close all weekend as well starting tonight and through monday morning, your alternates here, take ben benjamin and up to waters and get on the veterans that way. tomorrow, children's gasparilla will have bay shore befld boulevard closed the entire the route is from bayto bay all the way to edmonson and the to work your way around this, cross town. that'll get you through south that traffic. children's parade on my facebook page at abc action traffic. >>> a birth defect is growing right now. eight newcountries have joined the list of destinations of pregnant women should avoid. >> that makes 22 countries now where the zika virus is a concern. babies have small heads and abnormal brain development. >>> now to this dashcam video here that's gone viral. itshows gainesville police officer shooting hoops with some guys in the street there. it has been viewed more than more thoon 100, 000 than 100, 000 times. >> the officer was called out to the neighborhood for a noise compliants complaint. >> not only officer white tell the kid he did not have a problem with them but he then picked up the floor and

on millions of viewers, so no wonder ben is back, and this time he doesn't have to worry about being sent home. the new season of the bachelor is all about the benjamin. ben for short. home by bachelorette kaitlyn last season. >> being the lead is definitely because you know you're not going home. >> ben higgins looks quite at home with lara spencer on good morning america, and in time prime where he has his choice of 28 different women. among this group are two who have been on the show before. >> i think doing this once, you know, is difficult. it really pushes you. impressive. surprise he get. >> no way. >> identical twins give him comfort, and so do previous bachelors. >> they know what the experience is like, so they came onto give me a little advice. >> be true to yourself, they told the 26 graduate of indiana university. >> don't worry about as much as what people are going to think when they watch it. be true to yourself and the experience because ultimately this is about myself and the women. >> ben prompted at least one fan on twitter to wonder if he might be a bit, well, boring. his response, can't let that happen. and pain and a lot of em

a tremendous ship named "the benjamin franklin," "big ben" for short, pulled into oakland, california, today after narrowly making it under the golden gate bridge. at 1,300 feet, it's longer than the empire state building and the largest cargo ship ever to dock in the u.s. a unique program is giving troubled kids a second chance. how are they doing one year that's next. except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. and when i finally told my doctor, he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. and that in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fung

. >>> big ben is heading back to asia. the ship that benjaminranklin dock on new year's eve left after 1:00 this afternoon. it is the largest container ship to ever visit the united states. the make a ship made its maiden voyage from asia bringing plastic and electronics and still products from china and is due back next month. >>> a new law was introduced today. it comes in the wake of the toward breast -- for bus crash in san francisco. the double-decker bus who slammed into a construction site. 20 people were injured and the need legislation will provide more funding for best inspections for chp and require coordination between the dmv to identify unregistered buses. >>> present obama taking action on gun control tonight.>> the net executive actions put into effect coming up. >>> why very writers in san francisco should book some extra time on super bowl week. ,,,, ♪ ♪ grow old with me ♪ let us share what we see ♪ just you and i ♪ ♪ grow old with me ♪ let us share what we see ♪ and oh the best it could be ♪ just you and i ♪ even tempur-pedic

. >> reporter: that's the benjamin franklin right there docked right behind us there. i call it the big ben. so it's going to be docked there for a few days and port officials say this benjamin is going to bring a lot of benjamins to the east bay. >> as it came closer and closer it got bigger and bigger and bigger. it's beautiful! >> it was massive! biggest ship i have ever seen! >> reporter: the future of the shipping industry meets the icon of the bay area. >> looked like it might not even fit under the bridge. >> reporter: not only is it the biggest, but also the tallest to ever go underneath the golden gate bridge. by comparison it dwarfs other cargo ships. it looks twice as big. >> i have never seen this large a vessel. >> something that big takes your breath away. >> reporter: people stood in different parts of the bay area to watch big ben slowly pass all the bay area landmarks. we are speeding up the video here and it just covers alcatraz. >> as big as the city of san francisco. >> reporter: not quite. it's 1300 feet long, that's longer than the empire state building is tall, band 2

ben franklin and tom brady finished at 29. when you were teasing the story earlier in the newscast you mentioned benjamin franklin, tom brady. my wife texted to say my 2-year- old yield at the screen tom brady. >> his father trained his well on average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. it's called the wage gap. and the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting their own rules. hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. she gets the job done for us. i'm hillary clinton and i >>> single digits and teens a little warmer than last night. tomorrow near 40. it will feel great in the sun. >> warmer in quotes. >> all about the relative change. >> thanks eric. thanks for watching.

