kimmel saying in an interview with abc's paula faris, he's hoping to set the right tone. >> i do worry about that because i have a tendency to not strike the right tone, in my life. >> this is not a joke. >> reporter: one year after that unforgettable envelope snafu -- >> i'm still not clear on how the wrong envelope got into warren beatty's hands. color coding might be a nice thing to think about this time around. i'll be honest, it will be funny if it happened again. >> reporter: incredible performances by women this year, shaping up for lead and supporting actress categories but there is a favorite. >> best actress certainly looks like frances mcdormand's award. >> reporter: when it comes to the same categories for men -- >> gary oldman's categories for winning best actor are excellent. >> reporter: while experts have their top picked, the most talked about category, best picture, is still a toss-up. >> "shape of water" is a favorite but not a lock. >> could have a surprise. >> reporter: you may remember, it was the best picture category when that envelope snafu happened. pricewater

paula faris leading much of that. 1:00 eastern count down to the oscars. re live on facebook and the oscars at 8:00. lot of oscar coverage today. paula, great job. cecelia, thanks for joining us. sam, we love you. >>> good morning, america. cecelia, thanks for joining us. sam, we love you. >>> good morning, i'm carolyn tyler. breaking news out of san francisco. the chp is investigating a crash that has left a pedestrian dead. this is a live look from our sutro tower camera. only one lane of eastbound interstate 80 is open right now. the accident happened around 5:40 this morning. the chp says a car hit a woman near the fifth street onramp. that driver stayed on the scene. officers say there is no indication of dui. the victim may have been hit several times. it's not clear how she got to that location. the chp hopes to open more lanes in the next 10 to 15 minutes. >>> well, we're just hours away from the oscars, the 38th annual academy of friends gala benefits hiv/aids organizations. the academy of friends started as a small oscar night party. it's now one

>> i think we can get a paula faris delivery which is even better. >> paula. >> yo, paula. >> abc's coverageat 1:00 eastern. we're going heavy on this thing with "countdown to the oscars" hosted by the aforementioned paula faris, as well as chris connelly and at 4:30 we'll be live on facebook, then it's oscars opening ceremony live from the red carpet at 6:30 eastern and the oscars itself starts at 8:00 eastern, a half hour earlier than usual. write that down, cecilia vega, plus, a complete wrap-up monday on "gma" so we're going light on this. >> so you're saying the oscars are tomorrow? >> yes. that's kind of whittling it down to the headline. >> we'll be back with "pop news." ll be back with "pop news." [silence] [click] why is the screen empty?! thank you! espresso! blonde! starbucks! take a momwith lindor.d... smooth, melting, crafted by the lindt master chocolatiers. whenever, wherever. lindor, from lindt. life's too short for ordinary chocolate. another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works in just one week. with the fastest reti

. >> in a new lawsuit filed against the airline, betty pina claims 50-year-old paula faris engelien tooko his hotel room after buying her two glasses of wine that made her black out. she said she woke up hours later and noticed her clothes missing. >> i saw the nightstand and saw my black purse, and i opened it to see if my phone was in there because i couldn't feel it, and my underwear were in my purse. why would i put my underwear in my purse? i've never done anything like that. >> now, pina says she's not alone. she calls sexual assault a pervasive problem in the airline industry. alaska airlines says they're taking the case seriously. captain engelien has not responded to our request for comment. >>> domestic violence is front and center in a dispute between the singer hi and snapchat. an ad for the social media app featured a would you rather game asking users to choose whether to slap rihanna or punch chris brown, a mockery of her domestic violence history. now, snapchat pulled the game and apologized but rihanna said it's time to get rid of the app altogether. that, by the way, ju

. >> she's here in large measure because paula faris is in hollywood on the red carpet at the dolby theater looking beautiful as always. >> we were debating your dress choice. you won. excellent choice. >> did you like this one? are you guys already bickering? that's not a good sign. all in good fun. i didn't get the memo. it's still cold in l.a. it's only 10 degrees above freezing. i'm glad you like the dress, cecelia. there's this really consequential award show. some are calling this the oscars of our generation which adds to the level of pressure on jimmy kimmel who is hosting for the second straight year. i sat down with kimmel to see how he's going to strike the right tone and if he's going to get political. the stars were out at the independent spirit awards. cecelia, dan, ron and adrienne why are we interested? they're almost always a solid predictor. of what's going to happen oscar sunday. i'll see you guys in a little bit. >> we'll be talking to you a lot this morning. you look gorgeous. mouch -- much more from hollywood coming up. >> you look gorgeous too. >> thank you. love fest

