Her determination to get to the finish line. Its monday, december 8th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Hey there, everybody, good morning to you on this monday morning. A new week here. Good to see you on a monday. Good to see you. Youre so spritely and alert and aware. Im reena ninan, by the way. I feel much better than last week. Im just excited to feel better. Not 100 yet. I can tell. I just thought you were excited because the royals are in town. Well, i am excited about that. This is a big deal. You see the Empire State Building lit up for them and all that. This is going to be a fun few days to watch them. Really everybody just watching what shes wearing. They reduce it to that. She looks fabulous. Shes five months pregnant. Look at her, doing some humanitarian work and we reduce it to her outfit. We do reduce it to her outfit and her nails, apparently. Down to her nails. Sensational, right . But its kind of nerveracking to be in a u. S. Embassy abroad today. There are a lot of u. S. Interests around the globe that have actually been warned ahead of a cia torture report which could be made public as soon as tomorrow. Yeah, the potentially explosive report includes descriptions of brutal interrogations. The latest now from abcs martha raddatz. Reporter u. S. Facilities are on alert for the release of this stilltopsecret torture report. The concern is over our military forces, our diplomats and other officials around the world, particularly in areas where there are hotspots in the middle east and north africa. Reporter all u. S. Facilities are being urged to review security and brace for the reaction. This will, in fact, incite violence, and its likely to cost someone their life. Reporter the cia and the Bush Administration have already faced heavy criticism for post9 11 interrogation techniques at socalled black sites across the world. The use of waterboarding stopped many years ago, but according to those who have seen this report, ugly new details about those procedures will be revealed where prisoners were sexually demeaned and cia interrogators urged to continue even after concluding no more information could be gleaned. The muslim world has erupted many times before when the u. S. And the west have been accused of religious and cultural plights. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says if this report is released, groups like isis will take full advantage. They dont have to be accurate or right. They just have to believe its true. And theyll take advantage of that. We know that isil propaganda operations, this is the motherlode for them. The chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, dianne feinstein, and others say that the declassified version should be released, so americans can know the full story of whats happened and this kind of interrogation never happens again. Martha raddatz, abc news, washington. Six Guantanamo Bay detainees have started their new life in uruguay. The men were released in a push by president obama to close down the detention facility after arriving in the south american country, the men were checked out at a hospital and found to be in good health. Provide tetesters still gathering by the hundreds across the country to speak out about the grand jury decision in the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. For the fifth night demonstrators marched around manhattan demanding changes to a system they say is broken after the grand jury decided not to charge the officers in garners chokehold death, the nypd began immediately retraining the entire police force. Retraining the police in a different approach with communication to the community, a different approach to building relationships to the community, you wont see these tragedies. Protests have remained relatively calm, but they took a violent turn in berkeley, california. Demonstrators tossed bricks and bottles at riot police, injuring three of them. The officers responded with tear gas and arrested six people. A family tragedy in new jersey as a fire rips through a house, killing five people including a newborn baby. The 6weekold little girl was the youngest. Four generations lost. The oldest was 79. The fire was fueled by strong winds, spreading flames that damaged two other homes. Only one woman survived, rescued with minor injuries after making it to the roof. And another tragic scene in new jersey. Carbon monoxide poisoning being blamed after two people were found dead in an industrial building and 12 others were rushed to the hospital. The victims, a man and a woman, were found over the weekend in a Recording Studio located in a converted factory. The cause of the leak is under investigation. And three people dead after an unusual accident on a south florida indian reservation. It started when a car hit a bear which was crossing the road northwest of ft. Lauderdale. A second car stopped to help the folks in that first car. Thats when a third car then plowed into the other two cars. Spokesman for the seminole tribe said the collision is the first they can remember involving a bear in memory. Rolling stone has tweaked its apology about its report on rape at the university of virginia. On friday the editor said they found discrepancies in the accounts told by the alleged victim in the report. And that they felt their trust in her was misplaced. Yesterday, though, they removed the misplaced trust line saying the mistakes were the magazines and they did not mean to blame the alleged victim. An American Teacher stabbed to death