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>> one of them is winning king up the pain >> no they're both losing. >> the person winning is behind the camera. >> this is just hysterical. it was p youtube page. between these two guys they have five kids. they've all left the house. and this isnd the rest of the family do when the kids ain't around and it's a riot. >> this is great. what idiots. >> now, bob goes on to win the race. there's a loser's prize. >> lindbergher cheese. >> what is that? >> essentially really stinky cheese. >> does he eat it? >> he has to. he's the loser. >> wow. it's that bad? >> it smells like really badky feet. >> i don't know if i can! >> mike a proud loser eating the cheese. funny guys. love this channel.

empty nest adventures, we'll seniorly ly certainly be followishow. if you like what you saw, check out rightthisminute.com. what a scary scene as two fast-moving semi-trailers collide in australia. one of theol onto the road and catching fire. and one of the drivers says he may have fallen asleep and ended

um on the wrong side of the road. you think? remarkably, both drivers survived the crash without any seri injuries. >> scary. there's new information in the photo hack involving tiger woods and lindsey vonn. >> they have managed to get a website to take down those photos, but that's not going to be the legal action. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: olympics skier lindsey vonn is contemplating legal action after nude photos of her and tiger woods were posted online. they reportedly shared intimate photos and videos while they were dating. von's phone was reportedly hacked. her pictures leaked and posted for all to see on a gossip website that features nude photos and videos of including kristen stewart and kathryn mcfy. antiaid i

and despicable of privacy. adding websites that encourage this should be the fullest extent ever the law. attorneys for woods and von said expeditiously to remove and deny access to the photo. but they deny they stole them directly from the celebrities saying we got them from different message boards around the internet. we did not hack them. >> the website that of the individual also subjects itself to liab hackers frequently target female miley cyrus andjennifer lawrence have all private internet. the 29-year-old who lawrence was sentencedd it's scary when the whole world judges you. i saw it for what it was whichcrime, but the feeling, i haven't been able to get rid of davis, abc news, new york. knowing those sentiments are of tiger woods and as tiger's had a rough year, back injuries not playing allt well relationship issues and

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♪ iot to go backk to school again ♪ >> well, it's almost time to send the kids back to school and what better way to get them ready than to gear up their gadgets. so this morning, look who's here our giz wiz. >> this is really fun. what it is on amazon when it came i said where are the pockets. >> i thought were you covering something else and were going to reveal. >> we are revealing. but's unpacked it i realized it comes with a free rain cover. >> nice. >> so if you're running through the rain put this in the backpack and throw it on when you go outside. >> that's amazing. >> it also has hidden zippers,

so it's going to be more water repellant than you would expect. a place for laptops up to 15.6 inches. but something else there's a usb cable here and a pocket for you to put your external phone charger, and you plug the usb into the phone charger. and then if you're in class and anything starts running out of power, you have usb out on the outside backpack. >> so can you charge it while it's still sitting in there. you don't have to take it out. >> exactly exactly. >> that's amazing. >> and this guy's under $40.e little ones. our little one is 8 and i woulder to cover her things. >> mer.perfect. a lot of students are going back to school with tablets ipads. this is the tri fold. let's do one fold out here, one fold out here. it becomes a full-sized keyboard. and it's back lit.

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three devices at once. >> love that. >> this is to charge one device. but this is a clever idea. so you're going back with lots of different devices. >> sure. >> this is usb micro. >> mm-hm. >> this is usbc, actually, that's the lightning connector. usbc just plug that one on and used devices. >> one charger, no matter what you have. >> exactly. and it's apple approved. >> that's one of the most frustrating things when you are looking for the right charger of the 19 you have in the house. >> and our final guy is take one plug in, not only turn it into four plugs. but also in the front there we have four usb plugs. and it's illuminated. so can tell that it has power where you plugged it in. and it has two free charging caes. >> it's perfect fort dorm the dorm room. >> great. >> you can find more on giz

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>> this morning onnews now." the president script. >> after tuesday's fiery campaign rally where president trump took aim at the medi he appeared in front of threa jittersorel a stopped a mith arabic word for "g charlottesville tries to move past the violence, statues. but this too, is controversial. we know people act like kids in the news rook.room but this is a serious place. where are the parents! i'm really really jealous. it is thursday augustth. from abc "world news now." >> usually jack would be sk b not. >> it's weird today. >> ird not having him there. so this is a huge day forur relatives in. in massachusetts. these are the powerballt were drawn just a couple hours have a winner. >>u have 6, 16,23,26.

