[ inaudible ] playing crades. >> dr. >> how is playing the guitar anything. >> that was a joke from our first date. >> that's true. that is a whole different language when you can just look at your partner. >> we should not be able to do that -- we should be able to do that now. we've been together long enough. >> it gets to our bloopers folder. >> withering heights. >> amazing. >> all that [ inaudible ] kissing. of course. >> now it's my turn. >> time for the mate. just one word. >> single. >> no. that's just one word. >> that was going to be my guess. >> bachelor. >> nick. you would have fit right in at this party. >> lonely. >> how did you do that? >> you know what, you've been here less than a year and already you over here talkin' trash as a single man. >> hey hey hey y'all forget i've only been married for a year. >> i know this guy.

i was this guy. >> you become the laid owe on the couch. >> lonely. >> you have. >> it's a fish. >> it's not. it's [ inaudible ]. >> no. >> oh, that is so shade. >> it's supposed to be one word not two. get that one word right. >> sad. disappointed. >> desperate. >> what. >> that's wrong. that is wrong. >> read between the lines. >> it's no matter how far he goes with the most ridiculous obvious clues for what he's trying to communicate they always end up at -- >> single. >> oh, dear god. i'm so alone. >> it's all weighed down on him. >> fish. >> i see it. it's a fish. >> such a pain in the -- >> bahooney. >> yeah. >> well, we are laughing ours off. >> we'll see you on the next brand new episode of "right this

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up. so what you're looking at is called the fire fall. it's got visitors flocking from all over the sun hits the horse tail fall at just the right angle making the water to appear like lava going over a cliff. it's a natural phenomenon occurring for about two weeks every february and it lasts only for a few minutes. >> so cool. >> during sunset. >> sunset. >> all right. for the north crews are working in a race against time scrambling to try to repair critical damage to america's tallest dam. >> even as thousands of families can return home they're being told to be on hot stand bid ready to leave at a moment's notice. >> reporter: a scramble to protect the nation's tallest

dam. new storms and heavy rain just hours away. 1,200 tons of material now being brought in every hour to reinforce the oroville dam's emergency spillway, including giant bags of rocks. officials say the lake levels falling 20 feet since sunday. this is how the release of all that water is affecting people some 30 miles downstream. they're covered in several feet of water. abc news learning environmental groups warned state officials about potential erosion issues with that emergency spillway more than a decade ago. the temporary fixes to this main spillway and the emergency spillway will be challenged tonight as those storms move in. the permanent fixes they have planned could cost as much as $00 million. kayna whitworth, abc news, oroville, california. >> you have to feel for those people. they were just finally allowed to go back to their homes. they may have to be evacuated again. >> the government had been warned for quite some time about

the dangers of this dam. it's being called the new culinary craze. >> from black salt to pink salt, do gourmet salts really live up to the claims and the price tags? od. i just took new mucinex clear and cool. ah! what's this sudden cooling thing happening? it's got a menthol burst. you can feel it right away. wow, that sort of blind-sided me. and it clears my terrible cold symptoms. ahh! this is awkward. new mucinex clear & cool. feel the menthol burst. while powerful medicine clears your worst cold symptoms. start the relief. ditch the misery. let's end this. ok, it says you apply the blue okone to me.y this. here? no. ah ok, here? maybe you should read the directions. have a little fun together, or a lot.

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fancier than ever. gourmet varieties like him mail lan pink and hawaiian black showing up on store shelves costing anywhere from $10 to more than $270 a pound. some chefs saying high end salts are not only tastier but also better for you. >> the great thing about this salt is all of the trace minerals that are still intact naturally. >> healthier salt based on its dna to the human body. >> the health benefits associated with high mineral salts are not entirely clear. the thinking is minerals are porl important to human health. if you're going to choose a salt, you may, as well choose a salt that has more minerals in it. the reality is it may or may not make a really big difference. >> reporter: but do they taste better? we wanted to find out. gma asking chef james to prepare a taste test. he seasoned chicken breasts with three different salts, kosher salt at $3 a box, himalayan pink