at an abu dhabi mall was remembered sunday at a memorial service. Police say ryan was attacked by this woman who was wearing a you see right here a full black veil. They say the stabbing was a lone terrorist attack. Another woman living in abu dhabi says she does not feel targeted. I still didnt feel like someone was out to get me or necessarily any americans. Anything can happen anywhere in any city in the world. Police say the suspect also planted a bomb outside an american doctors home. Ryans exhusband says he is horrified but still feels safe in abu dhabi. The typhoon battering the philippines has weakened but not gone yet. The typhoon destroyed homes and knocked out power. Dangerous mudslides are likely to follow. The devastating typhoon last year that actually killed thousands. This time around nearly 1 Million People were forced to evacuate to safer ground, but so far three deaths have been reported. Several thousand people attended yesterdays ceremony to mark the anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. Among them were four of the nine surviving crew members of the uss arizona. All of them are in their 90s. 73 years ago japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base in honolulu, thrusting the United States into world war ii. 1,177 sailors and marines died that day. A busy day today for william and kate. The British Royals arrived here in manhattan last night. Youre seeing them there. Today william is headed to d. C. Meeting with president obama before the couple attend a game tonight, an nba game, in brooklyn. More now from amy robach. Reporter new yorkers are pulling out the red carpet to ensure a royal welcome for a future king and queen. Prince george back at home, but everyone hoping to catch a glimpse of the other baby on board as kate is pregnant with baby number two. It will be an actionpacked three days. Prince william makes a quick trip to d. C. , meeting president obama at the white house. Hell hit the Observation Deck at the Empire State Building, and the couple will visit the 9 11 memorial and host a gala at the metropolitan museum of art. The couple will be courtside at the Brooklyn Nets basketball game monday, getting a glimpse of American Royalty. King james and maybe even jayz and queen bey. Any visit like this has potential security issues, but the palace and the British Government are ready. The planning is complicated, demanding, and the balance you have to try to strike is providing a level of security that you need without inconveniencing people any more than you have to. Reporter william and kate stepped out for a private dinner with top american donors. And in the meantime, you can be sure new yorkers will be lining the streets hoping to catch another glimpse of the royal couple. Amy robach, abc news, new york. Youd Better Believe it. They certainly will. Theyre staying at the carlisle as amy mentioned which was a favorite of Princess Diana when she would come in the 90s. Nice place. Nice digs. They do have a very busy schedule. And again, i know everybodys so interested in what shes always wearing. But this trip theyre going to be doing a lot of talk about humanitarian work. Actually combatting illegal trade in wildlife parks is something that william is going to be speaking about during trip here. I know, what were you saying about her nails earlier . What was it . Yeah, they were kind of picking at her nails last week. Is something wrong with them . That they were chipped. Can you imagine how many times peoples nails are chipped in life . Come on. Its an ongoing issue for women. Leave her alone. Well, the future of the Olympic Movement is being formed over the next few days. At a big meeting in monaco. Delegates are there for the International Olympic committees general assembly. They will be voting on a series of reforms on everything from the number of sports athletes compete in to the creation of a new olympic tv channel. Also being decided, ways to make it easier for cities to bid on hosting future olympiads. Stop blaming justin bieber. Everything is not his fault, okay . This justin bieber, this curse, the sports curse he has on people, apparently its not the case at least according to the new england patriots. They played last night and everybody wanted to say that some of the team hung out with justin the week before and that the team was going to fall off. Well, not the case. Check this out. Look at this. Do they look like theyre having any problems here . Yeah, Julian Edelman last night. Tom brady just did his thing, hits the end zone, 59 yards here. Again, you saw this last week. He hung out with some of the patriots and apparently some teams that have hung out with bieber, theyve, you know, been on the slide the next game or so. This is tom brady. He can even withstand justin bieber. This is tom brady. But maybe hes an exception to the norm. He is, of course. An exception to a lot of norms out there, actually. The guy who finished yesterdays marathon in tucson will be back on the road running another marathon. Is that right . Eddie vega, youre seeing him there, he does all his running barefoot. He finished there in tucson, his 89th barefoot marathon this year, folks. His goal is to do 100 of these before the end of the year. Does he get athletes foot or something . I dont know. Vega raises money for an Organization Called soles for souls which buys shoes for kids that dont have them. He says he didnt have shoes for the first six years of his life when he lived in the philippines. A great story, a great cause there. Coming up, the man on reality tv who agreed to be eaten alive by an anaconda. Well, what really happened. Did this really go down . Well tell you in a minute. First, linking north korea to a vicious cyber attack on Sony Pictures. The response from north korea that you have to see. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by puffs. Ather bro announcer world news now weather brought to you by puffs. The windblown watery eyes. 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No word on when this technology might make its way into apple products. New developments in the brazen cyberattack on Sony Pictures, leaking out released movie clips. North korean government accused by many of carrying out the attack has denied it although it sounds like they wish they had been in on it. Heres abcs david wright. Reporter north korean state tv, an anchor read out a government statement denying north korea hacked Sony Pictures but praising the hack itself as a righteous deed. North korea denouncing sonys new movie the interview. That comedy about a cia plot to kill Supreme Leader kim jongun. Take him out. You want us to kill the leader of north korea . Yes. What . Reporter north korea now calls the movie an act of terrorism. This hack attack, said the anchor, is clearly the work of our sympathizers and supporters. Computer Security Experts say the hackers did leave digital fingerprints. Not only was the attack code having korean language settings, but it emulates the attack code that was leveraged against south korea last spring. Reporter we still dont know who was behind it. The fbi is on the case. You think it cant get worse. It can. Reporter the attack is costing sony millions in pirated copies of fury and other unreleased films. The hackers also reportedly stole 47,000 Social Security numbers, as well as salaries and home addresses, even employee performance reviews. On friday the hackers sent sony employees another email threatening them and their families. Sony isnt commenting on the leaks. The company busy doing damage control. David wright, abc news, new york. Now it all makes sense. No wonder their tv journalists dont have teleprompters. They are investing all their resources in spying, hacking. We dont use teleprompters either for different reasons. Its all in our heads. Its all right here, folks. Coming up in our next half hour six more states will soon see gas prices dip. Below 2 bucks a gallon. Is your state one of them . But first, the inspirational runner collapsing after crossing the finish line in every race, but shes determined to go on. Her story next on world news now. Announcer world news now continues after this from our abc stations. Inspiring story about a young womans crippling disease and how shes refusing to let it slow her down. And we mean that quite literally. One of the nations top student athletes showing us all what it means to be a real champion. Heres abcs john donvan. Good job. Reporter at the end of every High School Varsity meet Kayla Montgomery has ever run, she has always come in over the finish line in a crumple. Youre seeing her literally at a point when she cant feel anything in her legs. Beautiful, girl. Reporter the key of this paradox being kaylas determination and a nerve disease called multiple sclerosis. Four years ago this onetime elite Soccer Player began to lose feeling in her feet and legs and was told that m. S. Would likely leave her unable to move someday, period. I was mad. I was really mad. Reporter but kayla took that mad and decided she was going to run while she still could. Although starting out she was, how fast . I was kind of slow. Average, at best. Reporter thats patrick. The coach who took her on and watched her get faster and faster. Fastest yet. Reporter and who was always there at the finish. Heres why. When kayla runs, the natural increase in her body temperature temporarily gives the m. S. The edge again. In the last part of races, kayla has lost all feeling below her waist. She lacks the control to slow to a stop. The reason her cries are so urgent is with water, with cooling, she can feel again. And then in her last High School Race ever, shes in the gold shirt. This bad break. She fell. Youve got to go now, kayla reporter she did get back into it, and she moved up and then this. And for a final time, the finish line and the help. I got you. Reporter and by the time of the ceremony, she can feel, well, everything. John donvan, abc news, washington. That is the story of the year, t. J. , dont you think . Thats it. Okay. We teased the story and weve been talking about it. I didnt expect that from the story. Oh, my goodness. When you have a bad day, thats the story were all going to pull up to talk about. Oh, man. When she was diagnosed she told the coach, i dont know how much time i have left, so i really want to run fast. I dont want to hold back. And the coach said to her, thats when i said, wow, who are you . The thing thats supposed to slow her down made her speed up. My goodness. Thanks to our Sister Network espn for that. Thank you for that. Thanks to our Sister Network espn for that. She loves to shop online with her debit card. 