Tt2watv 64 bt qv9h tt2watv 64 a qf5, tt2watv 64 bm qm tt4watv 64 dztq ly4 tt4watv 64 entq exact same room reporter tim williams known as the trivago guy, slightly rumpled yet approachable. Hes pitching good deals but it seems lots of people want to know what his deal is. I come from houston, texas. I made my way up to new york a long time ago to study acting. I worked on my socalled life. I worked on the sopranos. Reporter its williams commercial success that has women and men obsessing over his laidback look that also comes with criticism. From doug. Tuck in your shirt, you badly dressed trivago guy. Enough . Jimmy are he joins the ranks of spokes people like progretsive Insurance Agent flo, the most interesting man in the world. Face of one company. How does this guy from texas end up as the trivago front man . He moved to germany. My agents here in new york are like, are you crazy . You dont speak german i said, i do, i will, i dont speak but ill learn it because ive not to work. Eventually i ended up on a television show. Translates to good times, bad times. I played an american rock star. And thats why i couldnt shave. I had to shoot on monday. I had to shoot triv after doing fittings we realized that, okay, none of the belts seem to be fitting the loops. So we went out without the belt. Trivago instantly compares prices reporter a happenstance wardrobe malfunction put him in the world of advertising elite. Meryl streep said, you dont have to be famous, you just have to make your mother and father prod of you. Thank you for watching abc news. Tune into Good Morning America tomorrow. As always were online 24 7 on and abcnews. Com. Captives not far from mosul. U. S. Air strikes cleared the air. American and Kurdish Special forces troops expected to find just 20 hostages but they were stunned. They came across 70 and during an intense fight, as many as 20 isis fighters were killed. The americans we mentioned, the american we mentioned was wounded and unfortunately did later die. Police in sweden are searching for a motive for a School Attack that left a teacher and a student dead. The school is located within a large immigrant community. A 21yearold man wearing a mask and wielding a sword entered yesterday and started slashing his four victims. In addition to those killed, another teacher and student were injured. The attacker was shot and kid by police. Outrage growing over the latest Police Shooting that left a young black man dead. Cory jones family said prosecutors in florida told them the undercover officer never showed his badge and jones never fired his gun he was licensed to carry. He was shot three times by officer new man raja after his ramp. He called his big brother, cj. His brother offered 0 come and get him. He said no, i need my car because i have to perform in church with the choir the next morning. Police say officer raja snapped to investigate what he believed was an abandoned car and was confronted by an armed man. Hes now on paid leave. Flash flood warnings in effect for north texas overnight as the region isit with the first rain in weeks. This was the scene at an rv park several travel trailers and rvs floating away and travel delays reported at lovefield in dallas. The mornings commute expected to be a major challenge. Those rains do not look to be letting up soon. For the a lock look at the forecast including a major hurricane in the pacific, justin povick. Good morning to you. Thanks and good morning to you. Heavy rainfall and dangerous flash flooding unfortunately, that returns to much of texas throughout the day into the overnight and also for the upcoming weekend. Im very concerned from dallas to abilene, some spots here through the weekend could experience 6 to even 1 inches of rain. Then we have dangerous Hurricane Patricia bending to the north. Likely to strike the western be portion of mexico later on this afternoon. Phillip and reena, back to you. Thank you, justin. President ial candidate and new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is facing a lawsuit stemming from last years ebola outbreak. A nurse is seeking a quart Million Dollars in damages. Kaci hickox was quarantined after having contact with patients in west africa. She said she was illegally held in a tent against her will even though she had no symptoms. She says he was driven by politics, not health concerns. Pitchmen of jared fogle are getting checks of 100,000 each. He pleaded guilty to gild an choose and is due to be sentenced next month. Prosecutors say its restitution is paid before the sentence is handed out. Fogel faces a minimum of five years in prison. In the swiss alps, a camera captured the amazing moment when a giant chunk of rock broke off the side of a mount and thundered downhill. The site had been under observation for some time after instruments recorded significant erosion. As a precaution the village at the foot of the mountain was evacuated ahead of time. Thankfully, nobody was injured. Back here at home, a breaking news situation near austin, texas. Ladies and gentlemen, theres a gang of emus on the loose. The four of them escaped their enclosure and there they were seen walking down the street in round rock, texas, yesterday afternoon. Their names in case you come across them, emmitt, hes the big one. As in emmitt smith. There you go and the others as in hughey, dewey and louis. As in hughey and the news. There you go. Youre on fire this morning. Im on fire. Had i my coffee. Its friday. We should say the names of the nephews of donald duck, hughey an dewey and lew u. Police say theyre considered highly dangerous and residents have been told to avoid them. Efforts to get them back to their fenced in backyard will resume this morning. Again folks, possibly armed and dangerous. Do not feed them. Lock your doors. Hughey dewey and louie are not news. Donald duck had nephews. Its been awhile. You clearly didnt watch duck tails. Im going to get you a little episode of duck tails on youtube. Need it. Coming up next, distracted driving. What were finding out about those hands free devices. A new study says theyre not as safe as weve been told. Coming up in the skinny, John Travolta like never before. Who hes playing in his big tv comeback role next year. Youre watching world news now. World news now weather, ought to you by Colonial PennLife Insurance. Im alex trebek. If youre age 50 to 85, this is an Important Message. So please, write down the number on your screen. The lock i want to talk to you about isnt the one on your door. Its a rate lock for your Life Insurance that guarantees your rate can never go up at any time, for any reason. But be careful. 