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RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA THIS MORNING, AS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS KICK OFF AROUND THE WORLD, A RECORD BREAKING TRAVEL WEEKEND COMES TO A CLOSE. >> MILLIONS TAKING TO THE ROADS AND SKIES. BUT NOT EVERY TRIP WENT AS EXPECTED. HOW ONE YOUNG CHILD WAS SENT TO THE WRONG CITY . >> WEEKEND VIOLENCE, SHOOTINGS

AT TWO MALLS LEAVE ONE PERSON DEAD AND HOLIDAY SHOPPERS TERRIFIED. A SUSPECT IN ONE OF THE SHOOTINGS NOW IN CUSTODY WHILE IN FLORIDA, AN URGENT MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY. WHAT POLICE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE SUSPECT. >> KICKING OFF FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THE NFL AND NBA GEARING UP FOR A CHRISTMAS SPORTS SPECTACULAR.

WE’VE GOT ALL THE CHRISTMAS EVE HIGHLIGHTS AND A PREVIEW OF TODAY’S GAMES COMING UP. >> ALL OF THAT. PLUS, IT’S A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT. THE RECORD THE SUPERSTAR NOW SHARES WITH ELVIS. >> AND JUST WEEKS AFTER SIGNING THE BIGGEST CONTRACT IN SPORTS HISTORY, SHOHEI OHTANI IS

PUTTING HIS MONEY TO GOOD USE. SEE HOW HE JUST SURPRISED A TEAMMATE? >> AND FROM MIDNIGHT MASS TO SURFING, SANTAS, HOW PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE CELEBRATING ON CHRISTMAS DAY, IT’S MONDAY, DECEMBER 25TH. FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK. >> THIS IS AMERICA, THIS MORNING. HEY >> MERRY CHRISTMAS. WELCOME. I’M

DANNY NEW IT’S SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. >> I’M MORGAN NORWOOD RHIANNON AND ANDREW ARE OFF THIS MORNING. AND WE BEGIN WITH CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS KICKING OFF ALL AROUND THE ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. >> YEAH. HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, SAINT PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL VERY FAMOUS SPOT WAS PACKED WITH

FOLKS COMING IN FOR A LITTLE MIDNIGHT MASS. AND THEN IN VATICAN CITY, THOUSANDS WERE IN SAINT PETER’S BASILICA AS THE POPE DELIVERED A MESSAGE OF PEACE. >> AND NORAD HAS BEEN TRACKING SANTA AS HE MAKES HIS WAY AROUND THE GLOBE. SO FAR, IT SEEMS HIS RIGHT HAS BEEN PRETTY SMOOTH,

BUT WITH MILLIONS TRAVELING NOT EVERYBODY HAS BEEN SO LUCKY. ABC’S ALISON KOSIK STARTS US OFF THIS MORNING. >> SPIRIT AIRLINES CONDUCTING AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER AN UNACCOMPANIED MINOR, A SIX YEAR OLD BOY WAS SENT TO THE WRONG CITY. THE CHILD WAS TRAVELING FROM PHILADELPHIA TO FORT MYERS, BUT INSTEAD ENDED UP IN ORLANDO

AFTER BEING PUT ON A DIFFERENT FLIGHT. THE AIRLINE SAYING, AS SOON AS WE DISCOVERED THE ERROR, WE TOOK IMMEDIATE STEPS TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE FAMILY AND RECONNECT THEM. IT COMES AS THE HOLIDAY TRAVEL RUSH AHEAD OF THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY BROKE RECORDS. SANTA’S NOT THE ONLY ONE ON THE

MOVE. TRIPLE A SAYS MORE THAN 115 MILLION PEOPLE TRAVELED MORE THAN 50 MILES FROM THEIR HOMES, AND WITH AN ESTIMATED 7.5 MILLION PEOPLE TAKING TO THE SKIES, THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE BUSIEST AIR TRAVEL SEASONS EVER. AND IT’S COME WITH SOME COMPLICATIONS, FLIGHTAWARE SAYS. OVER THE WEEKEND, ACROSS THE

COUNTRY, THERE WERE MORE THAN 500 FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS AND MORE THAN 9000 DELAYS. ON FRIDAY ALONE, THE TSA SCREENING MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION PEOPLE. THE WEATHER, FOR THE MOST PART, HAS BEEN COOPERATE, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME ISSUES AT CHICAGO’S MIDWAY AIRPORT, NEARLY 40% OF FLIGHTS DELAYED THIS WEEKEND DUE TO INTENSE FOG.

>> I DID NOT THINK THAT I WOULD BE SITTING IN THIS AIRPORT FOR 14 HOURS SOUTHWEST, ALSO CANCELING ABOUT FOUR DOZEN FLIGHTS. >> I’M MISSING CHRISTMAS THE NEXT DIRECT FLIGHT THEY COULD GET ME ISN’T UNTIL WEDNESDAY. >> PASSENGERS WAITING HOURS FOR THEIR BAGS, SOME CHOOSING TO LEAVE THE AIRPORT WITHOUT THEM.

CHRISTINA BOWS. FINALLY GETTING HER SUITCASE A DAY LATE. >> I LITERALLY JUMPED UP AND DOWN. >> TRAVEL HAS BEEN STRONG THIS YEAR, SURPASSING PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS DESPITE MANY AMERICANS SAYING THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT THE ECONOMY. SO FAR, THE TSA HAS ALREADY SCHEDULED 12% MORE TRAVELERS THAN IT HAD BY THIS

TIME LAST YEAR, AND 1.5% MORE THAN IN 2019. JEAN DANNY AND MORGAN THANK YOU. >> ALLISON. WELL, UNFORTUNATELY, GUN VIOLENCE IS MADE FOR A DEADLY CHRISTMAS EVE AT A COLORADO MALL. ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND THREE OTHERS INJURED AFTER A SHOOTING IN COLORADO SPRINGS. POLICE SAY GUNSHOTS ERUPTED AFTER TWO GROUPS GOT

INTO SOME SORT OF FIGHT AT THE CITADEL MALL. THIS WAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON, MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE IN CUSTODY AND INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS NO THREAT TO THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY. BUT THE MALL WAS SHUT DOWN AFTER THE SHOOTING AND IT IS EXPECTED TO REOPEN TOMORROW. >> AND MEANWHILE, IN FLORIDA,

POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE SUSPECT IN A DEADLY SHOOTING AT A MALL OUTSIDE ORLANDO. HOLIDAY SHOPPERS PANICKING AS THAT GUNFIRE RANG OUT. HERE’S ABC’S ZOHREEN SHAH, THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR THE FLORIDA SHOOTER OPENING FIRE IN A CROWD OF HOLIDAY SHOPPERS JUST HOURS BEFORE CHRISTMAS EVE. >> OCALA POLICE SEARCHING FOR

THIS SUSPECT, ALBERT SHELL JUNIOR WANTED FOR MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. AFTER WHAT THEY SAY WAS A TARGETED SHOOTING AT THE PADDOCK MALL. OH MY GOD, SORAYA WILLIAMS SAYS SHE WAS WITH HER MOTHER AT BATH AND BODY WORKS WHEN SHE FILMED THIS VIDEO. SECONDS AFTER HEARING GUNSHOTS. THERE’S NO WAY THAT

JUST HAPPENED. OFFICIALS SAY 911 CALLS BEGAN AFTER THREE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR MULTIPLE SHOTS FIRED VIDEO SHOWING SHOPPERS RUNNING AND BARRICADING IN STORES. POLICE SWARMING THE SHOPPING CENTER, RECOVERING A FIREARM. BUT THE SUSPECT ESCAPING BEFORE POLICE ARRIVED. >> WE HEARD TWO SHOTS AND THEN EVERYBODY JUST RUSHED INTO OUR

STORE AND THEY LIKE RAN STRAIGHT OUT THROUGH THE BACK. >> POLICE SAY THE SHOOTING KILLED 40 YEAR OLD DAVID NATHANIEL BARRON, ANOTHER WOMAN SURVIVING AFTER A BULLET PIERCED HER LEG. JENNIFER MURTI WAS WRAPPING PRESENTS AT THE MALL WHEN SHE HEARD SHOTS AND I SAW THE SHOOTER WITH THE GUN IN HIS HAND.

>> HE JUST FELL TO THE GROUND. >> POLICE NOW ASKING FOR HELP FROM WITNESSES AND THREATENING FELONY ARREST TO A PERSON WHO THEY ALLEGEDLY DISCOVERED ON SURVEILLANCE TAKING THE SUSPECT’S RED HAT. >> THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE SHOPPING AT THE MALL, WHICH MEANS THERE’S A LOT OF WITNESSES

THAT COULD POTENTIALLY HELP US BRING THIS CASE TO A SUCCESSFUL RESOLUTION. >> THERE’S A $5,000 REWARD FOR ANYONE WHO CAN LEAD POLICE TO AN ARREST. AS FOR THE MALL, IT WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL AFTER CHRISTMAS. ZOHREEN SHAH ABC NEWS, LOS ANGELES. SO REENA, THANK YOU. >> WELL, THE MILITARY SAYS AN

AMERICAN WARSHIP PATROLLING THE RED SEA SHOT DOWN FOUR DRONES HEADED IN ITS DIRECTION ON SATURDAY, ACCORDING TO THE U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, THE USS LABOON WAS TARGETED FROM AREAS CONTROLLED BY IRANIAN BACKED HOUTHI MILITANTS IN YEMEN. THE LABOON WAS RESPONDING TO ATTACKS ON AT LEAST TWO COMMERCIAL TANKERS IN THE RED SEA SATURDAY.

ONE OF THOSE VESSELS WAS HIT AND NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE PENTAGON SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 15 ATTACKS ON COMMERCIAL VESSELS IN THE RED SEA SINCE MID-OCTOBER. SOBER. MORE FALLOUT FROM THE FIGHTING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS. THE US MILITARY ALSO SAYS A CHEMICAL TANKER WAS STRUCK IN A SEPARATE INCIDENT IN

THE INDIAN OCEAN OVER THE WEEKEND AND OFFICIALS SAY THAT THAT VESSEL WAS ATTACKED BY A KAMIKAZE DRONE LAUNCHED DIRECTLY FROM IRAN. ABC’S LIZ LANDERS JOINS US WITH MORE. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST? LIZ? GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING. DANNY WITH MANY MAJOR AIRLINES SUSPENDING FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL, THE WAR

BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS HAS SEVERELY IMPACTED TOURISM TO THE MIDDLE EAST REGION DURING WHAT WOULD NORMALLY BE A BUSY TIME OF THE YEAR. IT’S A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY TODAY FOR MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD AND IN THE HOLY LAND. >> I NEVER SAW BETHLEHEM THAT SAD BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE WAR

IN GAZA AFFECTED US. >> THAT IS THE MESSAGE FROM ONE SHOPKEEPER IN BETHLEHEM, THE BIRTHPLACE OF JESUS, A QUIET, EMPTY TOWN. THIS HOLIDAY IN THE WEST BANK. AS THE WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA RAGES ON THIS YEAR, CHRISTMAS IS CANCELED. PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES PATROL HOLY SITES DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, WHEN TOURISM

USUALLY ACCOUNTS FOR 70% OF INCOME. OFFICIALS SAY 70 HOTELS IN BETHLEHEM WERE FORCED TO CLOSE, IMPACTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY. THE LATIN PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM CROSSING INTO BETHLEHEM FOR WHAT WOULD NORMALLY BE A TIME OF CELEBRATION AT THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY IN STEAD URGING A CEASE FIRE.

>> IT IS A VERY SAD CHRISTMAS AS WE, AS WE SAW, THERE IS NO THERE IS NO ATMOSPHERE OF PEACE BECAUSE WE ARE IN A WAR, A TERRIBLE WAR. AND THE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS IS NOT VIOLENCE, IT’S PEACE. MUHAMMAD PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU, ADDRESSING ISRAEL, SAYING THEY ARE DEEPENING THE WAR IN GAZA.

>> MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BIDEN SPEAKING WITH HIS COUNTERPART OVER THE WEEKEND, HAD A LONG TALK WITH NETANYAHU TODAY. >> AND IT’S A PRIVATE CONVERSATION. I DID NOT ASK FOR. AND IN UKRAINE, THAT WARTIME NATION ALSO RECOGNIZING THE HOLIDAYS AMID A SOMBER BACKDROP IN KYIV, IS STILL ON THE PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OF UKRAINE

CALLING IT A CHRISTMAS WITH A DIFFERENT MOOD, CONTEXT AND DIFFERENT TASTE. >> ZELENSKY ALSO SAID THAT DURING THIS HOLIDAY TIME, IT’S NOT IMPORTANT HOW HOMES MAY BE DECORATED, BUT INSTEAD HOW UKRAINIANS ARE PROTECTING THEIR HOMES DURING THIS TWO YEAR LONG RUSSIAN INVASION. DANNY >> LIZ, THANK YOU AND TIME NOW

FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS DAY WEATHER. AND MERRY CHRISTMAS AND IT’S A WHITE CHRISTMAS IN PLACES LIKE CARNEY AND NEBRASKA ALL THE WAY TO ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA. >> BUT IT COMES AT A COST OF THE BLIZZARD, GUSTY WINDS AND WHITE OUT CONDITIONS. BUT THE WINNERS WHEN IT COMES TO SNOW TOTALS.

WINTER IN SOUTH DAKOTA SEEING 12 TO 18IN. AND ON TOP OF THAT I’VE GOT ICING ALL THE WAY FROM OMAHA NEBRASKA TO THUNDER BAY. THEY’RE SEEING SLICK ROADS AND SLIPPERY SIDEWALKS. REMEMBER THE SIDEWALKS? PENGUIN SHUFFLE TO STOP YOU FROM FALLING BACK TO YOU? >> WELL, COMING UP, WE ARE

CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF THE MAN WHO WAS DECLARED THE OLDEST WORKING ACTOR IN THE COUNTRY. >> ALSO AHEAD, THE FAMILY OF A 27 YEAR OLD WOMAN KILLED BY POLICE IS SPEAKING OUT. WHY? THEY SAY THEY’RE NOW SUING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. >> AND WE’VE GOT TWO GAME WINNING PLAYS FROM CHRISTMAS EVE

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On the brink now streaming on Hulu. From America’s number one news, comes the all new ABC News app. If you love being in the no experience, the all new ABC News app downloaded now. NIGHT ON ABC. >> MRS. KESSENICH THAT BOOK YOU’RE WAVING ABOUT IS HARDLY. IT IS CONSIDERED BY MANY CRITICS

TO BE THE CLASSIC NOVEL ABOUT THE 1960S. IT’S GRAPHY. >> NO, NO NO NO. >> THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT’S NOT AN AND ITS AUTHOR, MR. MAN, THAT IS MIKE NUSSBAUM IN FIELD OF DREAMS. >> THE ACTOR DIED SATURDAY AT THE AGE OF 99. HE WAS KNOWN FOR HIS EXTENSIVE CAREER ON STAGE,

AS WELL IN ROLES IN FATAL ATTRACTION AND MEN IN BLACK WITH THE CAT O’BRIEN IN 2019, ACTORS EQUITY CLAIMED THAT HE WAS THE OLDEST WORKING ACTOR IN THE COUNTRY, SUCH MEMORABLE ROLES AND HE’LL CERTAINLY BE MISSED. >> WELL, THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT IS NOW FACING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT

AFTER A WOMAN WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY OFFICERS WHO WERE WHO WERE RESPONDING TO A CALL THAT SHE MADE FOR HELP. >> YEAH, HER FAMILY SAYS THAT THERE WAS NO REASON TO KILL HER. HERE’S ABC’S DERRICK DENNIS THIS MORNING. >> A PLEA FOR JUSTICE IN THE DEATH OF 27 YEAR OLD DEONTE

FINLAYSON AT A VIGIL OVER THE WEEKEND, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES MOURNING HER LOSS AFTER SHE WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN A CONFRONTATION WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES EARLIER THIS MONTH. DEPUTIES RESPONDING TO FINLAYSON’S HOME ON A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALL SAY THEY ENCOUNTERED HER HOLDING A LARGE KNIFE AND THREATENING TO

STAB HER EX-BOYFRIEND FOR PUSHING HER DAUGHTER. POLICE CLAIM THEY SHOT FINLAYSON TO STOP HER FROM HARMING THE MAN MORE SHOTS IN THE BACK. >> IT’S RIDICULOUS. WHERE ARE THE TRAINING FOR THESE OFFICERS? >> MY HEART IS SO, SO BROKEN. I HATE IT FOR HIM HER CHILDREN. I HATE IT. IT’S DEVASTATING.

>> FINLAYSON’S FAMILY DISAGREEING WITH THE DEPUTY’S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED AND FILING A $30 MILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE DEPARTMENT AND THE COUNTY. FINLAYSON’S LAWYER SAYS SHE WAS NOT A THREAT AND ONLY HAD THE KNIFE TO PROTECT HER AND HER DAUGHTER FROM HER EX-BOYFRIEND. >> OFFICERS SHOULD BE TRAINED

THAT THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SHOOT, SHOOT AND KILL WHEN THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WHO’S THERE OR WHAT THE SURROUNDINGS ARE. >> THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS THE SHOOTING IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. SOMETIMES YOU JUST CAN’T CRY ENOUGH. >> IT WILL NEVER BRING HER BACK. BUT JUSTICE HAS TO STAND THE L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT

SAYS IT HAS NOT OFFICIALLY RECEIVED THE FAMILY’S LAWSUIT CLAIM, BUT SAY THEY WILL RELEASE THE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE INCIDENT NEXT WEEK. >> MORE ON DANNY. >> THANK YOU DEREK. WELL, HAWAII WAS RATTLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE DESCRIBED AS MINOR. THE 4.1 MAGNITUDE QUAKE HIT SATURDAY AFTERNOON. IT WAS CENTERED OFF

THE SOUTHEAST COAST ON THE BIG ISLAND. YOU CAN SEE THERE. THANKFULLY, NO INJURIES OR DAMAGE WERE REPORTED. >> THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS. WELL, COMING UP, WE’VE GOT THE RESULTS OF SUNDAY’S BIG GAMES. >> AND SPEAKING OF SPORTS, THE $700 MILLION MAN, HOW BASEBALL SUPERSTAR SHOHEI OHTANI USED

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Let’s go. How are you? So what will you be watching? Saturday’s on ABC News live. What would you do? I guess I just found out. The what would you do marathon 2:00 to 6:00 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live? >> BACK NOW WITH SANTA IS CATCHING A FEW WAVES IN COCOA

BEACH, FLORIDA. LOOK AT THAT. THEY TOOK A DETOUR BEFORE SUNDAY NIGHT’S BIG JOURNEY, MAKING IT TO THE 15TH ANNUAL SURFING SANTA EVENT. NOW, A FEW HOURS EARLIER, MORE SANTAS ARE HITTING THE STREETS OF MADRID, SPAIN FOR AN ANNUAL RED CROSS CHARITY RUN. YOU GOT SPRINTING SANTAS, SURFING SANTA, SANTA CAN DO IT ALL.

>> GOT TO WORK OFF THE COOKIES RIGHT? WELL, THERE WERE SOME BIG NFL GAMES ON CHRISTMAS EVE STARTING DOWN IN THE 305. THE DOLPHINS AND THE COWBOYS SQUARING OFF. BUT THE NAME TO KNOW HERE IS THE KICKER FOR THE DOLPHINS JASON SANDERS. HE PUT THE TEAM ON HIS BACK AND HIS

QUADRICEPS. THAT’S THE GAME WINNER RIGHT THERE. HE HIT FIVE FIELD GOALS AGAINST THE COWBOYS, INCLUDING THE GAME WINNER WITH TWO SECONDS LEFT. THE DOLPHINS BEAT DALLAS 22 TO 20 AND THE PATRIOTS AND THE BRONCOS GOT OFF TO A LITTLE BIT OF A SLOW START, BUT THINGS DID FINALLY PICK UP

IN THE SECOND HALF. >> NEW ENGLAND SCORED TWICE IN A SIX SECOND SPAN IN THE THIRD QUARTER. THEY HAD A 23 TO 7 LEAD, BUT IT WAS DENVER RALLYING IN THE FOURTH, TYING THE GAME. BUT THE PATRIOTS, THEY HAD THE LAST LAUGH HERE. CHAD RYAN’S 56 YARD FIELD GOAL RIGHT AT THE

END. THE PATRIOTS WENT ON TO WIN 26 TO 23. AND LOOK THE HOLIDAY SPORTS ARE JUST RAMPING UP. DANNY >> YEAH WE GOT MORE FOOTBALL ACTION AND OF COURSE A WHOLE LOT ON THE COURT. ONCE THE PRESENTS HAVE BEEN OPENED LATER TODAY, HOW ABOUT ONE MORE GIFT FOR

SPORTS FANS? SOME OF THE BEST MATCHUPS OF THE YEAR. WE GOT FIVE CHRISTMAS DAY GAMES IN THE NBA. DAY TWO ARE ON ABC, STARTING WITH STEPH CURRY AND THE WARRIORS TRAVELING A MILE HIGH TO TAKE ON THE DEFENDING CHAMPS, THE DENVER NUGGETS. THE WARRIORS WILL LIKELY STILL BE WITHOUT DRAYMOND GREEN, WHO IS

SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY FOR, YOU KNOW. THEN TONIGHT THE CELTICS AND LAKERS RENEW THEIR HISTORIC RIVALRY, CONSIDERED THE LEAGUE’S GREATEST, THE GAMES IN L.A. SO MAYBE THIS LAKERS PAIR WILL MAKE ANOTHER COURTSIDE APPEARANCE. AND REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME, I THINK WE ALL KNOW HOW KING JAMES IS CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS AFTER TONIGHT.

>> I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO DRINKING A BOTTLE OF WINE. >> MEANWHILE IN THE NFL WE GOT THREE GAMES ON TAP. THE RAIDERS ARE IN KANSAS CITY TO TAKE ON THEIR AFC WEST RIVALS. THE CHIEFS, STARRING MAHOMES AND THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS FUTURE HALL OF FAME BOYFRIEND. CAUSE BABY,

NOW WE GOT BAD BLOOD FANS WONDERING TWO THINGS ONE WILL TAYLOR SWIFT BE THERE? SOURCES SAY YES, AND TWO WILL HEAD COACH ANDY REID DRESSED AS SANTA AGAIN? OH, DO I HOPE SO? MEANWHILE, THE GIANTS HEAD DOWN THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE TO TAKE ON THE EAGLES, WHO, DESPITE THREE STRAIGHT LOSSES, ARE

FAVORED TO WIN BY DOUBLE DIGITS. GO BOYDS! AND THEN TONIGHT ON ABC’S MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL WE GOT A BATTLE OF THE FIRST PLACE TEAMS IN EACH CONFERENCE. LAMAR JACKSON AND THE RAVENS HEADING TO THE BAY AREA TO FACE THE 40 NINERS. OF COURSE THE NINERS GOT CMC CHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY WHO DOES

THINGS LIKE THIS, THIS AND THIS. AND WHO TOM BRADY SAYS IS HIS PICK TO BE LEAGUE MVP. >> BUT MY PICK FOR SPORTS TODAY I AM WATCHING LEBRON, MAINLY BECAUSE MY DOG IS NAMED AFTER LEBRON, BUT ALSO BECAUSE LEBRON’S A GOAT. >> HE IS GOOD. MY CAT PEPPER WILL BE SLEEPING THROUGH THE

WHOLE THING. OF COURSE. >> ALL RIGHT WELL SHOHEI OHTANI HAS ALREADY ENDEARED HIMSELF TO AT LEAST ONE OF HIS NEW DODGER TEAMMATES. BASEBALL’S $700 MILLION MAN HAD A GIFT FOR THE WIFE OF LA RELIEVER JOE KELLY. AND IT IS A BRAND NEW PORSCHE. IT WAS A THANK YOU FROM OHTANI

BECAUSE ASHLEY KELLY’S HUSBAND GAVE UP HIS UNIFORM NUMBER 17 TO THE NEW GUY, MRS. KELLY LOBBIED FOR OHTANI TO JOIN THE TEAM AND STARTED A HASHTAG. OH, TAKE 17. HER HUSBAND WILL NOW WEAR 99. SEE HOW IT ALL COMES BACK AROUND FOR YOU. THAT’S VERY KIND. >> I REMEMBER WHEN CHRIS GODWIN

DID THAT FOR TOM BRADY WHEN HE CAME TO TAMPA, BECAUSE HE WORE 12 AND THEN HE WENT TO 14 FOR BRADY. >> SO IT’S LIKE PAYING OKAY. >> IT’S A NICE THING TO DO. >> LIKE A NICE GESTURE I LIKE IT. >> WELCOME. ALL RIGHT WELL COMING UP THE NEW ACHIEVEMENT

FOR TAYLOR SWIFT PUTTING HER IN COMPANY WITH ELVIS. >> PLUS THERE WERE MORE THAN PRESENTS UNDER THIS TREE. WE’RE GUESSING NOBODY ASKED SANTA FOR A SNAKE FOR CHRISTMAS. WHAT With so much at stake. So much on the line, more Americans turn here than any

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Get your podcast start here. I’m Marcus wallcovering the wildfires in Greece. Wherever the story is we will take you. There you’re streaming with ABC News line. NIGHT ON ABC. TIME NOW TO CHECK THE PULSE AND WE BEGIN WITH A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT. >> SWIFT’S 1989 TAYLOR’S VERSION

RETURNED TO NUMBER ONE ON THE BILLBOARD 200, THUS THAT MARKS ITS 67TH WEEK THAT SHE’S HAD AN ALBUM IN THE TOP SPOT, WHICH TIES HER WITH ELVIS FOR MOST WEEKS BY A SOLO ARTIST FOR THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM. >> BUT KEYWORD SOLO ARTIST BECAUSE THE OVERALL TOP SPOT BELONGS TO THE BOYS FROM

LIVERPOOL. 132 WEEKS WITH THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM CONGRATULATIONS TO TAYLOR. >> AND NEXT, THE AGE OLD QUESTION IS DIE HARD A CHRISTMAS MOVIE? >> WE’VE DEBATED THIS A LONG TIME ABOUT THE 1988 BRUCE WILLIS CLASSIC. OF COURSE, IT’S AN AMAZING ACTION MOVIE, BUT IS IT ALSO KIND OF TECHNICALLY A GREAT

CHRISTMAS MOVIE? WELL, ONE EXPERT WHO IS A MUCH RESPECTED AUTHORITY ON CHRISTMAS WEIGHS IN . YOU KNOW, AN OFFICIAL RED RYDER COVID-19 200 YARD MEDLEY RIFLE. >> YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, KID. >> THAT IS, OF COURSE, PETER BILLINGSLEY, WHO PLAYED RALPHIE IN A CHRISTMAS STORY. THE ACTOR

OPENLY DECLARED DIE HARD TO BE A CHRISTMAS FILM AND SAID HE EVEN CONVINCED THE FILM’S CINEMATOGRAPHER, NOW WE’RE GOING TO HEAD DOWN UNDER AND A FAMILY RECEIVING AN UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS VISITOR. TAKE A LOOK. SNAKE CATCHERS CALLED TO RETRIEVE A CARPET PYTHON. NO. FOUND ITS WAY UNDERNEATH THE TREE AT ONE AUSTRALIAN HOME. NO.

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On the brink now streaming on Hulu. NURTEC TODAY. >> BACK NOW AND CHECK IN MORE TOP STORIES. POLICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS SAY A MALL FIGHT LED TO GUNFIRE, WHICH LEFT ONE PERSON DEAD AND THREE OTHERS INJURED. MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN CUSTODY AFTER SHOTS WERE FIRED INSIDE THE CITADEL MALL MONDAY AFTERNOON.

IT’S EXPECTED TO REOPEN TOMORROW. >> THE LARGEST MIGRANT GROUP IN MORE THAN A YEAR, ABOUT 6000 PEOPLE WAS MOVING THROUGH MEXICO AHEAD OF US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN’S VISIT. HE IS SET TO SPEAK WITH MEXICO’S PRESIDENT ABOUT CONTROLLING THE SURGE OF PEOPLE TRYING TO ENTER THE US AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

>> W.H.O. OFFICIALS SAY A HUMANITARIAN NIGHTMARE PLAYING OUT ACROSS GAZA. MEANTIME, AT LEAST 70 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON A REFUGEE CAMP. PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SAID HIS MILITARY IS INTENSIFYING OPERATION LIONS AND TODAY’S WEATHER CHRISTMAS DAY RAIN IN THE NORTHWEST. >> HEAVY SNOW IN THE NORTHERN

PLAINS, AT LEAST A FOOT EXPECTED UP THERE, AND THEN MORE RAIN FROM THE MIDWEST ALL THE WAY TO FLORIDA. >> MORGAN AND FINALLY CHEVY CHASE RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERY DAD LOOKING TO OUTDO THE NEIGHBORS WITH THEIR CHRISTMAS >> BUT EVEN THE GREAT CLARK GRISWOLD MIGHT FINALLY HAVE COMPETITION IN. HEY THAT HOUSE

LOOKS FAMILIAR. HOW MANY LIGHTS GO INTO YOUR DISPLAY? >> 25,000. JUST LIKE THE MOVIE, EVERYTHING HAS TO BE EXACT. ALL THE AREA FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS, GREG AND RACHEL OSTERLUND OF WADSWORTH, OHIO, HAVE ERECTED AN INCREASINGLY EVEN MORE ACCURATE RECREATION OF THE DISPLAY FROM THE 1989 CLASSIC NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION.

THEY’VE LANDED THEIR PORTIONS OF THEIR YARD AS WELL OVER THE LAST DECADE, AS THE FAMILY HAS ROPED IN NEIGHBORS AND EXPANDED THE PRODUCTION, THE HOUSE HAS ACTUALLY BECOME QUITE FAMOUS. THEY TYPE IN GRISWOLD HOUSE. OUR HOUSE IS USUALLY THE ONE THAT SHOWS UP JUST LIKE CHEVY CHASE’S

HOUSE. I THINK WE’RE ALL IN FOR A VERY BIG TREAT. >> AND IN FACT, GREG AND RACHEL HAVE EVEN CHATTED WITH THE MOVIE STARS. CHEVY CHASE AND BEVERLY D’ANGELO. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN DISCUSSING THE HOUSE. >> SHE PULLED IT UP ON FACEBOOK. THIS IS YOUR HOUSE. AND YEAH,

WE’RE THIS IS WHAT WE DO. SO THE CARDBOARD CUT OUT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT. >> BUT PERHAPS MOST IMPRESSIVE, OVER THE LAST 11 YEARS, THEY’VE COLLECTED DONATIONS AND RAISED MORE THAN $50,000 FOR A NONPROFIT CALLED GREAT STRIDES. IT FUNDS RESEARCH FOR CURING CYSTIC FIBROSIS, WHICH GREG WAS

DIAGNOSED WITH AT SIX YEARS OLD. HAVING FELT THIS GOOD IN A LONG TIME JUST BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT THEY’VE DONE, SOME MEDICINES THAT HAVE COME OUT JOY TO THE WORLD WORLD. BUT GREG SAYS IF THEY DO FIND A CURE FOR THIS DISEASE, IT’S NOT LIKE HIS

FAMILY IS EVER GOING TO STOP BRINGING THIS MUCH JOY TO THE WORLD. >> AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RAISE MONEY FOR NEXT. >> MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT THAT COUPLE, GREG AND RACHEL, RACHEL HAD NOT SEEN THE MOVIE BEFORE. WHEN THEY MET. >> I HADN’T SEEN IT, BUT SHE’S

SEEN IT NOW MANY TIMES I WOULD SAY YES. >> ALL RIGHT EVERYONE, THAT IS WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA THIS MORNING, AS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS KICK OFF AROUND THE WORLD, A RECORD BREAKING TRAVEL WEEKEND COMES TO A CLOSE.

>> MILLIONS TAKING TO THE ROADS AND SKIES. BUT NOT EVERY TRIP WENT AS EXPECTED. HOW ONE YOUNG CHILD WAS SENT TO THE WRONG CITY . >> WEEKEND VIOLENCE, SHOOTINGS AT TWO MALLS LEAVE ONE PERSON DEAD AND HOLIDAY SHOPPERS TERRIFIED. A SUSPECT IN ONE OF THE SHOOTINGS NOW IN CUSTODY

WHILE IN FLORIDA, AN URGENT MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY. WHAT POLICE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE SUSPECT. >> KICKING OFF FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THE NFL AND NBA GEARING UP FOR A CHRISTMAS SPORTS SPECTACULAR. WE’VE GOT ALL THE CHRISTMAS EVE HIGHLIGHTS AND A PREVIEW OF TODAY’S GAMES COMING UP. >> ALL OF THAT. PLUS, IT’S A

MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT. THE RECORD THE SUPERSTAR NOW SHARES WITH ELVIS. >> AND JUST WEEKS AFTER SIGNING THE BIGGEST CONTRACT IN SPORTS HISTORY, SHOHEI OHTANI IS PUTTING HIS MONEY TO GOOD USE. SEE HOW HE JUST SURPRISED A TEAMMATE? >> AND FROM MIDNIGHT MASS TO SURFING, SANTAS, HOW PEOPLE

AROUND THE WORLD ARE CELEBRATING ON CHRISTMAS DAY, IT’S MONDAY, DECEMBER 25TH. FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK. >> THIS IS AMERICA, THIS MORNING. HEY >> MERRY CHRISTMAS. WELCOME. I’M DANNY NEW IT’S SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. >> I’M MORGAN NORWOOD RHIANNON AND ANDREW ARE OFF THIS MORNING.

