if you heard yanny, i think you should get your ears checked >> i like to hear yanny verses see yanny after that last picture. it is undeniable >> it is a crazy thing, for five seconds, i heardyanny and i looked back and i heard laurel tim is a tactical yanny and i am a tactical laurel. >> you are a tactical bull >> i believe we have come really far and fast specifically the last couple of weeks we bounced off those levels and rally aggressively >> you look like yanny >> you don't have yanny's hair, party in the back. >> it is the market, you have to take a little bit of profits, it would be tactical. >> you think the rally is -- the up train is still preserving the word as a yanny, you think the train is broken? >> my bigger picture is very laurel i think the fed is moving for the right reasons and etc. this is an equity market that tactically it has to be yanny. >> i am so confused. and so passionate about yanny here >> yanny is the bear and lawyurl is the bull. >> yanny is the bear and where do you fall? >> yaurel. >> that's what the market is telling us if i had to choose one side

do you hear yanny or laurel. >> yanny, yanny. >> yanny. >> laurel. >> i think i just heard one yanny.le appear to be losing their minds. they're bitterly divided over which word this robot is saying. >> it happens that kendis and i are on opposite sides of the debate. i hear a very clear laurel. >> i hear yanny. >> it has to do with whether your ear is tuned to high frequencies or low frequencies. so if you mess with the pitch, that can affect which way you you hear it. >> yanny, yanny. >> still yanny. >> laurel, laurel. >> yanny for me. >> laurel, there you go. >> see, i heard two yannys in the beginning. >> jack, are you a yanny or a laurel? >> i hate to come down, you know, be gray in a black and white situation, but i have heard it both ways. >> i've heard that about you. >> you've got those yanny ears going on. >> i thought that was only college experimentation. >> we listened to it back here earlier, and it clearly was laurel. and then all these hits right now, it's been yanny. i think there are two recordings going on. >>> good morning, i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm diane maced

laurel. >> yanny. >> what are you hearing? >> yanni. >> of course he hears yanny.te response was on twitter. people who think laurel are correct. people who think it's yanny eat pizza with a fork and knife. and they didn't understand infinity war's ending. >> you just described bill de blasio here in new york. >> you thought it was yanny. >>> good morning, i'm diane macedo. >> i'm kendis gibson. north korea threatening to cancel next month's summit with president trump. it says it won't attend if ending its nuclear program is a precondition. the white house says it is going ahead with plans for that meeting. >>> president trump is confirming he reimbursed his attorney michael cohen as part of his financial disclosure report. but the ethics department says he should have disclosed it last year. >>> a manhattan lawyer in an angry rant over the wait staff speaking spanish to each other. his law firm has received hundreds of one-star reviews on yelp. >>> and melania trump tweets she's feeling great after undergoing surgery. she's still recovering from a kidney procedur

is it yanny? i heard -- when i first heard it, it was like "yanny, yanny."ue dress, gold dress thing. can we play it again? >> laurel. laurel. >> audience: laurel! >> laurel. laurel. >> jimmy: can you hear it? >> laurel. >> steve: i just hear -- >> laurel. >> jimmy: what do you hear? >> laurel. >> jimmy: come on, what do you hear? >> tariq: i mean, obviously it's laurel. [ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: mark, what do you hear? >> laurel. >> jimmy: you hear laurel, too? quest, what do you say? you're the final judge. >> questlove: wait, let me hear it again. >> laurel. >> questlove: can i remix that? one second? >> jimmy: you want to remix it? >> questlove: yeah, let's go with this. ♪ laurel l -- l -- l -- laurel laurel l -- l -- l -- laurel ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ laurel l -- l -- laurel laurel ♪ ♪ laurel laurel l -- l -- laurel laurel ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: what do you think? >> questlove: i think that dress is definitely blue. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, my -- that's not what i asked, quest. i think it's both, right? >>

is it yanny or laurel? >> yanny. >> laurel. >> the question comes from vocabulary.com.d of his shared it on instagram. >> we know one person we can always count onto tell us the truth. >> abuella. >> yanny. >> she will keep it rea keep ita before -- >> which are you hearing? >> i hear yanny but i heard laurel yesterday. >> me too. right now i'm hearing jammy. >> yanny. yanny. >> grandma here is a character. she is becoming a well known character. she does a good job mimicking what a latin grandma is like. you will eventually find grandma trying to tackle the issue. >> laurel. >> everybody ends up completely split. >> my wife and son heard >> it may be a mystery that is never solved. >> did you catch it? enter it at >>> tonight, the horrific scene. the deadly school bus crash, packed with fifth graders on a field trip. the violence highway collision with a truck. >>> also tonight, the stunning images. kilauea volcano exploding, sending ash and debris 30,000 feet up in the air. residents tonight told to shelter in place. >>> the white house tonight, president trump is ask