salt at $10 a jar, and french sea salt at almost $50 a jar. we invited three food professionals, a chef, a cookbook author and a culinary student to dig in. >> on three, flip your card around and show me which one you like the best., three. >> two of our tasters picked the most expensive salt as their favorite. >> i actually liked that it was -- you really got the salty flavor of it. >> reporter: when it came to picking the priciest salt, our cookbook author was fooled by the affordable kosher salt thinking that was the most expensive one. >> my hats off to kosher. i really thought it was the fancy one. >> reporter: gourmet salt manufacturers tell us they don't make specific health claims, but believe their mineral-rich salts are a better choice. according to one saltmaker, natural minerals in even small amounts can certainly come into play with our nutrition. mara schiavocampo, abc news, new

york. >> this is a big d over salt because regular table salt is rinsed and you know pasteurized or something along those lines to take out impurities but they also have mineral s youneed. that's why people say the natural salt is better. it's very confusing. > it is very confusing. there's no debate over the prowess of salt bay. so let's talk about our favorite salt bey. here he is showing off some of his moves to simone biles. >> so both of them were at the larose world sports awards on valentine's day. the olympic medalist gymnast shared this video on twitter, happy as can be, tweeting out got my food seasoned by the one and only. >> it's almost like a cobra move the way he does it. >> it's like when you do is the gym this way or that way. he's definitely trying to show off the salt bey guns. >> how huge this guy is. leo dicaprio was there in his restaurant.

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so you saw "hidden figures" topping the nonfiction best seller list. question this morning, could there be a hidden meaning inside the weekend's latest single? >> it's apparently the latest step in the singer's on going feud with justin bieber who we just heard there all over selena gomez. here's abc's dan harris. ♪ i'm trying to put you in the worst mood ♪ >> reporter: it's the beef that keeps on giving. the friction between celine nape gomez and justin bieber lives on and this time it's about a certain star boy. ♪ what do you mean >> go mess has been spotted with the weekend over the past several weeks and it seems to have the biebs asking what do you mean? ♪ what do you mean >> following the weekend's grammy performance. ♪ i feel it coming, i feel it coming babe ♪ >> this past weekend, bieber took to instagram live to troll his fellow canadian. >> at the moment, star boy by

the weekend. >> reporter: only to burst out in laughter. this post came just weeks after bieber told tmz he can't liston the weekend. >> can you listen to a weekend song? you can't? why not? >> the weekend remained silent till he dropped a new song called "some way," longside nav in which he an apparently calls out the biebs. the lyrics go. >> i think your girl fell in love with me. ♪ ♪ i just took that check and i know you feeling some ♪ >> biebs has yet to respond to the latest track, don't expect a sorry anytime soon. ♪ say sorry >> dan harris, abc news, new york. >> the weekend may actually want to to apologize but bieber is now saying it's too late now to say sorry. >> and then. >> and then he said, what do you mean? >> and.

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this morning on "world news now," president trump changing his tune. >> after forcing the resignation of his national security adviser, the president is refusing to answer questions on the subject saying only that the media are to blame and calling that general that he just forced out a "wonderful man." our chief white house correspondent breaks it all down. >> new details on the controversial cabinet pick who suddenly pulled his name and why video surfacing of his ex-wife once on oprah may have something to do with did. and it's a dangerous scene in san francisco. people have been evacuated from multiple buildings after a concrete slab got loose dangling over the city streets. meet the mermaids. we're not talking about erielle and her flounder friend. these are real life mer folk. women and men who would prefer us to try on their fins rather

than walk in their shoes to see how they enjoy themselves. also, they don't have any shoes. >> it looks fun. >> it does. >> finns to the left, finns to the right. it is thursday, february 16th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." ♪ >> got a little into the little mermaid there. we will get more into the whole mer mania coming up. we start this morning with president trump changing his tune on the resignation of national security adviser michael flynn. the white house initially said flynn was ousted for losing the president's confidence. >> well, the president now defending flynn blaming instead the intelligence community and the media for his dismissal. he refused to address reports of repeated contact between his campaign and russia during the election season. abc's jonathan karl at the white house. >> reporter: president

