Action by the iraqis. I think that is a clear indication of the will of the Iraqi Security forces to fight and the United States and our Coalition Partners will stand with them as they do so. Vice President Biden spoke to iraqs Prime Minister to reiterate u. S. Support and perhaps clean up secretary carters comments. The white house said biden acknowledged the bravery and sacrifice of iraqs Security Forces over the past 19 months. Reena, t. J. Thank you so much. A major sports story to tell you about. We expect to learn details later today about u. S. Federal corruption charges being brought against several top world soccer officials, among them high ranking within fifa the organization that runs the world cup. Swiss authorities arrested those officials as they were gathering for their annual meeting. Among those not charged is fee tas president. His organization plagued with bribery and corruption charges for decades. Another flight scare on the west coast. The fbi investigating a threat phoned into l. A. X. Yesterday evens an eva air flight. Officials say nothing was found on the plane. This comes a day after threats were phoned in against six flights. Nothing was found on either planes. Our good friends in Silicon Valley is 59 least one research lab got time on their hands. Theyre brilliant. This is what theyre working on. Who knew . On the bottom theres a robotic roach. Yeah its riding on a robotic bird. They had to put the two of them together. Why would you work on a robot it i can roach in the first place. Believe it or not, this combination as crazy as it may look could be the perfect combo for search and rescue robots. Both have components that can deal with just about any surface. So thats interesting. It had to be be a roach. Why . It could have been a tj. Did you just call me a nasty critter that should be stomped on . I didnt say that. You took it to the next level. Thats what you do with a roach. 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The 71yearold taken into custody monday outside a downtown santa fe restaurant. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in the right stuff and his credits include black hawk down and the notebook. Were getting a new look at some of the animals being cared for at seaworld in san diego. Looking after two sea lions and two elephant seals. With the latest on the investigation, heres abcs brandi hitt. The ruptured oil line that caused this devastating spill along sawn tan barbaras coastline is in the process of being removed for further investigation. After weve moved the affected section of pipeline the remaining portion of the line will be completely purged with inert gas. Thats not the only potential problem site. Plains all american pipelines as a preliminary report red flagged four other possible hazard areas along the 11 mile stretch of pipe. Well uncover to determine if it needs any maintenance work. If not, well cover it back up and go onto the next one. Its believed up to 101,000 gallons of spilled during last weeks break. At least one sea lion and nine oil covered pelicans have been killed along with countless amounts of fish. And with so much thick sludge washing ashore, hundreds of additional volunteers are now being given a crash course on safely removing oil from beaches that remain closed. Now is the time for helping. Right now, i think we ought to come together clean this mess up. Governor jerry browns emergency proclamation is freeing up state funding for immediate cleanup costs. Plains all american insists it will be pay for everything. Reena and t. J. Sea word has expert trainer whos deal with this type of situation but theres a second sea lion passed away unfortunately. Its a very tough situation. Who knows how many more if they werent doing the work theyre doing. It could have been worse. Stills bad at this point. Everybody needs to come together right now. Right now lets get this mess cleaned up. Were talking reality tv. Theres a family that have now come under fire. Petitions call are for the duggars to be taken off the air. The latest on this controversy. Youre watching world news now. Tt2wut3n 4 bt qx a qh00 tt2wut3n 4 bm qc;< tt4wut3n 4 dztq ;l tt4wut3n 4 entq u . , tt4wut3n 4 gzt l8t tt4wut3n 4 hnt e68 tt4wut3n 4 iztq 6o tt4wut3n 4 jntq tt4wut3n 4 lzt linsey davis with the latest on this controversy. Lets all hold hands here. Growing demands for the cancellation of the popular reality show that preaches christian values and chasity. No sex before marriage. Several online petitions now demanding tlc take it off the air for good. One writing there should be no place for people who get rich holding up family values while hiding a criminal in their midst after in touch published a Police Report alleging josh duggar engaged in inappropriate Sexual Conduct with five girls. A source confirming that Police Report stemmed from an investigation launched after Oprah WinfreysProduction Company harpo was tipped to accusations while