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Save her husband and son. I kept thinking this isnt how my life is supposed to end. How her will to survive and to save her family led to one incredible rescue. Well i guess it would be nice new details about the shocking death of George Michael. His boyfriends tragic discovery finding the singer dead in his bed on Christmas Morning. And the newly released pictures showing the star in one of his final public appearances as fans pay tribute to the man and his music. cause i got to have faith i got to have faith sending him back to the top of the charts. I got to have faith good morning, america. Dan and i want to thank you for joining us on a tuesday morning. Theres so much mystery surrounding the death of pop superstar George Michael. We want to take another look at that newly released appearances looking different. He had withdrawn from public life in recent years but weve seen it all over social media. Celebrity tributes pouring in overnight. Well have more on this story coming up but its pretty remarkable to see whats happening with his music. I got in the car and they were having a George Michael marathon. I suspect this will last for quite a bit. He does look different in that picture. A lot to talk about on that story. However we start with the chaos at the malls. This happened across america on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. There were fight, fireworks explosions and even police in riot gear storming stores. Many of the incidents caught on camera as you can see and abcs Adrienne Bankert is here with much more. Adrienne, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, dan. On one as you said the busiest shopping day of the year as people are returning Christmas Gifts and taking advantage of all those megadeals what seems to be something orchestrated online with fake fights breaking out all over the country. Across the country, mal violence and chaos breaking out in more than a dozen shopping hot spots monday. One of the busiest days of the holiday season. Please, please. Reporter in new jersey panicked shoppers fleeing for the exits at the jersey gardens mall after a loud noise during a food court fight was mistaken for gunfire. They just yelled shooter. Somebody is shooting then we just after that everybody ran. Reporter armed police swarming the scene and several injured in the rush to evacuate. From a mall melee in illinois. Go, go, go. Reporter to this tennessee mall brawl caused by fireworks igniting in a store. Immediately people started screaming and then we looked around and saw the flood of people running towards the exit and so just got up and took off with them. Reporter Police Investigating whether social media was used to plan these disturbances. The crowd began to circle our officers so our officer has to call for help. They had rifles in the mall and they had batons to get people out of the colorado, a social media post told people there would be a fight at the mall. Certainly makes you want to order things online. Not clear who was behind them or if all these are related and as you can expect youll see more security today at malls in your city. Dan and paula. Adrienne, great point. Order online and stay safe. Winter storms wreaking havoc and leaving hundreds of miles of highway hut down on whats going to be one of the busiest travel days of the year and its only going to get worse because as rob marciano is standing by to tell us there is more snow and cold on the way. Yes, there is. Still talking about Christmas Day blizzard. It had slowed down run into pockets of cold air and had scenes of this, icy conditions and center of the low into canada but the tail end across the deep south. We are not quite done with this just yet. Overnight, the storm system that blasted the Northern Plains with heavy snow and ice on c moving east creating a holiday week travel nightmare. In new england freeze be rain creating icy roads. Cars overturned in New Hampshire and springfield, massachusetts. On the onramp it was very slippery and i was watching cars slide into each other. Reporter winds over 60 Miles Per Hour ripping the roof off this barn in vermont. In the Northern Plains residents still digging out from that massive christmas blizzard. Im on the second story and the snow is right there. Reporter over 20 inches of snow and fierce winds causing near whiteout conditions blanketing roads and forcing 500 miles of interstate across the dakotas to shut down. Its pretty much buried. Reporter in north dakota cars and homes literally snowed in. Also trapped by the wicked weather, thousands at airports around the country. We went up to our gate and when we find out theres a 3 1 2hour delay. Reporter more than 3500 flights delayed monday. Almost 4 some stranded travelers forced to spend the night. On the warm side of the system we have foggy conditions from atlanta down across the gulf coast and might see more travel delays and the front moves through. Not much colder throughout it. 10 to 20 Degrees Higher in the northeast. Our next system comes in thursday, a coastal low and this may bring snow just to the outside of the big cities. More on that throughout the morning. Dont come back until you have something nice to say. Ill work on that. Speaking of not having nice things to say, politics. It started so civil, the postelection relationship between president obama and president elect trump but now it has evolved into a nasty back and forth. Donald trump unleashing a new twitter blast after president obama said he would have beat trump in the election. Abcs mary bruce at the white house covering it all. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Yeah, for weeks theyve put on a public good face but this morning more signs that honeymoon is over. The president and president elect are now off clashing over Foreign Policy and who could have beaten whom. This morning its current versus future president. In an interview president obama says he could have taken on trump. I am confident in this vision because i am confident that if i had run again and articulated it i think i could have mobilized a majority of the American People to rally behind might. Reporter trump is not buying it firing back saying mrez said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but i say no way. Trump later added the world was gloomy before i won. There was no hope. Now the market is up nearly 10 and christmas spend something over a trillion dollars. It began as a cordial enough transition. Very, very good man. Thank you. Reporter but now that escalating tension coming at trump has been openly critical of the obama administrations Foreign Policy. Objecting to a recent decision to allow the u. N. To pass a building settlements. Now trump slamming the u. N. Tweeting the organization has such Great Potential but right now its just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. Trump also taking to twitter overnight to defend his familys embattled charitable foundation, amid an investigation into its spending. Saying that unlike most foundations it never paid fees, rent, salaries or any expenses. 100 of the money goes to wonderful charities announcing days ago hes shutting down the foundation in an effort to disentangle from potential conflicts but the new York Attorney Generals Office says it cannot legally dissolve until that investigation is complete. Now, trump has already paid a penalty to the irs after it was discovered his foundation made an improper campaign contribution. Closing the foundation is just a first step. He has yet to explain how hed distance himself from his business empire. He promised those in a press conference but later postponed more to come. Mary, thank you. Lets bring in chief political analyst matthew dowd who is in austin this morning. Hey, matthew, good morning. Reporter good morning. So president obama seems to have picked this latest fight by saying he would have beaten trump in the election. Why do you think he did this especially after he took such great pains to ensure civility after the election . Reporter well, one, i think he absolutely stated a thing he believes to be a fact that he thought he would win in this. I think a lot of these things are a bit like the hunger games where everybody has these alliances but as you get closer to the end then people start going after each other. The interesting thing to me in all of this is that the people that are more upset than trump and