This is world news now. Stacking my papers because thats what news readers do. Good morning. Its a busy wednesday. Im richard bacon. And im reena ninan. Lets begin with the republicans who want to be president of the United States of america. Last nights debate marked by several flash points. Jeb bush taking on donald frump. Two senators, marco rubio and ted cruz, going at it. And for details we are joined by abcs brandi hitt who is still there live in las vegas for us. Brandi, youve not hit the slot machines yet. Good morning. Reporter good morning, reena. Good importanting, richard. No, were still here covering the debate. Not at the slot machines just yet. But mand things get a little ugly last night. We saw jeb bush and donald trump go after each other not once but twice. And then you saw ted cruz and rand paul also on the attack together against marco rubio. Donald, you know, is great at the oneliners. And hed be a chaos president. Reporter in their fifth faceoff it was a no holds barred battle over National Security with Donald Trumps proposal to ban muslims fren sterg the u. S. Front and center. Were not talking about religion. Were talking about security. Our country is out of control. If were going to ban our muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a oldfashioned to destroy isis . Reporter marco rubio also under attack on several fronts over whether surveillance and Data Collection needs to be ramped up to track terrorists. That tool we lost, the meta data program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal. Marco knows what hes saying isnt true. I think marco gets it completely wrong. But hes weakest of all the candidates on immigration. Reporter an argument that collarly got under governor Chris Christies skin. I want to talk to the audience at home for a second. If your eyes are glazing over like mine, this is what its like to be on the floor of the United States senate. Reporter a protester interrupted trump and was escorted out. That didnt stop the national frontrunner and bush from going back at it on stage. If you think this is tough this isnt tough imagine what its going to be like dealing with putin or dealing with president xi or dealing with the islamic terrorism that exists. This is a tough business to run for youre a tough guy, jeb. And we need to have a leashed that is real tough. Youre never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency. Lets see. Im at 42 and youre at 3. Doesnt matter. So far im doing better. Doesnt matter. The two top tweeted moments were those just tough timeses between trump and bush going back and forth. This is the last Republican Debate of 2015, as we now get a whole lot closer to iowa and New Hampshire, reena and richard. Im at 42, youre at 3. Thats got to hurt. Brandi, you were mentioning Chris Christie we saw there in your report was taking aim at the senators on stage but did that really gain him anything as far as attention goes . Reporter some experts believe, analysts believe this is one of his best performances yet. Hes one of the lowest in the polls, and he really took that moment when you saw ted cruz and rand paul and marco rubio happens with senators in washington, d. C. , they bicker and bicker and we dont see anything get done. He used that to make a point you that need someone with executive leadership as president and he said thats what he has as governor of new jersey. Brandis there any chance, any chance at all that donald trump will run as an independent . Reporter oh, that is the question, richard. Everybody keeps asking. He was asked that twice again tonight and he said, i will not run as an independent no matter what. Now, remember this. Back in september he also said he wouldnt run as an independent and then later said maybe i will. So who knows . From here on out weve got a lost time left until election day. Vegas. Canal. Clearly richards been there a couple times. And stay with us for more debate koj conk. Our deputy political director joins us for her insights. Thats later in this half hour. Look forward to that. The democrats, meanwhile, are preparing for their next debate set for saturday night on abc. Minneapolis Hillary Clinton emphasized her experience when it comes to preventing domestic terror. She also said the u. S. Needs to stand up against antimuslim bigotry. Minneapolis is home to one of the largest Muslim American communities in the u. S. Thousands of kids in los angeles had an unscheduled day off yesterday because of a Terror Threat. Officials saying the decision to close the schools was influenced by continued concerns following the San Bernardino massacre. Abcs matt gutman is live in l. A. Reporter the threat leaving a sea of school buses silent, shuttering nearly 1100 schools, classes canceled for at least 650,000. Some parents turned away. I as superintendent am not going to take the chance with the life of a student. Reporter l. A. Superintendent Ramon Cortines saying the city is still rattled by the terrorist attack in San Bernardino two weeks ago. The fbi still investigating why one of the attackers there, syed school on his phone. The first alert came at 5 00 a. M. That threat emailed to a School Board Member. Reporter by 6 32 the decision had been made. The superintendent has directed all schools to be closed today, tuesday december 15th, to ensure the safety of all students. Reporter abc news learning the note invoked allah and directly referenced the terrorist attack in San Bernardino. It also threatened attacks on several schools with suicide bombers, automatic weapons, and grenades. New york city got an almost identical note. We are investigating this as a hoax. Reporter in los angeles the lapd and Sheriffs Office combing every Single School for suspicious objects. They have to take into account the safety of the children of los angeles. I think its irresponsible based on facts that have yet to be determined to criticize that decision at this point. Reporter that threat nearly paralyzing the nations second biggest city. Now, investigators tell me they believe that threat to have been diligence, clearing every Single School in the district, and say this morning they will be open. Matt gutman, abc news, language. And you heard reference there to the threat against new York City Schools in matts piece. The big apple schools remained open. Despite the School Superintendent receiving almost the exact same email that was sent to the l. A. School. That also was declared a hoax. New yorks Police Commissioner said the type of threats it contained were similar to recent episodes of the showtime drama homeland. Scary moments on board a Southwest Airlines plane as it ran off the runway in nashville. Take a look at this. Incredible images. Passengers said the jet experienced a rough lantdding and then ended up in a ditch. The plane from houston hobby was completely full. 138 people on board. After the accident eight people taken to the hospital and later released. The faa will look into whether the plane had either a blown tire or collapsed landing gear. In denver flights were delayed and canceled. Schools were closed after a snowstorm dumped nearly a foot of snow over some areas. Just over 6 1 2 inches of snow was officially recorded at Denver International airport. Mountain snow totals were in the one to twofoot range. Obviously good news if youre a skier. You might call this next one a kittenectomy. Firefighters in phoenix rescued two newborn kittens who were stuck in a home. One was inside the wall, the other in an attic. The owner had heard meowing inside the house even show she doesnt own any cats. The firefighters used saws to cut into the wall. Both kittens are doing fine. No one knows what happened to their mother or how she got into the attic. Glad there was a happy ending. Coming up [ meow ] theyre hot on the trigger, arent they . The sound department. Bam. Golden globe nominees taking on drakes latest hit. What could stop donald trump expert insight ahead for you. And what to give the person on your list who has everything. Onesies for all ages. But first the wednesday forecast. Youre watching world news now. Looks like hot in orlando. 85 down in disneyland. Important message for residents age 50 to 85. Write down this number now. Right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance Life Insurance with a rate lock through the Colonial Penn program. 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The latest polling, theres an abc poll that came out recently that was very interesting. What did it say . It really is interesting because it shows donald trump leading by such a wide margin. 38 . The next after that is ted cruz with 15 . Then marco rubio with 12 . So you really have this really wide margin. Also interesting is that his muslim ban comments that were so controversial, it shows that with the Republican Voters who are the base of the party it didnt hurt him one bit. What does this mean . Does it mean that donald trump could possibly be the gop nominee . Definitely he could possibly be. He hasnt fall nen any polls. Instead he has the widest margin of any poll since he entered the race six months ago. So i think thats a as the party leader for so long of course theres the possibility hell be the nominee. Him against another 13 versus two other people. And all those other votes have coalesced somewhere else. Thats the big question, isnt it . Thats where he could really fall down, i think. Right. When voters have less of a choice of course it will narrow. And thats why were seeing all these different kinds of lanes of the Republican Party. Other tnds, marco rubio and ted cruz, in tonights debate you really saw them go after each other because they represent different lanes of the Republican Party, an alternative to trump. But there werent really any candidates who stooktook trump on except for jeb bush. He who has been really low in the polls. He really made after donald trump tonight 20 make a dent. Do you think he had an impact . Because he was the one who walked in with a huge war chest when it comes to money. Do you think he has a chance in this . I think he did the best tonight that he has in 234i debate and he was really the only candidate to take donald trump on head to head. But i still think he has a large hill to climb. Its the race you cant predict, isnt it . But when you get these big moments like trump talking about muslims, a lot of commentators think thats it. Our analysis says oh, that will hurt donald trum. And instead quite the opposite. I want to look ahead to saturdays debate with the democrats. Abc news debate. Yes, the abc news debate. What can we expect . I think that really Hillary Clinton is going to want to look like the frontrunner nationally that she is and to position herself toward the general election. But of course there is still that primary beforehand. In New Hampshire, wourhere our debates Bernie Sanders is leading there. And in iowa the first caulkis state Hillary Clinton is leading but he is only behind by about 10 points or so. Does he have a route . Does he actually have a realistic and credible route, Bernie Sanders, to the democratic nomination . I think at this point its difficult to see him beating Hillary Clinton. But we cant ignore those polls, especially in New Hampshire, which is the first primary state a lot to watch. Our thanks to shushannah walshe. Next up, the skinny. Happy birthday music music thank you dear, very much music youre welcome music thank you you make me feel so young look whos coming. You make me feel so spring has sprung and every time i see your face im such a happy individual youre not fooling anybody, you know the moment that you speak tt0w ti h, 4 h h tt0w ti h, el bg 0w ti h, ed de tt0w ti h, 8h ;< tt0w ti h, kzh9t tt0w ti h, nhl l tt0w ti h, 0phrzt tt0w ti h, shb 4 tt0w ti h, uehajd tt0w ti h, 7hh]h0 america. Today more people will go to work work, return home to their families and sleep more soundly than ever before. All because one man refuses to settle, putting people before politics. That man is frank underwood. America. Im only getting started. Im frank underwood, and i approve this message. Fu2016 for frank underwood. That has to be deliberate, doesnt it . What is really interesting about that for me is it just shows you how easy it is to parody political adverts. Because until he turns up and says america, im only getting started, it looks like a campaign ad. It could be a campaign ad. If id said to you this is a Real Campaign ad, guess which candidate turns up at the end, you wouldnt have been able to guess. I think the rnc should hook up with house of cards. They do do it very well. Its interesting, isnt it, house of cards has only been around for four years. This is the website. Theres an actual website as well that you can go to. Look at his eyes moving back and forth. Hes watching you, richard. Thats quite neat. You can go down, you can scroll around. You have to be careful. There we are. There we are. Frank underwood speaks his mind now with us. Well be interviewing thanks again, graphics department. If you go to the website, go to the end of the last season there is a plot spoiler on that website to look out for. Youre welcome. You know, richard, you used to call me on your cell phone. Just kidding. Youve never given me your number. I havent ever given you my number, huh . Hotline bling, very famous song by drake, went viral. We want to show what you happens when some actors recently nominated for the golden globes, they do their own dramatic interpretation of drakes lyrics. Ever since i left the city. You got a reputation for yourself now. Go. You got me down. You got me stressed out. Because ever since i left the city you start wearing less and going out more. Hanging with some girls ive never seen before. You used to call me on my cell phone. Late night when you needed my love. Call me on my cell phone. Late night when you need my love. That can only mean one thing. I know when that hotline bling. That can only mean one thing. You used to call me on my cell phone late night when you need my love. Call me on my cell phone late night when you need my love. I love it. Isnt that remarkable . I thought they did a great, great job. This could only be topped i think if maybe george stephanopoulos, dan harris and the gang got together and did a rendition by this, abc news version. Its amazing how intimidating Bryan Cranston because he was doing a little bit of walter white in there. How intimidating he can be when hes simply reading a random note from drake. If we rolled some of the music from hotline bling, could you do drakes dance . Lets work on that. That needs rehearsal. I mean, sure, i agree with you. Its very popular. Rehearsal. Howard stern has renewed his contract as well with sirius xm for i think more thagross National Product of the united kingdom. Something like 18 fiveyear deal. Were talking about, yeah. He earned around 88 80 million annually. And its expected to rise to 90 million. He works three days a week. Also a 12year licensing deal to produce streaming content. What are we doing wrong, richard . Everything. Were basically volunteers compared with him. 