mark hamill opened up to fans revealing how this new movie came together t.j.ost came together without him. that's right. he considered for a split-second for not reprising his role as luke skywalker for the next film. he was afraid what his fellow jeddis ewoks would do to him. do tell luke. do tell. 30 years after this iconic father/son duel. the just-released teaser once again has star wars fans clamoring for answers. >> you have it. >> reporter: the surprises keep on coming from skywalker himself mark hamill telling adoring jeddis at the celebration in california he was shocked when creator george lucas discussed the new trilogy over lunch. >> i remember she said maybe he's going to do another trilogy. i asked at her. later i thought it's not like a choice, it's like i was -- it was like i was drafted. i would have all of you surrounding my house like villagers in a franken stein picture. with light sabers instead of torches. >> reporter: overall, hamill remaining tight-lipped about the upcoming film. >> i'm so nervous that i'm going to leak something. >> re

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about tonight, the first full length trailer foround on the web and it features narration from mark hamillremember him, luke skywalker. >> the force is strong in my family. my father has it. i have it. my sister has it. you have that power, too. >> you have that power, too. i am your father. it is unclear whether luke is addressing a member of skywalker family or maybe some other character altogether and he is not the only original star wars character featured. the trailer ends with hans solo played by harrison ford saying to his chewbacca sidekick chewy, we're home. that was perhaps the worst chewbacca imitation anyone has ever heard. it was like a squirrel or something. >> i'm sorry. i won't ever do it again. by the way, that was trending on youtube and twitter. >> was it really? >> i can't even think straight right now. [ chewbacca noise ] that was the last time, i promise. >> how do you follow that imitation? you send up fireworks. >>> the washington d.c. emancipation day celebration. [ fireworks ] >> fireworks lit up the sky over freedom plaza tonight capping off day long festivities

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mark: you didn't know who mark hamill was.ight have known if you were a bit of a nerd, but generally yes. to see harrison ford and chewbacca -- i am getting tingly. caroline: my story won't get so tingly but the money might make you raise your eyebrows. we have this really interesting index -- the bloomberg pay index. transparency awash in the united states -- who are the top pages executives? number one was the go pro chief executive. he is taking away what is equivalent to $284 million. if you look at the index in general, number five -- paid more than tim cook but number two and number three are actually subprime consumer banking executives. mark: "countdown" continues. ♪ mark: the i.m.f. 's lagarde warns she won't let greece skip any of the payments. caroline: miliband clashes in the u.k. election debate. media mogul richard desmond donates 1.3 million pounds to tuck independent party. mark: opening a new chapter in the saga. mark: welcome to "countdown." i'm mark barton. caroline: i'm caroline hyde. coming up, we'll talk

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new stars, star wars movie buzzing again this movie after actor mark hamill talking about the force thatn episode seven "the force awakens." at an event with carrie fisher and other stars of the film he said will he no choice but to reprise his role as luke skywalker saying if he refused "can you imagine if for some reason i said i don't think i want to do it? i would have had all of you surrounding my house like villagers in a frankenstein picture." angry vilers with lightsabers instead of torches. >> the film is produced by disney, our parent company. it will be out in december. i think they something like 10 million hits off trailer just released. >> why would mark hamill not want to be in the film? >> they would have to surround your house like villagers with lightsabers. that would happen. >> baby picture everybody's been waiting for. meet phyllis randall timberlake cradled in the arms of mom, actress jessica behl. what a cutie, huh? silas was born about a week ago. but as you can see on his shirt, he's already a memphis grizzlies fan. >> they're in the playoffs. dad just tin timber

