this is the latest prank by dawson over at big daws tv. >> is that a real backpack or did he construct it? >> i think it is. i think it really is an actual backpack. you'll see why. >> for who, paul bunyan? >> no, disco fever. >> for the most part he just gets in other students' ways and it's hilarious because it is so big it's easy to bump into other people. and in this case a sucker pretends to fall and these nice ladies -- >> could you help me? ♪ >> and then a very nice dude shows up to help, too. >> oh, wow, thank you guys so much. i didn't think i was going to be able to get up. >> i love this guy. >> do you like it? i like your face. >> that little dude needs to put on the giant backpack and look

amazing. >> oli i'll one-up you and put him in the backpack. >> stick your head out. there you go. are you ready? i'm going to try to lift you. >> and dawson picks him up and tries to carry him down the w k walkway. if you want this backpack he's going to be giving it away to people that follow him on social media. >> we did it. >> we did it. >> i love that everybody gets a good laugh out of this. >> that is a really cool backpack. all right, you're all caught up on some of the day's best viral videos. rightthisminute.com has more of them. check it out or catch the next all new episode of " well, we're going to show you a live picture of the satellite there of hurricane harvey as it makes its way toward corpus christi and the texas coastline right now.

some powerful winds in the storm gaining strength in the overnight hours. >> year' nwe're not expecting l until later tonight, friday night. >> but it is a system that will be bothering the coast for many days. a video is sparking outrage by many. >> it's a cheerleader crying out in pain being forced to do splits. >> reporter: in this video that is hard to watch, the cheering is replaced by a lot of pleading. that is freshman cheerleader, ali wakefield. her mother says it shows her daughter being forced into the splits, held down by the coach, ozel williams. >> i think girls being tortured to the point where their screams and cries sounded like a serial

killer had come out at them. >> reporter: it happened at a cheer camp. >> somebody had attacked my little girl and people sat around and let it happened and nobody stopped them. and she was begging him to stop, and he kept doing it anyway. >> reporter: the school district has now placed williams and several other staffers on life, including the school principal, assistant principal and assistant cheer coach, saying we absolutely prohibit any practices that place our students' physical and mental health in jeopardy, we do not and will not allow any situation in which a student is forced to do exercise. they've assigned child abuse detectives to investigate. abc news, denver. people who are cross-eyed or have severe acne or fewer th than 20 teeth need not apply to be teachers in iran. >> the education depeartment ha released a long list of

conditions that will disqualify public teac public teachers as candidates. among them, facial moles and stds. women with facial hair are also on that list. and a health alert here at home. a new report shows most schools are still at odds with doctors over the sleep needs of teenagers. >> pediatricians say not only do teenagers need a minimum of nine hours of sleep, they need to get it later with a natural wakeup time of 20between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. it's what the american academy of pediatric recommends. >> i which they were recommending that when i was in school. >> sleepin' in until 9:00. >> getting to school early for practice, not good. coming up, what you may have

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>> reporter: earlier this year, elmo went to a refugee camp. >> all kids are pretty much the same. you know, we have differences that elmo has red fur, but we like to have fun together. >> reporter: did you think that children that you met over there were sad? >> well, you know, elmo thought that some of the kids were sad, but elmo tried to do his best to cheer them up and make them smile. >> reporter: sesame workshop is building centers in the camps. >> education is a haven for people who have lost everything and for children it gives them just an ounce of normality that can give them the chance to rebuild their lives. >> reporter: and they're producing a new version of sesame street in arabic, aimed at reaching children in syria, iraq, lebanon and jordan.

especially refugee kids. >> we will also do what sesame street does best, and that's modeling inclusion and acceptance. >> reporter: and you may not know this. there are already sesame streets all over the world. from galli galli sim sim in india to mexico. and china. ♪ you can find the same kind of educational muppet magic on six continents, reaching countless children. ♪ and sesame workshop often develops new muppets, local characters created to address the needs of that culture. earlier this summer, i went to lebanon, to meet with some of the children that would benefit from this project, like 6-year-old azeesa and her

brother evibrahim. i walk with them to this school. it's a haven. you can feel it instantly. his teacher tells me he's changed since i starthe startede here. and the children get a surprise visit. it's tom-tom, a muchity from the local version of sesame street produced in nearby jordan. every single detail is thought out, every aspect designed to teach with the local culture in mind. >> we wanted to make sure that he looked afghan. so afghan children could also see themselves when they see him on skrin on-screen. we looked at various fabrics and outfits that little boys wear. >> reporter: the next project, a muppet for the refugees, all what's part of a rescue effort.