trump welcomed the third foreign leader at the white house in less than a week. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. but overshadowing the visit the sudden firing of the man at the center of his national security team, michael flynn. just 24 hours ago, the white house said flynn was ousted for because had he lost the confidence of the president after deceiving the vice president about lis conversations with the russian ambassador. >> general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he has been treated very, very unfairly by the media, as i call it, the fake media in many cases, and i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. >> reporter: yet it was the president who fired him, and his press secretary said trump did so decisively. >> the evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for general flynn's resignation. >> reporter: the so-called "series of questionable instances" included flynn's failure to tell the truth about his conversations with the

russian ambassador in december on the same day the obama administration slapped new sanctions on russia for meddling with the election. but now the president is expressing more outrage about leaks in the newspapers than about flynn's behavior. blasting the intelligence agencies that now report to him, tweeting, "the real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by 'intelligence' like candy. very un-american." >> i think it's very, very unfair what's happened to general flynn. the way he was treated and the documents and papers that were illegally -- i stress that -- illegally leaked. very, very unfair. >> reporter: but during the presidential campaign, then-candidate trump reveled in leaks when they were about someone else, hillary clinton. even praising a group responsible for some of the biggest leaks of classified u.s. intelligence in all of american history. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks! it's been amazing what's coming out on wikileaks. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove.

>> reporter: the president refused to answer questions about reports that several people on his campaign team were in contact before the election with suspected russian intelligence officials. at his press conference, he called only on conservative news outlets. no russia questions, but we tried. >> mr. president, can you guarantee that nobody on your campaign had any contact with the russians? mr president, any questions on russia? mr. president? >> reporter: so the question still looms. during the transition, abc's cecilia vega tried to pin him down. >> did you or anyone in your campaign have any contact with russia leading up to or during the campaign? nothing at all? >> reporter: no trump said. not at all. after general flynn was fired, we asked sean spicer -- >> can you still say definitively that nobody in the trump campaign, not even general flynn, had any contact with the russians before the election? >> my understanding is that what general flynn has now expressed is that during the

transition period -- well, we were very clear that during the transition period, he did speak with the ambassador. >> i'm talking about during the campaign. >> i don't have any -- there's nothing that would conclude me that anything different has changed with respect to that time period. >> reporter: the turmoil in the white house combined with the national security council shake-up has some key republicans in congress worried about the chaos and dysfunction in the west wing. >> you don't know who is in charge, this flynn situation, the whole environment is one of dysfunction in the trump administration. >> reporter: and the concern is not limited to washington. speaking at a conference, the general in charge of the military's special operations command said, "our government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil. i hope they sort it out soon because we're a nation at war." >> the president is going to switch gears this weekends and do his first re-election campaign event. it's officially billed as a campaign event near orlando,

florida, on saturday. a rally. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. and you saw senator mccain there but he's not the only republican in congress moving to try to get answers. >> house oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz is asking the inspector general to immediately investigate the leaks that led to flynn's removal. earlier this week he resisted taking action on the issue and the senate judiciary is now asking for information about flynn including details about his communication with russian officials. in a major departure from long-standing u.s. policy, president trump now says he would be open to a one-state solution to the israeli/palestinian conflict. >> during the joint news conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the president said he would support one state or two state, whichever makes both parties happy. he also put netanyahu on the spot urging him to hold back on settlements in the west bank. >> as far as settlements i'd

like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. we'll work something out. but i would like to see a deal be made. let's seat what we do. >> let's try. >> doesn't sound too optimistic. good negotiator. >> that's the art of the deal. >> high stakes diplomacy. last night while meeting with senate leaders netanyahu avoided answering questions whether israel was willing to hold off on those settlements. he would only say he will continue working toward an understanding that's a quote here consistent with the pursuit of peace and security. the trump administration is now searching for another candidate for labor secretary. andrew puzder bowed out yesterday amid intense scrutiny which included an old video of his ex-wife making this spousal abuse allegations on oprah. mary bruce has the details. >> reporter: the first trump cabinet pick to go down. facing mounting opposition from republicans. andrew puzder announced "after careful consideration and