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Did you know theres a cough liquid that lasts for twelve hours . Try delsym twelve hour cough liquid. Its advanced formula releases powerful medicine that acts fast try delsym. Lets all get down lets all get down lets all get elfed theyre back. The holderness family with another pajamagram withto the internet that went viral a couple years ago and cannot be stopped. It turns out its more than just strange youtube families are getting in on the pajama act. The onesies. The hottest holiday fashion trend. And abcs becky wurly tries it on. Maybe it started with that pajama family. They are christmas jammies. Or maybebe it was ralphie in a christmas story. You look like a deranged easter bunny. But google says searches for higher than searches for ugly christmas sweaters. These at macys marked down from 40 to 19. These at target 25. Also kohls and abbar krommie fitch have them. Two retailers who offer those percentage off deals regularly. On Christmas Morning when you wake up all you want to do is basically not get out of bed but still be opening presents and i think a onesies the best way to be doing that. Whether you call them union suits blanket sleepers or footsie pajamas theyre not just for bedtime anymore. Celebrities like Khloe Kardashian are attempting to make a fashion statement out of onesies and theyre wig hits on social media sites like instagram. Its more instagramable to put up a picture of yourself with a cute onesie with a cute design than yourself in a blankets. Some of these styles are quite inventive. Rrr. Reporter and this one even has builtin paws. I do have to say they are ridiculously comfortable and cozy. They take us back to our childhood. And this time of year that can be a really good thing. Its kind of the grownup way of being in your pajamas all the time. Reporter becky wuehrlee, abc news, new york. It could be worse. They could be footed onesies. Thats true. Ive never had a onesie. Really . Yeah. I think there should be anchor onesies for the anchor desk. Because it gets cold here sometimes. It gets cold here. Strange things happen in the studio. We should reassure everyone after last Nights Program where the fire larm went off we had a few tweets expressing concern for us. Just so you know were very much alive. We made it through the night. We certainly did. And it was a false alarm. They told us, my floor director says in 30 years hes been here they never had it go off like this during the live show. The things you bet during the middle of the night. Dont forget to check out our facebook site whilst youre with us. Two decades. Good morning. Im richard bacon. And im reena ninan. Here are some of the top headlines were following this importanting on world news now. Fights over Foreign Policy were highlights of last nights Republican Debate in las vegas. Donald trump clashing with jeb bush. Marc o. Rubio and ted cruz toe to toe. An agreement in congress on a major spending bill, meaning no Government Shutdown at the end of the year. It lifts a 40yearold ban on exporting crude oil, which is a major victory for the republicans. The faa is investigating what caused a Southwest Airlines jet oto go off the runway in shville. Passengers say started with a rough landing perhaps from a blown tire or damaged landing gear. And next week is shaping up to shatter Holiday Travel records. More than 1 in 3 americans, more than 100 million of us, are rails, and skies. The busiest travel day will be december the 23rd. Those are some of our top stories on this wednesday december the 16th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We begin this half hour with the republican president ial candidates. We certainly do. And in their final debate of the year a concentrated on the issues most americans are concerned about right now, National Security and terrorism. There was also plenty of criticism, as you would imagine, of president obama and Hillary Clinton. Frontrunner donald trump said that he knew he was going to be attacked last night. Jeb bush did exactly that. Am i talking or are you talking, jeb . Im talking right now. Im talking. You can go back. Youre not talking. You interrupted me, jeb. Are you going to apologize, jeb . No. Am i allowed to finish . One at a time. Go ahead, mr. Trump. A little of your medicine there. Governor bush. Please. Its not working very well. We keep working from president obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that theyre searching for these mythical moderate rebels. Its like a purple unicorn. They never exist. And for the russians frankly its time that we punch the russians in the nose. Theyve gotten away with too much in this world. Id like to also go back to another question, which is is donald trump a serious candidate. Youre a tough guy, jeb. And we need to ve a leader that is real tough. Were never going to have a president insulting his way to the presidency. Im at 42 and youre at 3. So far im doing better. Doesnt matter. Margaret thatcher once said if you want something talked about ask a man. If you want something done ask a woman. [ cheers and applause ] now, that was a good line. But donald trump is like a bear you just dont want to poke. Jeb bush was i think the only person that went for him. And you could see the nervousness. Because hes quick and he is dominant. And but worst of all, hes funny. I think whenever you if youre going to put someone down, its always more effective if its funny. So even the way he said youre im at42, youre at 3. A, true. B, was his delivery was quite amusing which made it that much more effective. Which is kind of hard for these republicans to break out of, that sort of authenticity. I think thats why a lot people really donald trump resonates for them. Because he knows how to get in that moment and make it real and authentic. I think in this many ways, this particular debate im looking forward to the democratic debate on abc on saturday. This debate is better seen through the highlights were showing you. Because i find this election the most the best show in the world, the most gripping with the best turns and the twists. But in some ways the debates can be im not talking about saturday. But they can be like a cup final where the buildup is better than the match is t. Self. I think the match itself is like that. Thats what im saying. Well show you more of it later. Were going to have much more as richard mentioned from the Republican Debate coming up in the next half hour. Secretary of state john kerry says the u. S. And russia can make a significant difference in syria. Kerry met with russian leaders in moscow yesterday, reaching an agreement on some issues but not the future of syrian president bashar al they will participate in a u. N. Conference friday in new york. Defense secretary ash carter is asking turkey to do more in the fight against isis. An air base in turkey was his first stop on a tour of the middle east. In particular carter wants turkey to Better Police its border with syria to prevent isis from bringing in weapons and recruits. Schools in los angeles will be open again this morning following a oneday closure yesterday. Thats because of a Terror Threat. Keeping those schools closed meant 29 million in state funding lost. Here in new york city a similar threat was melt with a very different response. The schools remained open. Abcs brian ross with that part of the story. For new york police was that the alleged threat involving the secret jihadist terror cell, nerve gas agents, highpowered weapons, and mass casualties seen seemed remarkably similar to the plotline of the tv program homeland. The instigator of the threat may be a homeland fan, basically watching homeland episodes that it mirrors a lot of recent episodes on homeland. Reporter police said the message sent to new york read in part Something Big is going down. Be only are there bombs but there are nerve gas agents set to go off at a specific time, during lunch hour. New york officials said they knew immediately it was a hoax and a bad one. It was so generic, so outlandish, and posed to numerous School Systems simultaneously. Reporter the message continued with a glaring typo, me and my 138 comrades will die tomorrow in the name of allah, with a lower case a, at least in that would be incredible to think that any jihadist would not spell allah with a capital a. Reporter los angeles got a similar message, with the sender saying he would personally lead the attacks. One person cant lead an attack in both cities. So they realized right then and there that it didnt have credibility. Cut and paste job . Definitely. Reporter while new york police call the hoax threats almost comically inept, theres really nothing funny about them. The fbi cyber teams are now working to track down the person who sent them, apparently from an internet address in frankfurt, germany. Under federal law anyone convicted of sending a hoax alert could face up to ten years in prison. Brian ross, abc news, new york. Brian, thank you very much. We have some breaking news out of arizona. A search and rescue mission is under way after the crash of a medical helicopter. The chopper went down in the superstition mountains about 20 miles east of apache junction. Investigators say the crash site is located in very rugged terrain. Theres no word on the on boards or the cause of the crash. Its back to work for the jury in the first freddie gray case. The jurors will continue deliberating even though they say they are deadlocked on the charges against Police Officer william porter. Gray died last spring after suffering neck and spinal cord injuries in a police spran porter is one of six officers charged in grays death. A massachusetts teenager has been convicted of rape and murder of his High School Math teacher. Phillip chisholm was just 14 when he attacked the teacher in the school restroom. His attorneys never denied he committed the crime but blamed severe mental illness. He face az long prison sentence. Debris spilled from a cargo ship o San Francisco could pose a danger to marine wildlife. Meanwhile, the cleanup of the shipping containers and packing containers continues. A dozen containers fell off a ship in the storm this weekend. Some are still floating offshore waiting to make landfall. In flint, michigan because of lead levels in the citys water system. It affects the citys children in particular because lead can cause mental retardation. The crisis began after the city began taking its water from flint river. The mayor wants federal disaster relief. A preseason snowstorm nearly paralyzed americas milehigh city in denver yesterday. Flights were delayed, shooi highways were shutdown. By a snowstorm 245 dumped over a foot in some jarz. Mountain snow were in the one to twofoot range. The winter write conditions continue again today in the west. Heres accuweathers paul williams. Hey, paul, good morning. Thanks, richard, reena. We have cold air expected to take over the southwest part of the country. Making it a little bit chilly in l. A. As well as vegas and neenks, butneenks phoenix, but then along the east coast totally different story. Here comes a low slung through with a jet stream guiding it through and its going to translate into wespread scattered showers as we go into thursday. Wet, and over here this is where the weekends going to come into play. Ch colder air dropping temps below the norm for this time. Year. Reena, richard. Okay, paul, thanks so much. Across the pond the lady who transformed he britain with her free market policies has managed to raise millions after her oh, yeah, her. Were talking about former british Prime Minister margaret thatcher. Speeches, books, and even outfits belonging to the iron lady were turned intotion gold. Soaring above their estimated prices at christies in london. Theres even a signed copy of the speech she made on becoming britains first Prime Minister in 1979, first female Prime Minister. Sold for 56,000. And her blue velvet wedding dress. That fetched 38,000. I would love to have something from margaret thatcher. Where there is discord that will bring harmony. Thats what happens when youre a political anarak. You can remember speeches that coming up well return to our political coverage and how Hillary Clinton is preparing for saturdays debate. And also developments for people trying to sign upor Health Insurance through the obamacare website. New hangups at a critical deadline. And later the star wars movie makers and all the Creative Energy that went into the wildly anticipated film. The insiders look at the force awakens awakens. Youre watching world news now. Luke, i am still your father. 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Five people north of bod including a mother and her baby found themselves trapped under a temporary construction wall yesterday. The collapse of that wall in a gust of wind happened on a sidewalk in the city of malden. Dozens of people rushed to their aid. The baby was in a stroller at the time. That stroller may have just saved her life. Luckily the only injuries were minor. A stunning blow. This story. Its a gripping story but a stunning blow for Actress Kelly Rutherford in her custody battle. Reports say a judge in monaco has awarded her exhis full custody of their two children. And the gossip girl actress can only visit them in monaco and in france. She cannot bring them to the u. S. There was a gripping article, to use that word again,about this case in vanity fair a couple months ago. But rutherford is appealing the decision. If you havent yet filed for obamacare, you have a little more time. The government says there was Unprecedented Demand yesterday on the healthcare. Gov websit the deadline now the end of the day this thursday. The penalty for not being insured jumps to nearly 700 next year. Returning to politics and the Democratic Candidates getting ready for their debate saturday night here, right here on abc. Hillary clinton has been staking out her position on terrorism. As your voice, your vote. The clinton dpancampaign. Reporter with terror on the minds of voters Hillary Clinton out to prove shell take on isis and protect the homeland. It is not enough to contain isis. We must defeat isis, break its momentum and then its back. Reporter the former secretary of state is pledging to target isiss efforts to recrt online but also slamming republicans for fearmongering. Bluster and bigotry are not credentials for becoming commander in chief. Reporter clinton heads into saturdays New Hampshire debate dominating national polls, but its senator Bernie Sanders whos the one ahead in the granite state. And now sanders whose loyal supporters have been packing massive rallies is talking more and more about isis. Our goal is to put together a coalition to destroy isis and not once again get bogged down in a neverending war in that part of the world. Reporter and next month clinton to worry about. Biel weve learned that Chelsea Clinton will be playing a bigger role in the campaign, headlining two fundraisers and then off to the new primary states. Tom llamas, abc news, new york. Great. I like toms reports. Its going tosh a really good debates, i think, here on abc on saturday night. And its a Bernie Sanders partly because Bernie Sanders is so cares mattic and entertaining. But theres also that question of can he thread a route through to the nomination for the democrats . Its very, very difficult for him. So he needs he just needs to do something here. And hes expected to challenge hillary on Foreign Policy. One of the things is hillarys vote to authorize the iraq war back over ten years ago and these expected to hit her hafrd on that. And hes got a lot to say about the Climate Change deal as well. We will. Meatball on white next you want mustard on that or not come on, come on. I havent got all day here it doesnt come with peppers theyre extra hurry up. Pay the lady next the chickens fresh. I killed it myself. So thats what you want . Next while were still young you know you told me you wanted mustard. Get outta here times up back of the line hey. Excuse me. What great sandwich. Thanks. You didnt have to be so nice get outta here. Its the cantina music from star wars. Maeve youve heard of the new one. Its pretty amazing, isnt it . What reenas really saying there is she fell asleep. Fell asleep. Its the night shift folks. They turn the lights off. Youre sitting down. I doze off for a little bit. Its not because of the movie. It was fantastic. Here are two people who wouldnt be happy to hear about were up all night with abcs Chris Connelly. Reporter monday night in hollywood. The World Premiere of star wars the force awakens. Give it everything youve got. Reporter its action and humor. Its new characters and light sabers. Itnds up being a story of adventure and loyalty and shock and surprise and uses this amazing and precious