my producer in my ear hears laurel. >> it's definitely definitely yanny. >> some say it's yanny, some it's laurel. and some say they're happy to talk about something other than trump. >> it's true, it's a nice little distraction. with everything that's dividing this country. you probably heard about it yanny or laurel? uber chloe feldman posted the original clip asking people which they heard, the tweet raked in more than 18 million views. and as celebrities weighed in, deaf actress joke beingly told users, don't ask her because she can't hear anything. nbc's gadi schwartz tells us what's behind the auditory illusion that has us wondering if you we can trust our own ears. >> reporter: one word. >> laurel. >> reporter: then the question of the day, what do you hear? online a raging debate. >> i hear a mixture of the two. >> i only hear yanny. >> reporter: how do you hear laurel, bro? >> i just hear laurel. >> reporter: if you were hearing the words laurel and yanny wondering what was the big deal, let me show you the battle of the frequencies. this is isolating the high frequency where

listen. >> yanny. yanny. it's not. >> yanny. >> i can't hear -- >> there's going to be a fight with dylan, but some of the hearers hears laurel. others hear yanny. wired magazine got to the bottom of the story and found a high school freshman in georgia went to the website vocabulary.com to look up the definition of the world laurel. when she played the audio pronunciation, she heard yanny. confused, she showed it to friends, some who heard yanny, others who heard laurel, and the rest is viral internet history. even the white house staff and the president of the united states got in on the debate. >> so clearly laurel. >> it's laurel. but i could deflect and divert to yanny if you need me to. >> sarah, how do you respond hearing laurel? >> clearly you're getting information from cnn because that's fake news. all i hear is yanny. >> who's yanny? >> i hear coefefe. >> the biggest debate came from new age music icon jani. >> there he is. experts say there is no right answer. it just depends on which frequency yo

now consider these two words: "yanny" and "laurel."thing alike, yet, they're at the center of a national debate among folks whose ears may be playing tricks on them. ive a listen to nick thompson. >> reporter: it's being described as an optical illusion for your ears, whether you hear yanny or laurel. and everybody is arguing about it. >> yanny. >> laurel. >> i hear "beatrice." is that an option? >> what did you hear? >> laurel! >> laurel. yanny. laurel. >> reporter: even speaker of the house paul ryan weighed in. w it is laurel and not yanny. >> reporter: so we went out to conduct our own investigative reporting. what do you hear? >> indisputably, yanny. >> reporter: indisputable, no controversy. >> no controversy. >> reporter: what do you hear? >> she's crazy, it's laurel. ( laughs ) >> reporter: to figure out the science behind all of this, we talked to the linguist ben zimmer. >> if you emphasize certain eequencies, it sounds more unambiguously like laurel. but if you emphasize other frequencies, it starts sounding like yanny. >> r

i would say laurel versus yanny. >> which team are you on yanny or laurel. vote at abc now it's all yawn request but this is changing rapidly. but it's interesting how whether it's frequency or -- i mean we'll get into this dp dive head first. >> it has to be do with the audio perception. kristen sze dives into the debate kristen. >> wholeheartedly. guys remember the great dress debate. is this dress black and blue or white and gold. >> well the answer depends how your eyes process light. now here is the audio version of that illusion. which word do you hear yanny or laurel? laurel. i hear laurel. i do. >> definitely. >> definitely laurel. >> yanny. 100%. >> laurel, yeah one hundred%. >> i hear yanny. i hear yanny. >> laurel. laurel for sure laurel. >> well, speech and audio experts are studying the saund waves of the original recording they find the sound follows the same general sound as laurel and yanny but laurel occurs the higher frequents when what happens if you filter out the low. original falled by the filtered clip. >> laurel. laurel. laurel. >> al

laurel. >> yanny, yanny, yanny. >> what do you hear? >> it's clearly laurel. >> i think it's laurel too. >> our producer says yanny. >> people are hearing it differently. >> why we hearing it differently? people are hearing it on different devices. the two words have similar vocal paths. depending on what pitch you are hearing it at you might hear a different world. laurel for sure. >> experts say it's probably laurel. this is all similar to the dress debate. remember that driss debate. >> what color do you see? >> blue. >> blue and black, okay. other people see white and gold. oh, my goodness. that's why i say men are from mars, women are from venus. >>> up next, a whale of a tale at ocean beach. and it involved students, stay with us. jailed in nepal for 5 w w/out any charges. thre >>> tonight at 6:00, jailed in three p nepal for five weeks without any charges. the reason a palo alto man is in jail and his mother's push to set him free. >>> you may have seen it or maybe your child was there at ocean beach. hundreds of children created