AND WE BEGIN WITH CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS KICKING OFF ALL AROUND THE ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. >> YEAH. HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, SAINT PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL VERY FAMOUS SPOT WAS PACKED WITH FOLKS COMING IN FOR A LITTLE MIDNIGHT MASS. AND THEN IN VATICAN CITY, THOUSANDS WERE IN SAINT PETER’S BASILICA AS THE

POPE DELIVERED A MESSAGE OF PEACE. >> AND NORAD HAS BEEN TRACKING SANTA AS HE MAKES HIS WAY AROUND THE GLOBE. SO FAR, IT SEEMS HIS RIGHT HAS BEEN PRETTY SMOOTH, BUT WITH MILLIONS TRAVELING NOT EVERYBODY HAS BEEN SO LUCKY. ABC’S ALISON KOSIK STARTS US OFF THIS MORNING. >> SPIRIT AIRLINES CONDUCTING AN

INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER AN UNACCOMPANIED MINOR, A SIX YEAR OLD BOY WAS SENT TO THE WRONG CITY. THE CHILD WAS TRAVELING FROM PHILADELPHIA TO FORT MYERS, BUT INSTEAD ENDED UP IN ORLANDO AFTER BEING PUT ON A DIFFERENT FLIGHT. THE AIRLINE SAYING, AS SOON AS WE DISCOVERED THE ERROR, WE TOOK IMMEDIATE STEPS TO

COMMUNICATE WITH THE FAMILY AND RECONNECT THEM. IT COMES AS THE HOLIDAY TRAVEL RUSH AHEAD OF THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY BROKE RECORDS. SANTA’S NOT THE ONLY ONE ON THE MOVE. TRIPLE A SAYS MORE THAN 115 MILLION PEOPLE TRAVELED MORE THAN 50 MILES FROM THEIR HOMES, AND WITH AN ESTIMATED 7.5 MILLION PEOPLE TAKING TO THE

SKIES, THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE BUSIEST AIR TRAVEL SEASONS EVER. AND IT’S COME WITH SOME COMPLICATIONS, FLIGHTAWARE SAYS. OVER THE WEEKEND, ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THERE WERE MORE THAN 500 FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS AND MORE THAN 9000 DELAYS. ON FRIDAY ALONE, THE TSA SCREENING MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION PEOPLE. THE

WEATHER, FOR THE MOST PART, HAS BEEN COOPERATE, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME ISSUES AT CHICAGO’S MIDWAY AIRPORT, NEARLY 40% OF FLIGHTS DELAYED THIS WEEKEND DUE TO INTENSE FOG. >> I DID NOT THINK THAT I WOULD BE SITTING IN THIS AIRPORT FOR 14 HOURS SOUTHWEST, ALSO CANCELING ABOUT FOUR DOZEN FLIGHTS.

>> I’M MISSING CHRISTMAS THE NEXT DIRECT FLIGHT THEY COULD GET ME ISN’T UNTIL WEDNESDAY. >> PASSENGERS WAITING HOURS FOR THEIR BAGS, SOME CHOOSING TO LEAVE THE AIRPORT WITHOUT THEM. CHRISTINA BOWS. FINALLY GETTING HER SUITCASE A DAY LATE. >> I LITERALLY JUMPED UP AND DOWN. >> TRAVEL HAS BEEN STRONG THIS YEAR, SURPASSING PRE-PANDEMIC

LEVELS DESPITE MANY AMERICANS SAYING THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT THE ECONOMY. SO FAR, THE TSA HAS ALREADY SCHEDULED 12% MORE TRAVELERS THAN IT HAD BY THIS TIME LAST YEAR, AND 1.5% MORE THAN IN 2019. JEAN DANNY AND MORGAN THANK YOU. >> ALLISON. WELL, UNFORTUNATELY, GUN VIOLENCE IS MADE FOR A DEADLY CHRISTMAS EVE AT A

COLORADO MALL. ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND THREE OTHERS INJURED AFTER A SHOOTING IN COLORADO SPRINGS. POLICE SAY GUNSHOTS ERUPTED AFTER TWO GROUPS GOT INTO SOME SORT OF FIGHT AT THE CITADEL MALL. THIS WAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON, MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE IN CUSTODY AND INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS NO THREAT TO THE SURROUNDING

COMMUNITY. BUT THE MALL WAS SHUT DOWN AFTER THE SHOOTING AND IT IS EXPECTED TO REOPEN TOMORROW. >> AND MEANWHILE, IN FLORIDA, POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE SUSPECT IN A DEADLY SHOOTING AT A MALL OUTSIDE ORLANDO. HOLIDAY SHOPPERS PANICKING AS THAT GUNFIRE RANG OUT. HERE’S ABC’S ZOHREEN SHAH, THE URGENT

MANHUNT FOR THE FLORIDA SHOOTER OPENING FIRE IN A CROWD OF HOLIDAY SHOPPERS JUST HOURS BEFORE CHRISTMAS EVE. >> OCALA POLICE SEARCHING FOR THIS SUSPECT, ALBERT SHELL JUNIOR WANTED FOR MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. AFTER WHAT THEY SAY WAS A TARGETED SHOOTING AT THE PADDOCK MALL. OH MY GOD, SORAYA WILLIAMS SAYS SHE WAS

WITH HER MOTHER AT BATH AND BODY WORKS WHEN SHE FILMED THIS VIDEO. SECONDS AFTER HEARING GUNSHOTS. THERE’S NO WAY THAT JUST HAPPENED. OFFICIALS SAY 911 CALLS BEGAN AFTER THREE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR MULTIPLE SHOTS FIRED VIDEO SHOWING SHOPPERS RUNNING AND BARRICADING IN STORES. POLICE SWARMING THE SHOPPING CENTER, RECOVERING A

FIREARM. BUT THE SUSPECT ESCAPING BEFORE POLICE ARRIVED. >> WE HEARD TWO SHOTS AND THEN EVERYBODY JUST RUSHED INTO OUR STORE AND THEY LIKE RAN STRAIGHT OUT THROUGH THE BACK. >> POLICE SAY THE SHOOTING KILLED 40 YEAR OLD DAVID NATHANIEL BARRON, ANOTHER WOMAN SURVIVING AFTER A BULLET PIERCED HER LEG. JENNIFER MURTI WAS

WRAPPING PRESENTS AT THE MALL WHEN SHE HEARD SHOTS AND I SAW THE SHOOTER WITH THE GUN IN HIS HAND. >> HE JUST FELL TO THE GROUND. >> POLICE NOW ASKING FOR HELP FROM WITNESSES AND THREATENING FELONY ARREST TO A PERSON WHO THEY ALLEGEDLY DISCOVERED ON SURVEILLANCE TAKING THE SUSPECT’S RED HAT.

>> THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE SHOPPING AT THE MALL, WHICH MEANS THERE’S A LOT OF WITNESSES THAT COULD POTENTIALLY HELP US BRING THIS CASE TO A SUCCESSFUL RESOLUTION. >> THERE’S A $5,000 REWARD FOR ANYONE WHO CAN LEAD POLICE TO AN ARREST. AS FOR THE MALL, IT WILL

BE CLOSED UNTIL AFTER CHRISTMAS. ZOHREEN SHAH ABC NEWS, LOS ANGELES. SO REENA, THANK YOU. >> WELL, THE MILITARY SAYS AN AMERICAN WARSHIP PATROLLING THE RED SEA SHOT DOWN FOUR DRONES HEADED IN ITS DIRECTION ON SATURDAY, ACCORDING TO THE U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, THE USS LABOON WAS TARGETED FROM AREAS CONTROLLED BY IRANIAN BACKED

HOUTHI MILITANTS IN YEMEN. THE LABOON WAS RESPONDING TO ATTACKS ON AT LEAST TWO COMMERCIAL TANKERS IN THE RED SEA SATURDAY. ONE OF THOSE VESSELS WAS HIT AND NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE PENTAGON SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 15 ATTACKS ON COMMERCIAL VESSELS IN THE RED SEA SINCE MID-OCTOBER. SOBER. MORE FALLOUT

FROM THE FIGHTING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS. THE US MILITARY ALSO SAYS A CHEMICAL TANKER WAS STRUCK IN A SEPARATE INCIDENT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN OVER THE WEEKEND AND OFFICIALS SAY THAT THAT VESSEL WAS ATTACKED BY A KAMIKAZE DRONE LAUNCHED DIRECTLY FROM IRAN. ABC’S LIZ LANDERS JOINS US WITH MORE. WHAT IS

GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST? LIZ? GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING. DANNY WITH MANY MAJOR AIRLINES SUSPENDING FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL, THE WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS HAS SEVERELY IMPACTED TOURISM TO THE MIDDLE EAST REGION DURING WHAT WOULD NORMALLY BE A BUSY TIME OF THE YEAR. IT’S A DIFFERENT KIND

OF CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY TODAY FOR MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD AND IN THE HOLY LAND. >> I NEVER SAW BETHLEHEM THAT SAD BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE WAR IN GAZA AFFECTED US. >> THAT IS THE MESSAGE FROM ONE SHOPKEEPER IN BETHLEHEM, THE BIRTHPLACE OF JESUS, A QUIET, EMPTY TOWN. THIS HOLIDAY IN THE

WEST BANK. AS THE WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA RAGES ON THIS YEAR, CHRISTMAS IS CANCELED. PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES PATROL HOLY SITES DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, WHEN TOURISM USUALLY ACCOUNTS FOR 70% OF INCOME. OFFICIALS SAY 70 HOTELS IN BETHLEHEM WERE FORCED TO CLOSE, IMPACTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY. THE LATIN PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM CROSSING INTO

BETHLEHEM FOR WHAT WOULD NORMALLY BE A TIME OF CELEBRATION AT THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY IN STEAD URGING A CEASE FIRE. >> IT IS A VERY SAD CHRISTMAS AS WE, AS WE SAW, THERE IS NO THERE IS NO ATMOSPHERE OF PEACE BECAUSE WE ARE IN A WAR, A

TERRIBLE WAR. AND THE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS IS NOT VIOLENCE, IT’S PEACE. MUHAMMAD PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU, ADDRESSING ISRAEL, SAYING THEY ARE DEEPENING THE WAR IN GAZA. >> MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BIDEN SPEAKING WITH HIS COUNTERPART OVER THE WEEKEND, HAD A LONG TALK WITH NETANYAHU TODAY. >> AND IT’S A PRIVATE CONVERSATION. I DID NOT ASK FOR.

AND IN UKRAINE, THAT WARTIME NATION ALSO RECOGNIZING THE HOLIDAYS AMID A SOMBER BACKDROP IN KYIV, IS STILL ON THE PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OF UKRAINE CALLING IT A CHRISTMAS WITH A DIFFERENT MOOD, CONTEXT AND DIFFERENT TASTE. >> ZELENSKY ALSO SAID THAT DURING THIS HOLIDAY TIME, IT’S NOT IMPORTANT HOW HOMES MAY BE

DECORATED, BUT INSTEAD HOW UKRAINIANS ARE PROTECTING THEIR HOMES DURING THIS TWO YEAR LONG RUSSIAN INVASION. DANNY >> LIZ, THANK YOU AND TIME NOW FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS DAY WEATHER. AND MERRY CHRISTMAS AND IT’S A WHITE CHRISTMAS IN PLACES LIKE CARNEY AND NEBRASKA ALL THE WAY TO ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA.

>> BUT IT COMES AT A COST OF THE BLIZZARD, GUSTY WINDS AND WHITE OUT CONDITIONS. BUT THE WINNERS WHEN IT COMES TO SNOW TOTALS. WINTER IN SOUTH DAKOTA SEEING 12 TO 18IN. AND ON TOP OF THAT I’VE GOT ICING ALL THE WAY FROM OMAHA NEBRASKA TO THUNDER BAY. THEY’RE

SEEING SLICK ROADS AND SLIPPERY SIDEWALKS. REMEMBER THE SIDEWALKS? PENGUIN SHUFFLE TO STOP YOU FROM FALLING BACK TO YOU? >> WELL, COMING UP, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF THE MAN WHO WAS DECLARED THE OLDEST WORKING ACTOR IN THE COUNTRY. >> ALSO AHEAD, THE FAMILY OF A 27 YEAR OLD WOMAN KILLED BY

POLICE IS SPEAKING OUT. WHY? THEY SAY THEY’RE NOW SUING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. >> AND WE’VE GOT TWO GAME WINNING PLAYS FROM CHRISTMAS EVE FOOTBALL AND A PREVIEW OF TODAY’S LINEUP First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on, everybody in that home is, okay, to catch you up with what

Happened overnight? We are here at Fashion’s biggest night out what’s happening today. YouTube has unveiled two new set of policies. What people are talking about the new ad campaign fast? Straight forward with some fun in between a real-life Barbie Dreamhouse, a name, change for the Wienermobile first thing in the morning America this

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The story is, will take you there. You’re streaming, ABC News live. NIGHT ON ABC. >> MRS. KESSENICH THAT BOOK YOU’RE WAVING ABOUT IS HARDLY. IT IS CONSIDERED BY MANY CRITICS TO BE THE CLASSIC NOVEL ABOUT THE 1960S. IT’S GRAPHY. >> NO, NO NO NO. >> THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT’S

NOT AN AND ITS AUTHOR, MR. MAN, THAT IS MIKE NUSSBAUM IN FIELD OF DREAMS. >> THE ACTOR DIED SATURDAY AT THE AGE OF 99. HE WAS KNOWN FOR HIS EXTENSIVE CAREER ON STAGE, AS WELL IN ROLES IN FATAL ATTRACTION AND MEN IN BLACK WITH THE CAT O’BRIEN IN 2019, ACTORS

EQUITY CLAIMED THAT HE WAS THE OLDEST WORKING ACTOR IN THE COUNTRY, SUCH MEMORABLE ROLES AND HE’LL CERTAINLY BE MISSED. >> WELL, THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT IS NOW FACING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT AFTER A WOMAN WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY OFFICERS WHO WERE WHO WERE RESPONDING TO A CALL THAT SHE

MADE FOR HELP. >> YEAH, HER FAMILY SAYS THAT THERE WAS NO REASON TO KILL HER. HERE’S ABC’S DERRICK DENNIS THIS MORNING. >> A PLEA FOR JUSTICE IN THE DEATH OF 27 YEAR OLD DEONTE FINLAYSON AT A VIGIL OVER THE WEEKEND, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES MOURNING HER LOSS AFTER SHE WAS

SHOT AND KILLED IN A CONFRONTATION WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES EARLIER THIS MONTH. DEPUTIES RESPONDING TO FINLAYSON’S HOME ON A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALL SAY THEY ENCOUNTERED HER HOLDING A LARGE KNIFE AND THREATENING TO STAB HER EX-BOYFRIEND FOR PUSHING HER DAUGHTER. POLICE CLAIM THEY SHOT FINLAYSON TO STOP HER FROM HARMING THE MAN

MORE SHOTS IN THE BACK. >> IT’S RIDICULOUS. WHERE ARE THE TRAINING FOR THESE OFFICERS? >> MY HEART IS SO, SO BROKEN. I HATE IT FOR HIM HER CHILDREN. I HATE IT. IT’S DEVASTATING. >> FINLAYSON’S FAMILY DISAGREEING WITH THE DEPUTY’S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED AND FILING A $30 MILLION LAWSUIT

AGAINST THE DEPARTMENT AND THE COUNTY. FINLAYSON’S LAWYER SAYS SHE WAS NOT A THREAT AND ONLY HAD THE KNIFE TO PROTECT HER AND HER DAUGHTER FROM HER EX-BOYFRIEND. >> OFFICERS SHOULD BE TRAINED THAT THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SHOOT, SHOOT AND KILL WHEN THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WHO’S THERE OR WHAT THE SURROUNDINGS ARE.

>> THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS THE SHOOTING IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. SOMETIMES YOU JUST CAN’T CRY ENOUGH. >> IT WILL NEVER BRING HER BACK. BUT JUSTICE HAS TO STAND THE L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS IT HAS NOT OFFICIALLY RECEIVED THE FAMILY’S LAWSUIT CLAIM, BUT SAY THEY WILL RELEASE THE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE

INCIDENT NEXT WEEK. >> MORE ON DANNY. >> THANK YOU DEREK. WELL, HAWAII WAS RATTLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE DESCRIBED AS MINOR. THE 4.1 MAGNITUDE QUAKE HIT SATURDAY AFTERNOON. IT WAS CENTERED OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST ON THE BIG ISLAND. YOU CAN SEE THERE. THANKFULLY, NO INJURIES OR DAMAGE WERE REPORTED.

>> THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS. WELL, COMING UP, WE’VE GOT THE RESULTS OF SUNDAY’S BIG GAMES. >> AND SPEAKING OF SPORTS, THE $700 MILLION MAN, HOW BASEBALL SUPERSTAR SHOHEI OHTANI USED SOME OF HIS MONEY TO SURPRISE A TEAMMATE’S WIFE With so much at stake.

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FOR TAYLOR SWIFT PUTTING HER IN COMPANY WITH ELVIS. >> PLUS THERE WERE MORE THAN PRESENTS UNDER THIS TREE. WE’RE GUESSING NOBODY ASKED SANTA FOR A SNAKE FOR CHRISTMAS. WHAT It’s lunchtime in America. So what are we serving up? Well, how about everything you need to know? You know, that sounds pretty good. Give

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I’m Lindsay Davis reporting from Rolling Fork. Mississippi wherever the story is will take you there. You’re streaming, ABC News live. NIGHT ON ABC. TIME NOW TO CHECK THE PULSE AND WE BEGIN WITH A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT. >> SWIFT’S 1989 TAYLOR’S VERSION RETURNED TO NUMBER ONE ON THE

BILLBOARD 200, THUS THAT MARKS ITS 67TH WEEK THAT SHE’S HAD AN ALBUM IN THE TOP SPOT, WHICH TIES HER WITH ELVIS FOR MOST WEEKS BY A SOLO ARTIST FOR THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM. >> BUT KEYWORD SOLO ARTIST BECAUSE THE OVERALL TOP SPOT BELONGS TO THE BOYS FROM LIVERPOOL. 132 WEEKS WITH THE

NUMBER ONE ALBUM CONGRATULATIONS TO TAYLOR. >> AND NEXT, THE AGE OLD QUESTION IS DIE HARD A CHRISTMAS MOVIE? >> WE’VE DEBATED THIS A LONG TIME ABOUT THE 1988 BRUCE WILLIS CLASSIC. OF COURSE, IT’S AN AMAZING ACTION MOVIE, BUT IS IT ALSO KIND OF TECHNICALLY A GREAT CHRISTMAS MOVIE? WELL, ONE

EXPERT WHO IS A MUCH RESPECTED AUTHORITY ON CHRISTMAS WEIGHS IN . YOU KNOW, AN OFFICIAL RED RYDER COVID-19 200 YARD MEDLEY RIFLE. >> YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, KID. >> THAT IS, OF COURSE, PETER BILLINGSLEY, WHO PLAYED RALPHIE IN A CHRISTMAS STORY. THE ACTOR OPENLY DECLARED DIE HARD TO BE A

CHRISTMAS FILM AND SAID HE EVEN CONVINCED THE FILM’S CINEMATOGRAPHER, NOW WE’RE GOING TO HEAD DOWN UNDER AND A FAMILY RECEIVING AN UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS VISITOR. TAKE A LOOK. SNAKE CATCHERS CALLED TO RETRIEVE A CARPET PYTHON. NO. FOUND ITS WAY UNDERNEATH THE TREE AT ONE AUSTRALIAN HOME. NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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TOP STORIES. POLICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS SAY A MALL FIGHT LED TO GUNFIRE, WHICH LEFT ONE PERSON DEAD AND THREE OTHERS INJURED. MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN CUSTODY AFTER SHOTS WERE FIRED INSIDE THE CITADEL MALL MONDAY AFTERNOON. IT’S EXPECTED TO REOPEN TOMORROW. >> THE LARGEST MIGRANT GROUP IN MORE THAN A YEAR, ABOUT 6000

PEOPLE WAS MOVING THROUGH MEXICO AHEAD OF US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN’S VISIT. HE IS SET TO SPEAK WITH MEXICO’S PRESIDENT ABOUT CONTROLLING THE SURGE OF PEOPLE TRYING TO ENTER THE US AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST. >> W.H.O. OFFICIALS SAY A HUMANITARIAN NIGHTMARE PLAYING OUT ACROSS GAZA. MEANTIME, AT

LEAST 70 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON A REFUGEE CAMP. PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SAID HIS MILITARY IS INTENSIFYING OPERATION LIONS AND TODAY’S WEATHER CHRISTMAS DAY RAIN IN THE NORTHWEST. >> HEAVY SNOW IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS, AT LEAST A FOOT EXPECTED UP THERE, AND THEN MORE RAIN

FROM THE MIDWEST ALL THE WAY TO FLORIDA. >> MORGAN AND FINALLY CHEVY CHASE RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERY DAD LOOKING TO OUTDO THE NEIGHBORS WITH THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. >> BUT EVEN THE GREAT CLARK GRISWOLD MIGHT FINALLY HAVE COMPETITION IN. HEY THAT HOUSE LOOKS FAMILIAR. HOW MANY LIGHTS GO INTO YOUR DISPLAY?

>> 25,000. JUST LIKE THE MOVIE, EVERYTHING HAS TO BE EXACT. ALL THE AREA FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS, GREG AND RACHEL OSTERLUND OF WADSWORTH, OHIO, HAVE ERECTED AN INCREASINGLY EVEN MORE ACCURATE RECREATION OF THE DISPLAY FROM THE 1989 CLASSIC NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION. THEY’VE LANDED THEIR PORTIONS OF

THEIR YARD AS WELL OVER THE LAST DECADE, AS THE FAMILY HAS ROPED IN NEIGHBORS AND EXPANDED THE PRODUCTION, THE HOUSE HAS ACTUALLY BECOME QUITE FAMOUS. THEY TYPE IN GRISWOLD HOUSE. OUR HOUSE IS USUALLY THE ONE THAT SHOWS UP JUST LIKE CHEVY CHASE’S HOUSE. I THINK WE’RE ALL IN FOR A VERY BIG TREAT.

>> AND IN FACT, GREG AND RACHEL HAVE EVEN CHATTED WITH THE MOVIE STARS. CHEVY CHASE AND BEVERLY D’ANGELO. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN DISCUSSING THE HOUSE. >> SHE PULLED IT UP ON FACEBOOK. THIS IS YOUR HOUSE. AND YEAH, WE’RE THIS IS WHAT WE DO. SO THE CARDBOARD CUT OUT WOULD NOT BE

COMPLETE WITHOUT. >> BUT PERHAPS MOST IMPRESSIVE, OVER THE LAST 11 YEARS, THEY’VE COLLECTED DONATIONS AND RAISED MORE THAN $50,000 FOR A NONPROFIT CALLED GREAT STRIDES. IT FUNDS RESEARCH FOR CURING CYSTIC FIBROSIS, WHICH GREG WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AT SIX YEARS OLD. HAVING FELT THIS GOOD IN A LONG

TIME JUST BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT THEY’VE DONE, SOME MEDICINES THAT HAVE COME OUT JOY TO THE WORLD WORLD. BUT GREG SAYS IF THEY DO FIND A CURE FOR THIS DISEASE, IT’S NOT LIKE HIS FAMILY IS EVER GOING TO STOP BRINGING THIS MUCH JOY TO THE WORLD.

>> AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RAISE MONEY FOR NEXT. >> MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT THAT COUPLE, GREG AND RACHEL, RACHEL HAD NOT SEEN THE MOVIE BEFORE. WHEN THEY MET. >> I HADN’T SEEN IT, BUT SHE’S SEEN IT NOW MANY TIMES I WOULD SAY YES.

>> ALL RIGHT EVERYONE, THAT IS WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA THIS MORNING, AS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS KICK OFF AROUND THE WORLD, A RECORD BREAKING TRAVEL WEEKEND COMES TO A CLOSE. >> MILLIONS TAKING TO THE ROADS AND SKIES. BUT NOT EVERY TRIP

WENT AS EXPECTED. HOW ONE YOUNG CHILD WAS SENT TO THE WRONG CITY . >> WEEKEND VIOLENCE, SHOOTINGS AT TWO MALLS LEAVE ONE PERSON DEAD AND HOLIDAY SHOPPERS TERRIFIED. A SUSPECT IN ONE OF THE SHOOTINGS NOW IN CUSTODY WHILE IN FLORIDA, AN URGENT MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY. WHAT POLICE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE SUSPECT.

>> KICKING OFF FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THE NFL AND NBA GEARING UP FOR A CHRISTMAS SPORTS SPECTACULAR. WE’VE GOT ALL THE CHRISTMAS EVE HIGHLIGHTS AND A PREVIEW OF TODAY’S GAMES COMING UP. >> ALL OF THAT. PLUS, IT’S A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT. THE RECORD THE SUPERSTAR NOW SHARES WITH ELVIS.

>> AND JUST WEEKS AFTER SIGNING THE BIGGEST CONTRACT IN SPORTS HISTORY, SHOHEI OHTANI IS PUTTING HIS MONEY TO GOOD USE. SEE HOW HE JUST SURPRISED A TEAMMATE? >> AND FROM MIDNIGHT MASS TO SURFING, SANTAS, HOW PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE CELEBRATING ON CHRISTMAS DAY, IT’S MONDAY, DECEMBER 25TH. FROM ABC NEWS IN

NEW YORK. >> THIS IS AMERICA, THIS MORNING. HEY >> MERRY CHRISTMAS. WELCOME. I’M DANNY NEW IT’S SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. >> I’M MORGAN NORWOOD RHIANNON AND ANDREW ARE OFF THIS MORNING. AND WE BEGIN WITH CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS KICKING OFF ALL AROUND THE ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

>> YEAH. HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, SAINT PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL VERY FAMOUS SPOT WAS PACKED WITH FOLKS COMING IN FOR A LITTLE MIDNIGHT MASS. AND THEN IN VATICAN CITY, THOUSANDS WERE IN SAINT PETER’S BASILICA AS THE POPE DELIVERED A MESSAGE OF PEACE. >> AND NORAD HAS BEEN TRACKING

SANTA AS HE MAKES HIS WAY AROUND THE GLOBE. SO FAR, IT SEEMS HIS RIGHT HAS BEEN PRETTY SMOOTH, BUT WITH MILLIONS TRAVELING NOT EVERYBODY HAS BEEN SO LUCKY. ABC’S ALISON KOSIK STARTS US OFF THIS MORNING. >> SPIRIT AIRLINES CONDUCTING AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER AN UNACCOMPANIED MINOR, A SIX YEAR

OLD BOY WAS SENT TO THE WRONG CITY. THE CHILD WAS TRAVELING FROM PHILADELPHIA TO FORT MYERS, BUT INSTEAD ENDED UP IN ORLANDO AFTER BEING PUT ON A DIFFERENT FLIGHT. THE AIRLINE SAYING, AS SOON AS WE DISCOVERED THE ERROR, WE TOOK IMMEDIATE STEPS TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE FAMILY AND

RECONNECT THEM. IT COMES AS THE HOLIDAY TRAVEL RUSH AHEAD OF THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY BROKE RECORDS. SANTA’S NOT THE ONLY ONE ON THE MOVE. TRIPLE A SAYS MORE THAN 115 MILLION PEOPLE TRAVELED MORE THAN 50 MILES FROM THEIR HOMES, AND WITH AN ESTIMATED 7.5 MILLION PEOPLE TAKING TO THE

COMMUNITY. BUT THE MALL WAS SHUT DOWN AFTER THE SHOOTING AND IT IS EXPECTED TO REOPEN TOMORROW. >> AND MEANWHILE, IN FLODA, POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE SUSPECT IN A DEADLY SHOOTING AT A MALL OUTSIDE ORLANDO. HOLIDAY SHOPPERS PANICKING AS THAT GUNFIRE RANG OUT. HERE’S ABC’S ZOHREEN SHAH, THE URGENT

POLICE IS SPEAKING OUT. WHY? THEY SAY THEY’RE NOW SUING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. >> AND WE’VE GOT TWO GAME WINNING PLAYS FROM CHRISTMAS EVE FOOTBALL AND A PREVIEW OF TODAY’S LINEUP Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal

Surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike and Denis braid, Ukraine. Reporting from the earthquake in Turkey been rolling for this

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THE 1960S. IT’S GRAPHY. >> NO, NO NO NO. >> THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT’S NOT AN AND ITS AUTHOR, MR. MAN, THAT IS MIKE NUSSBAUM IN FIELD OF DREAMS. >> THE ACTOR DIED SATURDAY AT THE AGE OF 99. HE WAS KNOWN FOR HIS EXTENSIVE CAREER ON STAGE, AS WELL IN ROLES IN FATAL

ATTRACTION AND MEN IN BLACK WITH THE CAT O’BRIEN IN 2019, ACTORS EQUITY CLAIMED THAT HE WAS THE OLDEST WORKING ACTOR IN THE COUNTRY, SUCH MEMORABLE ROLES AND HE’LL CERTAINLY BE MISSED. >> WELL, THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT IS NOW FACING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT AFTER A WOMAN WAS SHOT TO DEATH

BY OFFICERS WHO WERE WHO WERE RESPONDING TO A CALL THAT SHE MADE FOR HELP. >> YEAH, HER FAMILY SAYS THAT THERE WAS NO REASON TO KILL HER. HERE’S ABC’S DERRICK DENNIS THIS MORNING. >> A PLEA FOR JUSTICE IN THE DEATH OF 27 YEAR OLD DEONTE FINLAYSON AT A VIGIL OVER THE

WEEKEND, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES MOURNING HER LOSS AFTER SHE WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN A CONFRONTATION WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES EARLIER THIS MONTH. DEPUTIES RESPONDING TO FINLAYSON’S HOME ON A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALL SAY THEY ENCOUNTERED HER HOLDING A LARGE KNIFE AND THREATENING TO STAB HER EX-BOYFRIEND FOR PUSHING HER DAUGHTER. POLICE

CLAIM THEY SHOT FINLAYSON TO STOP HER FROM HARMING THE MAN MORE SHOTS IN THE BACK. >> IT’S RIDICULOUS. WHERE ARE THE TRAINING FOR THESE OFFICERS? >> MY HEART IS SO, SO BROKEN. I HATE IT FOR HIM HER CHILDREN. I HATE IT. IT’S DEVASTATING. >> FINLAYSON’S FAMILY DISAGREEING WITH THE DEPUTY’S

ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED AND FILING A $30 MILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE DEPARTMENT AND THE COUNTY. FINLAYSON’S LAWYER SAYS SHE WAS NOT A THREAT AND ONLY HAD THE KNIFE TO PROTECT HER AND HER DAUGHTER FROM HER EX-BOYFRIEND. >> OFFICERS SHOULD BE TRAINED THAT THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SHOOT, SHOOT AND KILL WHEN THEY

DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WHO’S THERE OR WHAT THE SURROUNDINGS ARE. >> THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS THE SHOOTING IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. SOMETIMES YOU JUST CAN’T CRY ENOUGH. >> IT WILL NEVER BRING HER BACK. BUT JUSTICE HAS TO STAND THE L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS IT HAS NOT OFFICIALLY RECEIVED THE FAMILY’S LAWSUIT

CLAIM, BUT SAY THEY WILL RELEASE THE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE INCIDENT NEXT WEEK. >> MORE ON DANNY. >> THANK YOU DEREK. WELL, HAWAII WAS RATTLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE DESCRIBED AS MINOR. THE 4.1 MAGNITUDE QUAKE HIT SATURDAY AFTERNOON. IT WAS CENTERED OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST ON THE BIG ISLAND. YOU CAN SEE THERE.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT. >> SWIFT’S 1989 TAYLOR’S VERSION RETURNED TO NUMBER ONE ON THE BILLBOARD 200, THUS THAT MARKS ITS 67TH WEEK THAT SHE’S HAD AN ALBUM IN THE TOP SPOT, WHICH TIES HER WITH ELVIS FOR MOST WEEKS BY A SOLO ARTIST FOR THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM. >> BUT KEYWORD SOLO ARTIST

BECAUSE THE OVERALL TOP SPOT BELONGS TO THE BOYS FROM LIVERPOOL. 132 WEEKS WITH THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM CONGRATULATIONS TO TAYLOR. >> AND NEXT, THE AGE OLD QUESTION IS DIE HARD A CHRISTMAS MOVIE? >> WE’VE DEBATED THIS A LONG TIME ABOUT THE 1988 BRUCE WILLIS CLASSIC. OF COURSE, IT’S AN

AMAZING ACTION MOVIE, BUT IS IT ALSO KIND OF TECHNICALLY A GREAT CHRISTMAS MOVIE? WELL, ONE EXPERT WHO IS A MUCH RESPECTED AUTHORITY ON CHRISTMAS WEIGHS IN . YOU KNOW, AN OFFICIAL RED RYDER COVID-19 200 YARD MEDLEY RIFLE. >> YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, KID. >> THAT IS, OF COURSE, PETER

BILLINGSLEY, WHO PLAYED RALPHIE IN A CHRISTMAS STORY. THE ACTOR OPENLY DECLARED DIE HARD TO BE A CHRISTMAS FILM AND SAID HE EVEN CONVINCED THE FILM’S CINEMATOGRAPHER, NOW WE’RE GOING TO HEAD DOWN UNDER AND A FAMILY RECEIVING AN UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS VISITOR. TAKE A LOOK. SNAKE CATCHERS CALLED TO RETRIEVE A CARPET PYTHON. NO.

