. >> i had a meeting at dreamworks where the head of dreamworks walked in and handed me a letter from george lucas. the first line of which was, "steven spielberg sent me a copy of your short film." >> reporter: today you'll find nusbaum on an l.a. sound stage, >> you're telling me the short "star wars" themed fan film led you to where you are today? >> 100%. in fact, i still get jobs off of it now. >> reporter: back at lucasfilm it's time to pick the fan film final finalists. one of the judges is gareth edwards, now directing what he calls his own fan film, the next real "star wars" movie "rogue one." edwards can tell making "the sable >> having stood in the mission of the desert trying to shoot, they suffered for that. it's going to the effort of finding that location and sticking it out in difficult conditions. >> reporter: so far it's paid off. "the sable corsair" is chosen as a finalist. >> crash landed on a hostile uncharted planet -- >> reporter: next, london, basically the academy awards of star wars fan films. the winners are about to be announced at the annual convention. br

they are suing dreamworks home improvement. that ken sent her a small reimbursement check for the work that he never did. live in parma i'm kristin bolt news channel 5. >> always makes you feel bad when you see people taken like that. >> wild stuff. >> yes. >> what is in stored for tonight? >> you're going to stay dry. you can put the top down in the jeep again, you can ride your bike or whatever you're riding to work today. >> yes. >> he always says that i ride a bike to work, i don't know why. i don't know where that comes from, rk we're not sure. >>> let's take a look at what's going on outside right now. satellite map, here we have some rain and thunder moving our way. no severe weather to tell you about. we're not expecting any severe weather here with this next front that you can see it move down this way and then drives almost into chicago and again the movement is towards the south and east. the front is going to slowly move in. i'm thinking tomorrow afternoon, late morning, early into the akron/canton area. so we will

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>> i worked at dreamwork pictures in new york. it was a great job. a great working culture. i loved it there. >> that's why you're so stable. >> i was an english teacher after school in brazil. i struggled. allowed me to come here. beautiful weather today. we had that tropical feel over the weekend. now it's like a fall feel this morning. breezy, low humidity, and the rain is moving away. high temperatures back to the mid-80s. loads of sunshine. winds are out of the northwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour. will be breezy. check this out. the coolest night of the month. 50s north and west of the town. we haven't seen anything in central park. mid-60s. it's going to feel very refreshing by tomorrow morning. >> go on. >> i still worked 24 hours day but it was fun at least. >>> not too many problems on the roads. we have an accident on l.i.e. traffic is starting to build up there. we'll take a quick live look outside. out by the bronx, no delays you >> i was on my college radio station. >> there you go. >> don't try to save it now. >>> this labor day weekend we can see a record amo