oscar tensions mounting. the favorites. the underdogs. the nominee who is a no show. and how political will the acceptance speeches be? announcer: this is abc world news tonight. reporting tonight from los angeles. good evening. thanks for joining us for this special edition of world news tonight. i m tom llamas. reporting from the academy awards. a short time from now the worldwide celebration of the movies the oscars will take place. this is a look at the red carpet right behind me. we ll have much more on that in a moment. but we begin tonight with the father of a fallen navy s.e.a.l., revealing to the miami herald that he refused to meet with president trump. william ryan owens was killed in a secret mission in yemen last month. the president, his daughter ivanka, flying to dover air force base for the dignified transfer of his remains. but his father has too many questions about his son s death to meet with the commander in chief and he s calling for an investi
and the big night. oscar tensions mounting. the favorites. the underdogs. the nominee who is a no show. and how political will the acceptance speeches be? announcer: this is abc world news tonight. reporting tonight from los angeles. good evening. thanks for join us for this special edition of world news tonight. i m tom llamas. reporting from the academy awards. a short time from now the worldwide celebration of the movies the oscars will take place. this is a look at the red carpet right behind me. we ll have much more on that in a moment. but we begin tonight with the father of a fallen navy s.e.a.l., revealing to the miami herald that he refused to meet with president trump. william ryan owens was killed in a secret mission in yemen last month. the president, his daughter ivanka, flying to dover air force base for the disadignifie transfer of his remains. but his father has too many questions about his son s death to meet with the commander in chief an he s call
his son s body was flown back to dover air force base. and spokt expect more charges, at least 19 of them, against the suspect in the drunk driving hit and run at mardi gras. his blood alcohol level was nearly three times louisiana s legal limit. those are just some of the top stories on this monday, february 27th. from abc news, this is world news now. if there s anything we learned from the oscars, it s that sometimes things don t go according to to plan and you go with it. so just give you a sense, normally that little part that says abc news would be lit up at this point. those screens over there would have logos nilt. these screens wouldn t have multiple colors like something took a hit in it. this little block over here wouldn t have multiple colors flashing at us as if we re at a rave. we took a power hit a few minutes ago the power went out. we re operating on the generator. and it s clearly the same production manager working at the oscars. we h
he says agents asked him about his religious briefs. but we begin this morning with today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. and the academy award for best picture. la la land. and the oscar goes to the wrong film. i m sorry. no. there s a mistake. moonlight, you guys won best picture. this is not a joke. moonlight has won best picture. this is very unfortunate what happened. personally i blame steve harvey for this. the white house is resisting calls for an independent investigation. getting way, way ahead of ourselves here. there s no allegations of any crime occurring or that there s a criminal investigation. hollywood is remembering bill paxton. that s it, man. game over, man. paxton will be remembered for the numerous hits he startestar. quite a sight in the southern hemisphere. a rare treat, an eclipse known as ring of fire. all that a teenager survived a seven-story fall in his car. it s unbelievable anybody lived through t