thing called the force that tells us that were all somehow connected. Camera, action. Reporter so much of it the work of producer Kathleen Kennedy and director cowriter j. J. Abrams. All of this inspired by star wars creator george lucas. There isnt a day that goes by or went by as we were making the movie where we dont talk about george. Its the standard, what would george do . The thing that is most remarkable is that george got everything right. Alias, lost, Mission Impossible 3, and the star trek series. For decades a top producer on Steven Spielbergs acclaimed films. I did pose this provocative idea who is Luke Skywalker, that that would be something that was said by one of our characters. Why was who is Luke Skywalker such a fascinating question . I guess becauset spoke to a new generation. It was that idea there would be young people for whom Luke Skywalker was essentially a myth. Reporter in crafting and casting the force wakens set 30 years after return of the jedi, abrams wanted its characters young. Even bad guys like kylo ren. I will finish what you started. And kathys like adam driver. Im like mike drop. Reporter john boyega was cast as the exstorm trooper finn. While daisy ridley was the choice for rae. When she came in and read you just know. And literally i had to not giggle from behind the camera becauses i was amazed at what she was doing. Abrams hoping this film will have the same emotional punch as the 1977 one had on him as a child. The thing i felt when i was a kid when i left the theater was the world was huge and to have people, especially kids go to see the movie and see themselves in it and feel like im capable of something extraordinary, that would be the greatest gift of all. Reporter for nightline were home. Reporter im Chris Connelly in los angeles. Its excellent, basically. We dont want to ruin anything. But it takes itself seriously in a good way. There are some good oneliners in there, but it takes the emotional element seriously. And i hope this doesnt give anything away but it also uses as the old one did the emotional trigger was built around a and lets just say this is built around it again. Dont give away any more details. Coming up, finding extra cash for christmas. Well be right back. Yeah, so . It stinks in here. Youve got to wash this whole room are you kidding . Wash it . Lets wash it with febreze. For all the things you cant wash, use. Febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. 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But it turns out there may be hidden holiday cash right in their house. First did you know theres money in old toys . Clothes too. Things that sell really well with timeless toys like thomas the train, mr. Potato head and my little ponies. Swap. Com the mulders fill two boxes with toys in Good Condition and clothes that are in season. The company pays for shipping, and once the boxes arrive at their warehouse theyll be put up for sale on the website. On average sellers earn about 150 per box. And bonus points. Save the boxes your toys come in. Those can be worth cash too. An American Girl doll box can fetch as much as 30 on efrmt bai. Next up, old electronics. Even broken ones. Check out websites like kiiboo. Com. Just box up your items and send them to their California Office where they will inspect, price, and post your electronics. Two smartphones and an airport express expected to fetch christie about 100. And finally, even old books can make a xwuk. Using the amazon seller app christie scans the books bar codes to find out how much theyre worth. Then she sets the price before sending them off to amazon, who this book is worth 74. 50. Reporter bringing in a whopping 196. In total the mulders found 6 50 56. How is that going to impact christmas . Its going to help out a lot. Reporter Mara Schiavocampo, c news, new york. Do you know how many times i have that the kids arent using . Thats great. They pay for shipping, box it up, take care of selling. Kids go off toys after about three days. Dont forget to followed follow us. Were on twitte were on facebook. Posting behindthescenes photos photos. I have an instagram i set up just for this show. Its richardp, letter p, bacon. Its largely pictures we never leave this room. So neeshl youre seeing pictures of this room which youve already seen. But if youd like to see more of it go into sta gram. Thats it for world news well see you soon. This morning on world news now, las vegas showdown. The republicans debate about terrorism, Foreign Policy, and Donald Trumps plan to ban muslims from the protests to the surprises. We have extensive coverage live from las vegas. Threatening schools. Similar emails, threats sent to the biggest districts in the country. Why some schools were shut down and others stayed travel trends. The surprises in the air and on the roads for americans vaik vacationing over christmas and new years. What makes this month differe from the last. And later, richard nye both just saw star wars the force awakens. Were sharing our views after guesting a sneak peek just hours ago. Its wednesday december 16th. Hey, everyone. Good morning on this busy wednesday. Im reena ninan. Good morning to you. Im richard bacon. Lets just say that one of us didnt see all of star wars tonight tonight. Theres a reason. A great reason. Details to come. Youre looking for a plot twist, weve got one. And lets get started with last nights republican president ial faceoff. Nine candidates took the stage in las vegas. Their answers and attacks on each other reflecting the nations concerns about terrorism and security. We begin with abcs brandi hitt whos in las vegas this morning. Brandi, good morning. Good morning. Good morning, richard and reena. Its hard saying both of your names together back to back now thur on set together. What a night here in las vegas. They talked about terrorism, protecting the homeland and battling isis. Really Critical Issues that dominated last nights Republican Debate. And as you mentioned, man, was it entertaining because several of these candidates didnt pull dobld is great at the oneliners. But hes a chaos candidate. And hed be a chaos president. Reporter in their fifth faceoff it was a no holds bards battle over National Security with konld trumps plan to ban muslims from entering the u. S. Front and center. Were not talking about religion. Were talking about secuty. Our country is out of control. If were going to ban all muslims how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy isis . Reporter marco rubio lls under attack on several fronts, whether surveillance and Data Collection needs to be ramped up to track terrorists. That tool we lost, the meta data program, was a valuable tour we no longer have under our disposal. What marco says isnt true. Hes one of the weakest candidates on immigration. An argument that clearly got under governor Chris Christies skin. I want to talk to the audience at home. Your eyes are glazing oaf this is what its like to be on the a protester interrupted trump and was taken out. That didnt stop the frontrunner and bush from going at if if you think this is tough this isnt tough. I wish it was always as easy dealing with president putin or xi or the islamic terrorism that youre a tough guy, jeb. We have to have a leader real tough. Youre real touch youre never going to win your way to the president by insulting your way so far im at 42 and youre at 3. Doesnt matter. Reporter that was just a sflaul snippet of the back and forth between trump and bush all night long. This is the last debate for the republicans in 2015. Next up theemocrats will be facing off in New Hampshire saturday. And that debate is hosted by abc news. Reena and richard. I think its like any night out in vegas. Two or three bits that stand out. By the next day youve completely forgotten. Well said. Trump spoke in the spin room, didnt he, afterwards. What did he have to say . Definitely, richard, and in how he did he said he thought this was his best perform performance of any debate so far. And a lot of analysts agree, they thought he was strong. When it came to the back and forth with bush he said you know what, jeb had to attack me, hes lowest. Policy and i expected it. And he said even if the polls were reversed he would have done the exact same thing. Interesting fireworks. Abcs blandihit live in las vegas. Brandi, back thanks to you. Lets turn next to insight from our deputy Political Editor who im pleased to say joins us here in the studio. Shush nah walshe. Herail came out swinging and need to. Really hes the only candidate that went head to head with donald trump and it was lets listen. So donltd is great at the one candidate. He would be a kay ott president. He would be be the commander in chief we need to keep our jeb does not believe im unhinged. He said that because hes failed in that th campaign, its been a total disaster, nobody cares, person up here. Bush did pretty we. He made an impact. Ted cruz and marco rubio. These candidates really represent two different lanes of the Republican Party and many people say that they could be the two on top of the but lets listen to this clip. Zplu cant carpetbomb isis if you dont have planes and bromz to attack them with. And if we continue the cuts were doing now not to mention additional cuts, were going to be left with the oldest and Smallest Air Force this country have and that leaves us less safe. One of the problems with marcos Foreign Policy is he has far too often sirpted Hillary Clinton and barack obama, undermining governments in the middle east that have helped radical islamic terrorists. Two different parts of the Republican Party and they really have been going at each other not just at last nights debate but throughout this primary process and recently its ram upped up. Both candidates trying to stay away from donald trump but going after each other. This is going to continue and it is going to one to watch. It seemed like it was very deliberate. I want to ask you trump made a pledge not to run as an independent like he did in september. Does this really matter . Weve heard this before again. In september he shrined a pledge saying he wouldnt run as a thirdparty candidate, but recently hes been sounding he could run as a third party again. If the party doesnt treat him fairly. But tonight last night, excuse me, he ruled if out again and said the party is treating him fairly and he will not run as a third parlty candidate. I think a lot of Establishment Republicans are breathing a sigh of r. Leif this morn pg. And hes doing well in the polls. There ways story i saw doing the rounds on twitter about a what do you know about that . It really exploded on twitter. Who was coughing throughout this debate . It turns out it was ben carson. The doctor of the bunch. And his Campaign Says that all of them got came down with this with a cough. Not really a cold but they were all under the weather with a cough. So mystery solved. Heal thyself, physician. You know, our viewers said honey, lemon and tea. And thats the campaign trail can be can hard on your system for sure. Lots of germs floating around there. Abcs shushannah walshe. Well get more reaction from shush and take you to las vegas again in our next half hour. On the democratic side frontrunner Hillary Clinton is providing new details on her plan to battle isis. Speaking to an audience in minneapolis clinton said the u. S. Needs a 360 degree strategy to prevent domestic terrorism. She positioned herself as the more serious and experienced republican rivals. Promising to carpet bomb until the desert glows doesnt make you sound strong. If makes you sound like youre in over your head. [ cheers and applause ] clinton also emphasized the importance of working with muslimamerican communities. Not a surprise considering the large Muslim Community in minneapolisst. Paul. Be sure to watch the democratic debate this saturday night. As we mentioned earlier, its on abc. Its mosted by david muir and Martha Raddatz and coverage begins at 8 00 eastern, 7 00 central. Students will be back in class today in l. A. Following a Terror Threat that shut down the entire district. That threat was emailed to a School Board Member promising an attack with guns and bombs. Administrators admitted that fears following the San Bernardino attack influenced the skiegs decision to close the were open despite the School Superintendent receiving almost the exact same email that was sent to l. A. The email was declared a hoax. New yorks Police Commissioner said the type of threat it contains were similar to recent episodes of the showtime drama homeland. All eyes on the Federal Reserve today which wraps up its last meeting of the year. 9 central bank is expected to raise shortterm interest rates, the first increase in nearly a decade. Its not expected to have much impact on consumer loans. Britains First Official astronaut is now on board the International Space station. Tim peak and two others, an american and a russian, arrived yesterday, bringing the space station crew to 6. Other brits have gone into space as tourists. But there was a glitch as the soyuz craft approached the i just hope theyre eating a lot of space ice cream. Thats the only thing ive ever had space related. I was watching apollo 13. You remember that . I love that movie. Theres a scene about something that goes wrong and not the big thing gheez wrong. And tom hanks said every mission has a glitch. Premiere last night. Our opinions after so much anticipation. Youre watching world news now. U have. You e, medicare doesnt cover everything only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So if 65 is around the corner, think about an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, they help cover some of what medicare doesnt pay. And could save you in outofpocket medical costs. So dont wait. Call to request your free decision guide. And gather the information now to help you choose a plan later. 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Next week is expected to shatter records for travel in the sxie on the ground. Rebecca jarvis explains. Reporter nearly one in three americans, thats more than 100 million of us, expected to hit the roads this Holiday Season and when we do gas prices should be below 2 a gallon for most of the country. The National Average for a gallon of gas expected to hit 1. 98 by christmas, and that is the lowest level since 2008. Also a gift for the flyers out there. 