planning a segment on them in 2006 and notified authorities. Last week the 27yearold father of three took to facebook admitting that as a teenager he acted inexcusably for which i am extremely sorry and deeply regret. Duggar was never arrested or charged with a crime. The Police Report now expunged. Advertising dollars and ratings. Both of those will be affected by this scandal. With the show set to enter its 11th season this year tlc isnt saying whether it will cancel the show or fire joshua duggar. But one morning sponsor General Mills pulling its ads in the wake of the scandal. Tlc confronted a similar controversy. Here comes Honey Boo Boo was one of the most Popular Series on their network. After the scandal, they canceled it. Its safe to say the duggar family show will suffer the same fate. Tough story to hear about. 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Their grandfather taught at m. I. T. But all three say they fell in love with the school on their own and say all of them getting accepted was a surprise. He was also pretty excited and it was a really great moment. The three seniors will graduate from Sage Hill School next week. While they excelled in class, they also found time to succeed in other areas each competing in a varsity sport among other activities. Doing internships, more like hands on experience outside of the classroom which made a difference in us getting in. Claire the second born will speak at commencement. Her message for other students very simple. Relax, have fun and do what you love. They say it will be nice to have each other close but also nice to give each other some space. Once every few months or so maybe or a week. I dont know. Well see each other. The dean of admissions at m. I. T. Says this is not the first time tripletts will attend m. I. T. But he said its extremely rare. Newport beach, greg lee, abc 7, Eyewitness News news. Thats impressive. 1 years together they still want to be together. Do you want to Stay Together . Are you asking me. Do you have a sibling. Hes 1 years younger than me. I wish we had gone to the same school. I do. Thats sweet. Dont you want to break free get out. No, i like that story for th reason. Maybe theyll end up working for nasa together. Got to be smart to get into m. I. T. Congrats to them. Follow us on facebook at wnnfans. Com. Prif this morning on world news now, record floods in texas. The intense rainfall state of emergency and the desperate certainly for people swept away by rising waters. Shekaued me. She said im in a house. Im floating down the river. The heart break, the human toll and new predicts from accuweather. Cleveland crackdown. The Justice Department delivers a blow to the citys police requiring sweeping changes to a police force accused of unjustified shootings and brutality. Later, super model firestorm. The fashion model reigniting a heated debate over breastfeeding in public. I didnt think it was going to be such a big deal. Her daring photo shoot in the magazine cover not everyone will get to see. Its wednesday, may 27 th captions paid for by abc, inc. From abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Good morning, everybody. Why is it that every time it seems like were always welcoming you back. Me . Welcome back. Hey, everybody. Welcome reena back. I cant even get it together. We just did this the other day. Thank you. Glad to three people in the newsroom applauded. Reenas back again. Come on now. This was legit. I wanted to tell people you were under the weather. I think you did because i got some tweets from people saying they were praying for me. I was worried about what you told them. Thats fair. But she just had a little issue. A little back problem. A back issue. But we got it worked out. Everythings all good. Welcome back once again. Thank you for that warm reentry. Were doing weather once again. Its that time of year springtime we get nasty weather. This rain is just ridiculous. Another round of punishing rain texas hard hit. Houston underwater. Ridiculous and heart breaking. The latest storm dumped nearly a foot of rain across the city shutting down highways and forcing drivers to spend their night in the cars. Storms being blamed 0 for at least 14 deaths across texas, five in houston alone. 