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not if you're from atlanta. there's never any appreciation. >> i know what it felt like at halftime. and to come back, it was too much. >> jimmy: let's look at this video because i want to ask one thing about it at the end. there you are. really, there is a danger you might fall over that luxury box. maybe the best thing about it is -- [ cheers and applause ] you were flipping out. everybody's flipping out. but the guy who decided to film you does not seem to see any of what's happening on the field. like he missed the end of the game. >> and god bless him because that video means so much to me. >> jimmy: yeah. if they'd lost would you have -- would that video have been released or would that have been buried? >> tell you what. had they lost at the end of the game i witnessed it would have been okay. because like i said, by halftime you saw it, it was over.
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they were done. to come back the way they did. if they lost it in the end, so be it. the fact they won. >> jimmy: did you go to the party afterwards? >> i did. it was like a patriots after thing. >> jimmy: did you meet tom? did you get to touch him? [ laughter ] because last time you were there -- >> i have yet to meet him. he didn't go to the -- he might have been an appearance. but he's tom brady. he had to go rule the world. [ laughter ] i didn't meet tom. and i'm not sure if i want to. it almost has become now like i just want to let him be the thing that i imagine he is. and that's it. that's good enough for me. >> jimmy: look at you. you're positively glowing. [ laughter ] >> i'm like -- why, is he here? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: see, tom could never -- that would never happen to tom. [ laughter ] >> tom makes me so nervous. >> jimmy: we're going to clean you up. we're going to move you up inside and out. there you go.
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i didn't want to go to this stupid school in the first place. and the boy in the next row acts inappropriately for someone who's a child. >> i'm sorry, i'm still passive-aggressively ignoring you. >> they don't get into trouble. >> you didn't get into trouble for answering questions. you yelled at the principal. you know what? you're going to find this interesting. so i googled first-graders and yell at the principal. statistically, you're never going to believe how many kids do it. >> how many? >> none. >> jimmy: that is chris evans in "gifted" with -- well, tell us a little bit. just give us a little overview of the story. >> sure. the movie's about mckenna grace mary, who plays a young gifted child. i'm her -- without giving too much away i'm her uncle, i'm her guardian, trying to raise her as best i can as a normal child and my mother, her grandmother finds out about her gift and it becomes a little bit of a custody battle. >> jimmy: okay. i never know what to say that will ruin it.
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this kid is very cute. >> she's something. >> jimmy: a lot of these kid actors, though, are terrible in real life. is she? [ laughter ] >> well, they say don't work with kids and animals. we have both in this movie. i'm telling you, mckenna is something else. you've got to find that balance of a girl who is still a kid, still has that wild freedom and extemporaneous personality but also knows this is a job and you've got to be professional. >> jimmy: right. >> she walks that line flawlessly. she's something else. >> jimmy: how's making a move like that different from making one of these big superhero movies? >> more than anything else it's the pace. those superhero movies you're lucky if you get two pages done in a day. movies like this you're flying through it. >> jimmy: obviously most people know you from captain america but you directed as well. you've done smaller movies like this one, "gifted." are you looking to fluor more roles like that? >> what i'm really looking for is one of those gritty
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oscar-caliber bio pics where you really kind of lose yourself in a character. >> jimmy: i could see you doing that. is there somebody you have in mind, somebody you'd like to play? >> it's tough because all the best personalities have had movies made about them. so in my opinion i think what you've got to do is go out and find the person yourself and that's exactly what i did -- >> jimmy: dig somebody up in a way. >> i found him. >> jimmy: oh, you did. >> i think he's here tonight. think -- >> jimmy: what do you mean? >> there he is. right there. that guy. >> jimmy: which guy? >> no. over there. pink shirt. yeah. >> jimmy: wait a minute. this is the guy that you want to play? >> that's the guy. that's the guy. that's dennis. >> me? >> yeah. i'm playing you, buddy. >> jimmy: what's your name? dennis? >> dennis. >> his name is dennis baker. i've been following him around for about six weeks now. and i just -- you know, i really
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got inside. >> you have? [ laughter ] >> yep. yep. i mean, it's been a while now, but i know how dennis sleeps, how he eats. i just -- i think the more you lose yourself in a role the more they acknowledge it. so yeah, everything about you i know now. >> have you been stalking me? [ laughter ] >> no. i've been researching you, dennis. >> jimmy: it is different. >> for cinema. i knew you'd be here. i read the e-mails. so as a treat i thought i would -- >> jimmy: you read his e-mails? >> well, of course. jimmy, i'm committed. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's very sweet. >> and i thought as a treat to everyone and mostly to dennis i brought the trailer. the trailer of the film we're working on. >> jimmy: you made the movie already? [ applause ] zblrpt we've be >> we've been diving in. we have a nice snippet. i'd love to show you guys. >> jimmy: let's take a look.