benjamin is here to tell usus about his inspirational campaign, and dr. michael mauro is ben's doctor and one of the people inspired by ben's story. ten years old. >> that's right. >> how does this hit a 10-year-old? do you even know what lieu chemoya is? >> no. actually p, i was a toe walker, and i was going in for surgery to release my tendons, and they noticed at the preop that my blood cell count was too high. i was diagnosed with cml. >> how did your parents explain this to a 10-year-old child so fight? >> it was really tough. it was really vague. really, really vague. for the first three or four years, i almost wanted nothing to do with the disease. i didn't want to know about it, i just wanted to take whatever they told me to take. it kind of frightened me, saddened me, depressed me. made it my own to help others. >> tell me about that journey. at what point did you say i need to get my hands around it, and i don't want to say embrace, but to address it as a growing man, as a growing young man? >> well, it was just after years of having so much support from my family and

benjamin will give his speech tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. at city hall. we will have a crew there and bring you the full report on the news at 11:00. >> ben: democratic presidential candidates gathered at drake university tonight to discuss the issues ahead of the iowa caucuses. the first contest of the 2016 election season. picked by votershemselves. >> rochelle: voters took center stage at cnn's democratic town hall in des moines. after a brief introduction, moderator chris cuomo handed the stage to men and women trying to decide which candidate to support. bernie sanders was first in the hot seat and faced a question about his embrace of the democratic socialist label. >> the ideas that i am talking about are not radical ideas. so what democratic socialism means to me in its essence is that we cannot continue to have a government dominated by the billionaire class and a congress that continues to work if for the interest of the people on top while ignoring working families. >> rochelle: that was followed up with tough questions about his health care plan, and how it would be paid for. >> yes. we will raise the -- well raise taxes, yes, we will. we may raise ta

an article i've written with a colleague, ben justice, in the annals last year, we wrote a piece called how the criminal justice system educates citizens. benjamin is a historian of education and he introduced me to a literature that talks about how students are treated in classrooms that makes this distinction between the formal curriculum on the one hand and the hidden curriculum on the other. and so i was really moved by craig's work with these teens because it really reflected this idea the dichotomy between the formal curriculum on the one hand and the hidden curriculum on the other. this idea of the hidden curriculum comes from these educational researchers who look at how classrooms are organized, who are the mascots, where the kids sit in the lunch room, who is called on or who is not in civics class. when the hidden curriculum clashes with the formal curriculum, we're provided with instruction about who is and who is not a citizen. citizens are those whose treatment by a legal authority is completely consistent with the formal curriculum of rights. those whose treatment is not consistent, their hidden curriculum is totally different. we

were the british team the american team, benjamin franklin, john j john adams and henry lawrence, they said what would to negotiate a peace treaty with you. ben franklin said that is easy. we would like the 13 colonies john's ebec, st. newfoundland, nova scotia and island and we just won a war where you used canada this taging ground and if is truly going to be a great new north americ north american country we should colonies plus british north america. this was too much for the british. they said no, we can't do that. in fact gotiation -- the british were barely many to acknowledge the independence of country. so, the idea of somehow both acknowledging our independence us all of canada was not going to happen. negotiations dragged on for almost two years. 1783, they agreed to what it ne and here is says. rom the atlantic through the great lakes to the northwestern of woods and to the river mississippi using this map was created by a man named david mitchell. david mitchell was born in edinburgh d went to to study medicine. two years out after and moved back to virginia to ractice medicine without an m.d. but in his time in scotland he cold

ben via satellite. >> reporter: i did. i wanted to find out about what he is looking for. he said it's all about the benjaminre salesman trying to find love on the abc hit reality tv show. he started out with 28 women to choose from. one brought a mini horse to the first date. there was a former bachelor contestant and twins. he said he is confident that is wife is somewhere in the group of girls that he narrowed down to 21. he said there's more to the show than meets the eye and letting down the girls one by one is no easy task. >>> you're actually in a relationship with these women. when you watch these shows you watch clips and bits and pieces. when you're in this experiment the relationship has been built over time you're breaking up with somebody. it hurts every time. >>> that's what they say, breaking up is hard to do. what is he looking for? compassion, grace and someone who is not afraid to spend their friday night on the couch. now get this, you'll love this tonight. ben is getting some help on tonight's episode from philadelphia's own kevin hart, the comedian along with ice cube will accompany him

and they asked the american team -- benjamin franklin, john j, john adams and henry lawns, they said what would it take for to negotiate a peace treaty with you? and ben franklin said, that is easy. we would like 13 colonies plus quebec, st. john's, newfoundland, nova scotia, and prince edward island. where yout won a war guys used canada as a staging ground and if this is truly going to be a great new north american country we should have the colonies plus british north america. this was too much for the british and they said, we cannot do that. willingish were barely to acknowledge the independence of the new country. so the idea of acknowledging our independence and giving us all of canada was just not going to happen. the negotiations dragged on for almost two years and finally, in 1783, they agreed to drop a line and here is what it says. >> from the atlantic to the great lakes, to the north westernmost point of the lake of the woods. map, this map was created by a man named david mitchell. david mitchell was born in virginia. and went to edinburgh to study medicine. he dropped out after two years and moved back to virginia to practice medicine a

ben thompson. >> you're gonna see inmate keith reeves right here come in and sit down at this table with his tray right here. and here comes inmate benjamints at the opposite seat. then that's when inmate reeves tries to take something off his tray. and there he points in his face, and then that's when the fight starts. >> if reeves can convince disciplinary officer hale that he did not instigate the fight, he could return to his dorm. if not, he could face up to 60 days in segregation. >> i mean, now is the time to explain your situation, and i'm gonna tell you, don't lie to me, because i've already watched the tape, and i know what happened, okay? go ahead. >> we just started fighting. i feel like if i wanted to really fight him like that i'd have -- you know what i'm saying, caught him off the camera we'd have fought where i wouldn't have to deal with you all right now. >> when i watched the video, it showed me that you were trying to take his food from his tray. >> i was gonna move his tray out of my way 'cause he was sitting where i was sitting at. >> well, i mean, you sat down at a chair, and then he sat down at a chair. i mean, whe

