here's my "nightline" coanchor dan harris. >> we want a europe free from fear! vree from terrorists! unsettling about standing in a square once named after adolf hitler and listening to thousands ofermans chant nationalist slogans. what they're chanting now is "traitors of the people." they're referring to the leaders of germany who are allowing all these refugees in. germany has just registered its 1 mimiionth refuji. and these people want to send them home. this continent is at a boiling point. while the debate over muslim refugees rages in america, we're traveling across europe where the far right is turning angry rhetoric -- >> the next terrorist attack in europe --- >> >> reporterer into reality. >> we want sweden to stay swedish. >> reporter: fueled by a seemingly endless river of refugees as well as by the isis attacks in paris. >> at least one attttkerosing >> reporter: ultra-conservative, anti-immigrant parties or the raise. caught in the crosshairs, the migrants. many of them escaping war zones onlyly to n n be confronted with a wave of assaults and ar

so, it makes you feel alive. >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, new york. >> i like dan. >> yeah."vanity fair." >>> listen, don't miss our updates, facebook, wnnfans.com. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. insomniacs >>> making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, investigators in paris naming the third bataclan attacker. the details just in. >>> firing back, the controversial plan to ban muslims. donald trump responding to critics in an exclusive interview with barbara walters. >> we have a president that doesn't have a clue. we don't know what's happening. >> the backlash growing from his own party and the white house as his lead widens in the newest poll. we are live in washington. >>> caught on camera. one of the hottest toys for the holidays bursting into flames again. this time inside a mall. >>> and art lovers taking an even closer look at the mona lisa. the secret possibly discovered

. >> "gma" weekend anchor dan harris is here, sara haines and tom llamas as well. we are counting down to tonight's big celebration right here in times square. take a look at the ball getting ready to drop just hours from now and the first new year's off, fireworks welcoming in 2016 in auckland, any zealand. >> it blows my mind that they're so far ahead of us. they will be over their hangovers sitting down to dinner with our ball drops here. >> i'm glad you put some thought into that. >>'m not great at math but able to get there. >>>he college football playoff. two big bowl games kicking off on espn, the team mascots from clemson and michigan state right there on an astroturf carpet. i don't know if you can see it. hoping to get all four but two of them got stuck. their planes didn't take off so we got two of them. >> we got sparty, though. go green, go white, that was from my dad. all right, but first we want to get to that record-breaking flooding devastating the midwest. mississippi river overflowing and more than 12 million people are under flood warnings this

so, it makes you feel alive. >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, new york. >> i like dan. >> yeah. of "vanity fair." >>> listen, don't miss our updates, facebook, wnnfans.com. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. >>> good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> and i'm richard bacon. here are some of the top stories we're following on "world news now." >>> donald trump says he has no regrets for proposing a ban on muslims entering the united states. we'll get into the harsh political backlash he's facing and more of what he told abc's barbara walters straight ahead. >>> attorneys for the baltimore police officer charged with the death of freddie gray begin presenting their case today. gray died earlier this day after suffering a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody. >>> a third of the nation's air traffic controllers are to retire. >>> and a study out of britain proves the very real phenomena of smartphone deafness. people texting literally can't hear you because their brain can't see and listen at the same time. those are some of th

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not dan harris or amy. our college football team mascots, yeah, come on, guys. you can lift it up a little here. whoo! we're going to be putting them to work in a couple of minutes so start stretching but let's start with the hottest video trending on facebook. so many people are talking about aretha franklin's performance at the kennedy center honors. the queen of soul sang "you make me feel like a natural woman" in a tribute to the co-writer and honoree, carole king. check it out. i feel like a natural woman you make me feel you make me ah ah when i sing at karaoke. that never happens. >> that rendition brought sparty to tears. >> i know. oh, wait, that's sparty. >> the one that's not a tiger is sparty. >> clemson, michigan state. >> okay, okay, okay, wait. that's amy's. i got it and the ka the is dan's. >>> now to president obama's new job title this morning. comedian. mr. obama took a spin with jerry seinfeld to kick off the season opener of "comedians in cars getting coffee" and began with seinfeld creeping around in the bushes outside the oval office. you

here's my "nightline" coanchor dan harris. >> 38 years ago in a galaxy not so far away wide-eyeddd dreamer created what has today become a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, "star wars." with total franchise revenue of more than $30 billion, it's hard to imagine that it all started with an original budget of just $11 million. since then the seven films have

dan harris with t other top battle with isis overseas. >>> for the first time in months isis carried out a significant atck in northern iraq near their strongholdf momol. hundreds of fighters launching atat leastour coordinated attacks but they were repelled by american air strikikes and by kurdish and canadian forces. this does raise concerns that isis can still launch a major sault despite months of coalition air strikes. >>> back i this country, in chicago, they're bracing f a day of demstrations as the police officer charged in the shooting death of laquan mcdonald is set to appear in court. protesters are planning to block traffic near midwa airport and in areas of the downtown. >>> in los angeles, nearly 1900 public school studentsre being relocated because of health concerns stemming from a massive gas leak. infrared video shows theasn purple h hering over porter ranch, the ongoing methane leak at a storage facility already forced hundreds of families to evacuate. >>> pope francis has paved the a saint and recognized a second miracle attributed to mother teresa known as, quote

here's my "nightline" coanchor dan harris. >> 38 years ago in a galaxy not so far away wide-eyeddd dreamer created what has today become a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, "star wars." with total franchise revenue of more than $30 billion, it's hard with an original budget of just $11 million. since then the seven films have been shot around the world in ten trees on five different continents. chewbacca is the tallest towering in at 7'2". the shortest, yoda, 2'2". runner-up, r2d2, 3'8". nothing small about the oscar attention though. the current six films together have been nominated for an incredible 25 statues and taken home 10. three of them were for special achievement awards. every year "star wars" fans celebrate may the 4th as an official "star wars" holiday, as in may the 4thn with you. fans took two days and 250,000 lego bricks to build a 15-foot model of "the millennium falcon." not nerdy enough for you? lehigh university math students calculated it would take 852 real death star. when the first trailer for episode 7 was released 55 million excited fans viewed it on youtube in th

next up we have, no, it's not dan harris, he wouldn't have a hack. >> no, he's not. he's not. next we have janell inez but she has her own web series called handyman and a surefire way to spruce up an imperfect christmas tree. think charlie brown. >> we'll about to turn that frown upside down with a little bit of garland. >> the tree. >> this is the tree. >> longing for more branches. >> looks like it needs something to eat. >> we'll feed it with garland. you wrap it around like so -- >> get on over here, dan. >> do something. >> wrap it around, fill it in. shove it in there. >> okay, all right. here we go. >> fill the holes like so. >> all right. >> dan, you're not helping. >> she's doing all the work. >> this how you treat your wife at home. >> this is exactly how he looks at home. >> and add stuffing? >> we want to show everyone >> beautiful. >> this is the one dan did not do. >> yes. >> this is amazing. >> and it's easy. >> everything at home and you're done. >> get everyone involved. the whole family. now we have one more, i don't want to miss you, tanya. >> tanya. >> i w