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SPRINGS SAY A MALL FIGHT LED TO GUNFIRE, WHICH LEFT ONE PERSON DEAD AND THREE OTHERS INJURED. MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN CUSTODY AFTER SHOTS WERE FIRED INSIDE THE CITADEL MALL MONDAY AFTERNOON. IT’S EXPECTED TO REOPEN TOMORROW. >> THE LARGEST MIGRANT GROUP IN MORE THAN A YEAR, ABOUT 6000 PEOPLE WAS MOVING THROUGH MEXICO

AHEAD OF US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN’S VISIT. HE IS SET TO SPEAK WITH MEXICO’S PRESIDENT ABOUT CONTROLLING THE SURGE OF PEOPLE TRYING TO ENTER THE US AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST. >> W.H.O. OFFICIALS SAY A HUMANITARIAN NIGHTMARE PLAYING OUT ACROSS GAZA. MEANTIME, AT LEAST 70 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN

AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON A REFUGEE CAMP. PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SAID HIS MILITARY IS INTENSIFYING OPERATION LIONS AND TODAY’S WEATHER CHRISTMAS DAY RAIN IN THE NORTHWEST. >> HEAVY SNOW IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS, AT LEAST A FOOT EXPECTED UP THERE, AND THEN MORE RAIN FROM THE MIDWEST ALL THE WAY TO FLORIDA.

>> MORGAN AND FINALLY CHEVY CHASE RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERY DAD LOOKING TO OUTDO THE NEIGHBORS WITH THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. >> BUT EVEN THE GREAT CLARK GRISWOLD MIGHT FINALLY HAVE COMPETITION IN. HEY THAT HOUSE LOOKS FAMILIAR. HOW MANY LIGHTS GO INTO YOUR DISPLAY? >> 25,000. JUST LIKE THE MOVIE,

EVERYTHING HAS TO BE EXACT. ALL THE AREA FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS, GREG AND RACHEL OSTERLUND OF WADSWORTH, OHIO, HAVE ERECTED AN INCREASINGLY EVEN MORE ACCURATE RECREATION OF THE DISPLAY FROM THE 1989 CLASSIC NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION. THEY’VE LANDED THEIR PORTIONS OF THEIR YARD AS WELL OVER THE LAST

DECADE, AS THE FAMILY HAS ROPED IN NEIGHBORS AND EXPANDED THE PRODUCTION, THE HOUSE HAS ACTUALLY BECOME QUITE FAMOUS. THEY TYPE IN GRISWOLD HOUSE. OUR HOUSE IS USUALLY THE ONE THAT SHOWS UP JUST LIKE CHEVY CHASE’S HOUSE. I THINK WE’RE ALL IN FOR A VERY BIG TREAT. >> AND IN FACT, GREG AND RACHEL

HAVE EVEN CHATTED WITH THE MOVIE STARS. CHEVY CHASE AND BEVERLY D’ANGELO. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN DISCUSSING THE HOUSE. >> SHE PULLED IT UP ON FACEBOOK. THIS IS YOUR HOUSE. AND YEAH, WE’RE THIS IS WHAT WE DO. SO THE CARDBOARD CUT OUT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT. >> BUT PERHAPS MOST IMPRESSIVE,

OVER THE LAST 11 YEARS, THEY’VE COLLECTED DONATIONS AND RAISED MORE THAN $50,000 FOR A NONPROFIT CALLED GREAT STRIDES. IT FUNDS RESEARCH FOR CURING CYSTIC FIBROSIS, WHICH GREG WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AT SIX YEARS OLD. HAVING FELT THIS GOOD IN A LONG TIME JUST BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT THEY’VE DONE, SOME

MEDICINES THAT HAVE COME OUT JOY TO THE WORLD WORLD. BUT GREG SAYS IF THEY DO FIND A CURE FOR THIS DISEASE, IT’S NOT LIKE HIS FAMILY IS EVER GOING TO STOP BRINGING THIS MUCH JOY TO THE WORLD. >> AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RAISE MONEY FOR NEXT.

>> MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT THAT COUPLE, GREG AND RACHEL, RACHEL HAD NOT SEEN THE MOVIE BEFORE. WHEN THEY MET. >> I HADN’T SEEN IT, BUT SHE’S SEEN IT NOW MANY TIMES I WOULD SAY YES. >> ALL RIGHT EVERYONE, THAT IS WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

HERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. OH ALL THAT IS LEGENDARY SINGER CHAKA KHAN AND KNOWN TO THE WORLD FOR MEGA-HITS LIKE AIN’T NO BODY BAD. AND THROUGH THE FIRE WAS BORN. >> A VET MARIE STEVENS HAD THE GIRL TIMES. >> SHE GREW UP IN CHICAGO’S HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD.

HER FOND MEMORIES RECOUNTED IN THE FAN FAVORITE SONG BACK IN THE DAY. >> COME TO SCHOOL. THANKS TO HER GRANDMOTHER, CHAKA BEGAN SINGING JAZZ AS A CHILD AND BY AGE 20, IN 1974. TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD WAS REALLY GOOD. SHE WAS FRONT AND CENTER AS LEAD VOCALIST FOR R&B FUNK BAND RUFUS.

BUT HER 1978 HIT I’M EVERY WOMAN IS WHAT PUT SCHOCK ON THE MAP AS A POWERFUL SOLO ARTIST. WHILE SHE CONTINUED TO PERFORM WITH RUFUS, CHAKA SOLO CAREER BLOSSOMED WITH HITS LIKE I FEEL FOR YOU, WRITTEN BY PRINCE HIMSELF. DECADES LATER, WITH MORE THAN 20 ALBUMS, TEN GRAMMYS

AND THOUSANDS OF SONGS UNDER HER BELT, INCLUDING 2019 WHITE SUGAR SUGAR, CHAKA KHAN WAS FINALLY INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME THIS YEAR, RECEIVING THE AWARD FOR MUSICAL EXCELLENCE DIVERSITY. I GET A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND SPEND SOME ONE ON ONE TIME WITH THE QUEEN OF FUNK HERSELF .

>> OH, THE QUEEN HAS ENTERED THE ROOM. WHAT A PLEASURE. >> A PLEASURE. WHAT AN HONOR. THANK YOU. SO GOOD TO MEET YOU. SO GOOD, MARCO. >> PLEASURE TO MEET YOU. HAVE A SEAT. HAVE A SEAT. NO LONGER DOES THIS MATTER MORE. WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THAT YOU

WERE ABOUT BE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. HEY, Y’ALL WERE SHOCKED BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED 25 YEARS AGO. >> WELL, I’VE BEEN UP FOR, LIKE, I DON’T KNOW, SIX, SEVEN GAMES. THE GAME WAS RUFUS AND MYSELF. >> THIS IS YOUR NIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

MY GOD. AND I’M JUST HAPPY THAT SOMETHING JUST. >> AND NOW IT’S FOR A MUSICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD. >> YEAH. THAT’S VERY SPECIAL. YES, THAT’S BIG. AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? JUST TO BE IN THAT CATEGORY? >> WELL, IT MEANS THAT SOMEONE IS RECOGNIZED. THE FACT THAT I TAKE GREAT CARE.

I DON’T PLAY I DON’T PLAY CARDS. I DON’T PLAY GAMES. >> I DON’T PLAY. I WANT TO. DO YOU PLAY CARDS? I BELIEVE SHE PLAYS ANY GAMES. WELL, ACCEPTING HER ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AWARD, SHE ACKNOWLEDGED FELLOW RUFUS BAND MEMBER TONY MADE. I LOVE THIS WOMAN WHO SHE SAYS

NURTURED HER AS AN ARTIST AND HELPED PROPEL HER JOURNEY INTO SUPERSTARDOM. >> I USED TO BE CALLED RUFUS WITHOUT HIM AND THE BAND RUFUS, I WOULD NOT BE WHERE I AM TODAY. >> I THINK IT WAS LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE YOUNGER ARTISTS SHE SHARED

THE STAGE WITH AT THE CEREMONY. ONE HIGHLIGHT WAS SINGING HER HIT SWEET THING WITH HER DARK RAVEN ON THE SECOND. LET ME GET A FEEL FOR YOU BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO PUT YOUR POINT OR DO YOU FEEL FOR ME THE WAY I FEEL FOR YOU? CHAKA KHAN.

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I WANT TO DO. WHAT I LOVE YOU. WHAT I HOPE YOU WANT YOU TO. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO GIVE YOU 4 SECONDS. I’LL MAKE IT MORE THAN JUST A PHYSICAL DREAM. IF I COULD JUST MAKE IT. >> MAKE YOU SMILE AND SAYS IT

WAS A THRILL, PERFORM IT ALONGSIDE COMING FOR A SPECIAL RAP RENDITION OF I FEEL FOR THE CROWD. BOTH HER AND COMMON SINCE CHAKA HAS BEEN AND STILL IS A SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE ON THEIR WORK AS ARTISTS. >> AND THEN YOU JUST CELEBRATED YOUR 70TH BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR AND LOOK, GOOD LUCK.

>> I KNOW PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S THE SECRET? THEY ASK YOU ALL THE TIME. I HAVE A GOOD HEART. A GOOD HEART. A GOOD HEART. IT’S YOUR HEART’S SHE TOLD YOU ABOUT. HMM. ALL RIGHT, SO LET’S GO BACK. LET’S GO BACK. 50 YEARS AGO. YOU COULDN’T GO BACK

A LITTLE TOO FAR. >> HAD TO WRITE MUCH AS A SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO GIRL. >> YOU GREW UP THERE SINGING. PERFORMING. I HEARD YOU USED TO COMPETE AGAINST THE EMOTIONS AND TALENT SHOWS. >> MOM MADE YOUR CLOTHES. YEAH, SHE MADE OUR DRESSES. THERE WERE FOUR OF US.

TWO GIRLFRIENDS ON THE BLOCK. MY SISTER THAT WE CALL THE CHRYSALIS. AND SHE TOOK US AROUND TO VARIOUS TALENT SHOWS. >> THE CITY. OUR BIGGEST COMPETITION, WHERE THE EMOTIONS, THE EMOTION. >> EITHER THEY WOULD WIN OR WE WOULD WIN. AND IT WAS LIKE THAT. >> SO WHEN DID YOU KNOW

THAT YOU HAD THIS POWERFUL VOICE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU, OR WAS IT SOMEONE WHO SPOTTED YOU OUT, OR DID MOM SAY, WAIT A MINUTE, THERE’S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU? >> WELL, MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER SAID TO ME SHE WAS A SPIRITUALIST. SHE SAID TO ME ONE DAY,

EVERYONE WILL KNOW YOUR NAME. I WAS LIKE SEVEN OR EIGHT. >> AND I HEAR YOU OFTEN GIVE CREDIT TO GOD FOR YOUR VOICE. >> I ABSOLUTELY DO. IT’S MY GIFT TO GIVE. >> SHE GAVE ME. YOU HAVE INFLUENCE ON MANY PEOPLE. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. YOU’RE J. BLIGE FRIENDS AND WHITNEY

HOUSTON. GOD REST THEIR SOULS. THEY HAVE SAID THAT YOU ARE AND WERE AN INSPIRATION. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WORKING WITH FRIENDS, WHAT WAS THAT LIKE AS A FRIEND? THESE MOST HONEST, YOU KNOW, AND REALLY FUNNY. AND THOSE TWO PEOPLE, I COULD REALLY SAY THEY WERE VERY GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE.

YOU KNOW, IT’S HARD TO CULTIVATE FRIENDSHIPS IN THIS BUSINESS BECAUSE THIS IS A BUSINESS THAT IS CONDUCIVE TO THAT. YOU KNOW, YOU’RE GOOD FRIENDS, YOU, BUT THESE TWO PEOPLE SOMEHOW CUT THROUGH THE SOUND BARRIER AND BARRIER TIME OR LACK THEREOF, AND BECAME, YOU KNOW, BELOVED. >> YOU’RE SO REAL.

WHAT KEEPS YOU HUMBLE? >> EVERYBODY THAT I KNOW WHO’S EVER INTERVIEWED YOU, WHO’S EVER BEEN TO A CONCERT, EVER CAME IN CONTACT WITH YOU. THEY SAY SHE IS A REAL SISTER. >> WHAT KEEPS YOU GROUNDED? BECAUSE I AM LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. FUNDAMENTALLY. >> WE ARE ALL THE SAME.

AND ANYBODY WHO DOESN’T GET THAT IS DRIVEN STRAIGHT IT. AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THINK THAT THEY ARE GOD. BUT THIS IS CRAZINESS. AT ONE POINT, DO YOU THINK WAS THE TURN WHEN YOU STARTED TO BECOME THIS THIS BIGGER THAN LIFE, THIS POWERHOUSE? >> WAS IT WHEN YOU WERE,

YOU KNOW, WITH RUNNING FOR OFFICE OR LEAVING RUFUS? >> I HAVE NO IDEA. I’M NOT THAT IN THAT. THAT’S NOT WHY I’M DOING THIS. I DO IT BECAUSE I HAVE TO. BUT I THINK THAT’S WHY PEOPLE LOVE YOU. THAT’S WHY THEY CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF YOU. PERHAPS THAT’S PROBABLY RIGHT.

YOU KNOW, SO I WANT TO DO SOMETHING. >> I WANT A NAME. A SONG. SINCE WE’RE GOING TO GO BACK IN MEMORY LANE, AND I JUST WANT YOUR FIRST THOUGHTS CAME THROUGH THE FIRE. >> OH, BEAUTIFUL SONG. THEY LOST IT AS AN INSTRUMENTAL. MM-HMM. AND IT WAS CALLED CHAKA.

SO HE WROTE WORDS TO IT AND SENT IT TO ME. HOW COULD I NOT DO IT? >> HE NAMED THE SONG AFTER ME. YES. IS IT? >> YOU GOT TO DO IT. YEAH. AND IT’S A LOVELY SONG’S A BEAUTIFUL SONG. >> DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU FEEL? YEAH. DO YOU FEEL RUFUS?

>> IT’S THE ONE THAT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SWEEPING OUT TO SEE THINGS. YOUR COOL SISTER ABOUT. OH, GREAT. I HOPE WE CALL IT. YOU KNOW, REHEARSAL’S UP. THAT’S THE GREEK THING. DISCREET THING. MM-HMM. MEET THING. YOU JOKE BECAUSE SOME OF THE SONGS I WAS SINGING FOR

THE REST OF MY LIFE. >> OH, YEAH? YOU ADD TO THE CLASSIC THE CLASSICS THAT SO MANY OF US LIKE HAVING, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A REALLY LONG TIME. >> OH I’M EVERY WOMAN. THIS HAS BECOME AN ANTHEM. DALLAS OF THE NICK ASHFORD WROTE THE SONG FOR ME FOR

A LONG TIME. I TOOK THAT SONG PERSONALLY AND I FELT VERY COMFORTABLE SAYING IT. I SAY, I’M EVERY WOMAN IS THAT . >> AND I THINK THAT IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU, MISSY I’M JUST. >> SO YOU’RE SAYING COLLECTIVELY WE ARE ALL WE ARE. EVERY WOMAN AIN’T NOBODY. THAT’S A GREAT SONG.

>> THAT’S JUST FREAKING ACE IN THE HOLE THAT YOU START ROCKING. WHEN DID YOU START WRITING? >> ZELENSKYY. DAVID HALL. ZELENSKYY WAS A KEYBOARD PLAYER. WHO CAME UP WITH THAT? I WISH I DID THIS. >> I FELT LIKE I DID. >> YOU KNOW, HE KNEW ME IF HE KNEW ME VERY WELL.

MM-HMM. YOU KNOW, AND SO HE KNEW JUST HOW TO, YOU KNOW, PUT MY VOICE OUT THERE AND THE PLATFORM, YOU KNOW, THAT I WAS. AND I STILL ENJOY SINGING THAT SONG. >> TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD. AND YOU TELL ME. CATCH THAT GREAT SONG. >> STEVIE ALSO CHANNELED ME

ON THAT ONE SORT OF GOSPEL SONG THAT YOU GO TO. >> I LOVE KIMBROUGH. >> HOLY GHOST MADE YOU CHRIS HE WAITING LONGER. OH, DON’T STOP. DON’T HAVE TO. DON’T STOP THAT. WELL, AFTER SHE IS A MUSICIAN’S SINGER. MM-HMM. SHE AIN’T NO DOUBT. MM. I AM IN AWE OF HER.

AND TO GET YOUR BLESSING, TO. >> OH, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THAT. I’M TELLING. SHE MOVES ME. I LOVE HER. I THINK I’M SITTING CHURCH RIGHT NOW, AND I’M JUST A LITTLE BIASED BECAUSE I LOVE IN SOME CHAKA KHAN. I THINK WE ALL DO. BUT WE’VE HEARD SO MANY ARTISTS

WHO TRY TO MIMIC YOU, WHO SAMPLED OR TRIED TO COVER SOME OF YOUR PIECES. >> IS THERE ONE OR TWO IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, THEY GOT IT RIGHT? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, THE SAYING FOUND A WAY TO MAKE MOVE. >> OH, MY GOD. I THOUGHT WAS ME.

>> I WAS DRIVING MY CAR. I WAS AT THE L.A. I HAD A PULL OVER. I SAID, WAIT A MINUTE. WHEN DID I DO THIS? AND THEN AS I KEPT LISTENING, I HEARD HER. TOM BROWN ON TRUMPET. OH, DEAR. >> YOU’VE REALLY 22 STUDIO ALBUMS.

TEN OF THEM GOLD AND PLATINUM. YOUR RECORDED MUSIC HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN 2000 CATALOG SONG PLACEMENTS. HAVE WE HEARD THE BEST? NO. LET’S LOOK. WELL, I GUESS FIRST QUARTER NEXT YEAR, WE GET A SAMPLE AND WE’RE GOING TO GET BACK TOGETHER. >> IT’S UP TO ME ABOUT THAT.

OH, NO, I’D LOVE TO. I’D LOVE TO DO THAT. >> SO WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING? WHAT KEEPS THINGS FRESH? WOULD MUSIC GOOD SONGS? IT IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANGELS. MM-HMM. I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY THAT DOESN’T LIKE SOME KIND OF MUSIC, DO YOU? >> I LOVE ALL MUSIC.

>> I FEEL THE SAME WAY YOU DO. I LOVE MUSIC, TOO. >> I NEED IT. I USE IT AS MEDICINE, AS MOOD ALTERATION. >> YOU KNOW, AND, WELL, MANY THINGS. HEALING. I FEEL LIKE I. I HEAL. >> WHEN WE COME BACK. CHAKA SHARES HER TAKE ON TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCE IN THE

MUSIC INDUSTRY AND DISCUSSES HER EXPERIENCE WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE. >> WAS IT HARD TO OPEN UP ABOUT THAT? NO, BECAUSE I KNOW I’M A GROWN WOMAN. WE’LL ALSO FIND OUT WHO SHE CHOOSE TO PLAY HERSELF IN A CHAKA KHAN BIOPIC. >> AND WE’LL TAKE A LITTLE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE TO WHEN

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YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LONG. I JUST WANT TO SAY THEY STAYED A LONG WAY AND 2015 AT 62 YEARS OLD SHOCK APPEARED ON SEASON 21 OF ABC’S DANCING WITH THE STARS. LUCKY AUDIENCE MEMBERS GET TREATED TO A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE UNFORGETTABLE HIT THAT LAUNCHED

HER SOLO CAREER. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ARTISTS? BECAUSE I MEAN, WHEN I THINK OF CHAKA KHAN AND MANY OF US, YOU KNOW, THAT VOICE IS REAL AND VOICE IS REAL WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY, YET GOD GAVE TO ALL OF THAT. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK THOSE WHO USE TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE

THE THREE COUNTRIES EVERYDAY LIFE? >> NO, I DON’T DO THAT. I COULDN’T LIVE WITH MYSELF. I MEAN, LIKE IF I PITCHED USE PITCHING OR SOME LIKE THAT. I WAS IN THIS THE DAY LONG UNTIL I DID IT RIGHT, YOU KNOW. BUT IT HASN’T CHANGED OVER THE YEARS OF ANYTHING.

>> IT’S GOTTEN BETTER. I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF I CAN SAY IT’S GOTTEN BETTER. >> IT’S STILL GREAT. YOU KNOW, YOUR VOICE. OH, YOUR VOICE. YES. YES. WOW. OKAY. BUT IT DOES HAVE A DIMENSION TO IT THAT. YEAH, BECAUSE I LISTEN TO MILES AND I SOUND LIKE A BUMBLEBEE.

I BUY BOTTLES VERY FAST. YOU KNOW, AND I TO HIGH END IN INDIA, I ALLOW MY YOU KNOW, MY TONE IS, WELL, YOU WERE RIGHT. >> AND YOU WERE A HIT THEN. ARE YOU HARD ON YOURSELF? VERY. IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? I THINK IT’S GOOD.

I THINK IT’S GOOD THING I CARE THAT MUCH FOR THE MOST PART. ON THE SURFACE, SHARKEY’S CAREER HAS APPEARED TO BE CHARMED AND WITHOUT PUBLIC STRUGGLES. BUT ACCORDING TO CHAKA KHAN’S MEMOIR THROUGH THE FIRE, SHE SAYS SHE BEGAN EXPERIMENT WITH DRUGS AFTER RECONNECTING WITH HER ESTRANGED FATHER AS A TEEN.

CHAKA SAYS THAT DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE ESCALATED TO COCAINE AND HEROIN WHILE ON THE ROAD TOURING WITH RUFUS AND CONTINUED WHILE SHE GREW UP AS A SOLO ARTIST. SHE SAYS IT WAS A PATTERN OF ABUSE THAT LASTED FOR YEARS, BUT ALSO SAYS FORTUNATELY, IT WAS A HABIT SHE WAS EVENTUALLY

ABLE TO KICK. >> YOU HAD A MEMOIR THROUGH THE FIRE AND YOU’VE BEEN VERY OPEN ABOUT SUBSTANCES. YEAH, AND SAID ALL OF THAT STUFF. WHAT, COCAINE, HEROIN, ALCOHOL. WHAT CAN PEOPLE TAKE AWAY FROM THAT PART OF YOUR LIFE? BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES, WELL, HERE’S THE DEAL ABOUT THAT.

WE WERE ALL ON THE JOURNEY. OKAY? WE ARE ALL HERE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE. THAT WAS PART OF MY LIFE EXPERIENCE. IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. I WASN’T TRYING TO KILL MYSELF. I WENT TO HURT MYSELF. I WAS TRYING TO OFFER SOME ASPECT OF MY THINKING OR

MY FEAR OF VISION OR WHATEVER. EXPERIMENTAL, PURELY EXPERIMENTAL AND FUN, AND WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE EXACTLY? >> I DON’T CARE WHO YOU SLEEP WITH. >> I CARE WHAT YOU DID AS LONG AS YOU DON’T THROW UP ON ME. >> YEAH, THAT’S YOURS. YOU’RE GOOD. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, I’M GOOD.

I SAID I DID WHAT EVERYBODY DOES. >> MM-HMM. >> EVERYBODY EXPERIMENTS AND SOMETHING AT SOME POINT IN LIFE, IT MAY NOT BE DRUGS. IT COULD BE SOMETHING FAR WORSE THAN THAT. >> PEOPLE EXPERIMENTED WITH SOME STUFF THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE MESSING WITH AT ALL. >> AND THE EXPERIMENT WITH PEOPLE.

>> WAS IT HARD TO OPEN UP ABOUT THAT ONE? BECAUSE LIKE, YOU KNOW, I’M A GROWN WOMAN. WELL, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. >> OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, YOU. YOU KEEP IT REAL. LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR MOM, A GRANDMOTHER AND A GREAT GRANDMOTHER WHO KNOW?

>> GO FIGURE. I LIKE FIRST OF ALL, I’M ASKING MYSELF WHEN THAT I HAVE TIME TO MAKE TWO KIDS. YEAH. >> AS MY BODY WORK, I LOOK BACK, I SAID, WELL, YOU WERE GREAT. >> YOU REALLY LOOK AT IT. YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE A GREAT GUY.

AND NOT TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, I’M NO, I DON’T THINK THAT. BUT I’M GREAT GRANDMOTHER. >> SO ANYWAY, WELL, IT WAS THE SAME WAY, YOU KNOW YOU SORT OF LOOK LIKE AND WHEN IT WAS YEAH. AND WITH YOU YOU’VE DONE GOSPEL MUSIC COUNTRY, R&B, BLUES, YOU NAME.

>> WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE GENRE? >> DO YOU HAVE ONE? YOU JUST SEE? I DON’T HAVE I LOVE THEM ALL. HEY, I SING CHINESE FOLK MUSIC. JUST GIVE ME THE RIGHT WAY TO PRONOUNCE SOUND RIGHT PRONUNCIATION. AND YOU DO IT. >> YEAH. I DID A TRIBUTE TO GANDHI,

BUT LAST TWO YEARS AGO. YEAH. AND THAT WAS CHALLENGING. THAT HONOR. THOSE HAVE TONES. SO LIKE, IF SOMEONE’S GOING TO STAR IN THE BIOPIC MOVIE OR CHAKA KHAN, WHO WOULD PLAY THAT ROLE? WHO COULD YOU SEE PLAYED? MY DAUGHTER. YOUR DAUGHTER, SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE ME.

AND SHE CAN SING HER LITTLE BEHIND OFF. >> SHE GET IT FROM A MA HOUSE. SHE’S A FIRE. SHE’S DOING AMAZING. >> AND LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR FOUNDATION. YOU GOT A FOUNDATION. YOU’VE DONE SO MUCH WORK. >> I KNOW A LOT OF GET INVOLVED WITH THE SELF FOUNDATION.

SO I’M TRYING TO START AN INITIATIVE THAT STARTS OUT WITH MEDITATION. THAT’S VITAL AND IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL. SO IT’S FUN AND IT’S SO EASY TO HAVE PEACE AND CLARITY, YOU KNOW? AND SO IT’S SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO SHARE. I MEAN, PEOPLE MY AGE ARE ONLY

AROUND FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. ONE OF THEM IS TO IMPART WISDOM. I CAN TALK TO YOU ALL DAY. >> I MEAN, I WOULD REMISS IF I DIDN’T DO THAT. MY LIFE WOULD BE FOR NOTHING. >> I MEAN, NOT FOR NOTHING, BUT IT WOULD BE LESS. HMM. YOU LIVE.

>> SO WHEN DID YOU START MEDITATING? IS THIS JUST STARTED? OH, I HOPE STEVE, YOU STARTED BACK AND LOOK IN THE SEVENTIES AND DAY LONG MEDITATION AND THEN MANY MANAGERS AND THESE ARE VERY DIFFERENT OVER HERE, AND I’VE WANTED TO DO THIS FOR A LONG TIME. >> I THINK THAT IT’S VERY

IMPORTANT THAT WE HEIGHTEN. I, I THINKING FAST AS A MENTAL STUFF HAS TO COME UP TO A HIGHER LEVEL AND DIRECTLY. >> WHAT DOES IT DO FOR YOU AS A BLACK STUDENT? DO YOU FEEL MORE AT PEACE? YES, OF THOSE THINGS AFTER I’M FINISHED WITH ALL THESE

INTERVIEWS, SAY I’M GOING TO A SESSION, I’M GONNA TAKE A LISTEN TO RELAX HERE. >> I’LL GO BACK TO THE LAND. >> YES, I LOVE THAT. I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT. YOU HAVE A FRAGRANCE ALBUM? YES. >> INSTANTLY, I WAS ADDICTED. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I MEAN?

SO MUCH TO ME. IF YOU LOVE IT. I KNEW I HIT THEM. >> I SEE. I ALL MY PRIORITIES OF LIFE HAVE BEEN MALE NOW FRAGRANCE. >> I NEVER LIKE. >> YEAH, YOU TELL ME YOU LIKE PERFUMES. THEN WHY? OH, SO YOU LIKE MORE SPICE MORE OR GOOD EARTH?

>> YES. EARTH, TOBACCO, LEATHER. YEAH. AND PATCHOULI. YEAH. SO I WORE A LOT OF OILS, YOU KNOW, AND COMING UP IN THE SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES. MM-HMM. AND SO ALL WE DID WITH THIS GET COMBINATION OF THE STUFF THAT I WAS WEARING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SMELL TRANSCENDS IT.

>> LIKE THERE’S A CHANCE TO GET IT. YEAH, THE MUSIC WOULD GET VERY LIGHT AND SMELL VERY, VERY, VERY STRONG EMOTIONAL TRANSMIT AND HERE’S THE PACKAGING, WHICH IS WHAT I LIKE. >> EVERYBODY CAN BE A ROCK STAR . >> LOOK AT THIS. WE USED TO SING AND MOST GIRLS

USED TO SING IN BRUSHES HAIRBRUSHES. >> I REMEMBER DOING THAT OVER THE YEARS, A LACK THEREOF. AND I DON’T EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU HIT THE STAGE, THERE’S SOMETHING DIFFERENT HERE AND IT’S STILL SHOCK. >> COME ON. HOW DO YOU KEEP REINVENTING YOURSELF? BUT YET MAINTAIN? OH, BECAUSE I GUESS MY BASELINE

IS COMFORT. >> OH, IT’S COMFORTABLE BACK. I MEAN, THE TOPS WERE JUST THE AND WE SOLD THE RABBIT HAIR ON AND I DON’T KNOW, YOU KNOW, IF COMFORT AND WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO REMEMBER ABOUT ME TO GOING FROM LISTENING TO YOUR MUSIC AND 2055. YOU KNOW 2085.

I HAVE NO WAY AND YEAH I CAN’T GUESS EITHER. >> WOW. PEOPLE REMEMBER. >> I JUST HOPE THAT THEY REMEMBER THAT. >> I LOVE THAT. MY INTENT IS LOVE ALWAYS WAS. >> THAT IS A GOOD OLE GIRL. CONGRATULATIONS. >> GOD BLESS YOU GUYS. LOVE YOU LIKE A SISTER.

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YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS LIVE. THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN STREAM ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM MEMPHIS I’M STEVE OSUNSAMI. WHEREVER PINOCCHIO. >>> I LOVED “SNOW WHITE.” IT WAS SO GOOD. I REMEMBER GOING TO SEE “BAMBI”

AND “FANTASHIA”. >> FOR ALL WHO COME TO THIS HAPPY PLACE, WELCOME. >>> TONIGHT, THE MEMORIES AND THE MAGIC, 100 YEARS OF DISNEY. >> HE PROBABLY, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IS THE MOST FAMOUS NAME IN THE WORLD. >> YOU WOULD GO THROUGH THOSE

DOORS, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD JUST WENT AWAY. >> GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED OUR STORIES WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY, THEY’RE SHARED EXPERIENCES. >> DISNEY IS THE ULTIMATE STORY TELLER. >> STORIES THROUGH THE LENS OF HOPE AND JOY AND LOVE.

>> NOW THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD. >> I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO DANCE, SO I JUST FAKED IT. I FAKED IT PRETTY GOOD. >> WHAT IT TOOK TO MAKE WALT DISNEY’S DREAMS COME THROUGH. FROM MOVIES. >> “LET IT GO” CHANGED THE WHOLE

MOVIE. >> TO MUSICALS. >> THAT COMPLETELY CHANGED MY LIFE. >> TELEVISION. >> LOVE ME. >> TO THEME PARKS. >> HOW DID WE DO THAT? >> AND EXPERIENCES AROUND THE WORLD. >> PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN IS THE BEST RIDE I HAVE BEEN ON.

