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and for the latest on what's happened, abc senior national correspondent jim avila joins me. jim? >> reporter: diane, this is a huge blow to boeing. this is the faa telling united it cannot fly the dreamliner 787 starting right now. it's grounded until it can prove to the federal government that the airline has fixed the problem with the battery that continues to overheat. united is the only u.s. carrier flying the 787 so far. the plane of the future is expected to dominate american skies soon. but right now, as you say, only six are flying. there are 50 total flying in the world. most of them in japan. and japanese authorities grounded all of their 787s overnight after a battery warning light and the smell of smoke forced an emergency landing there. panicked passengers were evacuated on the emergency chutes. three people suffered minor injuries, but the most damage has been done to the reputation of america's largest plane manufacturer. >> but all along, inspectors seem to be saying these aren't real safety issues. are we now seeing safety issues? >> reporter: it has to be a safe

and here's abc's senior national correspondent jim avila on that. >> ice cold coca-cola. >> reporter: coca-cola in 1961, advertising the original coke as a diet beverage. >> there's no waistline worry with coke. >> reporter: but now, most studies say that's not true. so, today, a new ad from coke, claiming to be part of the obesity solution, not the problem. >> of more than 650 beverage, we now offer over 180 low and no calorie choices. >> reporter: coke buying a cable ad blitz tonight, reacting to a full-fledged assault on sugary sodas that include school bans, proposed taxes and an often-mocked new york city effort to eliminate large sizes. >> oh, no! i'm on the run from johnny law! >> reporter: but many feel it's no joke. after all, the average american gets 45 gallons of sugary soft drinks a year. that's 1 1/2 barrels of soda pop. in fact, sugary sodas are the single largest source of calories in the american diet. even this small can has the equivalent of six sugar cubes in it. the regular soda, 14 sugar cubes. and that big gulp? 32 sugar cubes. critics argue they're not just ord

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abc's senior national correspondent jim avila went to the lab. >> reporter: they are supposed to helprica's obesity problem. calorie counts boldly displayed on restaurant menus. >> that's kind of important to have that visibility in what you're eating. >> reporter: but a study by tufts university, sampling food from 42 restaurants, found wide discrepancies. especially at sitdown restaurants and, surprisingly, most often on the diet side of the menu. >> these are the foods that people who are trying to manage their weight would gravitate towards and may be getting more calories than they expect. >> reporter: a just-completed abc news sampling found that more than half of the low-cal meals we tested had more calories than listed on the menu. we brought a nationally known lab 24 food samples from four sitdown restaurants and one mcdonald's. surprisingly, the big mac had 30 calories fewer than advertised on the menu. here, too, it was the sitdown restaurants that had sometimes wildly different calorie counts than advertised. 11 meals had more calories than on the menu and 10 had fewer. an

jim avila, abc news, washington. >> i don't like that. >> i've got to look for lawn grass in my tea bag>> i'm a tea drinker too. i thought my tea smelled a little funny. >> smells like motor oil. the amount of food they found is up 60% this year. this is not an uncommon thing. >> i cannot believe that. the lawn grass got me. >> in the tea bag. oh, well. as long as it's got caffeine in it. coming up, party pictures from the after hours inaugural bash. >> and a reunion tour for some of the biggest names in boy bands, coming up next in "the skinny." ♪ skinny, so skinny >>> skinny in the house! >> oh, lord. willis had a rough time in puberty. it's tough for him. willis, you would have had a good time. everybody would have had a good time at this post-inaugural ball party at the white house. >> that was the ticket. >> that was the ticket. i'm sure a lot of celebs and big donors came out. it didn't end until 3:00 a.m., and everybody, including the president and first lady, were partying hard. take a look at some of these pictures that came out. there's the president hugging swiss beats. he's

jim avila, abc news, washington. >> i do not like that! sabotage. >> you are upset.unned there's no truth in advertising. >> thanks, rob, for the sabotage. >> burgers and fries and chicken fingers, four calories. come on down to rob's wing shack. >> seriously, some of it has to do with who is preparing it. >> eat carefully, folks. we'll be right back after this. ♪ >>> oh, you like creed, huh? >> love creed. >> go ahead. you're good. >> eclectic musical choices for me. being pregnant can be one of the most joyous and nerve-racking time of a woman's life and that first ultrasound is an amazing experience. >> my first was incredible. now, in our culture of oversharing, ultrasound parties are the new thing. >> reporter: this looks like your typical baby shower. but it's really a baby viewing shower. the newest trend for parents to be. tiny fingers and toes captured in 4d video. maggie turned what used to be a private moment in the doctor's office into a party at their home. and that little baby on the big screen is the main attraction. >> one beautiful boy here. [ applau

