>> tonight, they protect our borders but at what cost? after complaints of excessive fierce, it's the newew improved border patrol with body ms. state-of-the-art training. and a new appreciion of what being on the other side of 50,000 volts means. plus models of the midwest. the hunt is on for the world's next supermodel. >> i hope to hear from you! >> after finding carly clos in a missouri mall and ashton curbkutcher in a bar, searching the midwest for the next one. dancing queen. bindy irwin is riding on a wave of herccess. why she's hanging up the high heels and heading back into nature to try to save the animals. but first the "nightline 5." >> youou get useto sweaty odors in your car. you think it smells fine but your passengers smell this.

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se thanks for joining us. protecting our borders has never been a more important security concern. the people tasks with doing just that rently coming under fire, accused off using compelsive force. now the agency's top performer is showing us new tools that may help protect agents, mounting cameras everywhere along the border, including on agents themselves.

rrespondent jim afly lyavila gives us a rare look inside border patrol training. >> reporter: you're watching the first videos ever seen outside of the government o of a massive experiment by the u.s. customs and border protection along america's borders. [ speakingoreign language ] >> reporter: for the last year borderer patrol agents have been testing fferent model body cameras. these cameras are the most controversial part of an 18-month retraining program for some 21,000 border agents, the largest federal agenc to try them after a series of excessive force complaints, incidents like the beating and tasing of aun staus i don't hernandes rojas, caught on cell phone video. he collapsed and died resisting deportation along the border in san diego. the department of justice ruled the agents broke no laws and

but not in this case. 16-year-old jose rodriguez. a mexican citizen shot eight times in the shadow of the border fence that divides gales, arizona, from nogales, mexico. the border patrol claimed he was thoughing rocks at the asian. fusion unearthed a witness who clai the boy was not involved in the rock-throwing but instead was an innocent victim. jose carlo told fusion he saw two shots from two different places and no one from tst government ever came to interview him. last month a grand jury indicted the ant involved on murder charges. his trial is scheded for january and he has pled not guilty. the southern border communities coition, a watchdog group, claims 40 other ditz due to excessive force by border patrol

since 2010. >>he amount of executeny, attention, and frankly the lack of being able to work with the public as a result of that increased suspicion that the agents are involved in excessive force. >> reporter: reform commissioner gil kerlikowske ss the shootings, all before his time on the job, harms his relationship with the community. he thinks camerasill vindicate the majority of his agents and hold accountable the overly aggressive. >> we've had almost 400 assaults on border patrol agents. almost every single one of those in the southwest border. >> the body cams, how will they help your agents s end violt situations? most of the experience with body worn cameras in law enforcement has been that it has actually exonerated an agent or an officer, because it's one additional piece of evidence about what occurred. >> reporter: the united states

todaypends more money on border control than ever before. more agents, more technology, more weapons. $18 billion a year, 8,700 hundred cameras watching the wall, watching the ports of entry. from helium balloons the terrain. and soon cameras on the agents themselves at a cost of tens of millionsf dollars. >> there's one more, a total of five. >> i think in the long run with more cameras we'll prove that over and over again these agents treat people the way i've seen them treat peoplen a very humane way. we've had a relentless focus on tactics, on new policy, on equipment,n training, and body-worn cameras will be a part of that. >> like this state the art simulateor at a train facility where i experience firsthand how the experience can get out of hand. >> this is a colt m-4, one of

the weapons we use. this is noifferent than any weapon you might find in the field other than it's being converted over with the laser kit. >> reporter: first i'm confronted with a tragic movie theateter activ shooter scene. it requires quick response. and snap life and death judgments. in all, i managed to mistakenly shoot three civilians. >> i shot somebody bad. >> reporter: be shot at least twice myself. before finally bringing down the gunmnman. >> this might be a once in a career experience, but the more we can expose them to these kinds of things the better for us. and the better for the public. >> reporter: the next scenario was more akin to the everyda work of a border patrol agent. i'm given a rock to hide behind and attempt an arrest of smugglers at the border. >> we'd look at i it a cover.

would duck and cover. >> fair enough, all right. >> reporter: border prol agents trained with a less than lethal taser.r. >> tase, tase, tase! >> what did you feel your body do? >> just -- no control. you're tensed up. if it ever comes down to an encounter where i'm defending myself i'm going to use it. i know what the effects are. >> reporter: agents are also getting a new arsenal of less than lethal weapons. >> our field commanders determine what tool best works in their aor -- >> reporte like a wide variety of nonlethal bullets, pepper sprays, chemical sprays. >> we'll launch a bunch of projecles either on the ground or infrastructure, on top of a fence maybe getting ready to throw rocks, we can hit the top of the fence with pepper balls, disperse pepper powder in the air, makes him cough, stop, get off the nce, get back.

