had killed somebody. >> reporter: it was back in 2017 kenneth white, a father of four, was on i-75 on his way home from work when a six-pound rock struck his vehicle. >> this is the size of the rock that took kenny's life. >> reporter: a fifth older teen is already being tried as an adult. the teens have until august 20th to decide whether they'll accept a plea deal as adults or go to trial. alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> just some incredible details. i actually covered a story in philadelphia when someone threw a bottle over an overpass and it shattered actually a co-worker's back window. we did a story on it. the force of it. we've seen other stories where people have been killed or really injured from this. the fact that obviously in this case the judge really came down hard on these young men for going on snapchat, going on social media, and seeming to have no remorse at all here. >> right. because yes, what they may have thought at the time was an innocent -- >> harmless fun. >> then finding out the damage of it, and that judge citing the laughing about it even after knowing that a man's life was taken. now to video of a getaway in miami. >> a lone horse was spotted galloping through downtown yesterday near the county courthouse. the horse is part of the miami police department. the officer who was supposed to be riding it was thrown after the horse slipped. both horse and rider are okay. >> good thing they're okay. and i had a curl in my eye. >> you did this now? >> is that weird? >> those curls, they're wild, just like that horse. >> just like the horse. >> mind of their own. coming up, an abc news exclusive. >> the former friend of a fake heiress opens up about how she found out her friend was a fraud and how she helped take her down. i'll pick it up! they're clean! ♪'cuz my hiney's clean.♪ ♪oh yeah i'm charmin clean.♪ charmin ultra strong just cleans better. enjoy the go with charmin. when i have an asthma attack... i feel scared. sometimes my parents 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boundaries. >> reporter: anna sorokin's inconceivable life as the so-called soho scammer began when she moved to new york in 2014, assuming the name anna dellvi, claiming to be a german heiress with a $67 million trust fund, talking her way into exclusive new york parties and nightclubs, which is how she met rachel williams, then 28, a photo editor at "vanity fair" magazine. what were your first impressions? >> she was slightly offbeat. she had curious mannerisms. >> no pictures, no pictures. >> reporter: anna picked up the tab, treating rachel to fancy dinners, and even $300 a pop private fitness sessions. >> i was so glad to have this person who was available and seemed really excited to be my friend. >> reporter: then, in the spring of 2017, anna offers an all expenses paid trip to morocco. and the high life takes a dip. anna's credit cards mysteriously stop working. d at thesoanio but at this point i still trust her. >> reporter: fearful of being stranded in a foreign country, rachel says she offers her credit cards as a temporary backup, even though she can't afford it. >> i leave before anna does. when i land i get a text message that the whole bill is being charged to my cards. >> how much? >> $62,000. >> how did you even wrap your mind around that? >> it was such a complex, paralyzing moment for me. she owed me more money than i made in a year. >> she keeps promising you, the bank is going to pay you, the wire transfer's going to happen. what is going on for you internally? >> it was starting to eat at me. i am late with my rent, late with my credit card payments. >> reporter: soon it is clear that rachel has been duped. she goes to police and then the manhattan d.a. when anna can't be found, rachel turns to social media to smoke her out, aiding investigators in a sting operation. in the summer of 2017, police arrest anna sorokin in malibu, california. you were putting your neck out there. >> yeah. >> to try and capture her. why was that so important to you? >> the money was extremely destabilizing, yes. but what was equally upsetting to me was sort of this riddle that needed to be solved. >> reporter: rachel now knows the awful, painful truth. her friend is no heiress, but a con artist. the russian-born daughter of middle-class parents who faked financial records and wrote bad checks. testifying in court, rachel comes face to face with her former friend who shows up for trial in designer clothes. >> i wasn't sure what to expect in seeing anna after all that time. when i did look at her, she was smirking at me. >> did it unnerve you? >> no. shockingly. i thought it would. >> reporter: in may, 28-year-old anna was convicted of eight charges against her, including grand larceny. but found not guilty of defrauding rachel. she was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution. her attorney insists anna meant no real harm. >> i don't believe a criminal act occurred. she made a voluntary choice to 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been proud of, here in america, being zombie eaters. >> okay. >> that means sitting down in front of the television and just going to town. >> yeah. >> munching. some people