>> IT IS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS YEARS TO COME. >> I’M SO PROUD, I THINK I’LL BUST. >> CHALLENGE ACCEPTS. LET’S GO. ♪ ♪ >> FOR 100 YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN WISHING. >> I WISH THAT MY LITTLE PINOCCHIO MIGHT BE A REAL BOY.

>> I WISH THEY COULD STAY HERE WITH US FOR ALWAYS. >> GENIE, I WISH FOR YOU TO MAKE ME A PRINCE. >> I WISH. >> SO IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THIS IS THE MOVIE ARRIVING AS DISNEY CELEBRATES ITS 100th ANNIVERSARY.

>> I PLAY ASHA IN DISNEY’S “WISH.” ♪ >> SHE’S GROWN UP TO BELIEVE THAT ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE AND THAT YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE. >> ALL OUR FILM IN SOME WAYS AND CONNECTS THEM. >> YOU KNOW, THERE IS REALLY NO GREATER POWER THAN A PERSON WITH

A TRUE WISH IN THEIR HEART. IT IS SOMETHING THAT DRIVES THEM. IT’S ALSO WE KNOW THAT INVOLVES A LOT OF HARD WORK. THIS FILM CELEBRATES THAT INSPIRATION AND ALSO THAT HARD WORK. >> THAT INSPIRING WORK STARTED 100 YEARS AGO WHEN A 21-YEAR-OLD ANIMATOR NAMED WALT DISNEY CAME

TO LOS ANGELES FROM KANSAS CITY, WITH A WISH IN HIS HEART TO BECOME A PART OF THE MOTION PICTURE BUSINESS. >> I ARRIVED HERE IN AUGUST 1923 WITH $40 IN MY POCKET AND A COAT AND A PAIR OF TROUSERS THAT DIDN’T MATCH.

>> AND HE’S GOING TO TRY TO FIND A JOB, AND HE FAILS. >> I TRIED TO GET A JOB IN HOLLYWOOD WORKING WITH THE PICTURE BUSINESS SO I COULD LEARN. IT WAS NOTHING OPEN. >> DISNEY HAD A LOT OF SETBACKS AND FAILURES STARTING OUT, SO IT

WASN’T LIKE HE WAS THIS MITUS THAT HE WOULD LATER BE DESCRIBED AS. >> I THOUGHT THE CARTOON BUSINESS WAS ESTABLISHED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THERE IS NO CHANCE TO BREAK INTO IT. >> SO WALT TAKES MATTERS INTO HIS OWN HANDS, LITERALLY. >> WALT WANTED TO CREATE

SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING FOR WISH HE COULD MAKE A NAME IN THE ANIMATION BUSINESS. >> HE PRODUCED A SHORT CALLED “ALICE’S WONDERLAND,” TAKING A REAL LIVE GIRL AND PLACING HER IN AN ANIMATED WORLD. IT WAS ACTUALLY WALT APPEARING IN HIS FIRST CARTOON.

>> THE ALICE COMEDIES ARE THE FIRST MARKED SUCCESS THAT WALT HAS. >> THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF DISNEY DATES BACK TO THE DAY WHEN WALT, WORKING WITH HIS BROTHER ROY DISNEY, SIGNS A DEAL TO DO 12 ALICE COMEDIES. >> THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

OFFICIALLY BEGINS ON OCTOBER 16th, 1923. >> WALT HAS MODEST PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS, AND HE ALSO FINDS HAPPINESS IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE. >> LILIAN BOUNDS WAS HIRED AS A SECRETARY TO DO A WHOLE RANGE OF THINGS FOR THE LITTLE STUDIO. SOON ROMANCE ENSUED. >> AND THEY ARE EVENTUALLY MARRIED.

>> BUT WALT SOON SUFFERS A CAREER SETBACK. >> THESE ALICE COMEDIES RUN OUT OF GAS. HIS DISTRIBUTOR, THEY WANT A NEW KIND OF CARTOON. SO WALT HAS TO CREATE A NEW CHARACTER. >> THAT FIRST CHARACTER HE CREATES MIGHT NOT BE THE ONE THAT PEOPLE ARE THINKING OF.

IT’S A RABBIT NAMED OSWALD. >> OSWALD, THE LUCKY RABBIT. >> THIS IS THE WALT DISNEY ANIMATION RESEARCH LIBRARY. >> IN OUR COLLECTION, HE HAS OVER 65 MILLION PIECES OF ART WORK. >> THIS IS A CLEAN-UP ANIMATION DRAWING FROM THE WORLD OS WALT

THE LUCKY RABBIT SHORT TITLED “TROLLY TROUBLES.” ♪ >> IT WAS A VERY PLAYFUL, FUN CHARACTER. >> THEY COULD PULL HIS LEGS OFF. HE COULD PULL HIS EARS OFF. HE COULD DO WHATEVER HE NEEDED TO DO FOR WHATEVER THE STORY WAS. >> OSWALD HAS A FAIRLY

SUCCESSFUL RUN. >> BUT THEN HE GETS SNARED BY A BUSINESS DEAL THAT HE HAD MADE. AND THROUGH SOME CONTRACTUAL, WE’LL CALL IT, COMPLICATION, HE WASN’T ABLE TO HOLD ON TO THE RIGHTS TO OSWALD. >> HE FELT THAT HE HAD CREATED THE CHARACTER AND ALSO THE

PERSONALITY OF OSWALD. >> IT WAS A DEVASTATING MOMENT FOR WALT IN HIS LIFE, SOMETHING THAT REALLY SHOOK HIM TO THE CORE. BUT AS WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT WALT, WALT WAS AN UNBELIEVABLY RESILIENT PERSON. >> WHEN HE HAD A PITFALL, HE

ROSE TO THE OCCASION BECAUSE IT IS NOT LIKE HE DIDN’T EXPECT THAT IN LIFE. HE NEVER ASSUMED IT WOULD ALL BE EASY. >> WALT DISNEY HAD A VERY DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD. >> MY GRANDPA HAD VERY HUMBLE BEGINNINGS, AND HE NEVER FORGOT THAT.

>> HE WOULD WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AT 3:30 TO DELIVER NEWSPAPERS. >> WALT’S DAD DISTILLED THE WORK ETHIC TO NOT JUST THROW THE PAPERS, BUT PUT IT BEHIND THE STORM DOOR. HE HAD THIS INCREDIBLE SENSE IMBEDDED IN HIM, THIS WORK ETHIC.

>> DOWN BUT NOT OUT, WALT IS DETERMINED TO EARN OUTRIGHT THE NEXT CHARACTER HE CREATES, A MOUSE, NOT A RABBIT, OF SIMILAR STATUE. >> I ALWAYS FOOLED AROUND WITH LITTLE MICE. THEY WERE ALWAYS CUTE CHARACTERS. SO I DECIDED IT WOULD BE THE MOUSE.

AND THEN THE NAME CAME. I HAD MORTIMUR FIRST, AND MY WIFE SAID NO. I TRIED MICKEY, AND THAT WAS IT. >> THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ARTIFACT IN ANIMATION HISTORY. THIS IS THE EARLIEST KNOWN DRAWING OF MICKEY MOUSE. >> WALT AND THE BRILLIANT ANIMATOR OF I-WORKS WORKED

TOGETHER TO ANIMATE MICKEY’S SHORTS. AFTER MONTHS OF REJECTION, WALT MAKES A DEAL WITH A LITTLE KNOWN DISTRIBUTOR. MICKEY HOUSE MAKES HIS FIRST APPEARANCE IN “STEAM BOAT WILLY,” THE FIRST CARTOON EVER WITH SYNCHRONIZED SOUND. >> NOW, THE EARLY SIN SIN CROW,T A POTENT AND POWERFUL

COMBINATION THAT IS WHEN ANIMATION COMES TO LIFE AND BRINGS US A WORLD WE COULD NEVER HAVE DREAMED OF. >> IT MADE SUCH A SMASH HIT BECAUSE OF THE SYNCHRONIZED SOUND. AND ALSO BECAUSE OF PERSONALITY OF THE CHARACTER IN THE ANIMATION.

>> AND THE TIMING IS RIGHT FOR A CHARACTER LIKE MICKEY MOUSE. HE COMES INTO PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. PEOPLE WANT ESCAPISM. THEY WANT POSITIVITY. >> WELL, MICKEY MOUSE IS THE ULTIMATE OPTIMIST. YOU CANNOT DEFEAT MICKEY MOUSE, WHICH IS CERTAINLY A CHARACTERISTIC THAT WALT DISNEY

HIMSELF HAD. WALT ALWAYS SAID THAT MICKEY MOUSE WAS HIS ALTER EGO. WALT EVEN DID MICKEY’S VOICE EARLY ON. >> YOU DON’T WANT TO GET THROWN OFF, DO YOU? BE QUIET, AND I’LL LET YOU OUT. >> WHAT’S MICKEY? AND MICKEY IS WALT. >> YOU COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED

WHAT MICKEY MOUSE WOULD BE. YOU COULD NEVER IMAGINE THAT HE WOULD BE THE MOST UBIQUITOUS FIGURE IN AMERICAN CULTURE. >> I AM EXCITED TO SEE MICKEY. IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO MEET A WORLD LEADER WHO HAS BIGGER EARS THAN ME. >> BUT MICKEY MOUSE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR WALT DISNEY.

IT’S NOT ENOUGH FOR HIM CREATIVELY, SO HE COMES UP WITH AN IDEA. THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT IN THE MYSTERY OF ANIMATION. >> EVERYBODY SAID, WALT, YOU’RE CRAZY. >> MAYBE IN HOLLYWOOD LAUGHED AT DISNEY SAYING THIS WAS THE FILM

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>> AND, SO, WALT WANTS TO MAKE SOMETHING THAT’S NEVER BEEN DONE IN AMERICAN CINEMA BEFORE, THE FIRST FEATURE LENGTH ANIMATED MOVIE EVER MADE. >> AND HE HAS AN IDEA OF WHAT AUDIENCES MIGHT LIKE. EVERYBODY KNEW SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES.

IT WAS A VERY POPULAR GRIM’S FAIRY TALE. >> I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A PERFECT STORY. >> IN 1934, HE BRINGS VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY IN THE STUDIO TOGETHER. AND WALT DISNEY PROCEEDS TO TELL THE STORY OF SNOW WHITE. IT GOES ON FOR HOURS. HE ACTS EVERY PART.

HE DOES ALL THE VOICES. >> IT’S A MAGIC WISHING WELL. >> BUT EVERYBODY HAD BEEN TELLING WALT THAT THIS ISN’T GOING TO WORK. >> EVERYBODY SAID ALL THOSE BRIGHT COLORS THEY HAD SEEN IN THE FAST MOVING SHORTS WERE GOING TO HURT YOUR EYES.

>> AN ANIMATOR WORKED ON SNOW WHITE. >> WALT WAS WISE ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WITH “SNOW WHITE,” YOU COULDN’T HAVE A GAG EVERY FIVE SECONDS. HE WANTED REALISM WITH “SNOW WHITE.” IT HAD TO BE BELIEVABILITY. >> BUT WALT FACES A BIG CHALLENGE EARLY ON.

>> OF COURSE, THE ARTISTS AT THAT TIME WERE REALLY UP TO WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO GET AT SNOW WHITE. >> BACK WHEN THEY WERE STARTING TO EXPERIMENT MOVING HUMAN CHARACTERS, THERE WAS A RUBBER HOSE ANIMATION, AN EMBARRASSING ATTEMPT AT HUMAN ANIMATION.

>> HE NEEDED LIVE ACTION REFERENCE MODELS. >> THE MODEL FOR SNOW WHITE WAS A WOMAN BY THE NAME OF MARGE. >> THANKS TO HER MOVEMENT, HER SENSIBILITIES, THE ARTISTS WERE ABLE TO TRANSFORM HER INTO A MUCH MORE LIFE LIKE, BELIEVABLE CHARACTER.

>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WALT DISNEY REALIZED ANIMATION COULD DO WAS THAT IT COULD REALLY DEVELOP INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES. >> THIS IS A DEPARTURE FROM THE ORIGINAL GRI M’s FAIRY TALE, WHERE THE SEVEN DWARVES WERE IDENTICAL AND HAD NO NAMES.

>> THEY’RE BATTING AROUND ALL SORTS OF NAMES. FLABBY, AWFUL BURPEE. >> I’M GLAD THEY DIDN’T GO WITH BALDY EITHER. >> STUFFY, FLABU. >> THEY REALLY SETTLED ON CHARACTERISTICS THAT EVERYBODY HAS. >> THIS FUNNY FACE IS SNEEZY. HE HAS HAY FEVER.

>> SO GRUMPY MOVES IN A GRUMPY WAY. >> WHEN BASHFUL IS BASHFUL, HE’S REALLY BASHFUL. >> THAT’S WHAT MAKES THEM ALIVE. YOU’RE EVEN DEERED TO THEM FOR THAT. (. >> WHEN WALT BEGAN “SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES,” IT WAS A SMALL LITTLE STUDIO, AND HE KNEW

EVERYONE BY NAME. BUT THROUGH THE COURSE OF CREATING “SNOW WHITE,” THE NUMBERS GREW, QUADRUPLING IN SIZE. >> WALT TAKES CINEMATOGRAPHY TO NEW HEIGHTS WITH THE MULTI-PLANE CAMERA, AN INVENTION CREATED AT HIS STUDIO. >> BASICALLY IT IS A CAMERA WITH SEVERAL LAYERS OF GLASS.

WHEN THE CAMERA TRAVELS THROUGH IT, IT FEELS THREE-DIMENSIONAL. AND NOBODY ANYWHERE WAS TRYING THAT SORT OF EXPERIMENTATION. >> BUT AS PRODUCTION GETS UNDERWAY, THE GOAL OF HAVING “SNOW WHITE” FINISHED BY CHRISTMAS OF ’37 IS A PIPELINE. IT IS RUNNING BEHIND SCHEDULE.

AND MUCH OF THAT IS DUE TO WALT’S RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF PERFECTION. >> AT ONE POINT WALT DISNEY WAS WATCHING SOME ROUGH FOOTAGE, AND HE SAID, I DON’T LIKE THE FINGER ON GRUMPY. REANIMATE IT. WALT’S STANDARDS ADDED TO THE COST. >> THEY ORIGINALLY THINK THEY

COULD MAKE THIS MOVIE FOR $250,000. BUT THE BUDGET IS APPROACHING $1.5 MILLION. >> AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE $1.5 MILLION. THEY HAD TO GO AND BORROW MONEY. >> WE HAD THE FAMILY FORTUNE. WE HAD EVERYTHING WRAPPED UP IN “SNOW WHITE”. >> MAYBE IN HOLLYWOOD LAUGHED AT DISNEY.

>> THIS WAS THE FILM THAT WAS GOING TO BANKRUPT THE WALT DISNEY STUDIO. >> WE TAKE YOU NOW TO THE WORLD PREMIER OF WALT DISNEY’S KWLT SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES”. >> THAT SHOWS YOU THE ANTICIPATION OF “SNOW WHITE.”

BUT THERE WAS ALSO ANTICIPATION AND NERVES FOR WALT DISNEY HIMSELF. >> WE’RE HAPPY THESE PEOPLE ARE TURNING OUT. I HOPE THEY’RE NOT TOO DISAPPOINTED. ♪ >> YOU HAVE TO IMAGINE YOURSELF SITTING THERE AT THIS FABULOUS PREMIER, AND THE FIRST SHOT OF

SNOW WHITE, THANKS TO THAT SPECIAL CAMERA WALT DISNEY IS USING, TAKES YOU IN. YOUR MIND IS BLOWN. YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. ♪ IT’S OFF TO WORK WE GO. >> THE NIGHT OF THE PREMIER, WHEN I SAW THIS VAST AUDIENCE OF HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS AND MOGULS

LAUGHING AT THE RIGHT PLACES. >> BUT THE QUESTION WAS, IF IT CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH, THAT’S FINE. BUT CAN IT MAKE YOU CRY? >> WHEN SNOW WHITE WAS LAYING ON THE FUNERAL BEAR WITH THE DWARVES IN TEARS, I HEARD PEOPLE BLOWING THEIR NOSES. AND THEY WERE SITTING ALL AROUND US.

AND WHEN THE PRINCE KISSES SNOW WHITE, AND SHE REVIVES AND THE MUSIC SWELLS UP — >> I DON’T THINK THEY WERE AWARE THAT SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS AN ANIMATED CARTOON CAN ACTUALLY TOUCH THEM THAT DEEPLY. BUT IT DID. >> IT’S A HUGE, MASSIVE SUCCESS.

WHAT WAS DISNEY’S FOLLY IS NOW DISNEY’S TRIUMPH, AND IT BECOMES THE HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE OF THE SOUND ERA TO THAT POINT. THE INDUSTRY IS SO IMPRESSED WALT DISNEY IS GIVEN AN HONORARY OSCAR. >> AND SEVEN LITTLE OSCARS. >> IS IT BRIGHT AND SHINY?

>> I’M SO PROUD, I THINK I’LL BUST. >> AND, SO, THE MOVIE INDUSTRY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. AND NEITHER WILL THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY. >> HE WENT ON SUBSEQUENTLY TO DO “PINOCCHIO” AND ALL THESE GREAT ANIMATIONS. >> ALL THESE RISKS THAT WALT

TOOK, THEY GAVE US WHAT WE HAVE NOW. >> FLOUNDER, HURRY UP. >> IT IS STILL HARD FOR ME TO FATHOM THAT I’M ARIEL. >> YOU ARE NOT GETTING COLD FINS NOW, ARE YOU? >> WALT’S VISION IS THAT FOUNDATION THAT WE ALL STAND ON

TO CREATE THESE BELOVED CHARACTERS FOR THE AUDIENCES. >> AND EVEN TODAY AT THE COMPANY’S CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, LOOK AT WHAT’S BUILT INTO THE ARCHITECTURE. >> THE DWY’RE HOLDING UP THE COMPANY, THE CHARACTERS UPON WHOM THIS EMPIRE WAS BUILT. >> SO JUST AS WALT INVENTED

FEATURE LENGTH ANIMATION IN AMERICA, HE’S ABOUT TO TAKE ANOTHER HUGE GAMBLE, HOPING TO COMPLETELY REINVENT THE AMUSEMENT PARK. >> YOU WOULD GO THROUGH THOSE DOORS AT DISNEY LAND THROUGH THE GATES, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD JUST WENT AWAY. >> AND, YET, NOBODY BELIEVED

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EXPERIENCE THAT WAS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED. IF YOU GO TO AVENGERS CAMP IN DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE, OF COURSE YOU WILL GET TO MEET SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE AVENGERS. AND IF YOU LOOK UP, YOU WILL SEE SPIDERMAN SWINGING OVER THE CAMPUS. >> OH, YEAH. SO SORRY!

>> HOW DID HE DO THAT? >> PEOPLE USUALLY HAVE NO IDEA THAT THERE WAS A ROBOT INVOLVED. THIS IS A GOOD FRIEND. WE CALL HIM MARK 2. >> THIS IS THE ROBOT THAT REALLY INFORMED THE FINAL DECISION FOR WHAT BECAME SPIDERMAN THAT’S NOW

BEING THROWN 65 FEET IN THE AIR AT DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE. >> WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. AND I THINK THAT’S THE WAY WALT WOULD HAVE WANTED IT. >> MIND BLOWING, MAGICAL ATTRACTIONS WITH YOUR FAVORITE STORIES AND CHARACTERS COMING TO LIFE. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A HALLMARK

OF DISNEYLAND. BUT THE INITIAL IDEA OF THE PARK STARTED WITH A SIMPLE DREAM THAT WALT HAD FOR HIS DAUGHTERS. >> I FELT THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING BUILT WHERE THE PARENTS AND THE CHILDREN COULD HAVE FUN TOGETHER. >> AS WALT BEGAN TO CONCEPTUALIZE WHAT HE WANTED TO

DO WITH DISNEYLAND, HE LOOKED AT OTHER AMUSEMENT PARKS. >> DURING THE 1940s, THE MOST AMERICAN AMUSEMENT PARKS WERE THESE CONEY ISLAND TYPE ADVENTURES. WALT WAS DESCRIBE THEM AS CROWDED OR CLUTTERED. IN 1951 WALT DISNEY VISITS GARDEN IN DENMARK. >> WALT LOVES THE LOOK OF THIS

EUROPEAN AMUSEMENT PARK, THE LANDSCAPING, THE BRIGHT COLORS AND HOW CLEAN IT IS. >> WALT SEEING THAT AND UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS MIGHT BE A WAY TO TRANSFORM HOW AMUSEMENTS WORK IN THE UNITED STATES. >> SO IN 1954, WALT BUYS 164 ACRES OF ORANGE GROVES IN

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. >> WALT WAS A MAN OF MANY OBSESSIONS. HE WAS ALWAYS THINKING HOW DO I MAKE THIS THE BEST SPACE THAT I CAN POSSIBLY MAKE IT? >> WALT LIKED THE IDEA OF A SINGLE ENTRANCE TO DISNEYLAND. HERE GUESTS START THEIR VISIT

WITH A STROLL UP MAIN STREET TO A CENTRAL HUB. FROM THE HUB, YOU CAN THEN DECIDE WHAT LAND YOU ARE GOING TO VISIT. THIS IS KNOWN AS THE HUB AND SPOKE LAYOUT. AND SINCE THIS IS A STORY, WALT TAPS THE BEST CRAFTSMAN HOLLYWOOD HAS TO OFFER.

>> A LOT OF THE EARLY DESIGNERS FOR DISNEYLAND CAME FROM MOTION PICTURES, CREATING SETS FOR LIVE ACTION MOVIES. THEY HAD DESIGNED VICTORIAN MAIN STREETS AND JUNGLES AND WESTERN FORTS. AND, SO, THOSE PEOPLE KIND OF KNEW WHAT TO DO RIGHT OFF THE BAT.

THEY DIDN’T NEED A LOT OF TRAINING. >> IN ONE OF THE LAST LIVING IMAGINEERS THAT CAN TALK ABOUT THE CREATION OF DISNEYLAND IS 92-YEAR-OLD BOB GER. >> I STARTED IN 1954, THE YEAR BEFORE THE PARK OPENED WITH THE VERY FIRST JOB WALT GAVE ME,

WHICH WAS DESIGNING THE BODY FOR THE LITTLE CAR. I WAS CHARGED WITH PROVIDING NINE CARS FOR THE PARADE. >> OPENING DAY OF DISNEYLAND WAS JULY 17th, 1955. >> THAT DAY WALT RODE INTO THE PARK ON A TRAIN. A TRAIN THAT’S STILL OPERATING AT DISNEYLAND.

>> MY NAME IS MARK GONZALES, AND I AM A STEAM TRAIN OPERATOR. BEFORE I GOT MY JOB HERE, I READ THROUGH A BIOGRAPHY THAT I GOT AND REALIZED HE LIKED TRAINS. >> HE WOULD BUILD THEM HIMSELF, FIRST IN MINIATURE FORM HE SET UP IN HIS OWN BACKYARD.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, AT DISNEYLAND. >> HE WOULD GET INTO THE CAB OF HIS LOCOMOTIVE AND JUST CIRCLE THE PARK. A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THEY WERE BEING PULLED BY WALT DISNEY, TO BE IN THE SAME SEAT WALT WAS IN, TO

OPERATE THE SAME TROTLE, THAT’S SOMETHING MAGICAL. THAT’S REALLY NICE. >> ALL WHO COME TO THIS HAPPY PLACE, WELCOME. DISNEYLAND IS YOUR LAND. >> LATER DURING THE PRODUCTION OF “MARY POPPINS,” WALT TOURED THE PARK WITH HIS LEADING LADY. >> WHILE I WAS IN HOLLYWOOD,

WALT SAID, I WOULD LOVE TO SHOW U DISNEYLAND BECAUSE I HAD NEVER BEEN. TO BE SITTING NEXT TO WALT DISNEY DRIVING AROUND WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE. PEOPLE KEPT SAYING GOD BLESS YOU, WALT, AND THANK YOU, WALT, FOR ALL YOU DO. >> BUT WALT IS NEVER SATISFIED

AND WANTS TO BRING IT TO THE EAST COAST. >> THIS IS WHERE THE EARLY PLANNING IS TAKING PLACE FOR OUR SO-CALLED DISNEY WORLD PROJECT. >> SO IN THE EARLY ’60s, HE SELECTS CENTRAL FLORIDA AS HOME TO HIS NEXT BIG DREAM.

>> IT WAS 27,440 ACRES, TWICE THE SIZE OF NEW YORK. >> IT WAS 27,000 ACRES OF SWAMP. AND PEOPLE ALL THOUGHT WE WERE CRAZY TO DO THAT. >> BUT SADLY, WALT DOES NOT LIVE TO SEE HIS DREAM REALIZED. >> WE HAVE A BULLETIN FROM

BURBANK, WHICH IS GOING TO SADDEN THE ENTIRE WORLD. WALT DISNEY DEAD AT THE AGE OF 65 THIS MORNING. >> THAT WAS A GREAT SENSE OF LOSS, OF A FRIEND, OF A MONUMENTAL GENTLEMAN. HIS DREAMS WERE LARGER THAN MOST PEOPLE’S. >> ATTENTION IS FOCUSED ON ALL

THAT LAND IN FLORIDA. >> AFTER WALT DIED IN ’66, IT WAS A BIG DECISION FOR ROY DISNEY, WHO WAS NAMED THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE COMPANY, TO SAY GO. >> THE RESPONSIBILITY IS NOW OURS TO CARRY OUT WALT DISNEY’S IMAGINATIVE PLANS.

>> IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE IT ACTUALLY OPEN AND JUST SEE SOME OF THE EXPRESSIONS ON PEOPLE’S FACES. ♪ >> WALT DISNEY CAME TO CENTRAL FLORIDA WHEN IT WAS NOTHING, AND HE PUT IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE LARGEST TOURIST DESTINATION ON THE PLANET.

>> AND BACK IN ANAHEIM, DISNEYLAND HAS EXPANDED TO TWO PARKS, ADDING DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE IN 2001. WALT DISNEY HAD A KNACK FOR DOING THE UNEXPECTED. AND NEXT HIS BELIEF IN THE POWER OF TELEVISION WOULD LAUNCH A WHOLE NEW CHAPTER FOR THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY.

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Wherever wherever the story is, we’re going to take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live. ♪ >>> ARE YOU ASSOCIATED IN SOME WAY WITH SHOW BUSINESS? >> YES. >> ARE YOU BELOVED BY MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF CHILDREN? >> THE ANSWER TO THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE YES.

>> I THINK IT’S WALT DISNEY. >> YOU’RE RIGHT. >> WALT DISNEY OFTEN MADE APPEARANCES ON POPULAR SHOWS LIKE “WHAT’S MY LINE.” QUICK TO GRASP THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUE AND POWER OF TELEVISION AS A WAY TO MARKET HIMSELF AND HIS CREATIONS.

>> NOT ONLY DID HE UNDERSTAND IT, HE BUILT THE COMPANY ON TELEVISION. >> BUT WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW IS HOW SALVELY WALT WOULD USE THIS NEW MEDIUM TO BUILD HIS THEME PARK IN THE ’50s.

>> AND THE WAY HE DID THAT WAS TO MAKE A DEAL WITH ABC. >> DISNEYLAND WILL COMBINE THE FACILITIES AND CREATIVE MINDS OF TWO ORGANIZATIONS, THE DISNEY STUDIOS AND THE AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY. >> DISNEY SAID I WILL GIVE YOU TELEVISION CONTENT, AND YOU GIVE

US THE MONEY TO FINISH DISNEYLAND. >> BUT WALT SEES SOMETHING ELSE OF VALUE IN THE DEAL BEYOND ABC’S HALF A MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT. NOT ONLY DOES HE GET THE MONEY, BUT HE ALSO GETS TO PROMOTE DISNEYLAND THROUGH THE SHOW THAT HE DOES.

>> SO ON JULY 17th, 1955, WALT HOSTED A VERY SPECIAL TELEVISION SHOW ON ABC THAT HELPED OPEN THE PARK AND REALLY INTRODUCE THE FINISHED PRODUCT. >> IN THIS TIMELESS LAND OF ENCHANTMENT, MAGIC AND MAKE BELIEVE ARE REBORN AND FAIRY TALES COMEREHEARSALS, 29

CAMERAS, A CAST OF ALL STARS. >> RONNY REAGAN, COME ON IN. >> HOW ABOUT THAT SON OF YOURS? I HAVE BEEN BUTTERING UP TO HIM ALL MORNING. >> THERE WERE TECHNICAL GLITCHES ALL OVER THE PLACE. >> HE LOOKS ALL CONFUSED.

>> AND THEN IT’S TIME FOR ABC TO RECOUP, AND THEY’RE GOING TO DO IT WITH GROUND BREAKING DISNEY BRANDED CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING. >> AND SOME OF THAT CONTENT GOES ON TO COME ENORMOUSLY INFLUENTIAL FROM A POP CULTURE STANDPOINT. >> AND NOW YOUR HOST, WALT DISNEY.

>> YOU KNOW YOU ARE ON TELEVISION? YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT TELEVISION, DO YOU? >> SUNDAY NIGHT MEANT “WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR” WITH WALT D DISNEY. >> HE WAS A GOOD SALESMAN. YEAH, HE COULD GET YOU EXCITED ABOUT ANYTHING. THAT WAS PART OF HIS CHARM, I

THINK, HIS — HIS INFECTIOUS ENTHUSIASM ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING. >> THIS IS THE CAROUSEL THEATER HOST. >> BUT NOTHING IS MORE SYNONYMOUS WITH DISNEY TELEVISION THAN WHAT COMES NEXT. ♪ WHO’S THE LEADER OF THE CLUB THAT’S MADE FOR YOU AND ME

♪ M-I-C-K-E-Y. >> EVERY KID IN AMERICA WATCHED THAT SHOW. >> THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB BECOMES WILDLY POPULAR. IT HAS SONG AND DANCE NUMBERS. IT ALSO HAS THE STARS OF THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. YOUNG KIDS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO THE CAMERAS. >> NOW, WE PROUDLY PRESENT

SYMPHONY VERSUS JAZZ. >> HE WANTED TO SIT WITH THEM AND ESSENTIALLY EXPERIENCE THE SAME JOY THEY WERE EXPERIENCING AND PROJECT TO AN AUDIENCE. >> THEY ALL WEAR THE HATS. THEY ALL HAVE THEIR NAMES RIGHT HERE. >> NANCY. >> BOBBY. >> ANNETTE.

>> MY MOM TOLD ME A STORY ONCE THAT I WAS SO CRAZY ABOUT THE SHOW THAT SHE CAUGHT ME BEHIND THE TELEVISION UNCREWING THE BACK OF THE TELEVISION. I WAS THINKING THAT IF YOU GOT INTO THE BACK OF THE TV YOU COULD GET INTO THE SHOW.

>> THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB OF THAT YEAR TAPPED INTO SOMETHING THAT WOULD BECOME A HALLMARK, YOUNG PEOPLE ON JOURNEYS OF FRIENDSHIP, DISCOVERY AND FUN. AND IT REALLY BECOMES THE SECRET SAUCE DECADES LATER WHEN THEY LAUNCH A DISNEY CHANNEL, AN ALL NEW “MICKEY MOUSE CLUB.”

>> ALL THESE GIANT STARS CAME OUT OF THE “MICKEY MOUSE CLUB”. >> JUSTIN. >> J.T. >> BRITTNEY. >> CHRISTINA. >> THE ONE THING THAT THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB DIDN’T LACK WAS TALENT. YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY HEARD OF THE JUSTINS AND THE BRITTNEYS.

>> THEY CALL ME AIR BRITTNEY. >> RYAN GOSLINGS, KERRY RUSSELL. >> CHRISTINA AGALARA. >> THE SHOWS THAT DISNEY CHANNEL DOES AFTER 2000 UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CLUB IS. THE CLUB IS SCHOOL. >> THE WHOLE CLASS GOT MY BACK ON THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. >> I’LL DO IT.

I WILL RUN FOR CLASS PRESIDENT. >> HI. I AM THE VOICE OF KIM POSSIBLE FOR DISNEY CHANNEL. >> I HAVE NEVER BEEN CAPTURED THAT FAST. IT’S ALMOST AS EMBARRASSING AS CHEERLEADING PRACTICE, RON. >> I DO REMEMBER HAVING CHATS ABOUT TWHAT A TWEEN WAS.

I THINK THAT WORD WAS A NEW PHENOMENON TO IDENTIFY NOT JUST CHILDREN BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE FEMALE TWEEN DEMOGRAPHIC. >> ONCE AGAIN CHEERLEADING SAVED MY LIFE. >> THAT BECAME SOMETHING THAT WAS SO VITAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAMMING BLOCK.