his supporters are Hillary Clinton and her supporters, the fact that barack obama would say i would have won this race but for the fact Hillary Clinton lost it i would have won it. It made them angry. Matt, first and foremost, im sorry about your detroit loy yons. Oh, my gosh. We had the Green Bay Packers theres a new poll out, majority of americans optimistic about what will happen and the numbers are up from last year. The stock market up. Trump taking credit for it. Does he have a point . Well, the only point i think he has is that there was a bunch of people that predicted the stock market would tank after the election if donald trump had won. Obviously that didnt happen and is up in the course of this but donald trump is going to be fun da mentally judged what happened after the inauguration. Whats the unemployment rate, whats the gas prices and stock market . All of that will be judged on a barometer starting on january 20th. Thats how he will be judged in his presidency. As we lead up to the 20th, what are the potential consequences for america if this relationship between trump and obama continues to go south . Well, it certainly isnt going to be what happened with george w. Bush and barack obama where george w. Bush faded and never said anything. My guess is we are looking ahead to whats going to happen on january 21st. I think barack obama is going to be very assertive and very aggressive in taking on donald trump. All right, less than 25 days until the inauguration. Matt dowd, thanks again and its not over yet for your lions. No, beat the packers. All right, matt, sounds good. We want to move to security stepping up in times square for new years eve. New fears have been heightened in the wake of the terror attack in berlin and Law Enforcement saying no specific threat but not taking any chances and abcs linzie janis is right here in times square this morning all the way on top of that iconic building where the ball will drop. I think we can see you, linzie. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, paula. Its a bit windy up here. Were getting an up close look at the ball that will drop here on new years eve. 1 Million People are expected to gather for the festivities and after that wave of terror attacks at home and abroad, there will be an army of Law Enforcement here to try and keep people safe. With new years eve just five days away, the nypd has begun ramping up security around times square surrounding streets barricaded, officers in Tactical Gear armed with rifles. The vigilance in response to a joint security bulletin released late last week expressing concern about unaffiliated lone offenders and homegrown violent extremists targeting the event. Law enforcement still on high Alert Worldwide in the wake of the deadly truck attack in berlin that killed 12 and left dozens more injured. In light of what weve experienced in this country and the attacks that weve witnessed overseas, Law Enforcement has to take every situation seriously. Reporter according to the security document there is no specific, credible threat against the times square new years eve 2017 celebration. But the presence of a large number of spectators represents opportunities for a masscasualty event. In times square, close to million revelers expected to count down the new year. Meaning security will be the citys top priority. People need to be able to recognize the warning signs, the behaviors that a person who is a threat exhibits. They need to report those individuals to Law Enforcement. Reporter and Law Enforcement officials across the country are asking anybody attending festivities on new years eve to be extremely vigilant and, dan, in case you were wondering this ball, 12 feet across, it has more than 2500 waterford crystals. This ball drop tradition has been going since 1907. And it will continue this year. Linzie, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. Want to turn to a different kind of security concern this morning. This one outside of detroit. It involves a massive sinkhole that opened up on Christmas Eve. More than a dozen homes had to be evacuated. People running out with their Christmas Gifts in hand. Abcs eva pilgrim is on the story from frazier, michigan. Eva, good morning. Reporter if you look at this fence you can see home is leaning at an angle. It appears to be sliding, a sinkhole pulling it in. Families anxiously waiting to see how big the sinkhole gets and what it takes next. This morning a state of emergency in fraser, michigan, a sinkhole threatening this entire neighborhood. Were a small town, Something Big has happened. Reporter it devoured everything above it. Authorities concerned it will grow. Homes, hanging in the balance. So far 22 families evacuated including sow alba who woke up early Christmas Eve to the sound of splintering brick. Loud noises, cracking throughout the evening. It got progressively greater like, boom, boom, boom. Reporter neighbor derek and his father running over to help grabbing whatever they could. We kept running in and out as much as we could until the Police Officers told us we could no longer go in because it was too dangerous. Reporter this issant problem. In 2004 a massive sinkhole opened on the same road. Shutting it down for nearly ten months. But this new sinkhole even larger and Officials Say it could take even longer to fix. Authorities blaming it on a collapsed wer pipe 45 feet under the ground. Residents being urged to stay away. Let these people get their jobs done. A devastating situation dont want it to become a tragedy. Reporter engineers are now working to figure out a way to get some of these families back to their homes but say that could take as much as two weeks. Dan and paula. Eva, thank you. We want to move to the mystery behind the shocking twitter hoax. You may have seen it falsely reporting that Britney Spears had died. It was sony musics account that was hacked causing a whole lot of confusion online. This morning new questions about who is behind it all and why they did it. Abcs Mara Schiavocampo has the story. Reporter the two tweets caused a massive up sensations death. Britney spears is dead by accident, we will tell you more soon. Then just seven minutes later, rip, britney. 1981 to 2016. Spears spokesperson immediately denying the news telling cnn britney is fine and well. There have been a few internet clowns over the years who have made similar claims about her death but never from the official sony music twitter account. Hackers in particular like to boast. They like to show off that they are able to get in and shine a light on a companys suscep81tibility to this. Reporter bob dylans twitter also spreading the false news writing, rest in peace, Britney Spears. Bob dylans case zone was handling his twitter account so these celebrities, theyre not the ones driving the tweets. They have social media managers. So you have a lot of people with access to passwords. Reporter certain characteristics of this latest hack appear to suggest a connection to ourmine. A group that has previously been linked to hacks on marvel and netflix. They claim they are merely a Security Group whose goal is to make sure online accounts are secure. For its part, sony says their twitter account was compromised. This has been rectified. Sony music apologizes to Britney Spears and her fans for any confusion. Now, spears later posted several photos of herself making silly faces showing she is just fine and isnt taking any of this too seriously. A tip, dont use the same password for every social media account. We hear it over and over again but thats what will keep you safe. We have a fein note from the world of sports. Paula, check this out. A rookie making his debut with the Houston Rockets bringing back the underhanded free throw known as the granny shot. You dont see this often. Chinanu onuaku told Sports Illustrated he knows people are going to make fun of him but, qu people think. Apparently he struggled with free throws in college and his coach encouraged had him to go underhand and it worked. Hey, you know what, if itll bring up your shooting percentage how do you shoot yours. I miss every time. Maybe you should try the granny. I probably should if i had as much intestinal ford today as that man has. I bet you rob has never. I have but theres nothing sexy about an air ball. Whatever you need to do to get it in, you do it. Sexy snow heading into the northwest. This is the good news of this system. Winter storm warnings getting pounded by it. Sun valley, big sky in mt. Hood, as well. Another storm that brings one to two feet and several inches of rain across the valleys. Rain thursday cold windy friday few showers to ring in the new year today early am showers. Sunshine this afternoon. Warm breezy. Highs 6065 winds sw to w 515 g 30 mph tonight mainly clear. Cold. Lows 3339 winds nw 5 mph to calm wednesday mostly sunny. Cooler. Highs 4449 winds se 5 mph this is not a picture of switzerland. Taos, new mexico, where they certainly had a white christmas. Something nice to say. You said not to come back until you had something nice to say. Desk listens to me once in a while. Why are you looking at me . I dont know. I always submit to my coanchor, right . Maybe not. 