if you have ever had the good fortune to wander into tootsie's or roberts or listen to the bussinger on lower broadway, you know nashville may hold more musical talent per square foot than anywhere outside carnegie hall stage. lured by the star is born plot lines we see in abc's nashville, dreamers unload their guitar cases there on a daily basis. what does it really take to make it in music city? abc's juju chang met one rising star who is risking everything for one big shot. >> reporter: we are backstage at the grand ole opry, moments away from showtime. with two of country music's unlikely new stars. >> do you still get nervous? >> yes. >> the big red curtain goes up on the tuesday night opry. >> reporter: it is a school night, but it is time to go to work with mom and dad as their

entourage. >> would you welcome lennon and mazie. >> reporter: their cover of the lum ne hit is the most viewed this year. >> we knew they were talented. i didn't think i would be dealing with it this early. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the 14 and 9-year-old sisters take center stage as the youngest stars of tv's nashville. >> they're amazing. >> it is so awesome. >> really, really, happened so quick. it has been such a blessing. an overnight success thanks to a show that makes being discovered look so easy. >> i'll make you a deal. you get three songs together. i will cut the demo for you myself. >> that is amazing. ♪ just another picture to burn >> reporter: add to that, country mega stars like taylor

swift fanning the flames drawing a jen ration generation of hope music city. to find out what lures them, we spent a week in nashville, meeting kids, filling casting calls, lining up, dreaming of stardom. ♪ not going nowhere >> either a rock star or degree in musical theater. >> reporter: willing to do just about anything. >> i can whistle. to sacrifice even their childhood for a long shot chance at fame and fortune. casting coach regina moore has her eye on a new talent, an eager teenager chasing feign. >> my name is anna. i'm an aspiring country music singer. >> reporter: she left her family and childhood friend behind hoping to be nashville's next breakout star. we meet up with her just 24

hours before a once in a lifetime opportunity. >> i haven't seen her in a year. i know she has been working really hard at it. >> yes, she is so much more comfortable performing. amazing. >> you have blossomed a lot. >> this is where dreams come true. >> to help her chase her dreams, mom quit her own job and left her husband and daughter back in south carolina. >> why cried every time we would leave south carolina. >> reporter: together they moved here to nashville. renting a tiny apartment over a friend's garage. >> this is our bedroom. we call it the famous house. >> everybody who lived here at some point has a record deal. >> now a lucky break she thinks may get her there. thanks to a songwriting friend she landed a gig at nashville's bluebird cafe. it is less than five hours away.

>> a very big opportunity. she has no idea who may walk in, off the street, that is a producer, writer, who ever. >> reporter: the legendary club where garth brooks was discovered. >> hey, y'all, i am taylor. i just moved here six months ago. and this is my first time playing at the bluebird. >> reporter: where a 14-year-old unknown, named taylor swift landed her first record deal. and the nightclub is so key to the nashville story line, that the tv show has painstakingly re-created the cafe on the sound stage. >> the exact same. they're like the scratches. like the exact same. >> reporter: they know what it is to be discovered thanks to the bluebird. >> one night performed the song or something. and, just videotaping it. some one posted it. like how much it happens. and thank god for the person who posted it. are you nervous. i would be so nervous.

>> reporter: the performance helped land them their roles on the tv show. real pictures of you on the fake set. this is great. >> yes. >> reporter: back in the real nashville, we are just hours away from anna lisa's big debut at the bluebird. ♪ i know that your bad days, mistakes, heartaches are all about ♪ >> reporter: she plays us herte. one shoo he has written and plao perform. there is millions of people here, tons of talent. why should it be you? >> i believe in what i do so much. there is not another anna lisa. >> hope she gets signed at the bluebird. >> reporter: mom knows the odds astronomical, her expectations are running high. >> i would love nothing more. >> what makes you emotional? >> the work that goes into that. >> reporter: a lot of sacrifice. >> a lot of work. a lot of --

a lot of work. and it's not like college. it is not lick thke they could school and you know, if your grade are good and they get to become a doctor. this is real. >> if you sing better than aretha franklin, adele, who ever. that doesn't mean you are going to be famous. >> reporter: still a lottery ticket. ♪ with or without you >> reporter: aaron knows a thing or two about timing. he spent a decade writing songs and chasing fame in this town. ♪ keep on dreaming >> reporter: he turned his professional heartaches into a hit song for eli young band. >> live from nashville, t tennessee. >> reporter: heap is tnow he is doing the singing. ♪ i want to be your friday night sweet grass summertime sunshine ♪ >> reporter: "friday night" recently began climbing the

charts. >> weird you are a new artist. been around writing songs for people. >> might take ten years, might take one night. >> reporter: he and his fellow songwriters, try to conjure up the next big hit. >> bluebird cafe on sunday night. line out the door that if give you a number. ♪ my hands are shaking so i close my eyes ♪ later that night we are minutes from anna lisa taking the stage.

suddenly she spots a face in the crowd. and realizes the stakes truly could not be higher. a vip guest who could change everything. the record mogul who signed taylor swift in the room is stag to see the show. he cam to talk to us about his incredible discovery. ♪ i can't believe you did it again ♪ >> she was really born to do this, so cute to look back. she was look a charging bull. >> scott is a music industry heavyweight. who has the power to make anna lisa a star. as ceo of big machine he built a record label with artists, reba, tim mcgraw. the crown jewel of his empire -- taylor swift. >> not everybody is going to make it. >> it brings me great joy to bring up my friend and a

fantastic new artist she is going to sing for you. an annalise! >> hey, nashville! >> i got your missed calls. ♪ i swear i have heard it all ♪ save it because i've got it ♪ ♪ everybody >> thank you guys so much. thank you. >> why are you looking at me? that's you. ♪ every time i try >> if that's her best.