>> AND THE YOUNG GIRLS DEPICTED WERE FAR FROM DAMSELS IN DISTRESS. >> I WAS BEING POLITE. I HAPPEN TO HANDLE CONFLICT JUST FINE. >> THESE SHOWS DEPICTED STRONG, CONFIDENT FEMALE CHARACTERS THAT DIDN’T NEED SAVING. >> THEY WERE STARS. THEY WERE TREATED AS STARS, AND

THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING. >> WHEN DID YOU REALIZE THAT YOU WERE FAMOUS, REALLY FAMOUS? >> IT WAS THE DAY AFTER THE SHOW CAME OUT, AND SOMEONE HAD STOPPED ME LIKE, OH, MY GOSH. THERE’S MILEY CYRUS. I WANT HER AUTOGRAPH. >> ONCE THEY FOUND OUT I WAS HANNAH MONTANA, NOBODY WOULD

TREAT ME THE SAME. >> FROM 2000 ONWARD, THEY WERE ON THE ROLE. “HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL,” EVERYTHING THEY LEARNED ABOUT TWEENS AND MUSIC AND CHARACTERS COMES TOGETHER FOR A FILM THAT NOBODY CAN STOP WATCHING. >> THE MOMENT THAT I KNEW THAT

“HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL” WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING SPECIAL WAS WHEN WE WERE IN THE GYMNASIUM AND WE WERE FILMING “WE’RE ON THIS TOGETHER.” AND I SAID, FOLKS, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A MONSTER HERE. GET READY FOR YOUR LIVES TO CHANGE. AND, BOY, DID THEY.

WE WERE LIKE THE TAYLOR SWIFT OF, YOU KNOW, THE MOMENT. >> “HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL” WAS ABLE TO REACH SO MANY KIDS. I JUST THINK GIVING KIDS HOPE IS AN AMAZING THING TO DO. >> I THINK THAT’S THE MOST GRATIFYING THING ABOUT ALL OF IT, HONESTLY.

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>> FROM ORLANDO TO TOKYO, THERE ARE ACTUALLY 12 DISNEY PARKS AT 6 DISNEY RESORTS LOCATED AROUND THE WORLD, SO KATIE HAS HER WORK CUT OUT FOR HER. MICHAEL ISNER BECOMES THE CEO OF DISNEY AND BRINGS OVER A WHOLE NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM. >> ISN’T THAT RIGHT, VICKY?

>> HE LOVED THE PARKS AND FIGURED IF TWO MILLION TOURISTS ARE COMING OVER FROM EUROPE TO GO TO THE DISNEY PARKS IN AMERICA, WHY NOT GIVE THEM A PARK IN EUROPE SO THEY DON’T HAVE TO TRAVEL THAT FAR? >> WE DECIDED BETWEEN SPAIN AND

FRANCE, SPAIN SEEMED A LITTLE LESS IN THE CENTER. SO EURO DISNEY OR DISNEYLAND PARIS OPENED. ♪ >> MY NAME IS DORIS. I WAS THE EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND THE PRODUCER. I WORKED ON ALL THE PARKS AROUND THE WORLD. AND WHENEVER YOU DO GO TO

ANOTHER CULTURE, IT IS ONLY RESPECTFUL TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BRIDGES OVER, CERTAIN STORY ELEMENTS THAT THE DISNEY STORY TELLING HAS. >> THE CAST OF DISNEYLAND PARIS MEANS BASICALLY SLEEPING BEAUTY CASTLE. THE ART YOU FIND IN THE CASTLE AT DISNEYLAND PARIS RELIED ON

CRAFTS PEOPLE FROM FRANCE THAT MAKE STAINED GLASS, SO IT IS AN AUTHENTIC FANTASY CASTLE. AS HEAD OF WALT DISNEY INTERNATIONAL, BOB IGER OVER SAW THE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION OF HONG KONG DISNEYLAND WITH AN EYE TOWARD MAINLAND CHINA. BY 2016, HE WAS DISNEY’S CEO,

CUTTING THE RED RIBBON TO OPEN SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND AND STILL SAYS IT IS ONE OF HIS TOP ACHIEVEMENTS. >> WE DIDN’T WANT TO JUST BUILT IT HOW IT EXISTED IN OTHER PLACES IN THE WORLD AND PUT IT RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF SHANGHAI.

>> I’M AT THE GRAND OPENING ON THE TALLEST, LARGEST CASTLE DISNEY HAS EVER BUILT. >> YOU WERE MANDATED TO KIND OF BREAK THE MOLD. IT WAS A MAGIC KINGDOM. BUT WE WERE ASKED TO TRY TO REALLY DREAM UP NEW CONCEPTS THAT ACTUALLY MATCHES THE CULTURE.

>> WE WANTED TO BUILD SOMETHING THAT FELT LIKE IT BELONGED THERE. AND IT BELONGED TO THE PEOPLE OF CHINA WHO VISITED. >> ONE OF THE THINGS I’M MOST PROUD OF AND LOVE SO MUCH IS USING TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE THE EXPERIENCE SO MUCH BETTER, SO

MUCH MORE IMMERSIVE, AND THAT’S WHAT WE DID AT SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND WITH THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ATTRACTION. >> WE WERE TERRIFIED TO DESIGN A NEW PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN RIDE BECAUSE PIRATES WAS WALT’S ATTRACTION. IT IS THE LAST ONE WALT WORKED ON PERSONALLY.

>> THIS MINIATURE HERE IS TAKEN FROM A SKETCH. WE MAKE THE SKETCHES TO FIGURE OUT THE TYPES AND THE CHARACTERS. >> WALT WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. IT WAS ENVISIONED AS A WALK-THROUGH EXPERIENCE. >> WE’RE WORKING ON A FULL-SCALE PIRATE.

>> THIS WILL ANIMATE WHEN WE HAVE IT IN THE SHOW, YOU KNOW. >> HE WAS VERY PROUD OF AT THE TIME DEVELOPING MORE AND MORE ANAMATRONICS. >> SEE OUR 40-SOME ODD YEARS HERE HAS BEEN IN THE WORLD OF MAKING THINGS MOVE.

>> HOW WE STARTED THAT ATTRACTION AND WHERE IT IS TODAY HAS COMPLETELY EVOLVED. STARTED FIRST AS A RIDE THAT WALT CREATED. THEN IT WAS INSPIRING A FILM. AND THEN TO THE PIRATES THAT WE SEE TODAY. IN SHANGHAI, WE REALLY FOCUSED ON CREATING THE STORY AROUND THE

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN THAT OUR GUESTS KNOW AND LOVE. >> KATY PERRY REMEMBERS GOING TO DISNEYLAND SHANGHAI WITH HER FIANCE, ORLANDO BLOOM. >> I WENT ON THE RIDE WITH ORLANDO, WHO WAS IN “PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN”. >> AS SHE SAYS, IF YOU WANT A

MIND BENDING EXPERIENCE, GO ON THIS UNBELIEVABLE RIDE WITH A GUY WHO WAS IN THE MOVIE. >> SO, YOU KNOW, THAT’S A LEVEL. IT BLEW MY MIND, THE TECHNOLOGY, WHAT COMES TO LIFE. I WAS SO BLOWN AWAY. I MEAN, THEY REALLY OUTDID THEMSELVES. >> DISNEY’S STORIES ARE TRULY

UNIVERSAL. THEY TRANSLATE AROUND THE WORLD, CREATING WONDERFUL MEMORIES FOR PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD EVERY DAY. EVERY DAY. >> AND FROM MEMORIES TO MUSIC. >> SPEAKING AS A DISNEY SONG WRITER, IT IS THE HARDEST ONE TO WRITE. >> HOW THEIR SONGS MADE US LOVE DI DI

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See the new year. Reporting on the flooded streets of Treasure Island. I’m Ginger. Zee wherever the story is, will take you there. We’re streaming. It is moves on. WHAT I THINK OF DISNEY. ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND IS MAGIC DREAM, WONDER, SUPERPOWER. I REMEMBER YOU ASKING ABOUT MY

FIRST HAPPY DISNEY MEMORY IS PROBABLY THE SAME AS ASKED ME ABOUT MY FIRST MEMORY. IT’S ALL DISNEY, ALL THE RISKS THAT WALT TOOK. >> THEY GAVE US WHAT WE HAVE NOW, AND DISNEY AT 100 HAS A LOT. >> BUT HE NEVER DREAMED OF. >> MAYBE HE DID. HIS DREAMS WERE LARGER THAN

MOST PEOPLE’S. LIKE, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET THEME TALKING ANIMALS TO BROADWAY? AND THESE DAYS MAGIC’S NOT JUST ON STAGE, BUT EXPLODING EVERYWHERE. >> I LEFT THE MEETING AND I WAS LIKE, OH MAN, ARE. AND YOU ALSO HAVE TO LOOK AT TOMORROW AND POSSIBILITIES EXIST THERE.

I FELT THAT THE WHOLE NEW WORLD FOR M G, I WAS LIKE THE BREAKOUT STAR TO BE ALMOST ANYWHERE YOU GO IN THE WORLD. >> YOU COULD SAY TO SOMEONE, SING ME A DISNEY SONG. >> WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO. NO, NO, NO, NO. >> MUSIC IS SUCH AN EMOTIONAL

STORYTELLER, AND WHAT WALT DID SO BEAUTIFULLY WAS REALLY SET UP THE POWER, THE MUSICAL IN STORYTELLING AND MY ALL FAVORITE DISNEY SONG IS UNDER THE SEA ONCE UPON A DREAM FROM SLEEPING BEAUTY. >> JIM. JIM, TODAY IT JUST MAKES THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF MY NECK

STAND UP TO SCREAM IS LUCKY YOU CAN BE HAPPY LUCKY STRIKE UNLESS YOU WON THE ACADEMY AWARD AND THAT’S LUCKY TO GOD IT WAS A GREAT JUNE. >> SO EASY TO MOVE THROUGH. 95-YEAR-OLD RICHARD SHERMAN IS A BONA FIDE DISNEY LEGEND. HE AND HIS BROTHER ROBERT WERE

HIRED AS WALT DISNEY’S OWN STAFF COMPOSERS IN 1960, BUT WALT REFERRED TO THEM SIMPLY AS THE BOYS BOY. JUST AMAZING. THE PIANO THEY PLAYED ON IS STILL IN WALT’S ORIGINAL, PRESERVED EXACTLY AS IT WAS ON THE DISNEY LOT IN BURBANK. >> EVERY MAJOR SURROUNDED

BOB AND I WROTE AT WALT DISNEY STUDIOS FIRST ON THIS PIANO. >> SO THERE’S A GREAT BIG, BEAUTIFUL TOMORROW SHINING AT THE END OF EVERY DAY. >> ALL THAT MUSIC YOU JUST ONCE THIS IN YOUR HEAD YOU’LL NEVER GET RID OF IT. THE SHERMAN BROTHERS HAVE WRITTEN MANY OF THE WONDERFUL

SONGS FOR A MOTION PICTURES AND TELEVISION SHOWS, BUT ALSO FOR THE PARKS, INCLUDING THIS UNFORGETTABLE EARWORM SONG. >> IT’S A BIG WORLD. IT’S SMALL. IT’S A SMALL WELL, THAT’S AT ANY GIVEN TIME ON EARTH. >> IT’S A SMALL WORLD IS PLAYING THANKS TO THE DISNEY PARKS AROUND THE WORLD.

>> SO THE SECRET OF THE SHERMAN BROTHERS IS THEY PLAY WITH EXPECTATIONS IN THEIR MELODY. THEY WILL SING A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN. >> EVERY TIME THEY SAY GO DOWN ,THE INTERVAL JUMPS UP. ACTUALLY STOLE THAT MOVE FOR A SONG IN HAMILTON WHEN KING GEORGE GOES OCEANS RISE

AND PIES FALL. >> THAT’S A STRAIGHT SHERMAN BROTHERS MOVE. >> I THINK THAT WALT INTRINSICALLY USED MUSIC IN A WAY TO HELP THE EMOTION OF THE STORYTELLING. >> EVERY SONG DRIVES THE STORY FORWARD WHERE YOU’RE NEVER STOPPING FOR A SONG. >> THAT QUALITY OF CAPTURING THE DISNEY OF THE INNOCENCE

OF THE CHILD THROUGH MUSIC AND THROUGH SONGS, IT’S A TRADITION FUTURE DISNEY STORYTELLERS HAVE CARRIED INTO THE FILMS OF THE ANIMATION RENAISSANCE PERIOD. >> LOOK AT THIS STUFF, ISN’T IT, NATE? WOULDN’T YOU THINK MICHAEL COMPLETE FOR MY CHARACTER OF ERIELLE, MY FOCUS WAS TO MAKE HER AS REAL AND AUTHENTIC AND AS VULNERABLE

AS POSSIBLE. AND WE DO THAT. >> OUR SONG IN DREAM WORLD, WE WISH I COULD BE PART OF THAT WORLD. WHEN ERIELLE SINGS WHAT WE NOW CALL THE I WANT, I WANT TO BE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ERIELLE US WHAT SHE WANTS, AND THEN WE’RE ON HER SIDE TO GO GET IT .

>> YOU WANT TO FIND THAT VOCABULARY, THAT SPECIFICITY. WHAT’S THE BY HER AND WHY DOES IT WHAT’S THE WORD GIRL IN AND I WANT SONG I’M REALLY OPENING UP THE WORLD OF THIS CHARACTER AND THE JOURNEY THAT HE OR SHE IS GOING ON. >> SPEAKING AS A DISNEY SONGWRITER, THE HARDEST ONE TO

WRITE. >> I’VE BEEN STARING THE EDGE OF THE WATER LONG SO I CAN. >> WHEN I WAS WRITING FROM L.A. ,FINDING THE WANT IS REALLY TRICKY AND SPECIFIC. >> THE CONTROL FROM A WOMAN THAT SHE LOVES, WHERE SHE IS, WHAT IS THAT INNER VOICE IS TELLING HER TO VENTURE BEYOND THE REEF?

>> EVEN MY GOD, HE CALLS ME. NO. WHAT DOES GOOD? >> AND FOR FAR I’LL GO. I ACTUALLY WENT TO MY PARENTS HOUSE AND LOCKED MYSELF UP IN MY CHILDHOOD BEDROOM. I WENT TO WHERE I WAS WHEN I WAS 16 AND WANTED TO GET OUT OF WHERE I WAS.

>> OH MY GOD. >> SOMETIMES THESE SONGS WOULD NOT ONLY MOVE THE STORY FORWARD, BUT WOULD CHANGE STORY’S ENTIRE TRAJECTORY. MAYBE YOU HEARD OF A LITTLE MOVIE CALLED FROZEN LET IT GO CHANGED THE WHOLE MOVIE WHEN WE HEARD THAT SONG, MERRY GO ALL IN CALIFORNIA THAT GOT IN.

>> ELSA WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AS THIS GREAT, VERY CONVENTION GIRL NEMESIS CHARACTER. AND THEN WHEN BOBBY AND KRISTEN WROTE IT GO, THERE WAS SO MUCH PATHOS AND COMPASSION THAT IT DAWNED ON EVERYBODY THAT SHE COULD BE SO MUCH MORE OF A COMPLEX COMPLICATED CHARACTER. >> SO BOBBY HAD FOUND EXACTLY

THE RIGHT KIND OF EMOTION SHE’D BE FEELING LIKE A PERFECTIONIST. SHE SPENT HER WHOLE LIFE WORKING SO HARD TO LIVE UP TO HER PARENTS EXPECTATIONS FOR HER. >> AND YOU SEE. WHAT I CAN DO TO TEST THAT. IT IS A SONG OF TRANSFORMATION. WE HAD IT WRITTEN IN THE

OUTLINE OF ELSA’S BADASS SONG HI ONE WHERE THE WAY THAT WE HAVE TO BE WILLING TAKE THE RISK AND LET PEOPLE SEE AND HEAR US. AND I THINK REALLY WHAT LET IT GO IS ALL ABOUT THE COLD. >> NEVER BOTHER ME AND WILLING . >> I’M A CREATURE OF THE THEATER, REMEMBER?

I THINK IT’S A NATURAL PROGRESSION FOR A DISNEY MUSICAL TO THEN SORT OF MAKE ITS WAY ONTO THE STAGE. >> IN 1984, DISNEY CEO MICHAEL EISNER BRINGS THE BIG SCREEN TO BROADWAY. >> GOING TO BROADWAY, STARTING WITH BEAUTY AND THE BEAST AND GIVING AUDIENCES STORIES AND SONGS REIMAGINED FOR THE STAGE.

AND IT WAS NOT AN IMMEDIATE HIT FOR SOME PEOPLE. >> THE COMMUNITY OF BROADWAY, HOWEVER, DID NOT LIKE THIS IDEA AT ALL. THE FEAR THAT SOME BIG BEHEMOTH WAS GOING TO COME IN. >> PEOPLE FOR THEME PARK ENTERTAINMENT, AND IT WASN’T THEME PARK ENTERTAINMENT. >> AND NOW, OF COURSE, DISNEY

HAS BECOME AN ENORMOUSLY INFLUENTIAL AND, IMPORTANT FORCE IN THEATER. >> IT’S OPENED THE WHOLE WHOLE NEW WORLD, THE NEW YEAR, ALADDIN HERE, MARY POPPINS PLAYED HERE. LION KING PLAYED HERE. YEAH THE ANIMATED FILM THE LION KING IS CHARGING ONTO BROADWAY CELEBRATING RECORD BREAKING SUCCESS, BROADWAY’S THIRD LONGEST

RUNNING SHOW NOW IN ITS 26TH YEAR, FEATURES MUSIC BELOVED IN THE FILM BY LA BOHEME AND ELTON JOHN. CERTAIN CERTAIN THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED CERTAIN TIMES IN MY CAREER WILL ONE PHONE CALL, ONE DECISION, ONE GUT FEELING HAS MADE MY LIFE BETTER. AND THE LION KING, I TOOK

MY VOICES IN AND IT WAS JUST AMAZING, LET’S SAY, ON A TAXI CAB, THE LION KING, I THINK, OH GOD, I’M WORRIED THAT THE MOMENT THE ANIMALS START WALKING THROUGH THE AUDIENCE IN THE BEGINNING IS ALWAYS A SPINE CHILLING THING FOR ME. >> GOOSEBUMPS TIME THAT COMPLETELY CHANGED WHILE

I’VE INTRODUCED MY MUSIC TO A WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT KIDS. AND IT’S IT’S WONDERFUL TO BE INVOLVED IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT. >> AND MANY OF THESE SONGS ARE PERFORMED IN PLAYS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THANKS TO DISNEY MUSICALS IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM. IT’S A NEW GENERATION DISCOVERING. >> THE MUSIC THAT I LIKE,

THAT I ALWAYS FUTURIST, ALWAYS THOUGHT ABOUT THE GOOD THINGS THAT ARE GOING HAPPEN. AND THIS KIND OF SONGS WE WRITE FOR. >> WHEN I GOT TO FIRST MEET RICHARD SHERMAN AND HE WENT ON TO ON TO TELL ME THE STORY, WHICH IS NOW VERY WELL KNOWN THAT WALT WOULD INVITE THEM

HIS OFFICE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. YOU KNOW, I’D SAY PLAY THAT FOR ME, FEED THE BIRD. >> AND THIS WAS HIS FAVORITE SONG. >> I WEPT. IT WAS JUST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I EVER HEARD. >> IT’S ABOUT GENEROSITY, ABOUT CHARITY TO OUR FELLOW MAN. >> HE DID THE BULLETS AND SAID

THAT WAS JUST A BEAUTIFUL, SOULFUL, SUMMERY OF EVERYTHING MEANINGFUL AND WHAT ARTISTS DO. >> AND I THINK IT SPOKE TO ONE OF THANKS BOYS. >> WE’LL SAY GOODBYE TO THE BOX. I. COMING UP, THE AMERICAN IDOL TURNED SUPERSTAR WHO GOT HER START ON A DISNEY CRUISE SHIP.

SO I WAS ON A DISNEY WONDER CAT SEVEN. I GOT A GREAT LIKE YESTERDAY. I REMEMBER EVERY STEP DISNEY IS IN NEW ENGLAND IN BEVERLY HILLS. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND. I CENTERS IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE

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IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. >> NATIONAL FORESTS ARE GOOD PLACES TO GET AWAY, BUT SOMETIMES BAD THINGS HAPPEN IN GOOD PLACES. IT’S THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES. THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG HERE.

I LIKE TO SAY ALSO AND FEET STICK IN A FUNNY WAY. THIS IS A HUMAN SKULL. AT SOME POINT IT WOULD BE MORE OF BECAUSE WE WERE AGAINST THE CLOCK BUYING THAT EVIDENCE AND BRINGING THE JUST TO HUNT HUMANS AS PREY. I’VE NEVER SAW THAT KIND OF EVEN BEFORE.

JUST THE DEVIL INCARNATE. IT’S LIKE A CAT AND MOUSE GAME. I KNOW. IT’S JUST SCARING EVERYBODY. ONCE YOU’VE TAKEN SOMEONE, YOU’RE EITHER KILLED OR YOU GET CAUGHT. >> SO A FEW COLD CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE. HOW MANY MORE VICTIMS ARE OUT THERE? WHAT CRIME? LIKE MOUNTAIN, TENDS TO BE LETHAL, THOUGH.

>> I’VE BEEN DESCRIBED THIS WAY DRY AND. THAT’S TOUGH. DIRTY. WHEN YOU GOT NUMBER TWO, YOU GOT. EXCUSE ME. ALWAYS END THIS WAY. LET ME? GUESS THESE ARE THINGS THAT END WITH CRYING. MICHAEL STRAHAN HOST THE $100,000 PYRAMID WEDNESDAYS TEN NINE CENTRAL ON ABC STREAM ON HULU.

IT JUST TAKES ONE GREAT IDEA TO CHANGE YOUR MIND. I LOVE BEING A BUSINESSWOMAN. I’M TRYING TO BUILD A LEGACY FOR MY FAMILY, NOT BUILT TO GIVE UP, AND I’M NOT GOING TO DO IT. WHAT’S GOING CREATE I’M GOING TO MAKE YOU AN OFFER. I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE

THIS ON SHARK TANK. I TOTALLY BELIEVE IN YOU. >> I PAID FOR THEM. WE TAKE OUR GUESTS TO PLACES THEY’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED OR SEEN BEFORE, AND THAT IS TIMELESS. IT’S CLASSIC AND. IT CAN BE FOREVER. TAKE THE FAN FAVORITE JUNGLE CRUISE ATTRACTION THAT OPENED IN 1955 AT DISNEYLAND BASED

ON A CONCEPT FROM WALT DISNEY HIMSELF. THE JUNGLE CRUISE GAVE WALT A CHANCE TO GIVE THE AUDIENCE A TASTE OF WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO GO TO THESE EXOTIC PLACES AROUND THE WORLD. >> ANIMALS THAT MADE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WERE ON A RIVERBOAT.

THAT WAS THE WAY THAT MOST PEOPLE GOT TO SEE AFRICA BACK THEN. >> WALT DISNEY WAS AN ADVENTURER, AN EXPLORER AND A TRAVELER. >> AND THAT’S ONE REASON WHY IN 1948, WALT PRODUCED THE FIRST NATURE DOCUMENTARY, A STORYLINE. >> SEAL ISLAND. THE STORY OF SEAL ISLAND

IS GOING TO BE A STORY ABOUT HOW THESE SEALS SURVIVE AND THEIR STRUGGLE ON THIS LONG JOURNEY. HER LIFE IS IN CONSTANT DANGER FROM MORTAL ENEMIES. >> THE KILLER WHALE SHARK. WALT UNDERSTANDS NARRATIVE IS ONE OF THE WAYS TO CAPTURE AN AUDIENCE INTEREST. >> AND HERE’S ONE WHO DECIDED

TO SLIP AWAY AND SEE THE WORLD ON HIS OWN. >> HE CREATES CHARACTERS AND HE CREATES NARRATIVES. WHAT’S YOUR FATHER DOING ABOUT THIS? NOTHING. SEAL ISLAND WAS THE FIRST DOCUMENTARY IN A SERIES CALLED TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES. >> YOU HELPED INSPIRE PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO IMAGINE WHAT ELSE

WAS OUT THERE IN THE WORLD. IN ALL, WALT DISNEY PRODUCED 13 TRUE LIFE DOCUMENTARIES, SHORTS, EIGHT WON ACADEMY AWARDS. THIS SEASON AND TO THIS DAY, ANY TIME YOU TURN ON TELEVISION, YOU’RE GOING TO FIND NATURE MOVIES THAT PROBABLY OWE THEIR LIFE TO WALT DISNEY OR OVER THE YEARS. WALT EXPLORED THE WORLD

WITH HIS FAMILY, AND IN THE SUMMER OF 1966, HE TOOK THEM ALL UP NORTH, A CRUISE OFF THE COAST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. >> TREASURED MEMORIES WERE MADE BECAUSE THIS TURNED OUT TO BE WALT’S LAST VACATION. >> WALT’S DAUGHTER, DIANE, LATER REMINISCED ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE. IT WAS ALL MY CHILDREN,

MY SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW AND THEIR LITTLE BABY. >> I DIDN’T SENSE ANY ILLNESS. >> HE SEEMED GOOD TO ME. IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL TIMES. >> AND THEN LATER IT WAS THE LAST ONE. >> LAST ONE. SOME 32 YEARS AFTER HIS PASSING IN KEEPING WALT’S LOVE

OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE, THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY DECIDED GET INTO THE CRUISE BUSINESS WITH ITS FIRST SHIP. BUT DISNEY MEANT A CRUISE SHIP BUILT ENTIRELY FOR FAMILIES. DISNEY HAD, I WOULD SAY, A LOT OF BRAVE FOR GOING OUT IN THIS WELL-ESTABLISHED MARKET TO OFFER SOMETHING THAT DIDN’T EXIST BACK IN THE 80S

AND NINETIES BEFORE DISNEY WAS ON THE SCENE. MOST CRUISE SHIPS ARE MARKETED TOWARDS SINGLES EAGER TO FIND MR. OR MRS. RIGHT. >> THE DEMAND DRIVEN BY THE POPULAR ABC SHOW THE LOVE BOAT WITH ITS FAMOUS THEME AND BRIMMING WITH BEFORE THEY WERE SUPERSTARS. >> DON’T YOU GET A LITTLE TIRED

BEING TIED DOWN TO JUST ONE GIRL? FAMILIES DO NOT WANT TO GO BECAUSE OF THE IMAGE OF CRUISE SHIPS BEING ONE GREAT SINGLES. GAMBLING WAS THE ECONOMIC DRIVER, THE CRUISE SHIP BUSINESS. THEY TOLD US WE DIDN’T HAVE A GAME. WE WOULDN’T SURVIVE. BUT THE DISNEY MAGIC DEFIES

THE ODDS AND IS AN IMMEDIATE SUCCESS. >> WE DID BETTER THAN SHIPS THAT HAD GAMBLING. WE A LOT OF KIDS IN TEENAGE AREAS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. WE HAD SHOWS AND A BIG HIT. >> WE DID IT THE DISNEY WAY AND THE DISNEY WAY AT SEA HELPED LAUNCH THE CAREER OF A

FUTURE AMERICAN IDOL FINALIST AND OSCAR FOR HER ROLE IN DREAMGIRLS. WITH THE SHOWSTOPPING NUMBER AND, I AM TELLING YOU, I AM NOT GOING TO DO. HOW DO YOU STARTED ON A DISNEY CRUISE SHIP BEFORE IDOL? YES, I WAS ON A DISNEY WONDER CAST. SEVEN. I REMEMBER EVERY STEP, EVERY NOTE.

>> JENNIFER HUDSON HONED HER CRAFT AS A PERFORMER ON THE WONDER, AND THE DREAM GIRL CAME BACK TO CELEBRATE THE DISNEY DREAM. A CLIP, INDEED. DISNEY DREAM. MAY GOD BLESS THE SHIP AND ALL WHO FELL ON HER. THERE ARE FIVE DISNEY CRUISE SHIPS CURRENTLY TRAVERSING SEA LANES AROUND. THE WORLD.

THE MAGIC AND THE WONDER. >> A DREAM OF FANTASY. THE NEWEST ADDITION IS. >> THE DISNEY WISH. THE DISNEY WISH IS 144,000 GROSS TONS. IT’S THREE FOOTBALL FIELDS LONG OR AS LONG AS THE EIFFEL. >> IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS LIKE THE OF THE PYRAMIDS. I MEAN, IT’S UNBELIEVABLE.

IT’S A KIT OF PARTS OF STEEL THAT YOU LIFT IN. YOU COST ON TO THIS FOUNDATION OF THE SHIP AND THEN YOU WELDED ALL TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE SHIP AND THE FLEET IS GROWING THE EIGHT SHIPS. >> CURRENTLY, WE’RE WORKING ON THE NEW SHIP THAT WILL PORT IN AND OUT OF SINGAPORE.

>> IT’S CALLED THE DISNEY ADVENTURE. BRING THE MAGIC TO NEW GUESTS. >> JUST ANOTHER WAY FOR US TO TELL OUR STORIES IN NEW WAYS. WHEN WE COME BACK, HOW THE NEW STORIES INVOLVE SUPER IT WITH SUPER HERO CREATING ALL KINDS OF MAGICAL KINGDOMS TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING LIKE

BLACK PANTHER THAT REALLY CHANGES WHAT IS POSSIBLE WITH BLACK STORY IN HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN MONUMENTAL. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE IN PROSTHETIC FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND, AT REFUGEE CENTERS, IN OPERATIONS, RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL. THE STRUCTURE FOR STORM ALONG I-5.

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>> I LOVE THAT MOVIE. WELCOME TO GENERATION GAP THURSDAY. WHAT IS SECRETARIAT A THAT’S A WOMAN. KELLY RIPA HOSTS THE COMEDY GAME WHERE NOBODY ACTUALLY READS. JUNIORS AND SENIORS WORK TOGETHER TO FLEX THEIR POP CULTURE KNOWLEDGE FOR KICK PHRASES AND BIGGER FUN. WHO IS THIS MR., MR. ROCKSTAR?

MR. T IS GOING TO BE VERY UPSET WITH ALL OF US. GENERATION GAP THURSDAYS ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU. >> ALL RIGHT, HERE ARE READY. LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW, AMERICA AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? GO. HOW ARE YOU? I. YOU? YES.

SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE? WHICH ONE WOULD YOU DO? I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE NOW NATIONAL FOREST ARE GOOD PLACES TO GET AWAY, BUT SOMETIMES BAD THINGS HAPPEN

IN GOOD PLACES. IT’S THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES. THERE’S WRONG HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE SNOW AND SLEET STICKING TO MY KNEES WEAK. THIS IS A HUMAN SKULL. AT SOME POINT IT BE MORE VICTIMS. WE WERE AGAINST THE PARK. I HAD EVIDENCE FROM BURNING THE JUST TO HUNT HUMANS

AS PREY. I NEVER SAW THAT KIND OF EVIL BEFORE. JUST THE DEVIL INCARNATE. IT’S LIKE A CAT AND MOUSE GAME. I KNOW WITH HIM, JUST SCARING MONEY. ONCE YOU’VE TAKEN SOMEONE, YOU EITHER KILL THEM OR YOU GET CAUGHT. SEND A FEW COLD CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.

HOW MANY MORE VICTIMS ARE OUT THERE? WHAT CRIME? LIKE MOUNTAIN. >> STREAMING ON HULU. I’M LOOKING FOR A GREAT WARRIOR ,DREW TODAY. BE ALMOST EVERY TRANSACTION THAT OCCURS AT THE COMPANY BY THE COMPANY HAS ITS ROOTS IN SOME FORM OF STORYTELLING AND CREATIVITY. >> SOON STEPPING IN AS CEO

IN 2005, BOB IGER TAKES SOME BOLD STEPS TO EXPAND THE DISNEY FAMILY WITH SOME MAJOR IP ACQUISITIONS. CASE IN POINT, STRIKING A DEAL WITH CEO STEVE. DISNEY ACQUIRES PIXAR IN 2006, AND THE NEWS TODAY WAS ABOUT OUR PARENT COMPANY, DISNEY ANNOUNCED IT HAS PURCHASED THE ANIMATION GIANT PIXAR. OH.

>> EVERYBODY WORKING ON PIXAR ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE IT WAS PART OF THE DISNEY FAMILY. YEAH. IT TOOK WHAT DISNEY DID SO WELL IN THE ANIMATION SPACE AND JUST TOOK IT TO A DIFFERENT LEVEL. >> GASOLINE. >> IT REMINDED US OF SOME OF THE BRILLIANCE OF WALT DISNEY

FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF US. AND ON DISNEY’S WATCH, PIXAR WOULD CARRY ON THAT TRADITION WITH CUTTING EDGE COMPUTER ANIMATION ON SUCH FAN AS WHILE IN THIS DISNEY ANIMATION FILM SINCE FANTASIA AND BROWN BOY ON VIDEO POSTCARD AND IPHONE. >> THEY NOT ONLY DID MOVIES LIKE TOY STORY AND FINDING NEMO

DO HUGE NUMBERS AT THE BOX OFFICE, THEY ALSO CREATED THAT HAVE NOW FOUND THEIR HOME AT DISNEY HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS IN ORLANDO. I GREW UP GOING TO DISNEYLAND DISNEY WORLD. I STILL CAN’T QUITE BELIEVE THAT THE STUFF THAT WE DO THAT GET TO HELP MAKE IS NOW PART OF THAT. IT’S CRAZY.

