it s thursday, june 13th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good morning. trip adviser something i do depend on. yes, absolutely. all the time. any trip i am going on. i love reviews. there are going to be a lot of phony ones online. i read through them. got to know what you are in for. yeah, you never know. before it was travel agents. now it s the web. it s a great resource. no doubt about it. we begin with storms that are marching across the country. they re whipping up destructive tornadoes and powerful winds from the mid-atlantic all the way to the midwest. yeah, at least 17 twisters have touched down since yesterday including the one that hit the restaurant here in belmond, iowa. no one hurt there. more than 70 million people remain in the path of storms. our coverage begins now with abc s larry jacobs. reporter: it is called derecho and spans at least 240 miles rolling from iowa all the way to maryland.
so i m going to have to block you. oh, man. yeah. [inhales] well, have a good one. you re a nice lady. all right, if you re driving along in your automobile, easy to be tempted to text. hands-free devices make that a lot easier. now a study shows that the hands-free things aren t really safer. here s abc s david kerley. how many electrodes are you putting on? reporter: i am getting wired for research. i m going to go ahead and stretch this over your head. reporter: maybe not a great look. put the chinstrap on. reporter: but all these connections go ahead and right as far as you can. reporter: will measure how much my brain can handle behind the wheel, reaction time, where my eyes look. 9 million cars today have systems that let you talk to your car so you can keep your hands on the wheel. 62 million will have them in five years. but is it safer? with a small button on my thumb
movement of the child in real time. the things are never going to go into production. unfortunately. hug guys has this video that they released, and it is incredible. synced up at the same time. this is amazing. mom wears a belt at the same time that dad is wearing a belt. huggies released this video. the dad feels it at the exact same time. some of the reactions of the fathers who were hooked up to this was pretty special. one of them said i feel her movement, feel her kicks. another says he is moving a lot. there he is. one of them, a couple of them got very emotional. what s next, delivery belt. pass on the delivery belt. the kicking belt, maybe. quickly, the wedding proposals. a guy who did a very interesting one. he packed out a movie theater. mixed his friends in there. in between all the trailers his girlfriend sitting there unbeknownst to her. he makes a video. he s got her dad with the shotgun all this. he basically proposes in a trailer. then marches in. gets on one k
come fly with me let s fly let s fly away all right. summertime the right time to catch the plane and fly out of town. thanks to the internet there are a lot of ways to shop for a flight and hotel. take tripadviser.com, for example. this is a $9 billion company. one of the biggest travel sites out there. we are now up all nightline with abc s linzie janis. okay. everybody getting ready. reporter: danielle forte is a self-described travel junkie. are you excited about vacation? yes. okay. good. reporter: in recent years, the mother of two has become obsessed with taking family vacations. and on every single one, trip adviser has been her navigator in chief. this time, danielle, scouring the reviews of jamaican resorts. i like to look for people who have done more than one review. reporter: she follows the site s advice and tosses out the glowing and gross to find opinions she can trust. actually, this hotel i was a little concerned about the reviews. some of
she is a really strong little kid. she has had to be. and my hope is really just that she keeps on fighting. i think we have a couple really rough weeks ahead. complications from a double lung transplant include rejection of the new lungs and infection. doctors say they are very pleased with her prognosis for recovery. from life-saving surgery to life-saving dog. his name is o neal. he has been trained as a guide dog for the blind in the san francisco bay area. but this was the real thing. last week a car coming down the sidewalk in reverse. o neal alerted. oh, there it is. o neal alerted or he saw the danger first, giving one of the trainers enough time to push the other one, who was blindfolded, part of the training, out of the way. here we go again. wow! that is crazy. especially from that other angle. the driver was a 93-year-old woman. not clear how she lost control of the car. o neal s trainers say they re not surprised and say he was special right from the start.