my friend tyler introduced us to his mother, alanna. she brought me in, made me feel welcome and spread a lovely message of no matter your situation, they are always going to accept me for who i was. growing up with boldly me, somebody who's depressed or has issues with loved ones or self-es teem, you can become overwhelm b welhelmed by those and you need an outlet. this was able to help through my struggles. >> quickly, do you see this as something necessary for almost all youngsters? >> absolutely. our children from the very youngle age from elementary school are dealing with so many stresses in life. traditionally we have communities that will help with that. we have churches, community groups. it's truth that it takes a village. alanna and boldly me works with the children to teach them the skills to cope with the stresses. >> thank you very much for sharing your story. it take as lot to keep a group like boldly me going. there are ways to help as they help others. their basketball bash will be held on december 8 from 6:00 to 8:00 p

a lot of them you will want to keep an eye on, alanna's more set added to the list, along with the demi lovato. lopez is hosting the show. she also will perform. five seconds of summer will perform, as well, and the show will end with a montage of songs from justin bieber. you will want to stick around all the way until the end of the show. taylor swift leads the way with six nominations, followed by ed shearin and the weekend with five apiece. we will be watching those. i think we are going to see a lot of taylor shift -- swift and ed shearen. another big performance, of course, is one direction. start watching at 8:00, and we will be live with our red carpet starting at 11:00. is there anything you want me to ask one direction when they walk by? kimberly: one direction? get an autograph for my daughter, and i will be mother of the year. [laughter] kidd: i will do that for you, kimberly. kimberly: what a great assignment. we will look for you tonight at 11:00. coming up on abc seven news -- >> mixing >> you are watching abc seven news at 6:30 -- on your side. kimberly: an iranian court

alanna joins us with an update on the situation. >> no one was hurt but there is quite a bit of damage. take a look. it started on the second floor and spread to the third level and two of the rooms are badly marred. a lot of students watched this place burn. >> students grabbed their cell phones and recorded the fire at the dorm right after it started this morning. the flames quickly spread upstairs. >> the fire alarm was going off and we ran over here to see the busted windows out. >> a coast guard license had to evacuate in a matter of minutes. they stood out here by the water on the peninsula right under the bridge for more than an hour watching the scene. >> the curtains were caught and the bed, desks, everything. >> it grew and grew and started shooting you are out and shooked up to the other building the second floor got set on fire. >> were you worried about your room? >> yes i was paranoid. >> firefighters contained it to two rooms. the students that live there left minutes earlier. >> lots of rooms had to be searched but the students were on the parade grounds at the time of

. >> reporter: when alanna and avner fink were planning their wedding earlier this year, they had to choose a color. >> first i joked i wanted purple. >> originally i was thinking blue. plu is my favorite color. >> reporter: not for napkins, or bridesmaids' dresses but a color for afener's eyes. he was born without irises. bright sunlight used to create tremendous glare. so did lights at night. >> when we would walk down the street, especially at night i could tell he needed more help from me. >> reporter: he found help at the will's eye hospital hospital in pennsylvania where dr. brandon eirs is pioneering a procedure to implant artificial iris for patients with missing or damaged irises. >> this iris prosthesis finally themselves relatively large subset of patients who prior had no real options. it's about the size of a lifesafer. >> reporter: the silicone iris was specially made for fink. >> i'm hoping that it will work and my life will be better. >> reporter: this spring he had the surgery on his right eye. by july, he no longer had to use a cane to walk at night, and his distanc

. >> are you happy you came from alanna to see this? >> yes. >> everyone we talked to was determined to be here tonight be part of this wholesome event. >> we need to support our city and not wait at home for things to happen. >> i think america's great we should be proud to be americans. >> you have to live life, you can't live in fair. this is absolutely wonderful, every once in a great mood, great holiday spirit. >> happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: you have to love all those kids, there's nothing nothing left to say guys, happy thanksgiving to both of you and of course to all of our fox 5 viewers. enjoy the the day with your family and friends tomorrow. >> happy thanksgiving to you. >> jen: the weather is supposed to be fantastic, in the 60s right. >> nick: about 58 or 60. >> steve: you said earlier we could have the 60s it's doing the to buy the balloons but tomorrow will be fine. >> nick: upper 50s by the middle of the day, temperatures will be in the upper 40s and 50. that's where we were today, with 36 as a low that's in average.

alanna brave, hundred $50,000. >> i think one of the things that was a concern to the senators, and i've heard this before, is that in previous reporting that other members and colleagues of mine have done, there was concern that there is not a lot of hard evidence as to the value of the promotional activities that the pentagon does in recruiting. they want to see better metrics that show how well the recruiting has improved by spending any certain areas, because, it is a sizable amount of money, and it is not too much as part of the whole pentagon budget. when taxpayers see that, they are concerned. they want to know, is this getting a result? is it causing greater recruiting success in those areas where they are doing this kind of promotion? with your guide to all of that money, there is this week, in context to a $19 trillion debt, what does $7 million represent? >> very small. this is the challenge for policymakers in trying to deal with those large deficits. there are a lot of things that you can identify as questionable spending. often, they are fairly small in the big picture. as