>> EVERY CLASSIC DISNEY CHARACTER, MINNIE AND DONALD, GOOFY AND ALL THOSE PRINCESSES, AND THEY’RE ALSO IS WOODY AND BUZZARD ADAPTED. WHEN I SAW THAT ONCE MY DAUGHTER SAID THAT SHE’S BURST OUT IN TEARS AND SAID, WHY ARE YOU CRYING, DADDY? YOU’LL BE THERE FOR THE REST OF TIME.

BUT WITH WOODY AND BUZZ IN THE ,THE COMPANY SOON SET ITS SIGHTS ON A VERY DIFFERENT BLEND OF SUPERHEROES. WHEN I FIRST TOLD THE DISNEY WAS INTERESTED IN ACQUIRING MARVEL, I REALLY THOUGHT IT FELT LIKE DESTINY CALLING. >> STARTING WITH 20 12 THE AVENGERS ALL THE WAY TO NEXT

YEAR’S DEADPOOL THREE WITH RYAN REYNOLDS. IT’S BEEN A PRETTY SPECTACULAR ACQUISITION. I GOT PLACES TO BE A FACE OF BOOKS AND OH, BAD GUYS TO KILL. MARVEL WAS A FAR CRY FROM DISNEY TERMS OF STORYTELLING SENSIBILITY. THAT MIGHT BE A REALLY GOOD TIME FOR YOU TO GET ANGRY. I’M ALWAYS ANGRY AND EXCITEMENT

AND ACTION AND CHARACTERS THAT WERE NOT JUST UNIQUE. >> BUT IN SO MANY WAYS, SUPERHEROES AND MILLIONS OF STORIES THAT COULD BE TOLD FROM OF CHARACTERS. THERE PRIORITY WATCHES ACTUALLY STAY TRUE TO THE COMIC BOOKS AND THINK THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A PERFECT STORM WITH SOCIAL MEDIA AND

A VERY VOCAL, EXCITED, GEEKY AUDIENCE. >> EXCELSIOR WITH A PERFECT CALLBACK TO THE COMIC BOOKS, WHICH LED TO $1,000,000,000 LINE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE. >> EACH OF THESE FILMS LIVE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE, WHICH IS PRETTY WILD TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING LIKE BLACK PANTHER THAT REALLY CHANGES WHAT IS POSSIBLE

WITH BLACK STORY IN HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN MONUMENTAL. YEAH, LIKE JUST BEING A PART OF SOMETHING THAT IS IMPACTING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND MAKING PEOPLE LOOK AT AFRICA. >> THE LENS OF PRIDE REALLY SHIFTS THE MINDSET, ESPECIALLY FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. AND YOUNG BLACK BOYS AND GIRLS THAT LOOK ME.

>> SOMEHOW. KEVIN FEIGE, HE’S MANAGED TO KIND OF CREATE REALLY BEAUTIFUL ARCS AND, YOU KNOW, ENTERTAINING STAKES. >> IT’S JUST THE MAGIC OF MARVEL. >> AND THEN IN 2012, DISNEY BUYS LUCASFILM FROM GEORGE LUCAS. >> IT’S ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC OPENING IMAGES, MARRIED TO MUSIC IN ALL OF MODERN

CINEMA. YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS NOW? AND GEORGE LUCAS IN STAR WARS CREATED ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREAT MYTHOLOGIES OF, MODERN WORLD AND STAR WARS. >> JOINING ME TOGETHER WITH A NEW BOOK, GALAXY IS FATHER AND TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE INVOLVED WITH THAT GREAT MYTHOLOGY OR THAT I THOUGHT

WOULD BE WONDERFUL FOR THE COMPANY. >> THERE HADN’T BEEN A STAR WARS MOVIE SINCE 2000, ABOUT. I REALLY THINK THERE’S BEEN THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LET THE AUDIENCE KNOW THAT WE’RE EXPLORING NEW CHARACTERS AND GOING DIFFERENT PLACES. >> UNDER LUCASFILM, PRESIDENT KATHLEEN KENNEDY, J.J. ABRAMS TAKES THE HELM, DIRECTING AND CO-WRITING

THE FORCE AWAKENS IN 15, CREATING A HOST OF NEW, EXCITING HEROES AND BRINGING BACK ALL THE BELOVED CHARACTERS TO AND EVENTUALLY A NEW STAR WARS TRILOGY TAKE SHAPE. IT’S LIKE, NO, THIS IS THE REAL THING. WE’RE ACTUALLY DOING IT. THAT’S TRUE. BUT LET’S PICK A MOVIE THAT’S DOING AND CARRY ON.

I THINK THAT FOR ME MADE IT FEEL. >> THAT’S WHAT MADE IT FEEL VERY REAL. WHEN HAN SOLO APPEARED ONSCREEN AND THERE WAS A WAR IN THAT ROOM, I’VE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THAT, SHE THERE THERE WAS GEORGE’S STAR WARS, AND NOW THIS. >> THE NEW GENERATION THAT.

BY THE WAY, THESE ARE ORIGINAL FANS GROWN UP NOW, MAKING UP THEIR OWN STORIES. >> AND THEN GET TO THAT GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. LADIES GENTLEMEN. STAR WARS GALAXY’S EDGE IS NOW OPEN, FINDS ITS WAY RIGHT INTO OUR BACKYARD. SO, IN ESSENCE, TO TAKE SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN SO

BELOVED FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES AND THEN TO CREATE A WORLD THAT YOU CAN EXPERIENCE AND WALK THROUGH AT WALT DISNEY WORLD IN DISNEYLAND IS AN EASY FEAT, I WOULD NOT THINK. >> WALT DISNEY WORLD HOUSES YET ANOTHER IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE. BORN FROM A BLOCKBUSTER PANDORA ,THE WORLD OF AVATAR.

NOW AVATAR, THE ORIGINAL IS STILL THE HIGHEST GROSSING OF ALL TIME, WITH NEARLY $3 BILLION GLOBALLY AND ITS SEQUEL AVATAR THE WAY OF WATER CURRENTLY RANKS AT NUMBER THREE, BOTH WITH ECO CONSCIOUS MESSAGES ABOUT HOW FRAGILE OUR PLANET AND ITS CREATURES ARE. AVATAR BECAME SYMBOLIC OF THE PLIGHT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

EVERYWHERE IS THE SAME. THEY’RE LOSING THEIRABITAT, LOSING THEIR CULTURE. THEY’RE BEING PUSHED OUT OF THEIR ANCESTORS TERRITORIES. >> HE’S HOLDING A MIRROR UP TO US AND SOME OF THE UNTHINKABLE THINGS WE’RE DOING TO OUR FELLOW CREATURES, TO THE EARTH, TO PEOPLE. SO IT’S NO SURPRISE IS THEME PARK OF CHOICE IS DISNEY’S

ANIMAL KINGDOM IN ORLANDO. >> ANIMAL KINGDOM IS A CELEBRATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD OF THAT WHICH IS WONDROUS RIGHT HERE IN OUR WORLD. NOW, SOME PEOPLE JUST SEE THE MOVIE AND MAYBE GO TO PANDORA AT WORLD AND JUST THEY JUST LOVE THE EXPERIENCE. BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE REMINDED

THAT THIS IS SOMETHING WORTH FIGHTING FOR. NEXT, MORE TO LOVE ON THE NETWORKS. EVERYTHING FROM DANCING TO DEALS YOU HAVE TO DO. >> YOU’VE GOT TO DO DRAMA. WE WERE A SHOW THAT WAS UNAFRAID TO GO THERE. >> AND LATER, YOUR EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK INSIDE SOMEWHERE, BRAND NEW. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE

ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. THE NEIGHBORING UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE

IN TURKEY, ENROLLING THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO BACK TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY. WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP

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YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> IT’S LUNCHTIME, AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE YOU SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? YOU KNOW, THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. DO YOU HAVE YOUR MONEY? BREAKING NEWS, POP WITH THE BIGGEST STARS, MUSIC TRENDS

AND, OF COURSE. GOOD FOOD “GMA3”. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. A THIRD HOUR OF “GMA” IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US. AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT THESE ARE HERE. >> WE ARE READY. LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? I LIKE YOU. YEAH. SO WHAT WILL YOU WATCHING? SATURDAYS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT YOU DO. MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE SHOW.

WE ARE BACK FOR ANOTHER SEASON OF CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE WITH BIG STARS AND BIG AND BIG CHANCE TO WIN NOW. BUT IT FEELS GOOD. MILLION DOLLARS WITH THESE STARS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT’S TO HAPPEN . FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY

TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR

THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT MY VERY FIRST MEMORY OF DISNEY IS BITTERSWEET. I WAS 11 YEARS OLD. I WON A CONTEST. I GOT ALL EXPENSE PAID TRIP TO DISNEYLAND WITH SOME

CHAPERONS AND GOT TO SIT WITH. THEY DIDN’T TELL ME THAT WAS THAT. IT WAS JUST THE DAY. SO WE FLEW ALL THE WAY TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, GOT TO DISNEYLAND, GOT IN LINE FOR THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, WENT ON THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, AND THEN WENT HOME.

THAT HURT. LET’S GO TO OUR OF WALT DISNEY HAS LIVED IN THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS FOR 100 YEARS. THE COMPANY’S 1995 ACQUISITION OF MEDIA GROUP CAPS CITIES BROUGHT TWO MAJOR TELEVISION NETWORKS INTO THE DISNEY FOLD. ESPN AND ABC. SO PEOPLE YOU TRUST SHOWS YOU LOVE LIKE WHO WANTS TO BE

A MILLIONAIRE. >> OKAY, FINAL ANSWER IS WHATEVER YOU DON’T. >> AND LATER, SHARK TANK, YOU HAVE A DEAL. YOU’VE GOT A DEAL? WHEN I THINK OF CLASSIC GAME, I THINK ABOUT TV DINNERS AND TV TRAYS. IT JUST FEELS LIKE CLASSIC AMERICANA ALL UNDER THE DISNEY ROOF. THAT’S TRUE.

THAT’S TWO TOUCHDOWNS. >> SO LATE NIGHT, CAMPBELL. AND THEY’RE RAISING THE ROOF TO CURRY WAY DOWN TO FIVE. OH WHAT A SHOT BUT CURRY PURE EXCITEMENT FROM ESPN THE WORLDWIDE LEADER IN SPORTS LAUGHS. I’M NOT IT’S RADIATING THROUGH THE TV OR NOT THIS PLACE IS A LEGEND. SPORTS HITS EVERYBODY.

HA HA. GOT TO TAKE IT. AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE HERE TO SHOW OR TELL YOU. ESPN WITH AN UNPARALLELED PORTFOLIO OF MAJOR SPORTS ON THE WAY. GILGO HERE WHAT WE’VE ABLE TO DO BECAUSE DISNEY HAS PUT FORTH THE CASH TO GIVE US THOSE RIGHTS IS IT’S HARD TO EVEN

QUANTIFY YOU BACK ALL THIS AND THE NBA WITH TRANSCENDENT STARS LIKE LEBRON JAMES ACQUIRE BLOCK BY JAMES LEBRON JAMES WITH THE REJECTION SOME OF MY FAVORITE MOMENTS ARE SPEAKING WITH ATHLETES WHEN THEY REACH THE PINNACLE TALKING TO LEBRON JAMES AFTER THEY WON THE IN THE BUBBLE NOW SAY WELL

UNTIL NEXT TIME OKAY THE COVID SAFE 2020 BUBBLE AT WALT DISNEY WORLD, A POINT AT DISNEY PRIDE . IT MADE POSSIBLE THAT SEASON’S NBA PLAYOFFS. ANY SKIN WHERE HOOPS ARE ALWAYS IN THE CONVERSATION. THIS MAN WAS A BONA FIVE SCRUB HE CAN’T PLAY AND SINCE 2006 MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL,

THE NFL’S CROWN WITH ESPN INNOVATIONS LIKE THE MANNING HOUSE VIEWING OPTION. I HOST A TV SHOW FROM A BASEMENT WHEN. I KNOW THAT ESPN IS PRESENTING MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL THROUGH A PRETTY CHRIS BERMAN, HOST OF THE LANDMARK FRANCHISE NFL PRIMETIME, WHERE ROBIN ROBERTS WAS A RISING STAR. ROBERT WAS, A DELIGHT FROM

THE MINUTE SHE WALKED IN. AND SHE’S A DELIGHT AS WE HER ON TV. >> NOW, LET’S SAY GOOD MORNING AMERICA, “GMA” THE LEADER IN MORNING TELEVISION SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. THE VIEW, PART OF AN ARRAY OF AWARD WINNING DAYTIME PROGRAM. MEANWHILE, ABC FOUND SITCOM SUCCESS BY SHINING THE PRIMETIME SPOTLIGHT

ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES. MODERN FAMILY WHO’D LIKE TO HELP ME WITH A MAGIC TRICK. FRESH OFF THE BOAT, I WON MORE THAN OKAY US TO EIGHT SEASONS OF THE INCISIVELY FUNNY BLACKISH, THE SVP OF OUR NEW URBAN DIVISION, ANDRE JOHNSON. WE JUST PUT ME IN CHARGE OF BLACK STUFF.

WE WERE A SHOW THAT WAS UNAFRAID TO GO THERE AND QUENTIN BRUNSON’S ABBOTT ELEMENTARY. >> WHAT IS YOUR CLASS, BY THE WAY, OUT IN THE HALLWAY IN A SINGLE FILE, REALLY? ABBOTT ELEMENTARY IS THE GIFT THAT JUST KEEPS ON GIVING AND GIVING. >> I LOVE IT.

AND AN EMMY FOR SHERYL LEE RALPH. FACT THE PEOPLE WATCH THE SHOW. >> THEN THEY SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET ME GO HELP THIS CLASSROOM. THESE RIPPLE EFFECTS ARE AMAZING AND DRAMAS. >> THAT WOULD BE THE STORYTELLING PYROTECHNICS OF SCANDAL AND, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER FROM CREATIVE

POWERHOUSE SHONDA RHIMES WITH. HER GRAY’S ANATOMY, SOON TO EMBARK ON A 20TH SEASON. SO PICK ME, CHOOSE ME LOVE ME, GRAY’S ANATOMY WAS AND IS A CULTURAL ONE. >> MALENA. IT’S ABOUT NOT DIVERSITY, BUT AUTHENTICITY, AND YOUR CHARACTERS JUST REFLECT WHAT WE SEE IN AMERICA. YEAH, I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE

THE TELEVISION LANDSCAPES LOOK LIKE THE WORLD WE SEE OUTSIDE FROM ABC NEWS GETTING HERE. >> AND WELCOME TO 2020 ABC NEWS HONORING THE MEMORY OF A TRULY BARBARA WALTERS. >> DID YOU EVER ORDER ANY MORE TO KILL BOLD, STRAIGHTFORWARD JOURNALISM AND INNOVATIVE STORYTELLING DAY AND NIGHT FROM THE BEST TEAM IN THE BUSINESS?

>> WE HAVE TO SIGNAL EVERY NIGHT THAT THE FUTURE EVERYONE, YOU LOOK AT THE MIRROR, DO YOU SEE THE SAME? NOT I SEE A LUCKY MAN. >> NEXT. HOW WOULD DISNEY A COMPANY CLOSING IN ON 100 YEARS REINVENT ITSELF IN A DIGITAL WORLD? >> TWO WORDS BABY YODA.

THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS IN RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL. DESTRUCTIVE FORCE STORM ON I-5. BOSTON IS IN THE BULL’S EYE OF ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME, ANYWHERE.

STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE. MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED

NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL THE TELEVISION. >> FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS COMES THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO. FASTER, SMARTER AND CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR INTERESTS. IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD NOW IT’S LUNCHTIME IN AMERICA.

>> SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? YOU KNOW WHAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. YOU HAVE YOUR MONEY. BREAKING NEWS POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS, MUSIC TRENDS AND OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD “GMA3” WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW? A THIRD HOUR OF “GMA” IN THE

AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT NAME. WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED. GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE STREAMING FREE ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

>> WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOPE SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOPE DANCING IS BABY STEP DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC SHOW WINNER OH 2023 LIKE DANCING DOGS REHEARSING. >> I HEAR THAT NATIONAL PARKS ARE GOOD PLACES TO GET AWAY, BUT SOMETIMES BAD THINGS HAPPEN

IN GOOD PLACES. IT’S THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES. THERE’S WRONG HERE. I LIKE MISSING PORCELAIN FEET. STICK HER UNDIES. WAIT, THIS IS A HUMAN SKULL. AND AT SOME POINT THERE WILL BE MORE VICTIMS. WE WERE AGAINST THE PARK. FIND THAT EVIDENCE AND BRING HIM TO JUSTICE. BE KIND.

JUST HUMANS AS PREY. I’VE NEVER SAW THAT KIND OF EVIL BEFORE. JUST THE DEVIL INCARNATE. IT’S LIKE A CAT AND MOUSE GAME. I KNOW IT’S HIM. JUST SCARED HIM. MY DREAM. ONCE YOU’VE TAKEN SOMEONE, YOU EITHER KILL THEM OR YOU GET CAUGHT.

SEND A FEW COLD CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE. HOW MANY MORE ARE OUT THERE? WHAT CRIME? LIKE MOUNTAIN TO BE? THERE’S A LOT OF SATISFACTION IN DEVELOPING IDEAS INTO REALITIES. WELL, HAD A VISION WHEN IT CAME TO PROVIDING ENTERTAINMENT FOR FAMILIES THAT NO ONE HAD HAD BEFORE THAT TIME.

>> HE WANTED TO ESSENTIALLY IMPROVE AND WHICH HE USED TO SAY, PLUS UP THE EXPERIENCE . I WANTED SOMETHING THAT I COULD GROW, SOMETHING I COULD KEEP, PLUS EVEN THAT IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, TODAY HOW EVERYBODY SAYS THIS, PLUS THAT PLUS. WELL, WALT AND IT IS TIME. >> ONCE AGAIN, WALT CREATED

A LEGACY. HAD THE COMPANY EMBRACED THE OPPORTUNITY, THAT DISRUPTION ACTUALLY CREATES. DISNEY PLUS IS ONE OF THE MOST RECENT DISRUPTION TERMS OF THE WAY PEOPLE ARE CONSUMING ENTERTAINMENT NEED THEM WHERE THEY ARE OR WHERE THEY WANT TO GO IN AMERICA. >> WELCOME TO THE LAUNCH DAY OF DISNEY PLUS DISNEY PLUS WAS

LAUNCHED IN NOVEMBER OF 2019 AND IT WAS JOINING AN ALREADY CROWDED STREAMING FIELD, BUT MAYBE AT THE EDGE IN ONE WAY. >> NEARLY 100 YEARS OF CONTENT TO OFFER IT TO OPEN UP AN APP. AND THERE WAS MICKEY OF 1928 AND HAN SOLO OF 2015. I LOVE THE IDEA OF ESSENTIALLY

OPENING UP OUR LIBRARY TO THE WORLD. I’M A LAW AND I LIKE WARM HUGS. MY KIDS RELY ON DISNEY PLUS AS THEIR GO TO EXPERIENCE. OH MY. >> SO YOU CAN HAVE THE LITTLE MERMAID AND THEN YOU CAN HAVE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. >> SOME PEOPLE USE THEIR IMAGINATION.

WHAT’S REALLY COOL IS THAT DISNEY PLUS HAS ALSO BROUGHT IN A LOT OF OLDER PEOPLE. I’VE HAD PEOPLE HAVE LIKE SAID I WAITED FILMS IN MY FIFTIES TO THAT MOVIE. >> NOW I WATCH IT WITH MY GRANDKIDS, BUT THERE WOULD NEED TO BE ALL KINDS OF EXCITING CONTENT.

THAT WAS A BIG REASON WHY DISNEY BOUGHT 21ST CENTURY FOX. >> WE’RE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD GIVING, DISNEY PLUS ACCESS TO SO MANY GREAT MOVIES AND TV SHOWS LIKE THE SIMPSONS, WHICH IS SO BEAUTIFUL. AND IT LAUNCHED DISNEY PLUS HAD TO ORIGINAL SCRIPTED SERIES, A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SPINOFF.

>> OLIVIA RODRIGO IT’S A FRESH START. EVERYONE’S ON THE SAME PAGE AND THE OTHER A STAR WARS SPACE. >> WESTER DREAMED UP BY CO-CREATORS DAVE FILONI AND JON FAVREAU. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS NEW PLATFORM IS THAT THERE’S NO EXPECTATIONS ABOUT WHAT IT IS. YOU CAN’T COMPARE DISNEY PLUS

TO A MOVIE AND YOU CAN’T REALLY COMPARE IT TO A TV SHOW. >> IT’S — IT’S ITS OWN LANE. >■> THE PRESSURE WAS ON THEM TO PUT THEIR DISNEY PLUS ORIGINAL ON MAP. PEDRO PASCAL WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO GET A CALL AND I DROVE OUT JON FAVREAU’S OFFICE

AND IT WAS JUST EXPLODE WITH STAR WARS IMAGERY OF THE BEST KIND AND ASKED HIM WHICH ONE OF THESE CREATURES OR ROBOTS, WOULD I BE. AND THEY HAD ASSUMED THAT I UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY WERE TALKING ME ABOUT THE MAIN ROLE. >> I LEFT THE MEETING AND I WAS LIKE, OH, THAT’LL BE SORRY.

I CAN BRING YOU IN WARM OR I CAN BRING YOU IN COLD. IT’S THE FIRST LIVE ACTION SERIES THAT STAR WARS HAS EVER HAD. AND STREAMING NETWORKS TAKE, DIFFERENT KINDS OF RISKS. >> NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS WITH THE BIG MOVIES. THEY TEND TO STAND ALONE.

THEY TEND TO BE BIG EVENTS ON DISNEY PLUS, A STORY WAS GOING TO BE TOLD EVERY WEEK. >> THIS IS THE WAY GEORGE WAS SO INSPIRED BY SERIALIZED STORYTELLING, FLASH GORDON AND THOSE KIND OF INFLUENCES. IT WAS FASCINATING TO SEE HOW EASILY STAR TRANSITIONED INTO THIS KIND OF STORYTELLING .

ONE IDEA THAT BREAKS THROUGH BABY YODA EVERYBODY HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE CHILD, ALSO KNOWN AS BABY YODA. >> BABY YODA WAS EVERYWHERE. HE WAS ON LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS. THE BIG BREAKOUT STAR OF THAT SERIES IS BABY YODA. >> EVERYONE HAD A STUFFED BABY YODA. >> I HAVE A STUFFED BABY.

YODA DE LA O MARVEL WOULD USE CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY OF DISNEY PLUS TO PUT ITS BELOVED CHARACTERS INTO FAMILIAR TV SHOW FORMATS. WHEN DISNEY CAME AROUND, YOU COULD TELL SOMETHING IN A WAY THAT WE COULD NEVER TELL ON ON A MOVIE SCREEN. >> I COULD NEVER TELL IN THE

COMIC BOOK WITH WANDAVISION, LIZZY OLSON PLAYS WANDA MAXIMOFF EACH EPISODE IS A NOD TO A DIFFERENT DECADE OF SITCOM USING THE TROPES OF TELEVISION AS A PART OF THE STORY. >> I THINK IT’S JUST STORIES WHERE AS BURIED AS A PAKISTANI-AMERICAN SUPERHERO AND MISS MARVEL A FIRST EVER

MARVEL SERIES WITH A MUSLIM LEAGUE CHARACTER, IT’S NOT REALLY THE BROWN GIRLS FROM JERSEY CITY WHO SAVE THE WORLD AND SHE-HULK GIVE AUDIENCES SOMETHING THEY HADN’T SEEN BEFORE. THERE WAS SOMETHING SO SURREAL ABOUT SEEING THIS GIANT GREEN HULK WOMAN WALKING INTO A COURTROOM AND REALLY DOING LIKE A LEGAL COMEDY SERIES.

JENNIFER WALTERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL AND THE DISNEY PLUS MENU ITSELF. >> ALL RIGHT, THEN I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE MY CLOSING ARGUMENTS. SO WHAT’S NEXT? FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE INSPIRED IDEA THAT’S LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR AN ALL NEW DISNEY EXPERIENCE.

>> I WANT TO GO INSIDE THAT CASITA. DON’T YOU? THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE, THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND, A REFUGEE CENTER IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL. DESTRUCTIVE FORCE STORED ALONG I-5 OFTEN IS IN THE BULL’S.

ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LAUREN AMERICA’S NUMBER STREAMING NEWS. WE ARE GOING. I WAS TERRIFIED AND IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. >> NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE WANTED BABIES.

18 MILLION FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. I FELT LIKE WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. WHEN THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> ARE YOU READY? LET’S DO IT.

YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I WAS GO. HOW ARE YOU? Q SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY? IS ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY

SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE NOW. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET BACK TO IT.

LISTEN NOW TO THEIR DAILY NEWS PODCAST WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS,

START. >> WHENEVER, WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE. LONDON IN BUFFALO. YOU ALL DO. TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW, WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN.

ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. IT’S LUNCHTIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? >> YOU KNOW, THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD TO YOU. HOW YOUR MONEY.

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NICE TO MEET YOU, OSWALD. >> THROUGH AN INTERESTING NEGOTIATION, WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY GET THE RIGHTS TO OSWALD IN A TRADE. >> YOU CAN SEE OSWALD ON DISNEY PLUS WITH NEW ANIMATION TOO. AND SO BRINGING OSWALD BACK IS A WAY TO UNIFY THE WHOLE CENTURY.

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OUR STORY TAKES YOU ON A MAGICAL JOURNEY. GUESTS ARE GOING TO JOIN TIANA AND HER JAZZ LOVING FRIEND, TRUMPETER LOUIS ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE BAYOU, ONE OF BAYOUS, THE BEST JAZZ IN THE WILD. WE SPEND PROBABLY CLOSE TO THREE YEARS DOING RESEARCH AND NEW ORLEANS FOR US TO BRING

THE STORY TO LIFE. THE JOURNEY WAS ABOUT FOOD, ABOUT MUSIC, ABOUT HISTORY, ABOUT CULTURE, THE FOLIAGE. SO YOU BE GET A TASTE OF WHAT IT’S TO BE IN THE BAYOU. DURING MY FIRST SEASON, DISNEY ALSO RECENTLY RELEASED DRAWINGS OF A POSSIBLE TROPICAL AMERICAS THEME, LAND AND ANIMAL KINGDOM.

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WHAT IS AT ITS CORE IS ABOUT CONNECTION CONNECTING TO OTHERS TO OUR TO OUR PAST AND FOR SOME EVEN CONNECTING TO A HIGHER POWER. I’M PHIL LIPOFF AND THIS IS THE PLAYLIST. WE ARE THREE AMAZING ACTS FOR YOU WHO USE THEIR ART TO UNCOVER SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THEMSELVES. A CONTEMPORARY

CHRISTIAN SONGWRITER WITH SOUL TO SPARE A MUSICAL LEGEND WHO IS EMBARKING ON A MEANINGFUL SECOND ACT. BUT FIRST, A TRIO PROVING THREE IS CERTAINLY NOT A CROWD LADY, A HAS DOMINATED COUNTRY MUSIC CHARTS FOR YEARS, AND NOW THEY’RE TAKING FANS ALONG FOR A NEW CREATIVE ENDEAVOR, ONE THAT’S BOTH PERSONAL

AND EACH WEEKEND, SCATTERED ALL AROUND THE SAME CRAZY SONG, RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE, LADY EIGHT TOOK THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BY STORM WITH THEIR 2008 DEBUT ALBUM AND FIRST NUMBER ONE HIT I RUN TO YOU SEE, SINCE THEN, THE TRIO HAS EARNED 15 TOP TEN HITS ON BILLBOARD’S HOT COUNTRY CHART,

THREE PLATINUM ALBUMS AND FIVE GRAMMY AWARDS, CEMENTING HILARY SCOTT, CHARLES KELLEY AND DAVE HAYWOOD, COUNTRY MUSIC ROYALTY. >> WE SAT DOWN WITH THE BAND TO SEE HOW THEY MAKE THAT MAGIC. >> WE DIDN’T HAVE TO WAIT LONG AND FASCINATING DAYS KICKING INTO THOSE SIGNATURE BEFORE OUR INTERVIEW EVEN BEGAN .

YOU, ME, THE NUMBER. WHEN YOU GUYS GOT TOGETHER AND STARTED MUSIC. HOW DID THE HARMONY WORK? IS IT A DISCUSSION EVERY TIME YOU DO A SONG OR DO YOU JUST SLIP INTO IT LIKE JUST DID? >> I MEAN THAT THAT HAPPENS A LOT LIKE ESPECIALLY IN THE

WRITING ROOM WHEN WE’RE WORKING SOMETHING AND WE’VE FOUND THE CHORUS AND THEN IT’S LIKE, ONCE WE ALL LAND IN TOGETHER IN HARMONY, WE’RE LIKE, OKAY, WE’RE ON TO SOMETHING. >> THAT’S WHAT WE IN LOVE WITH, WAS THERE’S SOME KIND OF BLEND IN OUR VOICES WITH, YOU KNOW,

YOU KNOW, KIND OF A GRITTY VOICE, SOULFUL VOICE, JUST KIND OF ALL COMBINING BODY AND SOUL AND LIKE THE WAY IT JUST KIND OF ALL SOUNDS LIKE A LADY THING ON THE, ON A LOT OF OUR AND STUFF. >> BUT YEAH I MEAN WE DO THINK ABOUT IT FOR ALL THREE MEMBERS

OF LADY A THE CONNECTION TO MUSIC BEGAN WHEN THEY YOUNG I WANT TO TRY. >> I GREW UP IN A MUSICAL HOME WE ALL DID YOU KNOW WHETHER IT’S SIBLINGS THAT PLAYED AND STARTED BANDS TOGETHER OR WHETHER PARENTS PLAYED INSTILLED THAT YOU KNOW, INTO US. I MEAN, I WAS INTO EVERYTHING

WHEN I GREW UP, BUT HEARING THE BLOWFISH WAS SOMETHING THAT FOR ME THAT ALBUM TOP TO BOTTOM CRACKED. >> YEAH. UNBELIEVABLE. AND I HAD THIS VIDEO OF ME SINGING HOLD MY HAND WHEN I WAS LIKE 12 OR 13 YEARS OLD AND, YOU KNOW SO WHEN DARIUS, YOU KNOW, HAD SIGNED OVER

AT THE SAME LABEL SENATE SAID THAT VIDEO TO CHARLIE BLACK AND SAID, CAN YOU PLEASE SHARE THIS WILL DARIUS I JUST THINK HE’LL THINK IT’S HILARIOUS. >> AND NOW WE’RE LIKE BEST FRIENDS AFTER THAN A DECADE TOGETHER. IN JUNE OF 2020, THE BAND DECIDED TO UNDERGO A NAME CHANGE OFFICIALLY BECOMING

KNOWN AS LADY A SHEDDING THE FORMER NAME THAT REFERENCED THE PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA SOUTH AND BEEN IN THE POWER OF MUSICAL CONNECTION IS AT THE CORE OF LADY. JUST LAST YEAR THEY RELEASED WHAT A SONG CAN DO A TRIBUTE TO THE LYRICS THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES.

>> YOU CAN MAKE YOU PAY FOR IT. YOU MAKE SURE IT’LL MAKE YOU GIVE YOUR HEART AND GET IT BACK. CHANGE YOUR MIND JUST LIKE THAT. WHEN IT’S LIKE EVERY SINGLE LINE WAS WRITTEN FOR YOU. >> HOW MANY SONGS YOU LISTEN TO MY DAUGHTER SPEAKING TO ME?

ANY CRAZY WHAT A SONG CAN DO? WHAT REALLY SPARKED THAT SONG? HILLARY ALWAYS SAYS IT. SHE’S LIKE, THERE’S SONGS OUT THERE THAT SAY HOW I’M FEELING BETTER THAN I CAN EXPRESS IT. AND I CAN’T THINK OF HOW MANY SONGS DO THAT FOR ME. I CAN ONLY LIKE, JUST PLAY IT WHILE WE’RE HERE.

AND THEY DO. I MEAN, WE HAVE A GUITAR, YOU KNOW, IT’S LIKE A IT’S LIKE THAT CAN TELL THERE’S A SET PIECE, BUT SO THE CHORUS. YEAH, YEAH. >> YOU CAN MAKE YOU TELL AND MAKE IT MAKE YOU WANT. YEAH. ONE MORE TRY AND STOP BENDING HIS SAD EMBRACE.

