedly said he lost interest after she had no information. the white house is not confirming or denying whether president trump plans to pardon michael flynn now that flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. cecelia vega asked the president directly. >> reporter: with mike flynn's plea bargain creating new problems for the white house, the president was tight lipped on whether he would pardon his former national security adviser. any plans to pardon general flynn? >> thank you very much. >> any plans to pardon general flynn, mr. president? his reaction is decidedly mixed, from uncertainty -- >> we'll see what happens.

>> i feel very badly. he's led a very strong life. hillary clinton lied many times to the fbi. nothing happened to her. flynn lied, and they destroyed his life. >> reporter: former fbi director james comey testified he had no reason to believe hillary clinton lied. flynn agreed to cooperate fully with the special counsel investigation and the white house press secretary left the door open to a possible pardon. >> would he consider pardoning him? >> i'm not aware that that has come up or any process or decision on that front. i think before we start discussing the pardons for individuals, we should see, you know, what happens in specific cases. i haven't had the conversation with him. i don't feel that it's necessary until, you know, you get further down the road and determine whether or not that's even something needed. >> reporter: and we are also learning about the price tag for robert mueller's investigation

months of his investigation, $6.7 million. cecelia vega, abc new, the white house. thank you, and former white house strategist, steve bannon has hit the campaign trail for alabama senate candidate roy moore. bannon bashed members of congress who haven't supported moore, calling them cowards. jones said moore should go to jail, not the u.s. senate. and terry crews is making new claims in a lawsuit stemming from an alleged groping incident. he accused talent agent adam venit of repeatedly groping him. the new lawsuit claims venit and other executives have since tried to silence hem and hurt his career. the suit also alleges that the agency condoned the allegedly predatory behavior by failing to punish him for it.

all right, so a wise woman once said, the way i see it, if you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. >> mm-hm. that wise woman? dolly parton. in taipei, they put up with a lot of rain but with a big payoff. check out this rainbow painting the skies for nearly nine hours. >> yeah. and according to the news, taiwan news, two university professors documented the rainbow on november 30th, lasting from 7:00 a.m. to nearly 4:00 p.m. you can see it there. >> so bright. >> and it lasts forever. >> i didn't even know that was possible. >> for nine hours. that gives you plenty of time to go chase a rainbow and see if you can -- coming up, the irish town with a strange claim. >> despite assurances that a nearby plant is safe and up to code, residents still claim that

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updating our top story, at least three major fires are burning across southern california. the largest is the thomas fire in ventura county. it has now jumped the 101 freeway which had been keeping the fire away from some homes near the beach. tuning now to a warning from ups. some deliveries are delayed. it is struggling to handle an overwhelming increase in shipments from online orders. so ups is adding up to two additional days for package delivery time and is scheduling many of its drivers for 70-hour workweeks. >> wow, lots of overtime there. hopefully they're staying safe. and we're getting new details about another close call between two airliners. this time at jfk. >> a passenger airline was lined up on the wrong runway with another plane sitting in its path. here's david kerley. >> reporter: the appen

call at jfk when the pilots of a mexican jetliner lined up to land on the wrong runway. a delta jet was ready to take off. the pilot of that commuter jet sees a bigger plane coming right at him. 880, an a-320, was cleared to land. but they lined up to 13 right, which is about 10,000 feet to the south. that's where the delta jet was getting ready to roll for takeoff. that is the mexican jetliner going around. it's unclear how close it actually came to the delta jet at the end of that same runway, david kerley, washington. >> frightening moments there in the sky and on the ground. when we come back, a big