13 people still missing. Matt gutman has the latest now. Houston still swamped. In just 24 hours the city getting nearly a quart of its yearly rainfall turning highways into canals cars and floating like bath toys motorists abandoning them families carrying children through the waist high water. We have a thousand properties we visually inspected. There may be as. 4,000 with significant damage. Dispatchers responding to more than 900 emergency calls, more than 500 of them water rescues. Its overflowed. Rescuers barely able to keep up. We have a female whos stranded on top of a car underneath a bridge. This mans dashcam rolling as he drives through the floods. I cant see an. Rescuers launching boats in submerged neighborhoods. From the sky you can see how high the water has been. Still dozens of cars stranded down there. The traffic continues to back up. More than 16 hours after all of that rain fell. In hays county texas, at least 13 unaccounted for. Including laura mccomb and her two young children. They were inside this house when it was swept away. Her husband was injured but is now safe. Their family dog found alive in a tree. She called me. She said im in a house. Im floating down the river. Tell mom and daddy love you and pray. Nearby this bridge on the blanco river washed away. The water taking this suv with it. Oh my god. Oh my god. Somehow the man inside climbed to safety. That clearance sign behind me reads 14 feet. Water has to be at least 10 feet deep. City officials still dont know the whether or not there may be cars submerged under the waters. What they do know is across most of the city the waters have begun to recede. Matt gutman abc news houston. The folks in oklahoma bracing for Severe Weather as the death toll there climbed to four. A storm hitting it right around sunset last night created this scene over the skies of oklahoma city. This was just after the evening rush. Also small tornado, thats what youre seeing right in the middle there touched down in a rural area. Golf ball sized hail. No reports of major damage. Lets get to our predictions about the weather with justin pavek from accuweather. Thanks and good morning. The south plains unfortunately added again once again later on this afternoon. More Severe Weather. Im very concerned about renewed flash flooding. Many of the streams rivers and creeks are still above where they huddish be. The northeast feeling like summer without so many of the storms. Real feel temperatures 90 to 95 degrees. T. J. And reenna lets send it back to you. Our coverage of these historic storms does not end here. Find out about a baby delivered in the flood zone in our next half hour. Now to india where at least 00 people died from a heat wave. Temperatures have soared to 118 degree. In southeastern States Residents are being warned the scorching heat will last for at least another week. Iraqi forces have started a military operation to retake the strategic city of ramada. The u. S. And iraq have now been trading accusations hover who is to blame for the fall of the city. Iraq is getting new help from america. Heres abcs terry moran. New weapons made in america delivered to iraqi be troops. The officers checking out the simony new guns and ammo courtesy of the u. S. Taxpayer. Iraqs government announces a counter offensive to retake the crucial city of ramadi days after it fell to isis fighters. A major isis victory with many of those u. S. Trained iraqi troops just running from the fight, fleeing in convoys, even airlifted out even though they vastly outflubbed isis fighters and leaving millions of dollars of u. S. Weapons and equipment behind for isis to use now. Secretary of defense ashton cart ker speaking of the iraqi airplane almost with contempt saying its soldiers showed no will to fight. U. S. Officials are skeptical of the entire iraqi effort. For all the billions spent on training and equipping the iraqi army it seems the people willing to fight the hardest are the isis forces who are trying to conquer it. Terry moran, abc news london. The trial of a Washington Post reporter in iran has been adjourned after one day. California native be Jason Rezaian has been charged with espionage. Since the trial was held behind closed doors, family members say its difficult to know what happened. But they say hes innocent. Theres nothing hes done wrong. He would never do anything malicious to iran or the United States. And we want that to be as loud as clear to everybody in the world. Rezaian has been held for ten months. Its unclear when or if the trial resume. The mayor of cleveland says it it will take years for his Police Department to implement sweeping changes part of a settlement with the department of justice aimed at remaking the way officers deal with clevelands community. Alex perez has the details. A Police Officer fired 15 shots into a car windshield an unarmed black couple inside. 12yearold tamir rice shot and killed by a Police Officer within two seconds after the officer pulled up. Images that have put the cleveland Police Department under a microscope. A settlement with the Justice Department includes major changes. Police officer now banned from using force against people who talk back or run away. Banned from pistol whipping suspects. Since 2010 the Justice Department reached settlements with 14 Police Departments after finding patterns of excessive force. Among them seattle, albuquerque, new orleans and newark and cleveland the Police Department will now mandate new training on use of force, hire more minority officers and outbid every cop with body cameras. Do you think they believe this reform is going to happen. I think the people right now