Nights game used a folded piece of paper to measure for a down. Dallas went on to quick what was the winning field goal in a victory. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 18th. From abc news, this is world news now. Couple of weird calls in the sunday games yesterday, but uh, it is how it is. A lot on the line right now, too. Exactly. We again this half hour with the Third Largest wildfire in california history. Some multimillion dollar homes in montecito have been leveled. One firefighter recorded flames and smoke surrounding his truck. We get more from marci gonzalez. Are your fi. Reporter firallout war. Crews climbing the california hills with chain you saws, axes and shovels, desperately trying to get the upper hand. The inferno now burning for two weeks. The wall of smoke to thick it blocked out the sun. Nearly 800 homes destroyed. Several more lost over the weekend as wind gusts topped 60 miles per hour. It brought the flames in so quickly fire crews didnt have time to get up here to save this home. It was really the most severe fire behavior ive seen. Reporter that new threat forcing mandatory evacuations. Celebrities among the thousands of people in the fire zone. Rob lowe posting photos of his home and Ellen Degeneres writing our home is still standing. One of those who died was cory ievs iverson. Colleagues mourng but still on the front linesaking a break in the winds. The winds are expected to kickback up severely o wednesday. The holidays are coming. Everybody wants to really, they want to get home. Reporter and you can see the holiday decoration still hanging at this home, overcome by flames this weekend. Firefighters plan to be out here through christmas. But they expect the firefight to continue through the new year. Marci gonzalez, abc news, mont see t and that massive outage at the Atlanta Airport. Power has been restored to the worlds had been shut down afternoon. Some passengers were stuck grounded in airplanes in atlanta for as much asini nine hours. Others say they were kept in the dark by officials. This is unacceptable. It is after 6 00 p. M. Kids need to be reunited with their families. All the airlines that are canceled. Theyre saying we have to leave the airport, basically, so if our Flights Canceled we have to go. But there are people here who have no where to go. So what do you want us to do . I could not get them because you cant get Cell Phone Service in the building. Weve waited four and a half to five hours and now got a 22 bill. And everybody just refers you to the next guy, the next guy, the next guy. There is no evidence of foul play in the power outage. It was caused by a fire at an electrical sub station that also destroyed the backup system. The airlines have canceled more than 300 flights today and there are huchbls of passengers who must now be rebooked. It will be a couple days for the system. Everybodys wondering exactly what took place in atlanta. World news now has exclusive video of what took place. So here. You know it was expected to be a real video. Thats actually, thats a li all played out yesterday just brought back many memories of the classic airplane scene. It wasnt quite like that. Lets move on to the russia investigation and the president s Transition Team lawyer, accusing the special counc counsel of breaking the law. The attorney sent a letter to congress claiming that muellers office illegally obtaine emails from the transition offi emails from the office that stored them. As the president returned from camp david he slammed the special s office but dismissed claims tt he planned to fire mueller. No, im not. Are you surprised . Mueller said the special counsels office had followed the law when obtaining the documents. President trump is closing in on his first major legislative victory. Congress is expected to narrowly approve a massive tax cut package as early as tomorrow. Despiteununified opposition from democrats. Reporter the president promising that a major new tax of is days away th gifts middle income people. A win f. For the wealthy, it top tax rate fro to 37 . For t class, it doubles the standard but write at 10,0. Americans making 75,000 or less will pay more taxes within a decade. In this is a total huge give corporations new bil mandate, leaving a potential 13 million ameruninsured. It expands the current credits to include kindergarten through private get it done, corporate cuts will be permanent. Individual tax cuts will expire after eight years. Im confident well pass this bill probably on tuesday. We were determined to get theis job done. Reporter reports that john mccain will not be casting a vote but recovering from chemotherapy treatment in arizona. The republicans confident they have enough votes without him. The changes would take effect next year. The irs says you could see a change in your bottom line by february. Gloria