abc's deborah roberts gives us another look. >> i'm peter pan. >> i'm captain hook, you're peter pan,-old and his dad. but this moment in time would later mean so much more. >> then we just watched it over and over. how could this be possible? here he is just a few ago. >> good-bye, peter pan! >> reporter: not long after filming this in 1993, owen's world halted. he stopped talking, showing affection, and engaging in the world around him. his parents, ron and cornelia, soon got a shattering diagnosis. regressive autism. >> must have been devastating. >> we just froze. you know -- and the doctors started to explain, okay, this is going to change your life. he may never get his speech back. many of the kids don't. >> reporter: ron, an award-winning "wall street journal" reporter, gifted with words, but now his own son has none. >> he started to vanish. couldn't look at you. walked around like someone with their eyes closed when you can't get them to smile when you say something or to respond when you say i love you -- that doesn't leave you with a lot. >> reporter: by 4 years old, owen'

here's abc's deborah roberts. thank you for being on the show. >> it is great to see you. >> reporter: barack obama made his final appearance on "the daily show" as president, discussing the election of donald trump. >> president-elect has very clearly said he refuses intelligence briefings. and so he's come out and said, i don't need them because i'm a smart man. >> i think the president-elect may say one thing and do another once he's here, because the truth of the matter is that it's a big, complicated world. it doesn't matter how smart you are, you have to have the best information possible to make the best decisions possible. >> reporter: it's the biggest get yet for trevor noah. the 32-year-old host of ""the daily show."" just over a year after taking the reins from jon stewart. >> this is "the daily show" with trevor noah! >> reporter: noah making his mark tackling the topic of race, taking aim at president-elect trump. >> in donald trump's america everyone is speculating as to who should be the most afraid

we're up all nightline with deborah roberts. >> thanks for being on the show. >> reporter: barack obama made his final appearance on the daily show discussing the president-elect donald trump trump. >> he refusing intelligence briefings, and so he's come out and said i don't need them because i'm a smart man. >> i think the president-elect may say one thing and do another once he's here because the truth of the matter is that it's a big complicated world. it doesn't matter how smart you are, you have to have the best information possible to make the decisions possible. >> reporter: it's the biggest get yet for trevor noah, the 32-year-old host of "the daily show," just over a year after taking the reigns from john stewart. noah is making his mark, tackling the topic of race, taking aim at president-elect trump. do you think donald trump is racist? >> i do. i do. >> reporter: you do? >> i'll tell you why. it's tough to say that somebody is not racist when they are doing all the racist things. you know sometimes i feel like we need to invent a racist richter scale. racist in america is a

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deborah, go ahead. >> i think that if the judge allows this to cur, it could set the stage for violationing robert durst'sion at trial. you can say what you want about him, but he is entitled to a fair trial which is a fundamental principle of our criminal justice system. these people, there are no known threats to them. we just have their fear. so, you know, the prosecution is saying that robert durst is a force to be reckoned with despite his old age, but they're doing things that are making this a public trial before the trial. they released his videotaped confession or interrogation which is subject to future suppression, and they're now making a public issue of this, so is they're poisoning the jury pool. eric: well, i mean, the jury hasn't even been seated. deborah, what if they do videotape the people and the people survive, they go up on the stand, wouldn't that testimony be legitimate and fair and the jury would be instructed not to pay any attention to, allegedly, that it was videotaped before? >> well, they should have presented these witnesses in the grand jury which is the proper channel for