discussions with my family, i am withdrawing my nomination for secretary of labor." the fast food ceo was plagued from the start. under fire for his personal life. this 1990 tape screened for senators on capitol hill. his ex-wife in disguise on oprah, describing what she claimed was their abusive marriage. >> that was the most frightening thing was leaving because once i made that break and once i made it public, and remember, my ex-husband was a public figure. everyone knew him and knew what he was doing and once i made that public, he vowed revenge. he said, i will see you in the gutter. >> reporter: she later recanted her allegations, and puzder has strongly denied them. professionally puzder's been accused of disparaging workers, once suggesting he prefers robots to human labor saying, "they're always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation." also taking aim at his own fast food employees. >> my first memo was no more people behind the counter unless

they have all of their teeth. >> reporter: it became increasingly clear many republicans were on the fence. senator tim scott of south carolina tweeting he had "developed serious concerns" about puzder's nomination. that nomination now dead, and democrats are celebrating. >> you fought this pretty hard. >> we, it's not just a victory for me, it's a victory for millions of workers been this is the secretary of labor, labor, not the secretary of corporate america. >> democrats are now setting their sights on another trump cabinet nominee raising concerns about nick mulvaney for budget director. so far, just one republican is opposing. that vote is up later today. mary bruce, abc news, capitol hill. one more r note from the capitol hill, ashton kutcher got serious during an appearance on capitol hill. >> cutcher became emotional while pleading with the foreign senate relations committee to help ends human trafficking. cup offer who cofounds an international anti-human tracking organization described

some of the horrific images he's seen while traveling around the world to help abused children. >> there was one bit of humor just before he began his testimony. he fielded a comment from senator john mccain. >> i also want to thank ashton. you're better looking in the movies. >> and he said that his wife mila kunis agrees that he's better looking in the movies. >> yet, she married him. he looked pretty good there had on capitol hill. >> cutcher and mccain have been working together quite a bit on this topic. this isn't the first time they've seen each other. >> he says this is something close to his heart. coming up, what caused the loud bang on an airliner and caused the plane to circle back to the artd and what we're learning this morning about the damage that plane suffered? later, we're checking out the annual mermaid convention. here what two professional mer folk have to say about their unusual occupation.

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charlotte, nearly 50 people on board got off the plane safely before the plane was sprayed with foam. no injuries reported. and wearing ha new details about the death of kim jong-un's half-brother. police arrested two women in connection with the case after king jong nam was apparently pointed by a pair of an sassince on monday at an airport in malaysia. this is the scene in north koreaing this morning, the military putting on a show of force at a massive outdoor event. soldiers pledged loyalty and paid tribute to former leaders on the birthday of one of their former leaders. kim jong-un did not attend is the event. a flu round of storms now moving onto the west coast could drop between 2 and 6 inches of rain. in northern california, crews have been scrambling to drain water from the lake behind the damage add oroville dam. they're also trying to bowl tr the eroded stillway. for now they're confident the structure will hold up but further north, a mud slight in seattle shut down traffic and

triggered a power outage. officials warn more mud slides likely throughout the weekend. and in san francisco, a 2,000-pound concrete slab that was threatening to fall from the roof of a high rise has been stabilized but emergency officials say evacuation orders of nearby buildings will stay in effect at least until later today coming up in our next half hour, why so many people may not show up for work today. we have some details on the social media driven campaign calling for a day without immigrants. hear who is being asked to participate and what else they're being asked not to do today. >> first a look inside mer mania, a convention of mermaids and mermen. one of the largest mer folk gatherings in this merry world we live in. >> ferfolk, huh? >> yeah. till sick, huh? i'll tae it from here. erfolk, huh? >> yeah. merfolk, huh?