rivera, washington. And the president has received a thankyou phone call from Vladimir Putin. Putin thanking trump for a cia tip that helped russian authorities stop a bombing plot in the city of st. Petersburg. Putin said he would turn over information about any potential threats against the u. S. It was their second conversatn since last thursday. And ahorities in pakistan are on high alert after a suicide bombing at a church. At least nine people were killed in the attack. Dozens of others were injured. You see some of the scenes. It was the first 20one on a chuh ever acclaimed by isis. The eldest son of sarah palin has been arrested again. Track palin is facing several counts stemming from the incident, inclusion burglary, assault and criminal mischief. The circumstances are unclear. He was also arrested last year, accused of punching and kicking his girlfriend. A scare for skiers over the weekend when a ski resort near penn state opened for the season. An equipment failure put visitors in danger. Erielle reshef has that story. Reporter a dramatic scene a from a ski lift in pennsylvania. There is approximately 20 people, kids. Reporter a malfunction causing the claihair to slip an slide backwards to the ones behind it. A total of about 100 people need to get off the ski lift. Reporter a domino effect, leaving four cirs teetering in the air. My jaw dropped, and i was like oh, my gosh and sat there for a while and was watch being the come up. All the stuff came off. People dont have their ski boots. Reporter at least five people hurt. Rescuers lowering them one by one to safety. During the almost twohour ordeal, staff evacuating all passengers from the lift. The resort saying we take the safety of our guests very seriously and are saddened to learn that there were nonlifethreatening injuries as a result of this accident. Statistics show chair lifts are normally very safe. 12 deaths on lts in 40 years. But accidents do happen. In maine, seven were injured when this one rolled in moments the slopes. Erielle reshef, abc news, new york. Very scary. And w the busiest time of the year for many of these ski resorts. A pair helped make the human league, theyre known for dont you want munwanted. A background singer on that 1981 hit. And qantas answered with a resounding no. She was denied access because of this, herri uggs. It seems they have a dress code for the lounge that doesnt include footwear. Its a similarlooking pair of uggs. Its what im wearing. I only took one off for you, because they kind of smell bad. These are perfectly acceptable. Theyre not meant for the house or anything. Theyre not like a house slipper. Its not for the business class. I dont want to fly you anyway. Coming up, were turning back time. Do you remember the hottest toys of the 80s . 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You can also have like a neighbor pick it up. The interesting thing, some of these smaller towns are saying you can deliver it to the police station. Who wants to steal it from the cops. Thats a smart move. Coming up, its time to check out the vault for the best and worst toys of christmas past. Lysol kills over 100 illnesscausing germs and viruses, even those that may cause runny noses. Lysol. What it takes to protect. I had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. coughah i missed you then i discovered mucinex. One pill lasts 12 hours,and im good. One mucinex lasts 12 hours. Lets end this. Lets open up the abc vault to find out which it toys were on the naughty list in 1983. This years list has been released, and as Carol Simpson repos, it provides a good idea of the kinds of toys parents will be looking for if they can find them. Reporter according to the survey, 1987 may be the best year for good toys for childn but undoubtedly the worst year for parents to find those toys. This is a doll called baby skates. Called wants to skate or she tries to skate or hopes to skate. She really doesnt skate. Reporter baby skates was tossed into the trash box, soon joined by baby alive who eats glop and dirties her diaper. Also relegated to the trash box, the mountain fortress, too messy, and e. T. s light a finger. Topping the list were Cabbage Patch kids, the glo worm and the surprise winner was lights alive, which allows children to design patterns of colored lights. The problem with having lovely toys such as Cabbage Patch, theyre terribly hard to find. Reporter ftoy manufacturers sblam t improved economy. And parents should persuade the kids they really dont want those toys they cant find. Convince the kids. We still have our classicoys. Well be right back the bug stops here protection. 