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Welcome back to gma on a tuesday morning. Youre looking live at times square right here in new york city. The big apple is getting ready for its Biggest Party of the year, new years rockin eve four days away and the new York City Police Department Planning unprecedented security for the 1 Million People expected to watch th ball drop. I anticipate you wont be one of those 1 million. Ill be watching from the comfort of my couch. Of course, you will. Millions across the country feeling the force of dangerous winter storms. Rob has been covering it all morning and crews worked overtime to clear hundreds of miles of roads closed by heavy snow and high winds. This as a new storm is brewing in the northwest. In politics president elect Donald Trumps foundation is being ordered to stop raising money for spending it according to sources due to the new York Attorney generals investigation into the foundation. It has mor assets. Youre welcome. This one is back. Sara. Yay. I should have come up with a better dance. That was a little spastic. What else would we expect. Nothing more. A new warning about what youre leaving out at your curb this week that might attract criminals. Gio is standing by live with the postholiday safety tip. Looking a little suspicious in that shot. Is gio the guy we should be looking out for. Possibly. Much more from gio coming up and much more dancing in her chair from sara haines, i promise. We begin with the in is t r tearous final months of George Michaels life. Fans are leaving flowers and paying respects. His home where he was found dead on Christmas Day and t. J. Holmes has the latest on who found him. Reporter good morning to you and theres a lot of us still streaming nonstop, right, George Michael songs and a lot dealing with ha shock and sadness of his death. But the question remains here for a lot of us, how in the man goes to bed on the night of Christmas Eve but doesnt wake up on Christmas Morning . We could have some answers on some medical issues coming up soon but right now we are hearing from the person who found him on Christmas Morning. More details this morning about the circumstances surround George Michaels death, a tweet from fadi fawaz, michaels reported boyfriend says he found the singers body. To pretend i know youre not a fool reporter the london based hairdresser wrote its a christmas i will never forget, finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning. I will never stop missing you. As friends and fans gather at michaels home to pay tribute to the singer who is believed to have passed away from Heart Failure at the age of 53 new pictures are emerging of michael out at dinner with a friend in his hometown of oxfordshire this past september. This them he looks a far cry from the artist. I gotta i gotta have faith reporter who fronted ten number one singles and sold more than 115 million records. Baby reporter song streams have increased more than 3,000 on sites like spotify. His 1987 album faith one of top five in the u. S. Friends say the onetime pop icon had withdrawn from public life over the last couple of years as he tried to overcome struggles with drug and alcohol that plagued him through much of his career. In 2008 he was caught with drugs in a public restroom. Im coming out here on my own so that you realize i just want to start again. Reporter a health scare in 2011 when he says he almost died from pneumonia while on tour. Some now believe it could be a while before we know what led to his death. Theres always going to be speculation but this is a person who led a troubled, complicated life. Reporter a complicated life possibly in the next few days an autopsy report to get more answers about what in the world, 53 years old. Thats really young. There had to be some sort of warning signs leading up to this. We certainly would assume so because, this just doesnt happen. It can happen to any of us but it just doesnt usually and a lot of people are saying he didnt have a public life over the past few days and months for us to see him for us to see if there was some kind of deterioration or something going on and i was talking to dr. Jen ashton. The fact that they are saying this is, of course, unexplained but not suspicious they want to do an autopsy because they want to do one that lets us know they dont even know really what happened to him and what might have happened so maybe there were no signs. So much mystery, all right, t. J. Look forward to having you. You mentioned dr. Ashton. Well talk more about this with dr. Ashton and heart health for all of us. You can see more about George Michaels life tonight right here 10 00 eastern. What authorities are calling a christmas miracle. That family weve been talking about stranded in the snow while on vacation at the grand canyon rescued after a lifethreatening ordeal and brave mothers harrowing 26mile journey for help. They spoke with abc news and matt gutman joins us from los angeles with the story for us this morning. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, paula. This is a story of two parents incredible will to survive and save their kid. You know, its amazing how reliant we are on these things, the gps did get the klein family car stuck in a giant snowdrift and after 45 miles of walking combined, the filmiest of cell phone signals saved them from what rescuers say was certain death. On Christmas Eve karen klein, her husband eric and their 10yearold son isaac set out on a family trip to the grand canyon. Their gps serving as the guide. We were kind of thinking, well, th but this is the way its telling us to go. Reporter they were in the midst of a storm and their car got stuck. Since eric had recently suffered a broken back and karen was a marathoner, they decided shed be the one to get help. So she slogged back to the main road where shed hoped to flag someone down or find a cell phone signal. After hoofing it for ten miles in snow that was three feet deep, she noticed the main highway was closed but then she remembered another entrance to the park 14 miles away. At that point i was dehydrated. I would take snow and put it in my cheek for hydration and i was eating twigs. Reporter finally after walking 30 miles for 30 hours with a pulled groin muscle, she noticed a cabin near the entrance to the park. She broke a window, crawled in and collapsed. I kept thinking, this isnt how my life is supposed to end. This is no, no, no. You know, my son mother. My husband needs his wife. Reporter meanwhile, her husband eric decided it was time to take matters into his own hands. We knew something was wrong because it wasnt like karen to be away. So i walked 15 miles north and at that point there was cell reception. We get up on the trail where there is no cashes allowed. The car is stranded. Reporter finally they were able to locate eric and isaacs car and tracked karen to that cabin. People should realize they have more strength within them than they think an to dra upon that and to not give up hope. Reporter so i checked in with the Survival School to get a couple of tips. Turns out eating snow, not such a great idea. It brings down your body temperature. Also eating twigs and branchs not a terrible idea but in those conditions the most important thing, more than food and water is finding shelter. And turns out, guys, you should have lis always listen to your mother, you can lose 45 of your body heat by not having your head covered so put a hat on. Great advice. Good advice. Very great advice. So relieved to hear that family is doing better. Dan, big board is coming up. Coming up, the Jonbenet Ramsey murder mystery exactly 20 years after her death. Can you believe its been 20 years. New dna testing is now set to take place. Could it help track down her killer once and for all . Plus, on a very different note, the after christmas crunch. Millions heading out to Stores Across the country to return gifts. Why they might be in for a rude awakening. Were back in just two minutes. When aachoo calls. Answer it. With zicam cold remedy. So you get better, faster. Colds are gonna call. Answer them with zicam zicam. Get your better back. Now in great tasting crystals. Welcome back. Time for our big board breaking down more of this mornings top stories. Lets start with the Jonbenet Ramsey murder mystery. Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the day the 6yearold was found dead in the basement of her familys home. A crime that has horrified and former fbi agent brad garrett joining us this morning. Brad, good morning to you. Good morning. So, what are police doing right now to try to solve this case and what should they be doing . Well, first of all, the dna could be a potentially a big break. New technology which lets you work with smaller amounts of dna and even corrupted or adult rated dna to come up with a profile. Thats one aspect but, dan, two other things will i believe help solve this case. A new set of eyes. When you go to a cold case you have to start over and go through the entire case again. That combined with the publics help. I realize this has been going on 20 years but i can tell you based on experience you can still solve it. So all that new technology to look at those 200 dna samples. The parents, john and patsy, they were exonerated in 2008. Patsy passed away 2006 but you never felt that the parents were involved in this, did you . No and heres the reason why. If you look at the nature of how jonbenet died which is quite gruesome, we wont go into, it would be someone very, very, very demented, violent, sort of perverted in a way. I think the idea that burke, the son and or the parents were involved is remote then you add the 2 1 2page ransom note which is a bit rambling and odd, it just doesnt work for me. You said this before. You really do think this case can be solved even decades after the fact. I can tell you, dan, based on experience solving cases that are 10, 15, 20, 30 years old, when you go back and look at a case, people might have been well intended but missed places. They didnt do a complete interview or you now have new information to go back to somebody. Another look perhaps at former sex offenders that lived in the neighborhood. Those type of things are an area. Youve got to preel back the onion and start over. S return gifts. Millions of americans are heading back to the stores to wash in on unwanted presents but could they be in for a rude awakening . Becky worley who is not rude, by the way, joining us with more. One of our favorite people. Becky, how big of an after christmas crunch are we looking at. Im not rude at all. Very formal and traditionally, paula, in response to the greeting Merry Christmas people would say and many happy returns. Well, the returns, not so happy right now. First new data on why the malls are so crowded. The National Retail federation saying 46 of consumers plan to shop the after christmas sales. Then youve got 42 of people saying they will return a gift. I was told there would be no math but i can tell you that those two stats add up to zero parking and 20minutelong checkout lines. Its crowded out there. What about the idea some stores are making it harder to return gifts by shortening the wiow return windows vary by store. We talked about the fact that return window on drones can be as short as 14 days at some stores. Lets talk about overall store policies though. Consumer reports listing costco, bed, bath beyond and jcpenneys with the best policies. No time limits. Free shipping. No receipts needed then we look at some of the stores Consumer Reports say are toughest. Forever 21, no cash back. Gamestop, 30day time limit. Abes of maine, policy is loaded with exceptions. And three stores that change their return policy around the holidays to make it, gee, more beneficial for them and ultimately more challenging for us consumers, kohls, they have a deadline for premium electronics. Walmart, 15day return policy on drones, we were just talking about that. Macys, they require all returns in one year. So, guys, Merry Christmas. Good luck on your returns. Thanks. Moment of honesty, if you cannot return it, do you regift it . What do you do, brad . Of course, you do and so has everyone thats watched your show today. Oh. As soon as you hear that from an fbi profiler you know its totally cool to regift. Becky, your feeling. I would not regift to brad because he would figure out that id regift it. In our family we have a policy, regifting is totally okay so long as you dont forget who gave it to you in the first place and regift it back to them. In thats a little confusing. What about you. I feel regift something fine as long as you tell people you are regifting. This is something i got but i dont want. I usually use it as like an appetizer to the actual real gift. So its kind of in addition. Its a little bonus. I didnt want it but maybe you did. Ill take a gift from you any time. Heres whats coming up. Thank you very much, guys. Coming up, weve all about porch pirates stealing packages off your doorstep. Speaking of gifts but now its your Christmas Gift garbage that could be attracting thieves. Thats coming up right here on gma. 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Theyll give you an offer for your car, you take seven days to think about it. Welcome back, everyone. Weve all seen videos, brazen thieves stealing packages right off folks front porches leading up to the holidays but now post christmas there is a new warning, its your, quote, gift garbage that could be attracting criminals and abcs gio benitez has details from us from mt. Vernon, new york. Good morning, gio. Can you tell us about this latest criminal activity . Reporter thats right, paula. You know what, i hate to say be paranoid but you got to be paranoid here because right now police are warning that she was are actually driving around these neighborhoods looking to see whats inside your house and what you got for the holidays. So let me show you what im talking about over here. Because well walk out to the curb here and this particular house looks like it has some empty boxes out here and just weve got a tv set here, weve got an apple display, easily about two grand worth of stuff according to the garbage and so thats what they say, thiefs are doing, theyre driving around these neighborhoods looking for these boxes. They want to see whats inside your house, what you got for the holidays, because that is how theyre going to be able to target your home and thats what you want to avoid. This is why i only leave diaper boxes out in front of the house. What do you do aside from tricking people with diaper boxes to prevent this kind of thing, gio . Reporter im so glad you asked. What youll do, youll want to break down a lot of these boxes, right. Break them down and you want to remove any of the labeling because if you remove the labels, then they cant see what youre advertising. But youre going to go ahead and get this and put it inside the recycling bin inside your trash bin. You want to conceal it entirely from the curb. You dont want to do this because this is what gives it all away, i cant wait to give all of this advice to my husband who always takes out the recycling. Sounds like that marriage is operating the way it should be. There you go. Thank you very much, gio. We appreciate the excellent advice and coming up, new questions after two major Celebrity Health incidents. Do men and women experience heart attacks differently . A question were exploring and dr. Ashton is here with a warning. Sara haines outside. Whats going on. I have officially lost all of my hearing. Weve got quite a crowd outside with social media sensation Cameron Dallas with just a few of his 35 million followers hes sharing secrets to stardom and the idea behind ace brandnew show coming up if he survives this crowd. I can honestly tell you, i struggle no more. 