>> i didn't think this was possible. this is the first time on the internet it's ever worked. well done, you did it. >> we love watching them play in the snow. swimming in the shnow he's goin to town. >> like me with sugar. >> you? >> you me and a whole lot of people. >> this is the white powder and stuff won't give you diabetes. >> you get a big snow and you think i got to clean everything up. you look at your kids, you're look okay, not so bad. >> not so bad for this dog, either. it's burying its treat in the snow. >> i love it. he's like that will work. >> i'll see you in the spring, bone. >> he does a nice little hold there. he piles the snow back on top of it. this dog survived the entertainment as his owner shovelled away. >> hit me again. it's cold, hit me.

>> i see this as the owner giving two things up. the snow is being cleared and it's playtime. hopefully he's tired out. >> it's a terrier, he'll want to run a marathon after this. >> rich is at it again with a self-driving war. except the self-driving car is not driving e 50 to 85:

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>> self-driving car and it's got a stupid mind of its own. >> that's the voice of rich ferguson and a smart self-driving car except the self-driving car is not driving itself. somebody is controlling the car for him and the audio. >> we'll prank people with messages going to the dash boards via blue tooth to make people think it's a self driving car navigation gone wrong. >> he said destination hong kong. >> no. >> i'll take that trip. >> this is something we've all wanted to say. but if you could put it off on your car, bingo. >> what is going on with this thing? >> let me get my car out of the way. >> parking protected. >> how many of us have wanted to say that to somebody. why did you park like that? >> the guys at google are taking notes. this is a good idea. >> here's the issue, you know, voice detection doesn't work great when you try to adjust talk to your phone. and a car when you're trying to get somewhere will drive you

nuts. >> calling mum -- no! >> i like when it has something to say to the pedestrians. >> your [ bleep ] i stopped. >> i've been watching him for the last ten minutes. >> no. >> of course. >> he'll help him park. >> yeah. >> jaywalker detected. ten points for direct hit. >> dude. >> it hit me. >> his car is going to cause some fights. >> you think? it just keeps going. if you want to watch the whole thing, go to our website and click on tv show or check it out on our mobile app. >> dude, i'm freaking out. >> destination on the left. destination on right. that's all for now we'll see you on the next brand-new episode. leaping

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than just telling them to, quote, chill out. >> oh. i mean, really. what else do you have to do? >> chill out, mate. and after leading police on a slow speed chase through los angeles neighborhoods, this assault suspect appeared ready to surrender waving his arms out of the car window, but then i guess he changed his mind and took off on foot. the cops took aim and fired bean bags at him. then he decided it was time to chill out and surrender for real. this sounds like a scene out of a 34movie. >> the photographer covering this ended up jumping in and becoming part of the story. >> reporter: a terrifying new year's crash caught on camera. by the man who would end up saving that driver's life. >> i put my video camera down, grabbed my fire extinguisher and flashlight and ran across the freeway. >> reporter: just after

3:00 a.m. sunday a news photographer spots this stalled vehicle in the middle of a busy california highway with no caution lights. the car burst into flames trapping the man inside. he springs into action. >> i just got met with flames and smoke. i took a deep breath and managed to pull out his shoulder belt and rip him out. >> reporter: he gets the man out of harm's way just in time. >> less than five seconds to live. >> reporter: the man was rushed to the hospital with minor injuries. >> i couldn't have lived with myself if i didn't try to get him out. >> reporter: the man is expected to survive. california highway patrol called the reporter to help him. >> the man is very lucky he was there at the time. and we are lucky he caught it on camera as well. coming up, tackling the age old problem of texting in frigid

weather. >> touch screen gloves, do they really work? that's next.

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it has nothing to do with the dwlov. there's no sensitivity in this entire body. >> not even on the fingertips? >> no. >> it's a 21 st century problem. >> there's a new crop of touch screen gloves that promise to give you warmth and work on phones. >> reporter: typing in the woco, a pain in more ways than one. regular gloves don't work with touch screens and here's why. the fabric blocks the charge from your finger which activates your phone. nick guy from wire cutter.com evaluated 12 pair of touch screen gloves to figure out how well they work. looking at all these, they don't have those tips. >> the technology has advanced. they sew in silver and copper thread that allow you to use your touch screen gloves.

