The grand seafood feast and the ultimate wood grilled feast. Why wait to celebrate . Hurry in. Number one in just 60 good evening and thanks for joining us. Im rebecca jarvis. We begin with the children of prisoners. The silent victims of incarceration getting a rare opportunity, a chance to spend a single day with their fathers in prison. Some say it can make a world of difference. But how do you fit a lifetimes worth of parenting into just 24 hours . Nightline coanchor juju chang series face to face. This is a collect phone call from tre, a prisoner at the department of corrections hello. Hey. Yall getting ready to come . Cant wait till you get here. Reporter 8yearold arkinia graham has never met her father. Theyve grown close over the phone. But johnny tre williams is serving 23 years in prison for Second Degree murder. Im excited to see you and im nervous. Reporter today she and nearly 30 other kids are getting a special visit with their dads designed to prevent the kind of damage kids suffer when a parent is in prison. Theyre going to have fun yes. Reporter they are some of the nearly 3 million children in this country with a mom or dad behind bars. Ethan buckner is 7. Youre going to see your dad today . Reporter Maya Matthews is 9. She and her little brother live three hours away. Very. Like, i can jump super high. Because im so excited. Youre so excited, i know. My dad shes here, do you want to meet her . Reporter maya has visited before but today is different. Arkinia, i want you to meet maya. She heard about you. Meeting your dad behind bars is a really big deal. Why is it a big deal . Like this is the one time you can sit in their lap, let him hug you. He cant get up at all. Reporter the day before the kids arrive, the dads get a seminar on fatherhood. Thats where we meet mayas father. Whats it like waiting six months to see your kids . Reporter Jeremiah Matthews has been in and out of jail for 12 years for burglary. I just get scared that theyre going to forget. I know my daughter forgets me. She told me that this is the last time, dad. Keep breaking promises, getting in trouble. She was 7 when she told me this. And i dont want to disappoint. Ive said some very mean things to him. Youve said mean things to him . What kind of things have you said . Like im not going to trust you no more because you promised youd be there for me the rest of your life action then you go back to jail. What did he say when you said that . He just was like, okay, then, please gain that trust back, as soon as i get out ill try to make everything different. Do you believe him . Eh you want to . Yeah, i want to. But its hard to . Hes lied to me. What you want to do when you look your child in the eyes reporter arkinias dad is learning about fatherhood as well. There for you, always will be. Reporter he wound up killing a man in a bar fight. Phone hes still anxious about meeting her facetoface. What are you feeling . Anticipation. Im shaking. Reporter as nervous as any father getting to hold his daughter for the very first time. She brought something for you too. Hello, daddy, i really wish when i come to see you that you could come home with me. I love you so much. I love you too. Reporter but this quiet moment is just a preview of what will be a very special day. The next morning, as excitement builds in this humble prison gym boys and girls, theyre coming in just a minute. Reporter the dads are announced one by one. Ethan hasnt seen his dad in seven months. His pentup emotions bubbling for maya all her anguish and her doubt vanishes. I missed you guys. Missed you too. I love you. I love you too. Reporter arkinia doesnt hesitate. Her father no longer just a voice on the phone. Finally. Finally . You happy . Im happy for you. Reporter jeremiah says hes working hard to stay out of trouble behind bars, to earn this day with his kids. There are 1,300 men in this prison. Only 20 of them are here today. I know this is a special event reporter the program, called one day with god, was founded by scotty barnes. The importance of these boys and girls having relationships with their mothers and fathers reporter she tells us her dad was a convicted drug dealer, spending most of her childhood locked up. Told i love you by my dad. A lot of people would say, these guys are convicted murderers. Felons. Why do they deserve this kind of perk . I think they forget that the children are the silent victims. The children from the time theyre 8, 9 years old, go out on the streets and where the gangs are. Come on over and join my family. Reporter jeremiah says its giving him incentives so that the next time hes released, in just 11 months, it will be the last. Throughout the day its clear the dads are trying to cram years of parenting into a couple of hours. The trick to cursive is staying on the same lines reporter one day with god is in seven states, fueled by private donations. At a time when prison reentry programs are being cut, theyre expanding to five other prisons in michigan alone. They may be walking in circles fathers and sons, its an intimate moment without the bars between them. Children of offender are six times more likely than their peers to end up in jail themselves. 15yearold doricus green jr. Is already in danger of fulfilling that prophecy. Today hes wearing an ankle bracelet under strict supervision, for his runins with the law. His dad is serving a life sentence for murder. We all we got. I told him i know im not out there with him, but i am here for him. Always. Cant nobody ever take that away from us. Reporter for the girls theres a father daughter dance. I mean, shes like shes the most important female in my life. Other than my wife. Shes really the most important. And ive lost so much time with her that i can never get back. To know that they got to go back home. I cant put it all in one day. Theres no way. Reporter arkinias dad is trying to be a father figure beyond this one day. When she started acting out in school recently it was her dad who helped straighten her out. He called me right away. He was like, can i speak with her . Im like, okay, your dad is on the phone. Im like, oh, hes calling her for business. Hes parenting from behind bars . Yes. Reporter