would say weve got to see it to believe it. A judge acquitted officer Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges. Now cleveland wondering there there be a trial for the officer who shot rice in that park. Police and prosecutors tightlipped about that six months after the shooting the investigation still on going. And still no word on when a decision in the tamir rice case will be announced. The memorial here in the park where he was kid still growing. Alex perez, abc news cleveland. The irs calls you its not good news. But if they call you in the next coup counsel days and weeks, i need you to answer the phone. Important information about your records that have possibly been stolen. Thieves gained access to past tax returns of more than 100,000 people. They used data stolen from elsewhere like your name, Social Security number to hacking into an irs system called get transcript. Irs was alerted by the large number of transcript requests. The irs will be notifying you. Two more restaurant chains are removing artificial ingredients. Taco bell hopes to replace most of them by the end of the year. It will affect almost all of taco bells items. And the coowned piz za hut plans to remove colors and flavors by. Midsummer. Hes already eliminated transfat and monosodium glutamate. Love that. I wonder its tasteless into dont even tell us about this just make the food taste good. A lot of period stories. Weests do some animal stories. We had one about an alligator you would have loved. We do stories about world records. Were combining the two now. You might get a little sxweemish on this one. Check out this guy. Having a cigarette while setting a new record for being cover the with the most bees. This guy is 55 years old, a bekeeper in china. He spread hone on himself to attract the bees. Bees were told weighed 240 pounds. This is a record. How had do you know . How do you count . Do you count the bee stings . Im told the cigarette was to prevent the bees from swarming his lips. The bees love honey but dont like tobacco. Dy learned something from you the other day. Put that in this case you missed it away. It was authentic. You told me about something. Weve got a way toyota celebrate a delay on the tarmac a pizza party. Find out who threw one on an airline. The heated debate over mothers who nurse babies in public. How a super model posing for pictures in a fashion magazine is getting worldwide attention. The latest phonein threat on an international flight. The challenge for federal investigators trying to find anyone responsible. Find us on facebook w n n wnnfans. Com and twitter abc wnp. 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[doorbell rings] whats this . Swiffer sweeper. I came in under the assumption that it was clean. Ive been living in a fools paradise. All right. Take a look at this out of birpingham alabama. This is the rescue of a guy stranded on the second story apartment that inferno raging around him. Do you see that . He and his dog trying to make it out of there. Neighbors say the fire started in a top floor apartment. Someone apparently left food on the stove. Hard to imagine. There were also tense moments at l. A. X. Last night after someone called in a bomb threat to a flight from taiwan. Nothing was found. A day after a day when a dozen similar calls from made to airliners. David kerley reports for us. The fbi is looking for an anonymous suspect responsible for this. Shut down at your discretion. We may be here for a while. An air france jet surrounded at jfk. As it approaches the u. S. Fighter jets scrambled and watched from a distance as the jetliner landed. Just one of about ten flights in which an unidentified caller made a threat to local authorities about a chemical device on board. Je lanning at five difrent airports all fakes. The fbi has to take every one of these seriously. They almost dont have a choice particularly if the plane is in the air. Youre going to search it. The fbi is trying to trace back the phone caller. Was the call made in the u. S. Or overseas. Is that caller linked to an organization or just an individual. If you do this were going to lock you up. Threatening a jetliner can mean five years in prison. David kerley abc news washington. Coming up model mother. The new magazine cover showing a supermodel breastfeeding her child. The images sparking a letted debate. The in our next half hour, money talks. Your monthly cell phone bill pulling big dollars out of your wallet. There is a way to save. Our tips on what to say. Youre watching world news now. World news well, a magazine cover is generating a lot of second looks. A supermod did he breastfeeding her baby. The response overwhelmingly positive but not without controversy. If you want to check it out, pick up this magazine at newstands. You cant do that. Theres some fear out there that people would take issue with the issue. Thats why you cant get it. Abcs linsey davis with the story for us. On the