. >> laurel. >> reporter: yanny himself resting on his laurels. gadi schwartz, nbc news. >> i'm going to let you all continue the discussion at home and say we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" now: good evening and thanks for joining us. i )m janelle wang, in for jessic >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us, i'm janelle wang. >> i'm raj mathai. today it's the brepresident ver the mayor. the president suggesting libby schaaf should be investigated for obstruction of justice. nbc bay area's robert handa joins us from fruitvale village where some are rallying behind mayor shaaph. >> reporter: people we talked to didn't care about the president's round table on immigration or sanctuary cities until he put the mayor in his sights. >> we will go to jail with libby. >> reporter: people in oakland have mixed feelings about immigration and libby schaaf's recent alert to the public about an impending i.c.e. raid, but many have no qualms about what she did. >> as the mayor of th

laurel. >> yanny. >> it's yanny. >> yanny. >> now i hear laurel. >> you do?now it's dividing people around the world and dividing us at this desk. i don't know what to say. what do you hear? we'll talk about that and the science behind it? i just heard laurel. it was yanny earlier. ust heard laurel. it was yanny earlier. u'll need ? ain the science behind it? i just heard laurel. it was yanny earlier. nin the science behind it? i just heard laurel. it was yanny earlier. din the science behind it? i just heard laurel. it was yanny earlier. n the science behind it? i just heard laurel. it was yanny earlier. the science behind it? i just heard laurel. it was yanny earlier. it turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. we have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. let's plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. prudential. bring your challenges. this is the pepsi for worthy of hundred mile detours, and a thousand likes. looks good! this is the pepsi for mopping, dipping, and d

laurel spirit no, it yanny. [laughter] greg: it will lead to war. this got to be such a big deal even the white house got involved. >> it's laurel. i could divert to yanny. >> how do you respond? >> you are getting your information from cnn because that's fake news. all i hear is yanny. [laughter] greg: here is the thing. that video about laurel and yanny now becomes a laurel and yanny itself meaning if you like a trump you'll actually laugh but if you are a host at cnn you will say how can you laugh when children don't have socks. the silly audio puzzle may be the greatest metaphor for media bias ever. think about this when trump says something what do you hear, a joke, but the media hears racism. when you hear trump describe ms 13 as animals what did the media here? >> the president of the united states saying these are not people but animals. >> it's a disgusting way to talk about human beings. >> he does things like call immigrants animals. >> he was just talking about ms 13. good enough? >> no, not good eno

to yanni. >> all i hear is yanni. rob: what does the president here? find out as "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ i don't care ♪ it is 5:00 somewhere ♪ jillian: it is 5:01 on the east coast. a dry midtown manhattan, dry much of the week. rob: not for much longer. jillian: you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. rob: thanks for starting your day with us. if north korea doesn't cooperate it could be decimated. jillian: donald trump offering strong protections if it denuclearize is. griff jenkins live with those development ahead of the high-stakes summit. >> in an oval office meeting, donald trump offered reassurance but set a stern warning to north korea that despite threats to pull out of the summit it is in rob: -- kim jong un's interests to follow the dealer meet the same fate as qaddafi. >> libya, we decimated that country. this would be with kim jong un, something where he would be in his country, running his country. his country would be very rich, his evil are tremendously ind

yanny, yanny.d very specifically broken up, laurel. >> harvard science has done a study that says that if you hear yanny you have a higher intelligence level than people that he or laurel. kind of embarrassing for you. >> martha: so i'm 50/50. i've got that going for me. thank you, always good to see you. >> jerry you mean. >> martha: jerry! we will be right back. this is bill's yard. and bill has a "no-weeds, not in my yard" policy. but with scotts turf builder weed & feed, bill has nothing to worry about. it kills weeds and greens grass, guaranteed. this is a scotts yard. and greens grass, guaranteed. paywell, esurance makes itnce you dsimple and affordable. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412. that's auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance, an allstate company. click or call. paying too much for insurance that isn't the right fit? well, esurance makes finding the right coverage easy. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance sav

from cnn because that's fake news, all i hear is yanny. >> who's yanny?ar covfefe. [ laughter ] >> i got to bow down and give you props. >> out of the park, well done. >> even kellyanne admitting i hear yanny, but i'm going to say laurel. >>> and one of the biggest photo shop fails ever to make a magazine cover. >> you might remember reese witherspoon with three legs and another photo of oprah with three hands. >> so gq spoofing with their cover. it shows kate mckinnon, sarah silverman with a few extra parts. can you find them? so this is clearly elongated. >> whose arm is that? is that supposed to be -- this is a really long arm. >> someone else is coming up here. >> oh, and frank is like trying to jump up. what do you think? which one do you think? >> does frank want to survey these? let's see if frank can pick them out. >> but clearly, wow, this is really elongated. >> none of their ears are elongated. >> i know. >>> all right, exciting news. >> backstreet's back! the backstreet boys are out with their first new single in five years. take a listen to "