THAT’S A GREAT SONG. >> HILLARY, CHARLES AND DAVE UNDERSTAND A SONG CAN DO FOR THEIR FANS. THIS TOUR IS A CHANCE TO REACH OUT THE BAND AND REQUEST YOUR FAVORITE SONG. ONE OF THE KIND OF GET BACK TO OUR CATALOG AND BE LIKE, WHAT ARE THE FANS WANT TO HEAR?

NOT JUST THE SINGLES, BUT WHAT DEEP CUTS? BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE SONGS THAT WE CALL THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY. THE FIRST SONG WE EVER RECORDED. ALL WE EVER NEED DOES. ALL WE NEED, NEED. >> JUST SONGS LIKE THAT WHERE YOU’RE LIKE, GOSH, WE HAVEN’T PLAYED THIS IN A LONG TIME.

TEN ALBUMS AND MORE THAN 100 SONGS RECORDED THEIR LATEST RELEASE LOVE YOU BACK. >> YOU’RE GONNA HAVE A MEMORY. I CAN DO THAT. >> WE WRITE ABOUT 80% OF OUR MUSIC, AND BUT OVER THE YEARS, WE’VE LEARNED, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WHEN YOU GET SENT A GREAT

SONG, YOU DON’T SAY NO JUST BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T WRITE IT. ANY TIME WE GET SENT A SONG. >> SAME THING WITH THIS CURRENT SAYING I LOVE YOU BACK AND. IT WAS A MALE LEAD, AND I IMMEDIATELY WAS LIKE, HOW DO WE MAKE A LADY SONG? AND I WAS LIKE, GOSH, THIS

WOULD BREAK YOUR HEART MORE IF YOU GET BOTH PERSPECTIVES. AND WE ALWAYS FEEL LIKE IT’S OUR LITTLE SECRET WEAPON AS A GROUP WITH MULTIPLE LEADS. DOES IT AFFECT THE WAY YOU WRITE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT LIKE A SONG, LIKE I GUARANTEE YOU, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR CO-WRITER TOM DOUGLAS WAS TRAINING FOR THE NASHVILLE

MARATHON AND HE’S HE GOT JUST THIS POEM THAT HE STARTED WRITING ON ONE OF HIS RUNS, DANCE CLASS, AND HE’S SAID, I RUN FROM HATE, I RUN FROM PREJUDICE. SO HE PRESENTED US WITH THESE LINES THAT WERE ALREADY THERE IN THIS POEM. BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE

OTHER SONGS WHERE I’LL COME IN, WE’LL HAVE TITLES IN OUR LIKE A RUNNING NOTE IN OUR PHONE WHERE YOU HEAR SOMETHING OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE SAYS SOMETHING IN A CONVERSATION. SEE, THE MOVIE NEEDS YOU NOW. FOR INSTANCE, YOU KNOW, I HAD LIKE JUST THIS MELODY. >> IT’S A CORNER.

AFTER LONG I’M ALL ALONE THAT I LOVE. >> AND THEN IT WAS LIKE QUARTER FOR ONE MORE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? LIKE, WHY ARE YOU MISSING SOMEBODY AND THEN SOMEONE OUT AND LEAVES YOU AND YOU’RE LIKE, THAT’S IT. AND THAT WAS THE REACTION WHEN DAVE, WHO PLAYS MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS AND HARMONIZES

BUT USUALLY DOESN’T TAKE LEAD VOCALS CAME TO HILARY CHARLES WITH AN OUT OF THE BOX IDEA. >> I’D WRITTEN A SONG FOR MY WIFE FOR MOTHER’S. I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF A UNIQUE GIFT, AND THIS KIND OF IDEA POURED OUT. I WAS LIKE, WHAT? SHE LOVES MUSIC. SHE LOVES SINGING TOO.

AND I WROTE HER A SONG AND THEN I WAS LIKE, WELL, LET ME JUST SHOW IT TO THE GUYS AND SEE IF THEY LIKE IT AT ALL. >> AND THEY WERE LIKE, YEAH, WHY DON’T WE PUT ON THE RECORD A BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG CALLED WORKING ON THIS LOVE GUITAR,

WORKING ON THIS MAN, HE’S GOT A GREAT VOICE AND IT’S LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT’S FUN TO FINALLY SHOW THE FANS HEY, YOU KNOW, I CAN I CAN CARRY THE LEAD AS WELL. IT WAS FUN TO FLEX A DIFFERENT MUSCLE FOR SURE. >> AT THIS POINT, THEY KNOW EACH OTHER SO WELL IN THE

STUDIO THAT THEY LEAN ON EACH OTHER IN LIFE AS WELL. CHARLES TALKED OPENLY ABOUT THE LAST YEAR OR SO OF OF BATTLING ALCOHOLISM. HOW DID THESE TWO PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE HELP YOU THROUGH THAT? >> I SAY IT ALL THE TIME. I MEAN, I WOULD LIKE TO THINK

I COULD HAVE OVERCOME IT ON MY OWN, MAYBE. BUT LIKE THE IMMEDIATE SUPPORT I GOT FROM MY BANDMATES, FROM EVERYBODY ON MY TEAM THAT WORKS WITH ME AND THEN THE COMMUNITY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, MY LIFE. IT IT MADE THE ROAD SO EASIER FOR ME. AND I JUST FEEL LIKE I’VE BEEN

GIVEN THIS KIND OF SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE AND, AND REALLY PURPOSE SHOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, I JUST I FEEL SO MUCH TOWARDS MY BANDMATES NOW. >> HAPPY HEALTHY AND ON TOUR PLAYING THE HITS OF COURSE TAKING REQUESTS FROM FANS AND ONE FROM US AS WELL. >> ALL RIGHT.

>> TIER THREE, YOU CAN MEMORY AND MEMORY CAN YOU GET I LOVE HOW WHEN YOU ASK THEM TO TALK ABOUT THEIR HARMONY, THEY PREFER TO SING IT AND THEN DESCRIBE IT. WE THANK THEM FOR BEING ON THE PLAYLIST. COMING UP NEXT, CHRISTIAN MEETS CONTEMPORARY MEETS POP. LAUREN DAIGLE IS PUSHING

THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN SINGER. AND IT’S HER A PLACE IN THE SPOTLIGHT. THE LOUISIANA NATIVE WAS NAMED BILLBOARD’S CHRISTIAN ARTIST OF 2023 AND THE TOP FEMALE CHRISTIAN ARTIST OF THE YEAR. WITH A NOD TO THE WAY SHE WORKS WITH AND PURPOSE, I SAT DOWN

WITH THE TWO TIME GRAMMY WINNER TO TALK ABOUT WRITING LYRICS WITH THE HOPE OF MAKING HUMAN CONNECTION AND CREATING A SPACE OF LOVE AND, UNDERSTANDING TO TREAT THESE THINGS, THESE PEOPLE OUT HERE. A QUICK BUT MEANINGFUL PRAYER IN YOUR NAME, WE PRAY. AMEN. MOMENTS BEFORE DAIGLE TAKES THE STAGE, THE AUDIENCE ON THIS

NIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA, A MIX OF CHRISTIAN MUSIC AND FANS WHO JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF HER VOICE, GET THEIR WHEN I CAN’T FEEL HER 2018 BREAKOUT HIT. YOU SAY INTRODUCED LAUREN TO THE WORLD. >> WHY NOT SHARE THIS SONG ROCKETING TO NUMBER ONE ON THE HOT CHRISTIAN SONGS CHART AND STAYING THERE FOR

RECORD SETTING 100 WEEKS. IT ALSO BECAME THE FIRST CHRISTIAN SONG TO HIT NUMBER ONE ON THE ADULT CONTEMPORARY AND NUMBER FIVE ON ADULT POP SONGS. >> YOU SAY WAS THE CRUX OF WHEN I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE, DO I WANT TO STAY IN THIS INDUSTRY OR DO I WANT TO GO HOME?

BECAUSE IT WAS JUST SO POLARIZING. >> AND HOW THAT’S A CROSSROADS AND IT’S GOT A HALF A EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE SUCH A CROSSOVER. I LOVE IT. >> I DID IT AGAIN. YOU SAY SO WIDELY EMBRACED LAUREN FOUND A LARGER AUDIENCE OUTSIDE OF CHRISTIAN MUSIC, HER VOICE, COMPARED BY SOME

MUSIC CRITICS TO ADELE’S THE HIT SONG AND THE ALBUM, IT’S ON LOOK UP CHILD SOLIDIFIED CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN SINGER AS A GLOBAL STAR. >> I HEAR YOU SAY YOU CAN’T SHY HER DYNAMIC VOICE AND INNATE ABILITY TO WRITE CHART TOPPERS . >> LOOK A CHILD. LAUREN DAIGLE, EARNED HER TWO GRAMMYS IN 2019.

>> I THINK IT’S SUCH A GIFT, THIS COMMUNITY OF MUSIC. I LOVE IT. SO SO MUCH AND I AM JUST INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL. >> ALL THE GLITZ AND GLAMOUR OF HOLLYWOOD, THOUGH A LONG WAY FROM HER HUMBLE BEGINNINGS IN LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA ANNA. >> MY BROTHER USED TO SAY, MOM, BAKER, STOP SCREAMING, SHE

SCREAMS OVER THE HOUSE. BUT I DIDN’T KNOW. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. I WOULD LAY ON THE GROUND AND THERE WAS LIKE RADIO OR WHATEVER. AND I LAY ON THE GROUND AND JUST WAIT, LIKE, HOW MUCH LONGER UNTIL ONE OF THEIR SONGS COMES ON? >> HER FAVORITES, CELINE DION, WHITNEY HOUSTON.

THE BEST VOICES IN THE BUSINESS. OH, THAT’S COULDN’T GET ENOUGH. >> WHITNEY JUST STILL TO THIS DAY, I’M LIKE, OH, MY GOD. >> IS THERE EVER GOING TO BE ANOTHER VOICE LIKE THAT? LAUREN FOUND HER VOICE HIGH SCHOOL, HOMEBOUND FOR TWO YEARS WITH AN IMMUNE DEFICIENCY THAT SHE CALLS AN EXTREME FORM

OF MONO. >> MY MOM, TOO, LIKE KIND KEEPING OUT OF DEPRESSION BECAUSE I WAS TURNING TO LEAVE. SHE WAS LIKE, WOULD YOU WANT TO SING? THE FIRST TIME THAT I REALIZED I HAD, LIKE, A VOICE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT WAS I WAS SINGING AT CHURCH AND IT WAS

A TINY CHURCH LIKE 100, 200 PEOPLE. RIGHT AND MY I WAS SCRUBBING TOILETS TO I WAS SOMEBODY MADE AN EXCHANGE FOR VOICE LESSONS. AND I REMEMBER I THINK I WAS A LITTLE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. I DIDN’T HAVE ANY MONEY. >> AND I JUST THOUGHT, I WILL WORK TO GET VOICE, I THINK.

ONCE SHE DID LAUREN SITES SET ON AMERICAN IDOL. LAUREN TRIED OUT IN 2010, THEN AGAIN IN 2012. SHE DIDN’T MAKE IT TO HOLLYWOOD, BUT NOT LONG AFTER THAT FOUND HERSELF BACKUP FOR A MALE LEAD SINGER IN A BAND AUDITIONING FOR A RECORD LABEL. AND THE MORNING OF THE SHOWCASE, HE GETS THIS

APPENDECTOMY. THEY ASKED ME TO STEP IN AND SING LEAD. SO I STEPPED IN AND SANG LEAD AND THEN GOT SIGNED RIGHT AFTER THAT FOR 20 15 DEBUT ALBUM HOW CAN IT BE SPENT? >> SIX WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE ON THE BILLBOARD CHRISTIAN ALBUMS CHART AND EVENTUALLY WENT PLATINUM.

>> THE TITLE TRACK, HOW CAN IT BE A HIT AND FADED THREE YEARS LATER? THE 2018 RELEASE OF HER GRAMMY WINNING LOOK UP CHILD YOUNG AND FRESH YOUNG ASHA RANGAPPA. >> THE SONG. LAUREN IS A PROLIFIC WRITER, SURPRISING US BY WHERE SHE WRITES SO MANY OF HER SONGS.

>> HALF OF MY REALLY? OH, 1,000% IN THE BATHROOM. 1,000%. RESCUE WRITTEN IN THE BATHROOM STOP WAS SUCH A GREAT SONG. LAUREN CHOOSES HER WORDS CAREFULLY, LOOKING TO WRITE ABOUT WHAT SHE CALLS A DEEP HUMAN CONNECTION. >> AND IF YOU CAN, LIKE, TAP INTO WHAT PEOPLE FOR, WHAT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT,

WHAT PEOPLE DESIRE, YEAH, IT ALLOWS YOU TO SEE YOURSELF IN THE AUDIENCE. IT ALLOWS YOU TO SAY, OH, YOU FEEL THAT? I FEEL THAT, TOO. OH, YOU CARE ABOUT. >> I CARE ABOUT THAT, TOO. THAT ABILITY TO CONNECT THROUGH HER LYRICS IN LIVE SHOWS LANDED LAUREN AN INVITATION ALSO

IN 2018 TO SING ON THE ELLEN SHOW. >> PLEASE WELCOME LAUREN BACK WITH A TRIUMPHANT TELEVISION PERFORMANCE, BUT THEN SOMETHING SHE NEVER SAW COMING. >> I GET THIS CALL FROM MY MANAGER AND SHE’S LIKE, YOUR PHONE MIGHT BE BLOWING UP SOON. SHE’S LIKE, YEAH, I MEAN, SOME RADIO STATIONS ARE NOT

PLAYING YOUR SONG FOR HER. THAT MIGHT BE A POSSIBILITY. AND I WAS LIKE, OH, IT’LL BE FINE. IT’LL BE FINE. AND THEN WHEN IT BECAME PERSONAL AS WELL, I WAS LIKE, WOW, THIS IS I’M REALLY PAINFUL. >> NOT JUST LIKE BACKLASH FROM SOME IN THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

FOR SINGING ON A SHOW WITH AN OPENLY GAY HOST. >> IT WAS THE TOTAL END TO THIS ISN’T WHAT I WAS PUTTING OUT INTO THE WORLD. I’M LIKE, OH, I WANT AN ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE TO FEEL AND LOVED AND FEEL LIKE FINALLY A PLACE I CAN LET MY HAIR DOWN

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE KIND HERE. AND THEN THE OPPOSITE WAS HAPPENING. >> FIVE YEARS AFTER THAT PAINFUL MOMENT. HER LATEST SELF-TITLED WITH POWERFUL SONGS LIKE THANK GOD I DO GOD AND OTHER SONGS ON THE ALBUM SHOWCASING HER LOUISIANA INFLUENCE LIKE NEW I DON’T SEE HOW YOU I JUST PETER AND INHERITED

ABOUT LOVING WHAT IS PASSED DOWN, EVEN THE LINES ON YOUR FACE. TEARS FOR THE SORROW YOU LIVE. I TRY TO LOVE THE WAY YOU DO. EVERYBODY THINKS IT’S BUT I DON’T HEAR IT FROM YOU. >> AND THEN, SEVEN YEARS AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT ON AMERICAN IDOL INVITED BACK TO SURPRISE

A CONTESTANT SINGING HER GRAMMY WINNING SONG, IT WAS VERY IT WAS VERY LIGHT. IT WAS VERY HONEST. WE WROTE THIS SONG IS CALLED THANK GOD I DO REAL AND HONEST. THAT’S WHAT LAUREN SAYS. SHE STRIVES FOR IN LIFE AND IN HER MUSIC. ULTIMATELY, SHE SAYS, IT’S ABOUT THAT HUMAN CONNECTION.

>> LIKE YESTERDAY, I WAS SINGING AT THIS EVENT AND ALL I DID WAS SEE A DAD HOLD HIS SON LIKE THIS. AND JUST CLOSE HIS EYES. AND HE JUST SAT THERE WITH HIS EYES CLOSED. I DON’T KNOW WHERE GOING. I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT HE’S EXPERIENCING.

BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE’S SOMETHING DEEP WITHIN THAT SAYS ,YEAH, ME TOO. AND THAT THAT MOMENT, THE EVOLUTION OF THE PEN TO THE PAGE TO ARRIVE SETTING, IT’S LIKE IT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS. >> I LOVE IT SO MUCH. BEING THAT’S WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. THE EVOLUTION FROM THE TO

THE PAGE, RIGHT TO THE FANS. SINGER SONGWRITER LAUREN, THANK YOU FOR THAT? WELL, IT’S A NEW CHAPTER IN A MUSICAL JOURNEY THAT HAS SPANNED DECADES, AND HE’S ACTUALLY A HERO. ONE OF THE ARTISTS YOU JUST HEARD FROM, LADY COMING UP, DARIUS RUCKER, TALKS ABOUT WRITING A GOOD SONG.

NO MATTER, THE GENRE, AND WHO HE’S DEDICATING HIS NEW ALBUM TO. >> EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS ABOUT ME. IT’S ABOUT ME GROWING UP. IT’S ABOUT, YOU KNOW, EVERY SONG THAT WE MENTION IN THERE IS A SONG THAT MEANT A LOT TO ME, AND THAT IS ONE THAT’S

ONE OF THE MOST OF I’VE WRITTEN A LOT OF SONGS. ONE OF THEM, FOR THE MOST PART, OBVIOUSLY THINGS I’VE NEVER BEEN AS, BUT AS HONEST AS I CAN BE RIGHT THERE. >> IF I WOULD SPEAK. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. YOU READY? LET’S IT. YES.

IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS. AND AMERICA RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW? I HAVE TO GO. HOW ARE YOU, YOU GUYS? SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAYS ON NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WILL YOU DO?

MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS. >> MY FAVORITE SHOW. OKAY, IT’S TO START THE COUNTDOWN. SO WHAT WERE THE YEAR 2020 FOR BRINGING 2024 2024? OH, GOOD QUESTION. WHAT WILL ELON MUSK BE DOING IN 2020, 2023? THE ONLY THING WE COULD AGREE ON IS TAYLOR SWIFT.

YOU KNOW, WE’RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO CARRY ON IN 2020 FOR TAYLOR SWIFT AGAIN. COUNTING DOWN TO THE YEAR 2024 WITH ROBIN ROBERTS RIGHT BEFORE NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE. >> WHAT DO YOU SAY WE GET THIS PARTY STARTED SUNDAY NIGHT ON ABC? >> NO REPORTING FROM THE CARTER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY.

I’M THAT. WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING WE’RE JUST IN THE LIVE. >> SO IF DARIUS MUSIC CAREER HAD ENDED IN THE NINETIES AFTER HIS TURN LEAD SINGER OF HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED A REMARKABLE SUCCESS. BUT HIS SECOND ACT AS SOLO

COUNTRY ARTIST FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS IS THE STUFF OF LEGEND CLOSING OUT 2023 WITH A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME. I MET WITH RUCKER TO DISCUSS HIS UNIQUE MUSICAL JOURNEY AND HIS NEW ALBUM, VOICE. DEDICATED TO HIS MOM, HE TELLS US, I DIDN’T LIVE LONG ENOUGH

TO SEE IT ALL UNFOLD. LAYING DOWN. AND THEY JUST WANT TO SIT AROUND AND PLAY. >> COUNTRY MUSIC POWERHOUSE DARIUS RUCKER, CHURNING OUT HUGE HITS BEERS IN SUNSHINE DADDY, SAMMY. ALL RIGHT. GOT IT. ALL RIGHT BY ME. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, I’M HIS

COVER OF WAGON WHEEL BECOMING A SMASH HIT GAME BATTLE BACK STREAMED MORE THAN 600 MILLION TIMES AND ONLY ONE OF FOUR COUNTRY SONGS EVER TO BE CERTIFIED DIAMOND, MEANING 10 MILLION UNITS SOLD. IT’S AN AMAZING AND RARE ACHIEVEMENT WHEN YOU HEAR HOW HIS COUNTRY CAREER BEGAN 15 YEARS AGO IN NASHVILLE.

>> I WAS TOLD TO MY FACE BY SEVERAL THAT THEY DIDN’T THINK THEIR AUDIENCE WOULD EVER ACCEPT A BLACK COUNTRY SINGER. EVER. WAS THE WORD EVER EVEN THE GUY WHO SIGNED ME WAS CALLED THAT IF HE SAW ME, HE’D BE THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF COUNTRY BECAUSE IT’S JUST NEVER GOING TO WORK.

AND HE TOOK HIS CHANCE AND WE WENT OUT AND WE DID IT. >> WE DID JUST LIKE HE DID ALMOST DECADES BEFORE THAT WITH HIS FIRST ICONIC GRAMMY WINNING BAND, HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH, WITH RUCKER’S DISTINCTIVE VOICE ,BAND’S DEBUT RELEASE, CRACKED REARVIEW IN 1994, PRODUCED THREE TOP TEN HITS.

>> RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE. HOLD MY HAND. LET HER CRY. YES. LET HER CRY. GO DOWN. ANGRY. >> THEN ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU. I’LL BE WITH ALL OF THAT. >> JUST A FEW YEARS AFTER HIS BIGGEST SUPPORTER, HIS MOM DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHEN

HE WAS 20 SIX, WHEN SHE, HOOTIE THE BLOWFISH, BECAME A MISSION . I WANTED IT BEFORE I WON THAT I WAS GOING TO GO PLAY ALL THE CLUBS AND DO ALL THE THINGS, BUT LIKE WHEN SHE DIED, IT WAS MY SOLE FOCUS WAS MAKING THAT WE GOT A SHOT.

AND WHEN MY MOM DIED, THAT INTENSIFIED LIKE CRAZY. AFTER WINNING TWO GRAMMYS AND PLAYING WITH HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH FOR MORE A DECADE, DARIUS TURNED TO NASHVILLE, RELEASING HIS DEBUT SOLO COUNTRY ALBUM IN 2008, HIS FIRST SINGLE. DON’T THINK I DON’T ABOUT IT. NOW THAT I GOT DOWN THERE,

I GOT MY NOW HIS 2023 ALBUM RELEASE SIMPLY CALLED CAROLYN’S BOY IS DEDICATED TO. HIS MOM, WHO TRULY BELIEVED HIS SUCCESS WOULD HAPPEN. BUT GOT TO SEE IT. >> AT THE END OF THE DAY, USE YOUR MOM’S WATER. YOU JUST YOUR MOM’S. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE YOUR MOM’S SON?

MEANS TO BE KIND TO ME AND TO CARE. IT MEANS TO WORK HARD. KNOW SHE WAS JUST SPECIAL. SHE. WE DID HAVE. WE GREW UP WITHOUT MUCH, BUT SHE WAS ALWAYS HELPING PEOPLE, ALWAYS MAKING SURE WE WERE, YOU KNOW, HELPING PEOPLE. >> THE NEW ALBUMS LEAD SINGLE WRITTEN DURING THE PANDEMIC

OVER ZOOM RIGHT DOWN HERE. CRAZY WORLD. DADDY CALLING ME INSIDE ME AND THE ONLY B.S. I NEED IS BECAUSE IT’S SUCH A HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN? >> BECAUSE EVERYBODY HEARS ALL DAY LONG, BUT THEY DON’T THINK BEER’S SUNSHINE. EXACTLY. I THINK WHEN WE WERE WRITING, THAT’S ALL.

WE’VE BEEN ON LOCKDOWN FOR A COUPLE MONTHS. IT WAS EARLY IN THE PANDEMIC AND IT WAS JUST STARTED OUT BEING ABOUT THAT. THEN WHEN WE CAME UP WITH THAT LINE, WE WENT AROUND ROUNDABOUT AND, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY SAID IT ON THE RADIO. IT JUST BECAUSE IT’S BECAUSE OF WORD, BE IT. YEAH.

BUT THEN WE IT JUST WORKED AND IT WAS JUST SO RIGHT. IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT WE WANTED TO SAY. >> YOU KNOW, THE ONLY B.S. I NEED IS BEERS AND SUNSHINE. FROM A YOUNG AGE, DARIUS HAD ECLECTIC MUSIC TASTES GROWING UP IN AN ALL BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD, EVERYTHING.

I TOOK A LOT OF GRIEF, ESPECIALLY FROM MY COUSINS AND THE LOSS OF THE MEMORY. BUT HE WOULD COME OVER THE HOUSE AND I’D BE SINGING LITTLE CHARLEY PRIDE OR CHARLIE RICH OR SOMETHING, OR SINGING SOME KISS RECORD. AND, YOU KNOW, THEY’D COME IN AND START TO STEAL.

YOU KNOW, I SEEN AT ONE POINT IN HIS LIFE, OR YOU LISTEN TO THAT. MY MOM WOULD ALWAYS. I MEAN, TIME SHE GRABBED MY COUSIN BRAD BY THE COLLAR, WAS AGAINST THE DOOR AND TOLD THAT TO LEAVE ME ALONE. AND LET ME LISTEN TO WHATEVER WANT TO LISTEN TO THIS RECORD.

AND YOU KNOW, AND I ALWAYS SAY, IF I DIDN’T HAVE HER, JULIETTE, IF SHE WAS PART OF THE CHORUS OF, YOU CAN’T DO THIS. >> I WOULDN’T BE HERE. HIS BIGGEST DEFENDER SHOWERING ,HIM WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, LEADING TO THIS DEEPLY PERSONAL SONG IN 2014. >> SO I SANG NORMAL EVEN ME

AS MUCH AS MOM. SEE, SHE WORKED ALL TIME. THE PRIME FIRST KIDS. >> I HAD TO START PLAYING THAT SONG JUST BECAUSE I CRIED ALMOST EVERY DAY OF IT. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS ABOUT ME. IT’S ABOUT ME GROWING UP. IT’S ABOUT, YOU KNOW, EVERY SONG THAT WE MENTIONED IN.

THERE IS A SONG THAT MEANT A LOT FOR ME AND THAT IS ONE THAT’S ONE OF THE MOST OF. I’VE WRITTEN A LOT OF SONGS. ONE OF THE SONGS, THE MOST PROMISING I SANG BECAUSE I’VE NEVER BEEN AS BAD AS HONEST AS I CAN BE RIGHT THERE, POP COUNTRY DARIUS IS WRITING.

>> HE SAYS HE WRITES TO CONNECT. THAT’S THE GENIUS OF MUSIC. >> YEAH. IS THAT YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE DO EVERY DAY, BUT YOU DO IT THE RIGHT WAY AND WITH THE RIGHT WORDS AND THE RIGHT MELODY. AND YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LOVE IT BECAUSE THEY CAN RELATE TO IT.

LIKE SARA OFF CAROLYN’S. YOU HAPPEN TO PUT SARA TOGETHER WITH ED SHEERAN? I’M HOW THAT CAME ABOUT AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO WRITE WITH HIM. WE JUST KEPT TALKING ABOUT I’M GOING TO WRITE SOMEDAY. AND FINALLY THEY SAID, FORGET IT AND GET ON PLANE AND FLEW

TO ENGLAND WHEN HE WAS OFF. THEN WE STARTED WRITING AND FIRST SONG WE WROTE. HE ASKED ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG, HE SAID, WHO’S YOUR FIRST LOVE? I THOUGHT HIM WAS MY FIFTH GRADE GIRLFRIEND. THE BEGINNING OF THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL. SARA AND THOSE COME BACK 30

YEARS SINCE I HEARD YOU. >> I LOVE IT. I MEAN, 30 YEARS LATER, JUST BLOW YOUR MIND THAT THAT’S WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING. THAT THAT’S WHAT YOU GET TO DO FOR A LIVING. YOU HAVE NO IDEA. AND THIS IS ALSO I WAS THINKING MAYBE I’VE BEEN HOOTIE

THE BLOWFISH DIDN’T PLAY FOR 40 YEARS. ALMOST. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ALMOST 40 YEARS. AND EVER SINCE I WAS FOUR. ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS SING. AND I CAN REACH OUT TO PEOPLE LIKE ANYBODY, GET A CALL FROM DARIUS. YEAH, SURE. LET’S GO. RIGHT AND IT BECOMES THIS BIGGER PLAYGROUND.

AND THAT’S A GREAT THING. THAT’S WHAT IT IS. >> IT’S A PLAYGROUND THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE MY JOB. AND I LOVE THAT LOVE. AND HIS TREMENDOUS SUCCESS NOW HELPING TO PAVE THE WAY FOR OTHER BLACK COUNTRY ARTISTS. >> ONE OF THE THINGS I’M MOST PROUD OF WRONG.

I LOVE MY SUCCESS AND IT’S GREAT HOPE I GET TO PLAY AS LONG AS I WANT TO RETIRE. BUT SEE, IN AROUND DLC AND WE COULD GO AND SEE SEEING MORE ENTREATIES. I’M SO PROUD OF THAT BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT ONE OF THE CATALYSTS WAS. THAT WAS WHEN THEY TOLD ME

WOULDN’T WORK ON MY FIRST RECORD. WE HAD THREE NUMBER ONES AND A TOP FIVE, AND THAT PROVED THAT YOU’RE WRONG. >> AND ONE OF HIS FAVORITE MOMENTS OF THE LAST 40 YEARS, VALIDATION THAT LOVING A BAND LIKE KISS AS A BLACK CHILD IN THE SOUTH WAS, AS HIS MOM TOLD HIM, JUST FINE.

A BALLAD THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST FULL CIRCLE MOMENTS OF MY LIFE WHEN KISS GAVE US THAT GREAT GOT GRIEF FOR LISTENING TO KISS. I GOT SO MUCH GRIEF. ELICIT A KISS FROM I FEEL SO MUCH GRIEF BECAUSE I LOVE KISS, YOU KNOW, I LOST THEM ALL THE TIME.

I WAS FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND WHEN THEY GAVE ME THAT THEIR SECOND GRAMMY, THAT WAS SUCH A FULL CIRCLE MOMENT. THE OTHER ALMOST GREAT BOOK TUPAC AND CAN SHARE MAKE UP. >> FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 79, HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH. >> IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE MIND.

IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE AND YET BELIEVABLE. IF YOU’RE A FAN OF HIS VOICE, HIS ABILITY TO WRITE HIT SONGS AND YOU KNOW HOW HIS MOTHER MADE HIM FEEL LIKE ANYTHING POSSIBLE. I GREW UP IN A CHURCH IN THE SOUTH, AND MY SPIRITUAL IS VERY IMPORTANT. ME.

IT’S JUST PART OF MY LIFE. DOES IT MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT YOUR MOTHER IS SELLING YOURSELF AS YOU KNOW THAT YOU’RE NOT 100%? I REALLY BELIEVE IN MY HEART THAT SHE’S THE REASON SHE GOT TO HEAVEN AND SHE PULLED THE STRINGS, LITTLE MANIPULATIONS. AND, YOU KNOW, HERE WE ARE 30

YEARS LATER AND STILL GIVE THE TALK HERE. THE CRAZY AND THAT RIGHT THERE IS THE CROSSROADS OF GRATITUDE AND EXTREME TALENT WHERE DARIUS RUCKER LIVES. AND THAT’S OUR SHOW. YOU CAN WATCH EPISODE OF THE PLAYLIST RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE AND STREAMING ON HULU. I’M PHIL LIPOFF UNTIL NEXT TIME.

THE MUSIC NEVER STOPS. THANKS FOR WATCHING. >> ALL. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE TRUCK OF FAMILIES HERE, POLAND, A REFUGEE CENTER IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL DESTRUCTIVE FORCE STORM ALONG I-5 IS IN

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AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL THE TELEVISION. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S

TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO. LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THEIR DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S PART

OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS ,START HERE. I KNOW THAT LEGENDARY SINGER CHAKA KHAN AND KNOWN TO THE WORLD FOR MEGA-HITS LIKE AIN’T NOBODY. AND THROUGH THE FIRE. OH WAS BORN A VET. >> MARIE STEVENS AT, THE PARK AND SHE GREW UP IN CHICAGO’S

HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD. >> HER FOND MEMORIES RECOUNTED THE FAN FAVORITE SONG BACK IN THE DAY. >> COME ON, THE STRIP. BUT THANKS TO HER GRANDMOTHER, CHAKA BEGAN SINGING JAZZ AS A CHILD. AND BY AGE 20, IN 1974. TELL ME SOMETHING WAS RELEASED. THIS ALBUM, BASED ON TO THAT,

SHE WAS FRONT AND CENTER AS LEAD VOCALIST FOR R&B FUNK BAND RUFUS. >> BUT HER 1978 HIT I’M EVERY WOMAN IS WHAT PUT CHOC ON THE MAP AS A POWERFUL SOLO ARTIST HERE. WHILE SHE CONTINUED TO PERFORM WITH RUFUS, CHAKA A SOLO CAREER BLOSSOMED WITH HITS LIKE I FEEL

FOR YOU, WRITTEN BY PRINCE HIMSELF. DECADES LATER, WITH MORE THAN 20 ALBUMS, TEN GRAMMYS AND THOUSANDS OF SONGS UNDER HER BELT, INCLUDING IN 2019. >> THE LATE SINGER CHAKA KHAN WAS FINALLY INDUCTED INTO ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME THIS YEAR, RECEIVING THE AWARD FOR MUSICAL EXCELLENCE. BRAD MIELKE.