>> reporter: there will be no record deal tonight. before the night is over for analise. nashville shows the once again that overnight success does not come easy. ♪ in a music town >> there is no plan b for me, because if there was i would run to it. i don't want to do that, i don't want to sacrifice anything that could happen. i felt down one day. >> it is not necessarily about fame and fortune to me. i could be doing this level for the rest of my life. i would be okay. everything about what want to do is -- is right in front of me. ♪ make or break it give or take it you're almost famous now ♪ ♪en ein a music town ♪

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answer why it happened. there is good reason how a man could walk into a government building with a gun and move floor to floor for an hour before police could take him down. new surveillance video of aaron alexis offers cautionary clues and pea year thomas digs in. this is aaron alexis armed with a sawed off shotgun, hunting innocent victims seen here for the first time in new and chilling fbi video. it started as a routine monday at the washington navy yard. alexis shows his pass and is waved in by a security guard. just before 8:00 a.m. surveillance cameras capture him driving into a parking garage. moments later walking in through the front door of building 197. stop, rewind. the sawed off shotgun might be in the backpack you see right here. but there is no metal detector, no bag check. alexis is supposed to be there. he has been hired as a civilian

contractor, working on the building's computer system. according to the fbi he first goes to a men's bathroom on the fourth floor. there may believe he ready himself for the rampage, leaving his bag behind. we next see alexis armed with a shotgun, checking doors, peeking around corners, looking for someone, anyone to ambush. slow down the tape. look at how methodical he is. calm yet urgent. trying to catch some one unsuspecting. watch closely, he sees some people and ducks behind a wall. when you look again, you can see the intent. the stalking. and over the course of approximately one hour shoots and kills a dozen victims, wounding four more. and today -- the next official explanation on what drove alexis to kill. >> mr. alexis was a mentally unstable individual. he was able to obtain a firearm. >> the shotgun is the primary weapon. on it he etched a number of

carvings including "end to the torment" better off this way, and my elf weapon. alexis had been holding voices and believed he was bombarded by microwaves, something naval authorities knew about. >> there are multiple indicators that alexis held a delusional belief he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency or elf electromagnetic waves. >> in his computer files, the fbi found a perhaps telling message. ultralow frequency attack what i have been subject to for three months. to be honest that's what has driven me to this. >> where did the system break down? >> various encounters across the country. various encounters with doctors as well. i can't comment on where it may have broken down. >> red flags were clearly missed.

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>> we are going sailing in the feed frenzy. land lovers who don't know notes from knots. knew america had no chance to win the america's cup. the team of sailing goes to the team that wins nine races first. and the team from new zealand was winning 8-1 a week ago. with the early lead today. the kiwis could almost taste the champagne. somehow, oracle team usa staged the most amazing come back. winning seven straight in the squirrely wind of san francisco bay. and taking today's finale by 44 second. a comeback never before seen in the 162-year history of this race. while the old -- while they may be the same. the sailors who held it in the early days wouldn't recognize the boats of today, multihulled,

computer tuned. fiber carbon monsters with a net deck the size of a baseball infield. a rigid sail taller than the statue of liberty. >> hard to describe how xil ratixil -- how xil rati how exhilarating it is. >> i got a chance to ride the oracle boat, as i chatted with the captain. there was a boom and massive shudder as we hit a seal at 35 miles an hour. poor thing. but just a tiny taste of the danger that comes with racing, almost three times faster than the wind. as oracle tried to push the technology even further. one of the boats capsized and broke apart last october. and many thought team owner larry ellison would have to eat $100 million worth of crow. but the self-made billionaire gets the last laugh. according to cup rules gets to choose the boat, style and venue for the next america's cup in a few years. will he push the catamaran design further in the future or

reinvent the mono hull. who knows? as the rich and wind-weathered partied on the bay tonight there is a safe bet there will never "omg! insider," the top trending stories, you need to know. >> i had a pretty aggressive tumor. >> dr. drew's surprise cancer admission. our one on one on the secret he or more than two years. >> was there a problem because of the doctor you think you know better. >> that's how i almost got myself in trouble. >> dr. oz on prognosis, recovery kept fradical surgery. >> i was a mess. i had to lie down during commercial breaks. >> lamar defending khloe. from when stars collide, leah with josh duhamel and a little baby gift. >> madonna parties with her ex. >> madonna surprising her besty. >> and grandma gloria estefan on her kids, new music and miley cyrus. >> what do you make of miley cyrus?

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with prostate cancer. >> i had a pretty aggressive tumor going on and thank god it's out now. >> wow, if they don't get a tumor, what happens? >> it can be spread, it can be deadly. >> here is the time line. drew diagnosed in 2011. tumor actively monitored. this summer he underwent surgery in july. >> explain the surgery. it is radical and you take your prostate out. >> radical prostatectomy. they put robots in you. i have multiple little wounds in my abdomen. i was laid up, really laid up for a good ten days. went home the next day. on hln, i had to lie down during commercial breaks but i was able to work. >> as i said, i have cancer. >> next, media strategy. >> i had my prostate removed in july and my executive producer ran in here and said, you say you don't have cancer any more? indeed i'm a cancer patient. just before telling his hln can viewers the news, people.com broke the story.