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He apparently says that he spent an hour inside the snake which is difficult because hes claustrophobic. I dont quite understand. Yeah. People watched. It was captivating tv, apparently, but people were disappointed by the end. We should try this on this show. Well bring a snake in. To get eaten by eaten alive. I feel that way every day with you sometimes. Lets get this roller coaster not at an amusement park. Its a Real Estate Agent who came up with this idea. Its a marketing ploy. If you are looking for a house. This is over in the netherlands. Look at this. Its a real roller coaster, goes through the house. This is how you take your tour. Maybe youll buy, maybe you wont, but youll get a good ride. I like that. Seat belts included . I didnt see one. I was wondering about that. I like it. Id like to do it. Unchtsz babies are much smarter maybe than you think. A mom tried to show what its like when her baby tried to wake her up. She keeps the baby in bed and tries to sleep a little bit longer. We all do it. The baby puts his finger in the mothers mouth. Pats her. Kisses her. Thats cute, though. What i dont understand, shes kind of holding her hand up, right . Shes not really sleeping. No, shes not. But it got more than 2. 2 million hits. As of today. People are watching. Im going to film this when when i get home. Weve got a 2yearold. Exactly. Wow, betting beat up. She punches. Last thing here, everybody tries a Little Something sometimes when they are trying to get a date out there. They go online. They try some desperate things, but how about putting your mug on a mug . This woman has agreed to have her face put on these coffee mugs, 1,000 cups. Even the froth on top they have her picture. There she is. Wow. Theres the coffee. Is it working . This is over in scotland that shes doing this trying to get a date. Did she get any . Is anyone calling . I dont know yet. Because theyre all calling me because theyre scared about the coffee theyre receiving. Is this creepy . Is this cool . Is this cute . I look like the coffee girl beer girl. Maybe it works. This morning on world news now, royal visit. Prince william and princess kate arrived in america and why its a big first for the couple. The security, todays agenda and kates baby bump. Taking shelter. The lingering typhoon thats bringing destruction and heartbreak in the philippines. The homes and lives lost. Economic fuel. The politics behind the plunging prices at the gas pump. American drivers and the economy are winning, but whos losing as the cost of filling up continues to drop. And first romance, the early days of barack and Michelle Obamas relationship and their love story. Revealed in a new movie. Who gets to play the president and the first lady . Thats in the skinny on this monday, december 8th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Im reena ninan. Happy monday to you all. Im t. J. Holmes. We start this half hour with the young royals. They are here in new york. That song. Because well never be royals that song is antiroyals. I know its antiroyal, but im thinking about the two of us. Well never get to be we can be royals of the night. Better than being women of the night, i suppose. They might be watching us right now because their body clocks might be off. Its 7 00 in london right now. And they have a baby. A young child. So welcome. They have a busy day today. Hopefully theyre resting. I have to tell kate middleton, if you fall asleep at any point today, youre off the hook. Its okay. I went to london when i was five months pregnant, went to the shakespeare theater. Sat in the front row and fell asleep for the first two hours of hamlet. But man, you felt good when you woke up, didnt you . I sure did. This is their First Official visit to the big apple. They have a pretty jampacked schedule. Theres plenty to do and lots of excitement around their every move. Reporter squeals of delight on the streets of new york. Its all amazing to me. Reporter the british flag in bright colors flickering from the top of the Empire State Building, a different kind of red, white and blue. All part of the welcome mat for the British Royal couple arriving sunday evening for a whirlwind tour of the big apple and washington, d. C. A first for the duke and duchess of cambridge. Neither of them has ever set foot in either city. Reporter an actionpacked three days for both william and kate. They are doing a number of things to support charities they really care about. Disadvantaged young people, mental health, illegal wildlife trade. Reporter plus a visit to the top of the Empire State Building and the 9 11 memorial. For william, a quick side trip to washington, d. C. , to meet with president obama on monday. Later the royal couple will be courtside at the nets cavs game in brooklyn getting a glimpse of American RoyaltyKing Lebron James and maybe even jayz and queen bey. The couples first child, george, a future king like his father, is not along on this first glimpse of this part of the world. Baby george, i think he decided the program is a little busy for him. Reporter george just months away from welcoming a new brother or sister. I think that the focus will very much be on kate, on what shes wearing, her growing baby bump and on this next royal baby. Reporter that royal baby due in april. And she looks terrific. William and kate are accompanied by their own team of bodyguards and given extra security by nypd. Sources say theres no suggestion of a direct threat against them. The outcry continues over the chokehold death of eric garner. Protesters calling for an end to police brutality. They converged in new york and across the country over the weekend. Despite the rain and cold, persistent crowds returned to times square and Grand Central terminal still outraged after a grand jury decided against charging the white nypd