>> reporter: he camped out in a temperature controlled brewery cooler like this one keeping it consistently frosty, just above freezing while he texted, used apps and played game. now it's my turn. it's cold in here. 37 degrees. first up, the moshi digits. >> these were our favorite. we found they were nice and warm, but we were also able to type well with the thumbs on them. >> reporter: how well can i type in a brewery cooler? well, no typos. >> looks like you did pretty good. >> reporter: get gloves with gripping material on the palm. see how well the phone stays in the glove. and he says watch out for gloves with extra material or seams on the tip. it reduces touch screen ability. gio benitez, abc news. >> and the wire cutter gets a

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>> it had good songs. >> it had a lot of songs. when some expecting parents went to the hospital over the new year's break, they didn't expect to leave there with twins born in separate years. >> that's right. >> minutes apart and yet, a year apart at the same time. what are the odds? >> reporter: new evret arriving during the first minute of 2017. >> i really thought it was going to be pregnant for another day. >> who is this next to him? that is sawyer. same parents. but born in the last few minutes of 2016. and yes, that makes them twins, twins born in two different years, of course, with two different birthdays. a similar thing happened this year in arlington, texas, twin

boys, and in san diego, twin girls, and in salt lake city, twin boys. about one in 2 million odds. better than winning the lottery. to the winning parents, congratulations on kids that are special from day one, or is that day one and day two? abc news. >> it kind of is. that's really cool. >> you are four times more likely to get struck by lightning than have that happen? >> but it clearly happened to quite a few parents over the holiday. >> sure. >> that's the news for this half hour. >> follow us on facebook at wnnfans.com, on twitter as well as on instagram. stay with us for more news this morning.

this morning on "world news now," breaking news. nationwide outage at the country's busiest airports. >> many travelers are returning to a not so pleasant surprised. long lines caused tempers to flare when customs officials had to process people by hand. and storms turning deadly and killing four people in alabama. tornado watches are continuing as high winds are toppling trees. and the growing beef between the world's biggest burger maker and the center of the catholic church. hear why the opening at the vatican is becoming so emotional. and minutes before midnight

on new year's eve hear what the pop diva is saying about who really dropped the ball in times square. it's tuesday, january 3rd. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." we begin this morning. >> good morning, hi. >> good morning, how are you? >> happy new year. >> happy new year to you. >> i was so excited so start things off. are you okay today? >> i'm okay. >> we're starting with breaking news for travelers out there entering the u.s. getting a bit of a nightmare at some of the country's busiest airports. here are some time lapsed videos showing a long line of passengers. >> and heated exchanges in miami. it serves more international flights than any other in the u.s. it was a scene of chaos.

the result of what's called a nationwide customs processing systems outage. >> other airports were washington, dallas, and fort lauderdale. and other others. customs agents had to access national security databases and all travelers were screened during that outage. >> what happened sneer i spoke earlier with our aviation analyst. >> reporter: the problem here is that everything gets delayed because you're not just looking at one computer screen. there's a delicately interlaced system. when it works it gives them a tremendous amount of information of who is on the flight, who is coming in, who is in front of them. when they last entered, all these different pieces of information, and without that interlaced system, they have to get certain parts of it produced on paper, for instance, the list of people inbound on a particular flight or from other

sources, so they're probably not having any problems with doing all the normal things that are done. it just takes twice as long at least, sometimes three to four times as long. it gets to be a pretty big deal if you have a global industry and are used to zipping through using the global entry ma chine. those won't be working and so now everybody is going through the regular lines which, themselves are delayed. you could be looking at an additional hour or two before you get out of the airport. this means that anybody with a domestic connection may well be in trouble. the global entry is one of those systems that has to depend on the main interlaced computer capabilities of cbp. if they go down, if the whole system goes down to any extent, the machines that give you the capability of coming in with global entry will probably go down too. right now this is guess work. we don't know for sure, but more than likely the inconvenience was not only for regular

passengers going through the regular chutes but also those with the enhanced inspection programs, global entry being one, to where they can kind of clear themselves. so far there's no indication that sabotage could be involved. of course, until the final post mortem is done, it's premature to declare it, but more than likely, this being a very closed system, it's highly unlikely there's a system with sabotage or somebody accessing the database from outside. the fact that this is one of the busiest travel days of the year including international travel also probably augers well for the fact that the system can get overloaded or at least has been used to a great extent at a higher level than you would normally have during a normal week. consequently if there's a time for it to break down, not only is this the most convenient, but it's probably the most likely. >> our thanks to john nants?