>> the great american story is that the privileges of the few can be taken to the many. >> reporter: and elmo knows the difference that can make. what do you hope for those kids when they grow up? >> well, elmo hopes the same thing that elmo hopes for everybody, which is to stay positive and bring them love. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm terry moran, in new york. >> you know, i knew that sesame street was in a lot of countries, but i had no idea that many or that they were doing that kind of work. >> what's interesting for me is watching terry moran who covers the supreme court, who has been in wash zones fr zones for us, hard-hitting interview with el my. >> a -- elmo. >> and elmo had good answers. >> but thiey introduced the firt hiv-positive character in

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vegas invaded as the world of boxing and mixed martial arts collide. mayweather and mcgregor. but if there is a price for cuteness, it is conor jr. knocking us out with cuteness. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> winner for best shades. >> let's hope his suit is not like dad's suit that had cusswords in it. but definitely a cute kid thayer. but -- there. hurricane harvey is hidieading the texas coast. >> it is expected to get much stronger over the next 24 hours. >> harvey's heavy rain and

strong storm surge will bring life-threatening and devastating flooding to the entire coast. >> in was taken from a government hurricane hunter aircraft aabove the gulf. with the outer bands of the storm already battering the gulf coast. residents have been in a frenzy to board up and get out. matt gutman is there. >> reporter: with hurricane harvey's outer bands already gouging the coastline, the gulf coast is in a frenzy of boarding up, sandbagging and fleeing. a mass exodus now under way in several texas towns, including port aran sis. the storm whipping itself up from a tropical depression into a full-blown hurricane in hours. triggering alarm bills from corpus christi to new orleans and very stark warnings. >> we're going to in the strongest possible terms

encourage residents in low-lying areas, as they say, get out of dodge. >> reporter: helping folks get out of dodge, airlines waiving change and cancellation fees for those in the storm's paternity. in corpus christi, they're swarming hardware stores. folks are buying sandbags by the palet pallet full. it's three and a half hours long. inside sutherland's hardware, clerks scrambling. the line for plywood, 30 minutes long, customers on edge. >> everything went to code red and we all came basically to prepare ourselves. >> i'm 65 miles, and i don't want to die at 65. >> reporter: in houston where it's expected to have a biblical deluge, shelves picked clean. >> there's no more water. there's no more bread. >> this is the line to get gas.

absolute insanity over this hurricane. >> reporter: in new orleans earlier this month, a summer squall flooded streets. there's now concern the city's pumps won't be able to keep up. >> we're in a more vulnerable space than we should be in. >> reporter: many are likely to feel the direct impact of the storm. the entire country could be affected. some 20 refineries producing millions of barrels of oil. tropical storm alison in 2001 caused $5 billion in damage. matt gutman, abc news. >> and once again, that was a tropical storm. our thanks to matt. and while this is of major concern for the gulf coast, really want to focus in on this other map right here, that matt talked about. the oil refineries, 45% of u.s. oil refineries are along the gulf coast. one third of those are in the path of harvey right now.

production operations are starting to shut down in response to the hurricane. dozens of oil platforms out there have been evacuated. but the big concern of course is the rain. and hthis is really impressive. check out the areas in white. those areas could get much more than ten inches of rain by monday night when we're talking to you. that's up to austin that we're talking that could have more than ten inches of rain, and austin is located some 200 miles from the coast. absolutely devastating and impressive. now let's get the latest right now on the forecast track. justin povick from accuweather. good morning. >> kendis and linda, thanks and good morning to you. we are tracking hurricane harvey which continues to strengthen at this house, movement north and west to the southeastern texas coastline. hurricane warnings in effect from corpus christi, adjacent waters and coast to the north and east, tropical storm warnings from houston to galveston. movement takes it toward the coastline impact later tonight

