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Three people died and hundreds injured during the Boston Marathon bombing. Now to a man with quite a story to tell. And its a true story about what hes recently witnessed. Hes a reporter used to finding himself in dangerous situations. Hes just back from a trip with isis. Of course, the grop thats proven its brutality time and time again. Abcs Hamish Macdonald reports. Reporter hes the First Western jornlist to gain unfettered access to isis. He spent ten days in syria andu rack alongside isis fighters. From that experience, he says the west is vastly underestimating the groups strengths. I have seen many wars. I was in iraq, afghanistan. Thats the Strongest Group i ever met. Reporter traveling through syria and iraq to the city of mosul, he says he met countless foreign fighters. Among them, americans. Maybe i met 12, 14 americans. I met american fighters from new jersey. You wouldnt imagine people from new jersey. Reporter the german journalist now believes it will be difficult to defeat isis. But he has some clear advice for the u. S. Government. Isis is a child of the invasion of iraq in 2003. If i could give advice to the American Government i would say do anything you can in iraq to integrate the sunnis and you will have partners in your fight against i. S. And stop your bombardments. It will not work. You can defeat an enemy only if you know him. Reporter Hamish Macdonald, abc news, london. As journalists were supposed to go after the big get. Thats one interview that id rather not get the interview with isis. You never know whats going to happen. This jornlist is 74 years old. Certainly has a lot of energy and a lot of experience. This came about after months of talks with the groups leaders to get him in and safety. Its an incredibly dangerous mission. Glad he made it out all right. When does offering too much information on social media result in danger . Probably when it results innior home being the target of thieves. A precautionary tale ahead. Announcer world news now continues after not only are plenty of people making lastminute christmas arrangements today. Lots of us are getting ready for a holiday trip as well. While you might be tempted to mention that an social media that youre going to aruba or some place great aunt mimi. Yeah, even aunt mimis. Experts say thats not a great idea as adeeddy roy explains. Back in the day youd have to peer in someones window to know if they were home alone. These days all it takes to know if someones home is empty is to rummage through their social media. You think posting wherever you go is fun, but you are actually letting people know, hey, im gone. Go over there and take what you want. Reporter laverne should know. Her home was cleaned out after her daughter posted their familys vegas evacuation on her Facebook Page tipg off the burglars monitoring the page that the family was out of town. Most people are checking in constantly. Were telling everybody else where we are and what were doing and the fact were not home. Were out somewhere else. Reporter one survey out of the uk says more than 78 of burglars are using social media to find their targets. How do you protect yourself from winter break breakins . Dont overshare on social media. And checkior privacy settings and Location Services on your phone. Go to settings and then scroll don to privacy. And then Location Services. And then all the apps down there are all the apps that use the Location Services. Your camera. Change it to never use Location Services. Click that. Or you can scroll back up to Location Services and just turn it off. Just like that. Just like that. Also dont check in on facebook from airports or hotels. That tells wouldbe thieves that youre leaving ton. While it may be attempting, dont post photos while away. Wait until youre back home to share them. Lake it a latergram. A latergram, yes. If you just cant help yourself, choose your friends and followers carefully. Keeping your home safe by securingior home page. Aditi roy, abc news, los angeles. Make those later grams. You think like you want to share it with your friends and family but you dont know who is really watching. Or who is really your friend for that matter. That said, what are you doing for the holidays . Now we cant talk about it, because its dangerous. A teen playing hurt and making shots when it matters. Her wild night an the court and the big prize she won for the crowd. Youre watching world news now. Write these down. Really studying those. Flinl this half hour, some college hoops. It was a great night for the rams of Virginia Commonwealth University on monday night. They beat east tennessee state. But the fans at the game will likely remember the free pizza they got thanks to an eighth grader. Reporter all eyes were on veronica dance as she set out to complete an almost impossible shootout. Sink four shots in just 35 seconds. She made the layup, no problem. And hit the free throw on her first try. But the threepointer didnt want to drop. I kept missing the threes. I was like, all right. This is the end. When i finally made it i was like, now this is the end because i knew i wasnt going to make the half court shot. I was not expecting her to pull off the halfcourt shot. Nothing but net from a 13yearold girl who wasnt even wearing tennis shoes. And did i mention she has a torn acl . I was so like i couldnt believe it. I was so lost. I was