>> can you imagine? get here to the states a then you have to wait 90 minutes to two hours. >> a lot of people are coming back today to make it back to work today. and some of them might be having to call out. >> yeah. jet lag. >> one more day of vacation, kind of, spent at the airport. and severe storms are pounding the south moving across alabama and georgia. four people died in alabama when a tree fell on their mobile home during a tornado that hit alabama knocking down trees, blocking roads and damaging other buildings as all. all schools in the town already closed today. trees and powers were knocked down leaving thousands without electricity and buildings were damaged. some areas experienced flash flooding after the heavy rain. police have new evidence

behind the nightclub massacre in turkey. they say this is the face of the killer. he's seen getting out of taxi after the shooting that left 39 people dead. they have fingerprints and say they're close to identifying him. at least 12 people have now been arrested in raids, and isis has claimed responsibility calling the attack a response to turkish action against fighters in syria. donald trump is insisting north korea won't have a missile capable of reaching the united states. he says it won't happen. it happens after kim jong-un said preparations have reached the final stage, hinting that a test was imminent. and the president-elect's team is walking back his comments when he suggested he was about to reveal new information on the russian hacking allegations. sean spicer said when trump mentioned knowing things other people do not know, he was

simply talking about sharing his own conclusions. trump is still not accepting intelligence findings showing russia was involved in election hacking. a heart breaking tragedy in texas. four children dead from gas poisoned. it's believed to have been caused by a pesticide. they were honored at a vigil and with gifts. matt gutman has more. >> reporter: an invisible killer striking this amarillo, texas home. >> there are eight people sick in the house. >> reporter: they sought the unconscious kids, four children would ultimately die. >> two kids that are not awake, and a bunch of others that are having a hard time. >> reporter: ten people all from the same family found with severe chemical poisoning from a lethal gas.

amarillo fire officials say it seeped into the mobile home after an occupant sprayed the pesticide to kill rats and mice beneath the house. the family members complained about the smell. the man told officials he sprayed it with water causing a chemical reaction creating that deadly result. when they arrived, rescue crews smelled the chemical. nine firefighters hospitalized as a precaution. >> for them to go all at once is a tragedy that hit home. >> reporter: it is one of the most commonly used agricultural pesticides and it's one of the most common causes of poisoning. unfortunately, there's no known antedote. matt, thank you. now to sports and a somewhat unusual coaching move. less than a week before college football's national title game.

alabama's former offensive coordinator left yesterday so he can focus on his next job as head football coach at florida atlantic university. apparently he had a tense relationship with the head coach. alabama takes on clemson monday on tampa. you can see the game on espn. >> i guess it's sports. london hosted the darts world competition. yeah. going to get stretched out for this. and like in other sports, sometimes you get an idiot who wants in on the action. >> right at the end of the competition, a member of the audience jumped on stage and tried to make off with the championship's trophy. he was stopped by security and escorted off the stage, but fortunately or some might say unfortunately, no one hit him with any darts. >> he's lucky, and it turns out the guy is a member of notorious

internet pranksters. >> he didn't even wait until the competition was over. >> no. >> the final players were still getting ready to throw. that is a brave man that's going to jump in front of competitive people and try to steal their trophy when ty great aim and armed with sharp objects? >> we've seen this video clip a lot of times, but the thing as i watch it that i'm completely amazed by, look at how many people are into darts as a sport. are you kidding me? >> they got to take lessons for when they're at the bar. >> i guess. >> bet i can't make this? >> i've been to the world championship. right. all right. coming up. something you definitely don't want to do is dart in front of a police car. >> except if you're this guy. he apparently did and ran straight into a cruiser, smashing the windshield in the process. we'll tell you why.

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instead of running from them, police responding to a call found the suspect running at them. that guy. allegedly drunk hitting the cruiser's windshield really hard causing that sort of damage and injuring slightly two officers inside checking on a complaint of a disturbance. i think they found it. now to a texas couple this morning that is suing apple.

blaming the tech giant in part for the death of their five-year-old daughter. >> the little girl was killed when a 22-year-old driver slammed into the family's car while allegedly using face time. >> reporter: apple is under fire after this fatal car crash in dallas. the family of five-year-old mariah is now suing the tech giant claiming the video chat face time caused the accident. the driver was allegedly using the apple app when he kreshcras into the car. he is now charged with manslaughter. >> apple knew better and did not do better. >> reporter: the attorneys claim apple had technology to lock out the ability of drivers to use the face time application on the apple iphone while driving a motorcycle but did not install it. and never warned users of the potential dangers.

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