can't watch their favorite tv show without a snack. americans are the real zombie eaters. research shows a poll of 2,000 americans says that about 88% are zombie eaters. >> totally. >> 83% of those surveyed reveal they've had their food go cold while deciding what to go watch. >> so true. >> i will admit all of my -- >> yes. >> -- craziness with this. and i literally sometimes for my favorite tv shows, i have to have a meal. i have to have something. >> wait, a meal? or snack? >> all of it. sometimes all of it. and in fact sometimes i will go to the show on the dvr, press play, pause it, go run and make some food, and as soon as i sit down, play. then sometimes my favorite chips, sometimes i get upset because i can't hear the program. >> because of -- >> because of my snacking. >> you can't hear the program over your -- >> janai wants to know my favorite chips. my favorite chips of all-time. >> he says he can't even have them in the house. >> because i will eat -- >> ruffles. >> ruffle sour cream and cheddar. get them, you'll love them, they're delicious. >> oh my goodness. my snack while watching real housewives of anywhere is the brown sugar cinnamon poptart and hot chocolate. >> that's a quiet snack. >> absolutely it is. did you guys just ooh and aah over there? sounds good, right? so we've been telling you about the plans to storm area 51 to find the aliens. >> yep. >> well, they're also planning to do it with the loch ness monster. >> that's pretty cool. wait, what? >> they want to storm that area. we don't have to, it's open to the public. it seems like they're just making fun of us. we want to get this one in here. it's going to require some help. an idaho man wants to break a guinness world record -- he did, he wrapped his wife in 1:57. nothing can be shown. we decided, let's do it 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you how that dreadful middle is being improved to be more bearable. it's wednesday, july 24th. good wednesday morning, guys. it is a busy day. >> it really is. it's mueller time. >> yes. he's been waiting to use that line. >> i was saying before the show, can we say it's mueller time? because capitol hill is buzzing and it has been all week, and today is definitely going to be a big day. no matter -- some people say, what are we really going to get out of this? we'll see. >> we will be watching to see if it is a big day or if it's much more of the same as robert mueller has said he won't stray much from what is already in his report. that is what we begin with this half hour, the testimony expected to captivate the country. former special counsel robert mueller is hours away from going before congress. >> mueller will be grilled by two house committees led by democrats hoping to revive interest in the russia investigation. despite objections from republicans, mueller's trusted aide aaron zebley will be at his side serving as attorney. president trump is slamming zebley as a "never trumper." jonathan karl has more. >> reporter: just before his long-awaited testimony, former special counsel robert mueller had a late request. he asked for his long-time aide, aaron zebley, to be sworn in alongside him. republicans objected. congressman jim jordan tweeting, you don't get to change the rules right before kickoff. in the end a compromise. zebley will be able to sit next to mueller and confer with him but will not testify. mueller himself didn't want this day to come. >> any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. >> reporter: but the special counsel's in-person testimony is what democrats have been waiting for. they assume most americans have not read his report. >> for many americans, just learning what is in the report will be a revolution. >> reporter: even the fbi director acknowledged he hasn't read the whole thing. >> i -- i've reviewed it. i wouldn't say i've read every single word. >> reporter: a long-time public servant and fbi director for more than a decade, mueller has testified before congress 88 times. when he takes the oath tomorrow, president trump will be watching. he clearly had mueller on his mind. >> $40 million. interviewed 500 people. they had nothing. >> reporter: but mueller did outline 11 instances where the president may have obstructed justice. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> reporter: democrats hope mueller will reveal whether he would have charged the president with a crime if it weren't for the justice department rule against prosecuting a sitting president. attorney general bill barr ultimately took it upon himself to clear the president. democrats will likely ask mueller if he wanted barr to do that or whether he intended for congress to make that call. democrats view this as a big and important moment. robert mueller, the special counsel, coming before congress and for the first time answering questions from them about his report. and it will be fascinating to watch those exchanges, but at the same time, mueller has made it perfectly clear that he goes into this hearing intending to say nothing beyond what he already wrote in his report. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> a big thanks to jonathan karl. and okay, so this is going to be really big today. and obviously democrats and republicans have been preparing a lot heading into this with mock hearings. one thing for democrats is they're going to be looking to try to get information from mueller outside of that report, wanting to know if the only reason he didn't recommend charges against the president stems from the justice department's rule against prosecuting a sitting president, and republicans are likely to focus on the origins of the russia investigation. >> right. we've got new reporting from our white house reporter katherine faulders who says a source in the mock hearings for the democrats yesterday says the focus is on framing of the questions where dems feel they could have a shot at getting info out of mueller with a one-word yes-or-no answer. so they tee it up with a big question, then his yes or no reveals a lot, because we know he's going to stick to the report, according to sources. mee republicans as you neionthed, really can backfire. >> he may not take the bait. >> right, they're all about the origins of the investigation. about text messages, any anti-trump sentiments within the fbi at the start of this investigation. so i still think we're going to see fireworks and those fireworks will come from the politicians. but a lot of analysts will be watching every single word robert mueller says, and if anything departs from the report itself. >> and he's expected to testify for five hours. so it's going to be a long day. and you can stay with abc news for live coverage of the robert mueller hearing beginning this morning at 8:15 eastern. abc's powerhouse political team will be standing by. in other news, the trump administration's push to round up undocumented immigrants is facing resistance across the country. neighbors in a nashville, tennessee community formed a human chain to protect a father hiding in a van with his 12-year-old son as i.c.e. officers closed in. the neighbors linked arms around the family until the officers left. we're following reports the governor of puerto rico will resign, but the governor's office has not issued any statements about the governor's fate. leaked offensive chats between governor ricardo rossello and his aides have sparked days of protests with crowds demanding he step down. local media says he will resign in a video message today, but again, no official word from his office. congress has overwhelmingly passed a bill extending the 9/11 victims compensation fund. it provides money to first responders who got sick while working at the world trade center site. the legislation was championed by gravely ill first responders and celebrity jon stewart. only two senators voted against the bill. the president is expected to sign it. death rates are rising for young and middle-aged americans. that's according to new research from the cdc. rates for black and white people between the ages of 25 to 44 increased 21%. that was from 2012 to 2017. hispanic people in that same age range over the same period of time saw a 13% increase. researchers say the opioid economic and suicide have reduced life expectancy. how about we lighten it up for a moment here. relief is on the way for middle seat sufferers on airplanes. >> a wider seat with more elbow room has been approved by the faa. the middle seat is slightly lower and behind the aisle and window seats, allowing it to be about three inches wider. sounds good. the extra elbow room comes because passengers use different parts of the armrest. the ceo of the colorado company behind the design says, we were just trying to make it a bit less miserable. >> thanks for that. >> yeah. >> how about we work on some other things when it comes to air travel? but with this, yes. so the thought is that the middle seat, that the person in the middle seat will have the back armrest, then the other people will have -- >> the front. >> have the front. >> so you're sitting there, you're like -- >> right. >> what are you going to give me? >> right, exactly. >> you get in, okay, fine. >> exactly. i told you the other day i just like this, i go to sleep. yeah, exactly. >> dinosaur arms. >> i'm a very considerate air traveler. >> oh, air traveler, okay. thank you for couching that. coming up, the honor system backfires for one business. that's ahead in "the mix." first, sex on set. we'll show you how the makers of a show of steamy sex scenes are making sure their actors feel safe on the set. the manhunt to find a pair of teens suspected of murdering a couple. that's not the only case police are tying 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known image of the young couple seen hugging there. now police are searching for two young men, suspects in their murder as well as another man's death nearby. abc's matt gutman is there. >> reporter: that stunning twist in the investigation into the young couple gunned down by their van in remote british columbia and a third mysterious death. canadian authorities revealing the teenagers, bryer schmegelsky and kam mcleod, whose torched camper was found near that unidentified burned body, are not missing but now wanted as suspects by police. is there anything that links these two separate events? the murders and the death of this unidentified