into early saturday. we are concerned about dangerous beach erosion and storm surge. kendis? linda? >> all right, thanks justin, and we'll have much more from south texas in our next half hour. but we move on now to politics. president trump is lashing out at republican leaders again. this time over the looming debt ceiling deadline and potential shutdown of the government. >> the president is blasting house speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell for rejecting his advice to get congress to increase the borrowing limit by the september 29th deadline. now he says they've made a mess. >> and he tweeted "he failed, that never should have happened." >> look, i think the relationships are fine. certainly, there are going to be some policy differences, but

thayer are al there are a lot of shared goals, that's what we're focussed on. >> the president's other line of attack is threatening a government shutdown unless congress votes to fund a border wall. that's despite repeated campaign promises that mexico would pay for the wall. sarah sanders would only say that the president is committed to making sure the wall gets built. a hostage standoff in charleston, south carolina has left one person dead during the rush at a restaurant. police say a man, a fired dishwasher, returned looking for revenge. he shot and killed the executive chef. i held one hostage, ordering everyone else to crawl out of the restaurant. the stand ofr eoff ended about hours later after the officers shot the gunman. >> a man came up to the door in white and i went over to ask if everything was okay, if i could help him many and i locked the doorks and put a gun in my belly and told me to get on the floor.

>> the hostage got out safely. the gunman has a history of mental health issues. that restaurant, virginia's, is just blocks away from an emmanuel ame church. and florida is using a new drug. prosecutors say the 1987 double murder was racially motivated. the drug has been criticized by some as being unproved in an execution. it places yet another controversial drug. and breaking overnight, a hearing scheduled today for the man accused of deliberately crash being his car into a crowd of protesters in charlottesville, virginia has been delayed. on thursday, a judge agreed to a request by prosecutors and the attorney representing james field to proes postpone that hearing. heather heyer died during that august 12th attack.

19 others were injured. and a former volkswagen engineer will be sentenced today for his royal in the dicele emissions scandal. he pleaded guilty earlier this month to misleading regulators and is cooperating with prosecutors. they're rimming they're recommending a three-year prison sentence. they installed secret software in order to cheat on emissions tests. eight have been charged so far. you can expect some suspensions after bad behavior between the new york yankees and detroit tigers. it all started when detroit's michael fullmer hit gary sanchez. then it was mcgregor versus mayweather on the baseball diamond. so the benches emptied again, after the yankees fired a 98-mile-per-hour pitch off the

hid of james mccann. later detroit's alex wilson flunked the yanks, and the teams squared off a third time. all told, five players, both managers and a coach were ejected. the only people who were playing the rest of the game were the grounds crew. >> the batboys. you're totally right. that could have been the undercard for the mayweather and mcgregor fight. >> probably more hits than mayweather will actually do. >> so theian kha yankees and ths could have been the undercard. tonight is the wane for the highly-anticipated bout. mayweather puts his record on the line against the mma star and first-time boxer. >> they'll also finally turn what's been a less than friendly war of words into action. >> his little legs, his little car, his little head. i'm going to knock him out

inside four rounds. mark my words. >> you just show up, okay? and i'm going to do the rest. >> i'm here right now. >> you just show up and i'll do the rest. >> i'm here right now. >> you can get it right now. you can get it right now. you can get it right now. >> oh, all the trash talk that has taken place. we'll see what happens and how badly mcgregor loses tomorrow. i don't now. we'll sigh. but he definitely won in this department. this is his little kid. he got an outfit, designer duds. >> do we have a picture of the little kid? he's adorable. this might be my favorite part of the fight. >> conn or mcgregor right there. the foods you moist hate. the map of america that shows us state by state the nation's most hated foods. but first, the controversial videos involving the baltimore police department, officers accused of tampering.

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a dramatic water rescue near los angeles. a small boat was left spinning out of control after a man piloting it was thrown off by a wave. the coast guard saved him after he stayed afloat 30 minutes by using his flip-flops as paddles. >> wow. >> pretty creative on his part. he's said to be okay this morning. well, turning now to the baltimore police department, under fire accused of evidence tampering. >> prosecutors say a new video shows quibble activity. but they say the officer in question was doing exactly what he should have been doing. here's abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: baltimore police under intense scrutiny after an officer appeared to plant drugs incriminating a suspect earlier