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This morning on world news now, power back on at the nations busiest a after nearly 11 hours in the darkness, things are starting to move again at atlantas airport, but the damage is already done. Passengers describe their nightmarish ordeals as air traffic across the country struggles to get back on track. And muellers still in charge, at least for now. The president says he is not firing the special counsel in charge of the russia probe even as Trump Officials ham muellers team over transition emails that they say were obtained illegally. And this is not how you want to start ski season, with the lift getting stuck causing a Chain Reaction and a frightening encounter. This is so far out you cant even see the other end. How do you even smoke a j of this magnitude . The answer . Nice and slow. [ laughter ] or so im told. It is monday, december 18th. Man. From abc news, this world news now. It was not your mothers Early Morning newscast, is all we can say. I heard someone say that once. Wasnt it bill clinton who something that big, i assume nobody could inhale. But i dontnow. Practice. [ laughter ] we get to that a little bit later. We begin with a massive power outage that crippled the nations Busiest Airport for nearly 11 hours. Take a listen here. [cheers and applause] you hear that . Those cheers from people in atlantas Hartsfield Jackson airport as the lights came back on, just before midnight. The sudden ear afternoon power loss brought the hub to a stand still. Passengers in the terminals were left in the dark. All Outgoing Flights were brought to a halt. But some passengers, get th, they spent as many as nine hours, trapped in planes stuck on the ground. So atlanta may be the reddest. Thats flight awares misery map. But thefficsystem was impacted. Flighti flights were held at their inorigal airports. More than 300 flights in and out of atlanta today have already been canceled. Most of them deltas. So heres what we are told, the power outage appears to be accidental, the result of a fire that was so intense that not only damaged the power grid but the backup as well. Reporter the nations n Busiest Airport in the dark. Thousands stranded when the power went out without warning at hartsfield airport. No power, no light. T lights flickered once. It was really scary. They flickered again and its been about an hour and its pitchdarkness in the airport. Reporter this worried parent unable to find his 10 year old son. Ive been here stuck by myself with my daughter trying to get to my son. Im not the only parent. Reporter passengers using flashlights to guide them. In some partis of the airport, the only sights and sounds, the emergency announcements. Officials saying a fire in an underground electrical facility may may have caused the fire. Reports of smoke coming from passengers. We could see fire trucks all along tl e and black smoke coming from the back. Reporter the massive power outage shut down critica equipment and computer, stranding thousands of passengers. As many as 100 flights on the tar machbl tarmac. Some passengers let off planes huddling for warmth. We were scheduled for a 4 00 flight. Were pushed back for a group of six. Reporter the drama unfolding in atlanta, at least 600 Flights Canceled, more than 500 delayed. So many cancellations in addition. The Atlanta Airport has an interesting setup. Ins that run between the terminals. It can be a hot mess on a good day. Especially with a little bit of weather. Especially during a Holiday Travel week, this was a complete and utter nightmare. For many of the passengers not knowing what was taking place, it must have been very frightening. And to have no power. It is cold inmean, i know its as it is here, but it is still not comfortable. No. A terrifying 11 hours, but the nightmare is going to continue for many passengers trying to get out. And for people not even in atlanta. Well turn our focus to the west coast and californias thirdlargest fire growing at this hour. The thomas fire northwest of los angeles is 45 contained bu acres. More than 100,000 people have had to evacuate since the start of that blaze. Two wks ago today. It has been fueled not only by the dry conditions but by gusty santa ana winds sometimes as high as miles per hour. Listen there. You can actually hear the winds. Thats whats whipping up this fire. The winds are expected to calm down today to just 1020 miles per hour. That plus higher hum plus for ts out there. We move on right now to the fight in washinon, d. C. Republicans are on the verge of passing their sweeping tax overhaul this week after sweeping what appears to be the final two holdouts. Senator john mccain will not be there for the vote. He returned home to arizona after being hospitalized for viral infection battling brain cancer. He doesnt plan to return to the capitol until january. Im confident well pass this bill possibly on tuesday. We were determined to get this job done, to cut taxes, to reform the tax code for the first time in 30 years. The bill doubles the standard