benjamin nitay. >> narrator: having graduated from mit and americanized his name to ben nitay, he would fight for israelin his own way, waging the battle for public opinion. >> look, i'm 28 years old. i've had to defend my country in two wars and in many battles. nobody wants peace more than israel. but the stumbling block to the road to peace is this demand for a plo state which will mean more war, which will mean more violence in the middle east. >> netanyahu was one of the earliest people who brought up this message: that there is a war going on and it's a war between good and evil. >> and as i said... >> i'm not talking about the arabs in israel, i'm talking about the arabs on the west bank and the gaza strip. >> if you let me, i'll answer your question, please. >> and that you have to stand up in that war. and you cannot just run away. you have to fight it and win it. >> israel wants to live in peace and wants to be secure. if that involves maintaining our own military guarantees against the destruction of people who surround us, yes, i believe we should fight for our survival. if i have to, i'll f

a benjamin franklin impersonator along with other colonial characters on hand for the celebration down fifth street today. they entered christ church's burial ground to place a wreath on benranklin's grave. ben would have been 310 years old today. >>> he looks pretty good. >> yeah, does he. >>> after nearly 150 years, america's old defendant hat company is still in business but facing very stiff competition. while you're seeing a lot of kick starter projects out there, for many different reasons, this company is doing it to protect jobs. >> and they're getting help from very big name photojournalist bill rohrer has more on the story. ♪ >> reporter: the bollman hat company is america's oldest hat maker. >> this is a daily -- most popular in this style. >> reporter: for nearly 150 years bollman has been producing wool felt hat it's for men and women. during the 1920s, '30, '40s and earl early '50's you didn't -- uh-uh didn't leave the house without having a hat on your head whether you were a man or a woman. it was part of the every day wardrobe. >> but in the 1960s, that all changed. >> i think we went through a period of time where generation didn't want to look like thei

benjamin franklin impersonate along with other colonial characters on hand for the celebration down fifth street. they entered christ church's bar ya'll ground to place a reath on his grave. bennklin would have been 310 years old today. >>> huge trail of destruction in china. tonight at least 10 people are dead. authorities know what caused this, but they don't know why. >>> and the past comes back to haunt a young beauty queen what she just admit brrr'd giving up her crown. >>> and girl scouts they using to door to door to peddle thin mints now a days it seems most of the cookies are being sold by their parents at work. why experts say that's a really bad idea. ♪ >>> jaw dropping video of an explosion in mexico city. you can see the debris getting blasted through a sidewalk cafe and into the street. authorities say this was a gas explosion and nine people in all were hurt. no word yet on exactly what caused that blast. >>> meantime huge path of destruction in central china where an explosion at a fireworks factory killed at least 10 people. seven others were hurt. it's not immediately clear what caused the explosion. china is less than month away from new year's celebrations

ben. >>> and the story behind leonardo dicaprio's run day view with rihanna, next. at 15, i was addicted. by 40, i'll have lung disease. at 50, i'll die of a heart attack. dr. regina benjamin to health problems, even death. those who quit or die are being replaced by a new generation of smokers. i'm dr. regina benjamin, united states surgeon general. go to cdc.gov. learn how to make our next generation tobacco-free. ♪i am beautiful in every single way♪ ♪words, can't bring me down♪ ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >>> time now for "the skinny," we'll start with the drama that unfolding on week three of "the bachelor." >> gentlemen, joining us with the details is "world news now" senior "bachelor" analyst. >> good to be back. good to be back. we'll get straight to it here. 17 women started the broadcast last night, first off we had the one on one date lauren b., she's a fight attendant. she knows her way around, you know, a plane or two. these two, they really hit it off up there. and then when they got back on the ground, they wound up in a hot tub in the middle of nowhere. of course, they did. lauren b. is the analyst pick to get the king at the end of this whole ordeal. she's going f

we'll be right >> we are on the benjamin franklin bridge, this will probably be drifting shut again over the next half hour, to hour, or so. out here on the ben franklin parkway. there is a guy out here taking pictures, good morning to be outside if you want some shot of the snow. again, the best thing, do it by foot. and again, that's another thing, a lot of bikers, they can't get on the sidewalks, as they're all snow covered. so they're coming out in the street. just got to be careful of that. people walking on the street if you head outgoing in your vehicle. again, i don't recommend t i mean i would say at least a foot of snow on the city. at least where we are right here t did come through with the plows, we cleared out little bit. temperature 29 degrees, in that break, we've been talking about, for the past hour or so. so this is the best it's been all morning long. don't get used to it, though, these heavier snow bands will come right back, as the storm continues to intensify. but again, all is quiet here in center city, almost like ghosttown, that's good. because you want to stay off the road. stay indoors. you know, watch the storm fr