87 of planes are coming in on time. And that is the third best rate in more than 20 years. Rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. What would you guess is the busiest day to travel, to fly . Of the whole year . No, during next week. Okay. I think its probably this friday because its like a buff everybefore christmas. Yeah, friday. Next story short. Wait, isnt friday christmas . Oh, you mean this week. No, its the 23rd. Everybody books their tickets, theyre off. Ive done a lot of traveling on Christmas Eve itself and it turns out the roads are quieter than youd expect pl. Well, when youre driving on the road, everybody clears the roads. Especially when you havent slept much. Has someone created that graphic in the last 35 seconds. That was a real road trip we took. My mistake. The campaign ads seeing the Republican Debate that freaked and the branding of the ad that is sure to gather up votes. But first our take on the force awakens. We actually got a sneak peek last night, and richard has a lot to say, including who Luke Skywalkers real father is. Were going to break an embargo next. I cant believe we broke old man hennesseys window this is really bad. What are we going to do . Dude, kiss your life goodbye. Lets go. Oh. Keep smiling, keep shining knowing you can always count on me, for sure hi knowing you can always count on me, for sure tell him it was an accident and we can fix the window. Knowing you can always count on me, for sure ill come with you. Return of the return of the jedi there. Celebrating the defeat of the empire after the battle of ender. Thats the last scene. Thats where the story left off in 1983. And can you believe over 30 years later weve picked up with the force awakens. Richard and i had the pleasure of being able to see it. And what a ride. That pendingending, oh, my goodness. Let me tell everyone what actually happened. The big [ bleep ]. We share a Parent Company. With star wars. This is what this is what disney do. Give away a plot spoer. You are a traitor and part of a rebel alliance. I thought that was quite good. It was actually sensational. And its quite difficult its quite hard to know what constitutes a breach of the embargo because people were tweeting about it last night. I guess you can say its good. Quite a few people say it has twists, which you could argue is a plot spoiler. Ill tell you this. Some storm troopers die. There you go. You just ruined it for all of us. I have to say it was remarkable. I was really riveted. I found it incredibly compelling. And i think it does honestly, Parent Company aside, it really does livep to the hype. You dont know what youre making stuff up. Hang on. What . You had your own plot twist. You fell asleep. Richard, do you know the hours i work . I sleep about three hours a day. Somebody turning the lights off and gives me a comfy little chair. There were a few moments that i accidentally i was just making a point. Its not a reflection of the movie. Its a reflection of my current lifestyle. But i have to say its really remark remarkable. These two are amazing. They were a fantastic choice for this film. There is a fantastic and i talked to you about it. How did that happen . I think not only did you sleep, you slept through the crucial bit. But heres the thing i would say. Its a really good story. It actually is a good story. And they used dialogue sparingly. I rewatched a bit of the phantom menace the other day, and there a lot of what i would call waffle, and here is just super smart, pinsharp dialogue that serves the story. And its got several little funny bits, but crucially it takes the story seriously. And i watched and i thought you have to do that to buy into that. And i have to say the last and i just said j. J. Abrams, how could you do that to us . Whens the next one coming out . Because i cant wait. The way they left it i just cant wait for the next one. And instead of getting a dog were going to get a b8b8. Its really exciting. The theater bursting into applause i would say eight, nine, ten different points. And also Harrison Ford really nailing that part again. The way he just slips back into han solo. Its good. For the first few seconds i wasnt sure, is he rusty, and then he totally nails it. Thats our message. I found it thrilling and reena fell asleep. Just for a few minutes. Just a few minutes. Coming up, which u. S. State googles matching height xxl over any other phrase, any other the mix up next. You are my whole life your two blue eyes are shining dolce and gabbana. Light blue weve been changing things up with ky love. Oh yeah. Its a pleasure gel that magnifies both our sensations. It gives us chills in places weve never gotten chills before. Yeah, it makes us feel like. Welcome back to the mix. This is the section where we tell you about the viral stories of the day. The first one is excellent. This is about the states in america and the phrases over the last year that they have googled the most. So its really interesting. Lets start with florida. So the most googled phrase in florida, concealed weapons. Concealed weapons permit. More than anything else, they are the three words put into google. Lets try wisconsin next. And wisconsin, their most googled no, is it West Virginia . West virginia. West virginia. And their most googled word is magic mike. I never would have guessed that in West Virginia. Really . From florida, reena. I am. Thats not a huge amount of information on either state. But based on those two things, id rather live in West Virginia. You know, it is the second amendment. Yeah. Yeah. Legal means. Thats true. In mississippi the most googled words were ashley madison. Which you know is that website that revealed people having the affair. Is it because theyre checking to see their names are on the list or theyre just curious what the site is . Thats a great question. You dont know. Are they doing it out of interesting because it as was a great story or are they panicking . Reena, what have you got . School lun is really hard to make. One dad goes the extra length to show his kids he cares about them by doing star wars. Do you see that . Yeah. Thats bb8. Thats bb8. And thats a storm trooper. Its a storm trooper. Youre absolutely right. Theres another storm trooper. And he said it makes about 30 minutes to make these lunches. The cucumber are not the x wing fighters. Theyre the other ones that darth vader has. Thats sensational. So he picks a character im sorry, reenas nodded off again. And chewy. There you go. So he picks a character and a theme and goes with that for the week. And he says it only takes him 30 minutes. But i actually love to make these for my son because its hard to get them to eat anything and this is an interesting way to spice up their lunches. Yeah. Hes certainly a better father than me. I tend to wake up and say oh, my god, is it a school day. And lets have another look. Finally, this is a dog which found its viral. Its very popular. What is that . Its a dog that appears to have been converted into a toolbox. Is that cute . Is that exploitation, reena . No, its probably not. They claim hes weighted on both sides equally so its not heavy. From very hardworking this morning on world news now donald trump on the defensive at last nights gop debate. How trump and his challengers confronted National Security and Foreign Policy issues in their final debate of the year. Full live coverage ahead. School scare. Similar email bomb threats sent to the two Largest School districts in the nation. How police in each city handled the scares quite differently. And new this half hour, details about a frightening scene on a runway. Passengers describe what happened to a southwest jet before it ran off the runway. The injuries and the investigation. And later in the skinny, it looked like a political ad, but it was a preview of the next season of house of cards. We will reveal hints about the next episodes. This is world news now. Stacking my papersecause thats what news readers do. Good morning. Its a busy wednesday. Im richard bacon. And im reena ninan. Lets begin with the republicans who want to be president of the United States of america. Last nights debate marked by several flash points. Jeb bush taking on donald frump. Two senators, marco rubio and ted cruz, going at it. And for details we are joined by abcs brandi hitt, who is still there live in las vegas for us. Brandi, youve not hit the slot machines yet. Good morning. Reporter good morning, reena. Gogo morning, richard. No, were still here covering the debate. Not at the slot machines just yet. But man, did things get a little ugly last night. We saw jeb bush and donald trump go after each other not once but twice. And then you saw ted cruz and rand paul also on the attack together against marco rubio. Donald, you know, is great at but hes a chaos candidate. And hed be a chaos president. Reporter in their fifth faceoff it was a no holds barred battle over National Security with Donald Trumps proposal to ban muslims from entering the u. S. Front and center. Were not talking about religion. Were talking about security. Our country is out of control. If were going to ban our muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy isis . Reporter marco rubio also under attack on several fronts over whether surveillance d Data Collection needs to be ramped up to track terrorists. That tool we lost, the meta data program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal. Marco knows what hes saying isnt true. I think marco gets it completely wrong. But hes weakest of all the candidates on immigration. Reporter an argument that clearly got under governor Chris Christies skin. Listen, i want to talk to the audience at home for a second. If your eyes are glazing over like mine, this is what its like to be on the floor of the United States senate. Reporter a protester interrupted trump and was escorted out. That didnt stop the national frontrunner and bush from going back at it on stage. If you think this is tough this ist tough imagine what its going to be like dealing with putin or dealing with president xi or dealing with the islamic terrorism that exists. This is a tough business to run for youre a tough guy, jeb. And we need to have a leader that is real tough. Youre never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency. Lets see. Im at 42 and youre at 3. Doesnt matter. So far im doing better. Doesnt matter. The two top tweeted moments were those just tough times between trump and bush going back and forth. This is the last Republican Debate of 2015, as we now get a whole lot closer to iowa and New Hampshire, reena and richard. Im at 42, youre at 3. Thats got to hurt. Brandi, you were mentioning Chris Christie we saw there in your report was taking aim at the senators on stage but did that really gain him anything as far as attention goes . Reporter some experts believe, analysts believe this is one of his best performances yet. Moment when you saw ted cruz and rand paul and marco rubio arguing saying hey, this is what happens with senators in washinon, d. C. , they bicker and bicker and we dont see anything get done. He used that to make a point you that need someone with executive leadership as president and he said thats what he has as governor of new jersey. Brandi, is there any chance, any chance at all that donald trump will run as an independent . Reporter oh, that is the question, richard. Everybody keeps asking. He was asked that twice again tonight and he said, i will not run as an independent no matter what. Now, remember this. Back in september he also said he wouldnt run as an independent and then later said maybe i will. So who knows . From here on out weve got a lost time left until election day. Abcs brandi hitt in las vegas. Take a ride on the venetian canal. Clearly richards been there a couple times. And stay with us for more debate coverage. Our deputy political director joins us for her insights. Thats later in this half hour. Look forward tohat. The democrats, meanwhile, are preparing for their next debate set for saturday night right here on abc. Minneapolis Hillary Clinton emphasized her experience when it comes to preventing domestic terror. She also said the u. S. Needs to stand up against antimuslim bigotry. Minneapolis is h he to one of the largest Muslim American communities in the u. S. Back to class this morning for thousands of kids in los angeles who had an unscheduled day off yesterday because of a Terror Threat. Officials saying the decision to close the schools was influenced by continued concerns following the San Bernardino massacre. Abcs matt gutman is live in l. A. Reporter the threat leaving a sea of school buses silent, shuttering nearly 1100 schools, classes canceled for at least 650,000. Some parents turned away. Oh, my goodness. I as superintendent am not going to take the chance with the life of a student. Rorter l. A. Superintendent Ramon Cortines saying the city is still rattled by the bernardino two weeks ago. The fbi still investigating why one of the attackers there, syed farook, had pictures of a high school on his phone. The first alert came at 5 00 a. M. That threat emailed to a School Board Member. Reporter by 6 32 the decision had been made. The superintendent has directed all schools to be closed today, tuesday december 15th, to ensure the safety of all students. Reporter abc news learning the note invoked allah and directly referenced the terrorist attack in San Bernardino. It also threatened attacks on several schools with suicide bombers, automat weapons, and grenades. New york city got t almost identical note. We are investigating this as a hoax. Reporter in los angeles the lapd and Sheriffs Office combing every Single School for suspicious objects. They have to take into account the safety of the children of los angeles. I think its irresponsible based on facts that have yet to be reporter that threat nearly paralyzing the nations second biggest city. Now, investigators tell me they believe that threat to have been a hoax. Still, theyve done their due diligence, clearing every Single School in the district, and say this morning they will be open. Matt gutman, abc news, language. And you heard reference there to the threat against new York City Schools in matts piece. The big apple schools remained open. Despite the School Superintendent receiving almost the exact same email that was sent to the l. A. School. That also was declared a hoax. New yorks Police Commissioner said the type of threats it contained were similar to recent episodes of the showtime drama homeland. Scary moments on board a Southwest Airlines plane as it ran off the runway in nashville. Take a look at this. Incredible images. Passengers said the jet experienced a rough landing and then ended up in a ditch. The plane from houston hobby was completely full. 138 people on board. After the accident eight people taken to the hospital and later released. The faa will look into whether the plane had either a blown delayed and canceled. Highways were shut down and schools were closed after a snowstorm dumped nearly a foot of snow over some areas. Just over 6 1 2 inches of snow was officially recorded at Denver International airport. Mountain snow totals were in the one to twofoot range. Obviously good news if youre a skier. You might call this next one a kittenectomy. Firefighters in phoenix rescued two newborn kittens who were stk in a home. One was inside the wall, the other in an attic. The owner had heard meowing inside the house even show she doesnt own any cats. The firefighters used saws to cut into the wall. Both kittens are doing fine. No one knows what happened to their mother or how she got into the attic. Glad there was a happy ending. Coming up [ meow ] theyre hot on the trigger, arent they . The sound department. Bam. Coming up in the skinny golden globe nominees taking on drakes latest hit. What could stop donald trump expert insight ahead for you. And what to give the person on your list who has everything. Onesies for all ages. But first the wednesday forecast. Youre watching world news now. Looks like hot in lando. 85 down in disneyland. Important message for residents age 50 to 85. Write down this number now. Right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance Life Insurance with a rate lock through the Colonial Penn program. If you are on a fixed income, learn about affordable whole Life Insurance that guarantees your rate can never increase for any reason. If you did not receive your information, call this number now. 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Ditch the misery. Lets end this. politely wait, wait, wait you cant put it in like that, you have to rinse it first. Thats bakedon alfredo. Bakedon . It never gonna work. Dish issues . Trust your dishwasher with cascade platinum. It powers. Better than finish. Cascade. Weve been changing things up with ky love. Oh yeah. Its a pleasure gel that magnifies both our sensations. It gives us chills in places weve never gotten chills before. Yeah, it makes us feel like. Dafe to feel more with new ky love. Welcome back. The final gop debate of the year is history. The democrats will debate on saturday. Leaving 46 days until the iowa caucus. Joining us to talk about the state of the race is abcs deputy political director welcome. Of course. Donald trump. The latest polling, theres an abc poll that came out recently that was very interesting. What did it say . It really is interesting because it shows donald trump leading by such a wide margin. 