abc's jim avila has more. >> reporter: junior seau, who over a 20-year career made an estimated 150 bruisinges. most of them head first. >> junior seau. >> he would come home and hit the blackout button in the bedroom. >> reporter: and in medical documents obtained by abc news and espn and confirmed in an exclusive interview with his family, we learned for the first time that this monitor in the middle, who killed himself last year, suffered severe brain damage from repeated blows to the head. >> at the end of the game, is it really worth it? >> reporter: his family donated his brain to science, the national institutes of health found evidence of hardened brain cells like these. telltale signs of chronic traumatic disease. >> all concurred with the diagnosis of cte. >> reporter: chronic blows to the head, including concussions, can cause cte. the symptoms include dementia, mood swings and depression severe enough to lead to suicide. >> the combination of depression and lack of impulse control probably contributes to the suicide we see in this group of individuals. >> reporter: researchers ha

jim avila, abc news, washington. >> yes, indeed. >>> coming up next, is she or isn't she? that anne hathaway is facing. >>> and controversial comments by howard stern that led to another high-profile apology. that's coming up next in "the skinny." ♪ skinny, so skinny ♪ skinny, so skinny >>> skinny in the house! >> you sound like a wounded wolf. >> does willis have the flu? >> are you doing all right, willis? >> i'm fine. >> you got your flu shot? >> i'm all right, guys. i'm fine. >> it's interesting. we were talking about anne hathaway yesterday. i thought she looked gorgeous in that sort of white chanel. but then julian ransic started this big rumor saying that anne hathaway was pregnant. i don't know, when i looked at her dress, she didn't look preggers to me. she didn't look like she was hiding a baby bump to me. she looked very, very thin. now her publicist, her spokesman has moved very quickly to dismiss the gossip saying no, she's not pregnant. so for all of you on twitter and facebook, anne hathaway is not expecting. >> that's the official word. glad we clarified th

jim avila talked about his suicide and new medical information that may shed a light on what happened and what can be done to prevent another tragedy. two local expert football players also have messages. do not take them lightly. ben lynch joins mike shumann and me in "beyond the headlines" and also jared cooper. it caused dangerous depression and brain damage and now they are trying to save others from a terrible fate. >> junior seau, played golf, great mood, two weeks later he kills himself. were you ever at that part. suicidal thoughts. >> i'm on the good side. so i can sit here and tell you yes. >> at the youth level i think it's important that athletes know what a concussion is and parents and administrators know what it is and it's not up to a coach or teammate to come back and play but it has to be made by a qualified doctor. >> cheryl: join me "beyond the headlines" and you'll see how the football legends are making sports safer. >> scientists have found a way to avert hearing loss. researchers can regenerate small hairs inside the ear that recognize sounds. mice with previou

abc's jim avila brings us the report. >> reporter: a trip to the grocery store should be simple and straightin there should be listed on the ingredients label. >> reporter: but how do you know what's on the label is what you're actually getting? in a study to be released later today, the u.s. convention, an independent non-profit lab, says in many cases you can't. they're comprehensive review of food fraud finds that reports of fraudulent ingredients in our food, ingredients not labeled and used as cheap substitutes, are up 60% over last year's review. >> the food products are not always what they purport to be. >> reporter: so it's profit, or in this case, greed. >> that seems to be the driver for a lot of human actions. ground black pepper can be adulterated. >> reporter: it's enough to make you wonder who thinks of this stuff. >> stems, starches, everything that looks gray or speckled appears to be ground black pepper. >> reporter: the scientists at usp want to know what's really on grocery shelves, not just what the label says. what's actually inside. >> now we're tossing paprika. >> rep

for "nightline," i'm jim avila in washington. >> fake goat's milk. who knew? we hope you check in for "good morning america." they are working while we're all sleeping and we're always online at abcnews.com. we'll see you here tomorrow. have a good one. good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. >>> right now a contentious meeting is underway at oakland city hall and a man at the center of the debate, a high profile law man the city wants to hire to help fight crime. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. cop in los angeles and new now they are deciding whether they should hire him as a police consultant. alan wang is now live. he is certainly continue controversial. >> yes, the council addressing this an hour ago. but they had 150 speake