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in north carolina for the annual mermania convention. in one of the largest gatherings in the world for people who identify themselves as half fish. more up"up all nightline" with abc's juju chang. >> reporter: no shirt, no shoes? no problem. welcome to nc mermania 2017. >> hi. >> reporter:up, this is a mermaid convention, mer folk both amateurs and polls diving in for a weekend of fun, flare and fins. these diehards are making waves. wowing in tails that can cost up to $5,000. all brought together by a shared albeit unique hobby. dubbed nova sigh reen, the virginia mermaid hannah tea and s nationwide making a splash online with 20,000 instagram followers but she's quick to acknowledge that it's an

uncommon gig. >> a lot of people really don't understand what i mean when i say i'm a mermaid. i know i'm making -- i really enjoy dressing up as a mermaid and entertaining children, swimming in coral reefs and doing special things not a lot of people get to do. >> reporter: they say it's better under the sea and these guys really mean it. here at one of the largest mermaid gatherings in the world, we meet chris, an actor turned merman who has been part of this community for the past four years. >> i would call a professional mermaid a giver of dreams. >> chris says a big motivator for him is upping the image of men in the merfolk industry. 300 participants from around the globe have traveled to this meetup to socialize is, check out the latest gear. >> these are our $3,000 silicon tails. >> reporter: and to attend seminars about all things mermaiding. while some night find it odd,

hannah says at its core, the convention is about bonding with friends. >> everyone who comes here has the same love for mermaids and the same love for the water. we really understand each other and we understand the commitment and creativity that it takes to be a mermaid or a mer mann. so i've made so many friends that i can truly say they are my best friends. >> reporter: friendships that go a little deeper both above and below the surface. for "nightline," i'm juju chang in new york. >> this is not a cheap hobby, by the way. they invest, those fails can cost upwards of $5,000 because you have to have a good one. >> you do have to have a good tail. man, but the top part you don't have to worry about. >> that isor a wet gig where th actually have to swim around like we saw, they can make upwards of $95 an hour. >> what are we doing here. >> i don't know i'm going on ebay and ordering a fin immediately. >> i don't know what's more

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this morning on "world news now," facing tough questions as we learn more about the trump campaign's contact with russian intelligence. the president refusing to take questions on the subject even after tweeting about it. we'll preview what may be discussed today as a new secretary of state meets his russian counterpart. >> meanwhile, president trump welcomed prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house after making headlines after saying he's open to a departure from a pillar of u.s. foreign policy. why businesses across the country will be closed today. >> it's a show of solidarity, part of the day without immigrants protest. we'll see which high profile businesses are taking part. mariah carey, making her first public appearance since her first performance since her new year's eve debacle on times square.

how did she do this time? last night on jimmy kimmel live, she looked good. >> no audio problems this time. >> wait. >> the monitors were working? >> let's hope. we'll have the full story ahead in "the skinny" on this thursday, february 16th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." i really hope they came out with the feather fans. >> the feather fans are what made that performance. we're going to delve into that. she returned to abc so no hard feelings, you know, at least. but there are plenty of hard feelings throughout washington right now. a lot of people are trying to figure out what happened over the last year or so. that said, rex tillerson is on his first overseas trip as secretary of state. >> in germany, he's meeting with russia's foreign minister. this may give us some clues about how the trump administration intends to deal with russia. >> that meeting comes as more lawmakers demand answers into

the trump team's russian ties and as president trump tries to shift the blame following the dismissal of his former national security adviser. >> reporter: today for the first time, a high level trump administration official will come face-to-face with a russian authority when secretary of state rex tillerson meets his russian counterpart in germany. but it's the secret meetings with trump campaign officials and russian operatives that everyone is talking about. everyone except the president. >> mr. president, can you guarantee that nobody on your campaign had any contact with the russians? mr. president, any questions on russia? mr. president? >> reporter: the bombshell russian revelations as the administration is still reeling from the dismissal of national security adviser michael flynn for deceiving the vice president about his conversations with the russian ambassador. instead of refuting the flynn allegations, the president went on the attack. >> general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the media. as i call it, the fake media in many cases.