this year. two incidents recorded by police cameras. this one, an officer appeared to plant marijuana in a suspect's car before arresting him. another baltimore police officer under the mike scope for a third incident. the prosecutor's office now doubting his credibility. and in this video, they're pursuing a man wanted for drugs, body cameras rolling. the suspect is apprehended. then suddenly, i takes off in handcuffs. police in hot pursuit, catching him after running into the woods. police don't find any drugs initially, but went to the scene after listening to a jailhouse call that allegedly directed them to the drugs. in the video, you see an officer pick up the drugs and then puts them back down, only to pick them back up again. the officer claims he did that because he forgot to turn his body camera on, but prosecutors concerned that it was evidence tampering, dropping 43 case

connected to this officer. a spirited defense from police. >> there is nothing questionable about this. the officers did exactly what i and the community expect of him. >> reporter: police typically turn on their cameras as they approach a crime scene and leave them on for the duration. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. coming up in the next half hour, what we're hearing from the record-breaking powerball winner, and her plans for that jackpot. and a warning to parents about the apps your kids are using. what you need to know on "world news now". clearasil rapid action begins working fast for clearly visible results in as little as 12 hours. but will it stop this teen from being embarassed by her parents?

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we have a parenting alert about kids and apps. many parents may not realize that some of those most popular apps could come with a feature that puts them in danger. >> it allows complete strangers to reach out to them directly. >> reporter: a father speaking out after his 7-year-old daughter told him she was getting disturbing messages while playing on his phone. >> we never thought in a million years that we would receive anything other than family fun. the account was just at the default settings. we weren't aware of any public or private settings. >> reporter: brad says madison was using the wildly popular app

musically on his phone, creating music videos to some of their favorite songs when someone posing as a child began contacting her through the messaging option of the app, asking her to send photos of herself without a t-shirt on, calling it a secret between us only. >> she came to us and let us know that there was someone asking her to remove clothing for pictures, and she knew it wasn't right. >> reporter: he posted the exchange on facebook as a warning to other parents and filed a complaint with police department. >> it could be another child or it could be an adult. if they believe it is another kid, they will share home information, personal information about themselves. >> reporter: musically, one of the apps featuring a messaging option. a mom in louisiana believes her 8-year-old son was contact the by a sexual predator while using a popular gaming app, roblox.

>> keeping our community safe is our top priority. >> reporter: some of the protections include in-game chat fittering, restricting a greater number of words and phrases and enabling parents to shut off the chat capability all together. musically advises parents to use the private account setting and nab enable the only friends option for direct contacts. >> my message for parents would be to pay attention. i'm glad it didn't go further. we would be having a different conversation right now. >> that's one of the most scary things for parent. kids can be online. you don't know what's happening and what they're interacting reque with while they're there. >> is that why your daughter doesn't have a phone? >> she's only 8. but learn to be tech savvy. so many of us are not tech

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it's your pfriday mix, and this is quite interesting. there's a dating app called hater that -- >> it matches people based on things you hate. >> exactly. it has found the food, based on the different states on what people actually hate. you want to see? let's show you the whole map right now. state by state, what food does your state hate the most. >> our home state of new york? >> new york. yeah. so apparently, ranch on pizza. >> i would never date somebody who put ranch on their pizza. that's a deal breaker. >> new hampshire. i'm with you, expensive cocktails. >> massachusetts, mayonnaise on

fries. it's delicious. >> maryland. >> i love that one. >> the corner piece of the brown eye. -- >> this is so cute. this is lazy cat. playing with the ball kind of. just making an attempt, flipping it around and i'm not so cool to be playing. >> no, the no at all. >> so this is a big deal. vladimir putin playing the ♪ ♪ ♪

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breaking news on "world news now," hurricane harvey, gaining strength overnight as it approaches the texas coast. highways packed as residents flee for safety. forecasters warning that the rainfall could turn deadly by this weekend. the latest projections just ahead. and new details about the dreamers act, allowing children of undocumented immigrants to remain in the united states. so will president trump decide to end the program? and new this half hour, america's newest megamillions multi-millionaire steps into the spotlight. >> the 53-year-old mother of two who broke a record winning the powerball drawing and how she says she picked those numbers and her first order of business for that $758 million jackpot. >> quit your job.