and now abc's jim avila breaks the news that he did have a brain disease linked to head trauma, like the kind he endured in football. >> reporter: an nfl warrior, junior seau, who over a 20-year career made an estimated 1,850 bruising tackles, most of them head first. >> junior seau! >> he'd come home and just hit the blackout button in the bedroom and black out the room so he could just lay down. >> reporter: and today in medical documents obtained by abc news and espn, and confirmed in an exclusive interview seau's family, we learned for the first time that this monster of the middle, who killed himself last year, suffered severe brain damage from repeated blows to the head. >> we all love a good hit and a competitive game where they're battling, but at the end of the game, is it really worth it? >> reporter: seau's family donated his brain to science. the national institutes of health found evidence of shrunken and hardened brain cells like these, tell-tale signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. >> all concurred with the diagnosis of cte. >> reporter: it can be a lethal chain

abc's jim avila is in washington with the latest. ood morning. >> reporter: good morning, amy. few things are as frightening as smoke on an airplane. but fortunately, in this case, the only real damage was done to the reputation of boeing's new dreamliner airplane. firefighters at boston's logan field, dousing smoke on the plane of the future, boeing's 787 dreamliner. a plane made mostly of carbon fiber, a fancy name for plastic, just a half-hour after an incident-free landing. >> passengers were deplaned normally through the jet bridge process. >> reporter: but minutes later, a mechanic working in the cockpit of the jal jet was confronted by smoke from the electrical system in the belly of the plane. >> we observed a heavy smoke condition in the entire cabin. >> reporter: this is the latest nightmarish incident for the dreamliner since its 2011 release. now, flying only six of them in the u.s. last month, the faa ordered inspections of all 787s for fuel line leaks. on the same day, a united airlines 787 was diverted to the closest ai

and abc's jim avila has been closely following the safety concerns of this plane and joins us again, jim, with the latest round here. >> reporter: good morning, josh. in fact, the smell of smoke and a battery warning light on the panel at 30,000 feet above japan led pilots to say enough. they declared an emergency. and put it down. panic this morning onboard this japanese jetliner. another in boeing's troubled 787 dreamliner fleet, forced to make an emergency landing. this time, after someone smelled smoke in the cockpit and cabin. passengers filming the chaos in the plane's aisle. and while sliding down evacuation chutes. a.n.a., the japanese airline, saying overnight, no one actually saw any smoke or flames, but that warning alarms did sound. >> if there was fire or if there was an electrical smoke or something like that, then that's serious, particularly when it happens in flight. >> reporter: the warnings overnight appeared to have come from the same part of the plane that forced a japan air 787 to make an emergency landing last monday, after a battery apparently caught fire. that

abc's jim avila has the story. >> reporter: sparks coming from the engine. not what you want to see out your jetliner window at 30,000 feet. the massive flashes seen in this video that went viral last week, were originally reported as a lightning strike fire. another camera catches the flaming plane as it streaks across the night sky over turkey. back onboard, passengers are warned of turbulence. then, the lights go out. but the turkish airline pilots never lose control of the flight and land safely. lightning strikes are not uncommon. this emirates airbus a-380, was hit back in 2011. that same spring, going to london. >> we had a lightning strike. >> reporter: that plane landed safely. as did a jetblue flight that took off from tampa. >> we've been struck by lightning twice. >> reporter: aviation experts say every airliner in the sky is hit once a year. the chances of being hit in the air are actually 500-times more likely than being hit on the ground. >> it happens all the time. and they safely absorb it because they're not grounded. >> reporter: aviation

as jim avila explains, coke ads are about to sing a new tune.r: coca-cola in 1961 advertising the original coke as diet bench. >> no waist line. >>reporter: now they say that's not true. so today a new ad from coke. claiming to be part of the obesity solution not the problem. >> more than 650 benches we now offer over 1 80 low and no calorie choices. >>reporter: coke buying a table at blitz tonight react to go full fledge assault on sugar soda that include school ban, proposed taxes, and often mocked new york city effort to eliminate large sizes. >> oh, no. i'm the run from. >>reporter: many feel it's no joke. after all the average american gets 45 gallons of sugar soft drink a year. that's 1 and half barrels of soda pop. >> in fact sugar soda are the single largely east source of calorie in the american diet. even the small can of soda has some 6 sugar cube in it. regular size 14 sugar cube. this super big gulp some 32 sugar cubes. >>reporter: critic argue they are not just ordinary calorie either. they are empty of nutrition and don't tell the

abc's jim avila is here with the story. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a giant in the game, junior seau is now perhaps the biggest name in football, linked to brain damage for taking too many hits to the head. abc news and espn learned exclusively that, before his suicide, seau suffered damage to his very brain cells. >> junior seau! >> reporter: junior seau, an icon in the 1990s, whose passionate hits made him a dominant figure in the nfl. but, after his sudden suicide in 2012, many questioned whether the effect of those hits on the 43-year-old's brain, could have played a role. >> the head-to-head contact, the collisions, they're out of control. >> reporter: now, seau's family says it has an answer to that question from the national institutes of health. abc news and espn have learned exclusively, seau's brain showed visible signs of cte, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the concussion-related injury that shrinks and hardens brain tissue like this. and is at the center of today's football safety controversy. >> i think, for us, we just wanted the trut

