along with her friend, skyler troast.ou were already involved with an international organization that provides medical care. - yes. that organization is operation smile. and operation smile's an international children's medical charity, that repairs cleft lips and cleft palettes in developing nations. often these children with their facial deformities, will suffer from a variety of physical and emotional effect, but operation smile steps in to help heal their smiles across the world. - specifically, what is a cleft lip, or a cleft palette? - so a cleft lip or a cleft palette, is simply a unilateral, or a bilateral gap in their mouth, that causes them to have malnutrition, to be shunned by their community, and sometimes not even be able to go to school. so it's really important that operation smile provides them access to proper medical care, so that they can live a normal life. and skyler, how did you get involved with operation smile? - i got involved with operation smile, my sophomore year of high school, when i just he

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"hamilton" and the women first to play the skyler sisters became big stars because of it.dience in their futures. we will tell you about it. >>> we are back on this saturday morning, january 28th, 2017. the crowd braving cold temperatures outside. let's look at headlines for you today. president trump is expected to talk to russian leader vladimir putin today. a day after signing executive order following up on the promise to temperatuorarily ban muslim immigrants. >>> making history. williams sisters battling it out at the australian open with serena coming out on top. the tennis star has become the winningest grand slam champion in the open era today. >>> and making amends in hawaii. mark zuckerberg dropping lawsuits there. he and his wife sent a letter saying they are seeking a better path forward. >>> let's look at "the download." the week's biggest headlines from the president's first week in the white house to the kpo d kpoirkpoird executive orders and the loss of an icon, mary tyler moore. those are some of the stories that caught our attention this week. >> a busy

the groundbreaking musical is ready to take center stage after the original skyler sisters from the showto perform "america the beautiful." now this, is extra cool because phillipa soo, renee elise goldsberry and jasmine cephas jones have all moved on from the musical so this will also be kind of a reunion for them and lin-manuel miranda is clearly excited. he posted this tweet saying, when you facetime your friends from britain because they're practicing their song for the super bowl. what! they will join luke bryan who will sing "the national anthem" and lady gaga, of course, is heading the halftime show. so, even if you don't care about the game and you're not loving the commercial, lots of reasons to watch the super bowl this year. >> that's the great thing about the super bowl, because there's something for everybody. >> always an event. >>> speaking of things to get excited about, elton john is set to bring "the devil wears prada" to broadway and it's going to be a musical. >> oh. >> the legendary rocker is going to pen a few songs for the adaptation collaborating with writer paul

. >> we will flip colors, take a look at this dog, skyler is a one year-old pit mix. it looks like a dog abandoned at pennsylvania spca in early january, probably people hoping that we can find her a good home. that is what we will do she's playful, energetic, she's just wonderful. >>> if you love cats. i love that face. >> ahh. >> if you love cats this is a wonderful one this is magic, she's orange, orange cats are really thighs. domestic short haired cat friendly, social, she can become excited very quickly. so, you know, running around and find paper bag to get into so just some of the animals at pennsylvania spca. >> so cute. >> that need homes and want and deserve homes. but our topic is today's emergencies. emergencies with your pets can happen in the same way they can happen with you. >> that is right. >> this week in philadelphia we saw a fire. it is not unusual in philadelphia. three to four residential fires a day in philadelphia. so, since more than half of the house holds have pets, pets are involved in the fires as well. so a couple things that i think pe