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♪ tweedly deedly dee ♪ tweedly tweedly dee ♪ tweet, tweet >> we are tweet tweeting in "the skinny," because twitter is out with its list of most-tweeted about things in 2017. >> twitter seemed to follow our lead on a lot of thing. everything that we liked this year they apparently liked. >> you're welcome, internet. already, let's get to it then, shall we? the most-tweeted-about tv show. >> no surprise here, "game of thrones." >> because it's our favorite. >> exactly. the epic fantasy series aired the second to last season with many questions being answered for fans. >> they like that. >> john snow is alive. >> well done. >> thank you. >> next, the most tweeted-about athlete, duh, obviously, the

portuguese soccer superstar, the best soccer player in the world. cristiano ronaldo. he's having a big year on and off the field, with the birth of three children in 2017. count that! >> how many baby mamas? >> moving on. >> i think there are a few. he's got some bills to pay. the most-tweeted-about celebrity is our favorite. korean boy band, ptf. >> yes! >> only last month they performed for the first time on u.s. television. they're like -- >> they're huge. >> they're like korean 1d. we're still trying to figure out the choreography. >> i like it. >> they clearly like the knicks. >> and here's the biggest surprise of them all. number one, the most popular retweet goes to? carter wilkerson. who the heck is carter wilkerson you ask?

well, that's the guy who asked wendy's how many retweets he needed for free chicken nuggets for a year. they said 18 million, he got 3.6 million, but they gave him the nuggets anyway. >> no fair, no fair, i tweeted. >> so we've got "game of thrones," cristiano ronaldo, btf and chicken nuggets. my list of favorite things. >> a lot of people were tweeting in the meantime, about sports illustrated. sports person of the year award. >> mm-hm. >> big surprise of the evening. beyonce. exciting the crowd as she presented colin kaepernick with the magazine's mohammad ali legacy award. >> that's the thing about sports awards, somehow beyonce gets the first message. colin kaepernick said i would continue to work for the people with or without the nfl and outside on the red carpet, they

the sixers. joel embiid and texas star j.j. watt, rockin' the red carpet there. >> wait a second, let's expand that photo there. there he is. houston astros, jose altuve, sandwiched between the two men of lesser talent. relatively speaking. >> at 5'7", he was named as national league mvp. and he has a world series ring. quite a difference there. >> next to the 7 footer and has a way to go. he's on the sixers. >> they have an a winning record right now. >> they do. and ryan reynolds is suiting up again for ""deadpodeadpool 2" >> and the latest video he's winning over my affections. let's just say that. >> there he is.

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♪ oh, is it a hump day? this happened and speaking of hump day. >> oh, boy. >> we're going to start with one of the most exciting places in the world to live. county cork ireland. >> exciting. one way of putting it. the town of ringus skitty. many residents there are claiming a nearby pharmaceutical plant is having uplifting effects on them. >> what kind of effects? >> the plant manufactures the active ingredient for viagra pills. and they say something is in the air. as

one whiff and you're stiff. >> that doesn't mean you're dead. >> i'm going to leave it alone. the company says it's a myth. but even the company admits it's an amusing one. >> who wants to go to ireland? road trip? >> in other news, flights to ringus skitty have sold out. >> how's the air conditioning out there? >> their tourism level is sky rocketing right now. next, we come back across the pond to the great state of new jersey, where friends don't let friends drink and fly drones. >> state lawmakers are considering making it illegal to operate a drone while under the influence. the bill is making its way through the state house to make it a criminal act where violators could face a $1,000 fine and jail time. >> but for the bill to become law, the bill will have to be signed by the outgoing governor who happens to be chris

and if you recall, it was drones that caught him in the act during beachgate, keeping the public away, but not the drones. >> ah. no drinking and droning anymore. >> no, not at -- >> i see. and finally, something that happened on our show yesterday. our attempt, and one of us successful, at the invisible box challenge. >> fake news. >> check it out. so that's the original. the cheerleader doing it. and a lot of people started copying. so we decided that we needed to give it a shot. so there's kendis, kind of pathetic. and then there's mine, kind of awesome. >> yeah. >> but then we realized what sort of trickery diane was up to. >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> she had a little bit of strategiry. >> strategiry? no. >> there w

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making news in america this morning, california inferno. house of homes threatened as flames sweep across neighborhoods. >> we need to get out of here as soon as possible. >> fire on both sides of this highway. this morning the race to save people and animals. the new scenes of destruction. >> we are seeing an entire apartment complex engulfed in flames. >> why the worst may be yet to come. and the iconic cross still standing. also breaking overnight attack plot foiled. suspects heading to court this morning after reported assassination planned targeting the british prime minister. bringing terrorism to her front door in london. steve bannon lashing out. the presiden