laurel/yanny.o is a psychology professor at the university of california, riverside. thank you very much are joining us. i'm getting crazy here. the split whether it is yanny laurel. what did you hear? i heard a very clear laurel and i cannot hear it any other here. same here, we are in the same boat. what is this mean in terms of the frequency of our brain in our hearing? the frequency of our brains arejust perfect in our hearing? the frequency of our brains are just perfect but it says there are actually two sets of information in the sound, one that is informative about laurel, one thatis is informative about laurel, one that is informative about yanny and it can be heard in different ways depending on 1's background or rage probably, depending on the sound system you a re probably, depending on the sound system you are listening over, all those things can come into play. how different the two sounds are as interesting and as much as i've been discussing this with people, very few people can hea

you just hear yanny, yanny. >> i still haven't heard yanny.e'll give you one more try at i. >> laurel, laurel. >> i don't know. >> audio ex-piperts are offerinr explanations. if you tend to hear higher pitches, you hear yanny. if you're a lower-pitch person, you hear laurel. if you want to hear it again or just spark the debate in your office or home, i'm warning you, you'll never hear the end of it or go to abc7news.com. >> i'm stunned. most of this desk here is laurel. i know jessica has heard both. >> this time i only heard yanny. >> what? >> come over to the dark side. >> make a decision, woman. >> which side are you on? >> yanny. >> so 3-2. >> yeah, team laurel. >> we'll keep that debate going behind the scenes. we've got to jump into live doppler 7 and show you what's going on at 6:49. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. you can see the cloud deck is definitely different than yesterday, no fog, no marine layer. partly sunny, stray showers, even a slight chance of a thunderstorm possible. minor warming

>> definitely laurel. >> yanny, 100%. >> i hear yanny. >> seriously? >> the mystery is solved to want. an 18-year-old was solved tonight. played the pronunciation of laurel. >> the low quality recording may be illusion possible. >> it only has a small fraction of the information that a properly done recording would have to have. >> okay, so we are going to blow your mind one more time. spinning dancer is she going clockwise or counter clockwise? our brains fill in the blanks in different ways and no perception is ever absolute. >> that is wild. >> i can't take this. i see clockwise. but when i look at you over there, i see counter. >> you are flexible in your thinking. >> oh weird. >> while most of us know yanny as the musician. >> he tweeted this of what he heard. >> yanny. >> that is a shock. he didn't hear laurel. >> you can see the live poll at the bottom. i mean it is evenly split at the moment. >> and you are in both camps. >> you can still vote at abc7news.com. remember, there is no log in or sign in required. we would love to hear what you thin

we'll play something for you and you tell us whether you hear laurel or yanny. >> yanny, yanny, yanny what do people hear? >> you can't hear both. >> get off the fence. >> yanny for bruce. >> anybody else? >> laurel. >> what did you hear? >> right now i heard laurel but when i was driving in this morning and dave and christine were doing it i heard yanny so clearly. >> sign of a weak mind. you heard laurel every time out. laurel. >> you heard yanny. >> listen laurel. laurel. >> now i hear laurel. >> i think it's a joke. it's a trick. >> it's like the dress. >> i felt like this about the dress. >> that one was so obvious. what do you see. >> i see like a periwinkle blue and like a gold. >> i see a white and gold. you don't see it black anywhere. >> i don't see like a gold and i se like a blue and again, this isnother one where i don't get -- i've never fully understood why you hear yanny, i hear laurel, while you see white, that at least made more sense to me. cones in my eyes, maybe i'm color blinded which is why i want to wear this. this one i don't get it with my ear. >> how can we

he hears yanni. >> so is it laurel or yanni? back and my mind it is laurel. >> an audio specialist said the low quality of the recording lends itself to being heard differently by different people. it all depends because then it was saying it was yanni. >> the debate continues. we will be right back. waves" with their annual beach cleanup. now they're forming a whale >>> back live with chopper five chart -- shop over the beach -- shot over the beach. they are forming a whale image on the sand and it looks pretty good. a few minutes ago it was not complete. >> how do they do that. >> he's coming out of the water. let's do our wave good bye. >> that's all the time we have. >> have a good day, everyone. marshall tuck will change that. in california, 3 million kids can't read at grade level. tuck turned around struggling schools, raising graduation rates over 60%. marshall tuck for state superintendent. marshall tuck. ♪ >> wyatt: i'm out of here. >> bill: not until you listen. >> wyatt: i did plenty of that! i listened to you when y