she has a powerful reason for bringing her daughter from florida to michigan for this chance to bond with her dad. You work 12 hours a day. Yes. Yes, maam. Why spend so much of your hardearned money to bring your daughter here . Well, i was one of those kids, i was ashamed to tell people that my father was in prison. So i put myself in my daughters shoes. Reporter they have these shoe fleeting hours to say the things that need saying. I love you very, very much. Okay . You did nothing wrong, its all my fault. Okay . Its all my fault. Ill be home soon. Okay . Soon . Ill be home soon. Day with my dad. It means everything. I love you so much. Sings my soul reporter so much loaded in one day. For the dads a pledge to strive to be better. For the kids a precious dose of what they need most. And for the rest of us, a reminder of what it means to be a good dad. And that the feeling of being embraced by your father can last forever. For nightline, im juju chang in muskegon, michigan. What a feeling. One day with god in the end surprised arkinias mom and us by reimbursing their airfare. Coming up next, tis the season for festive fun when who will shine the brightest . And youre talking to a rheumatologist about a biologic, this is humira. This is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. This is humira helping me reach for more. Doctors have been prescribing humira for more than 10 years. 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Claus in high definition, trampolines turned into projection screens. We have to get our cars in at christmas time. We elevated it seven feet in the air. So the display becomes a 25foot screen. Reporter nothing says christmas like a tongue of fire. Keep in mind this is a florida winter. 70degree heat. 45 humidity. But even here, a 100 chance of a white christmas. Its a swarm. Whenever that machine goes off, theyll come from across the street, wanting to get in the snow. Reporter celebration is one of three different neighborhoods being featured monday on abcs third annual Christmas Lights reality show. Of course we think we have the best one. I think everybody thinks they have the best one. Thats true. Reporter three neighborhoods competing for 50,000 in prize money. In addition to celebration, theres also weipahu, hawaii. We know we have the best in the nation. Reporter and gilbert, arizona. That is crazy reporter sudden hi its not so surprising to learn that americans really will spend 7 billion this year on christmas decorations. Putting together just one hightech house can be a yearlong ordeal. Those soldiers, those were brought in here by a crane. What . Yeah. Reporter lucy in brooklyn looks forward to this all year long. To me i like my whole house filled up. I dont like to see a space. Just ask keith shaw of cranberry, new jersey. Lots of extension cords. Reporter he has the biggest Christmas Tree in all of the garden state. We got to go inside it. Your Christmas Tree is essentially a flagpole. Its essentially a flagpole. A lot of extension cords. And a lot of extension cords. Ive got to appreciate this for a second. Talk about feeling the christmas spirit. Oh, man. How many light bulbs . Theres over 47,000 on this tree. 47,000 light bulbs . More than rockefeller center. Thats right. Rockefeller center that is 45,000. You got them beat. Yes. Reporter its a lot of hard work. It took me 54 man hours. A full work week. More than. Reporter thats just one feature. The whole lawn is a light grid. Theres also his wall of snowflakes 64 snowflakes. 6,400 lights just on the snowflake wall. The design all his own. Just like the bellagio fountain. Except with lights. Your own little piece of vegas. It is, yeah. Reporter all of it timed to flash in time with the music. Half of new jersey turns out for the Christmas Show three nights a week, which doesnt exactly make shaw the envy of his neighbors. Their Christmas Display points back to his. Not exactly in a flattering way. But theres one thing missing new jerseys largest Christmas Tree. New jerseys most fantastic display of Christmas Lights. No sinatra . No springsteen . We really should, right . You should, yes. Reporter darkness on the edge of town wouldnt work. Blinded by the light. Im david wright for nightline in cranberry, new jersey. 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Mcgregor is looking to make history this weekend by becoming the first irish champion in the ufc. Before me, nobody knew nothing about this sport. Im proud to be putting my nation at the forefront of the fight game where we belong. Reporter the mighty irishman, reminiscent to some of the brash boxer mickey from the movie snatch. The tattooed mcgregor commands attention with bold moves in the octagon. His cocky assuredness and his mouth. Feet on the desk, not one of about it. Reporter drawing comparisons to a Young Mohammad ali. He lives big too. Mega mansions, custom suits, big cars. My name is Conor Mcgregor. Reporter when his first job as an apprentice plumber in ireland didnt work out he turned his focus to boxing with a dream of making it big. My dream is to be World Champion in the ufc. Reporter as featured in the Irish Network rte documentary series the notorious. Now with the weight of a nation on his shoulders. We support our own. If somebody is out there fighting and competing we get behind them. They have my back like i have their back. How long is it going to take you to rip his head off . It will be done in one. Reporter for nightline, im Darren Rovell in new york. And just how confident is mcgregor that hes got this . Anyone who bets he wins with a to his after party for free. Everybody wins. Thank you for watching abc news. Tune into Good Morning America tomorrow. And as always, we are online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page at abcnews. Com. Good announcer in the Television Comedy world, the people are entertained by two separate yet equally important types of shows traditional sitcoms that get laughs out of everyday situations, like trying to fix your own plumbing or inviting two dates to the same dance, and animated shows that make jokes about farting. This is the latter. Uh, sorry, i just farted. law and order theme playing