>> reporter: in the past agents often responded to rocks with guns. leading to fatalities and lawsuits. for jose rodriguez's mom, she says another tool that could change behaviorould be to punish the man who kill the her son. and now awaits trial. >> reporter: life and death on the american frontier. and the man in charge who hopes new technology will make a difference. for "nightline," i'm jim avila in mcallen, texas. up next, the hunt is on for america's next supermodel. why your chances of getting discovered may be just as good if you happen to be in the midwest. america's newest dancing queen. why bindy irwin is hanging up

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it's not even thanksgiving yet but already the race is under way in new york t to get ready for spring fashion week. the search is on for that next

but you don't have to be in new york, paris or milan to get discovered. turns out middle america is a gold mine for fresh-faced untapped modeling potential. tonight abc's mara schiavocampo takes us on the hunt for america's next supermodel. >> she's tall, long legs, she's cute. >> in the blue? >> reporter: mary and jeff clark are high-fashion model scouts, combing the cros of teeny bopper concert venues and small-town malls. >> you like her? >> yeah. >> reporter: on the hunt for fashion's next it girl or guy. >> do yomodel already? >> no, ma'am. >> you're so beautiful. you both are. how old are you? >> 17. >> can i give you a card? >> reporter: with a glance they know if a girl has runway potential. >> you're so beautiful. >> thank you. >> i'd love to talalko you about it, talk to your parents, so that they know. have them go to our website. nice to meet you, i hope to hear from you >> thank you. >> bye!

>> she's at an age she could really pursue this on a bigger scale. she's absolutely beautiful. >> reporter: mary and jeff say ththe midwesis an untapped gold mi for supermodels in the making. >> would you be interested in modelling? >> reporter: the husba and wife team's business took off when mary discovered this guy at an iowa bar. yep. that's ashton kutcher. >> tl me about ashton. what stood out? >> i remember thinking he was gorgeous. really beautiful. and big personality. extremely confident. right out of the gate. i was like, whoa! ye. >> reporter: here's ashton at his humble beginning. his first modeling job. selling $20 jeans for montgome ward. and then there's supermodel carly gls. one of the highest-paid models in the world. who they found in a missouri mall model search. >> carly at the time was 13 years old. 5'6".

major growth spurt. at that point i think she was maybe 5'9". >> three inches and you were like, yes! >> yeah. yes. >> reporter: they run their mom and pop operation out of their basement in darden prairie, missouri. >> this is our activive rosterf models that wewe have th are traveling around the world, different markets. >> yeah, probably out of those 15 -- >> probably three will work out. >> reporter: mary and jeff say their latest discovery, 20-year-old elijah harrison -- >> do you have a farmer's tan? >> reporter: and 18-year-old hazel crew, are on the verge of something big. >> go get it. sheep are so dumb. >> reporter: hazel still lives in iowa with her family on this 125-year-old sheep farm.

first runway shows in paris for designers scaparelli and ralf and russo. >> you can't hold back, be that y sheep farmer. >> repeporter: hel is on her way. elelijah is out to take his first step, a trip to new york city. mary and jeff have set up a meeting with an agent, the same one who launched channing tatum's career. that's a lot of pressure for a guy they found four months ago at a gas station in hannibal, missouri. >> he walked in front of us. we both were like -- didn't really say much to each other, just jumped out of the car and went in. >> which is always the best sign. >> where you both agree? >> yes, and we don't even have to talk. >> i noticed this guy just kind of checking me out. and i'm like, dude. what's your problem? >> he had the height, he had the build. really chiseled. >> i had never thought about a career in fashion or the fashion industry. >> the right person looks at him