38 . The next after that is ted cruz with 15 . Then marco rubio with 12 . So you really have this really wide margin. Also interesting is that his muslim ban comments that were so controversial, it shows that with the Republican Voters who are the base of the party it didnt hurt him one bit. What does this mean . Do we believe that donald trump could possibly be the gop nominee . Definitely he could possibly be. Hes gotten absolutely he hasnt fallen in any polls. Instead he has the widest margin of any poll since he entered the race six months ago. So i think that as the party leader for so long of course theres the possibility hell be him against another 13 versus him against just one other or two other people. And all those other votes have coalesced somewhere else. Thats the big question, isnt it . Thats where he could really fall down, i think. Right. When voters have less of a choice of course it will narrow. And thats why were seeing all these different kind of lanes of the Republican Party. Other candidates, marco rubio and ted cruz, in tonights debate you really saw them go after each other because they represent different lanes of the Republican Party, an alternative torump. But there werent really any candidates who took trump on except for jeb bush. He who has been really low in the polls. He really went after donald trump tonight to make a dent. Do you think he had an impact . Because he was the one who walked in with a huge war chest when it comes to money. Do you think he still has a chance in this . I think he did the best debate and he was really the only candidate to take donald trump on head to head. But i still think he has a large hill to climb. Its the race you cant predict, isnt it . We can always explain it but when you get these big moments like trump talking about muslims, a lot of commentators think thats it. Our analysis says oh, that will hurt donald trump. D instead quite the opposite. I want to look ahead to saturdays debate witthe democrats. Abc news debate. Yes, the abc news debate. What can we expect . I think that really Hillary Clinton is going to want to look like the frontrunner nationally that she is and to position herself toward the general election. But of course there is still that primary beforehand. In New Hampshire, where our debate, is Bernie Sanders is leading there. And in iowa the first caucus state Hillary Clinton is leading but he is only behind by about 10 points or so. Does he have a route . Does he actually have a realistic and credible route, Bernie Sanders, to the democratic nomination . I think at this point its difficult to see him beatiti Hillary Clinton. But we cant ignore those polls, especially in New Hampshire, a lot to watch. Our thanks to shushannah walshe. Next up, the skinny. Our thanks to shushannah walshe. Next up, the skinny. Happy birthday music music thank you dear, very much music youre welcome music thank you you make me feel so young look whos coming. You make me feel so spring has sprung and every time i see your face im such a happy individual youre not fooling anybody, you know the moment that you speak tt0w ti h, 4 h h tt0w ti h, el bg tt0w ti h, ed de tt0w ti h, 8h ;< tt0w ti h, kzh9t tt0w ti h, nhl l tt0w ti h, 0phrzt tt0w ti h, tt0w ti h, uehajd tt0w ti h, 7hh]h0 skinny so skinny okay. Leading us off, a moment during a break in the Republican Debate last night. A campaign ad snuck its way lets have a look. Its a new day in america. Today more people will go to work, return home to their families and sleep more soundly than ever before. All because one man refuses to settle, putting people before politics. That man is frank underwood. Americaca im only getting started. Im frank underwood, and i approve this message. Fu2016 for frank underwood. That has to be deliberate, doesnt it . What is really interesting about that for me is it just shows you how easy it is to parody political adverts. Because until he turns up and says america, im only getting started, it looks like a campaign ad. It could be a campaign ad. If id said to you this is a Real Campaign ad, guess which candidate turns up at the end, you wouldnt have been able to guess. Looks like the rnc put that i think the rnc should hook up with house of cards. They do do it very well. Its interesting, isnt it, house of cards has only been around for four years. This is the website. Theres an actual website as well that you can go to. Look at his eyes moving back and forth. Hes watching you, richard. Thats quite neat. You can go down, you can scroll around. You have to be careful. There we are. There we are. Frank underwood speaks his mind well be interviewing thanks again, graphics department. If you go to end of the last season there is a plot spoiler there to look out for. Youre welcome. You know, richard, you used to call me on your cell phone. Just kidding. Youve never given me your number. I havent ever given you my number, huh . Hotline bling, very famous song by drake, went viral. We want to show what you happens when some actors recently nominated for the golden globes, they do their own dramatic here it is. Ever since i left the city. You got a reputation for yourself now. Girl. You got me down. You got me stressed out. Because ever since i left the city you start wearing less and going out more. Hanging with some girls ive never seen before. You used to call me on my cell phone. Late night when you needed my love. Call me on my cell phone. Late night when you need my love. That can only mean one thing. I know when that hotline bling. That can only mean one thing. You used to call me on my cell phone late night when you need my love. Call me on my cell phone late night when you need my love. I love it. Isnt that remarkable . I thought they did a great, great job. This could only be topped i think if maybe george the gang got together and did a rendition of this, abc news version. Its amazing how intimidating Bryan Cranston because he was doing a little bit of walter white in there. How intimidating h hcan be when hes simply reading a random note from drake. If we rolled some of the music from hotline bling, could you do drakes dance . Lets work on that. That needs rehearsal. I mean, sure, i agree with you. Its very popular. Rehearsal. Just finally, Howard Sternas renewed his contract as well with sirius xm i think more than the gross National Product of the united kingdom. Something like 18 fiveyear deal. Were talking about, yeah. He earned around 80 million annually. And its expected to rise to 90 million. He works three days a week. Also a 12year licensing deal to produce streaming content. What are we doing wrong, richard . I think more or less everything. Were basically vovonteers here day and much more than that. Im alex trebek. 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Did you know theres a cough liquid that lasts for twelve hours . Try delsym twelve hourough liquid. Its advanced formula releases powerful medicine that acts fast try delsym. Lets all get elfed lets all get elfed lets all get elfed theyre back. The holderness family with another pajamagram to the internet that went viral a couple years ago and it just cannot be stopped. Theyre all the rage at the moment. Ititurns out its more than just strange e utube families are getting in on the pajama act. The onesies. The hottest holiday fashion trend. And abcs becky worley tries it on. Reporter maybe it started with that pajama family. They are christmas jammies or maybe it was ralphie i ia christmas story. You look like a deranged easter bunny. Reporter but these onepieces for grownups are now a thing. Google says searches for adult onesies are trending higher than searches for ugly christmas the adult onesie, selling at most of the major retailers and on sale. These at macys marked down from 40 to 19. These at target 25. Also kohls and Abercrombie Fitch have them. Two retailers who offer those percentage off deals regularly. On Christmas Morning when you wake up all you want to do is basically not get out of bed but still be opening presents and i think a onesies the best way to be doing that. Whether you call them union suits blanket sleepers or footsie pajamas theyre not just celebrities like Khloe Kardashian are attempting to make a fashion statement out of social media sitesesike instagram. M. Put up a picicre of yourself with a cute onesie with a cute some of these styles are rrr. Reporter and this one even has builtin paws. Ridiculously comfortable and cozy. Maybe the reason these onesies are so popular is that they take us back to our childhood. And this time of year that can be a really good thing. Its kind of the grownup way of being in your pajamas all the titi. Reporter r ecky worley, abc news, new york. It could be worse. They could be footed onesies. Thats true. Ive never had a onesie. Really . Yeah. I think there should be anchor onesies for the anchor desk. Because it gets cold here sometimes. It gets cold here. Strange things happen in the studio. We should reassure everyone after last Nights Program where the fire alarm went off we had a few tweets expressing concern for us. Just so you know were very much alive. We made it through the night. We certainly y d. And it was a false alarm. They told us, my floor director says in 30 years hes been here they never had it go off like this during the live show. The things you bet during the middle of the night. Dont forget to check out our facebook site whilst youre with us. This is abcs world news two decades. Decades. Good morning. Im richard bacon. And im reena ninan. Here are some of the top headlines were following this morning on world news now. Fights over Foreign Policy were highlights of last nights Republican Debate in las vegas. Donald trump clashing with jeb bush. Marco rubio and ted crcr toe to toe. Well hear from the candidates straight ahead. Theres agreement in congress on a major spending bill, meaning no Government Shutdown at the end of the year. It lifts a 40yearold ban on exporting crude oil, which is a major victory for the republicans. The faa is investigating what caused a Southwest Airlines jet to go off the runway in nashville. Passengers say it started with a rough landing perhaps from a blown tire or damaged landing gear. And next week is shaping up to shatter Holiday Travel records. Nearly 1 in 3 americans, more than 100 million of us, are rails, and skies. The busiest travel day will be december the 23rd. Those are some of our top stories on this wednesday december the 16th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good mornini, everyone. We begin this half hour with the republican president ial candidates. We certainly do. And in their final debate of the year concentrated on the issues most americans are concerned about right now, National Security and terrorism. There was also plenty of criticism, as you would imagine, of president obama and Hillary Clinton. Frontrunner donald trump said that knew he was going to be attacked last t ght. Jeb bush d d exactly that. Am i talking or are you talking, jeb . Im talking right now. Im talking. You can go back. Youre not talking. You interrupted me, jeb. Are you going to apologize, jeb . No. Am i allowed to finish . One at a time. Ahead, mr. Trump. A little of your medicine there. Governor bush. Please. Its not working very well. One at a time. President obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that theyre searching for these mythical moderate rebels. Its like a purple unicorn. They never exist. And for the russians frankly its time that we punch the russians in the nose. Theyve gotten away with too much in this world. Id like to also go back to another question, which is is donald trump a serious candidate. Youre a tough guy, jeb. And we need to have a leader that is real tough. Youre never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency. Lets see. Im at 42 and youre at 3. So far im doing better. Doesnt matter. So far im doing better. Margaret thatcher once said if you want something talked about ask a man. If you want something done ask a woman. [ cheers and applause ] now, that was a good line. But donald trump is like a bear you just dont want to jeb bush was i think the only person that went for him. Ananyou could see the because hes quick and he is dominant. And hes forceful. Funny. I think whenever you if youre going to put someone down, its always more effective if its funny. Even the way he said youre im at 42, youre at 3. A, true. B, was his delivery was q qte amusing which made it that much more effective. Which is kind of hard for these republicans to break out of, that sort of authenticity. I think thats why a lot people really donald trump resonates for them. Because he knows how to get in that moment and make it real and authentic. I think in this many ways, this particular debate im looking forward to the democratic debate on abc on saturday. This debate is better seen through the highlights were showing you. Becaususi find this election the most the best show in the world, the most gripping with the best turns and the twists. But in some ways the debates can be im not talking about saturday. But they can be like a cup final where the buildup is better than the match is itself. I think tonights is like that. Stick around for the highlights. Were going to have much more as richard mentioned from the Republican Debate coming up in the next half hour. Secretararof state john kerry says the u. S. And russia can make a significant difference in syria. Kerry met with russian leaders in moscow yesterday, reaching an agreement on some issues but not the future of syrian president bashar al assad. They will participate in a u. N. Conference friday in new york. Defense secretary ash carter is asking turkey to do me in the fight against isis. An air base in turkey was his first stop on a tour of the middle east. In particular carter wants turkey to Better Police its border with syria to prevent isis from bringing in weapons and recruits. Schools in los angeles will be open again this morning following a oneday closure yesterday. Thats because of a Terror Threat. Keeping those schools closed meant 29 million in state funding lost. Here in new york city a similar threat was met with a very different response. The schools remained open. Abcs brian ross with that part of the story. For new york police was that the alleged threat involving the secret jihadist terror cell, nerve gas agents, highpowered weapons, and mass casualties seemed remarkably similar to the plotline of the tv program homeland. The instigator of the threat may be a homeland fan, basically watching homeland episodes that it mirrors a lot of recent episodes on homeland. Reporter police said the message sent to new york read in part Something Big is going down. Not only are there bombs but there are nerve gas agents set to go off at a specific time, during lunch hour. New york officials said they knew immediately it was a hoax and a bad one. It was so generic, so outlandish, and posed to numerous School Systems simultaneously. Reporter the message continued with a glaring typo, me and my 138 comrades will die tomorrow in the name of allah, with a lower case a, at least in that would be incredible to think that any jihadist wowod not spell allah wiwi a capital a. Reporter los angeles got a similar message, with the sender saying he would personally lead the attacks. One person cant lead an attack in both cities. So they realized right then and there that it didnt have credibility. Cut and paste job . Definitely. Reporter while new york police call the hoax threats almost comically inept, theres really nothing funny about them. The fbi cyber teams ararnow working to track down the personon who sent them, apparently from an internet address in frankfurt, germany. Under federal law anyone convicted of sending a hoax alert could face up to ten years in prison. Brian ross, abc news, new york. Brian, thank you very much. We have some breaking news out of arizona. A search and rescue mission is under way after the crash of a medical helicopter. The chopper went d dn in