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>> critics and audiences have spoken. chris evans delivers the performance of a generation, as dennis. a broken, pathetic shell of a man with nothing to live for. [ laughter ] a portrait of failure. a brutal, soul-crushing glimpse into an empty, wasted life. a man undeserving of love or human touch itself. >> what's wrong? >> you have a bad penis. >> i know. i hate my penis! >> a tour de force of tragedy. an orgy of sadness. an unbearable rock bottom
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despair. >> dennis, are you eating cheeseburgers out of the toilet again? >> you know i have. >> chris evans is dennis. >> it's all i have. >> he sucks. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow. that was -- i have to hand it to you because that was -- that was a brave performance, i'd even say. i'd go so far as to say. >> thank you. >> jimmy: you're welcome. >> i have one question. dennis, did you like it? >> not really. [ laughter ] >> really? can i ask why? >> you made me look like a goober. >> jimmy: you know what, dennis? maybe be grateful that chris told this beautiful story about your life instead of criticizing every little thing he does. >> i kind of feel like you're being selfish, dennis. >> jimmy: that's how he is. that's how dennis is. dennis, do you want to apologize to chris? >> i'm sorry, chris. >> jimmy: thank you very much.
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>> jimmy: welcome back. still to come, music from mastodon. you know our next guest from numerous movies and now she makes a foray into the filthy world of television. her very funny new series "brockmire" with hank azarria on ifc premieres wednesday night at 10:00. please welcome amanda peet. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ very good to see you. >> good to see you. >> jimmy: you -- i think we should talk about what is an elephant in our lives maybe first just to begin because there's a budding romance going
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on between my daughter and your son. >> that's what i thought. >> jimmy: that's what you thought. yeah. that's what we thought too. but your son henry who my daughter -- how old is henry? 2 1/2? >> yeah. almost. >> jimmy: and my daughter's 2 1/2. and she calls him hen, which i thought she was referring to a chicken for a while. but they take swim classes together. >> first they took music classes. >> jimmy: okay. >> and that's i think when it started. >> jimmy: and then it started raining and it became a swim class. >> same teacher. >> jimmy: very talented teacher. but they swim together, which is really kind of weird to start with talking about 2-year-olds swimming together. >> they swim. they don't really swim. they kind of -- you know, they -- >> jimmy: my daughter swims. >> oh. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. we call it swimming. whatever it is. whatever it is, she seems to be staying alive in the pool which is the key to -- that's all you want, right?
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>> just don't die. >> jimmy: exactly. and so the other night you sent a very sweet video. you e-mailed it to me and to my wife. >> to your lovely wife, who i love. >> jimmy: in which your son said what exactly? >> he declared his love for jane. >> jimmy: for my daughter jane, yeah. >> he was in the back singing. and i said henry, who's your girlfriend? and he said jane. >> jimmy: and then we made a video of jane, and she didn't necessarily return the sentiment. she was more interested in taking the phone and playing games on it. she was painting a dog or something like that. yeah, so i'm sorry about that. >> that's okay. >> jimmy: i would still like to -- >> i still decided to come. >> jimmy: you still decided to come. [ laughter ] >> and see you. >> jimmy: what goes on in this -- >> i don't feel like it has to affect our relationship. >> jimmy: no. it shouldn't. and in fact, your husband, as
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some people probably know, is one of the executive producers of "game of thrones." and i saw this as a real -- [ cheers and applause ] i think first and foremost of myself. and so i saw this as an opportunity -- >> are you a clinical narcissist? >> jimmy: not clinical. >> okay. >> jimmy: more of a hobbyist. >> okay. me too. >> jimmy: but i would like to see the episodes of the show before everyone else sees them so i can taunt them. and i thought wow, if our kids were to get married i'd probably get that. do you get that? do you get to see them beforehand? >> i don't, really. i see them as they come out. >> jimmy: oh, you do. okay. sew i wouldn't even get that. so the hell with it, then. [ laughter ] >> no, i mean -- >> jimmy: do you care? do you care as much as i do? because i care very deeply about what's going on. >> yes. >> jimmy: you do. >> i'm pretty obsessed. and i'm very -- i'm in a state of anxiety about what's going to happen. skrr >> jimmy: you are. about what's going to happen at the end.