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What a day we are nearly in upper manhattan the crowd is so huge to see Cameron Dallas. Theyre comfortable out here. Temperatures in the 50s. Recording falling across much of the southeast up into ohio. More record highs possible tomorrow so enjoy that warmth. All this brought Good Morning America is brought to you by downey. Protect your clothes from stretching, fading and fuzz. Break developments overnight fromnorthwest d. C. Family members of Trisha Mccauley confirms her body has been found. The yoga teacher enemiesing Christmas Day. Inside meredith they found her body. The driver was immediately taken into custody. D. C. Police will be holding a News Conference set to begin any minute now. We want the get an update on weather now. Heres veronica johnson. Some of us today may be Walking Around in short sleeves. Todays temperatures will be rising into the 60s. Well start with a jacket but short leaves possible by afternoon. 60 today. 40s tomorrow and 50s toward the end overrule workweek. So it is going turning cold by friday. Best chance between seven and 9 00 a. M. We could see a shower linger between 11 00 a. M. And lunchtime. Look in the new year, into the upper 40s for highs. And this morning we have some delays on the roads as well. Thanks are cleared up on 395. We had an accident earlier. You can see lanes are open now. Slow as you make the northbound ride now from ed sell road this morning. Elsewhere, for you traveling 95 southbound we had the issue between 212 and the beltway. Still slow out of maryland but no reports of any issues. Still blocking a lane southbound toward the beltway. You can get more news, traffic and weather updates on good morning washington on newschannel 8. Have a great day, everyone. Good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. And fighting erupting at shopping malls across the country. Causing injuries, arrests and emergency evacuations. Was it all instigated on social media . Zero sugar diet, the simple steps to kick starting your revolution right, 14 days to a flatter stomach with your favorite meals and the surprising foods to avoid in the new year. Health alert. Two shocking celebrity heart episode, the death of the pop superstar George Michael and carrie fishers serious medical emergency sparking serious questions. The big warning for women about cardiac arrest this morning. And a gma megamakeover just in time to ring in the new year. Transformation and her familys priceless reaction. As we say all good morning, america. [ cheers and applause ] hey, good morning, america. What a great audience we have both outside and inside. Ive already been Walking Around inside here paying people off to laugh at whatever jokes i make. You have to pay us a little bit more. We are very excited to see the man on the screen there, youtube superstar Cameron Dallas. He is in times square taking over snapchat and instagram with his sister and he has more than 35 million followers. And hundreds of those. Hell tell us about his new project on netflix. Thousands, i was just ou did you get a selfie with him. No, but he hugged me and then girl were ready to take me out. Well give a gma megamakeover to one lucky mom and here she is, our glam squad is about to work their magic. We cant wait to see that big reveal. A very deserving mother getting a welldeserved transformation. Coming up in pop news how oscar Host Jimmy Kimmel is gearing up to host hollywoods biggest night. T. J. Has a look at the rundown. Good morning, and the big story the historic visit to pearl harbor. Japans Prime Minister is joining president obama at the uss arizona memorial 75 years after his countrys attack. Prime minister abe laid wreaths in hawaii monday to honor the victims. The u. S. Ambassador to japan Caroline Kennedy spoke about her father when she was asked about the significance of the visit. Inspired when president obama and also p get a chance to reflect on the power of the alliance and reconciliation and my father fought in the pacific so i think for me personally i think i really cant imagine an event that would be more historic and i feel so privileged to be part of it. This trip comes after president obama became the first sitting u. S. President to visit hiroshima. Israel says it will move ahead with a plan to build more temperatures in eastern jerusalem defying a vote by the United Nations Security Council last week which condemned the settlements. 600 new Housing Units are expected to be built. The u. N. Vote deepened the rift between the Obama White House and Benjamin Netanyahu ya but president elect trump is defending israel. On monday he slammed the u. N. Saying, quote, it has such Great Potential but right now its just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad, end quote. Some disturbing video from several shopping malls across this country. Police responded to at least 15 malls from connecticut to colorado after large fighting broke out. In some cases officer has to use pepper spray. Some malls even had to be evacuated. It appears some of the fights were organized on social media and there were several arrests. No serious injuries to report. New video of thieves throwing a rock through the door of this store on madison avenue in new york and stole more than a Million Dollars in fur coats. Some are worth 200,000 each. The thieves are on the run but apparently pretty warm right now. All but one of the inmates who escaped from a tennessee jail on christmas have been captured. The men escaped through a hole after removing a toilet from the wall. A leak rusted the bolts. The one inmate on the run serving time for aggravated robbery. The fastest animal on earth may be racing towards extinction. Wildfire experts say only 7100 cheetahs remain. On another note now, an invitation supersized one teenagers special day. Rubi garcia celebrated her 15th birthday in mexico with family, friends and look at this, thousands of strangers. Thats because her dad posted a video on facebook inviting everybody to the party. Everybody, promising food and prizes. You see her face there, guys. She doesnt look too thrilled about it and i think i can explain why. Youd be excited if thousands of people showed up but, guys, he didnt bring presents. A lot of people didnt bring anything. Weve all had that person come to your house and eat your food and drink your liquor and then bounce. Nothing. My face looks like that too. T. J. , feels like you were excavating personal wounds on your part here. Thats what i do on this show. This is therapeutic. This is therapy. We only did that to t. J. Once. By the way, dan, how long has it been for you to be able to introduce sara doing pop news. Its been several months. Very good to have [ cheers and applause ] id like you to officially introduce me. Its time now for pop news and sara haines is here. Last time i checked, dan, he said i dont know what number this is, rude. Everyone is excited for the oscars including jimmy kimmel, this years host, kimmel hit the streets to see what people knew about the upcoming awards show and found no everyone knows what was coming. Take a look. Where are you from . Brooklyn, new york. Brooklyn. Im from brooklyn. Do you know who is hosting the oscars . No, i dont. Ill give you a hint. Hes also from brooklyn. Oscar. Oh. Burn. Now, thats from the first commercial for hollywoods and brooklyns biggest night. The oscars air live on abc sunday, february 26th at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. I love that show. Hes amazing. Hes amazing, though. We should go on an ses terror. Com to see where oscar is i like he looked and that was his next guess, the statue. May not be it. And the tux didnt even clue him in. He needed to be like this guy right here. I would imagine a little intimidated to be interviewed by kimmel. Every time someone ambushes you on the street you lose all knowledge. A great gift for a big Chrissy Teigen fan. The host of lip sync battle wore this gorgeous red dress. A 23yearold rebecca howe love i had the tweeting to the star but seriously, when youre done with that red dress can i have it, please . Ask and you shall receive. She tweeted back she was done with the dress and sent the out it . To rebecca who said shell wear it on new years. Can you imagine tweeting to someone that. Really cool. Chrissy teigen does such a good job engaging her followers. Like an seriously sending a dress. Can i have a dress when youre done. Its probably too big. Stop it. I asked first. She promised. Talk about excavating personal issues on the air working it out right here. Next topic. Early holiday surprise for vanessa and nick lachey welcomed phoenix robert on Christmas Eve. They announced it on instagram with this picture of