>>watertown, massachu>> wow a yelp rating. they don't have, they yelp rating yet. >> we're sure it's a fineet ngow >> aiv somebody. >> so one winning ticket sold for that powerball. >> incredible. >> it was going to go to a billion after tonight. but no someone's going home with 700-plus million. >> so we say congratulations to our kinfolks there. and we're going to move on. rehax toaction to the prhree speeches in the last three speech called for unity, sparking a than his fiery speech in phoenix. >> in the if congress doesn't fund the wall on the border. the republicans say it will hurt their democrats. we get more from lana zak. >> reporter: after meeting with veterans in reno. >> you help keep history alive. >> reporter: president trump has returned back to the white house with a budget fight looming in washington. >> believe me if we have to close down our government we're

building that wall. >> reporter: previously, president trump had promised voters that mexico would pay for the border wall. now the president is threatening a government shutdown if congress doesn't fund it. the president issued the threat during a campaign rally in which he relitigated his response to charlottesville. >> here's what i said on saturday. he terribleunfolding in virginia. >> reporter: but he omitted his two most controversial points. >> on many sides, on many sides. you also had people that were very fine people on both >> reporter: instead blame being the media for the chttesville fallout. >> if you want to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake media. >> reporter: but the majority of behavior has encouraged white supremacists,c poll. finds that the approval rating currently stands at 35%. and as you heard there, the president tries to a stronger condemnation of the hate group that sparked the violence. >> and our on cecelia vega to

covers the white house shared video on her instagram of what it looked like from her perspective each time the president attacked the press. look at that young lady.he's saying we go hour later? or maybe not. >> many saying journalists hate the country. cecelia's been through pretty she covered the complain and itampaign, and it was pretty rough. >> did she say this was the most concerned she and by this bad will happen at some point i kind ofc.here. oing to rotterdam caused police to cancel group the allah laws. thanked authorities fordetecting the turns out some symptoms were than originallyell

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large sum o we'll continue to tear the vehicle dow there's more dope. >> reporter: during our week-long look into the crisis others grappled withheartbreak with one family 1500 miles awaynaaway in kentucky. she doesn't make it through a weekend break from rehab. >> she was so good at hiding it. this is the first time we've heard heroin veronica's name mentioned. >> reporter: by 2:30 p.m., vero pronounced dead from a heroin overdose. >> she was gone. gone. >> reporter: veronica leaves daughter ray according to the cdc, more than 33,000 americans died of opioid overdoses in 2015. some of the blame lies with doctors. during the week we tracked, three doctorings stood accused of illegally prescribing pain medications to their patients. according toiamond's incan diemt, his action resulted in

the overdose deaths of seven of his patients. he has pled not guilty to all charges. >> this is the main target of the investigation. >> reporter: back in arizona, we're with d.a. agents as they continue to take down that suspected ring. >> looks like they're getting ready to go in. >> reporter: agents search the house, then jackpot. >> we out 15 pounds of heroin. worth over $1 million. >> reporter: in kentucky, veronica's parents are saying their final good-byes to their daughter. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but for her parents, there's one lining. veronica was organ donor. she gave three other p live. >> there would have been not one, not one good thing that would have come out of thi it made little sense of a senseless situation. >> reporter: dur tracked, veronica was one of 28 v donated their according to network

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♪ ♪ ♪ if i had a million dollars ♪ ♪ i'd build a tree fort in a yard ♪ ♪ if i had a million dollars ♪ >> ah, somebody is thinking about not just $1 million but $758 million. the big jackpot there. >> only one lucky winner. >> in a small town there in watertown, massachusetts. and there you have it. the handy variety that was known before tonight for its movies, apparently for a perfect summer

treat. >> did you get a yelp review? >> no yelp review but six likes on facebook. >> it's kind of impossible for regular people to fathom what you would do with that kind of jackpot. so we have to go to the people who always tell you the truth. the kids. a group of kids from austin texas isn't short on ideas what they would do. our austin station caught up with them. >> my mom wanted a yellow jeep and my dad wanted a mustang. >> i would probably buy a -- >> i would save it, and i can get more money to spend on something and save it so i have a lot of money. >> i think i would do that. >> i would buy a really good house and buy my mom and dad some stuff and buy myself some stuff too. >> a fair in the back yard and a robot maid. >> a boat a house, a lake, a --

my mom's dream car and my dad's. >> a rollercoaster. >> buy some basketball tickets fort for the golden state warriors. >> race car track or something. >> i would get room service a super star. >> i would probably buy a treehouse in my back yard. because you can't do it in my front yard. and i would also probably donate some of the money to all the people like that need food and all that. >> i would also save some. >> keep some money for you. >> for college. >> keep some money for you. >> and if i need extra help later or some of my family needs extra help. >> you need to keep some money for you. >> she's like, the financial advise earn. >> >> she's like i'll help other le my fam i'll give some to the