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>> i'm in a state of anxiety over whether david and dan are going to [ bleep ] it up. >> jimmy: and how many episodes are coming up in. >> i don't know. the finale. this is it. >> jimmy: you haven't asked what's going to happen at the end? >> of course i've asked. and then they say but don't tell me. is it jon snow? but don't tell me. >> jimmy: will the white walkers take over everything? >> right. >> jimmy: does the show turn into the walking dead but in the snow? >> all i know is that all the videos he sent home to us in the last little while for the kids, every -- it was very cold where he was. >> jimmy: i see. >> i could see his breath. i see your breath. i know winter's coming. [ laughter ] i mean i know winter's here. >> jimmy: winter finally came. >> and i know you're not near the beach anymore. so i'm starting to get it. >> jimmy: this show that you're doing, i saw this today. it's so funny. hank azaria did this character three or four years ago. it's a baseball announcer.
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and he does a great rap with this baseball announcer, and you guys made it into a whole show. you play the owner of a minor league baseball team. would you say he has some form of -- is it tourette's syndrome or what exactly is wrong with him? because he will go from calling balls and strikes, you know, ground ball into -- to third base into a horrible story about his wife being involved in an orgy. >> yes. i think he was really fascinated. he plays an old-timy baseball announcer and he was really fascinated by whether this is how these men talk all the time. >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> so when they're having sex with their wives, we had to do a sex scene where he was basically narrating the sex. >> jimmy: the sex, yeah. >> unfortunately, i couldn't stop laughing during the take. yeah. >> jimmy: what happened here? you brought a photograph that's disturbing.
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what happened in this shot here? this is a picture you took of yourself? >> so i had to shotgun a beer. >> jimmy: yes. >> and i was supposed to look at hank. and i decided i need to catch the beer with my left hand and shotgun it with my right. so you know, i'm not a lefty. but i was really cocky. so i wanted to do it all in one take. so i was practicing catching the -- catching it and doing -- i know i've only shotgunned a beer one other time. >> jimmy: well, it has to be a hole in the beer can to start with. >> i know! that's why i was going to catch it with my left and stab it with my right. but i missed it. so that's actually the mark of a beer can. >> jimmy: and that is really like -- that's a terrible scar. i don't see any -- you had that stitched up afterwards? >> yeah. >> jimmy: wow. >> and you know what david said when i was on the way to the hospital? >> jimmy: no. >> did they get the shot? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's spoken look a man who's freezing his ass off
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doing a show. well, the show is very funny. check it out. it's called "brockmire." it premieres this wednesday night at 10:00 on ifc. [ cheers and applause ] amanda peet, everyone. thank you, amanda. we'll be right back with mastodon. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. next, six teens left unconscious and one dead after an encounter with the same silent killer that took three lives inside this hotel. what is this killer? "nightline" confronts the mystery
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>> announcer: this is "nightline". tonight, the silent killer. a children's birthday party at a hotel pool turning deadly after a carbon monoxide leak. >> all i remember is me just passing out. >> several kids hospitalized. one killed. >> they were just pulling bodies and they were laying them side by side. >> why preventable accidents like these are still happening. how you can keep your family safe. plus, a new factor. >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. >> fox news star bill o'reilly under fire after reportedly settling multiple claims of sexual harassment for more than $10 million. we're with one former contributor who says rejecting his advances put her out of a job. >> i simply said i'm sorry, i can't do that. he got very hostile very quickly. >> why the outspoken anchor
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good evening. thank you for joining us. questions and outrage in michigan tonight after a carbon monoxide leak at a hotel pool party took the life of a 13-year-old boy. the deadly gas is odorless, tasteless, and invisible but easily identified by low-cost detection devices. so how did this happen? here's abc's matt gutman. >> all i remember is me just passing out and hitting my head. >> reporter: it was a birthday party gone tragically wrong. >> there are a reported 6 children in the pool area all passed out. >> reporter: saturday morning kids playing at the hotel pool at a michigan quality inn and suites suddenly start feeling nauseated and light-headed. then around 10:00 a.m. a hotel employee walks past and sees a horrific scene. a group of 12 to 14-year-olds on the pool deck, all of them unconscious. >> they were putting masks on them and they were just pulling bodies and they were laying them side by side. >> reporter: the culprit is carbon monoxide, or c.o.