there are exhibits, panelists carrie fisher and mark hamill were there.y say it is the place to lose an eye to a prop slight saber. more than 100,000 fans are expected to attend over the weekend. who is your favorite "star wars" character? >> guillermo: chewbacca. >> jimmy: can you name others? >> guillermo: princess leia han solo. >> jimmy: ham solo. just a slice of ham, no bread. >> guillermo: that's it. >> jimmy: guillermo has a knack for scoring the top interviews and he did it again today. who did you sit down with today? >> guillermo: the director j.j. abrams. >> jimmy: may the force be with all of us. the first exclusive interview with director j.j. abrams "star wars" a force awakens." ♪ >> guillermo: hi. it is me guillermo. i'm at the "star wars" celebration for my interview with j.j. abrams. let's go. hi. i'm very, very excited for my interview with j.j. abrams. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty well. how are you doing, guillermo? >> what's the name of the movie? >> it is "star wars" the force awakens." >> guillermo: but they had a "star

there are exhibits, panelists carrie fisher and mark hamill were there.y say it is the place to lose an eye to a prop slight saber. guillermo was there. who is your favorite "star wars" character? >> guillermo: cloou chewbacca. >> jimmy: can you >> guillermo: princess leia solo. >> jimmy: ham solo. who did you sit down with today? >> the director j.j. abrams. >> jimmy: may the force be with all of us. the first exclusive interview with director j.j. abrams "star wars" a force awakens." ♪ >> guillermo: hi. it is me guillermo. i'm at the "star wars" celebration for my interview with j.j. abrams. let's go. hi. i'm very, very excited for my interview with j.j. abrams. >> how are you doing? >> what's the name of the movie? >> it is "star wars" the force awakens." >> they had a "star wars" before. you don't think you are ripping them off? >> you have to see the movie. hopefully you'll like it. >> guillermo: is beyonce in the movie? >> yeah. >> guillermo: she is, really? >> no. >> guillermo: big mistake. what about spider man, is spider man in the movie. >> no.

n red sox. .com l cole hamills didn't pitch well at all. want tozv startxd offrhis seasonzv againe1xdÑi this way. >> everything is dictated when 4jsjeát season starts. and, you know, for what i was able to go out and do it was definitely not what for and what ijf was looking forward to doing. so, you know i just have to move past and prepare for the next game. so3 no explanrnhon forlp cole. you know, he was throwing ym he had his fastball. he just seemed to have long counts. they fouled off a lot of balls. they extended at bats. he threw a lot ofçóxd pitches and really didn't get into a rhythm of gettingxd ahead of the hitters andçó putting them away with his change-up or a spotted fastball.Ñikrthey got the counts back in thefá hittersrcounts. and if they were ahead in the count, they were -- they didn't miss any highe1 fastballs. >> all right. so the phillies back at it wednesday night. let's take a look at lesean uniform. this can start the off-season workouts. he would not take lessé@q money from the $120 million cap hit. he said he is

cole hamills for the fillies. it will be cooler so wear a jacket as you're getting there and we'll be in the mid-60s 7:05. >>> thanks tom. we can tell you when you'll be able to watch the wizard's playoff run this year. the team released its first round schedule against the toronto rap torz thistorsraptors. the first game is in toronto. game three, the first game in washington is a week from tomorrow april 24. you can still by tickets from the wizards for as little as 55 bucks. >>> meanwhile, the caps will try to dig themselves out of an early playoff hole. they faced the islanders in game two tomorrow. last night's game one loss means the caps lose home ice advantage for the rest of the subpoena. we've been keeping an eye on ticket prices here. you can still get a seat for under a hundred bucks if you want to support the team rock the red. tomorrow night's game is at 7:00 p.m. at verizon center. >>> a name famous for ice cream now making another type of treat. this one >>> did you know you can handwrite your e-ma

it features voice of mark hamill and harrison ford and chewb aka. that movie comes out december 18th. a lot of talk about what everything means in this trailer. >> i'm warning you i will be insufferable, if we could push a button and go. they had a huge star wars event, and debuted that. people were not expecting it. people were in tears watching 110 seconds of pure sci-fi brilliance. >> yes. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" can a pair of eye glasses keep your brain focused. >> we will tell but new wearable tech for people who get easily distracted. >> next. >>> it is not too late to grab your free coffee at wawa for wawa days in honor of the convenient store's 51st anniversary wawa is giving away coffee to its customers today. on this day april 16th, 1964, the company opened it first is toker in folsom, delaware county. wawa anticipates giving away more than 1.5 million cup of free coffee today there is a wawa right by my house and i saw many people coming out with trays of coffee. >> getting their caffeine fix. >>> if you have a hard time getti