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♪ ♪ okay. we're going to start the mix on this thursday with cookies. >> yummy oreos. >> oreos and milk. this is really important stuff. the scientists have figured out the peak dip time for an oreo cookie. >> when you put your oreo in the milk you should only keep it in how long? >> for four seconds. apparently it reaches maximum and sorngs at four seconds. 50% gets soaked up at one second. ready? one, two, three, go. hold on a second, one second two second these seconds, four. >> that sounds about right. it's still together. still in one piece. >> uh-huh. >> see if i go longer than that. >> it's excellent. al dente, not mushy. >> these are scientists from utah state university who came up with this. they tried graham crackers in case you're wondering. it's still going on 15 seconds.

this one's like i don't know about that. >> this is a little crunchy if you were looking for a more mushy cookie. >> at 26 seconds it falls apart. there you go. science. >> we did science for you. i love this story, though so cute. an adorable toddler's on a news set, what could go wrong? there was a british anchor conducting an interview with a mom about milk allergies and brought the kids along of course, as 2-year-olds will do they don't sit still very well. the little one climbed all the way up on the desk by herself. >> how did he handle it? >> milk's in a lot of things. >> i think we'll have a more peaceful time at 6:30. >> he's clearly a dad. probably of many kids. this is phasing him not at all. at the end, he gives a little high-five. >> while i would be freaking out, probably.

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southern states bracing for a washout, as harvey hovers, gathering steam in the gulf and now upgraded to a tropical storm and threatening to drop 20 inches of rain in some regions. the latest track ahead. and after that raucous rally in phoenix, the president taking a different tone in front of a new audience in reno. but back in washington, plenty of work awaits. we'll have the details. and new this hour, lookout below. >> a huge rock slide caught on camera. new details about what caused this part of the mountain to crumble? and breaking news right now, we have a winner. the massive powerball jackpot will not advance. we'll tell you where the winning ticket was purchased on this thursday, august 24th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> one lucky winner in massachusetts.

one person going home with 7 r5$758 million. >> can you imagine, just to give you a sense of what it looks like inside their home right now. probably along the lines of -- so it was sold at this little place. who knew, the handy variety store in watertown, massachusetts, which of course is a suburb of boston. that place is going to be flooded by media within the next few minutes. they have six likes on their facebook page, they don't have a yelp rating. >> now they will have 750 million likes. >> isn't it funny it's something as obscure as that. >> a tiny little store somewhere. >> the handy variety. it sells groceries and now it's where winners are champs. >> congratulations to the one winner. and in the meantime, we're going to talk about what's happening in the southern part of the country, in texas, bracing for severe weather, a direct hit from topical storm harvey.

>> taking a look at the radar it's drifting erratically and slowly. maximum winds are about 35 miles per hour. >> but it could become a hurricane before making landfall friday night or saturday morning. the heavy rain begins tomorrow. >> and residents aren't waiting. the governor has declared a state of emergency in 30 counties, and store shelves are emptying in stores along the coast. >> and sandbags filled and in many places and communities these are the scenes. evacuations will begin this morning. that is not good news for the houston area, which floods easily with low-lying areas. as you can imagine, people are paying attention to the forecast and looking at the possible track for harvey that it could take. >> so let's get the latest from accuweather's justin povick. good morn, justin. >> linda kendis good morning to you. we're tracking tropical storm harvey, very slowly moving its way off to the north and west, not very organized yet, but that will change here as we go throughout the next 24-48 hours.

hurricane watches now in effect in southeastern texas, also tropical storm warnings out toward houston. we're looking at gusty winds down the road as we venture into friday night and saturday. with the potential this could become a category one hurricane. by far, the biggest impacts will be from heavy rain and very dangerous life-threatening flash flooding. eight-plus inches of rain with locally over a foot of rain possible in southeastern texas. kendis? linda? back to you. >> thanks, justin. turning now to politics. president trump is at increasing odds with congressional leaders. >> many disagree with his threat to shut down the federal government if the border wall isn't funded. speaker paul ryan says he doesn't think it's necessary. and most people don't want one. and others say it would be fatal for the republican party. the president made the comment during his campaign-style rally. in phoenix.