officer involved in garners death. For the second straight night, the protests took a violent turn in berkeley, california. The demonstrations started peacefully, but an unruly group looted stores and set fires in the streets. In nearby oakland, Police Used Tear Gas on rockthrowing demonstrators who marched on a highway. Religious leaders in chicago also took a stand. Several pastors interrupted sunday service to lead churchgoers and Community Members on a peaceful rally through the streets. The protesters shut down nearby intersections but the crowds remained peaceful. U. S. Facilities are on alert as a potentially explosive report on the cia torture is set to be released. The report gives specifics of what the cia did to terror suspects in the days after the 9 11 attacks. Republicans in congress tried to block the release saying it could cost american lives. They dont have to be accurate or right. They just have to believe its true, and theyll take advantage of that. We know isil propaganda operations will this is the mother lode for them. President obama and his director of National Intelligence have both endorsed releasing the report. An American Teacher stabbed to death at an abu dhabi mall was remembered sunday at a memorial service. Police say ibolya ryan was attacked by a woman wearing a full black veil common throughout the gulf region. Youre seeing on Surveillance Video there. Suspect is also accused of leaving a bomb at an american doctors house. The monster typhoon that hit the philippines this weekend has weakened into a storm but is still hovering there. Mudslides are likely to follow. People are returning to find terrible destruction. So far, most everyone has survived. Abcs Hamish Macdonald rode out the storm. Reporter the typhoon slams into the coastline at full force. This storm had been whipping itself into a frenzy for days, and finally unleashed itself on the towns and cities of the southern philippines. As it moved onwards we followed the military to the edges of the mayan volcano to survey the damage. All of this rain thats fallen in the past 24 hours is now washing down the mountainside. That road has been swept away. The fear is landslides are now a real possibility. This typhoon is still carving a path across the philippines. The worst affected areas 80 of homes were destroyed. For all the force and fury of this typhoon, the people of the philippines seem to have been spared the worst. So far there appears to be very few lives lost. And for that, everyone here will be thankful. Hamish macdonald, abc news. Legazpi. Back here, a fierce couple of storms on the way and millions on both coasts will feel it. A slowmoving noreaster gets moving tonight, moving up the i95 corridor tomorrow. Heavy rain turns to snow up to a foot of it around syracuse, albany and northern new england. Meanwhile, a series of storms rattles the west this week with Northern California getting hit particularly hard. A look at your weather and the calm before the storms today. Rain in portions of ohio and illinois. A wintry mix in wisconsin and minnesota. Wet in the Pacific Northwest and in san francisco. In the east, the first rain from that coastal storm hits the midatlantic tonight. Chilly 30s and 40s in the east. Pleasant and warm in the south. Seasonably 50s, 60s and 70s across the west. A connecticut woman has been hit with a staggering water bill just before christmas. The Water Company had been estimating her bill for nearly a decade. After they updated her meter she was shocked when she received a 4,000 bill. And said there was no warning. Never once have i gotten letters in the mail for the nine years that we lived here saying you have an old meter, we need to change it. Never did anybody come to my door. Nothing. No one had ever made an attempt to change that meter. The Water Company is working to upgrade its billing system, but they insist its customers responsibility to call them for an actual reading. She has filed a complaint with the state attorney generals office. New findings this morning that all you insomniacs may want to Pay Attention to. A link between a lack of sleep and negative thinking. See . Uhoh. This explains everything. Blame someone. Researchers at Binghamton University say students who slept fewer hours or described themselves as evening people, experienced more negative thoughts than the morning people who got more shuteye. Researchers say its possible that worrying actually disrupted sleep rather than a lack of sleep causing the worry. There is a scientific reason that i behave the way i do. Reena . Im glad we can add science to this. But youve anchored many a morning show. This is what i dont understand. This aint morning. This is not morning. Technically early morning. When you have to say technically its morning. Its not really morning. Its just a. M. Is what this is. Moving on to a rather unique encounter in the bahamas. Check out diver Jim Abernathy and his friend, a 15foot tiger shark. His friend . He clearly has no problem getting up close and personal with this big animal. Turns out, this gettogether wasnt their first. Abernathy says he first met the shark seven years ago when he removed a large fish hook from her mouth. She apparently hasnt forgotten that favor. Now they seem to be good friends. Seven years . How do there a know this is in fact, the shark . Come on. Seven years . This is great video. Its interesting video, but seven years . I dont remember people i met seven years ago. I know. And our director, sandy, called this a fish tale. I dont know. Cool video, though. Coming up in the skinny, sting, lily tomlin and tom hanks have something very big in common and, no, they arent costars in a movie. Also later, the splashy 6yearold who has been riding the waves since he was 2. Meet the fearless little guy with some grownup talent. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by mucinex fastmax. Mucinex fastmax. Decongestant. Ot a nasal is that really a thing . It sounds made up. I cant sleep when im all stuffy. I take offense to that. Im not going to argue with a talking ball of mucus. I think youre being a little hasty. Hes not with me. Mucinex fast max night time. Multisymptom relief plus nasal decongestant. Breathe easy. Sleep easy. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. She loves to shop online with her debit card. And so does bill, an identity thief who stole marys identity, took over her bank accounts, and stole her hard earned money. 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Abcs Rebecca Jarvis with more. Reporter it is the gift that keeps on giving to american consumers. Gas prices down for 73 Straight Days and still heading lower. Oklahoma and texas the first in the country to see prices dip below 2 a gallon this week and six other states poised to see prices below 2 before new years. All of it the result of a dramatic 40 plunge in oil prices. Falling oil prices around the world have helped set a new low for drivers. Reporter one of the biggest reasons for the drop . The u. S. Is drilling and fracking. Supplying record amounts of oil and gas. This year surpassing saudi arabia as the worlds top energy producer. The biggest question now, who are the winners from the price plunge . Americans saving 250 million a day on less expensive gas. About 1,100 a year for the typical family. Savings that can go to everything from food to travel to holiday gifts. A lot of motorists ive talked to said that the added income is going right under the christmas tree. Reporter its also accelerating auto sales. November the strongest month in more than a decade. Americans back to buying suvs. Sales of the eightpassenger Lincoln Navigator up 88 . Who are the losers . Top Oil Producers like russia where Vladimir Putin says Falling Oil Prices could shock the russian economy and saudi arabia and even iran. Which is in the midst of high stakes Nuclear Talks with the u. S. But perhaps the biggest question how long will the price plunge last . That could depend on who blinks first. The big oilproducing countries in opec which may consider cutting production to boost prices or u. S. Companies which may be forced to cut production if prices get too low. Oil will continue to be produced in south texas in 2015. Jobs are going to continue to be filled next year. At what pace and what level of activity . Thats going to depend on the price of oil. Reporter historically, Oil Prices Start ticking higher in march, just four months away. Rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. You dont approve . Of which part . Excuse me. Well give him a moment. I paid 2. 43 for gas in new jersey for gas today. I thought that was pretty good. You look pretty excited about it. Im really excited about it. And it is going right underneath my christmas tree. You want to tell us what you drive . Its okay if you dont want to. An suv. Its one thats good for the economy, right . Its good for the economy. But theyre saying one of the down sides are hybrid cars arent doing so well in sales. Everyone is excited, i can afford the big suv because i can afford the gas. Exactly. But then it goes up in six months, right . Exactly. They get you back. New problem. The royals are here. They are riding around in some suvs right now, will and kate. They are in new york probably sleeping, but wait until we tell you what theyve been up to already. Justin bieber, bold new look in the skinny, next. Announcer world news now continues after this from our abc stations. Skinny skinny so skinny time for the skinny. On this monday morning, we start with the young British Royals in new york for the first time ever. William and kate are staying at the Carlisle Hotel in manhattans ritzy upper east side. It was also a favorite of williams mother, Princess Diana during her frequent visits to new york during the 1990s. They arrived yesterday at jfk airport but not on a chartered flight. William and kate flew across the atlantic on a regularly scheduled British Airways jet. Its a long day today particularly for william who will do a round trip to washington where hes meeting with the president. Tonight william and kate head to brooklyn to attend the nets game against lebron james and the cavs. Well be watching for meetings with king james and part owner jayz and his wife beyonce. You know thats happening. Oh, that would be absolutely. I look forward to it. Maybe shell star in queen beys next music video. Were starting that rumor now. Beyonce never fails to surprise us. So no. And kate never really does magazine covers and things like that. The chances of her appearing in some booty video who says a booty video . Beyonces videos arent a booty video. Theyre very tasteful these days. I think even a tasteful video. Thats back in the bootylicious days. Thats way in the past. Before he meets with prince william, the president presided over a washington tradition, the Kennedy Center honors. It started at the white house where the obamas mingled with the five recipients including sting, lily tomlin, al green, tom hanks. The president got in a few