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from the space station. harvey's effects are already being felt along the coast. a full day ahead of landfall. and texas and louisiana will be feeling the storm days from now. >> forecasters are calling harvey a life-threatening storm that poses a great risk. and residents are taking it seriously, boarding up and getting out. abc's jessica willie is there. >> reporter: hurricane harvey churning in the gulf of mexico and gaining strength, expected to make landfall near corpus christi early saturday as a powerful category 3. >> it's getting stronger and stronger. >> reporter: from texas to louisiana, to mississippi, people loading up and laying out sandbags, preparing for more than 35 inches of rain in some places. >> that's a lot of flooding. >> reporter: and a storm surge up to 12 feet. >> we need people to be aware. >> reporter: that awareness already leading to long lines at gas stations. >> absolute insanity over this hurricane. >> reporter: and supermarkets. >> oh, my gosh, look at the

line. >> reporter: shoppers planning to ride out the storm, stocking up on essential, clearing out store shelves. >> there's no more water. there's no more bread. the bread's running out as well. >> reporter: others in the lonestar state packing up and leaving town. >> we're going in the strong els possible terms encourage the residents in the low-lying areas, as they say, get out of dodge. >> reporter: with some mandatory evacuation orders going into place. >> it's better to go now than waiting until the last minute. whenever everybody decides, oh, it's time to go. >> reporter: and as the winds and waves pick up, the governor has issued a disaster declaration for 30 counties. louisiana's governor has also done the same for the entire state. jessica willie, abc news, surf side beach texas. >> you can see the wind picking up, and harvey's still well off the coast.

as a result, you may realize that some schools and colleges have already started classes for the fall semester. others are getting ready, but nearly all have canceled activities today. >> and houston wasn't expected to resume classes until monday, but officials aren't taking chances. with heavy rain forecast for after the hurricane, students and teachers are getting an extra day of summer vacation. >> we want to make sure that we have clear roads, and more than anything, with 216,000 students and 31,000 employees, we don't want to add that additional element to the transportation scene and have our emergency responders be complicated by even more people out on the road. so we want to make sure that our families have enough time to be able to take care of their families. so we decided to make at that call early. >> and private and parochial schools as well as colleges and universities in the area will also be closed on monday. there are no athletic activities scheduled throughout the weekend. >> and ten of the smallest and

sickest patients in corpus christi are being evacuated. the hospital is worried power outages may disable their ventilators. they're on their way to a children's hospital in ft. worth. >> harvey's greatest threat isn't so much from the wind as from the water. >> justin povick is here with the details. good morning, justice. >> kendis and linda, thanks and good morning to you. dangerous hurricane harvey still churning its way to the north and west this morning. a strengthening hurricane. we're looking at hurricane warnings here setting up shop from corpus christi north and east. tropical storm warnings from houston to galveston. expect impacts later on today. landfall late tonight to early saturday morning. and this is expected to become a major hurricane as we go throughout the daytime hours, making landfall as a major hurricane. big impacts in terms of beach erosion, dangerous surf, power disruptions and damaging winds. the rainfall aspect, we're

talking about major flooding, one to two feet of rain as we go into early next week. and we're also talking about heavy rainfall throughout south and central florida into the late week hours as well. >> two major areas of concern there. thank you. and of course we'll have much more on harvey's path in the next hour. but first politics. we're getting word that president trump is likely going to end daca, the program began during the obama administration to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children. >> senior administration officials say the president could make the announcement very soon. he is facing a september 5th deadline of sorts. that's when at least ten states say they'll sue the government to end the program. jared kushner is trying to revive a possible peace deal between palestinians and israelis. he held separate meetings yesterday with benjamin netanyahu and mahmoud abbas.

the white house says both meetings were productive, but so far, there's no evidence of a break through. several white national protests and counter protests are scheduled for this weekend. one of the biggest rallies expected in san francisco on saturday. organizers of the freedom rally say it's for moderates. but some california politicians say it's a white supremacist event. they are worried about violence as several groups are planning counter protests. and on the same day in the other side of the country, knoxville, tennessee, white nationalists are protesting the possible removal of a confederate statue. amazon is set to deliver a gift to whole foods customers. they finalize their $13.7 billion buyout of the supermarket chain monday. once the deal is complete, amazon says it will cut prices on a number of staple items, including eggs, beef and bananas. amazon has plans to offer discounts to prime members who shop at whole foods. the lives of hundreds of dogs were likely saved after they were airlifted from puerto rico. they faced a grim future because