deduction for the middle class. But for people earning less than 75,000 a year will eventually pay more taxes. The Corporate Tax ree slashed and the top tax rate for the wealthy will be lowered. President trump says he is not considering firing special Counsel Robert Mueller evens his Transition Team takes aim at mueller and the russia probe. They are accused of improperly gaining thousands of transitio emails. Reporter aes h arrived back from camp david, President Trump expressed concern about a new letter accusing the pegs counsel of illegally obtaining tens of thousands of emails from the president s inner circle during the transition, including, quote, materials protected by Attorney Client privilege. Not looking good. Not looking good. Its quite sad to see that. My people were very upset about it. Reporter the sevenpage letter addressed to Key Committee leaders comes from an attorney representing the trump Transition Team, a new line of attack against Robert Muellers investigation. Theyre spending millions and millions of dollars. There is absolutely no collusion. I didnt make a phone call to russia. I have nothing to do with russia. Everybody knows it. Reporter even before this, the president dismissed the investigation as a witch hun and a democratic hoax. Even blasting the fbi. Its reputation is in tatters. Worst in history, read one recent tweet. The fix was in against donald trump from the beginning and they were prohillary. Reporter this new letter raises concerns about career staffers in an agency that provide the Office Supplies to the federal government, accusing them of breaking the law by handing over to the special counsel emails, laptops, cell phones and other materials. The special counsels office insists it followed standard procedures and did nothing wrong. Republicans should end their effort to undermine the mueller investigation. Reporter democrats claim the president is searching for a pretext to fire mueller. I hope our colleagues will not join that process. The question is, what are they afraid of . What is the white house afraid of . Reporter the president insists he has no plans to fire the special counsel. No, im not. No. What else . What, are you surprised . Reporter separate from all of this, the russian president , Vladimir Putin called the american president , donald trump, to thank him for a cia tip that helped the russians to foil a terrorist bomb plot in st. Petersburg. Both president s expressing praise for the u. S. Intelligence services for a job well done. David wright, abc news, the white house. A military investigation is providing new details about the death of an Army Green Beret in niger. He was killed by islamic militants in early october. An investigation of his death show that johnson fought to the end and died in a hail of gunfire. He was not captured alive or taken prisoner. He was reportedly hit as many as 18 times. His body recovered two days after the ambush that killed him. Hundreds of passengers are recovering after getting sick on a Royal Caribbean cruise. They were on a fiveday cruise on board the independence of the sea, when a gastrointestinal bug took over the ship, quickly spreading. 332 cases were reported. But passengers said that number was probably higher, because some passengers were t sick to seek treatment. The ship is get egg ting an exte deep cleaning before the next cruise. And dozens of skiers had to be lowered from a chair lift in pennsylvania by rope. The lift malfunctioned, causing a chair to slip backwards into a chair behind it, that Chain Reaction caused five minor injuries. It happened on the first day of the ski season at tussy mountain. It passed all its tests beforowi beforowing before opening for business. Maybe some passengers could dance their time away. This happened in dallas. The two sisters found a dance partner in the Southwest Airlines employee. Did a Little Chicken dance. Then there was an airplane groove. The dance party ended when the southwest worker ran out of gas. Got a little tired. Or maybe he had to go back to work. There is that. There is a certain southwest flight on the other side of dallasft. Worth. Coming up, impressive pasta. The flood the floodle thats so long it broke a record. And the league investigates misconduct allegations and an anunsment about the team, youre watching world news now. Re no. Who knew . I had no idea. So she said, look for one thats shaped like a dental tool with a round brush head. Go pro with oralb. Oralbs rounded brush head surrounds each tooth to gently remove more plaque. 