>> or is it yanny? >> maybe. >> you decide. >> yanny, yanny. yanny. yanny. >> wait a second. all day i was hearing laurel, and i just heard yanny. i swear, i swear. >> you're kidding, oh, raj! it's laurel. >> all day i heard laurel and now i'm hearing yanny. why am i hearing it differently? many are hearing it on different devices with low sound quality. experts say the two words have similar vocal paths departmen. the expert says the speaker was probably saying laurel, but now i'm hearing yanny. >> it's 60% laurel. i know you counted it. 40% yanny right now. >> 41%. >> i've only heard laurel the entire time. >> so have i, but we hear it on a different computer or devices we might hear it differently. >> scientific experiment. after spotty showers in the east bay also in the north bay today, currently a cool 66. i'm talking about warming temperatures. we'll have details on that, plus the pollen report in a few minutes. >>> wedding vendors can be a royal pain, especially when they don't deliver. i'm investigator laurel yanny, i mean chris camora. there's no dispute, next. whil

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. >> or yanni. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. >>> good evening i'm chuck todd here in new york. yes, the laurel/yanni discussion just started already. i promise we will delay that. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin with the fight for truth. in acue drupel dose of breaking news that calls into question a whole bunch of white house truths. first it's thousands of pages of documents that have been released involving the infamous trump tower meeting led by the president's son. what do the documents largely confirm? the bombshell that the trump campaign was engaged in an evident of obtaining damaging evidence about hillary clinton. second, new find prosecution the senate intelligence committee now knock down claims made by the president's house republican allies who argue putin's russia wasn't trying to help trump's campaign. but the senate intel competent, democrats and republicans say no, that's incorrect. indeed, putin was trying to help one candidate. that was donald trump. third, new f

is it laurel or yanny?nny. >> yanny. >> i got, okay, i'm laurel. >> what do you hear. >> laurel. >> what do you hear? >> yamy with two m. >> we all hear laurel. >> the control room all hears yanny. >> trevor: and i hear idiots. for the last 24 hours this was all anyone could talk about. and everyone had different theories trying to figure out if maybe like different types of people heard different things lake maybe old people heard laurel, and young people heard yanny. or black people heard laurel objected the police heard he's got a gun. you know what we need, we just need president trump to tell us what he heard and then everyone will immediately know what they think. be like i heard yanny and be like clearly it's laurel then. this nation was founded on a belief that it is laurel, that is what st. in other news, everybody is a comedian. no, no, seriously, everybody. >> a mystery has surrounded two pages of ann frank' diary and now we are learning what was hidden on those pages covered up by brown paper. t

wlofrnlgts >> who is yanny?ry kudlow -- >> i know, a couple familiar faces. i think we reached total yanny/laurel fascination i heard yanny the whole time >> no, you didn't. you're joking. you're messing with us >> i want to be contrarian >> how could you hear laurel >> that's what i think laurel laurel >> you're outnumbered here. >> all right >> helema croft, thank you an australian man took his travels to a new level yesterday. after being told he was late for his flight, he sprinted across the tarmac and up the stairs and attempted to force the plane's door open. it wasn't even his flight. the man was taken into police custody after injuring two airline employees who managed to restrain him >> wasn't even his flight. >>> and if you can't afford the trip to the royal wedding or a couture wedding dress of your own, play-doh has a solution they have a scaled replica of the dress out of its modeling clay it stands over 18 inches tall and used over 60 cans of standard white play-doh. >> scale of 1 to 10, 10 being

>> yanny. >> laurel. >> yanny. >> what is this young group? >> did you not hear yanny? a minute. >> wait a minute, guys. we have a group of high school students from alabama. what are you hearing? >> yanny? >> yanny. >> you're yanny. >> we have a whole group of crazies with us this morning. >> no. >> so let me explain, folks, what you are hearing is a recording of the word laurel, period, point blank. that's a recording of the word laurel from a website from vocabulary.com. let me play that clean version from the website. play that for me and see if you hear it any differently. >> laurel. >> that's laurel. >> that's laurel. >> okay. >> let me explain, everybody, and this is -- okay. this is fascinating speech science and brain science. it really is. we know there was a high school student who confirmed he was doing a project and recorded the word laurel. when he recorded it, it got distorted. background noise came in there. >> somebody said yanny. >> nobody said yanny. george. [ applause ] >> that's right, george. >> you know your opinion cannot get in the way of my fac

all i hear is yanny. >> who's yanny?> i hear cofefe. >> so clearly. >> the white house staff clearly divided as the rest of the nation here but showing a bit of their light he hearted side, even their sense of humor. i kind of like seeing them like that. >> i've never seen them like that before. it took yanny and laurel to get a smile out of her and him. >> i've never seen that expression on their faces before. >> wow. it's bringing the world together. my goodness. >>> former nba superstar shaquille o'neal is selling his florida mansion, and it's about as shaqqed up as you think. 31,000 square feet, this home. it overlooks the butler chain of lakes in a prestigious private golf club community. $20 million. huge outdoor swimming complex. movie theater, custom basketball court and all the superman logos you can possibly handle. if you ever wonder what kind of bed a 7'1" man sleeps onn, the answer is one, circular one, 15 feet wides. >> that say whole resort right there. you're watching "early today." but now it's our turn