actors mark hamill carrie fisher and peter mayhey joined some of the cast of the next installment of the series at the anaheim convention center today. part of the build-up of the december release of the new film and then the new trailer dropped on you tube. "star wars the force awakens" is new in theaters on december 18th. raise j.j.abrams who did the "star trek" series. he's got magic touch. he's got the midas touch in hollywood. going to be a good one. alison: you know that will be popular. absolutely. all right. coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00 you may crave ice cream but find out what ben and jerry's is ready to start serving up now. leon: first, millions of dollars and find out why next. alison: the moment that left a finance committee hearing in tears from laughter. leon: all right. then stay tuned for "world news tonight." here's david muir with a preview. david? anchor: breaking news. a terrorist arrest of a man training in syria. he came home with a dangerous plan for america. we'll have late details. the pilot that caused panic right there in washington flying past homeland

. >>> every five days the phillies best chance of winning is having cole hamil on the mound.opened the season and it was not the day for cole hamels. and the phillies offense is what we thought they were. weak. never a threat to score a run against the red sox. let's go to citizens bank park. heck they only had three hits. second batter of the game dustin against cole hamels. that's a homerun. it's one to nothing already in the first inning. muke bets in the third inning, yeah he hits it hard really hard. that's a homerun. that's two homeruns against hamels. let's go to the fifth inning. phillies didn't get a hit until the fourth inning. that is dustin again. two homeruns, three hits. hanley ramirez had a homerun in the fifth. hamels lasted five innings gave up 100 pitch and gave up four homeruns. jake diekman loaded the bases and gives up a grand slam to ramirez. phillies lose with three hits. eight to nothing. no longer spring training for hamels and pitchers have to be a lot better now that it's for real. >> when you get up there, you know, you have to -- you have to be fi

and it features narration from mark hamill. of course that is luke skywalker. >> the force is strong in my family. father. i -- my sister -- [ inaudible ] you have that power too. >> and luke isn't the only original "star wars" character featured. the trailer also ends with han solo still played by harrison ford saying we are home to his pal chewbacca. "star wars: the force awakens" opens in theaters the week before christmas. and just the release of this trailer immediately became one of the top trending things online and it still the right now. -- is right now. fans have flooded social media with their responses. let's take a look at yours as well this morning. check this out. -- that's from david lawrence there. hashtag #starwarsepisode7. if you look at the pictures, these are some of the pictures from the trailer and people are already out there analyzing it. they're so excited about it. here's another one -- see that on the left hand side? r2-d2 has a little partner this one apparently. check this out. this is how people a

in oklahoma, hamil was the big story.e have reports of tennis paul and baseball size hail in the southern plains. look at that bouncing off the streets. chunks of ice just falling from the sky. unfortunately, this is the setup we're looking at today where we could see just a little further to the east now, eastern oklahoma, eastern texas into most of arkansas northern louisiana where we could see, again, large hail perhaps up to 2 inches in diameter. we could also see wind gusts up near 65 miles an hour. we've got a few strong storms this morning but these will fire up later this evening and into tonight. we do have to keep an eye out for some of the hail and winds. yesterday we saw winds up near 65 miles per hour but we could see them up near 75 miles per hour today. >> it's going to be another interesting day for a lot of people across that area. thanks very much. >>> a look at one of the major headlines today and that is a frightening scene at a campus in delaware. >> yes, it was a big story this morning. police are se

