. >> tonight, elizabeth vargas on one family's inspiring journey. seemingly ripped straight out of a best-selling novel. >> you may have read the book "wonder." if you have, then you already know a little bit about me. >> the struggles and heartaches. >> so tired. i want it to be over. >> a brother's love. >> you get up there with your little fist and go, hey, leave my brother alone? >> i do that. >> the brave boy at the center of it all. >> sometimes if i'm having a good time i forget what i look like. >> this special edition of "nit l ""nightline" "wonder boy: a story of transformation," will be right back. >>> this is a special edition of "nightline." "wonder boy." >> it is nearly midnight on a frigid february friday in manhattan. nurses on the labor and delivery ward at st. luke's hospital are urging one of the speck ant mothers to keep trying. magda newman with husband russell has been in labor for hours. what was the doctor telling you why the labor was taking so long? >> well, it's the first delivery. you know, you just got to push harder. >>

>>> our thanks to elizabeth vargas and her team.news on this night. as always we're online 24/7 at abcnews.com and our "nightline" facebook page. merry christmas and good night. >> hey, everybody. i'm hoping to make some people very rich today, like wildest dreams rich. so stay right there, because it's time to play "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic music] ♪ [cheers and applause] hey, everybody, welcome to the show. you guys ready to play "millionaire"? [cheers and applause] well, let's welcome our first contestant. from old hickory, tennessee, cassidy denton. >> hi. >> welcome. >> thank you, thank you. >> you ready to go today? >> i'm ready. >> you feeling good? >> i feel great. >> feel like a millionaire? >> i do. >> let me tell you how that's gonna happen. 14 questions, the money values growing from $500 all the way up to a million. [cheers and applause] you have your three lifelines. you know how to use them if you need them. are you ready to roll? >> i'm ready. >> all right, let's play "who wants to be a millionaire."

matt keller spoke with elizabeth vargas about a future member to the royal family. >> and as she steps into this spotlight and becomes a royal, pit seems like that spotlight i going to shine even brighter. >> she was a minor celebrity. she was never on the cover of a magazine until her romance with prince harry. he said i never heard of her, i never saw that show "suits." it was on basic cable usa's network. so this what she's going through now is not like anything she's gone through ever before. >> tonight's 20/20 prime-time special anchored by elizabeth vargas and david muir starts at 10:00 p.m. and that's followed by abc news at 11:00. >>> look at this. gorgeous. dave is updating us soon. >> high. my name is michael finney. if you ask me how to end hunger, i doan have the answer but i do know how the energy conscious whopeople among usle? say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you.

here's abc's elizabeth vargas with a look at her road to royalty. >> reporter: today a brand-new chaptern the royal fairy tale begins. prince harry and meghan markle embarked on their first official engagements as a couple. the american-born actress might be used to the spotlight, but her roots are far from royalty. her story starts here, an apartment above a garage in los angeles. like so many children, including the one who would become her fiance, early in life megan had to endure the divorce of her parents. >> they may have separated when she was around 2, divorced when she was around 6. >> reporter: with an african-american mother and white father, there is something else megan grapples with. >> dealing with profound issues of racism and inequality have not factored into any current princess' life. >> reporter: she's been outspoken about the topic. here she is at a usa network event. >> so some of the slurs that i've heard, the really offensive jokes or the names, it's just hit me in a really strong way. >> reporter: at an early age, meghan was itching to make a difference. featured

. >> elizabeth vargas is leaving abc news. she's leaving to pursue new ventures.s proud of her telling about her struggles with alcoholism. she recently coanchored 2020 with david mueller. the stress of the holidays may be good for you. social interactions, even the occasional family spat release chemicals in the brain called neurotroafens, keeping connections in the brain active. stress also releases cortisol, boosting immunity. >> tonight, a christmas day tradition will live on thanks to a nonprofit organization, george washington and his troops will once again cross the delaware river. current conditions between pn opinion and new jersey would have made it impossible to navigate the wooden boats that a group will lend several handmade row boats, drawing six inches of water, giving enough clearance to cross the river enacting what turned the tide in the revolutionary war. eagle players handed out coats in the east section of philadelphia. aside from giving the gift of warmth, they chatted and took pictures. >> after your family dinner christmas day, turn on chan

i'm david muir. >> i'm elizabeth vargas.s have a great night and have a great weekend. >> coming up on "action news," our rush hour snow causes chaos across the creejen, and ways to beat opiod addiction. that's a special report next. "action news," delaware valley's leading news program with jim gardner. >> thank goodness that's over. it was onehe worst evening ru

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i'm david muir. >> i'm elizabeth vargas. abc news have a great night and have a great weekend. nancy: accidentally shot and fighting for his life >> we got stuck on the runway for like almost three hours. andthan: snow flurries freezing cold lead to massive headaches at the airport. >> my son told me he forgives him.

i'm elizabeth vargas. >> and i'm david muir. this is "20/20" >> meet paris dillon, a 23-year-old aspiring model with a big social media presence. >> follow me. >> some of your photos are kind of racy. >> >> i like to communicate the sexiness. i like taking pictures where you could feel it. >> reporter: 29,000 twitter followers, 135,000 facebook fans, 412,000 instagram groupies, she's quite the sensation. but paris might be a little overexposed, because she is entangled in one of the most mind-bending internet intrigues of all time, an elaborate catfish scam. before it's over, there will be vicious threats, blackmail, warrants, and an international criminal investigation. >> this is probably one of the most complicated, confusing catfish stories i've ever heard. >> reporter: what exactly does catfishing mean? >> a catfish is someone who uses internet profiles to interact with people online, usually pretending to be either a version of themselves or someone entirely different. >> reporter: nev shulman knows better than anyone. he