>> dana: no, i here yanny. i want to hear laurel. >> greg: because you liked yanny the musician?: it's another philosophy. they say what you are expecting to hear, your brain actually plays a role and if you look at something, if the teaser clip said laurel before you hit play, you were expecting to hear laurel. >> dana: i had no expectations expectations. >> greg: everybody here is married or was. this explains every fight. doesn't this explain every fight? spouse here's one thing. other spouse here's another. you can't change unbending mines. >> jesse: let's hear it again. i want to hear it again. >> [computerized voice] >> dana: you are exactly right right. >> jedediah: i can play this fight playing out in every house across america. it's really true. this is a little bit more specific. it's a sound bite. this sound bite appeared on vocabulary.com. they got momentum because high school students were different, doing what we are doing now and saying wait a second. they posted on social media and it went on and on. now it's all over the nation. by the way, the dress was white an

once in a while i hear yanny. >> all i hear is yanny. >> what's the right answer? lit up with responses. ellen says, literally everything at my show stopped to see if people hear laurel or yanny. chrissy teigen says laurel. >> okay. >> even yanni himself says, he only hears yanni. go figure. we asked on twitter, what do you hear? and the results, 51% say laurel, 49% say yanny. there's several theories about what's going on here. audiologists say it comes down to the variations of how people perceive sounds and the differences in the frequencies your ears pick up. experts say the original world was likely laurel. but factors like the low-quality recording, the speakers being used, how loud you play it affects how our ears hear the sound. i can't make out laurel. >> try it one more time. >> laurel. >> i hear laurel. >> what's weird, is the more i hear it, the more that sounds like laurel. i heard nothing but yanny. >> i hear both. >> how do you hear it? >> yanny. >> now, it's deeper and slower and it's laurel. >> it sounds like dilly dilly. >> this is good, clean fun

> gold and white and yanny. that's what i see. what do you see? >> i see the opposite. i hear the opposite. >> really? >> men are from mars. >> where did that come from, that clip? by the way, everyone is talking about that clip. >> i saw it posted by ellen on twitter. let us know -- >> i hear yanny. >>> the summit between president trump and kim jong-un in jeopardy. north korea says it won't be cornered into abandoning the nuclear program. we'll do live to seoul. i really hear yanny. ahh... summer is coming. and it's time to get outside. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. if you don't like it exchange it any time. no questions asked. you can also roll your credits to the next month if you don't use them. so take audible with you this

yanny or laurel? listen. >> laurel. laurel. >> okay. that time i heard laurel. >> but a minute ago you heard yanny. but upstairs you heard laurel. >> upstairs i heard laurel. >> i keep hearing laurel the whole time. >> i'm okay, i think. >> take a listen again. >> laurel. laurel. >> i still hear laurel. >> why would i hear it two different -- that time i heard laurel again. >> our producer john actually heard it one way, heard yanny, and then we brought him over upstairs and he heard laurel. >> is that like being ambidextrous? >> john, you're in the booth. what do you hear this time? laurel this time he says. >> so weird. >> it is weird. audio experts are offering reasons ranging from quality of the rorecording to the change i pitch in the device you're using. >> we have it on our website abc7news.com. i just wonder if the source from our tease was different from this source that we played. >> maybe. because -- >> same source i'm told. >> it's a mystery. i hear laurel. i think i'm missing something. what do you hear, sandhya? >> all i'v

. >> it's clearly yanny. >> definitely yanny. >> oh, man, that's laurel. >> yanny. >> who is yanny. >> i hear co-fee fee . steve: thank you for joining us we have ainsley in windsor and abby is here and he had. ed: you are the man. steve: we are the news. and we are starting with a fox news alert down in florida. listen to this. a guy yelling about president trump holding american flag opening fire overnight of president trump's golf club the temperature real club near miami. miami.ains. abby: todd piro. >> police responding to calls of shots fired before 2:00 in the morning at the trump temperature real national resort. they found a man in the lobby shooting and yelling about the president. he was shot and wounded by police after getting into altercation with officers. right now, still unclear, what he was actually saying about president trump. >> we're not saying this is terrorism. we're not saying any of that we are not discounting any of that at this point. officers did not hesitate one second to engage this individual that was actively shooting in the lobby of the hotel. they ris

do you hear the word yanni or laurel? >> yanni. yanni. yanni. >> so what do you think?f people on the site hear yanny and 53% hear laurel. "wired" editor in chief nick thompson is here to try and settle it for us. nick, how can people hear such difference between these two words? >> it's being described as an optical illusion for your ears. it's now causing us to rethink what we hear. this one recording has led to a big debate, splitting the internet in two. everyone is taking sides, some on team yanny, others on team laurel. >> the story that's tearing the country apart. >> it is laurel and not yanny. >> it's yanny. >> even the legendary perform aa -- performer who shares one of the names weighed in. >> yanny. >> the biggest controversy since the white and gold or blue and black dress debate. if you said laurel you're technically correct. >> i thought i was losing it. >> last friday, georgia high school student katie hetzel was studying the word laurel for her literature class and decided to research it on literary.com. >> i clicked the audio button and i heard yanny.

