we love our joey smith. >> welcome to whiz kids week. some very smart young people are here playing with us today. each of them hoping they can add a million dollars or so to their college fund. this is gonna be fun, so let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] ♪ hey, everybody, welcome to "millionaire's" whiz kids week. [cheers and applause] so let's welcome our first whiz kid who won two persuasive writing awards at a model united nations competition. from raleigh, north carolina, 15-year-old maya burchell. welcome, maya. >> how are you doing, mr. harrison? >> well, first of all, you're incredibly polite. i'm good. >> thank you. no one ever asks how i'm doing, so thank you very much. i'm having a great day. i would be better if i could give you a lot of money. >> i'd like that, too, for sure. >> well, you're about to face 14 questions. the money value's growing from $500 all the way up to

. >>> last but certainly not least, number seven, happy retirement to our stage manager joey smith. 40s of newscasts here at abc 7. joey finally hanging up his headset today. congrats to our dear friend and colleague. you don't see him every morning but he has been here every morning and keeping us going with his humor and his talent and his kindness. we miss you tremendously. >> you don't need that around your neck anymore. >> joey, thanks for all your wisdom that you've passed along to all of us and for always having a smile on your face. >> oh, i've loved it. thank you. >> we relied on you more than anybody else to get me in the right spot and went on time. i'm going to miss you. nobody does it better. >> at the end of the newscast joey always says heavens to mergatroid. we will miss him dearly. >>> good morning, america. holiday travel nightmare. >> an emergency has been reported. >> a blackout at the world's busiest airport sparks chaos and confusion. thousands of passengers suddenly in the dark in atlanta. planes stranded on the tarmac for hours. people forced to sleep on chairs

smith and emily groh. graphics playback is lori. utilities, edith lambert and hal. stage manager joey applesauce. jason johnson, justin, and kareem.e anna and scott silverman. yes, i do mess up everything you put into the prompter. reginald campbell, karen daly and lisa. audio engineering gerald downer and michael. our director is the great murray adam from down under. our interns. our anchor producer is mahlik johnson. graphics producer ashley williams. associate producer rebecca sigh. video producer natalie. our digital producer is alexis. segment producer, tracy curry and tracy tillman. booking producer is carly. senior booking producer michelle. couldn't do this job without them. line producer lorena ruiz. senior producers rachel slata and belinda walker. executive producer is james holm. and the host is me who just messed up half those names. our weekend executive producer, thanks to estreet miley and phil griffin. that's our show for the year. we have so much more coming at you in 2018, so i'll see you right here next saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. happy new year and thanks for watching. hey, man. oh! nice man cave! nacho?