runway nicole is used to turning heads. But its this photo that has everyone buzzing. Appearing on the june cover of el australia breastfeeding 5monthold son zion. He was on the set with me all day. There were periods where i had to feed him. I had on this beautiful outfit and the stylist was like wow, thats amazing. Lets move you on set to have this picture taken. The i thinks now going viral with the normalize breastfeeding. Trun if iio who is engaged to musician gary clark junior says she doesnt mind being a voice for moms. Theres nothing worse as a mother doing something thats so necessary like feeding your child. And feeling like somebody could have an opinion about it or somebodys looking at you in the wrong way. Trun if iio isnt the first celebrity to advocate normalizing breastfeeding. In 2008 this age of Angelina Jolie appeared on the cover of w magazine. Other stars like Gisele Bundchen and Alyssa Milano attempting to make breastfeeding less taboo. Over all the social media response has been overwhelmingly positive. Women have been really happy to see motherhood and breastfeeding celebrated and out in the open. But not everyone will be seeing this cover. Exclusive to subscribers only. This is the cover appearing on supermarket stands. El saying in a note from the editorinchief not everyone walking through a supermarket is our target demographic nor are they all going to be understanding of the message behind this cover. It should be something that isnt a cover mom. Its a huge part of being a mother and motherhood. My two worlds collided at that moment. Linsey davis, abc news new york. Please weigh in, t. J. It never fails. Shes feeding the baby. It would be great to get to a day where nothing is controversial about it. A mother has to feed interesting though the decision not to have it here in the u. S. There are i was reading this book called bringing up baby, about french parenting. Apparently a lot of women in france despite not to breastfeed despite a lot of proven benefits. A lot of women have varying views. Unlike ordinary diapers, pampers has three absorbent layers to stay up to three times drier. So your baby can sleep soundly all night. Wishing you love sleep and play. Pampers leftovers. They get reheated. Renuked. And rebaked. Even when theyre done. Theres stuff left over. New dawn platinum power clean. Powers through tough driedon messes in seconds. A drop of dawn and grease is gone. Important message for residents age 50 to 85. 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So they came up with this to have greater awareness that if men had periods, people would talk more openly about if men had periods that they would talk about it and that possibly as much as 30 , nearly 30 of people would probably talk about it on sports newscasts if men had feareds during sporting events. Were going to go past the manupon thing. It flow o flowed. It just came out of your mouth there and we just went past the word manupon. I didnt get past the word for a second. So i had you at manpon. You did. But the idea is we just focus more on it. We dont focus on it enough because its not a man issue. Men arent going through it so people dont realize 1. 25 million dont have toilet access. Whats the again. T. J. Holmes a little grumpy today. If men had periods. They would only be premenstrual five days out of the month. Could i make a suggestion here on air at all that a womans attitude her behavior changed in any way. No, because i am consistent. 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Good morning. Were halfway there. Halfway there. Good morning to you all. Welcoming back reena, a little under the weather yesterday. We missed as always. Thank you to marci gonzales. Stepping in. But poor reena had some back issues. They asked me mot to show this. What is that . Its a hot water pack. You fill it up with hot water. It looks like a whoopie cushion. Oh. Makes sense now. I didnt have that problem. Its the back. Im relieved to know it was that. But welcome back. Shes doing better. Shes doing better. Thank you. We got these storms that are essentially parked over the Southern Plains right now making a mess. Theyve been unleashing a new rain of torrential rain and floodings and yes, weve seen tornadoes, as well. This is one of many twisters spotted in the past 24 hours touching down in rural oklahoma last night. Flooding is the big story in houston, parts of the city totally overwhelmed. Nearly a foot of rain in one night, shutting down schools and offices. Six People Killed bringing the death toll across texas to 14. More than a dozen still missing this morning. Lets get the latest from abcs phillip mena. Surging waters from swollen rivers turning highways into canals leaving hundreds of cars trapped, families forced to carry children through waist high water. We have a thousand properties that we visually inspected. We believe that there may be as many as 4,000 with significant damage. Reporter in