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And for a plantbased clean, try tide purclean y welcome back. This morning there is a break in a sevenyear old cold case u bl Lorenzen Wright was found shot which led to the arrest of his ix wife. Reporter new charges surrounding you the death of nba player Lorenzen Wright u. Reporter the arrest following bill e turners. Wrights body was found ten days later in memphis. It wasnt until last month that police say divers discovered the murder winnen in a la murder weapon in mississippi. In this interview, she did not respond when asked if she had anything to do with her exhusbands death. Im a wife, a mother, and an ah. Reporter maggie rule eye, abc news oofrn. The owner of the Carolina Panthers is selling the team. The team has made multiple payouts for harassment claims. He also directed a racial slur towards black former scouts. The league is investigating all of this, and also along those lines of what were you thinking, the french soccer star says hes sorry for this picture. His name is antoine greaseman. His legs were also painted black. Before the apology he responded by posting calm down, guys. Im a fan of the harlem glo globetrotters. The team has not commented on this. So many people have gotten in trouble for that. He doubled down. He had it and twitter. Did he delete them . He did. A thriller in pittsburgh. But it was the wild end to the game that has many crying foul. Youre watching world news now. I can breathe again i can breathe again vicks sinex. Breathe on. Shes had a tiny cough. See you at 5 seriously . Protection. Lysol kills over 100 illnesscausing germs and viruses, even those that may cause coughs. Lysol. What it takes to protect. So this was the last gasp attempt by derek carr to score at the end of last nights game against the cowboys. Oh, man, dallas took over possession after this play, and they just ran out the clock. Oh, well. Goodness. Earlier, the referee used a folded piece of paper to mess ire. A paper, a piece of paper. That led to field goal. The patriots and steelers played a regular season classic in pittsburgh. New england took the lead with less than a minute to go. Yeah, then the steelers quickly got in scoring position. They thought they won it when big ben find jesse james who appeared to score. It looks like score. Hes over the line. But video review reversed that call. Gronk was back for the patriots. Some called his end zone celebration a Mad Scientist impression. Not really sure what that final score, 2724. A tough game for the steelers and their fan. The team in eastern p. A. Had another successful sunday. St. Nick. The eagles flew up to new jersey to play the new york giants. They soared back to philly with their second victory in the last eight games. Nick foles threw four touchdown passes in a 3429 win. Gun one of them went to trey campfire celebration. Th the new warming his hands, after the game he expined it dwighting its cold out hire for a florida boy. I dig it. 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Okay, its your monday mix right now, and were going to say happy birthday, shall we, to pope francis whos had his 81st birthday, and if youre 81, you sill great wi celebrate with a big balloon with the numbers 8 and 1. There are images of the pope blowing out candles on a giant pizza. A massive crowd was on hand for the celebration, and they sang happy birthday to him. The pizza was 32 feet in length. He encouraged the childn to eat all of it. He is known to like his pasta and pizza. Check this out, the worlds longest joint. 100footlong joint. Think rolled it on saturday, in beantown green town, a bostonbased cannabis club. It was a promarijuana exhibition happening in worcester, mass. In order to do this, a lot of people are wondering, not that we know how to roll marijuana around here, they had a secret rolling technique, using 40 people to roll it, over 1,000 grams of pot. Im not sure what pot trimmings mean. But my favorite part of this whole story, it was a 55yearold woman who was like, are you going to smoke it . Are you just going to let people look at it . It is lylegal. Did they start smoking it . It was supposed to be a 50foot blunt. We were going to broke the record, but then we got high. There in boston. Not that we would know. But, in case they do smoke it and get the munchies, this issiis something they might want to tap into. A noodle measuring nearly two miles long. It broke the record, a Chinese Company cooked its way into the books. They cooked up a single noodle strand measuring that whopping 10,119 feet. Impressive. That is impressive. I would have broken that. I mean not broken the record but broken the noodle many. Now for the holiday bit of this. Look at this light show. It is a show kenny delany and his family set this up in hillsboro, tennessee. It is synchronized with a remix of several songs. You can hear it. This morning on world news now, atlantas airport is back up and running, but passengers sell stranded. The busiest air hub in the u. S. Brought to its knees after a power failure. So what caused the outage in the first place . The growing inferno in california. The Third