I am a southern belle, a belle. In a love offbroadway show. First the nightline 5. Sometimes my gums bleed, no big deal. By hygienist said it is. Crest gum prevention, targeting harmful bacteria on your gums. These symptoms could lead to more serious problems. Gum crisis averted. Its black friday at jcpenney. Doors open at 3 00 p. M. On thursday. Rush in to save 40 off major appliances. Plus get special financing with your jcpenney credit card. Thats getting your pennys good evening. It may have bun spun into a hollywood tale but the idea of a very real. Each year during the state of the union address, there is one person who is ready to assume the presidency in the event our government is wiped out. Whats it like to be a reallife designated survivor . Heres my nightline coanchor juju chang. Reporter it is the unthinkable. The doomsday scenario. A catastrophic attack on u. S. Soil. The president , congress, the upper l wiped up. While its the stuff of dark thrillers, the creators of abcs mosttalked about show designated survivor have something very real in mind. Sir, you are now the president of the united states. So this is your president ial motorcade . This is a small one. Normally theres 16 cars. Kiefer sutherland playing a meek, lowlevel cabinet secretary. So help me god. Reporter though firmly in the realm of makebelieve its based on a very real, extremely classified safeguard known as the continuity of government plan. The problem that the continuity of government plan tries to solve is something called decapitation. Reporter abc news consultant and former white house counterterrorism official dick clark ran the program for nearly a decade. Hes the only official to ever deploy it in a crisis, during 9 11. While president bush was in the air, v rushed to an underground bunker. On 9 11 i activated the continuity of government system. We asked the speaker of the house to leave washington. Reporter the government didnt know if more attacks were coming and where. Gail norton, george w. Bushs secretary of the interior, told 20 20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas she was one of a handful of highranking officials sent to secret locations. I know you cant tell me exactly where you were but can you describe the conditions . The deodorant smelled bad. Because it was all so old. Reporter she was pressed into duty as the first state of the union designated survivor. As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, the economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Because we had seen what happened on 9 11, it was much more a real concern than it had ever been before. Reporter norton even prepared her possible speech to the american public. I didnt write anything on paper, but i certainly thought about it. Reporter according to 2004 designated staffer alex vogel, yes, there are staffers in those bunkers too, there are some perks. We were very well fed. I think we had steak and lobster and red wine, which was great. They didnt want to us go hungry in the event of an apocalypse, which was somewhat reassuring. Reporter there are several hideaways. This one in colorado nicknamed the mountain. Cheyenne Mountain Air Force station is 2,000 feet deep, hidden behind multiple 25ton blast doors. Three feet thick. Five acres dug out of the rock. 15 buildings built to withstand a nuclear bomb. Supported on 1,300 of these halfton steel springs. Like a shock absorber. Reporter it has its own power plant, a 6 million gallon water supply, potentially ready to support not just the president but hundreds of staffers to help him. And then theres the secret entrance to another bunker in west virginia. The wallpapered panel slides away revealing this. Welcome to the bunker. Reporter the greenbrier bunker. The floor is five feet thick, the walls are five feet thick, the ceiling is five feet thick. Were in a big concrete box. Ho hotel, this facility was built during the cold war to House Congress in case the u. S. Capitol was destroyed by a nuclear bomb. These showers were for the congressmen to be decontaminated from nuclear fallout. Clothing would have gone in. It would have been burned in an incinerator in the power plant. Reporter the Nuclear Fears of the cold war may be a thing of the past but each year a cabinet member is still asked to skip the state of the union address. They are then put in a secure location with a support staff before the state of the union begins. And theyre brought back only the next morning. Reporter former u. S. Attorney general Alberto Gonzalez once served as the designated survivor during president bushs 2007 address to a joint session of congress. Madam speaker, Vice President cheney, members of congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens Andrews Air Force base. There were a group of individuals there from various departments and agencies. All carrying these black binders. Their job was to advise me in the event that i assumed the presidency. Then i settled in, in front of a large monitor, and watched president bush give his state of the