vanessa and the newborn joining hands. Vanessas post called him a christmas miracle noting he arrived early. So cute. I met her in person and shes one of those people you cant even speak in front of because shes so gorgeous and like you said you lose every thought you had in your mind. Shes one of those people. Hes such a proud daddy here hosting halloween, the ken to my barbie and clearly vanessa was not available. So he was talking about his kids and one of those beaming proud dads. I think theyre such family proud dads too, dan and rob. Rob just perked up. Im very proud. You, dan . Super proud. Speaking of proud dad, proud mom, proud parents in general, coming up our lucky mom, but this is her before putting herself in the hands of our glam squad and there she is getting ready for her big new years eve night. What a night its going to be for her. Plus, the zero sugar diet 14 days to a flatter stomach with your favorite meals. Dave zinczenko is here to break it down, hey, dave, see you in a minute. Gmas morning menu is brought to you fast powerful relief of robitussin because its never just a cough. Our blogs are buzzing about the designer smile. By colgate optic white high impact white toothpaste. With a professionally recommended whitening ingredient. For four shades visibly whiter eth. The designer smile. By colgate optic white high impact white. Customer service d. Maam. This isnt a computer. Wait. Youre real . With discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u. S. , like me, anytime. Wow. This is a recording. Really . No, im kidding. 100 u. S. 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We know that there are differences in men and women in their symptoms, in the causes, in the treatment and in their survival so you need to know the common symptoms in women, take a look at this list whether youre a man or a woman, because this could truly save someones life. The common symptoms of a heart attack in women, nausea and vomiting. They get a stomach flulike symptom, shortness of breath, unusual fatigue or chest discomfort. It doesnt always have to be pain but pressure. If you are a woman and feeling something bizarre from your jaw to your belly button, call 911. Think heart attack. Its better be to be wrong than dead. Some themselves as something else. Flulike symptoms. This is your platform. There is a crisis in Womens Health knowledge and women actually knowing more about this particular topic, its killing people. What do you mean. Its killing people, i think women dont know about their own bodies and the medical profession still has a lot to learn about gender differences and how different diseases present male versus female. I think if you look at these statistics, this is jaw dropping. At least 90 of women have at least one risk factor for Heart Disease and are unaware of it. Only 36 of black women know Heart Disease is the number one killer of women. Hispanic women, only 12 of Hispanic Women have ever discussed Heart Disease with their health care provider. We need to do better in the medical world but women need to take the reins of this themselves. Dr. Jen, you just last friday you discussed a study from the showed an increase in out of hospital cardiac arrests. Now, cardiac deaths, does this apply to, you know, this clearly involves George Michael but also possibly carrie fisher. What can we do to avoid split were seeing it because these are world known celebrities but this is happening to the everyday person. I think the key thing about Heart Disease is 80 of Heart Disease is preventable if you modify risk factors. If you look at these risk factors for women, adverse pregnancy outcomes, sneaking, overweight and obesity, elevated numbers in cholesterol, diabetes and blood pressure. Control these and you can lower the risk of Heart Disease. Thank you so much. Speaking speaking of overweight, simple steps to kick start your resolution as it applies to your diet. The secret to the zero sugar diet with Dave Zinczenko after the break. As after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. Both made me turn around my thinking. Dont stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. Ng. Dont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. If you had a spinal injection while on eliquis call your doctor right away if you have tingling, numbness, or muscle weakness. While taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily. And it may take longer than usual for bleeding to stop. Seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. Eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. Tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Plus had less major bleeding. Both made eliquis the right treatment for me. Ask your doctor if switching to eliquis is right for you. Achoosnap achoo snap achoo achoo snap snap achoo achoo feel a cold coming on . Zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45 . Shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. How else do you think he gets around so fast . Take the reins this holiday and get the mercedesbenz youve always wanted during the winter event. Now lease the 2017 gla250 for 329 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Oh, my goodness. The biggest crowd of the year so far. Where are you from . Atlanta, georgia. The atl. You . Lafayette, louisiana. Where you from . New york. New york and who are you here to see . Cameron. Oh, what a shock. San antonio, texas. Cameron dallas here. Theyre going bananas for him. Cold across the upper midwest and another cold shot coming through, tuesday highs kind of seasonable, a bit of a windchill in chicago. Friday, once the noreaster goes through chillier temperatures for the weekend. We arewinter day rain thursday cold windy friday few showers to ring in the new year today early am showers. Sunshine this afternoon. Warm breezy. Highs 6065 winds sw to w 515 g 30 mph tonight mainly clear. Cold. Lows 3339 winds nw 5 mph to calm wednesday mostly sunny. Cooler. Highs 4449 winds se 5 mph thank you very much, rob and im here now with nutrition and wellness contributor, Dave Zinczenko. Dave z. As we call him. He has a new book called zero sugar diet, the 14day plan to flatten your belly, crush cravings and help keep you lean for life. Im suddenly sucking in nye stomach talking about flattening our stomach. Low fat, low carb, you say zero sugar is the solution, why. Were getting so many added sugars a day, up to 400 calories worth of added sugar. Its like four types whats recommended and these are empty calories that do nothing. So zero sugar diet is easy, its for everybody and effective and youll strip away the added sugars from your diet and lose up to 16 pounds in 14 days. Thats what were talking about, added sugars. We brought along you have a couple of everyday foods and the nutrition labels can be really deceiving. Can we talk about these particular foods and how much added sugar is in each. Food manufacturers are putting added sugars in everything and you havent really been able to tell the difference between the natural sugars or the added sugars. You take a half a cup of pasta sauce here and you think, well, why would there be sugar in that but the sugar equivalent is one glazed doughnut. To a half cup of pasta sauce. Yeah, so if you look at startling. Maybe you think youre doing something healthy having my yogurt with fruit on the bottom. Some of those brands are more than 27 grams of added sugar. Thats the equivalent of three glazed doughnuts. Are you going to frown on me if i eat one of these because the new year isnt for a couple of days . I wont judge you. We have smoothies. So you go and get your large smoothie which is sometimes four servings, thats represented here and thats 25 sugar equivalent of 25 glazed doughnuts, paula. I mean you wouldnt eat it. Why would you drink it. I had no idea but you think it is possible to go through your day without any added sugar. You just need a guide and thats what z thats why we have you. Im here to help. [ applause ] so, im going to eat, by the way. What are we having for breakf t breakfast. Chocolate vanilla oatmeal. One of my favorites, whats great about it it has six grams of natural sugar and 225 calories and heres a great tip. Use cacao powder because it is an antiinflammatory and eliminates bloating and strip away belly fat and you go et to eat chocolate. Chocolate and the raspberries. Here we have lunch. This is another filling lunch. Im trying everything, by the way, except the