Largest fire in state history getting whipped up by even more fierce winds with deadly results. And new this half hour, fresh reaction to the news out of charlotte. The owner of the Carolina Panthers selling the team and under investigation. And guess whos putting in a bid . Brother love. And its the reallife xfiles. A secret Pentagon Program looking into ufos is revealed. Fight irpilots spotting strange obctin the sky. The truth is out there on this monday, december 18th. From abc news this is world news now. That was by far my favorite story of the entire weekend, because i always knew, knew they were among us. Life . Other life . Yes. I want to see this life first. We have proof. Well delve into that a little later, but atlanta is sometimes called hotlanta . It was a hot mess all day sunday. Were laughing, but it wasnt funny for the people who were there. There was no electricity for nearly 11 hours, a major problem considering it handles more passengers than any other airport in the world. More than a thousand flights were canceled. And the effects of the power outage arent over there yet, hundreds of flights into and out of atlanta today are canceled already. Yeah. Some passengers stayed in the airport during the outage, determined to be the first to fly out. When the lights came back on. Others are spend the night at a Convention Center downtown where chick fil a is working on a sun. They are providing food for them overnight. Thats a big deal. Abcs donya has more. Reporter atlantas airport in near dark knauss aftness aftr was knock out sunday morning. They went out, wient on, wen back out again. Cess the tunnels until we madet sure that the fire, which was a electrical fire, was completely put out. Reporter thousands of passengers stranded. This airport is moving kids that are unaccompanied minors to locations where parents dont even know where theyre at. This is unacceptable. Sgl no power, no light. Reporter passengers forced to use flashlights. And in some places, the only sights and sounds, the emergency announcements. Right now were just focussing on the comfort of our passengers, because we know that they have had a very, very long and difficult day. Reporter up to 100 planes stuck on the tarmac. Hundreds more canceled or delayed. I think for airlines that are headquartered intlanta, its going to have a cascading effect and take a long time to figure out crew schedules, putting the airplanes in the right place. Reporter delaying more than 2,000 flights across the country. Donya baucus, atlanta. Well, just when we thought the firefighters had the upper hand on that massive fire in southern california, the winds weekend. Whipping up over the the thomas fire has destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. And fours forced more than 100,000 people to be evacuated from their homes. It is now 45 contained, after kicking up over the weekend in ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Thousands of firefighters working the blaze pause to pay their respects to a fallen comrade. Cory iverson died on friday. Its important for the Fire Service Family to come together and show our sport for cory and his wife and children and expected children and their extended family. To let them know that hes loved and theres a big team here to support him and his family. Iverson was 3 2 years old wih a 2yearold daughter and another on the way. We turn our focus to washington and President Trump insisting he has no plans to fire the special couns robert mueller, but as he returned from camp david, he criticized mueller over an allegation from a transition attorney that investigators illegally obtained thousands of emails september d received by Trump Officials before he took office. Muellers office insists they followed the law. And republicans are poised to take their 1. 5 trillion tax bill across the finish line. They are confident they have enough support to get it to the president s desk even without john mccain. Mr. Mccain returned to arizona aft after spending days in the hospital from a viral infection while hes battling cancer. The president says that hell return if necessary. Hes going through a very tough time. No question about it. But he will come back if we need his help. Thank you very much, everybody. So the bill calls for deeper tax cuts for corporations. Tax breaks for the wealthy and limited benefits for the middle class. A vote is expected as early as tomorrow. The president is set to deliver a speech today outlining his National Security strategy. After developing a relationship with the chinese president , there are reports that he will accuse china of being an economic aggressor, which some say could lead to a trade war. Now the treasury secretary is saying he refused to comment specifically about what the president will say, but in an appearance on fox news he did not rule out