he spoke to the american legion in reno, nevada. by all accounts the tone very different. he told the veterans that the u.s. will overcome challenges by reaffirming shared beliefs. >> it is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity, based on the common values that unite us. we are one people with one home and one great flag. >> the president sticking to the prompter there, as in phoenix, reno police kept protesters and trump supporters apart with a metal barrier with as much as 50 feet between them. the groups were smaller than in phoenix. we're learning this morning that the white house is moving forward with president trump's proposed ban on transgender people serving in the military. the pentagon will be getting formal authority to deny enlistment of transgender individuals beginning in six months. it's also reported that

jim mattis will have discretion on whether to remove transgender individuals who are currently serving. but the guidelines will direct the pentagon to stop paying for their related medical bills. and a chilling new video from isis appears to feature a 10-year-old boy threatening president trump. the boy claims to be the son of an american soldier who fought in iraq. he moved two years ago with his mother. he speaks both in arabic and english in the video. white house officials say the boy is unknown to them. the first audio excerpts from hillary clinton's book already out. offering her own candid view of the presidential campaign. >> she admits she let millions of americans down and details her real feelings about one especially disturbing moment from a town hall debate last october. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: in her new book, hillary clinton offers a candid view of what it was like to run against donald trump. >> i want to pull back the curtain on an experience that was exhilarating, joyful, humbling, infuriating and just plain baffling.

writing this wasn't easy. >> reporter: as she now watches his presidency play out on the news, clinton says she let down millions of americans. >> every day that i was a candidate for president i knew that millions of people were counting on me, and i couldn't bear the idea of letting them down, but i did. i couldn't get the job done. and i'll have to live with that for the rest of my life. clinton questions that second debate when trump hovered behind her. >> this is not okay, i thought. it was the second presidential debate, and donald trump was looming behind me. two days before, the world heard him brag about groping women. now we were on a small stage, and no matter where i walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces. it was incredibly uncomfortable. he was literally breathing down my neck. my skin crawled. >> reporter: she writes she had a choice. >> do you stay calm, keep

smiling and carry on as if he weren't repeatedly invading your space? or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, "back up, you creep, get away from me. i know you love to intimidate women, but you can't intimidate me, so back up ". >> reporter: she chose to say nothing. >> maybe i have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist. smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world. >> reporter: and clinton isn't just talking about those do-overs. she chronicles moments she wants to relive forever. her young granddaughter running into the room while she was practicing her convention speech. becoming the first female nominated for president of the united states. >> and she also talks about the former fbi director james comey in that book due out this fall. and speaking of comey, he has a

new job. he's joining the staff of howard university for a lecture series. for the coming academic year. he will consult with student leaders and others at the historically black college to develop ideas for his five-lecture series. he says he will donate his $100,000 salary to a scholarship fund for students from foster homes. a paddleboarder had a close call with a shark at cape cod. the shark took a bite out of his board. he wasn't hurt by the shark but hurt his leg when he fell into the water. he said it was like being on a motorcycle and being struck by a truck. earlier this week a great white was caught on tape attacking a seal. cape cod politicians have suggested killing sharks in the interest of public safety. and there was what little less of a scare on land. at the yankees game. a praying mantis found its way into the crowd, onto a man in the crowd in detroit.

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that roar, right there, the sound of huge rock slide in the swiss alps. it happened near the italian border with switzerland. the evacuations. some buildings w damaged and a few roads there weren'juries, but qu up with america's biggest retailer to take on amazon. >> what they're attempting to do is change the way we shop for just about everything. here's abc's linsey dad that goo the number one search engine is joining forces with retail giant, walmart. a partnership th turn up the convenience for consumers and could change the way we shop, with hands-free help from google assistant. as of september, you'll also be able to make online walmart

purchases with google assistant, similar to amazon purchases with alexa. aim at online retailing behemoth, amazon, which is diving further into the grocery siness after recently announcing a deal to purchase whole foods. >> people may not be using these smart speakers as much now, but eventually, it's going to be so integrated into our homes and lives we won't know another way to shop. >> reporter: google is also hoping to lure new customers by scrapping that $95 express membership fee and offering free two-day shipping for orders that meet the minimum. walmart's voice-activated grocery shopping will be available next year. >> walmart's website sells about 67 million items, up from 10 million earlier. amazon sells hundreds of millions of items. good luck walmart. >> but even if they get part of that business. >> they're not hurting. when we come back, the big announcement from taylor swift.