doughnuts. Dig in. Steak salad with kale and spinach so get to eat steak. This is 450 calories, 14 grams of sugar but its natural sugar so it comes with fiber. Getting the natural sugars from. The carrots. Its a little bit come in, sara. Yes. Sara came. We love to eat. You even get to have pizza. That was my piece. Ill share. This is dinner. Ill take a slice. Well share. Whole grain pizza with chicken, asparagus and pear. You made it. I did all morning with karen, karen and i did that. The pear. Yeah, it adds a touch of natural sweetness to it. And this this is just four grams of natural sugar so this is 450 calories right here. Whats this . A whole grain flatbread. Four grams of natural sugar. Four grams of natural sugar. No added sugar. Youre kidding me. So everybody is like you cant eliminate the added sugars, you can and enjoy the sweet life because youre getting it in the natural sugar. Real quick what do i put in my coffee. I like a little agave. I love it. Dave, thank you very much. Were so excited about this new book. Zero sugar diet is available now and everybody here in the copy. [ cheers and applause ] coming up, Cameron Dallas is here live. Hes here to talk about his new show. Cameron dallas just ahead. From abc 7 news this is a good morning washington update. Good morning, washington. Checking the top stories this morning, break developments overnight from northwest d. C. Family members of Trisha Mccauley confirms her body has been found. The yoga teacher went missing Christmas Day. This was the scene onm street northwest. Last night police searched a car matching the description and lamented of her missing toyota. Notice they found her body. The driver was immediately taken into custody. D. C. Police will be holding a News Conference any minute now. We have a crew there and well be airing it live on our sister station newschannel 8. Weve been following this story all morning long. You can get breaking news alerts we want to get an update on the weather now. Heres veronica johnson. Some of us may be cawing Walking Around in short leaves. Well start with a jacket but short sleeves possible by the afternoon. 50s toward the end of the workweek, so it is going to be turning cooler if not cold by friday. Best chance of rain today is up until about seven to 9 00 a. M. But we could seal a shower or two up until 11 00 a. M. Or lunchtime. Today sixtieses, tomorrow 40s. And look if the new year, into the upper 40s for highs. Were pretty much in the clear. Beltway nice and quiet as we take a look near braddock road. An earlier accident there. Travel lanes now open. All back to moving at speed. 95 delay free as your make your way this morning between springfield and richmond. Morning america right after this break. Why are you checking i want to see if it changed. Credit scores dont change that much do they . Really . Ill take it sir, your credit. Is great, right . 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Yes. Any words or phrases that streak you out. For chs hoochlt izzle. Thats years old. I know. Is this like 1995 . I am from the middle of the country. It takes me a while to catch up. Shes from real america, dan. Middle america. Before we get all red state, blue state, theres actually United States, the real United States and, paula, will you tell us about the findings. The Maris Institute does a yearly survey on most despised phrase and the word whatever ranked the most annoying for eighth year in a row. Anybody despise whatever. I dont say it. You just go still five years old. When people just give you finger expression. I thought that should for u o tang. No offense but garnered 20 . Whatever you say after the but you will insult somebody. You know, right. Oh. I cant even. Huge, unsure also made im surprised bigley didnt make the list. Heres one that bothers me, blessed. Somebody shows their abs, blessed or new car, blessed. Who do you follow on twitter . The other thing is the verbal hashtag. My husband, oh, my gosh, hashtag, hes like quit doing verbal hashtag. Its annoying. Hashtag fo shizzle. It is what it is. I when people say that it means im done fighting with you and well agree to disagree. Not acknowledging that i just won the argument. Yes, i like your style. What is it. I dont do that. Paula, you have to avoid your husband. Are you kidding me . I know her husband. That is unequivocally true. I know john. She does know john. You sympathize with john. I do. Actually i was talking to john the other day. All he said to me was hashtag blessed. Dan for the win. Was he referring to me. I dont know what referring to. Probably not. Well get into a segment about marital strife. How many folks in here still write kur visit every day . [ applause ] really. Where do you write . Are you guys clapping because the stage manager told you to clap . Let me show hands who uses kur cyst every day . Writing letter. Who are you, emily post . Well, cursive is making a comeback. You remember for several years people said it was going away. Stopp stopped teaching it in schools. Its starting to make a comeback again. Arizona was the latest state, but we got 12 in recent years who have now added it to the curriculum. It is required. Louisiana, my home state of arkansas. You understand, right . [ applause ] did you learn how is your cursive. I learned it in school but im embarrassed about this i saw yours. You should be. Its okay. This is why they separate us. But i have a friend who made me feel selfconscious about my writing lately. We were all supposed to write good morning, america. My g struggles. This is for you. Mine says is sara really going to be here all week . Those were not the instructions. But good morning i cant make a cursive g. I do not know how. This took a while. Heres a cursive g. Ill show you america. I do not write it at all. The g is hard. You did know that you got it. Now sara got it. Its just like a little weird. The argument come on now, im struggling here. Who is laughing. I think you have willing participants to help you. The argument is now that kids do better have more word skills, they are quicker with their thoughts because they can write them down quicker, if we lose this skill you are losing that. Great idea if you cant get it down on paper. Good point. Using a different part of their brain. So its making a comeback. I need to work on it. I honestly did not know how to make a g. Theres hope for you. This is my therapy session. I hope youre not quick with your thoughts and expressions. I can run my mouth. Running your mouth. It is what it is, t. J. Paula for the win. Our next guest doesnt use much cursive unless its to sign his autograph which i hope he does in cursive but he has a combined 35 million followers on social media and made him one of the biggest stars on the internet and now already has two movies under his belt and new netflix show that debuts today. Cameron dallas, come on out. [ applause ] how are you doing . Thank you. What a sweetie. In cursive. Yes. Do you know can you write good morning, america in cursive . Maybe. We can work on it throughout the interview. You didnt see him shake his heads. He made this face hes really not oh, thats all we need. Good morning. The g was the test. Whoa, how many three, right, on the m. Is it three . Yeah, you got it. You got it. Show everybody. [ laughter ] can you hold it up. Youll kill them with the suspense. Good morning. Can you see it . [ applause ] i was back there too, i hope they dont ask me to write in cursive. We like to keep the interviews super tough. You guys really use cursive. No, i dont. Handwritten notes a little cursive. My mom writes in cursive. We should say your mom and sister are in the audience. Now, cameron, we saw your excitement all night tweeting about your new show. I did not sleep. I could not sleep. Its like christmas. No, no, no its good. This i wrote this down in my notes. In cursive. In cursive. In cursive two years ago and like the fact that its finally out now, its like visual everyone can see, its amazing. Called chasing cameron. Its called chasing cameron. And already trending worldwide. Ill go ahead and grab it for you. The show was on varietys must watch list this week. Wow. I didnt even know that. What should he be excited to see . [ applause ] what are we looking forward to seeing this year in i think for me one of the biggest problems that i ran into early on like early stages in social media was kind of educating people on the space and kind of the generation