shelters are generally overcrowded there. the airlift was organized by animal welfare advocates. they were sent to florida, north carolina and new york. as you know, more than a few homes have hidden gems, but not that many homes have hidden houses inside them. >> a home inside the home. kevin kemp and jennifer alexander were set to demolish a home. outside columbus, ohio. then they discovered something so cool hidden underneath the walls. >> it was the remnants of a log cabin. dating back to at least the 19th century. >> i grabbed a piece, pulled on it, and it came off. and i said larry, i think that's a log. so i walked over and pulled off another piece. and that's what we found. we found, i said i think we have a log home. >> well, the historical society in dublin, ohio estimates that two-storey cabin was built in

the early 1800s. >> they gave the home to the city, which took it apart, log by log. the logs will be stored for a few years until officials decide whether to rebuild the home. >> i can't believe they're taking it apart. why wouldn't you leave that in tact? >> shouldn't that be part of history? >> early 1800s, it's so cool. >> maybe their ventilation was not very good. >> it was terrible. >> it was terrible. well, coming up, the mother from massachusetts who is an instant multi-millionaire. she's richer than she ever could have dreamed. so what's she going to buy first? later in "the skinny," katy perry's latest video, a who's who in everything sports to internet meme fame. it's also pretty weird. here's a look at today's forecast. ♪ ♪ so keep calm, honey ♪ i'ma stick around for more than a minute ♪ "world news now" weather, brought to you by febreze.

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of that car inside an austin, texas garage last month. the woman driving it wants $1 million in damages from the garage owner. she suffered multiple broken bones after her car took a seven story fall. the driver admits to hitting the gas by mistake as she approached a cable barrier, but she says the cables weren't strong enough. another car nearly fell off the same garage last year. >> scary. it didn't take long to learn who won the second-biggest powerball jackpot in history. >> yes, so this morning, we'll tell you how mavis wanczyk chose her winning powerball numbers and what she plans to do with her jackpot. >> reporter: after two months of rolling jackpots, a record-breaking winner has come forward. >> i had a pipe dream, and my pipe dream has finally come true. >> reporter: mavis wanczyk from

chicopee, massachusetts, going home with the largest jackpot ever won by a single ticket,, a? >> reporter: those winning nudges pick the by wanczyk herself. >> they were random, maybe birthdays, one in here, one from there. >> reporter: but the big win also bringing big confusion. the massachusetts lottery making a mistake, at first telling the wrong store owners they'd sold the winning ticket and had won $50,000 for the sale. for seven hours, lottery officials said this is where that winning ticket was sold, but it was actually sold an hour and a half away. while the store didn't sell the jackpot, it did sell one of 34 tickets around the country worth $1 million. the store now getting $10,000 from the lottery. >> we still had a million dollar winner, that's better than nothing. >> reporter: six other tickets

are worth $2 million across the country. she's taking a lump sum, $480 million, and says her days of working at the hospital are now over. >> i've called them and told them i will not be coming back. [ laughter ] >> reporter: so what's she going to do with all that money? she says she's going to sit, relax, pay off her car. but she said on facebook that she really needs a vacation on a beach. gio benitez, abc news, braintree, massachusetts. >> on a beach, she can afford the island. >> right, three can get the whole island. >> with $480 million for a lump sum? >> good luck to her. that's awesome. >> that's great. call us. when we come back. taylor swift. >> and what's inside katy perry's new video that you don't want to miss. "the skinny" is next. want to miss. "the skinny" is next. start by taking care of families for 70 years. earn the trust of 32 nfl teams. be there for america's toughest

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♪ so skinny there's a reason we've waited all week for the friday skinny, because it is a huge, huge event. taylor swift, while many of us were asleep or not doing anything yesterday, released her new single from her upcoming album. it is called "look what you made me do." we don't have the video yet, but we do have the words. >> yeah. interesting lyrics. ♪ ♪ i'm sorry, the old taylor can't come to the phone right now ♪ ♪ why? ♪ ♪ because she's dead >> wow. that's not a feel-good tone that i thought. >> that taylor swift normally gives us with happy songs. she's a little darker in this one, throwing a little shade. >> it definitely is a long way from her country days, don't you think? >> a little bit, yeah.