houston, thousands evacuated from their homes. In just 24 hours, the city got nearly a quarter of its yearly rainfall. This mans dashcam showing what drivers were up against. I cant see. Rescuers responding to more than 900 emergency calls, more than half water rescues. A female is stranded on top of the car underneath the bridge awaiting rescue. Days of record rainfall in texas left the ground saturated. More than a dozen people confirmed dead and more missing including laura mccomb and her two children swept away inside this house. Her husband survived but remains hospitalized. She called me. She said im in a house. Im floating down the river. Tell mom and dad i love you and pray. The search efforts continue with some help from mother nature. The storms finally moving out of this area and the floodwaters beginning to recede. Phillip mena, abc news, wemberley, texas. The flooding couldnt have come at a worse time for a woman near houston. She went into labor while stranded in high water on a highway. Firefighters couldnt reach her with their truck or ambulance so they rescued her in a dump truck. They took her to the hospital when the water receded. Thats where she gave birth. A storm system so big it also left its mark in the midwest and the ohio valley. A tornado touched down near dayton, ohio flipping over cars, leaving behind a trail of wreckage in the parking lot of a shopping center. Two people injured. Several restaurants and stores damaged, as well. Powerful winds also swept through illinois toppling trees and power lines, some crashing down on cars. Just making a mess. Youre seeing video here near chicago. As the system moves east, the Southern Plains not getting much of a break. Lets bring in justin pavek at accuweather. Hello to you, justin. Thanks and good morning. The south plains after Severe Weather yesterday will likely see another round later on this afternoon. This is again a dual threat. Severe weather and flash flooding targeting many of the same areas including oklahoma city, close enough to dallas, were going to put them in the risk zone, as well and then back off to the west. Record rainfall continuing here for the month of may. The northeast sizzling with high humidity. T. J. And reena, back to you. Thank you. Families in a mexico border town mourned loved ones yesterday afternoon after a tornado killed 13 people. Hundreds of homes destroyed when the twister touched down without any warning. Many of the homes reduced to rubble making the search for victims all the more difficult. Stay with abc news as we cover these extreme storms. Look for updates from our weather team on america this morning and good morning america. Word this morning of a new threat to your data security. This time the irs says thieves obtained the past tax returns of tens of thousands of us from one of its online sites. The scheme started in february but the tax agency just discovered last week. Abcs Pierre Thomas with more. Those 100,000 taxpayers will be getting very bad news. Thieves who had already stolen some of their personal information including names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers used that information to get past irs security. Heres where the story gets worse. Once inside, they targeted those specific taxpayers getting more Sensitive Information commonly found on tax returns. Like where they work, salaries, Bank Accounts and personal family information. The irs said it has fixed the problem and that it is offering free credit monitoring for those who got hacked. Like i said, bad news. Pierre thomas, abc news, washington. Chilling new details emerging as the aurora, colorado shooting trial of james holmes enters a fifth week. Prosecution focusing on the notebook holmes mailed to his psychiatrist. In it he described what he called his broken mind and his obsession to kill since childhood. Also revealed he considered attacking an airport instead but didnt want his attack confused with terrorism. He faces 166 charges in the attack which killed 12 people and wounded 70 others. Hes pled not guilty by reason of insanity. The fbi investigating a threat phoned into l. A. X. Yesterday. Against as eva Airline Flight arriving from taipei. The plane landed safely and was taken to a secure location where passengers were evacuated and the plane searched. Officials say nothing was found. The latest threat comes just a day after threats were phoned in. Again six flights landing in new york and boston. Nothing found on those planes either. Meantime a breach of protocol has landed this had chicago Flight Attendant in hot water with her airline. Passengers who boarded a Spirit Airline spotted this attendant posing inside one of the jet engine wells. Thats right. That wasnt photo shopped. They tracked down her Facebook Page where she just posted this and other photos and reported her to the airline. Spirit Spokesman Says the airline is now investigating the incident. It could have been worse. She could have