ahead of me and kind of showing them the power used for, how the millennials are making ancillary businesses out of it and what is going on with this whole thing. Its one thing to talk about it but another to show people and thats what i wanted to do an thats what we did. Lets show people a clip we have real quickly. Find my phone, please. Honestly, help me find the phone. Check in did you change pants . Where is it, mackenzie. You texted me back and said youre in the apartment. How can i lose it in here . How do i lose things in here. Do you get separation anxiety when you lose your phone. Do you think i do . I dont know. [ applause ] i really dont. I really dont. I dont care. I can go without my phone. For how long . Before you start ive always wanted to go to hawaii and went for the first time, two types this year actually. I brought my friends and the first time i went into the lobby i dropped my phone, broke, couldnt use it. The second time i had the iphone 7 and was one of the first ones to have it and one of the first ones to lose it in the ocean. Oh, my gosh. Blessed. [ applause ] when we go to commercial well have dan teach you a little meditation. Youll be 10 happier. Chasing cameron is on netflix right now. Coming up Robin Roberts takes a closer look at the inspiring film two trains running next. [ applause ] and the bigger deal, our megamakeover. You dont want to miss it dazzling for new years eve. Oh, theyve been going crazy for cameron. The one time they were quiet when he was on the air a few minutes ago. You guys having a great time . Yes, it is a Beautiful Day here. Weve got fans from all over the country. Some of them are fans of snow. A couple pictures out west. Would have been a phenomenal year, steamboat, 15 inches base. Squaw valley a 50inch base with another storm coming so powder delight. All right, quick check owinter y rain thursday cold windy friday few showers to ring in the new year today early am showers. Sunshine this afternoon. Warm breezy. Highs 6065 winds sw to w 515 g 30 mph tonight mainly clear. Cold. Lows 3339 winds nw 5 mph to calm wednesday mtl this weathercast brought to you by mercedesbenz. Dan, back inside to you. Thank you, robert. Robin roberts recently sat down with a critically acclaimed director and producer sam pollard. His remarkable new documentary called two trains running tells the story of two groups of young blues fans that set out to find their musical heroes and its a lot more than that. Take a look. Its like a bigfoot hunting. There was so Little Information for them to go on. It doesnt matter if youre looking for blues artists or if you are trying to register voters, you are an outside agitator. We had no plan b. We had no backup. We were going against such odds. Now you can give a proper welcome for mr. Sam pollard. [ applause ] yes, i have been looking forward. I told you one of my associates sent me a clip of this and watched the whole thing and it is so moving i what drew you to this story. It was a young gentleman named ben hadine who 3 1 2 years ago said he wanted to do a story that talked about this search for son house and skip james and freedom summer, the young White College students who helped register africanamericans. It is so artistic. Why did you decide to do it in that manner. One of the first things we did was thought about how will we visualize the story of the search for the munitions, now, normally we would do recreations and find actors, and go down to mississippi and shoot stuff like but they have seen a documentary called searching for sugarmann. Lets use man nation to visualize it and the other thing we thought about, i said to ben and dava, listen, this is not we shouldnt just be historical doc but musical too and contemporary musicians. You had some live musicians. What is it about music thats so doggone universal. The blues speaks to, you know, who we are, speaks to your personal emotions, speaks to the struggles you have, the loves you have and touches everybody. What is it about in that resonates with whats going on today . Well, you know, i was saying to some people saw the film a few weeks ago this is so relevant in present now and america has a tendency to repeat itself good and bad. As we see whats going on historically today it says what happened back in 64 with chaney and those young primadonna went down its not like the past, its present and resonates. When i was watching, it, sam, even though i was getting a History Lesson i was saying this is so relatable to what were dealing with today. You are a very busy man. You have a few more in the works. Yeah, next year there will be a documentary im doing about race in america called the talk that premieres on pbs in february. And the year after that im finishing up a documentary about the legendary sammy davis jr. Ooh. Ah. [ applause ] yeah. Youre not going to slow down any time soon. Try not to. We dont want you to. Sam pollard, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you, robin two trains running is now playing at select theaters in new york city. The big reveal of our megamakeover. Her family and friends waiting for the big moment. We cannot wait to see their reactions right here on gma after a short [ applause ] welcome back. We are taking on gmas new you with a young mom w get her sexy back for 2017. We are going to see kelsey okwandus megamakeover thanks to this lovely lady, mally roncal who is a Makeup Artist to the stars. Mally, you look lovely. You have your new years eve outfit on. We are inspired and ready to go. All morning kelsey has been getting glammed up by you and your squad. Yes. Is everybody ready to see the big reveal . [ cheers and applause ] kelsey, come on out, kelsey. Whoo [ cheers and applause ] mally, she looks amazing. Doesnt she look amazing . I think we brought the sexy back. She definitely got her sexy back for new years eve. What inspired the look . All about that gorgeous husband, that beautiful baby. She is a young gorgeous 2yearold and we really is it too much . Hello, beautiful. You look gorgeous. Give me a hug. You look stunning. Work it. [ cheers and applause ] is it too much . I think we found her sexy, right here and she is ready to go for it. I love this. Can we talk about this . She was always beautiful, charles just said. Youre so sweet. What do you think, though . Gorgeous. Is baby number two coming maybe . We dont know. Well look for it next november. What do you think . Isnt it too much . Listen, i got to tell you it is all about this beautiful hair, this gorgeous makeover and this amazing dress and for us its easy to do at home. I know it sounds crazy. Can we ask kelsey how shes feel ive never felt more beautiful. [ cheers and applause ] mally, lets go back. We did a full head to toe. Wardrobe, hair, makeup. You got it. What did you do . A great smoky eye, instantly brings the sexy back, a bronze works on every skin tone. We did a false lash because that always pops and new years eve is a great time to try all these tips and tricks but you could take them all year long. Now, chucky amos did the hair. Extensions. A little bit and theyre just clipons. You can take them off at the end of the night. Oh, baby. Oh. Love it. Oh, my. Love it, love it. Cade did this beautiful, beautiful dress. Really, really sparkles and shines which is again for new years eves hon honey, work it. You look gorgeous. Thank you. I love it. This is the family. We got family over here. Mom, dad. Amazing. Best friend. Youre crying. I am a little. Youll make me cry. Its probably nice to my girl. Youre owning it and like your husband said he said you were beautiful. I dont cry. Are you about ready to cry . No. Looks great. You looks gorgeous and she was the best makeever because she went for it. Yes, she did. Go for it. [ cheers and applause ] everybody, well be Good Morning America is brought to you by ashley homestore. This is home. [ cheers and applause ] hey, everybody, thanks for watching gma on this tuesday. Thanks for joining us. Were blessed, arent whoo you look beautiful. Thank you for watching. Well see you tomorrow. Well be right back here. [ cheers and applause ] announcer its live with kelly. Today from the art of more, actor dennis quaid, and onerepublic performs their smash hit kids. Plus sterling k. Brown from this is us. And Ryan Seacrest is our cohost, all next on live. [cheers and applause] [upbeat music] and now, here are kelly ripa and Ryan Seacrest. 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