the supepetition mountains abobo 20 miles east of apache junction. Investigators say the crash site is located in very rugged terrain. Theres no word on the conditions of the three people on boards or the cause of the jury in the first freddie gray case. The jurors will continue deliberating even though they say they are deadlocked on the charges against Police Officer william porter. Gray died last spring after suffering neck and spinal cord injuries in a police van. Porter is one of six officers charged in grays death. A massachusetts teenager has been convicted of rape and murder of his High School Math teacher. Phillip chisholm was just 14 when he attacked the teacher in the school restroom. His attorneys never denied he committed the crime but blamed severe mental illness. He faces a long prison sentence. Debris spilled from a cargo ship off san f fncisco cou pose a danger to marine wildlife. Meanwhile, the cleanup of the shipping containers and packing containers continues. A dozen containers fell off a ship in the storm this weekend. Some are still floating offshore waiting to make landfall. Theres a state of emergency lead levels in the citys water system. It affects the citys children in particular because lead can cause mental retardation. Began taking its water from flint river. Relief. A preseason snowstorm nearly paralyzed americas milehigh flights in denver were delayed and highways were shut down and schools were closed by a snowstorm that dumped nearlrla mountain snow totals were in the the winter write conditions continue again today in the west. Heres accuweathers paul williams. Hey, paul, good morning. Thanks, richard, reena. We have cold air expected to take over the southwest part of the country. Making it a little bit chilly in l. A. As well as vegas and phoenix, but then along the east coast totally different story. Here comes a low slung through with a jet stream guiding it through and its going to translate into widespread scattered showers as we go into thursday. Wednesday is c,ear, thursday is play. Much colder air dropping temps below the norm for this time. Year. Reena, richard. Okay, paul, thanks so much. Across the pond the lady who transformed he britain with her free market policies has managed to raise millions after her oh, yeah, her. Were talking about former british Prime Minister margaret thatcher. Speech, books, and even outfits belonging to the iron lady were turned into auction gold. Soaring above their estimated prices at christies in london. Theres even a signed copy of the speechhe made on becoming britains first Prime Minister in 19, first female prim minister. Sold for 56,000. And her blue velvet wedding dress. That fetched 38,000. I would love to have something from margaret thatcher. Where there is discord that will bring harmony. That is a quote from her first speech as Prime Minister. This is what its like when youre a political anarak. You can remember speeches that were made when you were 4 years coming up well return to our political coverage and how Hillary Clinton is preparing for saturdays debate. And also developments for people trying to sign up for Health Insurance through the obamacare website. New hangups at a critical deadline. And later the star wars movie makers and all the Creative Energy that went into the wildly anticipated film. The insiders look at the force awakens. Youre watching world news now. Luke, i am still your father. So how ya doing . Enough pressure in here for ya . Ugh. My sinuses are killing me. Yeah. Just wait til we hit ten thousand feet. Im gonna take Mucinex Sinusmax. Too late, were about to take off. These dissolve fast. Theyre new liquid gels. And youre coming with me. Wait, what . you realize i have gold status . Do i still get the miles . New Mucinex Sinusmax liquid gels. Dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Im alex trebek. 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Reports say a judge in monaco has awarded her exhusband full custody of their two children. And the gossip girl actress can only visit them in monaco and in france. She cannot bring them to the u. S. There was a gripping article, to use that word again, about this case in vanity fair a couple months ago. But rutherford is appealing the decision. If you havent yet filed for obamacare, you have a little more time. The government says there was Unprecedented Demand yesterday on the healthcare. Gov website. The deadline nowowhe end of the day this thursday. The penalty for not being insured jumps to nearly 700 next year. Returning to politics and the Democratic Candidates getting ready for their debate saturday night here, right here on abc. Hillary clinton has been staking out her position on terrorism. As your voice, your vote. And abcs tom llamas covering minds of voters Hillary Clinton out to prove shell take on isis and protect the homeland. It is not enough to contain isis. We must defeat isis, break its momentum and then its back. Reporter the former secretary of state is pledging to target isiss efforts to recruit online but also slamming republicans fofofearmongering. Bluster and bigotry are not credentials for becoming commander in chief. Reporter clintoneads into saturdays New Hampshire debate dominating national polls, but its senator Bernie Sanders whos the one ahead in the granite state. And now sanders whose loyal massive rallies is talking more and more about isis. Our goal is to put together a coalition to destroy isis and in a neverending war in that part of the world. Reporter and next month sanders will have another clinton to worry about. Biel weve learned that Chelsea Clinton will be playing a bigger role in the campaign, headlining two fundraisers and then off to the new prprary states. Tom llamas, abc news, new york. Great. I like toms reports. Its going to be a really good debates, i think, here on abc on saturday night. And its a Bernie Sanders partly because Bernie Sanders is so charismatic and entertaining. But theres also that question of can he thread a route through to the nomination for the democrats . Its very, very difficult for him. So he needs he just needs to do something here. And hes expected to challenge hillary on Foreign Policy. One of the things is hillarys vote to authorize the iraq war back over ten years ago and these expected to hit her hard on that. And hes got a lot to say about the Climate Change deal as well. We will. Meatball on white next you want mustard on that or not come on, come on. I havent got all day here it doesnt come with peppers theyre extra hurry up. Pay the lady next the chickens fresh. I killed it myself. So thats what you want . Next while were still young you know you told me you wanted mustard. Get outta here times up back of the line hey. Excuse me. What great sandwich. Thanks. You didnt have to be so nice get outta here. Its star wars music. Its the cantina music from star wars. Maybe youve heard about the new one. We just saw it. Its pretty amazing, isnt it . What reenas really saying there is she fell asleep. Fell asleep. Its the night shift folks. They turn the lights off. Youre sitting down. I doze off for a little bit. Its not because of the movie. It was fantastic. Here e two people who wouldnt be happy to hear about were up all night with abcs Chris Connelly. Reporter monday night in hollywood. The World Premiere of star wars the force awakens. Give it everything youve got. Reporter its action and humor. Its new characters and light sabers. It ends up being a story of adventure and loyalty and shock and surprise andndses this amazing and precious thing called the for that tells us that were all somehow connected. Camera, action. Reporter so much of it the work of producer Kathleen Kennedy and director cowriter j. J. Abrams. All of this inspired by star wars creator george lucas. There isnt a day that goes by or went by as we were making the movie where we dont talk about george. Its the standard, whawould george do . The thing that is most remarkable is that george got everything right. Reporter a veteran of alias, lost, Mission Impossible 3, and the star fire everything reporter the now 49yearold abrams was brought on to the Star Wars Franchise by kennedy. A for decades a top producer on Steven Spielbergs acclaimed films. I did pose this provocative idea who is Luke Skywalker, that that would be something that was said by one of our characters. Why was who is Luke Skywalker such a fascinating question . I guess because it spoke to a new generation. It was that idea there would be young people for whom Luke Skywalker was essentially a myth. Reporter in crafting and casting the force awakens, set 30 years after return of the jedi, abrams wanted its characters young. Even bad guys like kylo ren. I will finish what youve started. Were like, mike drop. Reporter john boyega was finn. Are we really doing this . While daisy ridley was the bb8, hold on when she came i iand read you juststnow. And literally i had to not giggle from behind the camera because i was amazed at what she was doing. Abrams hoping this film will have the same emotional punch as the 1977 one had on him as a child. The thing i felt when i was a kid when i left the theater was the world was huge and to have people, especially kids go to see the movie and see themselves in it and feel l le im capable of something extraordinary, that would be the greatest gift of all. Reporter for nightline were home. Reporter im Chris Connelly in los angeles. Its excellent, basically. We dont want to ruin anything. But it takes itself seriously in a good way. There are some good oneliners in there, but it takes the emotional element seriously. And i hope this doesnt give as the old one did the emotional trigger was built around a fatherson relationship. 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We all want to get the best gifts for our loved ones but budgeting for it can be quite difficult. But there are s se ways to get t boost to pay for allllhe prprents. Abc Mara Schiavocampo shows us how. For the mulders the gift of giving can come with a hefty price tag. But it turns out there may be hidden holiday cash right in their house. First of all, groupen says did you know theres money in old toys . Clothes too. Things that sell really well with timeless toys like thomas the train, mr. Potato head and my little ponies. Reporter using the website boxes with toys in Good Condition and clothes that are in season. The company pays for shipping, and once the boxes arrive at their warehouse theyll be put up for sale on the website. On average sellers earn about 150 per box. And bonus points. Save the boxes your toys come in. Those can be worth cash too. An American Girl doll box can fetch as much as 30 on ebay. Next up, old electronics. Even broken ones. Check out websites like kiiboo. Com. Just box up your items and send them to their California Office ere they will inspect, price, and popo your electronics. Two smartphones and an airport express expected to fetch christie about 100. And finally, even old books can using the amazon seller app christie scans the books bar codes to find out how much eyre worth. Then she sets the price before sending them off to amazon, who will sell them. This book is worth 74. 50. Reporter brivging in a whopping 196. In total the mulders found 656. How is that going to impact christmas . Its going to help out a lot. Reporter Mara Schiavocampo, abc news, new york. Do you know how many toys i have that the kids arent using . Thats great. They pay for shipping, box it up, take care of selling. Kids go off toys after about three days. And youre done. Dont forget to follow us. Were on twitter. Were on facebook. Posting behindthescenes photos. I have an instagram i set up just for this show. Its richardp, letter p, bacon. Its largely pictures we never leave this room. So youre seeing pictures of this room which youve already seen. But if youd like to see more of it go o instagram. Hats it for world d ws now this half hour. Well see you soon this morning on world news now, las vegas showdown. The republicans debate about terrorism, Foreign Policy, and Donald Trumps plan to ban muslims from the protests to the surprises. We have extensive coverage live from las vegas. Threatening schools. Similar emails, threats sent to the biggest districts in the country. Why some schools were shut down and others stayed open. Ravel trends. The surprises in the air and on the roads for americans vacationing g er christmas and new years. What makes this month different from the last. And later, richard and i both just saw star wars the force awakens. Were sharing our views after getting a sneak peek just hours ago. Its wednesday december 16th. Announcer from abc news this is world news now. Good morning on this busy wednesday. Im reena ninan. Good morning to you. Im richard bacon. Lets just say that one of us didnt see all of star wars tonight. Theres a reason. A great reason. Details to come. Youre looking for a plot twist, weve got one. Lets get started with last nights republican president ial faceoff. Nine candidates took the stage in las vegas. Their answers andndttacks on each other reflecting the nations concernrnabout terrorism and security. We begin with abcs brandi hitl whos in las vegas this morning. Brandi, good morning. Good morning. Good morning, richard and reena. Its hard saying both of your names together back to back now that youre on set together. What a night here in las vegas. They talked about terrorism, protecting the homeland and battling isis. Really Critical Issues that dominated last nights republicic debate. And as you mentioned, man, was it entertaining because several of these candidates didnt pull any punches. Donald is great at the and hed be a chaos president. Reporter in their fifth faceoff, it was a babale over National Security with Donald Trumps plan to ban n ont and center. Religion. Were talking about security. Our country is out of control. If were going to ban all muslims, how are we going to get to destroy isis . Attack on several fronts, whether surveillance and Data Collection needs to be ramped up to track terrorists. That tool we lost, the meta data program, was a valuable hall to we no longer have at our disposal. What marco says isnt true. He get it wrong. Hes one of the weakest candidates on immigration. Reporter an argument that clearly got under governor Chris Christies skin. I want to talk to the audience at home. Your eyes are glazing over like mine, this is what its like to be on the floor of the United States senate. A protester interrupted trump and was taken out. Frontrunner and bush from going at it on stage. If you think this is tough youre not being treated fairly, imagine what its going to be like dealing with president xi or the islamic terrorism that exists oh, i know. Youre a tough guy, jeb. I know. [ laughter ] this isnt tough. I wish it was always as easy we have to have a leader real tough. Youre real touch youre never going to win your way to the president by insulting your way o far im at 42 and d ure at 3. Doesnt matter. Reporter that was just a small snippet of the back and forth between trump and bush all night long. This is the last debate for the republicans in 2015. Next up the democrats will be facing off in New Hampshire saturday. And that debate is hosted by abc news. Reena and richard. I think its like any night out in vegas. Two or three bits that stand out. Several moments. By the next day youve completely forgotten. Well said. Trump spoke in the spin room, didnt he, afterwawas. What did he have to say . Reporter oh different, richard. In true trump fashion, when asked performance of any debate so far. And a lot of analysts agree, they thought he was stro. When it came to the back and forth with bush he said you know what, jeb had to attack me, hes lowest in he polls and i expected it. He said even if the roles were reversed, he would have done the exact same thing. Interesting fireworks. Abcs brandi hitt live in las vegas. Brandi, big thanks to you. Lets turn next to insight from our deputy Political Editor who im pleased to say joins us here in the studio. Schuh shushanna walsh is hehe. He really came out swinging and needed to. Really hes the only candidate that went head to head with donald trump and it was throughout the debate. Lets listen. So donald is great at the one liners, but hes a chaos candidate. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. Jeb does not believe im unhinged. He said that because hes failed in that th campaign, its been a total disaster, nobody cares, and frankly im the most solid person up here. Bush did pretty well. He made an impact. Ted cruz and marco rubio. These candidates really represent two different lanes of the Republican Party, and many people say that they could be the two on top at the end. Lets listen to this clip. You cant carpet bomb isis if you dont have planes and bombs to attack them with. And if we continue the cuts were doing now not to mention additional cuts, were going to be left with the oldest and Smallest Air Force this country have and that leaves us less safe. One of the problems with marcos Foreign Policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and barack obama, undermining governments in the middle east that have helped radical islamic terrorists. Really as i id, they represent two different parts of the Republican Party, and they really not just at last nights debate but throughout this primary process and recent threes ramped up. Both candidates trying to stay away from donald trump but going after each other. This is going to continue and it is going to one to watch. It seemed like it was very deliberate. I want to ask you trump made a pledge not to run as an independent like he did in september. Does this really matatr . Weve heard this before again. In september he signed a pledge saying he wouldnt run as a thirdparty candidate, but recently hes been sounding he could run as a third party again. He kept saying if the party doesnt treat him fairly. But tonight last night, excuse me, he ruled it out again and said the party is trtrting him fairly and he will not run as a third party candidate. I think a lot of establishment of relief this morning. Polls. The rounds on twitter about a what do you know about that . It really exploded on twitter. Who was coughing throughout this debaba . It turns out it was ben carson. The doctor of the bunch. And his Campaign Says that all of them got came down with this with a cough. Not really a cold but they were all under the weather with a ugh. So mystery sold. Heal thyself, physician. You know, our viewers said honey, lemon and tea. And thats the campaign trail can be hard on your system for sure. Lots of germs floating around there. Abcs s ushannah walshe. Well get more reaction from shush and take you to las vegas again in our next half hour. On the democratic side, frontrunner Hillary Clinton is providing new details on her plan to battle isis. Speaking to an audience in minneapolis clinton said the u. S. Needs a 360degree strategy to prevetic terrorism. She positioned herself as the more serious and experienced promising to carpet bomb until the desert glows doesnt make you sound strong. It makes sound like youre in over your head. [ cheers and applause ] clinton also emphasized the importance of working with muslimamerican communities. Not a surprise considering the large Muslim Community in minneapolisst. Paul. Be sure to watch the democratic debate this saturday night. As we mentioned eaier, its on abc. Its hosted by david muir and Martha Raddatz and coverage begins at 8 00 eastern, 7 00 central. Threats in two School Districts were dealt with two very different way. Students will be back in class today in l. A. Following a Terror Threat that shut down the entire district. That threat was emailed to a School Board Member promising an attack with guns and b bbs. Administrators admitted that fears following the San Bernardino attack influenced the 37 schools in new york were open despite the School Superintendent receiving almost the exact same email that was sent to l. A. The email was declared a hoax. New yorks Police Commissioner said the type of threat it contains were similar to recent episodod of the showtime drara homeland. All eyes on the Federal Reserve today which wraps up its last meeting of the year. The central bank is expected to raise shortterm interest rates, the first increase in nearly a decade. Its not expected to have much impact on consumer loans. Britains First Official astronaut is now on board the International Space station. Tim peak and two others, an american and a russian, arrived yesterday,y,ringing the space station crew to 6. Other brits have gone into space as tourist or u. S. Citizens. Soyuz craft approached the the Automated System failed and the russian pilot had to dock manually. I just hope theyre eating a lot of space ice cream. I was watching apollo 13. You remember that . I love that movie. Theres a scene about something that goes wrong and not the big thing goes wrong. And tom hanksaid, every mission has a glitch. Thats that one glitch. 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Rough landings and cell phone emergencies arent expected to keep americans away. Next week is expected to the sky and on the ground. Rebecca jarvis explains. Reporter nearly one in three americans, thats more than 100 million of us, expected to hit the roads this Holiday Season and when we do gas prices should be below 2 a gallon for most of the country. The National Average for a gallon of gas expected to hit 1. 98 by christmas, and that is the lowest level since 2008. Also a gift for the flyers out there. 87 of planes are coming in on time. And thats the third best rate in more than 20 years. Rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. What would you guess is the busiest day to travel, to fly . Of the whole year . No, during next week. Okay. I think its probably this friday because its like a buffer before christmas. Yeah, friday. Long story short. Wait, isnt friday christmas . Oh, you mean this week. No, its the 23rd. So the day before Christmas Eve everybody books their tickets, ive done a lot of traveling on Christmas Eve itself and it turns out the roads are quieter than youd expect. Well, when youre driving on the road, everybody clears the roads. Especially when you havent slept much. Has someone created that graphic in that last 35 seconds . That was a real road trip we took. My mistake. Coming up in the next halfhour, the campaign ads at the Republican Debate that freaked everyone out. And the branding of the ad that is sure to gather up votes. But first our take on the force awakens. We actually got a sneak peek last night, and richard has a lot to say, including who Luke Skywalkers real father is. Were going to break an bargo next. Skywalkers real fatherris. Were going to break an embargo next. World news now continues after this from our abc stations. I cant believe we broke old man hennesys window this is really bad. What are we going to do . Dude, kiss your life goodbye. Lets go. Oh. Keep smiling, keep shining knowing you can always count on me, for sure hi knowing you can always count on me, for sure tell him it was an accident and we can fix the window. Knowing you can always count on me, for sure ill come with you. Return of the jedi there. Celebrating the defeat of the empire after the battle of ender. Thats the last scene. Thats where the story left off in 1983. And can you believe over 30 years later weve picked up with the force awakens. Richard and i i d the pleasure of being able to see it. And what a ride. That ending, oh, my goodness. Let me tell everyone what actually happened. The big [ bleep. We share a Parent Company we do. Disney do. If you break the embargo and give away a plot spoiler. You are a traitor and part of a rebel alliance. I thought that was quite good. It was actually sensational. And its quite difficult its quite hard to knkn what constitutes a breach of the embargo because people were tweeting aboutt last night. I guess you can say its good. Quite a few people say it has twists, which you could argue is a plot spoiler. Ill tell you this. Some storm troopers die. There you go. You just ruined it for all of us. I have to say it was remarkable. I was really riveted. I found it incredibly compelling. And i think it does honestly, Parent Company aside, it really does live up to the hype. You dont know what youre making stuff up. Hang on. What . You had your own plot twist. You fell asleep. Richard, do you know the i have two Young Children at home. I sleep about three hours a day. Somebody turning the lights off and gives me a comfy little chair. There were a few moments that i accidentally did doze off. It was not a reflection of the movie. Its a reflection of my current lifestyle. But i have to say its really remarkable. These two are amazing. They were a fantastic choice for this film. There is a fantastic and i talked to you about it. How did that happen . Did i really sathat . I think not only did you slslp, you slept through the crucial bit. Bubuheres the thing i w wld say. Its a reaeay good story. It actually is a good story. And they used dialogue sparingly. I rewatched the fan ton menace the other day, and there a lot of what i would call waffle, and here is just super smart, pinsharp dialogue that serves the story. And its got several little funny bits, but crucially it takes the story seriously. And i watched and i thought you have to do that to buy into that. And i have to say the last scene of the movie was remarkable. And i just said j. J. Abrams, how whens the next one coming out . Because i cant wait. The way they left it i just cant wait for the next e. And instead of getting a dog were going to get a bb8. Forgot the dog. New droid, isnt it . Yeah. Its really exciting. The theater bursting into applause i would say eight, nine, ten different points. And also Harrison Ford really nailing that part again. The way he just slips back into han solo. Its good. For the first few seconds i wasnt sure, is he rusty, and then he totally nails it. Thats our message. I found it thrilling and reena fell asleep. Just for a few minutes. Just a few minutes. Coming up, which u. S. State googles matching height xxl over any ototr phrase, any other r phrase on google. The mix up next. Height xxl over any other phrase, any other the mix up next. You are my whole life your two blue eyes are shining dolce and gabbana. Light blue weve been changing things up with ky love. Oh yeah. Its a pleasure gel that magnifies both our sensations. It gives us chills in places weve never gotten chills before. Yeah, it makes us feel like. Welcome back to the mix. This is the section where we tell you about the viral stories of the day. The first one is excellent. This is about the states in america and the phrases over the last year that they have googled the most. So its really interesting. Lets start with florida. So the most googled phrase in florida, concealed weapons. More than anything else, they are the three words put into google. Lets try wisconsin next. Googled no, is it West Virginia . West virginia. West virginia. And their most googled word is magic mike. I never would have guessed really . From florida, reena. Thats not a huge amount of information on either state. But based on those two things, id rather live in West Virginia. You know, it is the second amendment. Yeah. Yeah. Legal means. Thats true. In mississippi the most googled words were ashley madison. Which you know is that website that revealed people having the affair. Is it because theyre checking to see their names are on the list or theyre just curious what the site is . Thats a great question. You dont know. Are they doing it out of interest because it was a good story, or are they panicking . Reena, what have you got . School lunch is really hard to make. One dad goes the extra length to show his kids he cares about them by doing star wars. Do you see that . Yeah. Thats bb8. Thats bb8. And thats a storm trooper. Its a storm trooper. Youre absolutely right. Theres another storm trooper. And he said it makes about 30 minutes to make these lunches. And he goes have some sort of the cucumber are not the x the bad guy fighters theyre the other ones that darth vader has. Thats sensational. Sensational . Okay. So he picks a character im sorry, reenas nodded off again. And chewy. There you go. So he picks a character and a theme and goes with that for the week. And he says it only takes him 30 minutes. But i actually love to make these for my son because its hard to get them to eat anything and this is an interesting way to spice up their lunches. Yeah. Hes certainly a better father than me. I tend to wake up and say oh, my god, is it a school day . And lets have another look. Finally, this is a dog which found its viral. Its very popular. What is that . Its a dog that appears to have been converted into a toolbox. Is that cute . Is that exploitation, reena . No, its probably not. They claim hes weighted on both sides equally so its not heavy. That dog is taking work away from very hardworking toolcarrying americans. Folks, dont do this to your and reena fell asleep. Thats news in america this morning. Reena fell asleep. Making news in america this morning, heated debate. The gop candidates with a fiercely combative tone. Donald trump, jeb bush squaring off. Hes a chaos candidate, and hed be a chaos president. Lets see. Im at 42, and youre at 3. Complete analysis and a live report. The most talked about moments and who the experts say came out on top. Runway scare. A plane rolling off course right into a ditch. The passengers forced to evacuate and talking about the ordeal this morning. Caught on camera, he really got the scoop. A reporter putting down the microphone and calling 911 after spotting a bank robbery suspect. Right. And no spoilers, but the reviews from critics are just in for star wars the force five stars or a big bust. Hey, everyone, good wednesday morning. Im reena ninan. Im richard bacon, and we begin this morning with the aftermath from last nights president ial candidates debate. The nine top candidates there on the stage in las vegas. Most of the action was right there at center stage involving donald trump, senator ted cruz and jeb bush. Bush and trump squaring off several times but shaking hands after the debateas finished. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details live from washington. Stephanie, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, richard and reena. Well, this final debate of the year focused on National Security and terrorism, and the verbal punches came out swinging almost immediately. Postgop president ial debate, donald trump sympathizing with his competition. I like jeb. I think jeb is a nice man. I really do, but, you know, i think id do the same thing if i were him, id be attacking me. Reporter on stage the gloves youre a tough guy, jeb. We need to have a leader that is youre tough. Youre never going to be presiden of the United States by insulting your way youre real tough. Reporter jeb bush and donald trump wasting no time to spar over Foreign Policy. He gets his Foreign Policy experience from the shows. Come on. That is not a serious kind of candidate. I know youre trying to build up your energy, jeb, but its not working very well. One at a time. Reporter in their fifth debate faceoff, almost every question focusing on National Security for the nine leading candidates with trumps proposal to ban muslims from enteng the u. S. At the forefront. Were not talking about religion. Were talking about security. Our country is out of control. Reporter marco rubio and ted cruz also clashing, first over the nsas bulk surveillance program, then immigration. Rubio suggesting the two of them have similar positions on the issue. For marco to suggest our record is the same is like suggesting the fireman and the arsonist have the same record because theyre both at the scene of the fire. I personally am open to green cart. We will build a wall that works, and ill get donald trump to pay for it. [ laughter and applause ] ill build it. Reporter trump and cruz neck and neck in the polls but staying friendly throughout the debate, and governor Chris Christie boasting about his executive experience while jabbing at the senators. If your eyes are glazed over li mine, this is what its like to be on the floor of the United States senate. Reporter Chris Christie hammering the senators there on stage, but they actually got more air time than he did. Ted cruz, he spoke the most, more than 17 minutes, followed by trump and rubio. Richard and reena, bk to you. Trumps comment to bush, im at 42 , youre at 3 , thats got to hurt, right . Thats got to hurt. What did trump say about running as an independent, stephanie reporter well, this is a pledge that weve heard before, right, but last night trump said once again he will not run as a independent. He added hes committed to the Republican Party and is honored to be the frontrunner. Okay, well see what happens. Stephanie ramos live in washington. Report. Thank you so much. In the spin room after the debate, donald trump characteristically called last night his best debate performance in the history of the world. No, he said, so far. One candidate who had a hard time breaking through was one time frontrunner dr. Ben carson. Analysts say that he seemed to be a victim of circumstance in the race. I think that probably the thing that came out of this was the continual slide of ben carson, who led at one point in time, and then afterward the tragic events in france when people started focusing more on these issues related to security, he started falling. I think during the course of this debate that fall continues and my expectation is ben carson will be in seventh or eighth place by the next couple of weeks. But donald trump out of this debate is still the dominant player in the gop. Dowd also saying there were two winners in the debate, marco rubio and Chris Christie. Donald trump dominated the can imagine, during the debate. Yeah, believe it or not, he was the most searched candidate according to google trends, and he also gained the most twitter followers during the debate, and the top tweeted moment came when trump called jeb bush a tough guy. That was fun to watch. It was. Later often i think that debate is better watched through highlights, as well. I think you saw the best moments there. So later in the pulse, the comment that had Chris Christie trending all night, plus Live Team Coverage later on good morning america. And be sure to watch the democratic debate this saturday night hosted by abcs david muir, Martha Raddatz. Coverage begins at 8 00 eastern. Itll be great. Ahead of that debate frontrunner Hillary Clinton is providing new details about her plan to battle isis. Speaking to an audience in minneapolis, clinton said the u. S. Needs a 360degree strategy to prevent domestic terrorism. She positioned herself as the more serious and experienced it is not enough to contain isis, we must defeat isis, break its momentum and then its back. What they are saying democratic rival Bernie Sanders says he intends to question clinton about Foreign Policy during the debate including her votes in favor of the iraq war when she was a u. S. Senator from new york. About 650,000 students in los angeles will be back in class today after an unscheduled day off. Thats because of a Terror Threat. That threat was emailed to a School Board Member promising an attack with guns and bombs. Administrators admitted that following fears from the San Bernardino attack influenced the decision to close the schools. Schools in new york were open yesterday despite the School Superintendent receiving almost the same exact email that was sent to l. A. The email was declared a hoax. New yorks Police Commissioner said the type of threat it contained was similar to recent episodes of the showtime drama homeland. And breaking overnight, a launched in arizona after the crash of a medical helicopter. The chopper went down in the superstition mountains about 60 miles east of phoenix. Officials say that the crash site is located in very rugged terrain. Theres no word on the condition of the three people on board or the cause of the crash. Severe weather in denver, a snowstorm dumping nearly a foot of snow over some areas also forced flight delays and caellations. The shutdown and it shut down highways, as well. Just over 6 1 2 inches of snow was officially recorded at Denver International airport. Mounting snow totals were in the one to twofoot range. The latest weather radar shows that samstorm system moving eastward bringing snow to the plains and upper midwest. The heaviest hit areas are likely to be from the northeast colorado into west Central Minnesota dumping at least 6 to 12 inches of snow through the night. And on the back side of that storm, winds could gust as high dakota, nebraska and iowa. Still ahead, star wars the force awakens, we have seen it ovnight. She fell asleep. No, the First Official reviews from the critics. Yeah, they are. Theyre out. And new this morning, a plane slides off the runway injuring passengers. Details just in. Plus, caught on camera. A wall collapses crashing onto a sidewalk trapping people walking by. She sees the world a little differently. And, by some miracle. She actually said yes. To me. Tell her everything you love about her with charmed memories. At kay. The number one Jewelry Store in america. And she will be the best mom. Ever. Every kiss begins with kay. 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Passage is expected by the end of the week, but the Government Spending authority runs out tonight, so theyll try to pass another stopgap bill right away. And if you havent yet filed for obamacare, you have a little more time. The government says there was, quote, unprecedented deman yesterday, Unprecedented Demand on the heathcare. Gov website and the deadline is now the end of the day thursday. The penalty for not being insured jumps to nearly 700 next year. All eyes are on the Federal Reserve today, which wraps up its last meeting of the year. The central bank is expected to raise shortterm interest rates, the first increase in nearly a decade. Its unlikely, though, to have much impact on consumer loans. Its not beginning to look a lot like christmas in th eastern half of the country. Businesses. Chief among them clothing and retailers, manufacturers, they stocked up on winter gear, and were still wearing our fall clothing. Some retailers planning big discounts, but even that might not help some of the shakier stores. When we come back, state of emergency concerns in an american town because of the amount of lead in its water. And a reporter turns crime fighter on live tv spotting a what. The holidays bring many challenges to the feet. By day they must stay warm. But by night, beautiful, smoother and ready to impress the other party animals. Dr. Scholls dreamwalk express pedi. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. With asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve brthing for a full 24 hours. 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Now for a look at morning road condition, roads will be wet in the Pacific Northwest and across the southeast and up into the ohio valley. L make things slippery across the Northern Rockies an upper midwest into the great lakes area. If youre flying airport delays possible in minneapolis and new orleans. Well, new overnight a very tense end to a flight in nashville. Yeah, take a look at the incredible images. A Southwest Airlines jet running off the runway ending up in a ditch. The plane resting in the dirt. Emergency slides deployed and passengers described the moments of panic. Runway and all of a sudden it felt like it hit a pothole or a speed bump, and i was like, well, thats kind of rough and then all of a sudden you realize youre going down into something. You dont know what. The fun part is at least i got down to slide down the little slide. Were all pretty safe so fortunate for that. A little holiday surprise, if you will. I guess thats my Christmas Gift from southwest is sliding down the slide. I enjoy his understated talk. The plane from houston javy was completely full. Eight passengers were taken to the hospital and later released. There is an emergency in flint, manager. The lead levels are too high. It affects the citys children in particular because lead can cause mental retardation. It began after the city began taking its water from the flint river. The mayor wants federal disaster relief. Well, north of bostofive people including a mother and her baby were suddenly trapped under a temporary construction wall. Gust of wind happened on a sidewalk in the city of malden. Dozens of people rushed to their aid. The baby was in a stroller at the time which may have just saved his life. Luckily the victims suffered only minor injuries. A suspected bank robber in rochester, this is a remarkable story, in minnesota, who returns to the scene of the crime, first mistake, was probably not expecting live tv cameras. It happened yesterday as a local reporter just started his live shot right outside the bank when he was interrupted by a bank employee. Tyler just 24 hours ago this bank in that guy right there. What . Thats the robber. Oh, thats the robber. This is live tv, folks. Thats the robber just went by according to the bank employee, so i got to go here and call 911. Ill talk to you later. Bank robbers have said it before and ill say it again, youve got to check your local i thought the guy running was the robber, but what robber shows up in a tie . That is adam sadler and called 911 and the 36yearold suspect was obviously arrested. Oh, my god. How do you anyway, how about we talk about sport, huh . Yeah, well talk to our friends at espn. Yeah, well start with a surprise from college basketball. Bo ryan has stepped down as coach at the university of wisconsin effective immediately. Ryan coached the badgers for 14 full seasons and led them to the ncaa tournament of the year during his tenure. The surprise was the timing. Ryan had said he would coach one more season then retire. As for last nights sports highlights we go to those guys, the great guys, our favorites at espn. Good morning. Welcome to our sportscenter set here in los angeles. Along with neil everett, im stan verrett. The warrior stak is over but Patrick Kanes streak still going as of tuesday night. It was, it was. Would it end or would it patrick kane looking to extend his point streak to 27. Hes got the american born record. Hes got the blackhawk record. The record is 51 by a guy named gretzky. Kane going against colorado. Colorado was up to the task, man. They had some dudes who had some speed, and all good things must come to an end and so does kanes streak and for the avalanche, they win the game, 30. Cavaliers and celtics, you remember they play ded in the playoffs last year. Another cool thing off the court. Special olympics athlete before tipoff and once the game started, james. And then he gave his shoes to the kid afterwards. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And those shoes helped help do that. All right, you remember kevin love and kelly olynyk made that play that hurt love and took him out for the rest of the playoffs last year. 5 assists, spend ging a lot of time guarding him and look at james. Jerebko cant do much. James did plenty, 24 points and 7 rebounds. Yeah, warriors are playing wednesday. Yep. Back to you. Thank you, guys, at espn. You like them. A lot. Up next in the pulse,last nights big debate. Why Chris Christie was trending all night and the persistent cough coming from a candidate who wasnt. And we have seen it and so have the critics. The first reviews, the embargo ended one hour ago, the first reviews are in for the star wars the force awakens. Stay with us. 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The only problem is the king of jordan, king hussein died in 1999. Abdullah ii is jordans current living king, ouch. Plenty of commenting online about which candidate was coughing. During the debate, ben carsons Campaign Says hes been struggling to get over a cold, and all the coughing was from him. He himself is a physician. This picture from afterwards. Wayne newton hanging out with donald trump. Remember the debate was in las vegas, of course. And the official u. S. Opening for star wars the force awakens is this friday but the reviews already out. They are. The embargo ended an hour ago, weve seen it ourselves last night. The New York Times says it delivers the thrills with a touch of humanity and the big news is that the movie is good. The film opens today in britain and the times of london and britais Daily Telegraph both gave it five stars. But its not all good reviews actually. The Los Angeles Times says the force awakens is, quote, only at its best in fits and and the Chicago Tribune says it is good but not great. Still it says thats much better than not bad. Star wars like abc is part of disney. I think it does deliver. I think it does, but its the last scene that got me and then i thought, oh, why did j. J. Abrams do that to us. When is the next one oh, why did i fall asleep during the film, which you did. Just for a second. I was a little tired. This early shift can be tough on a gal. And missed the dramatic twist because you were looking at the back of your eyelids. But you know what it does really well, although there are funny lines in it, it takes the story seriously, which i think you have to do for a film like that to really work. It was a compelling story. Yeah, it was. And i think that they play again on the father son relationship. There are lots of nods to the old films but also they press the same emotional buttons and they do it well. 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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has arrived in baghdad where hell meet with u. S. Troops and top iraqi leaders. Hes also speak with u. S. Military commanders about ways to step up the battle against isis. And todays weather, heavy rain for the northwest, snow over the upper midwest, rain blanketing the southeast up into the ohio valley. And perhaps youve noticed everyone is talking about star wars the force awakens. Work for abc, another part of disney, abcs she fell asleep. Abcs Chris Connelly talked to the creators of this long awaited sequel. Reporter monday night in hollywood, the World Premiere of star wars the force awakens. Give it everything you got. Reporter its action and humor. Its new characters and lightsabers. It ends up being a story of adventure and loyalty and shock and surprise and uses this amazing and precious thing called the force that tells us that were all somehow connected. Camera, action reporter so much of it the work of producer Kathleen Kennedy and director cowriter j. J. Abrams, a veteran of alias, lost, migsssion impossible 3 and the star trek series. Fire everything. Reporter and now 49yearold abrams was brought onto the Star Wars Franchise by kennedy, for decades a top producer on Steven Spielbergs acclaimed films. Idea who is Luke Skywalker that that would be something that was said by one of our characters. Why was who is Luke Skywalker such a fascinating question . I guess because it spoke to a new generation. It was that idea that there would be young people for whom Luke Skywalker was essentially a myth. Reporter abrams hoping this film will have the same emotional punch that the 1977 one had on him as a child. The thing i felt when i was a kid when i left that theater was the world was huge and to have people, especially kids, go to see the movie and see themselves in it and feel like, im capable of something extraordinary, that would be the greatest gift of all. Were home. Reporter im Chris Connelly in los angeles. That j. J. Abrams, hes got a Bright Future ahead of him. Listen, its wonderful, and its thrilling and its exciting, and it probably is and reena fell asleep