>> tonight, elizabeth vargas with a "nightline" investigation. >>> and who is this charismatic controversial life coach? >> what is this thing thinking? >> the focus of startling claims coming to light. >> once i found out about the sex, the branding, the slaves, i went nuts. >> how did he attract this young star from "smallville" to his teachings? >> i want to cry, it's beautiful. >> and the daughter of this former "dynasty" star. >> she's in grave danger. >> now former followers describe strange rituals and lives changed forever. >> it's right here. i think brainwashing is a wonderful term in terms of trying to define what happened to me. >> this special edition of "nightline" will be right back. how's it going down there? that's good. lica misses you. i'm over it though. (laughter) that's fine. i miss her more than you anyway. ♪ ♪ hey, my window is closing. yeah that's okay. alright miles. i love you. (phone hangs up) ♪ ♪ yeah i love you too. ♪ ♪ >>> this is a special edition of "nightline." >> reporter: we are told the rendezvous was a secret. five women summoned to a house outside alban

. >> tonight, elizabeth vargas on one family's inspiring journey.hen you already know a little bit about me. >> the struggles and heartaches. >> so tired. i want it to be over. >> a brother's love. >> you get up there with your little fist and go, hey, leave my brother alone? >> i do that. >> the brave boy at the center of it all. >> sometimes if i'm having a good time i forget what i look like. >> this special edition of "nit l ""nightline" "wonder boy: a story of transformation," will be right back. michael: i'm thankful that i'm alive and have a second chance. james: i'm thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. darlene: i'm thankful to be able to help people in crisis. vanessa: i'm thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. christie: new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. but if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know: we are here for you. this holiday season, choose help. call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj.gov. >>> this is a special edit

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good evening, i'm elizabeth varg vargas. here in a trauma bay of a hospital, a place none of us ever hopes to be. a place we hope will have the best doctor possible taking care of us. but what if that doctor can't see or hear or walk? >> you're pretty tall. >> i thought there is no way i can stand at an operating room table. >> would you feel comfortable trusting that doctor with your life? have you ever had a single patient tell you, i don't want you treating me? what about a doctor forced to improvise? >> you can't be back here. >> i need a knife. >> that's just another day in the office on mt. everest. saving a client's life with whatever she had on hand or foot. >> were just making it up as you were going? >> i have to throw everything at this guy. he was dying. >> tonight, you will see that sometimes the smallest differences can make all the difference. "the good doctors:brilliance and brave brave bravery." >> i need to get to san jose hospital. lower amplitude means lower voltage. >> he's the hero like any other. a bri

elizabeth vargas joins us now with more.m tonight,hear i feel like a lot of people don't know meghan markle outside of her stint on "suits." >> as prince harry himself said, he had never seen the show and had never heard of her before. meghan markle is becoming onrybody's fast study celebrity and fame. she is a bus to make the most incredibly globally enormous change in her life that anybody the royal family. she is different from the other women who have married into the royal family. she is older, she is divorced, she is biracial, she has her own career. she already had her on philanthropic career traveling to india and africa to help the poor communities there. tonight we will talk to all the people whom went to school with her from the time she was in grade school to college. her teachers or professors. very first the casting director who cast her for a tiny role in general careerl and follow her up until "suits," which she has just wrapped up saying i have had enough, i have ticked that box and it is time to go mary pri

. >> tonight, elizabeth vargas on one family's inspiring journey.

>> tonight, elizabeth vargas with a "nightline" investigation. >>> and who is this charismatic controversiali went nuts. >> how did he attract this young star from "smallville" to his teachings? >> i want to cry, it's beautiful. >> and the daughter of this former "dynasty" star. >> she's in grave danger. >> now former followers describe strange rituals and lives changed forever. >> i

>> tonight, elizabeth vargas with a "nightline" investigation. >>> and who is this charismatic controversialnt nuts. >> how did he attract this young star from "smallville" to his teachings? >> i want to cry, it's beautiful. >>

one former member is speaking out with very disturbing claims, and "20/20's" elizabeth vargas is followinggood morning, robin. i spoke with a woman who was with the group nxivm for more than a decade and she said she was invited to join a secret sorority allegedly tied to nxivm where she and other women were branded as part of an initiation ritual. we are told the rendezvous was a secret. five women summoned to a house outside albany, new york, one night this past march. sarah edmondson said she was one of them willingly participating in a strange initiation ritual led by a woman who told everyone to take off their clothes and put on a blindfold. >> led us in blindfolded and sat us in a semicircle buck naked on a sheepskin rug. could that be any weirder? >> reporter: it was earlier this year she said she was approached by a mysterious opportunity to join a secret sorority. sarah told authorities she thought they were going to get tattoos. instead she says she found out they were all going to be branded. >> it sounds like a horror movie what you're describing. >> it was a horror movie. it w

far away much different setting. "20/20" going all the way back to the beginning and anchor elizabeth vargast? [ applause ] >> meghan markle's first appearance in public today as prince harry's betrothed was a hit. she handled those enormous crowds with poise and confidence and she's a woman with some experience already living in the public eye. it is difficult, however, to overestimate just how much her life is about to change or how big the difference is between life in the palace and where her journey began. this is the home where she grew up. not a palace or a mansion, just a los angeles apartment. above a garage. >> if you follow the driveway back that's where the yard is where the fruit trees are and meghan lived in the back upstairs. >> reporter: from the age 3 until around 6, she lived here with her mother, according to their former landlord. >> she was she was soft and perceptive. she was always listening and paying attention. >> reporter: meghan attended the all girls school immaculate heart. christine and maria both taught meghan. >> she had a lot of inner strength and was spunky,