like, whats happening . Is anyone shooting behind me that made it . I just didnt believe it was me. Just disbelief. I went to catch the ball to throw it back to her and when it just went through the net i just caught the ball and slammed it down. I got really excited for veronica and ran and gave her a hug. I was just really happy for her. Reporter the feat captured everyone a attention, even the coaches and players couldnt take their eyes off of, they mazing young lady. Good start to your holiday . Yeah. It was a good start. It was a good little present. How awesome is that . Do you think you could do that . No. Carmelo cant even do that. He hasnt hit four shots since the nuggets. Fighting words. Just saying. Fighting on the set. Amazing young lady. Look at that. Look at my guns. Do we have tickets for the gunn show. They have not been smuggled an a delta flight. That is fantasting. But anyway we do thank you for joining us. Its been great getting to know you. Follow us on facebook, everybody. This morning on world news now deadly storms. The human toll after tornadoes slammed the south and snow and rain threaten the midwest and the east coast. The travel headaches on Christmas Eve. The feds say a gun smuggling operation involving Delta Airlines flights. A wakeup call for Airport Security after ak47s were smuggled on board. This gun could shoot through a car door, can shoot through an apartment door, can shoot through a bulletproof vest. How did so many guns make it on board for years undetected. Fashionable feet. Trendy socks making their way into your christmas stockings. Socks are like a very good intro for a guy just deciding, i want to be more stylish. How an nba star is cashing in on the stylish trend. Its wednesday, Christmas Eve, december 24th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. We say good morning to you on this Christmas Eve. Im kendis gibson. Im tai hernandez. Kendis is new. Ive only known him a couple of hours. I know nothing about you. Tell us about yourself. Im kendis. I like long walks on the beach. Whoa this is not my tindr profile . No. Im from the d. C. Affiliate and now a correspondent. We like to mix things up. Really good to have you here. Great to be here. Our top story this half hour millions of americans are on the road for holiday vacations, but the weather is not cooperating. The worst is in the south where severe storms are more than just troublesome. They are actually deadly. Abcs rob marciano has more. Reporter the deep south under a dangerous threat. Severe damage in amite, louisiana. And at least four dead in mississippi where the governor declared a state of emergency. Winds there so strong they flipped cars on the highway, including this ambulance. At least seven tornado reports, plus hail and wind damage as the storm steamrolled across the gulf coast. Today was even worse. A lot of fog. A lot of light rain around the storm. It was almost impossible to see anything unless you were directly hit by it. Oh, man it is storming. Reporter near baton rouge, rain rates up to four inches an hour. Definitely white in the midwest. Snow plows out in full force. In rapid city, south dakota, visibility don to a quarter mile. In machine minnesota, rain turn snow. The Rocky Mountains buried in snow. Over two feet of it. A boon for ski resorts but getting to the slopes is a problem. Interstate 70 shut down for more than 100 miles leaving drivers in colorado and kansas stranded. The entire system pushes to the east on wednesday. The core moves off to the northeast where wind and rain will be a problem for your Christmas Eve. An the back side, cold air into chicago could see snow. That accumulates for a White Christmas there. Rob marciano, abc news, new york. Some Holiday Travelers got their wings clipped, literally. Two planes had a fender bender on the ground at laguardia airport. An outbound Southwest Airlines jet and Incoming American Airlines jet collided. There were no injuries but the top of the southwest jets wing was torn off. More than 4 million passengers are expected to pass through chicagos two airports during this holiday period. And it may seem like all of them were there yesterday. Long lines. But pushing through the crowds was a chore. Todays winter storm watches and warningings may cause delays and cancellations and make travel today more frustrating. Serious concerns about Airport Security as new details emerge about a brazen gun smuggling ring. Loaded weapons carried on to at least 20 commercial flights between atlanta and new york. Investigators call it an inside job that bypassed even tsa screeners. More from abcs stacey sager. Reporter the timing of the indictment couldnt be worse. As thousands are about to get on airplanes for Holiday Travel all over the country, the news of a major gunrunning operation on commercial flights. Five men now charged. At the center of it, two, a former delta employee, mark henry and a current one, Eugene Harvey who smuggled 153 guns on delta flights over the past eight months. What kind . This is an ak47. This gun can shoot through a car door, can shoot through an apartment door, can shoot through a bulletproof vest. Reporter prosecutors say henry had a lifetime of free companion flights because his mother was also a longstanding delta employee. He used them to transport the weapons. But cops say henry was at it for years in brooklyn. We know his gunsmuggling went back to 1991. This person literally