. >> reporter: paula faris, abc news, new york. >> good for him to tell his story.art of a new documentary we're exclusively premiering from lebron james' production company, "uninterrupted." >> important to open the conversation about those sorts of things especially when so many boys, men, they don't talk about it. >> 1 in 3 eating disorder patients are male. >> wow. incredible. >>> coming up we have the mix. we're going to discuss a little more on opening day and a candidate using tinder to get votes. >> we'll be right back. candidate using tinder to get votes. >> we'll be right back. in the k, and sprays in the bathroom can be ineffective. try mr. clean magic eraser with durafoam. simply add water, and use in your kitchen for burnt on food, in your bathroom to remove soap scum, and on walls to remove scuffs and marks. it erases 4x more permanent marker per swipe. for tough kitchen and bath messes, use mr. clean magic eraser with durafoam. brand power. helping you buy better. >> >>> time for the mix and it is opening day. whew. what's your favorite food at the ba

paula faris has those details for us. >> reporter: question, for you, what kind of thief would make aut their brand-new oscar? that's the argument his making. overnight, accused oscar band it terry bryant. >> congratulations. >> reporter: released from jail without bail. but with a stern warning -- >> if you're late to court or fail to appear you can be confident that a bench officer will issue a warrant for your arrest. >> reporter: appearing in court on wednesday, bryant sporting a blue suit, pleading not guilty to stealing frances mcdormand's best actress oscar. a felony in california. >> a difference between holding an oscar and what he's charged with. that will play out in court. >> reporter: this morning, questions are swirling about how bryant a man with a lengthy criminal record, including charges of burglary and assault, had a legitimate ticket to the governors ball in the first place. the associated press published this video of bryant walking into the party at the same time as mcdormand. no one appears to check for a ticket. i all started on sunday night, bryant was streami

paula faris sat down with craig maurizi for an exclusive interview. she joins us now. st brought his allegations to skating's governing bodies in 1999. almost 20 years ago claiming the man who coached some of the biggest names in figure skating had abused him for years. maurizi says it was swept under the rug, nothing short of a coverup. but now in the wake of scandals in other olympic sports he thinks it's time to speak again. but this time he's hoping for consequences. >> it's a life sentence, you know, it's -- i am who i am. >> reporter: former pairs skater craig maurizi says that life sentence began when he started training with renowned figure skating coach richard callaghan. callaghan who has coached olympians like tara lipinski and todd eldredge became his coach when he was 13. according to maurizi, callaghan began grooming him shortly thereafter and sexually abused him until he was in his 20s. how often was this happening? >> in the hundreds. i'm angry, i'm embarrassed. >> reporter: this isn't the first time maurizi has made these allegations. he told his story

joined the me too movement claiming she was the victim of sexual assault by her own captain and paula faris too movement th was the impetus for this pilot coming forward claiming she was drugged and raped by her captain and when she reported this to her employer she was told to stay silent and now she's suing. >> i trusted my captain. we had a lot in common. >> reporter: betty pina and alaska airlines' first officer and military pilot says that trust she once had in captain paul engelien was broken last june when she claims he drugged and sexually assaulted her during a layover in minneapolis. >> i believe that this is a underreported swept under the rug not dealt with issue in our industry. >> reporter: in a new lawsuit filed by pina against alaska airlines she alleged engelien invited her for drinks in the lounge. it was there she claims the captain brought her a second glass of wine and after two sips says she was having a hard time keeping her head up and things appeared to be closing in. the next thing she remembers is waking up and being pulled on her right ankle. she alleges in her c

abc's paula faris has more on that. >> good morning, everyone.g to have an eating disorder. they're rarely spoken about but in no way are they uncommon among males. marjama says it was his desire for perfection that pushed him to a point where he was withering away and ultimately, he was a danger to himself. >> marjama has had a nice night. >> reporter: for seattle mariners catcher, mike marjama, playing in the majors was his dream for early on but his road to the pros wasn't without personal roadblocks. >> i kind of had baseball taken away from me my junior year of high school. i wasn't able to play, unfortunately, because of my eating disorder and my hospitalizations. >> reporter: marjama opening up about that eating disorder in a new documentary short from "uninterrupted." >> you could die. you can die. >> reporter: and the 28-year-old is hoping to shed light on a topic that's often deemed uncomfortable in male culture. >> going into my eighth grade year of junior high school that had really -- that's when it really started, so my way of think

paula faris tried new tools out in her own home. you're a brave gal. >> i have a lot of clutter.artwork and tapes that have been moved from room to room, from one city to another. this has been weighing me down for years. my only goal for this year was to free myself from it. ♪ >> reporter: my house is bursting with boxes of vhs tapes, bins of old photos, dvds and my kids' artwork. i called on brit morin to help me get organized. >> i'm going to show you how easy it is to preserve this and move it all online or compact and in a format that's easy to display. >> reporter: we start with vhs tapes. this says my graduation from 1993. we use a company called legacy box. to convert these into digital files. all you do is put a bar code sticker on each tape for tracking purposes, fill up the box they send you, and then ship it off. next, we tackle art. so i have a lot of papers, artwork. i have some of these 3-d objects too, clay molds. just really cute. it's a mama birdie and her baby. >> there is a service called plum print that lets you put your kids' artwork in a box, and ship it of

so many people will be heading to the movies and abc's paula faris is here to tell us about a new christian big, indeed. good morning to you, friends. the movie "i can only imagine" has been a huge surprise at the box office and as one expert says, this should be a wake-up call for the industry as there is an increasing appetite for faith-based films. ♪ i can only imagine >> reporter: it's the surprise hit that almost no one could have predicted. the faith-based movie "i can only imagine" winning big at the box office. >> you didn't write this in ten minutes. it took a lifetime. >> reporter: the film which cost just $7 million to make cashing in around $43 million so far. >> i'm going to burn it all. >> reporter: for the second straight week coming in just behind "black panther." >> it is your time. >> reporter: while outperforming "love, simon" and "a wrinkle in time." "i can only imagine" tells the untold story behind one of the best-selling christian songs of all time, performed by the group mercy me and written by lead singer bart malard. the song and the movie based on his broken relat