and says, i love this guy. boom. it can go like this. >> come over this way a little. >> reporter: mary and jeff are spending months of their time preparing alijah. >> be a little more relaxed. >> like that. just how you are right now. >> reporter: and investing thousands of dollars in test shoots. >> it looks tense. maybe dig in deep. find something that's like, oom, know what i mean? >> reporter: with no guaranteed commission unless he gets signed in new york and starts booking work. >> he's so -- fearless. >> reporter: the stakes are high for him too. he dropped out of school and quit his job just to give modeling a shot. >> i think we got it. >> yeah. good job. >> that's a wrap. >> yes! >> reporter: a few days later, alijahoards the second plane he's ever be on and arrives in new york for the first time. his father don by his side. >> i certainly wasn't going to

let my youngster come all the way to new york city all by himself. much. the biggest city i've been to is st. louis. my dream is to travel the world. this might be my first step. it is pretty overwhelming. this is so different than anything i've ever seen or been a part of. i have so many feelings going a little nervous. excited. anxious. like when they say it's delayed they're not kidding. >> reporter: it's time for the meetg with the agent that could change his whole life. >> let me see your hair. >> reporter: at soul art management, jason canner is the guy he's been waiting to meet. >> my name's alijah harrison, 20 years old, from hannibal, missouri. >>eporter: he struts his stuff. >> okay, guys. >> let's go in the office. >> have a chitchat. >> the shape that you're in is perfect. so there's nothing to change. just i want to know exactly how

we definitely want to sign you. >> right on. >> cool. >> congratulations. >> yeah, thanks. >> cool.l. welcome. >> thank you. >> the trajectory that alijah harrison could have would be shows for either versace, calvin klein, louis vuitton, tommy hilfiger would be interested in the states. >> it's like a dream. >> it was just a sweet moment. those are the moments that you don't forget. that's why we love what we do. >> reporter: it's just the ginning for alijah. but for mary andnd jeff th're already thinking about their next big find. >> in the back of your mind you are thinking, when's the next scouting trip? even right now on my watch it says, taylor swift, denver. we're always thinking of where we're going to find the next person. >> yeah. >> reporter: for "nightlin" mara schiavocampo in new york.

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america's just crowned its new dancing queen. and king. bindi irwin and derek hough are the newest champions of "dancing with the stars" taking home the

her next challenge and her crocodile hunter dad would be proud. here's abc's nick watt. >> bindi and derek! >> reporter: a 17-year-old from the australian outback won it all. >> champions of "dancing with the stars"! >> reporter: where does bindndi irwin get that spirit? her dad, the late great steve. >> oh, crikey! >> reporter: the crococodile hunt cher made steve and baby bindi household names. steve was killed by a stingray in 2006. and just before the final bindi posted this family snap writing, the day before i had to wave good-bye to my hero without knowing it would be the last time. but dad, i know you walk beside me always and your strength lives within me. i love you. >> probably two weeks after dad passed away that i said to mom, so when are we going to start filming again?

>> i think that i'm able to use all of these different avenues to spread my message. >> reporter: and this is her message. >> ery time we lose an animal species, it's kind of like losing a brick from the house. pretty soon the house falls down. >> reporter: bindi will hang up the high heels and pull back on a pair of muddy boots, helping mom run the world-famous australia zoo. >> we're the busiest wildlife hospital on planet earth. >> reporter: they've rescued and rehabbed 58,000 animals in the past 10 years. >> we have conservation projects globally. helping animals like rhinos in kenya, tigers in sumatra, we work with elephants in cambodia. it's a phenomenal project. >> is there going to be a day youvictory? >> it's kind of one of those things where you wake up and say, thas it, i've saved the world, now i'm going to be an astronaut. >> or pro dancer. >> a pro dancer, exactly. >> thank you for changing my life!

>> reporter: queen of the outback, now queen of the dance floor. i'm nick watt for "nightline," los angeles. >> our hearty congratulations. thanks for watching abc news. "world news now" is coming up soon with overnight breaking news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow. as always we're online at ab the "insider" from hollywood, your 24/7 celebrity conversation. there were a couple of people at "the view" who were very unfriendly and uninviting. they were just mean and bitter. >> nene leakes throwing shame calling "the view" mean girls. >> again. >> i'm with joy behar firing back today. >> it's not true. we were not to her. we did not bully her. >> then bob saget blasts his fellow tv dad and mentor bill cosby.

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