jim avila is here with the latest. jim, good morning. >> reporter: the ballyhooed plane of the future, the dreamliner, is having a nightmare run. and the faa will conduct a full review of its design, its systems and its manufacturing. the faa calling in the national press corps to talk about a recent rash of problems onboard the dreamliner 787. bloomberg news reporting, the government will call for a review of the plane's newly-designed electrical power system. >> this is a newer kind of a battery that hasn't been basically, you know, looked at, in terms of any types of falls. it's a very good battery. we're not sure what happened with it. >> reporter: the 787, which gets better fuel mileage than standard jetliners, replaced controls with lightweight electronics to fly. it's more sophisticated, powerful and complicated. and while the dreamliner has had other minor glitches, including a fuel leak in boston, and a brake warning light in tokyo this week, and just overnight at a different airport in japan, a cracked cockpit

abc's jim avila has the story. >> reporter: a breathtaking stunt posted online. an aerobatic plane at full-speed, nearly 200 miles per hour, within feet of the pilot on this suburban dallas runway and the photographer who recorded it all. watch again. the wing tipping dangerously close to the ground, as the pilot speeds by. and then, completes a loop into the blue. who would do something like this? abc news has learned this internet sensation was posted and then removed from youtube by nati jason newberg, who advertises as a stunt devil for hire. partnered with motorcycle showmen, known as the dallas stunt riders, who choreograph maneuvers beneath his plane. the federal government is investigating. sources tell us, the pilot's waiver to perform aerobatics expired in november. and even if it hadn't, pilots are supposed to be responsible for the safety of people on the ground. >> this would have killed himself and the two people filming the action here. >> reporter: and it's not as though he hasn't been in a crash before. this is 2008 wreckage of a hospital registe

abc's jim avila has that story from washington. >> reporter: coke has famously brought us happiness. ♪ have a coke and a smile >> wow, thanks mean joe. >> reporter: and a smile. even together. ♪ i would buy the world a coke >> reporter: and of course, those dancing polar bears. but critics say, it's also brought us obesity. >> when you take in sugary calories as liquid, they're digested and metabolized much faster. and, b, they don't fill you up. >> reporter: sugary sodas are the number one source of calories in the american diet. even small coke cans carry the equivalent of six sugar cubes. a regular-sized bottle, 14 sugar cubes. and a super big gulp, like crunching 32 cubes. >> today, we would like people to come together on something that concerns all of us -- obesity. >> reporter: now, coke has introduced a new ad campaign, claiming it's part of the obesity solution, not the major source of the problem. >> we now offer over 180 low and no-calorie choices. >> reporter: coke introduced smaller cans to cut portion size. and finances exercise programs to work off excess calories. a s

abc's jim avila has the story. >> reporter: it's what we expect as shoppers. >> i think that anything there should be listed on the ingredients label. >> reporter: but a new scientific troll down the grocery aisle, by the nonprofit food detectives, usp, discovered rising numbers of fake ingredients in products from olive oil, to spices, to fruit juice. in a new database to be released tomorrow, and obtained by abc news this morning, usp warns consumers the fda and manufacturers, that the amount of food fraud they found is up 60% over last year. among the most popular targets, for unscrupulous food suppliers, pomegranate juice, which is often diluted with grape or pear juice. >> pomegranate juice is a high-value ingredient. high-priced ingredient. and adulteration appears to be widespread. >> reporter: in fact, liquid and ground foods in general are the easiest to tamper with. from olive oil, which is often diluted with cheaper oil, and lemon juice. often cheapened with water and sugar. to tea, diluted with fillers like lawn grass or fern leaves. and spices like paprika, adulterated wi

abc's jim avila is joining us with more. jim?g the airline that they cannot fly this plane until they fix the problem with the battery. united is the only carrier flying the 787 so far. the plane of the future is expected to dominate american skies soon. but right now only six are flying. there are 50 total in the world. most in japan. and japanese authorities grounded all of their 787s after a battery warning light and the smell of smoke forced an emergency landing. panicked passengers were evacuated in emergency chutes. three people suffered minor injuries. but most damaged is the reputation of america's largest plane manufacturer. both boeing and united replied with statements last night. united saying they'll immediately come -- comply and will work with boeing and the government on a technical review. boeing said that we're confident the 787 is safe and we stand behind its overall integrity. john and paula? >> all right, jim, thank you. >>> the president of the national rifle association tells abc news that his group is aggr