and i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. >> taking that cue, house republicans now calling for an investigation into the leaks surrounding the ouster of flynn, not the actual communications themselves. overnight, top committee chair jason chaffetz calling for the inspector general to get involved. but some republican senators are more concerned about the chaos and dysfunction at the white house this week. >> you don't know who's in charge. this flynn situation. the whole environment is one of dysfunction in the trump administration. the president's answer to all of this, announcing overnight his first re-election campaign rally. scheduled for this weekend in florida. >> tickets. >> already campaigning for 2020. >> little do a lot of people know that he already filed the paperwork for his 2020 campaign re-election campaign. >> he's not wasting time on that one. >> looking forward to it already. already a rally in the orlando melbourne area. tickets are on sale.

a lot of people talking about who he didn't take questions from at all this week. he had a lot of availability. but nobody. >> but only took questions from conservative christian outlets and who didn't ask him at all about the allegations about his campaign being in touch with russia during the campaign season. so we're going to see as the white house press briefing comes up what kind of questions we'll get answered as the week goes on. >> as you can imagine, it sat well with the rest media in that room. > i'm sure everyone was really happy. and meanwhile, the u.s. military is keeping an eye on russia, as well after a russian spy ship started moving along the east coast. >> the vessel is staying in international waters but was last seen about 30 miles from america's biggest submarine base in connecticut. democratic lawmakers from connecticut are calling the ship's movement another step in russia's increasing aggression. this is believed to be the fourth time since 2014 that russian spy ships have hovered floor u.s. navy bases. >> defense secretary jim mattis is telling u.s. allies in nato

to increase their defense spending. mattis says if that doesn't happen, then the u.s. will "moderate its commitment to the alliance," while saying the u.s. can no longer shoulder most of the nato burden, mattis also has called nato the fundamental bedrock of u.s. relations been the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is praising his meeting with president trump tweeting it was a successful day for israel. >> last night, netanyahu met with congressional leaders but he refused to answer questions about what he might be wo in or in the middle east. abc's cecilia vega has the details. >> reporter: a red carpet white house welcome for benjamin netanyahu's arrival. two leaders and friends. but inside the east room, president trump putting israel's prime minister on the spot over settlements. >> as far as settlements, i would like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. we'll work something out, but i would like to see a deal be made. it might be a bigger and better deal than people in this room even understand.

that's a possibility. soy let's see so let's see what we do. >> let's try. >> doesn't sound too optimistic. but -- good negotiator. >> that's the art of the deal. >> i also want to thank -- >> reporter: the president also a king a decade's old u.s. two-state solution. >> i'm looking at two-state and one-state, and i like the one that both parties like. i'm very happy with the one that both parties like. i could live with either one. >> reporter: right there in the front row, daughter ivanka and her husband, jared kushner. >> can i reveal, jared, how long we've known you? well, he was never small. he was always big. >> reporter: and now that old family friend is the trump administration's point person to achieve peace in the middle east. and on the president's one-state, two-state solution, a lot of unanswered questions and

about what a starting point middle east peace talks might begin to look like under this approach. cecilia vega, abc news, washington. >> venezuela's government has ordered cnn in espanol removed from the cable news networks after they aired an investigation about alleged fraud involving venezuelan passports and visas. they accused them of conducting an imperialistic operation. and here in the u.s., federal prosecutors in new york city are conducting a criminal probe of fox news. here in the u.s., federal prosecutors are conducting a probe of fox news. a grand jury is looking into the use of corporate resources in the sexual harassment case against former ceo roger ailes. the investigation concerns whether the network had to notify the sec about settlement money paid to ailes' accusers. fox news says it has not received the subpoena but will continue to cooperate with the investigation. >> indiana authorities say they suspect two teenage girls who disappeared while hiking were murdered.

the bodies of 14-year-old liberty german and abigail williams were discovered by a creek. police say they were about three-quarters of a mile away from where the teens were dropped off to go hiking. the fbi is on the scene collecting evidence. the minnesota police officer shot philando castile will go to trial. jer ron knowianness was charged with manslaughter. yanez' attorneys tried to get the case dismissed but the judge denied their motion. apparently no one is above the law in philadelphia. not even the police commissioner. >> take a look at the present left on the windshield of top cop richard ross. there was no brotherly love shown to the commissioner despite the big police commissioner official business sign on his windshield. >> look at all the stars. >> ross was parked in a no stopping area monday morning and earned himself a ticket.