i heard it once and i heard yanny the first time. that time, it was clearly laurel. >> there are people who hear yanny and then laurel. it has roped in many twitter users. salon has interviewed audiologists to way into the debate. the brain decides within a fraction of a second what it will hear, even before the ears have had time to register the full audio clip. the scientists conducted an experiment that showed when people heard yanny, it's because the brain registered the y sound first. the same with laurel who here the --ççzñvpx] - hey, i'm darius rucker. coming up onreel south. - [henrietta] the southern way of life was something sacred. close your mind, do not question. - [darius] in 1940, a young woman left sweet home alabama for the porta vida of costa rica. - [henrietta] i would be out there experiencing anybody strange, anybody different. - [darius]n a tale of romance anrevolution. one woman on a quest for adventure finds herself in a true awakening. - he saimarriageo me would never be boring. - [darius] she is the "first

yanny or laurel? listen. >> laurel. laurel. >> okay. that time i heard laurel. >> but a minute ago you heard yanny. but upstairs you heard laurel. >> upstairs i heard laurel. >> i keep hearing laurel the whole time. >> i'm okay, i think. >> take a listen again. >> laurel. laurel. >> i still hear laurel. >> why would i hear it two different -- that time i heard laurel again. >> our producer john actually heard it one way, heard yanny, and then we brought him over upstairs and he heard laurel. >> is that like being ambidextrous? >> john, you're in the booth. what do you hear this time? laurel this time he says. >> so weird. >> it is weird. audio experts are offering reasons ranging from quality of the rorecording to the change i pitch in the device you're using. >> we have it on our website abc7news.com. i just wonder if the source from our tease was different from this source that we played. >> maybe. because -- >> same source i'm told. >> it's a mystery. i hear laurel. i think i'm missing something. what do you hear, sandhya? >> all i'v

but i could deflect to yanny if you need today me too. >> it's cleary yanny. >> definitely yanny. >>'s been reported you hear laurel, how do you respond? >> clearly you're getting your information from cnn because that's fake news. all i hear is yanny. >> oh, man, that's laurel. >> it's laurel, america. definitely hashtag laurel. >> who's yanny? >> i hear covfefe. >>> all right, coming up next tonight's big event for veterans with the help of abc's >>> some deserving veterans will be guests of honor tonight at a major fund raiser. >> thanks to some talented volunteers those vets had some help getting ready. . . . . . . >> reporter: hair stylists and make-up artists are putting the finishing touches on a group of veterans being hosted tonight for a benefit called stand up for heroes. it's being run by bob woodruf. >> people say many times this was five years earlier when a lot of us had been hit by a bomb or bullet, we would not be alive. >> reporter: the money raised helps vets like -- who was hit by a bomb. >> reporter: marine corp vet nick vincent says he doesn't leave his house mu

charles barkley. >> yanny.-- yanny. >> i thought i heard doughnut. >> they were having fun. someone tweeted me and said if you stand back farther, you hear the different word. >> this went around the world. my kids were baffled by it. we decided it was laurel. >> it was a nice distraction. >> the world needed it. >> lindsay czarniak, thank you. >>> rudy giuliani says the special counsel's team told him the president cannot be indicted. so what is the next move if the president cannot be indicted? that's next. is sng tuntr we have parents who are trying to get their kids off of too much social media and computers, and then we have parents who would only hope their children have access. middle school is a really key transition point, right. the stakes start changing. students begin to really start thinking about their futures. what i like about verizon's approach is that it's not limited to just giving kids new tools, it's really about empowering educators to teach in different ways, and exposing kids to more act

listen again. >> yanny. >> seth: okay -- now, that time i did hear yanny.ore time. >> yanny. >> seth: okay, yeah. it's definitely yanny. you know what? change the burner. people who hear laurel, who hurt you? [ laughter ] what do you got yanny's in your ear? people who hear laurel, ya burnt! boston dynamics, your company just debuted a robot that can run like a human. take a look. >> seth: that is terrifying. [ laughter ] have you idiots ever seen a movie? the guys who make the robots are the first to go. and i know you're thinking, "i can run faster than that," but can you run that fast forever? [ laughter ] boston dynamics, ya burnt! museums. hey, museums, if i wanted to get in trouble for touching something i'd go to a strip club. [ laughter ] >> the museum of bad decisions. >> seth: and museums, what's with all the cherubs? if you had that many fat naked babies on your hard drive they'd throw you in prison. [ light laughter ] oh, and by the way that suggested $25 donation to enter? here's my suggestion, kiss my ass, 'cause i ain't paying, bitch. [ laugh