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poisoning. it's a silent killer. the odorless, colorless, tasteless gas is a by-product of burning fuel and when not properly vented it can go unnoticed until it's too late. at the quality inn and suites pool area this past weekend the levels were dangerously high. 800 parts per million. 16 times higher than the federal safety level of 50 parts per million. >> the younger they are the more they're going to be impacted by the levels of -- higher levels of c.o. >> reporter: first responders, some of whom were also treated for c.o. poisoning, raced the children to area hospitals. one of them 13-year-old brian douglas watts, died on the way. >> he was a goofy person. he was a good person. these are our last memories of him. >> it doesn't make sense. and i just pray that it never happens again. >> reporter: police say the source of the carbon monoxide leak, a broken pool heater. it's a story painfully similar to one we followed back in 2013. jeanie williams and her
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11-year-old son jeffrey checked into room 225 at the best western in boon, north carolina. >> he liked to travel, and that was a neat thing to do for some reason. >> reporter: but that particular room had a deadly secret. a carbon monoxide leak from a faulty pool heater just below. >> my last vision i have of him is just sitting on the edge of the bed and him holding the ipad and playing a game. >> reporter: sometime in the night jeannie wakes up. feeling sick, she crawls to the bathroom and realizes she should call 911. but her phone is in the other room. >> and i'm thinking i've just got to get to my phone. and i remember trying to get to the door and i couldn't. and then that's the last thing i remember. >> reporter: the next morning a hotel employee comes to the room and discovers jeannie and jeffrey. >> i've got two bodies and i need some help now. >> are they breathing? are they awake? >> no.
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no. they're not. >> next i remember is waking up in the hospital room. i couldn't talk. i guess that was from being in a coma. >> reporter: her husband delivers the devastating news. their son jeffrey has died. >> and then he just kept telling me be strong, i need you. i need you. >> reporter: but unbelievably, jeffrey isn't the first victim of room 225 at that best western. >> i look at my partner and i said, if i'm not mistaken that's the same room we had the last call in. >> what's your reaction? >> then we walk in and we found two more bodies. same room. >> reporter: emt mike edmondston was the first responder to jeannie and jeffrey just like he had been seven weeks earlier. >> i just got if the room. there's two people. neither one of them are breathing. >> neither are breathing? >> no, ma'am. >> reporter: darryl and sheryly jenkins, a retired couple from washington state, also died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the
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same hotel room. the faulty pool heater created yet another near tragedy just days after the jenkins death. the zielinski family checked into the room just above 225 to celebrate their daughter's birthday with a pool party and sleepover. >> all girls were very sick. puking in bathroom sinks, toilets, while i'm calling their parents. they were falling off like flies. it was very scary. >> reporter: solinski says she complained to the front desk. >> my name was written on a yellow sticky note and i was told the general manager would be told. >> reporter: but damon malatier whose company managed the hotel which is not owned by best western directly swears the clerk never told him. >> so you were not informed by your employees that people had gotten sick in the room right above 225? >> i was not. >> reporter: it was that third incident in the hotel that led first responders to finally discover the toxic source. the heater's exhaust pipe was supposed to conduct the carbon
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monoxide safely outside. but hidden under a drop ceiling right under room 225, state investigators find the pipe is busted, full of holes, propped up with a vhs cassette tape and a hotel ice bucket, spewing poison gas into the room above. malatier says authorities never mentioned carbon monoxide. last year the hotel management company pled guilty to three counts of involuntary manslaughter in exchange for which charges were dropped against company president damon mallatere. >> how often do you think about this? >> every day. >> that boy, that elderly couple. >> every day. >> reporter: the boon, north carolina best western is now under new ownership. in a statement to abc news tonight about the michigan hotel poisoning, jeannie williams said in part, "i was both infuriated and heartbroken. i simply do not know how many more tragedies must occur before
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actions are taken to ensure this never happens again." it's all the more disturbing because many carbon monoxide detectors sell for under $30. dr. linda weaver has been warning about the dangers of carbon monoxide in hotels for years. >> the reason a hotel is particularly dangerous is really because of the sheer number of people who could be there. >> reporter: incredibly, only 15 states have laws or regulations requiring carbon monoxide detectors in hotels. there is no federal law. and michigan is one of those states. but it only requires them for hotels built after december 2009. records show that the niles quality inn and suites was built in 2000. >> this is a portable alarm, self-contained. take the alarm with you. because i'm not sure the hotel industry is going to do this across the board. >> reporter: tonight the hotel remains closed while law