he says yes, he paid it. >> well, it's at least nice. >> come on, fellows. >> he did also write down the name of the person who the meter person who -- >> do we know the name of the person who wrote the ticket? are they still employed? coming up, the mother facing deportation over a false document conviction. what she's now doing as a last ditch effort to try to stay in the country vowing not to give up her fight to stay. and super model kate upton opens up about why she's proud to grace the cover of this year's "sports illustrated" swimsuit issue, but first, here's a look at today's forecast. >> announcer: "world news now" weather, brought to you by mucinex clear and cool. ah...still sick, huh? i'll take it from here. i'm good. i just took new mucinex clear and cool. ah! what's this sudden cooling thing happening? it's got a menthol burst. you can feel it right away. wow, that sort of blind-sided me. and it clears my terrible cold symptoms.

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>> immigrant rights activistses are demanding the release of a washington man arrested while he was asleep at home. daniel madinah is accused of being a gang member but activists say he has no criminal record. >> and a denver area woman has taken ref future in a church. jeanette vizguerra is facing deportation for what they're saying are minor offenses. she's a mother of four and works as a house cleaner. >> this punishment ripping a family out of their family, taking her away from her children shipping her to a country she hasn't been in for 20 years is absolutely obscene compared to what she did. >> immigration officials are disagreeing with all of this calling her an enforcement priority. and today is a nationwide show of support for immigration

called a day without immigrants. >> immigrants and nonimmigrants alike are being encouraged to skip work, skip school and not go shopping. > the movement has been spreading through social media with supporters like celebrity chefc., you know how big a deal this is that you don't have his restaurant to go to. he pulled out of trump's dc hotel after the campaign after then candidate trump made his controversial comments about mexicans. >> organizers say the goal is to show without immigrants, there is no america. >> mind you, they did wait till after valentine's day to do this. >> so you're not going to d.c. because you can't get into his restaurant. >> if i can't go to the restaurant, i'm not going to d.c. >> noted. when we come back, jimmy kimmel welcomes one of his biggest celebrities ever. >> oh. really? >> ever. >> this is huge. "the skinny" is next. who is it? >> got to wait and see.

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♪ skinny, so skinny all right. we have a great "skinny" coming at you today starting with one of the biggest celebrities to ever grace jimmy kimmel. >> this was huge. david muir. our very own dropped by. he traded jokes, he waved at people. he smiled. he looked dreamy. he answered questions on everything from covering the presidential race to the fake news phenomena. >> i think you're drooling a little bit. >> his suit was on point. >> no, but he did great. he had a lot of funny lines. at one point, kimmel asked him about fake news. and he said if we need any help

kimmel is happy to contribute. >> he said i know. i watch the show. >> straight off the top of his head. >> they seemed to have a very good time. he was a bit of a tough act to follow perhaps, but somehow mariah carey managed. also this was her first public performance since her new year's eve debacle. the five-time grammy winner and diva as she's known as, took to the stage last night on jimmy kimmel's show performing "i don't," the ballad she recorded with rapper yg earlier this morning. ♪ because when you love someone, you just don't treat them bad ♪ ♪ ♪ thinking somehow i could trust you, i used to love you but i don't i don't ♪ >> what do we think? >> seemed like the audio issues were sorted out. she seemed much more comfortable on stage than she did for new

year's eve for sure. i noticed she went with the i'm just going to stand and sing approach until yg came out as a surprise guest rather than trying to dance around and climb stairs and have feather fans and the whole situation. >> she looked great. >> she does and she sounded great. >> she tested the powers of the double-sided tape, didn't she? >> got to love mariah. >> speaking of double-sided tape we should remind you as we go into this story that it's currently ratings month. kate upton is opening up about her return to the cover of "sports illustrated" swimsuit issue. we love to show these videos. >> they have her really stretching the definition of a swimsuit. shouldn't you be wearing one in the photo? >> she is on the bottom. now she's opening up about landing on the cover for the third time. this year with the issue centering on body diversity and age inclusion. everyone definitely read that one for the content of her interview. upton says it's one of the reasons she was proud to return to the magazine saying she thinks it's important for everyone to be the best they can