man? >> not that we're aware of right now. >> they're the link? >> they're the link. >> reporter: that manhunt turning urgent. police say the two were last spotted within the last couple of days on surveillance in saskatchewan over 1,000 miles away. driving a gray toyota rav-4. >> if you spot bryer or kam, consider them dangerous. do not approach. take no action. call immediately 911. >> reporter: the last known images of chynna deese and her boyfriend, lucas fowler, at this gas station. you can see deese cleaning the windows while lucas pumps gas. the two sharing that sweet embrace about a day before they were brutally murdered. given the thousands of miles these two suspects have traveled over the past week, canadian police tell us they could be anywhere by now, which is why we're seeing this massive manhunt. just to give you a sense of how quickly this investigation has been progressing, those two teens were considered at risk and missing, now they're suspects considered dangerous, possibly armed. matt gutman, abc news, vancouver. >> and we'll continue following that one, our thanks to matt. now to michigan where four teens who admitted throwing rocks from an overpass and killing a driver will be tried as adults. >> a judge made that ruling saying the teens, who were 15 to 17 years old at the time, allegedly showed no remorse for the 2017 incident which killed a father of four. he cited their snapchats in his decision, claiming the young men were laughing about what happened even after they learned they had killed someone. the defendants have until august 20th to decide whether to seek a plea deal as adults or go to trial. an update on the story of the pennsylvania school district that warned parents with late school lunch bills that their kids could end up in foster care if they don't pay. a coffee company executive from philadelphia has offered to give the school district $22,000 to wipe out the lunch bills, but he says the offer was rejected by the school board president, who says the money is owed by parents who can afford to pay. the executive says his offer stands. coming up in our next half hour, scary moments in yellowstone national park. a wild bison charges at a group of tourists. first, how hollywood is shooting those steamy scenes in the wake of the "me too" movement. the in-laws have moved in with us. and our adult children are here. so we save by using tide. which means we use less. three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. anybody seen my pants? #1 stain and odor fighter, #1 trusted. it's got to be tide. as tv shows and movies push the boundaries of sex on screen, a new movement has begun off screen, thanks in part to the "me too" movement. >> this is hollywood's way to make sure the actors baring all feel protected. here's abc's juju chang. >> what if i told you that i wanted you to [ bleep ] me right here, right now? >> reporter: almost nothing is off limits in hbo's latest boundary-pushing show "euphoria." the gritty teen drama stars zendaya and a web of young actors portraying drug use and hard-core sex among high schoolers. >> stop! stop! >> reporter: as dramas become edgier, there's a need for a new kind of safety net, one that allows actors to feel safe on set and legally define how much skin they show and how much sex they engage in on screen. >> it's amazing how much better the product is when the actors know they're going to work and are not going to be sexually assaulted that day. >> reporter: they're called intimacy coordinators. someone whose job it is to oversee and even choreograph sex scenes, preplanning every embrace, every touch. >> and how is being an intimacy coordinator like being a stunt coordinator? >> we are not actually having sex on set, but we are telling the story of that. there are ways to cheat that. there are ways to also do it safely with hygiene, sexual health, all of that in mind. >> reporter: alicia rodis helped create intimacy directors international. a former actor herself, her group literally wrote the handbook for intimacy on stage and on screen. we met up in manhattan where her services are now in high demand, working multiple projects, including season 3 of "the deuce." >> can i tell you something? >> reporter: centered on the porn industry in the '70s. after positive feedback from "the deuce," hbo requires an intimacy coordinator on all its scripted shows. >> it is good for business. on one hand, it is covering your ass. on the other hand, they realize that they're like, this is not for us, this is for the industry. >> and my sense is that what made them think of it now is the hash tag movement known as "me too," "time's up." >> absolutely. i don't think anyone had any idea how big of an issue it really was. >> reporter: it's an issue that's long plagued hollywood. balancing the art of simulating sex with the toll it takes on actors. >> i did build this incredible bikini out of these pasties. >> reporter: sometimes it's awkward as sandra bullock described her sex scene in "a time to kill." >> i'm not one of those people who's a good exhibitionist. >> reporter: at other times it can be overwhelming as jennifer lawrence explained in a roundtable for "the hollywood reporter." >> i had my first