tried to take a selfie. At least she the had the someone else is it just me . Its kind of a cool picture. It is. But kind of a dangerous picture. I think thats what people took issue to. Well do anything for that perfect profile picture, wont we . We are the age of selfie social media. Thats a cool picture. Shes going to be looking for a job soon. We turn to cleveland. A lot of bad news coming out of there lately about the police force, about shootings and so on and so forth. The city has something to celebrate and it has everything to do with lebron james. He and the cavaliers heading to the nba finals. They completed a fourgame sweep against my boys from atlanta last night. Crowd was into this thing. Cavs made it look pretty easy against the number one seed winning 11888. King james set to play in his fifth straight nba championship series. Takes a lot of hard work, takes a lot of time to make a team become whole. And you know, weve worked our tail off all season to get to this point. And to be able to represent the eastern conference in the nba finals is the ultimate especially in this city. Of course, james returned back to cleveland, went back to the cavaliers after spending a few years in miami, winning a couple championships there. This is the first finals appearance since eight years ago when they were swept by the spurs. Clevelands going to face either golden state or houston in the finals. Its going to be golden state. That starts a week from tomorrow. Golden state up three games to one in their series in the western conference finals now. Big event this saturday apparently. Saturday afternoon, huh . Yes. Thats because the brewers taking on the arizona diamondbacks. Did i get that right . I dont know. I i want paying attention like always. The game is at milwaukees miller park. But the big event before the game is this thing. The debut of whats dubbed as griller park. Barbecue grill made to look like the brewer stadium. A creation of a guy named matt tyler. He first had the idea for the grill seven years ago but only finished it up recently and now its set for its big debut. You like that . I do. Thats pretty impressive. That is impressive. I always do. I know. You always do. Like to give me a hard time with the sports stories. One day im going to show you up on the sports stories. You watch. Know a statistic or something you dont know. I cant wait. Coming up in the skinny you noticed they stopped giving you the sports stories. Did you . Why are you laughing . They used to. It was a conscious effort. But you used to get all sports stories. You dont get them anymore. I did mess up a couple peoples names. I apologized to them on twitter. Every time. I always send an apology. Weve got the celebrities who are most trusted in product endorsements coming up. Youre going to like who is who is at the top of the list. Well take your word for it. Later avoiding the nastiest conversations by sending a text message instead. Who is breaking up by typing instead of talking. Youre watching world news now. World news now weather, brought to you by resolve. World news now weather, brought to you by resolve. Does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty . Dont avoid it. Resolve it. Our new formula with a special conditioning ingredient softens your carpet with every use. 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A new Study Suggests that waiting a few moments to cut a childs umbilical cord leads to benefits later in life. What . Yeah. Researchers found children whose cord were cut more than three minutes after birth had slightly higher social and fine motor skills. What. I know, your mama should have waited. They think its because babies have the chance to absorb more iron rich blood from the placenta but no, t. J. s cord was cut five seconds after delivery. Oh. We can blame my mama. No, no, no dont blame your mama. Blame your mamas doctor. Oh, from the very beginning. I didnt have a chance. You didnt have a chance. Oh. They should have waited but they had the next one crying out so cut you off and move to the next one. I was looking for somebody to blame. The average American Family spends about 1,000 a year on cell phone bills including hundreds of mystery charges most of us dont even look at, dont understand and dont need either. And you dont have to spend that much. 