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enforcement continues its investigation. the hotel chain telling abc news, "our thoughts are with the families who were affected," adding as their investigation continues "the highest priority is always the safety and well-being of our guests." yesterday in brian watts' honor balloons were released into the fresh air that could have saved his life. for "nightline" i'm matt gutman. next -- more trouble at fox news. first chairman roger ailes and now bill o'reilly facing allegations of sexual harassment. the accusations and his response. ♪ "the birds and the bees" by dean martin ♪ let me tell you 'bout... ♪ ♪ the birds the bees and the flowers and the trees ♪ ♪ and the moon up above and a thing called love. ♪ ♪ let me tell you 'bout the stars in the sk♪, a girl and a guy and the way they could kiss ♪
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for more than 20 years fox news host bill o'reilly has been one of the biggest names in cable news. famous for his no spin zone and fiery rants taking political figures to task. but now it's his behavior towards women that has become subject to scrutiny. as accusations of sexual harassment are piling up against him. here's abc's nick watt. >> and so he caught up with me and said no, no, come back to my suite. >> reporter: this morning in los angeles dr. wendy walsh, a former fox news guest -- >> good or bad, dr. walsh? >> reporter: going very public with sexual harassment allegations against bill o'reilly. >> he got very hostile very quickly. >> reporter: her story coming hot on the heels of multiple allegations against the anchor and against the conservative news network facing down a barrage of sexual harassment claims from employees. involving the former chairman, roger ailes. o'reilly has been the fox network's biggest star for
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nearly 20 years. >> you are about to enter the no spin zone. >> reporter: the host of the most watched news show on cable. >> bill o'reilly is by many definitions fox news. he's their single most important personality. >> i'm not litigious. i don't want any money. i'm not -- there's no lawsuit. >> reporter: walsh and her lawyer, lisa bloom, sat down with us to tell their story. >> i've been doing sexual harassment cases for 30 years. what's going on at fox news is the worst of any company that i have ever been made aware of. >> reporter: we are beginning a new segment called "are we crazy?" >> reporter: in 2013 walsh began a thursday night slot called "are we crazy" on o'reilly's show. it was a triad. soon she says she got a dinner invite from o'reilly's assistant. >> and i thought wow, the big boss. wow. and he brought it up first, as soon as we sat down to dinner, saying we'd like to make you a contributor. >> reporter: then after dinner she says -- >> and as we walked past the hostess stand at the restaurant he turned right toward the
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bedrooms. i turned left toward the bar. and he caught up with me and said no, no, come back to my suite. and i said i'm sorry, i can't do that. and then he became hostile. all his charmingness went away. and he said the words " -- you can forget all the business advice i gave you. on your own." >> reporter: walsh appeared on the o'reilly factor only a few more times. >> then he had the executive producer call me and say we're not going to use you anymore. >> what makes her statement so powerful is that she's not looking for a payout. and so the argument that o'reilly and his supporters have been making, which is everyone's looking for a buck, well, apparently that's not what she's looking for. >> reporter: walsh's claims come along with a "new york times" investigation published over the weekend which says that five women who accused o'reilly of harassment were given settlements totaling roughly $13 million on condition they would never talk. abc news has not independently verified these claims. >> bill o'reilly's reported $18
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million contract was just renewed. >> reporter: o'reilly issued a statement on his website, "just like other prominent and controversial people, i'm vulnerable to lawsuits from individuals who want me to pay them to avoid negative publicity." >> i think people who want to believe bill o'reilly will believe bill o'reilly. i think people who are predisposed to not believing bill o'reilly will probably choose not to. >> welcome to the clap back with julia roginsky. >> reporter: julia roginsky filed suit against fox news claiming then chairman roger ailes sexually harassed her and she was demoted after rebuffing his advances. today abc news obtained an internal fox news memo reiterating their policies in light of the news. it reads in part, "if any employee has any concerns about behavior in our workplace, i urge you to raise those concerns." today's double whammy comes less than nine months after ails, the
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once omnipotent fox news chairman, was ousted over a sexual harassment scandal. former "fox & friends" anchor gretchen carlson received a $20 million settlement and an apology. she had claimed ailes sabotaged her career because she refused his sexual advances. >> boy, i hope i've helped other women to win. >> reporter: ailes denied the claims in his resignation letter saying "i will not allow my presence to become a distraction." >> roger ailes got a $40 million payout when he left. >> reporter: at the time o'reilly and others leapt to his defense. >> i've worked for roger ailes for 20 years. all right? best boss i've ever had. >> reporter: but parent company 21st century fox listened and launched an internal investigation which turned up at least a dozen women, some of whom have strikingly similar stories. among them star anchor megyn kelly. >> it culminated in a physical attempt to be with me, which i rejected in his office and