real sex scene. it was very vulnerable. you don't know what's too much, you want to do it real, you want everything to be real, but then you're like -- >> reporter: this new age of consent extending beyond hollywood to broadway and college theaters. >> i'll explain these contraptions as soon as we're all settled here. i'm running a workshop at sarah laurens. it's a consent and communication workshop. how to approach and have the communication of working on scenes of intimacy. >> reporter: a new crop of creatives hoping to disrupt the power structure in hollywood to usher in a new generation of accountability. >> what we absolutely need, though, to see diversity and proper conduct in the workplace, is more women, more people of color in the executive suites. that's the only thing that's going to change anything. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm juju chang in los angeles. >> a big thanks to juju. that last sound bite, that's something we keep talking about, the need for more diversity, whether it's a multitude of more people in color, more women in decision-making roles that help facilitate these kind of things. >> i find it fascinating as someone who watches all types of shows. you see this and sometimes you're distracted thinking, how is that for the actors involved? i remember seeing an interview years ago about an actor saying before he got into type of sex scene, he would ask the other actor, are you okay with this? if i touch you here, touch you here? i think intimacy coordinators, obviously very important to have on set to help all of these actors be safe. >> even seeing that there was a consent and communication workshop, very smart. and glad to see those changes there. sun care is self care. i used to not love wearing an spf just because i felt like it was so oily and greasy and that it was going to clog my pores. but what i love about olay regenerist whip with spf 25 is that it's lightweight, it's barely there. and then i can put makeup on over it if i want or if i'm not working, you know, just roll. it's perfect for me. i'm busy philipps, and 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sheriff grady judd has to say about it. >> grady judd, well-known sheriff in polk county. >> very outspoken, unintentionally hilarious. >> you put a camera in front of that man -- >> yes, somebody get grady judd in front of a camera and ask him what he thinks about these honey thefts. >> honey thieves, they ain't sweet. >> circle back to us on twitter, please, polk county. so ordering a birthday cake, you might want to stop doing it over the phone. we told you someone ordered a moana cake and got a marijuana cake. >> yep. remember that, i remember that. >> because you can see how you can make that mistake. well, a mom ordered a birthday cake for her daughter, who she has called lizard since she was pregnant. she told them, yeah, please write "happy birthday, lizard" on it. she gets the cake. and as you can see from the little girl's face, it's wrong. it says "happy birthday, loser." >> loser. life lesson here. >> yeah. spell it out? have them repeat it back to you? >> even when someone 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you have hepatitis c. it could save your life. know more. this morning on "world news now," relief is in sight for 9/11 victims. congress sends the victims fund bill to the president to sign. the bill championed by jon stewart, who was there when the final vote went down. also this morning, heading to the hill. former special counsel robert mueller will publicly testify about his russia probe report. but it's his last-minute request that's making waves right before the hearing. and we're still talking apollo 11. this day in history. >> it's been 50 years since neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins safely made it back after their trip to the moon. double trouble. checking out some incredible celebrity look-alikes. even rihanna herself is almost speechless. that's ahead in "the skinny" on this wednesday, july 24th. this is what you came for. >> that's right. >> not that. ♪ ooh >> not that, we don't want that. good morning, everyone. >> rotten, rotten. thank you for joining us. we'll get to all fun, all the celebrity look-alikes coming up. we begin this half hour with a victory for 9/11 first responders. the senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that funds their care for decades. entertainer jon stewart, seen here smiling as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell walked by shortly before the vote. >> stewart championed the legislation along with gravely ill first responders, some of whom have already died from 9/11 related illnesses. here is mary bruce. >> reporter: on capitol hill, applause. and a huge sigh of relief for the heroes of 9/11. the senate passing legislation to permanently fund care for first responders and survivors. >> there have been too many funerals, too many hospices. these families deserve better. >> reporter: comedian jon stewart has been fighting for them for years. shaming lawmakers for their inaction. >> they did their jobs. 18 years later, do yours. >> reporter: at his side last month, detective luis alvarez. >> you all said you would