be, not to strive to be a company or an industry's idea of perfect. >> we're running this video just because it's an important story, not because it's ratings month. >> right. she says she wants to inspire women. there you go. next to the fashion world and a fresh dose of yeezy as part of new york's fashion week. >> this time minus the drama and logistical melt down that plagued last year's show. kanye west did not premiere any new music of his own nor did he even appear at the show's end. >> what? kicking off at just 22 minutes past the schedule, start time well within the acceptable window being fashionably late apparently. the collection itself was barely a runway show at all confined mostly to projected images of his men's and women's collections. >> you recall, last year, they were hours late. it was during the summer. some models actually passed out while waiting around for it to happen. as for the fashion itself, it was typical yeezy oversize and sloppy with some garments even appearing soiled.

>> maybe going for the casual comfortable look. >> i guess so. >> like my pjs oversized and usually soiled with food. >> oh. okay. that's where you were going. >> oh, geez. just move on. quickly. >> finally, social media has been on the verge of a meltdown over canadian prime minister and super hunk justin trudeau's recent visit to the white house. >> so trudeau participated in a white house roundtable on the future of women in the workforce. he managed to charm quite a few of those women. check it out. >> among the images lighting up across social media, ivanka trump getting the side eye over there sitting right next to trudeau at that roundtable apparently quite mesmerized. >> emma watson looked rather bedazzled when she met trudeau last september. >> look at that come hither smirk. >> it's often said if a woman fusses with her hair, she's interested. >> uh-oh. >> but we'll say it was the wind

in the case of dutch kes kate. >> i don't know. i think she's blushing. he could charm more than just the ladies. this is his recent encounter with president obama. >> talk about swoon. now back to the pjs. swoon. now back to the pjs. ah...still sick, huh? i'll take it from here. i'm good. i just took new mucinex clear and cool. ah! what's this sudden cooling thing happening? it's got a menthol burst. you can feel it right away. wow, that sort of blind-sided me. and it clears my terrible cold symptoms. ahh! this is awkward. new mucinex clear & cool.

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so you can make even brussels sprouts -- >> amazing. >> reporter: they took us back to prove it. the brussels sprouts coming out of the fryer. just add the sriracha. and some spices. they mix it together, and the finished product. and the taste. i can taste the kick. it does make brussels sprouts -- >> fun. >> reporter: a little -- fun? >> a little less scary! >> less scary. >> reporter: a little less scary and a lot of kick from peppers. grown in california. ventura county, palm trees line the way. as we head to underwood family farms. more than 600 tons of these red jalapeno peppers are harvested by hundreds of workers every day during harvest season. >> it's pretty important they are grown in america because this is our living and it keeps an awful lot of people here working. >> reporter: we followed the peppers to the factory just outside l.a. where they are mashed, mixed, bottled, and it says right there, made in the usa. on the boxes too where they're packaged and shipped all over the world. founder david tran came up with the recipe, proudly holding that

bottle. a refugee from vietnam after the fall of saigon in 1980, he started making the hot sauce he remembered from back home for his new home here in america, and he says he's keeping sriracha all-american made. >> this is my country. i keep the job for my country. >> reporter: 100 workers on the line, 18,000 bottles an hour. all with three words in mind. >> made in america. >> did you see what david did there? >> he did a wonderful story about sriracha. >> tasted the food. tasted. >> you know, all right. it is sriracha. here you go. i'll taste it. actually. >> i had no idea what we needed to do this whole time was bring david muir on camera. >> i'm going to go big. ready? >> oh, my god. no, wow. oh! no, wow.

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making news in america this morning, shifting blame. what the president is saying this morning about his national security adviser resigning. this as lawmakers demand answers about the trump campaign's ties to russian intelligence officials. president trump now has an open cabinet position after his pick for secretary of labor withdrew his nomination. hear how a 27-year-old episode of "oprah" played a role. runway scare. forced to make an emergency landing. wait till you hear what that plane hit while taking off. the passengers also reacting overnight. people are lining up to give away their old cell phones. how their donations will be part of olympic history.