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Thats 720 savings. That is amazing. A new phone for their daughter and 720 back in their pocket. But the best tip, negotiate on your ownby half. You can go to your wireless carrier, tell them you found alternate plans for less money in general, the experts tell us they will lower your rate by 20 to 30 . It really does pay to the speak up. T. J. , reena . I love rebecca. She always saves us money. Its always stuff you can really use and it works. You can take her to the bank or her ideas to the bank. Dont take her to the bank. Coming up, the most likable and bankable celebrity endorsements. And why johnny depp could end up in australian prison. Seriously . The skinny is next. World news now continues after this from our abc skinny, so skinny skinny time. We begin with the most likable celebrities pitching us products. If you want a famous face to sell you something, a new study says this is the guy. Liam neeson. Listen to him sell this to you. Think again. Im coming for you with lots of wow. Is he selling something or scaring the heck out of you . Out of all celebrities liam neeson apparently the best super bowl add for the game clash of clanz earned him the highest likability rating in the study conducted by nielsen. He pulled 78 in the study which means americans aware of the film star, 78 liked him. Coming in second, Pierce Brosnan for a kia sore sen toe ad and Matthew Mcconaughey for the lincoln ad. Nielsen scores for the First Quarter of 2015. Their aim to provide advertisers is information on the effectiveness of celebrity endorsers. Apparently men have an edge here. Wondering where the women are . Jennifer garner fourth behind mcconaughey and for her capital one commercials. Out of the top ten, only three were women. Thats kind of surprising. We turn to Actor Johnny Depp has been in australia filming the new pirates of the caribbean movie. He brought his dogs along for a ride. That is a problem. So much so the australian agriculture minister threatened to euthanize the dogs if they werent removed from the country. Their policy requires quarantining them for ten days. Hes facing up to ten years in prison and a 340,000 fine for his furry little unclaimed imports. The issue apparently so serious that it was addressed at an Australian Senate hearing. Having to do with wildlife and what not. It might sound crazy but it is very serious there. Hes trying to get it handled. What are the names . Pistol and boo are the dog names. Good luck with that. Next to a reboot for a hollywood cult classic. Its been 24 years since point break, the Kathryn Bigelow directed movie starring keanu reeves going undercover to catch bank robbers led by patrick swayze. Now the first trailer of the point break remake has been released. Check this out. Do you have any idea how many people youve killed, how many laws youve broken . The only law that matters is gravity. Stop. 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Im not going to pretend its work. Have you been dumped by text message . Comedians eva mcenroe and mel oh yens asked 20 somethings to read the last texts they received from their exes. Hey. The video posted on youtube has now gone viral in just over a week it skyrocketed to more than 1. 5 million views. We woke up one morning, were like oh, my god. Fun. The art of the breakup has come a long way from the days of sex and the city but the inspiration still the same. Having relationships not really break up but just kind of fade away. Just like one day youre suddenly not texting anymore and youre like oh. I guess thats that. Dont come over. There is no chili. Mel and eva decided to find the humor in those last messages and brought together a group of friends who were willing to share their sad endings with the cameras rolling. I was at my friends wake yesterday and on my way to the burial now. Cant really talk. There was no need for enhancement. And i think thats what made it so real and interesting why people could reit because they were just what they were. On my way. All she has is the memories that he was on his way. Thanks, eva. They say millennials have perfected the text message breakup. Ill keep you posted. The phrase breaking up is hard to do. We dont really like hard things. Everyone just kind of takes the easy road out and just goes silent. But they say its not all that. Sometimes the text you thought went unanswered was in fact. Oh, my god, he did respond. How did i not see this . No, no, he responded. And that may be something worth celebrating. Yes, yes dan harris, abc news, new york. Thats cool they make light of it. But it could be painful. It could be painful. Im not so sure about the texting. About breaking up in a text. Just texting in general. What is that . Sorry, t. J. What does it say . What does it im not feeling it anymore. That was my last text to you. What was my response . I couldnt see it. Thank god. Response . I couldnt see it. Thank god. Making news in america this morning deadly floods. Walls of water taking out home covering entire communities. The number of missing still rising including a mother and her two young children. Plus, the the hazards now surfacing. A casket unearthed. Snakes seeking higher ground. Breaking overnight. American investigators going after officials connected to the worlds biggest sport. Why authorities arrested fifa members in the Early Morning hours. Caught on camera. Robbers smashing the cases. An employee fighting back. Tarmac trouble. An employee trying to get the perfect picture now answering questions as the picture goes viral