tariffs on chinese goods. His isnt about trade war the this is about reciprocal fair trade. If we have to protect American Workers and put on tariffs and other things where they dont have fair trade with us, the president will do that. Meanwhile, south korea appears to be ready to renegotiate a free trade deal that President Trump had threatened to scrap. The trade Ministry Says its pushing for talks with the u. S. Within a month. And in australia, police have arrested a man they say was involved in a case of black market 101. The man in custody was born in korea but lives in sydney. Hes accused of raising Ballistic Missile components to raise money for north korea. If convicted, he could face a decade in prison. Homicide investigators in toronto are investigating the deaths of a billionaire and his wife. Their injuries were consistent with those suffered due to hanging. That led to a theory that the case was a murdersuicide. But the victims family say that would never happen. They urge police to conduct a criminal investigation. The shermans were known for giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. You know iruber is having a. The use of the service has cut emergency service. Users found its cheaper to go to the hospital using uber. Some insurance offers gift cards to uber. They emphasize its not a substitute for first responders. In an emergency. Youre bleeding, you call a uber. You know theyre going to charge you when you throw up or bleed in their car, right . It has to be minor injuries. And also they give you a lower rating. You have to gauge how much, the level of your emergency. Last half hour, we were talking about the Carolina Panthers and the owner, Jerry Richardson selling the team at the end of the season, as the nfl investigates miscouct allegations. But a potential bidder has come forward, diddy has come forward. He says i would like to buy the panthers, spread the w and then he took to instagram. To make his case. I will be the best nfl owner you can imagine. I will immediately address the Colin Kaepernick situation and put him in the running for next years starting quarterback. Its just competition baby. I will have the best halftime show, the best selection of mu and we will win super bowl after super bowl. Well win super bowl after super bowl. Thats a lot to promise. That is. But the halftime shows will no doubt be good. Hes worth 800 million. So hes got the money. Well, but he has to be voted in, dont the other nfl owners have so say yes, well let you own a nfl team . Its a bit of a boys club. So maybe he should be lobbying the and not his instagram users. No offense, dead eye, nice try, keep trying coming up in the skinny, the prince and the former president. Harry sitting down with barack obama. And the object that left two navy pilots weirded out. An aircraft that moves unlike any the pilots have ever seen. But first we take a look at todays forecast. World news now weather, brought to you by tide. Somehow we always leave packing to the last minute. Time to break these bad boys out no i have a couple of things to wash we got this come on. Even on quick cycle, tide pods cleans great 6x the cleaning power, even in the quick cycle lets go did you just get up uhhuh its got to be tide that cough doesnt sound so good. Take mucinex dm. Ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. 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These newlyreleased videos from the department of defense published by the New York Times and washington post, part of a oncesecret Government Program to investigate sightings of socalled anomalous aerial vehicles in the skies. It sounds like a plot out of the xfiles. The truth is out there. Reporter or something the nen men in black would zap from your memory. But according to reports in the New York Post and washington times, the department of defense has spent 22 million since 2007 looking for ufo sightings. Former senator harry reid telling the New York Times, i think its one of the good things i did in my congressional service. Ive done something that no ones done before. Something like this was a pet project by senator reid and some of his colleue something they thought needed to be investigated. Program for the first time, telling abc news they ended the program in 2012 in favor of other higher priority projects that merited funding but that the. O. D. Takes seriously all threats and potential threats to our people, our assets and our mission and takes credible action whenever merited. The cost is 22 million to figure it out. It was worth every, every penny. For real. Sully was wrong all this time. I want to see what they look like. They might not be humany. Do they have two eyes . This is an actual video in the pentagon, by the way, thats what they look like. Coming up, prince harry abducts barack obama. Not exactly and Justin Bieber shows