never forget. well, i'm here to make sure that you don't. >> reporter: he did not live to see today. for first responder john feel, an emotional farewell to this fight. >> yes, i cried with jon. but that was to exhale, to get 18 years of pain and suffering out. and i believe it's out. >> reporter: now every five years these first responders have had to fight to replenish this fund, but that is now over. they will now get the care that they need for the rest of their lives. mary bruce, abc news, capitol hill. >> such a big and important fight and very well deserved to take care of those first responders. our thanks to mary bruce there. former special counsel robert mueller is just hours away from testifying in back-to-back hearings on capitol hill. >> it's going to be a big day. when mueller goes before the house judiciary committee, his long-time aide aaron zebley will sit alongside him. zebley will be sworn in as a witness. >> democrats are hoping to question mueller about allegations that president trump obstructed justice. his spokesman says he will not go beyond what's in his report on the russia investigation. abc news will have live coverage of the robert mueller hearings beginning this morning at 8:15 eastern. president trump is suing his home state of new york in an effort to keep his tax returns under wraps. a new law allows key committee chairs to obtain the state returns. trump's attorney is calling it presidential harassment and political retribution. democrats say they need the returns to search for potential conflicts of interest and corruption. more than 3 million people could lose their food stamp benefits under a new proposal by the trump administration. the agriculture department claims the rule would save $2.5 billion a year and end widespread abuse of the program, also known as s.n.a.p., by changing the way states determine eligibility. democrats say it would take money away from families that need to be fed. the cleanup is under way after deadly and powerful storms battered the northeast. more than 133,000 are in the dark in new jersey. and about 50,000 in michigan. >> tens of thousands of people were plunged into darkness after a rare tornado hit cape cod. this is dramatic video of a sailboat trying to navigate these dangerous waters as the tornado moved in. abc's linsey davis has the details. >> reporter: powerful storms striking the new england coast. winds gusting up to 90 miles per hour. >> oh my gosh. >> reporter: waterspouts churning off cape cod where a rare tornado touched down in the town of yarmouth. >> you want to take cover. >> reporter: watch as the roof is ripped off this motel. >> it pulled pieces of the awning off one at a time, then it took the whole section of the roof. >> reporter: all part of the same system that slammed the new york city area at the height of monday's evening commute. waterfalls in the subways. this motorist used a traffic cone to try and clear a blocked storm drain. the storms knocking out power to more than 400,000 across the region, sending trees crashing onto homes across new jersey. >> there was a child in a back bedroom who narrowly missed being struck by the tree. >> reporter: tragically, a 17-year-old boy was killed in this house fire. candles may have started the hi throughout the area. this house uninhabitable. you can see the insulation bursting through that exterior wall. it's estimated more than 100,000 customers in new jersey alone are still in the dark. utility crews say that in some of the hardest-hit areas, it could take several days to bring the power back. linsey davis, abc news, howell township, new jersey. a big change is happening today in britain. former london mayor boris johnson will become the new prime minister. >> johnson was elected to lead his conservative party yesterday. he will become britain's leader today after visiting buckingham palace to meet the queen along with outgoing prime minister theresa may. johnson's most important challenge is leading his country out of the european union by the end of october. a new study found differences in the brains of u.s. diplomats who developed concussion-like symptoms after working in cuba. researchers found less white matter in their brains and less connectivity in the areas that control vision and hearing than healthy people. researchers are unable to provide a reason for the differences or if they could lead to health problems. cuba has denied any attack. we could see at least two settlements today between facebook and government agencies. those settlements would end disputes between the company and the federal trade commission as well as the securities and exchange commission. both agencies have been looking into facebook's privacy practices. the ftc settlement will reportedly include a $5 billion fine, a fine from fcc is expected to be around $100 million. the boppy company is recalling infant head and neck support accessories sold between march and may. the company says the head support area can be overstuffed which could cause an infant's head to be tilted too far forward. if you have one of those supports, stop using it and contact the boppy company for a refund. okay, i got a story for you. a bear in colorado walks into a marijuana