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teaser opens with a shot of the plan either and 15 seconds in we hear the familiar voice of mark hamill. >> the force is strong in my family. my father has it. i have it. my sister has it. you have that power, too. >> wait a second. they didn't show hans solo and -- >> 20 seconds of the trailer. >> you're like a trekky. >> no, not star trek. different movie. >> what is this? >> that was star wars. >> what the -- what is the difference? >> could you just please -- >> you're embarrassing yourself. >> please put down the sharp objects that are cutting up your reputation right now. >> wait a minute. star trek, star wars seriously. >> i'm going to move along. >> star search? >> both cute different series. >> in iowa for three days and spoke to this young man who was taken in the back and beaten for 30 minutes before -- >> okay. howard thinks i'm obsessed. >> and had shock devices placed on him before being allowed to be an overday person. vetted for 30 minutes. hillary's people vet this kid for 30 minutes before he can sit down and go like this. >>> coming up the u.s. is more concerned about

matt: mark hamill, i have not seen him in 30 years.ranchise has made $4 billion in its history. carol: that is the story. betty: $4 billion in its history, and it continues to attract new generations. matt: it probably has made more than $4 billion if you count everybody -- everything. carol: it is a disney store because they will take this franchise everywhere. matt: you can buy lego millennium falcon. it is like $2 million three million dollars per disfranchisement more than $4 billion. carol: sounds like some of who knows. betty: verizon breaking the bundle. verizon fios subscribers will be able to stop paying for channels that are not want. currently, they charge $90 a month for 500 channels. pay-tv providers are facing pressure from copies like netflix and hulu to give more options. it is a big story, kind of under the radar, but we all said when -- carol: a la carte. i want to pay for what i want to watch. matt: this is all i want to watch. for me, this is the biggest story of the day hands down. betty: because it affects you dir

mark hamill said he didn't have a say in the manner.t want to do it. i'd have you all surrounding my house like villagers in a frankenstein picture. angry villagers with torches. >> he's right. >> i would have been dressed as bobo fett and lazered him or whatever. that's great he's going to be in it along with han solo. >> cool. >>> this morning the world is getting its first look at the littlest timberlake. justin timberlake sharing this photo of his son little silas and mom jessica biel. you can see silas is wearing a grizzlies jersey. and justin wrote the timberlakes are ready, go grizz. >> i think i speak for the guys in the crowd saying is there a baby in that picture? and that's "what's trending" today. >>> meantime the life of princess diana is getting new attention this morning with the online release of millions of wills in great britain. hers is among them. keir simmons has this story. are we learning? >> reporter: good morning. this is kind of amazing standing in this historic setting and holding in my hand princess diana's w

you have harrisonford, mark hamill. late middle age. >> that trailer had over 30 million views in the first 24 hours. everyone is geeking out about the movie. the trailer itself was presented in anaheim. the cast was there. i really have faith that this movie is going to be absolutely incredible just in regards to the star trek reboot. john williams is back. it's shot in 35 millimeter. did our technical director that our swipe. >> coming up the fox news alert, isis surging into afghanistan. it's getting worse. brand new details on a video where christians are beheaded. more next. tt8fq@q:)q1m-[f=/p2!a>l

. >> and mark hamill's voice. >> and how great does harrison ford look in that?e already said that earlier. >> but can we dress in costume? >> is this an episode of "the big bang theory"? >> you have to. >> would you dress up as princess leia? >> yeah. >> who is she going to be? >> you can be both. >> you can be princess amadama. >> i could be r2d 2. >> i have to be chewy. >> i'm going lando. >> great call. >> you did han solo. >> one halloween. we did the whole cast. we got to pull that up. >> don't want to be an ewok this time. >> no. >> they've been sampling the punch. >> for people who don't recall at home, i'm sure it's on youtube. >> couple of us went to the bar scene. >> it got a little randy. >> youtube after the show. >> that was the guy's name little randy. >> his name was little randy? >> no. >> i fell for that. sorry. >> so we are exciting. 17 million views already. >> disney now worth $2 billion. bob iger is a genius. you know what i'm going to do? i'm going to buy lucas films. everybody says why. and i'm going to buy marvel comics. bam. >> he's in g