us his spirit. The skinny is next. Lachl and Justin Bieber shows us his spirit. The skinny is next. Look at that. Despite getting some pretty bad wars, opening with 220 million in ticket sales. Were you laughing at the shade . No, i think brian, the producer just said wrong. Bad review wrong. Limited to your ear. True. That makes it the second largest opening ever after star wars the force awakens, which had 250 million. There were some bad reviews for it. The last jedi currently has a score of 93 on rotten tomatoes. That means 7 werent happy. We will get into info about some of the potential cameos weve been hearing about. Were still not getting any word about the royals, and their storied role. But Luke Skywalker also had another role in the movie. We dont want to give it away, but his name pops up at the end of the film. Actor Jason Gordon Levitt made an appearance. And we can say with certainty, he did not play yoda. He makes such a great yoda on the carpet. The late great carrie fishers dog went to see the movie over the weekend. You know gary is a prolific tweeter. Were told he perked up every time she was onscreen. Oh. Very cute. Very sweet. Speaking of the royals, prince harry is used to giving interviews, but now hes turning the tables on former president obama. The two sat down for a chat thats set to air later this month. So obama joked with hair rrr asking if he needed to do a british accent. You have sound . Are we all great . Its fun. Ill interview you, if you want. No, lets keep it this way, id much prefer that. The two became bffs during the recent invics games. You see them there all chummy. Kensington palace is not giving away all the details, but the interview will focus on their shared interests and president obama will share postpresidency info as well. Very cool seeing them. Its obvious they have a comradery. Pete davidson is known for weekend update. Now were getting an update from pete that has nothing to do with the show. It turns out pete is a fan of Hillary Clinton. Like that big of a fan of Hillary Clinton. Thats so crazy. He got her face permanently tattooed on his leg. He shared the pic on instagram with this caption, wanted to give Hillary Clinton a christmas gift. So i got a tattoo of my hero. So clinton proved shes got a sense of humor responding, this makes it significantly less awkward that ive had a Pete Davidson tattoo for years, but seriously, im honored. 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President trump is onhe verge of his first major legislative victory. The tax cuts that he promises will be quote, rocket fuel for the economy, clearing major lastminute hurdles. Overall, the benefits will go primarily to the people in the middle class. This is good news any way you cut it. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained thousands of emails from officials who took part in the transition from the campaign. The president insists he has no plans to fire the special counsel. No, im not. What, are you surprised . We want to show you a moment in Congress Going viral this morning. F President Trumps nominees for federal judge who gets grilled by a senator and flounders through the senator. Have you ever tried a jury trial . I have not. Civil . No. Criminal . No. Bench . No. Federal court . I have not. Flames ripping through the floors of a new york city apartment building. Residents waking up to firefighters pounding on their doors. Some 400 firefighters battling those flames and the frigid temperatures. One woman who was pregnant was injured. Lindsey vonn winning her first world cup race this season. Clenching the superg. It was vons 78th world cup win. Hear that noise out on the lawn . Could it be santa or the rapture . Or even worse its omarosa. Hey, let me in quick, somebody turn off the lights. I see you in there, donald nobody kicks omarosa out the white house hey, get away from the window lets go the funny thing about it, thats exactly how it played out at the white house. Thats what everybody was picturing. She says thats not what happened. Thats it for this half hour. This is abcs world news now. Informing insomniacs for two decades making news in america this morning, travel nightmare. Atlantas airport, the busiest in the world shut down, plunged into darkness. The lights flickered once. It was really scary then they flickered again and didnt come back. Tens of thousands stranded with no place to stay. The lights backs on but why the headaches are only just beginning. Also overnight new details about senator john mccains condition as he battles brain cancer. The veteran senator returning home to arizona. How it could affect the republican tax bill with the first crucialot team for sale. The new fallout as the owner of one of pro footballs top teams is accused of Sexual Harassment and using a racial slur. The allegations prompting the sale