dispensary. >> sounds like another day in colorado. >> looking for munchies. >> this happened in lyons north of boulder. surveillance video here of just a curious old bear. the bear broke through the fence or did it fly open from the wind? this is at the bud depot. started sniffing around for the dumpster. tried to get in to get some food. but the bear-resistant container did its job. so the bear's taking it home. the bear decides to roll it down the street. it stayed in the area for an hour but that container held tight. that poor bear. the bear just wanted some food. i mean, you see why they have those bear-tight containers. >> got to bulk up. it's that time of the year. >> anyone who saw the bear later, they said "high bear." marijuana dispensary. >> yeah, i gotcha, uh-huh. >> you're supposed to laugh. >> i did laugh. >> so that it's contagious, like our story yesterday. >> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! >> oh, it does make you laugh when someone -- you're right, that's funny. >> yeah. high bear. >> high bear. >> i wish we could have thought of a really good high bear joke. yours didn't cut it. >> so now we're criticizing my -- at least i'm trying. i'm trying. >> you're right, you tried, you tried, "a" for effort. >> you knew the story was coming up, you could have come up with a high bear joke. >> stay with us after the break, we'll look it up. coming up, nasa marking another major milestone that happened 50 years ago today. first you have to see this, a bison -- >> "high bison." >> -- charging at a little girl. how this came to an end will leave you stunned. ahead in "the skinny," celebrities, they're just like us. >> of course they are. >> even john teigen, i mean john 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kostial, her classmate at ole miss, 22-year-old brandon theesfeld, charged with murder. the son of a texas doctor appearing before a judge. we tried talking to dr. daniel theesfeld after he spoke with his son held in county jail but he had no comment. ally kostial was last seen friday. an officer on routine patrol finding her body the next day at this lake. it's about 20 miles off campus. it was off this curvy, dusty road where the sheriff's deputy found the body, this area secluded. authorities have not revealed a motive or whether the two knew each other, but both were students in the school of business. ally kostial's high school classmates back home near st. louis are remembering a warm and loyal friend. >> ally was very fun and outgoing, very friendly girl. i'm going to miss the fact that she was always there for me if i needed to talk with her. >> reporter: the suspect's father told our dallas station his son is innocent and he's implored the public to withhold judgment. the 22-year-old is being held in lafayette county jail charged with murder. marcus moore, abc news, oxford, mississippi. >> our thanks to marcus there. video from yellowstone park shows wildlife is wild for a reason. >> tourists are standing just a few feet from a bison when all of a sudden it starts to charge. it heads straight towards two adults and a 9-year-old girl, look right there, flipping her into the air. she was treated and released from the park clinic. >> she is okay this morning. >> she is. a group of about 50 people were near the bison. it's believed the adults who ran were her parents. >> bison, they are considered to be the most dangerous in the park. the park says tourists should stay 25 yards away from big animals like bison. a recent study said more often than not, humans provoke the animals by coming too close, trying to pet them, thinking they're docile. >> remember, last week we showed the video of the mama bear who the guy was trying to get close and mama was like, not today. stay away from me. >> that video is incredible. that little girl is okay. >> yeah. >> traumatized i'm sure. >> right. >> but physically okay this morning. when we come back, celebrity look-alikes. see who's selling their $52 million estate. you? 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did someone take my dna? my essence? my everything? and made this little child? that's pretty cool. some celebrity look-alikes take their doppelganger status to a whole new level and make a living off it. >> another look-alike is getting attention. tom cruise set to return as maverick and his look-alike hoping to capitalize on it. check out jerome leblanc. right? i know, professional tom cruise impersonator from san diego. >> he made the rounds at comic-con last week and pretty much fooled everyone. he's been making appearances as tom cruise for nine years. you asked last week, how does tom cruise not age? maybe it's the doppelganger. >> maybe we've been fooled. >> this entire time. where's the real tom cruise? nope. nope. >> kenneth doesn't want to play today. in the commercial we were talking about, oh, who are our celebrity look-alikes? >> so janai wants to go down that route. >> tweet us. but only if you're going to be nice. >> okay, that's it. #benice. >> right. be best. >> during the commercial we were not nice to each other. >> no, we weren't, it got real ugly, so you be nicer. not every summer vacation goes smoothly and even celebrities have mishaps