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Aaa tested about a dozen hands free systems. Chevys rated a mild distraction. Siri on the iphone rated high. The mazda 6 very high. Chevy and mazda did not return our calls. Apple declined to comment. Distractions dont stop when you hang up. Aaa found hands free technologies can keep distracting you up to half a minute longer, enough time to drive three football fields going only 25 miles an hour. Hands hands free isnt rick free and can lead to levels of i distract that are unsafe. Researchers say keep your eyes on the road and for that 27 seconds your brain, too. Clayton sandell, abc news, denver into put the cell phone inside the glob come partment to drive these days. It sure is really, really distracting and dangerous. When we come back, John Travoltas big division comeback. And Justin Bieber putting sorry to a song. The skinny up next. Stations. Today, 1 out of every 4 American Kids is hispanic. 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Of course, they cut away just before he asked gooding, simpson, the big question whether he killed his exwife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman and Robert Kardashian played by david swimmer. Wow. Riveting. As you can see, travolta, he just nails it as shapiro. American crime story, the people versus o. J. Simpson will be premiere in february on fx. Up next, Justin Bieber certainly full of surprises these days. The singer just dropped a video for his single sorry off of his upcoming album purpose. A day earlier than he promised. He based the lyrics seems to be all about her. Of course. Selena gomez. Hes begging for a Second Chance one more shot at forgiveness interestingly enough, we never see himself of him in the video. His new album will drop in full on november 13th. This is like Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears all over again. That whole saga from the last generation. Who else has a flu good music video out . Gwen stefani, people are saying also about her ex got to check that one out. Another major singer making headlines had morning. Following up on a story we brought you earlier this week. Today an did he is expected to release the first single for her upcoming album 25. We heard a tiny snippet of that single on British Television hello which we dropped over the weekend. Hello, its me i was wondering if after all these years youd like to meet for a second though, i said hello and i thought she was going to say is it me youre looking for. I was like wait a minute. Haul and oats. Adele just joinedinstagram yesterday and announced her upcoming album will drop on november 20th. Finally, the world of professional sports intersecting with hollywood. Actor rin diesel revealed his 7yearold daughter is taking judo lessons from ufc champ ronda rousey. Diesel met her on set of fast and furious and it seems to be paying off. 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I may not be on the road as often as previous speakers but i pledge to try and make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message. It may very well be that that process by the time we get through it, closes the window on mounting a Realistic Campaign for president. Ive concluded it has closed. Im not blaming george bush but i dont want yeb bush 0 say my brother kept us safe. Does anybody actually blame my brother for the attacks on 9 11 . If they do theyre totally marginalizing our society. I would imagine ive thought more about what happened than all of you put together. Ive lost more sleep than all of i have been racking my brain about what more could have been done into any attack against a house of faith is an attack on our freedom as americans which we all hold dear. And all americans should be concerned into i cannot imagine being the father of little lilly and to have your child in your hands under such circumstances. Police officers murdered in 11 months. Thats about as bad as it gets. The lady who got hit was talking about. She was going, he hit in my head and choked me and she was really emotional. Smile. What is this . This is im taking a selfie with you guys. This is how we document important life events now. Those stories about what happened happened. Its true. Oh, what a week pore star wars. Some people find the title of the force wakens a little blasphemous because some people are saying the force never sleeps. How can you say it awakens . Theyve got to find instinct. Its wakening the franchise after all these years. Theres going to be two more movies after this one. How do i put my name in for a walkon role for star wars . Theres still two more to be done . Do you have j. J. Abrams email on your computer . We can check it out. December 17th, thats when we can check it out. More news coming up. This is abcs world news two decades. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Aim reena ninan with the top headlines that were following this morning on republicans. Generally good marks following her marathon session before the House Benghazi Committee. Some of the most heated moments during the 11hour hearing were between republicans and democrats on the panel. Details ahead. Congressman paul ryan officially enters the race for speaker of the house. That comes after ryan got support from three key groups including hard line conservatives in the house. The election is next week. Homeland Security Officials say top secret two secret Service Agents were found asleep at their recent posts in months one at the white house. Details straight ahead. And forecasters are calling Hurricane Patricia potentially catastrophic as it heads for mexicos central coast. The category 5 hurricane is set to make landfall later today. Those are some of our top stories on this friday, october from abc news, this is world news now. Hello. We begin this half hour with that shocking report about the secret Service Officers found asleep on the job, including one at the white house. And now homeland Security Officials are warning overworked Agency Employees could pose a serious security risk. Ears abcs pierre thomas. Reporter sleeping on the job. Not the words