has facilitated genocide on the brooklyn streets. Reporter authorities pored over Surveillance Video showing henry allegedly carrying a full backpack after Eugene Harvey, the deltsa baggage handler passed him the guns in an airport bathroom in atlanta. Harvey, an employee and not subject to tsa screen chicago the d. A. Says should be a major wakeup call. This was an egregious breach in our nations Airport Security. These guys wanted to make money off of these guns but there are groups out there that want to kill us. Reporter stacey sager, abc news, new york. Were following a developing story this morning from texas where former president george h. W. Bush is spending the night in a houston hospital after experiencing shortness of breath. His office says the hospital stay is a precaution only. Last year, mr. Bush spoent seven weeks at the same hospital when he was treated for bronchitis and other health issues. Authorities are on alert about a possible terrorist attack on the memphisarkansas bridge. The fbi received an anom muss tip that islamic militants wanted somebody to blow up the brj. That was passed an to local authorities. The bridge connects tennessee and arkansas. The navy s. E. A. L. Who claims he shot Osama Bin Laden is now under investigation for possibly revealing classified information. He spoke to several journalists last month about the bin laden raid. Another navy s. E. A. L. Had been under investigation after he wrote a book. Congressman Michael Grimm is insisting hell hold on to his seat even though hes a convicted felon. The republican plead guilty in federal court yesterday to a single count of tax evasion. After his court appearance, grimm apologized for his action saying what he did was wrong. Democrats in the house are calling for grimm to be forced out. And in an aboutface, Sony Pictures now says a limited number of theaters will show the interview on Christmas Day. The movie, of course, sparked outrage in north korea and threats from hackers. But that hasnt stopped some fans from already buying their tickets. Heres abcs emmett miller. You want us to kill the leader of north korea . Reporter the show will go on. Independent theaters in atlanta, dallas and cleveland will be airing the trofrl film the interview an Christmas Day. And the list is growing. Moviegers are already buying tickets. Kim jongun is not going to tell us what woor going to watch. Im not the least bit worried about my own safety. Reporter seth rogan and james franco responded. Victory, the people and the president have spoken. Reporter last week, sony announced theyd not release the film in part because theater owners were worried about violent threats from the guardians of peace, the grop that hacked sonys computers. North korea has been struggling to stay online. Internet to the communist country was knocked offline for ten hours on monday. Cybersecurity experts call north korea an easy target for skilled hackers with a primitive infrastructure and only a fraction of the ip addresses found here in the u. S. The fbi has been in close contact with all the theaters planning to screen it. They are warninging the public to stay vigilant and knrpt suspicious activity. The fda wants to limit a lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. Those men who are sexually active are not allowed to donate blood. It was imposed dearing the early days of fear and panic sorry rounding the aids epidemic. Easing the ban could ease the blood supply by 4 a year. A utah man is fully recovered from Health Problems caused by chugging eggnog. He downed a quart of eggnog in 12 seconds without taking a breath at an office party. He soon began coughing and gasping. Doctors told him hed gotten some of the eggnog in his lungs. He was put on oxygen and antibiotics and released from the hospital after three days. The eggnog was nonalcoholic. Whats the point . He takes the last sip and is down on the table. Poor guy. I think he won a Gift Certificate to a steak house for all his trouble. Exactly. Ruths chris. An ohio man has earned a place on his towns naughty list for giving neighbors a nightmare before christmas. Jauson dixon has been ordered to take down his unconventional nativity scene. It feetures life size zombies and frightening baby jesus with glowing eyes. He admits he has his critics but says many people love it and dozens of them stop by to take pictures every night. Officials, however, are not amused. They say it violates town ordinances because of its size and location and they want it gone asap. Thats where they draw the line. Because of the size and location, not because of the psycho baby jesus or exactly. Right. You have to find that right code to get what you want in the law, i suppose. And thats the theme music playing. Coming up could it be true, drinking on the job makes you perform better . Stay tuned for cocktails in the mx. First, the historic accord between the u. S. And cuba and hopes for our Tourism Industry in havana. Were going to take you there. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by Mucinex Fastmax. Eh, you dont want that one. Yea, actually i do. Its Mucinex Fastmax night time and its got a nasal decongestant. Is that really a thing . It sounds made up. I cant sleep when im all stuffy. I take offense to that. Im not going to argue with a talking ball of mucus. I think youre being a little hasty. Hes not with me. 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