oneliners. Nobody can sing like al green. That soul, that light falsetto. His music can bring people together. In fact, he says he can hardly go anywhere without a fan coming up to him and pulling out a picture of one of their kids and telling him which one of his songs helped that child enter the world. From there, the president and recipients headed to the Kennedy Center where Stephen Colbert hosted the starstudded gala. It will air later this month on cbs. From honoring art to the subject of it, the early days of the first couples romance will be the central plot to a new movie. A dramatic film named south side with you will chronicle the summer afternoon in 1989 when the future president wooed the future first lady. President obama then a firstyear harvard law student. He took a job at a law firm where he fell for michelle robinson, his younger boss. South side with you spans the day when michelle agreed to go out with barack where they went for a long walk and took in a museum and movie together. They have yet to announce who will play mr. Obama. Atika sumter from get on up has been chosen as the future mrs. Obama. The film will shoot on location in chicago next summer. Good choice. She looks very much like mrs. Obama. With all of this highbrow material we thought wed balance it out with a few skinnier items in the skinny. Time to see what the kids are up to. Lets check out Kendall Jenner here she is looking festive. Santas little helper for the photo shoot for the british Love Magazine hitting stands today. The 19yearold halfsister to the kardashians is making a name for herself as a model in her own right. How about somebody previously linked to kendall. There he is, justin bieber. Here he is sporting a new do. A bright new do from his instagram page. Blond bieber . No . Yeah . Works . Yeah, it kind of reminds me of a blond t. J. Holmes. I have not done the blond thing yet. I need to grow out a little more hair. I might do it one day. Why not . Surprise us. Sure. Lets do celebrity birthdays. Shall we . Celebrating today, legendary singer of the allman brothers band, gregg allman turns 67. Kim basinger, 61. I cannot believe that. Former desperate housewives star teri hatcher turns the big 50. And rapper, singer, actress, whatever you want to call her these days, nicky minaj, 32. Happy birthday, everybody. Bang bang into the room isnt that her song . Shes on that song, yes. Well have more coming up. Shes on that song, yes. Well have more coming up. Thiswatch limeaway power wer. Through this block of pure limescale now, lets see it in action. Tough hard water buildup . Gone. No scrubbing turbo power destroys it limeaway turbo power. See the difference, or your money back. When we hear about child when we hear about child prodigies no, i wasnt talking about you were often amazed they possess the skills of a fullgrown adult. Yeah. Now were talking about a 6yearold. The one youre about to meet cannot only hang with the best of them but can hang ten better than the best of them. Check out the latest surfing sensation catching waves. He flies through the water with the greatest of ease. Its actually a 6yearold. Yeah, 6. This pintsized prodigy is making a splash in the surfing world by shredding waves bigger than he is off the coast of maui. I like having fun. Reporter he goes by baby steve or uncle baby, but make no mistake. Even at 6, hes no newby. My name is steve. And i like it because its fun. Reporter hes been riding waves since the ripe old age of 2. Not just waves that dwarf this little guy either. Its his fellow surfers. He can hold his own alongside surfers five times his age. Its no wonder he got an early start. For the robersons, surfing is something of a family sport. I like surfing with my brothers but not when theyre talking to me for like 24 hours. Are annoying siblings really his greatest fear . He said those waves dont intimidate him. I dont get scared because i always know that god is with me. What about mom . When they first started, really nerveracking. Now over the years theyve been doing it for so long, i dont worry about them as much. Im so proud of them. Keep an eye on him. This maui maestro has no plans to retire any time soon. Hes just getting started. And as he grows, so will the size of the waves he conquers. I want to surf the rest of my life, and when i grow up, i want to be a professional surfer and do big airs. Crazy to see a little guy that size doing that. Makes me a little nervous. Right . You cant help but be but look at him. He so has it. You cant deny that. Look at that wave im, like, get over on the shore his dad is a professional surfer. So hes had the boys out there in the water, of course, since they were big enough to stand. Some people just have it. Well see that kid later. No doubt about it. Dont miss our updates on facebook, wnnfans. Com. Announcer this is abcs world news now, informing insomniacs for two decades. Making news in america this morning breaking overnight. Peaceful protests turn violent. Stores and cars vandalized. The outrage still simmering after a grand jurys decision to not indict an officer in a mans death. The new video just in. Dire warning. U. S. Embassies on high alert, fearing backlash from a soontobereleased report on torture. Were live in washington with details. Royal visit. Prince william and kate waking up in america this morning. Their arrival. The baby bump. And whats on their schedule . And the muchhyped tv special about a maneating snake that left some viewers hungry for more. Good monday morning