>> who could hear yanny? that's a singer, isn't he? >> that's yanni.ni is the singer. >> i love him. had him on tape, cassette. >> yeah. >> because my cousin turned me on to yanni. >> i had the yanni cassette and the backstreet boys cassette >> it's laurel the dress is blue and black, folks. >> i heard both. it depends when i hear it. just then i heard laurel >> laurel. >> team laurel over here >> i think this is why the stock market traded at such low volume yesterday. because everyone was too busy listening to all this to actually trade stocks. >> i like you putting those two together thank you very much. laurel >>> check out this incredibly : acrobatic play the red sox were taking on the a's. mookie beth betts pops up the , and into the full run, the catch in the stands. >>> shares of british bookmakers and gambling companies, william hill, cbj holdings and paddy power betfair are lower after the uk government will slash the maximum betting on gaming machines from 100 to 2 pounds. the argument is the games are highly addictive and gamblers rack up b

all i hear is yanny. >> who's yanny? >> i hear "covfefe." ( laughter ) >> stephen: donald trump hasn't worked this hard to go viral since the dating scene in the '80s. ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) but the white house seems like they're having a lot of fun with the whole laurel or yanny thing, so i thought they might want to listen to some more audio clips and tell me what they hear. ready? here's the first one. >> corruption. corruption. corruption. ( cheering ) >> stephen: sounds like "bumblebee"? ( laughter ) let's try another one. >> treason. treason. treason. >> stephen: i hear "root beer float"! ( laughter ) okay, how about this one-- listen closely. >> lies. lies. filthy lies. you are a liar. a filthy, disgusting liar. and god will never forgive you for what you have wrought. ( laughter ) >> stephen: okay, that one's yanny. ( applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. benedict cumberbatch is here. but when i return, i ask the big questions with an even bigger star. stick around. ( cheers and applause ) ( ban

but i could deflect and divert to yanny if you need me to. >> it's clearly yanny. >> definitely yanny>> yanny's the winner, laurel the loser. >> sarah, it's been reported you here laurel. how do you respond? >> clearly you're getting your information from cnn. all i hear is yanny. >> oh, man, that's laurel. >> laurel. it's laurel, america. definitely #laurel. >> who's yanny? >> i hear covfefe. [ laughter ] see, they're fun. >> jimmy: i wonder if they call ben carson, look, we need to get one black person in this video, what do you think, ben? ben? are you sleeping? ben, wake up. anyway. meanwhile, no word today from north korea on whether they still plan to boycott the summit that was scheduled for june 12th. they're angry at our national security adviser john bolton threatened to skip the meeting. if they do have a meeting, a senior white house official says trump doesn't think he needs to do much prep for it. he feels he can handle it without studying all the details. which, that's great. i mean, let's be honest. this meeting, trump is going to have -- you can put him in a room with

gerri: yanny. cheryl: i give up. latest internet debate is now hitting the white house is it's not just laurel and yanny. philadelphia eagles are heading to the white house. jared max has the sports story and some of the highlights coming up. we are taking a look at your futures right now after we look at time warner and at&t, there we go. dow futures 62 premarket. 19 and a quarter on nasdaq, we will be right back. i needed legal advice for my shop. that's when i remembered that my ex-ex- ex-boyfriend actually went to law school, so i called him. he didn't call me back! if your ex-ex- ex-boyfriend isn't a lawyer, call legalzoom and we'll connect you with an attorney. legalzoom. where life meets legal. gerri: well, the debate that's divided the internet this week has made its way to the white house, so it yanny, laurel, what is it? >> it's laurel but i could divert to yanny. >> how do you respond? >> clearly you're getting the information from cnn because it's fake news, all i here is yawny. >> i here cofefe. [laughte

and the first time i listened to it, i heard yanny and kept hearing yanny.ly. we do not hear things the same because there are hear things the same because there a re lots of hear things the same because there are lots of different factors involved like you make of art your ca nals involved like you make of art your canals —— like the legs of art your canals. the second thing is what kind of speakers you're playing it out of. are you listen through headphones, your iphone speaker? these things can affect it. when i played to my iphone speaker, i heard yanny, but when i plug it through my studio headphones, i heard laurel. we did a lot of messing growth analysis and essentially, you do hear both things. neither thing is right or wrong depending on how sensitive you are too high and low frequencies. i mean, i know people who professionally listen like myself and this morning, we are going back and forth and i said, no, it's yanny and they said, no, it's not, it's laurel. it's dependent on a lot of factors that there is no right into, we are all right. is reass