union. Reporter he talks about his experience in his new book true faith and allegiance. It suddenly hit me in the middle of that speech somewhere, oh my gosh. Reporter on the show the white house is destroyed in a murky terror attack. The show invited us to this training base. So this will be the area where you actually film the scene . He and i will be here. Theyll be actually treading through the compound. Reporter the action scenes are high octane. But pondering how an average joe might react to suddenly becoming commander in chief where are we going . President ial Emergency Operation center. Reporter is what makes designated survivor a thinking mans thriller. What do you think it takes to be a good president . I think maybe you have to try person. Good night, daddy. Good night, little pea. In the pilot they bring out the nuclear football. You say, whats the code . Should i have an eye scan . Do you need my fingerprints or an eye scan or something . No, sir. Its not like the movies. The guy laughs and says, yeah, we dont do that. Reporter the show going to Great Lengths to keep things realistic. Were here on the toronto set of designated survivor. The cast and crew hard at work. All of swanky neighborhood in alexandra, virginia. Every detail well thought out. All the way down to the Washington News van. The president s speechwriter a veteran actor with reallife white house cred. Mr. President. Maybe the countrys just not ready yet. Reporter kal penn, everyones favorite stoner from harold and kumar. That was the best meal of my life. Reporter famously left hollywood to serve in the office of Public Engagement in the obama administration. Conditions inside the beltway and inside hollywood . You cant, absurd. Oh, come on. I have an air conditioned trailer and somebody will bring me a coffee if i want it, here. There youre in cramped quarters. Im eating vending machine sandwiches and working 19 hours a day. Reporter on set, penn became a de facto fact checker. If you get the kal penn seal of approval thats a good thing . Flattering unthat ran its little things. How many people would be in a particular office. Would somebody actually run i this person or are we taking creative license with it . Thats weird. Reporter while they might not get everything right, no doubt all the drama will feel true to life. For nightline im juju chang in toronto. Next, Dwayne Johnson on going from action hero to animated hero for disneys . . . . How else do you think he gets around so fast . Take the reins this holiday and get the mercedesbenz youve always wanted during the winter event. Now lease the 2017 gle350 for 579 a month all right, with the crazy sixpack and ridiculous gum show on display, Dwayne Johnson already lks just wait till you see him in animated form drawing on his musical talent, who knew, for disneys new blockbuster moana. Heres abcs nick watt. Murdering little pirates. Reporter i think its a funfilled adventure, but its male costar thinks moana is a tear jerker. Ocean, do something help us ive never cried are laughing through a movie than i have with this movie. Just to be clear, theyre manly tears. Reporter dwayne the rock johnson voices a funloving demi god maui who kind of messes up you will restore the heart ah reporter and its young moanas job to save her mythical Pacific Island unleashed a terrible curse. This is a young girl driving the story, saving the world. A new version of a female hero. There is no love interest, no damsel in distress character in her. She represents so many 15, 16yearold girls out there. I have a 15yearold daughter who is just like moana, whos ambitious and has a really strong point of view and wants tapping into her own identity and putting me in my place. You are not my hero and im not here so you can sign my oar there are parts of your story reflected in this movie. This handsome, browneyed soul. Exactly. Reporter i was talking about the ups and downs, highs and lows of his career. You just earned yourself a dance with the devil. Reporter hes the star of the fast and furious franchise and the worlds highestpaid actor. But life wasnt played football. Didnt make it. Failed at that. There were a lot of failures that mauis had to go through as well. Reporter moana too, in this movie made by our Parent Company walt disney. Shes going to trip and fall and shes going to learn a lesson as she goes along. Enjoy the island maui out. No, stop, hey, put back the heart theres a great line in the movie where i think my character says, no, youre a princess. Princess, im the daughter of the chief but im not a princess. And i Say Something like, listen, youve got a dress and a sidekick. Then youre a princess. Very funny. Its the best line in the movie. Its a good line. And i said it. Its a good line. Its my line. Yeah. Well done. Well done. Thank you. And you will journey to ah reporter the message here, never give up. And shes back. And theres also another message that i got a pretty good singing voice. . When you were waddling high this guy . . When the nights got cold who stole you fire from