along the way. foro tp an r-list couple, john e >> chrissy first posted this video. john all smiles. >> chrissy, her second video shows exactly what went wrong. the passenger side window shattered. for the record, chrissy says no one was sitting in the passenger seat when it happened. neither she nor john were driving. >> it doesn't even look like they're all the way out of manhattan yet. >> no, and that happened already. >> chrissy, will you tweet us? >> be safe. time for celebrity real estate starting with boxing legend sugar ray leonard. the 63-year-old is selling his house in l.a. for an eye-popping $52 million. >> the stunning grand european villa sits behind double gates on park-like grounds. it's got seven bedrooms, two-story guest room, a putting green, huge pool, ocean views, and a large gym. >> you want to go half? >> let's do it, halfies. >> sounds good. >> splitting the check for the restaurant. another athlete showing off hidi. tim tebow has a heisman trophy. but baseball is his game now. >> $2.9 million, it was originally on the market for $3.5 million, only three years old, five bedrooms, more than 8,000 square feet. tim. that's beautiful. invite a brother over. that's beautiful. invite a brother over. charmin ultra soft! ♪ it's softer than ever. charmin ultra soft is softer than ever... so it's harder to resist. okay, this is getting a little weird. enjoy the go! with charmin! it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> after completing that monumental moon landing and first-ever walk on the moon, astronauts neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins safely splashed back into the pacific ocean 50 years ago today. >> bad weather would nearly bring the mission to a tragic end. the capsule was forced to change course, heading for a splashdown site 200 miles away where conditions were somewhat better. >> as david muir explains, once the astronauts were home they faced a few more challenges. >> reporter: after that dramatic splash-down in the pacific ocean, there were celebrations in mission control. but what few may remember is what came next. >> now the three men wearing biological isolation garments enter the mobile quarantine facility. >> reporter: the astronauts were quarantined to protect the planet from any germs they might have brought back from the moon. >> neil, buzz, and mike -- >> reporter: greeted by president richard nixon, their three faces pressed against the glass. astronaut michael collins would say in an interview years later, all of it might have been for nothing. he said any germs they brought back with them would have escaped the moment they opened that hatch in the pacific. >> command module lands in the pacific ocean. and what do they do? they open the hatch. you've got to open the hatch. all the damn germs come out. >> reporter: they would stay in isolation for three weeks. first in this converted airstream trailer. then transported to pearl harbor. then to houston. where the three astronauts' wives were waiting to finally see their husbands return from the moon. >> pretty epic there. thanks to david. and president richard nixon was there when they came back home. and he actually had a speech ready to go if they did not return. >> right, and that's because the mission's success was far from certain, so he was prepared for the alternative. and water landings are coming back. >> later this year, nasa astronauts flying on spacex will once again return to earth apollo astronaut style with an ocean landing. since the space shuttle program began in 1981, nasa had been landing the orbiters on solid ground. >> very interesting. >> so i used to watch this as a kid when the shuttle would land. i just could not fathom being up in space and the shuttle coming back into our atmosphere and then landing like perfectly. it was just so cool. >> so coordinated. and as we've seen following this 50-year anniversary how much work went into it all around. incredible job. >> out of this world. ♪ every day it's getting closer ♪ ♪ going faster than a roller coaster ♪ ♪ a love like yours will surely come my way ♪ ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ every day it's getting closer ♪ ♪ going faster than a roller coaster ♪ ♪ a love like yours will surely come my way ♪ ♪ hey, hey, hey babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 weeks, which means babies born even a few weeks early can have breathing, feeding, and learning problems. if your pregnancy is healthy, wait for labor to begin on its own. a healthy baby is worth the wait. making news in america this morning, the high stakes testimony just hours away. robert mueller facing lawmakers answering questions on the russia investigation. and possible crimes committed by president trump. will it be a make or break moment in the fight for impeachment and how the white house is bracing this morning. breaking overnight, new reports claiming the governor of puerto rico is preparing to resign after remaining defiant during weeks of protests. what we're learning in san juan right now. the massive manhunt for the teenager suspected in three killings. at least one of the victims an american. >> they're now

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