and i think this could be in reference to some of her feuds, the kanye west feud. >> the katy perry feud. the album "reputation", but "good morning, america" will have the official music video for this song later on today. and speaking of katy perry, another one who has dropped a new music video and a little strange, the video is. >> you think? >> it actually is star-studded, believe it or not, molly shannon. that was rich eisen. i think rob gronkowski makes an appearance. tons of people in this. featuring nicki minaj. telling katy to get it together. >> was that terry cruz? >> that was terry cruz. >> the new single is called "swish swish." >> that sounds like she has a beef as well.

the music video is very odd, very typical of katy perry. >> yes, very kay at the perry and meant to be funny in a lot of places. let's move now into friend of the show. i know that this is a reason that you've wanted to be part of the show is because we had the likes of jeff timmons. >> of 98 degrees. >> of course. >> of course. >> he doesn't even need like the 98 degrees subtitle. 98 degrees has a new album coming out this winter, but they put this out yesterday. they re-did the circle of life from lion king. do we like it? >> that's cute. i mean, they're clearly having fun. ♪ >> not bad. i kind of like it. so jeff said that he remembers the first time he saw "lion king". he went to the theater with a couple friends, had just moved to l.a. and was like let's go see a disney movie. this came full circle for him.

>> i was thrilled to hear he was a friend of the show. he has visited you guys. >> yes, he sang with us, danced with us. might have taught us how to, might have done the polka ♪ that's world news polka ♪ ♪ if you are an insomniac >> i love this next story, because, as you now, i just can't quit despacito. >> despacito. >> that's my jam. and luis fonsi says people should take it easy on justin bieber. bieber getting all the flak for not knowing the lyrics. and saying words like dorito instead. latinos online have some issues with that. but luis fonsi says he's not a spanish speaker. >> how do you forgive that? >> it's a little hard. he says take it easy on him.

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♪ so the last week of august has been busy for plenty of news headlines. >> from extreme weather here on the ground to a rare cosmic event in the sky, and a brand-new multi-millionaire. here now is our weekly, friday rewind. >> we're going to get started right now with the breaking news, the search for ten american sailors after the second collision in two months between a navy destroyer and a commercial ship. >> the commander of the seventh fleet has now been dismissed, weeks before he was set to retire. >> evacuate the area. >> the deadly flash flood emergency, trapping families in their homes in parts of the kansas city metro area getting

up to ten inches of rain. and you can see this massive propane tank slammed into this building. >> president trump on the attack, lashing out at the media. >> i really think they don't like our country, i really believe that. >> whipping up the crowd and doubling down on controversial comments on charlottesville. >> this was incitement, plain and simple. i turned my cell phone camera on the crowd just so you could see the reaction there as we were on the stage. that's what it looks like when the president turns the crowd on you. the president said that journalists hate this country. >> we were right there as police in riot gear advanced on demonstrators outside of president trump's phoenix rally. >> the phoenix police department, they're marching through downtown phoenix right now. they've put tear gas in the air. >> jackpot. one single ticket claiming that massive powerball prize, more than $750 million. >> and i had a pipe dream. and my pipe dream has finally come true.

i wanted to retire early. >> this is our eclipse-viewing attire. >> they're just waiting. >> these glasses actually work. i can't see a thing. >> completely blacked out. it's weird. >> we have reached totality here on the oregon coastline. i'm going to have our cameraman glen turn down the lights -- turn it off, glen. let's see how dark it really is. it's pitch-black here. this is the most incredible thing i've ever seen. >> we did such a great job. abc news had exclusive access to the great american eclipse, and you slept through it. >> at least your daughter watched it. >> didn't you sleep through it too? >> no, no. our producer, brian, dragged me out to watch it. big weekend ahead. >> yes. >> the vmas. >> also mcgregor. >> they're going to dance around the ring and not hit each other for a while.

making news in america this morning, hurricane harvey gaining strength overnight reaching category 2 and taking aim at the texas coast. evacuations are under way, even babies rushed out of the hospital after forecasters increased the rain totals to up to nearly three feet in some areas. we have the latest. president trump in a showdown with his own party taking shots at senate majority leader mitch mcconnell while the white house dodges questions about his threat to shut down the government over the border wall. a hiker survives a lightning strike. what's left of his shoe and the picture that he took the moment the bolt struck. and countdown to fight night. mcgregor and mayweather, how it could turn out to be the biggest loss ever for vegas and mcgregor's son is ready