down below . Reporter music composed by among others Linmanuel Miranda of hamilton fame. . We read the wind and the sky when the sun is high . . We sail the lengths of the seas on the ocean breeze . How did you find the time . I got this job about six months before hamilton started rehearsals. A half months. I know it because i found out i was going to be a father the same day i found out i got the job. It was one of those lifechanging days. Id have skype meetings at 5 00 a. M. With the team in burbank, theyve in their sweats and clothes, and i was in an 18th century blouse because i was going to be onstage later. Its fair to say youre a fairly physical actor. Walking tall. San andreas. Hercules. Hercules reporter we usually see the rock. Thats kind of the point. You hear dwayne the rock johnson, oh, theres going to be a character whos going to punch people out, its going to be awesome. How was it to try and project just using your voice . It was exercising a different muscle. It was a great challenge. Theres multiple cameras on you, just like this. As youre saying these lines and how you say them, how your facial expressions are delivering the lines. So all that is infused into the animation. The oceans straight up kookydukes reporter if i was pitching this movie id call it a ballsier frozen. You have samoan ancestry . Polynesian descent. It was an opportunity for us to showcase polynesian culture t way that had never been showcased before. Were talking about a system of navigation that is unequaled, to be able to sail into the open sea without maps and compasses and go from one island to find the next by reading the world. And the metaphor of, i have to keep my island and where im from in my mind and fixed so i know where im going. I mean, you cant ask for a better metaphor as a songwriter. Heres a fun fact. Grandfather. He looked like that. Samoan high chief who has high chief tattoos all over his body. Your grandfather who was a wrestler as well . Correct. You are not the hero, youre a bit of a goofball at points. Well, you know. Goofball is a little strong. Dont be angry. 15 samoans beat your [ bleep ] in rugby. Hes got this thing. He played Brigham Young when he was in college, 15 samoans were he sees my character, its goofball. Holding on to resentment clearly here. 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Here again my nightline coanchor juju chang. Classic the golden girls. And now its back. This time as an offbroadway puppet parody. That golden girls show featuring four unexpectedly saucy Single Ladies living out their golden years together in miami. Just at pottymouthed and angsty as ever. Rose the sweetheart who loves her hometown of st. Olaf. Dorothy who tells it like it is. Sofia, or ma. And its like a timeless series that has just gone through the last 30 years. Reporter but this puppet show tells the story of the girls before they were the golden girls. I dont know, i just dont see this taking off. I mean, whod want to watch a tv show about four old women living in miami . It will be a blip on the radar. You are so right, i give it eight weeks. Tops. Reporter if they only knew what was to come. 68 emmy nominations. See that man over there staring at me . Hes undressing me with his eyes. Do you want to move to another table . Not yet, hes only half done. Reporter the puppets embodying the nuances of the characters. I am a southern belle. The belle of the ball. Shes a bit of a slut. Reporter as for their take on president elect trump . Theyre sticking to character. Wait, ronald r president. 1985. Thats where we are now. Reporter politics aside the golden girls is about friendship. This is the original sex and the city. . Thank you for being a friend . Reporter the puppet girls are teaming up with the new york city guy mens chorus to reprise that famous theme. . Youre a pal and a confidant . Reporter for nightline im juju chang in new york. The golden girls remains my daughters favorite tv show. It was the legendary baseball player Satchel Paige who said, age is a case of mind over matter. You dont mind, it dont matter. Thank you for watching abc news, and as always, were online at abcnews. Com and our Nightline Facebook page. Thanks for the company, america. Happy thanksgiving. Kanye west cancels his tour and gets rushed to the hospital. My career, my life, my public well standing at risk. The details on the rappers scary situation. Were celebrating the holidays early in los angeles. Theres Nothing Better than singing Christmas Songs in early november when its 90 degrees husband call it quits. Everyones favorite unfiltered a lifter iit. Jennifer lawrence share her thoughts on a topics for vanity fair and reveals a lie she told chris pratt. Not funny. Big store stars, big hollywo. Coming to a christmas party. First, lets dive into the hot headlines. Kanye west has been rushed to the hospital. I put my career, my life, my public well standing at risk. The emergency coming after the rapper canceled the rest of his world tour. West delivering a bizarre rant during a show in california