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♪ ♪ ♪ haters going to hate, hate, hate >> now to "the skinny," and apparently, taylor swift isn't big news from t. swift she's been showing a series of bizarre snake videos. she made a series of major announcements. >> first she said she'd be dropping a new single later today and she shared a new photo of herself in black and white with the word "reputation" written in script. >> and then she revealed that her new album would be called "reputation." i think we figured that out from the photo. the release date will be november 10th. this will be the first album since the record-breaking 1989 in 2014.

>> and according to "people" magazine she would also make a surprise appearance on the vma awards. >> and there's been lots of reaction online, on social media. one of her collaborators couldn't resist tweeting, in 30 minutes as a show of power, taylor swift will blot out the sun. >> elsewhere, the twitterverse blowing up with the news, ladies and gentlemen, taylor swift has net. >> and one fan summed it up with this meme saying when you were only expecting a snake hid video today and taylor swift gives you a single album title and release date. >> i'm sure it's a coincidence that her first single from this album is coming out on the same day that katy perry is releasing a new video. >> oh, did not know that. >> just a coincidence. >> probably totally a coincidence. >> it's only happened before with taylor. coming up next, the creative

geniuses at sesame street have taken their parody shot, a family-friendly release of despacito. >> are the video is called el petito. it is spanish for "ducky." ♪ ♪ [ singing in spanish ] ♪ el petito ♪ >> it's so catchy. >> the song by daddy yankee became the most watched on youtube with 3 billion views. the justin bieber remix has been the number one song for 15 weeks. one more and it gets to the record. it will beat mariah carey's song. "one sweet day." >> i love the way you say despacito. next to a "game of

thrones"-sized controversy. surrounding the creator of the series. >> it was reported that george r. martin doesn't watch the show because he's too busy writing and too many characters are being killed off. >> according to entertainment weekly, he's setting the record straight. he says he does watch the series like everyone else. but he told the magazine through an e-mail that he just returned from a convention in russia and believed he was either misquoted or lost in translation. >> martin didn't watch any television during his trip abroad and there for simply is behind on the current seventh season. see, if he had not been watching, i would have said that makes two of us. >> oh, my gosh. >> i know. >> you have to watch, like season three. >> i know, i got to catch that. >> awesome. but it wasn't that he wasn't watching "game of thrones." he wasn't watching anything. >> lost in translation, but we got it straightened out. >> need to get caught up on the bachelor, bachelor in paradise.

all the important shows. and another controversy on twitter over tom cruise. >> a viewer watched the film valkyrie and noticed that his derriere looked a little bigger. than in other scenes throughout the movie. >> that looks like it's fake. >> it does. >> it sparked quite a bit of speculation as you can see from these other tom cruise rear end shots. seems a little -- >> sounds like . seems a little -- >> sounds like if you've got a life, you gotta swiffer

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oh, really? huh. >> i do. >> so prince william and harry have been opening up in recent weeks about princess diana. of course the 20th anniversary of her death is approaching. >> but now the brothers are sharing new revelations about the difficult and emotional moments leading up to their mother's funeral. here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: it is the last image the world saw of diana, then learning of the crash. >> it is here on saturday that the funeral for diana, the princess of wales will be held. >> reporter: it is hard to believe a week from now, the world will mark 20 years since diana's death. new interviews tonight from a bbc documentary. prince harry on the paparazzi who followed his mother into that tunnel. >> i think one of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her through, into the

tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying on the back seat of the car. she'd had a, quite a severe head injury, but she was very much still alive on the back seat. >> reporter: two boys walking alongside their mother's casket. prince william now revealing he felt his mother was there. >> it was one of the hardest things i've ever done, that walk. i felt like she was walking beside us to get us through. >> reporter: he says he now understands why his mother did that interview when she talked about her troubled marriage. >> well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. >> reporter: prince william saying i can understand, having sometimes been in those situations. you feel incredibly desperate. and it is very unfair that things are being said that are untrue. the easiest thing to do is just to say or go to the media yourself. he now vows to stay strong for his mother. >> it will either make or break you. and i wouldn't let it break me. i wanted it to mike me, i wanted her to be proud of the person i've become. i didn't want her worried or her legacy to be that, you know,

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a dramatically different tone in nevada after his fiery speech in arizona. and speaker ryan talking about the president's threat to shut down the government over the border wall. and another shark scare. a great white sinking its teeth into a paddleboard. one official now has a controversial plan to