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then -- >> he touched you? >> he tried to kiss me three times. so i rejected that. and when i rejected that he asked me when my contract was up. >> i think it is a culture of sexual harassment that started at the top with roger ailes and his departure has not done much to remedy the problem. >> i mean, if we were talking about discrimination of any other minority, this would be -- conversation wouldn't be happening. >> reporter: last year laurie lund who worked for ailes nearly 20 years opened up on "20/20" to elizabeth vargas. >> i went through such hell for so many years. >> reporter: lund says ailes would ask her to strip to her underwear and dance for him. >> he would have me get down on my knees and tell me you know what you are, laurie, you're my whore. you're my sex slave. you're going to do whatever i tell you to do at any time. do you understand that? >> reporter: luhn says ailes then instructed her to perform oral sex. >> i didn't question it. and that was his big thing, just
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don't ever question anything i ever ask you to do, laurie. >> did you try to refuse? >> it's too late. the minute it happened i knew that i'd been blackmailed because he did take photographs of me and he would say this is just my little insurance policy. >> reporter: ailes no longer runs the network. o'reilly is still the star. >> welcome to "happy hour." i'm rebecca diamond. >> reporter: "the new york times" is now reporting that back in 2011 bill o'reilly personally settled with former fox business channel host rebecca gomez diamond for $1 million. the "times" also now claiming o'reilly personally paid a producer, andrea macris, about $9 million, with both parties agreeing in the settlement that no wrongdoing whatsoever had occurred. in his recent statement o'reilly writes, "in my more than 20 years at fox news channel no one has ever filed a complaint about me with the human resources department, even on the anonymous hotline," adding, "i'm a father who cares deeply for my children and so i have put to
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rest any controversies to spare my children." and fox news's parent company coming to his defense stating "21st century fox takes matters of work plaurs behavior very seriously. while he denies the merits of these claims, mr. o'reilly has resolved those he regarded as his personal responsibility." would you like bill o'reilly to lose his job? >> if mr. o'reilly is in fact guilty of sexual harassment of multiple women, of course he should be fired. he would be fired in any other company. for some reason fox news keeps him. what we have called for today is for there to be an independent investigation into fox news. >> reporter: tonight mercedes-benz reportedly pulled its advertising from "the o'reilly factor." >> fox is going to keep bill o'reilly on the air, and bill o'reilly if he's guilty of bad behavior is going to have to adjust. >> i'm bill o'reilly. please always remember that the spin stops here. >> reporter: i'm nick watt for "nightline" in los angeles. and next, the north carolina tar heels are ncaa champions.
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and finally tonight, thanks to a key block in the final minute of the ncaa finals, the north carolina tar heels are champions again. >> a little chilly effort here! >> it was north carolina, college basketball blue bloods versus the west coast version of blue collar, gonzaga. the tar heels seeking their sixth national titles. the bulldogs their very first. >> comes in. meeks. up ahead to jackson. for the five-point lead! >> only one could end this night with the prize 300 schools dreamed of when the season started. >> off the mark. and this year the confetti is going to fall for north carolina! they're not going to be denied this time. >> when it was over, cinderella sent home in tears. potential outgunned by pedigree. >> we're here with the national champions, the north carolina
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tar heels. [ cheers and applause ] >> congratulations to the tar heels, who avenged their loss in the championship game from last year. it was douglas macarthur who put it quite simply. "there is no substitute for victory." thank you for watching abc news. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and our "nightline" facebook page. thanks for the company, america. good night. >> welcome to "millionaire" here at bally's las vegas, where today we're going to be giving some folks the biggest surprise of their lives. in just moments, we're gonna knock on one lucky person's hotel room door and let them know they're about to get a chance to win $1 million. it's instant millionaire week on "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] ♪
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hey, everybody, welcome to instant millionaire week on "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] you know, sometimes it can take years to get a chance to play for $1 million on this show, but this week we filled some of the finest hotels in las vegas with qualified contestants. they've passed the test, met the eligibility requirements, and all they're waiting for is a knock on the door. we're going to try to make someone an instant millionaire today. this is gonna be fun. so today, we're starting with caesars palace, where you will find the newest luxurious rooms on the las vegas strip. just a moment ago, we let our next contestant know that they were going to be on the show by knocking on their hotel room door. this is a look. and there she is. >> oh, my gosh. >> that is mary gunnell from provo, utah, a stay-at-home mom with six kids between the ages of 18 months and 13 years old. they're just a little e
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