I GOT A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND SPEND SOME ONE ON ONE TIME WITH THE QUEEN OF FUNK HERSELF . OH, THE QUEEN HAS ENTERED THE ROOM. WHAT A PLEASURE. >> WHAT A PLEASURE. WHAT AN HONOR. THANK YOU. SO GOOD TO MEET YOU. SO GOOD. >> A REMARKABLE PLEASURE TO MEET YOU.

HAVE A SEAT. HAVE A SEAT. NO. WANT TO THIS AT ALL? WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THAT YOU WERE GOING TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME HEY, Y’ALL SHOCKED ME BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED 25 YEARS AGO. >> WELL, I’VE BEEN UP FOR,

LIKE, I DON’T KNOW, SIX, SEVEN GAMES. >> THE GAME WAS RUFUS AND MYSELF. IS YOUR NIGHT, JOHN COHEN. THANK YOU SO MUCH. MY GOD. AND I’M JUST HAPPY THAT’S WHAT IT IS. >> AND NOW IT’S FULL OF MUSICAL EXCELLENCE. YEAH. THAT’S VERY SPECIAL. YES, THAT’S BIG.

>> AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? JUST TO BE IN THAT CATEGORY? WELL, IT MEANS THAT SOMEONE HAS RECOGNIZED THE FACT THAT I TAKE GREAT CARE. I DON’T PLAY. I DON’T PLAY CARDS. >> I DON’T PLAY GAMES. I DON’T PLAY. >> I WANT TO. DO YOU PLAY CARDS?

I DON’T BELIEVE SHE PLAYS ANY GAME. >> WELL, ACCEPTING HER ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME AWARD, SHE ACKNOWLEDGED FELLOW RIVERS BAND MEMBER TONY. >> I LOVE THIS WOMAN WHO SHE SAYS NURTURED HER AS AN ARTIST AND HELPED PROPEL HER JOURNEY INTO SUPERSTARDOM. >> I USED TO BE CALLED RUFUS

WITHOUT HIM AND THE BAND RUFUS, I WOULD NOT BE WHERE I AM TODAY . >> I THINK IT WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE YOUNGER ARTISTS SHE SHARED THE STAGE WITH AT THE CEREMONY. ONE HIGHLIGHT WAS SINGING HER HIT SWEEPING WITH HER. I, I. OH, BABY. OH, MY.

I NEVER GOT THE FEEL FOR YOU. WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. YOU FEEL FOR ME THE WAY YOU FEEL FOR YOU. IT’S LIKE A TIME LIMITED YOU PUT UP WITH HER DOING WHAT I LOVE. YOU WANT TO HELP PEOPLE, TO SQUEEZE YOU, TO LOOK ONE MY TIME. BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT THE ONE

THAT MORE THAN JUST THE PHYSICAL TREATMENT THAT YOU’RE MAKING MAKE YOU WANT TO STAY. AND SAYS IT WAS A THRILL PERFORM IT ALONGSIDE. COME IN FOR A SPECIAL RAP RENDITION OF I FOR YOU THE WHOLE WORLD FOR HER AND COMMON SENSE. CHAKA HAS BEEN AND STILL IS A SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE ON THEIR

WORK AS ARTISTS. >> AND THEN YOU JUST CELEBRATED YOUR 70TH BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR AND LOOK GOOD THANK YOU. >> I KNOW PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S THE SECRET THEY ASK YOU ALL THE TIME. I HAVE A GOOD A GOOD AH, A GOOD HEART. IT’S YOUR HEART. IT’S ABOUT. HMM.

ALL RIGHT, SO LET’S GO BACK. LET’S GO BACK. >> 50 YEARS AGO, QUEEN LATIFAH HAD TO REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT A SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO GIRL. >> YOU GREW UP THERE SINGING AND PERFORMING. I HEARD YOU USED COMPETE AGAINST THE EMOTIONS AT TALENT SHOWS. MOM MADE YOUR CLOTHES. YEAH, SHE MADE OUR DRESSES.

THERE WERE FOUR OF US, TWO GIRLFRIENDS ON THE BLOCK. MY SISTER THAT WE CALL THE CHRYSALIS. AND SHE TOOK US AROUND TO VARIOUS TALENT SHOWS IN THE CITY. OUR BIGGEST COMPETITION, WHERE THE EMOTIONS, THE EMOTION, THEY WOULD WIN AND WE WOULD WIN . >> AND L.A. WAS LIKE THAT.

SO WHEN DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAD THIS POWERFUL VOICE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU? WAS IT SOMEONE WHO SPOTTED YOU OUT? OR DID MOM SAY, WAIT A MINUTE, THERE’S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU? WELL, MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER SAID TO ME SHE WAS A SPIRITUALIST. SHE SAID TO ME ONE DAY,

EVERYONE WILL KNOW YOUR NAME. I LIKE SEVEN OR EIGHT, AND I HEAR YOU OFTEN CREDIT TO GOD FOR YOUR VOICE. >> I ABSOLUTELY DO. IT’S MY GIFT. IT’S A GIFT SHE GAVE ME. AND YOU’VE INFLUENCED SO MANY PEOPLE. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. YOU’RE J. BLIGE, A PRINCE, AND WHITNEY HOUSTON.

GOD REST THEIR SOULS. THEY HAVE SAID THAT YOU ARE AND WERE AN INSPIRATION. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WORKING PRINCE, WHAT WAS THAT LIKE AS A FRIEND? >> HE’S THE MOST HONEST, YOU KNOW. AND WHITNEY, FOR ME AND THOSE TWO PEOPLE, I COULD REALLY SAY THEY WERE REALLY GOOD OF MINE.

YOU KNOW, IT’S HARD TO CULTIVATE IN THIS BUSINESS. THIS ISN’T A BUSINESS THAT IS CONDUCIVE TO THAT. YOU KNOW, SHE HAD GOOD FRIENDS AND YOU TRUST THAT THESE TWO PEOPLE. SOMEHOW WE CUT THROUGH THE SOUND BARRIER AND THE BARRIER TIME AND LACK THEREOF AND BECAME, YOU KNOW, BELOVED. >> YOU’RE SO REAL.

WHAT YOU HUMBLE. >> EVERYBODY THAT I KNOW WHO’S EVER INTERVIEWED YOU, WHO’S EVER BEEN TO A CONCERT, EVER CAME IN CONTACT WITH YOU. >> THEY SAY SHE IS A REAL SISTER. >> WHAT KEEPS YOU GROUNDED? BECAUSE I AM LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. FUNDAMENTALLY WE’RE ALL THE SAME. MM-HMM. AND ANYBODY WHO DOESN’T

GET THAT IS TRIPPIN A STRETCH OF IT. AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THINK THAT THEY ARE GOD. MM-HMM. BUT THIS IS CRAZINESS. AT ONE POINT, DO YOU THINK WAS THE TURN WHEN YOU STARTED TO BECOME THIS THIS BIGGER THAN LIFE, THIS POWERHOUSE? >> WAS IT WHEN YOU WERE,

YOU KNOW, WITH RUFUS OR LEAVING RUFUS? >> I HAVE NO IDEA. MM-HMM. I’M NOT THAT INTERESTED IN THAT. THAT’S NOT WHY I’M DOING THIS. I DO IT BECAUSE I HAVE TO. BUT I THINK THAT’S WHY PEOPLE LOVE YOU. THAT’S WHY THEY CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF YOU. PERHAPS. THAT’S RIGHT.

SO, WANT TO DO SOMETHING? I WANT TO DO A NAME. A SONG. SINCE GOT TO GO BACK IN MEMORY LANE. >> AND I JUST WANT YOUR FIRST THOUGHTS CAME THROUGH THE FIRE. >> AND THE FIRE. OH, BEAUTIFUL SONG. >> EVERYONE SAID IT WAS AN. MM-HMM. AND IT WAS CALLED CHAKA.

SO HE WROTE WORDS TO IT AND SENT IT TO ME. HOW COULD I NOT DO IT? HE THEN SONG AFTER I SAID, HEY, I FIGURED IF IT GOT DO YEAH. >> AND IT’S A LOVELY SONG IS A BEAUTIFUL SONG. >> DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU FEEL? YEAH. DO YOU LOVE RUFUS?

HE IS STILL ON THE SHOW. ONE OF MY FAVORITE SWEEPING IN THE WORLD WORLD. AND COOL. THAT WAS JUST A SHOW. OH, GREAT. I HOPE WE CALL IT. YOU KNOW, WE REHEARSED IT AS A GREEK THING. DISCRETE THING. MM-HMM. NEAT THING. WE JOKE BECAUSE SOME OF THE SONGS.

>> I’LL BE SINGING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. OH, YEAH. YOU ADD TO THE CLASSIC THEIR CLASSICS THAT SO MANY OF US LIKE HAVING, YOU KNOW, A HUSBAND FOR A REALLY LONG. >> OH, I’M EVERY WOMAN. THIS HAS BECOME AN ANTHEM THE OF THE SONG FOR ME FOR

A LONG TIME. I TOOK THAT SONG PERSONALLY AND. I FELT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE SAYING IT. I DARE I SAY I’M EVERY WOMAN IS THAT. >> AND I DO THINK THAT IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU, MISSY. IT’S JUST ME. >> SO YOU’RE SAYING COLLECTIVELY WE ARE. WE ARE. EVERY WOMAN AIN’T NOBODY.

THAT’S A GREAT SONG. THAT’S JUST FOR ACE IN THE HOLE AND THAT YOU START ROCK AND ROLL. WHEN I SAID THAT, YOU START. KOPLINSKI DAVID HOP OLINSKY WAS A KEYBOARD PLAYER. CAME UP WITH THAT. HMM. I WISH, I COULD. >> I FELT LIKE I DID. KNOW. REALLY MOVING.

IF HE KNEW ME VERY WELL. MM-HMM. YOU KNOW, AND SO HE KNEW JUST HOW TO, YOU KNOW, PUT MY VOICE OUT THERE. AND I, THE PLATFORM, YOU KNOW, THAT I WAS. AND I STILL ENJOY SINGING THIS SONG. >> TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD. TELL ME ABOUT. YOU KNOW, THERE’S ACTUALLY MANY GREAT SONGS.

>> STEVIE ALSO CHANNELED ME ON THAT ONE SORT OF GOSPEL SONG THAT YOU GO TO. >> I LOVE KIMBROUGH SINGING OVER THOSE AND THE FEELING, OH, OH, DON’T STOP, DON’T STOP, STOP. OH, AFTER SHE IS A MUSICIAN, SINGER. MM-HMM. SHE NO DOUBT. MM-HMM. I AND. AND ALL OF HER.

AND TO GET YOUR BLESSING. OH, I DON’T KNOW THAT I’M TELLING. SHE MOVES ME. I LOVE HER. I THINK I’M SITTING IN RIGHT NOW, AND I’M JUST A LITTLE BIASED BECAUSE I LOVE THINGS. SOME CHAKA. I THINK WE ALL DO. BUT WE’VE HEARD SO MANY ARTISTS

WHO TRY TO MIMIC YOU, WHO SAMPLED OR TRIED TO COVER SOME OF YOUR PIECES. >> THERE ONE OR TWO IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GOT IT RIGHT NOW TOGETHER SAYING FUNKY FOR JAMAICA? WELL, MY OH MY GOD. I THOUGHT WAS ME.

>> I WAS DRIVING MY CAR AND I SIT THERE AND LIKE I HAD TO PULL OVER. I SAID, WAIT A MINUTE, WHEN DID I DO THIS? AND THEN AS I KEPT LISTENING, I HER TOM BROWN ON TRUMPET AND OH, AMAZING. >> YOU’VE RELEASED 22 STUDIO ALBUMS, TEN OF THEM GOLD AND

PLATINUM. YOUR RECORDED MUSIC HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN 2000 CATALOG SONG PLACEMENTS. HAVE WE HEARD THE. NO CHATTER. THAT’S ALL THAT FIRST QUARTER NEXT YEAR WE GET A SAMPLE AND WE’RE GOING TO GET BACK TOGETHER. AND THEN I TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT. OH, NO, I’D LOVE TO.

I’D LOVE TO DO THAT. SO WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING? WHAT KEEPS THINGS FRESH? GOOD MUSIC, GOOD SONGS. IT IS THE LAND OF THE ANGELS. MM-HMM. I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY THAT DOESN’T LIKE SOME KIND OF MUSIC, DO YOU? >> I LOVE ALL MUSIC. >> I FEEL THE SAME WAY YOU DO.

I LOVE MUSIC. >> I NEED IT AS I USE IT AS MEDICINE. MM-HMM. LET’S MOVE. >> ALTERATION, YOU KNOW, AND. WELL. AND HEALING. MM-HMM. I FEEL LIKE I. I HEAL. >> WHEN WE COME BACK. CHAKA SHARES HER TAKE ON INFLUENCING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND DISCUSSES HER EXPERI.

IT’S WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE. WHAT’S IT HARD TO OPEN UP ABOUT THAT? BECAUSE I KNOW I’M A GROWN WOMAN. ALSO, FIND OUT WHO SHE CHOOSE TO PLAY HERSELF IN A CHAKA KHAN. AND WE’LL TAKE A LITTLE TRIP DOWN MEMORY TO WHEN CHAKA TOOK THE DANCE FLOOR BY STORM.

JOSH COHAN GILL AND RAE KUMAR. WE ARE REALLY GOING TO BE. I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST A TRAUMATIC NIGHTMARE. >> PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE WANTED BABIES. 18 WERE FACING LIFE AND, DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL.

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AND 2015, AT 62 YEARS OLD, SHAQ APPEARED ON SEASON 21 OF ABC’S DANCING WITH THE STARS. LUCKY AUDIENCE MEMBERS GET TREATED TO A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE UNFORGETTABLE HIT THAT LAUNCHED HER SOLOAREER. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ARTISTS? BECAUSE I MEAN, WHEN I THINK

OF CHAKA KHAN AND MANY OF US, YOU KNOW, THAT VOICE IS REAL AND VOICE IS REAL TECHNOLOGY. GOD GAVE HIM ALL OF THAT. WHAT DO YOU THINK THOSE WHO USE TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE? >> IT’S A FREE COUNTRY AND DO IT EVERYDAY LIKE NO, I DON’T DO THAT.

>> I COULDN’T LIVE MYSELF. I MEAN, LIKE IF I PITCHED USE PITCHING SOME LIKE THAT. MM-HMM. OUT OF SADNESS THE DAY. LONG UNTIL I GET IT RIGHT, YOU KNOW. >> BUT IT HASN’T CHANGED OVER THE AS IF ANYTHING. EXCEPT THAT I DON’T EVEN KNOW

IF I CAN SAY IT’S GOTTEN BETTER . >> YOU KNOW, GREAT. YOU KNOW YOUR VOICE. OH, YOUR VOICE. YES. YES, MA’AM. IT DOES HAVE A DIMENSION TO IT THAT. YEAH, BECAUSE I LISTEN, MILES AND I SOUND LIKE A BUMBLEBEE. I BUY BOTTLES VERY FAST,

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WITH DAVID, ERICA’S NUMBERT” ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSSHE TELEVISION AND GAVE IT TO ME. WHAT DO YOU SAY? >> MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOWND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LO OF NEWS TODAY.

SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LIEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAD ARE MERLE WORDS AND SEE WHAT THE “NEW YORK TIMES” CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST LISTENING TO YOU START HE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW AT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING.

>> WHEREVE YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> IT’S TIME FOR “GMA LIFE”. TIS THE SEASON FOR FINDING CASH WITH A HOLIDAY OF SHOW ME THE MONEY. GET READY TO THIS STORE AND SAY LORI’S GOT THE PERFECT HOLIDAY SHOPPING IDEAS, ALL FOR BRIGHTEN MORALE TRADING SCREENS FOR STORIES. CHARLIE AND KATE GIBSON

WITH NEW INITIATIVE TO GET KIDS READING. THEN ONE OF THE BIGGEST SURPRISES IN MORNING TV HISTORY AS YOU GIVE A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY TEAM OF HEALTH CARE HEROES. >> HELLO AND WELCOME TO “GMA” LIFE. I MARCHED AND SANG AND I’M LORI BERGAMOTTO RIGHT NOW.

>> WE’RE BACKSTAGE IN THE “GMA” GREENROOM. COMING UP ON “GMA” LIFE, I’M GIVING YOU MY TOP FROM CRATE AND BARREL. PLUS, CHARLIE AND KATE GIBSON HAVE TIPS FOR GETTING KIDS READING. AND WE’RE HONORING THE HEALTH CARE HEROES. A MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER SO IMPORTANT. BUT FIRST, TIME FOR SHOW ME

THE MONEY HOLIDAY EDITION HELPING PEOPLE FIND THEIR LOST CASH. DEMARCO MORGAN PLAYED SANTA FOR . >> SOME CHICAGO CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS. TAKE A LOOK AT NOTHING, THE MAGIC OF THE SEASON QUITE LIKE CHICAGO’S KRIS CANDLE. MORE THAN 50 VENDORS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD SPREADING . THAT WARM HOLIDAY CHEER.

HOT CHOCOLATE, PLEASE. >> AND WHILE IT IS THE SEASON OF GIVING THESE, SHOPPERS ARE ALSO HOPING IT COULD BE THE SEASON OF RECEIVING OUR FESTIVE SHOW ME THE MONEY BOOTH MANNED BY SANTAS HELPERS FROM THE ILLINOIS STATE TREASURER’S OFFICE. LOOK IT UP NAMES TO SEE IF ANYONE HAS ANY UNCLAIMED MONEY

HIDDEN IN THEIR STOCKINGS. >> AND IF YOU FIND MONEY, YOU’LL GET THE IDEA. >> OH, THIS WOMAN RING IT IN 42 BUCKS. MONEY SHE’S ALREADY PUTTING TO GOOD USE. WE SOME CHOCOLATES THAT WERE PAID FOR ON BEHALF OF THE STATE TREASURY. THANK YOU. SHOW ME THE MONEY.

>> THIS COUPLE REJOICING AFTER LEARNING THEY, TOO, HAVE SOME AMOUNT OF MISSING MONEY OWED TO THEM FROM AN EMPLOYER. AND ALL HAS TURNED OUT TO BE 26 BUCKS. >> AND THIS WOMAN LINE AWAY WITH A SLEIGH FULL OF CASH HAD DIED AT FIVE. WHY? >> WOW. THAT’S GOING TO HELP.

THAT MONEY FROM OLD SAVINGS ACCOUNT. SHE THOUGHT SHE CLOSED. SO HOW THIS HAPPEN? LET’S ASK ILLINOIS STATE TREASURER MICHAEL FRERICHS. PEOPLE MAY HAVE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS AT A BANK AND THEY CALL TO CLOSE THEM ALL, BUT THE BANK ONLY CLOSES ONE OF THEM. THIS IS A MISTAKE. BUT THERE’S NO MISTAKE

ABOUT THE SET ASIDE SURPRISE WAITING FOR THE LOCAL SALVATION ARMY CITY POLICE TO GET YOUR NAME DEMARCO FROM GOOD MORNING AMERICA. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD THANK YOU. WHY DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO? LUCKY. LUCKY GUYS LOVE PEOPLE. AND WHEN YOU SEE A NEED, YOU JUST WANT TO MEET IT.

YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU GET BACK, IT COMES BACK TO YOU. OH, YEAH? WELL, I GOT THIS CHECK RIGHT HERE. SO THIS IS $63,786. IT’S $0.17. AND IT’S FOR ALL OF THE SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER CHICAGO. THAT IS FANTASTIC. RIGHT, ROB? HAPPY HOLIDAYS. THE TREASURY SAYS MOST OF THAT

MONEY DONATIONS THAT FOR SOME REASON NEVER MADE IT TO THE SALVATION ARMY. NOW, SOME THAT 63,000 GOING DIRECTLY TO HER CHICAGO COMMUNITY CENTER. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS HOW GRATEFUL WE ARE. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE. WE SEE FAMILIES WHO JUST DON’T AND HAVE SIMPLE, BASIC.

SO THIS IS THIS IS TREMENDOUS. THANK YOU. >> NOW, THE COOL THING ABOUT THIS IS YOU CAN SEARCH FOR MONEY FOR FRIENDS FAMILY MEMBERS, EVEN LOVED ONES WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO MISSING MONEY.COM AND IT’S FREE. AND SOMEBODY ASKS FOR A FEE OR A PERCENTAGE.

>> RUN AND RUN FAST. THANK YOU. DIMARCO. >> AND NOW TO WILL GANSS. HE’S VISITING THE MOST CHRISTMASSY TOWN IN THE UNITED STATES. >> WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS TOWN. WE ARE SO EXCITED TO BE HERE. FROM THE ALPINE COASTER, WINDING ITS WAY, THE MOUNTAINS TO THE LARGEST NUTCRACKER

MUSEUM IN THE WORLD, WE CAME TO SEE WHY 3 MILLION VISITORS ANNUALLY CALLED THIS THEIR HOME AWAY FROM HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. >> THERE’S CHRISTMAS MAGIC IN THESE MOUNTAINS. MAGICAL, FESTIVE. WONDERFUL. MORE THAN HALF A MILLION CHRISTMAS LIGHTS MAKING THIS MOST CHRISTMASSY COSMOPOLIS SOUTH OF THE NORTH POLE, WRAPPING.

>> NESTLED IN THE FOOTHILLS OF TOWERING CASCADE MOUNTAINS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, THE BUSINESS OF CHRISTMAS IS BOOMING. >> THIS LAST WEEKEND WAS A 20% GAIN FROM THE POSSESSION COUNTS OF THE LAST YEAR. DECORATING STARTS IN EARLY OCTOBER, TAKING A TEAM MORE THAN 1000 HOURS WITH LIGHTS WEIGHING A TOTAL OF £6,000.

ERICA BOWIE AND HER FAMILY, THREE GENERATIONS STRONG RUN LEAVENWORTH REINDEER FARM. I’M ABLE TO SEE A THOUSAND PEOPLE A DAY THAT COME TO ME AND THEY GO, I BELIEVE YOU GET TO LIVE ON A REINDEER FARM AND DO THIS FOR WORK. WHAT WOULD SAY IS THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION PEOPLE HAVE

ABOUT REINDEER? REINDEER DO NOT EAT CARROTS. WHITE REINDEER NEED SOFT FOODS TO EAT. >> THE GINGERBREAD FACTORY CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF SWEET SUCCESS. >> WE JUST KEEP MAKING. WE HAVE A LIGHT OUT THE DOOR AND WE’RE SHIPPING AS WELL. DO HAVE A FAVORITE CREATION THAT YOU’VE MADE?

>> YES AND IT WAS THE SEAHAWK STADIUM AND THE GUMDROP ON TOP ,WHICH BECAME A LOT OF PEOPLE’S FAMILY TRADITION DOING CHOICE. AND THE FACT THAT WE GET TO BE A PART OF THESE FOLKS STORIES, AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE. >> CHRISTMAS IS NOT A DATE. >> IT’S A STATE OF MIND.

AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ALL OF THOSE THAT YOU’RE SEEING UP THERE, THEY STAY UP THROUGH THE END OF FEBRUARY. SO YOUR CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS CAN CONTINUE WELL INTO THE NEW YEAR HERE IN LEAVENWORTH. >> THANKS SO. WELL, WHEN “GMA LIFE” RETURNS, I’M TAKING YOU SHOPPING AT CRATE AND BARREL DEALS, LAURIE.

>> PLUS, WE’VE GOT TIPS FOR MOTIVATING YOUR KIDS TO READ MORE. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS, “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE, MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL THE TELEVISION EVENTS.

>> FUNNY MAN WITH THUNDERBIRDS TOUCHES ON THE LEFT. EVERYTHING IS SO FAR BETTER BESIDES THE ONE JUST A LITTLE BIT SMILING ON THEM. ANYWAY, I GOT A CHANCE TO SOME OF LIKE GOOD MORNING AMERICA. ALL ACROSS THE WORLD. THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE IT

AS IT HAPPENS LIVE FOR GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS. SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN STREAM ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL OF TELEVISION. STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

>> WE ARE FILLING THE BORDER. >> I WAS TERRIFIED. >> IT WAS JUST A TRAUMATIC NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE WANTED BABIES. 18 MILLION FACING LIFE AND DEATH. MEDICAL CONDITIONS. THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH

ARE DEBATABLE. ONE VOICE GOES UPON MY WORST ENEMY. DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WELCOME BACK TO “GMA”. TIME FOR SHOT. THIS STORY IN THE HEART OF MANHATTAN’S FLATIRON DISTRICT. WE ARE GETTING A FIRST LOOK AT CRATE AND BARREL. BEAUTIFUL AND SPRAWLING NEW HEADQUARTERS.

>> LET’S SHOP. DON’T MISS OUT ON CREATING BARREL’S IN-HOUSE LINE OF COOKWARE AND GLASSWARE LIKE THIS HIP, LARGE WINE GLASS. IT’S DISHWASHER SAFE. >> IT’S BEEN A TOP SELLER FOR THEM FOR OVER A DECADE, AND IT CAN FIT AN ENTIRE BOTTLE OF WINE. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT

THE KITCHEN BY CRATE IN PARTICULAR. THIS CERAMIC FRYING PAN IS TOP REVIEWED AND IT HAS A NONSTICK DINING SMOOTH SURFACE, MEANING IT RELEASES FOOD WITH UNPRECEDENTEDLY. THIS 23,000 SQUARE FOOT LOCATION ALSO BOASTS SOME EXCITING NEW OFFERINGS LIKE IN-HOUSE FLORAL ARRANGING AND MONOGRAM ING SERVICES, WHERE YOU CAN PERSONALIZE VIRTUALLY ANY TEXTILE

RIGHT HERE IN THE STORE LIKE THIS BARREL CHAIR. IT COMES IN FIVE DIFFERENT COLORS AND IT’S AMAZINGLY WHICH THEY MADE THIS IN MY SIZE. AND IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT THIS IS A GO TO SPOT FOR HOLIDAY DECOR. AND TIS THE SEASON FOR SCORING THE BEST THEY HAVE TO OFFER

LIKE THIS BEST SELLING CYPRESS GARLAND REVIEWERS LOVE THE FEATHERY FRONDS AND HOW REALISTIC IT LOOKS AND I TAKE THIS ONE HOME WITH ME THANK YOU LAURIE THAT’S THE HOST OF THE BOOKCASE PODCAST, KATE AND CHARLIE GIBSON. THEY’RE SHARING TIPS FOR GETTING KIDS AROUND THE COUNTRY MORE ACCESS TO BOOKS AND MOTIVATED TO READ.

>> GET WITH A DAY IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THAT FAMILIAR TUNE AND FRIENDLY SMILE, BRAD ROGERS BUILT A LEGACY OF STORYTELLING, SPARKING CURIOSITY IN YOUNG KIDS. ON HIS SHOW, MISTER ROGERS NEIGHBORHOOD. I’M AN ELEPHANT AND I STOP MY FOOT. CAN YOU DO IT. >> SURE CAN. SO WHO BETTER TO TALK TO THAN

EMILY? SHE’S THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE BRAD ROGERS INSTITUTE AT VINCENT COLLEGE. >> BRAD TALKED A LOT ABOUT THERE’S A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE. INSISTING ON SOMEONE DOING SOMETHING AND ESTABLISHING AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH THEY CAN GROW INTO WANTING DO IT. IT’S HARD TO FORCE SOMEBODY TO READ, AND THAT’S NOT REALLY

WHAT WE TO BE DOING, RIGHT. >> SO HOW DO YOU DO IT? ONE IS BRAD TALKED A LOT ABOUT UNHURRIED TIME. >> THIS IS A DAY THAT WE CAN JUST RELAX. >> IT’S SO EASY TO GET OVERLY SIGNED UP FOR EVERYTHING, BUT PROTECTING SOME UNHURRIED QUIET TIME IS A BIG STEP ONE.

THE VERY BEST THING THAT CAREGIVERS CAN DO IS LET YOUR CHILDREN SEE YOU LOVE READING. THAT’S WHAT BRAD DID ON THE SHOW. KIDS NOW GET SEDUCED BY SCREENS. HOW CAN YOU COUNTERACT THAT SEDUCTION THAT OCCURS WITHOUT, AS YOU SAID, COMMANDING IT? >> START TRAINING YOURSELF THAT WHEN YOU HAVE DRIVE TO

GRAB YOUR PHONE, MAYBE GRAB A BOOK. YOUR CHILD WILL SEE THAT. AND OVER TIME THAT WILL START TO INFLUENCE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH FREE TIME. >> SO SOME TAKEAWAYS HERE IF THEY WILL HELP. NUMBER ONE, READ TO YOUR KIDS. NUMBER TWO, MAKE THERE IS TIME SET ASIDE FOR QUIET, MAYBE

A HALF HOUR OF TV. >> THEN EQUAL QUIET TIME WITH READING AVAILABLE. ARE YOU GOING TO RUN AND READ IT IMMEDIATELY? >> NEXT, MY KATE MET WITH KATE DICAMILLO, WHO HAS WON JUST ABOUT EVERY AWARD A CHILDREN’S AUTHOR COULD WIN. WRITTEN THREE DOZEN BOOKS, THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX BECAUSE

OF WINN-DIXIE, MERCY WATSON SERIES, JUST TO NAME A FEW. THEY MET AT RED BALLOON BOOKSHOP IN MINNEAPOLIS, ALONG WITH SOME KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS. KATE DICAMILLO STARTED BY READING TO THEM FROM HER BOOK, THE PULITZER OF SMELL HORSE. ONCE THERE WAS A KING AND A WOLF AND A GIRL WITH

A SHEPHERD’S CROOK READING IS LIKE A GLASS BOTTOMED BOAT RIDE. WHEN SOMEBODY IS READING ALOUD TO YOU. IT’S JUST LIKE YOU’RE LOOKING AT THE WORLD TOGETHER AND YOU CAN SEE THE WORLD HIDDEN INSIDE OF THE WORLD THAT WE ALREADY KNOW. I MENTIONED TO KATE THAT RESEARCH SHOWS MORE THAN

60% OF LOW INCOME FAMILIES CAN’T AFFORD BOOKS AND DON’T HAVE ANY AROUND THE HOME. >> YOU CAN AND I WILL TEAR UP TALKING ABOUT THIS ANYWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY. WALK INTO A PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND THEY WILL BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO FIND THE RIGHT BOOK FOR YOU. ANYBODY HAS ACCESS TO THAT.

THAT’S THE FIRST THING I SAY. AND THE SECOND THING I SAY IS LET THEM SEE YOU READING YOUR OWN PLEASURE. >> AND SO TAKE AWAY NUMBER THREE, USE THE LIBRARY. >> IF YOU CAN’T GET TO THE LIBRARY, CALL THE LIBRARY. THE LIBRARY HAS LOTS OF WAYS TO GET BOOKS TO YOU.

NUMBER FOUR, LET YOUR KIDS SEE YOU. TAKE OUT SOME BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY FOR YOURSELF. NUMBER FIVE, HAVE YOUR AS SOON AS THEY ARE ABLE READ TO YOU. >> SOMETIMES WHEN I’M TALKING TO A ROOM FULL OF KIDS AND ADULTS I’LL SAY TO THE KIDS, GO HOME AND READ TO YOUR

ADULT LIKE YOUR COOK AND DINNER AND YOUR KID IS READING TO YOU. >> IT’S THE BEST. >> A GIFT. ANOTHER IDEA FROM RESEARCH, TAKE AWAY NUMBER SIX. USE THE SCREENS, DOWNLOAD SOME BOOKS YOU CHOOSE WITH YOUR CHILDREN ON THEIR PHONE OR ON YOUR TABLET. MAKE TIME, READING TIME.

THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. OKAY. WHO’S GOING TO TOP THAT ONE? THAT’S KATE TALKING THE KIDS AT RED BALLOON BOOKSHOP. ONE BOY TOLD HER ABOUT A GREAT IDEA THAT HIS TEACHER EMPLOYED TO GET HIS STUDENTS TO READ. WE HAD A READING IN MY CLASS AND HE HAD HIS LITTLE PAPER

WHERE HE LIKED READING AND WRITE. THE BOOK CAME DOWN AND THEN YOU STAPLE THEM TOGETHER AND THEN YOU. SO EVERYTHING THAT THE WHOLE CLASS IS READ IS IN A CHAIN AROUND THE CLASSROOM I CAN MAKE UP. SURE. I LOVE IT. I WANT TO MAKE IT FOR A WHOLE RANGE OF PEOPLE.

>> HIGH IN THE UNION. >> WHEN “GMA LIFE” RETURNS, ONE OF THE BIGGEST SURPRISES IN MORNING TV HISTORY. WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON. IN BUFFALO, YOU’VE ALL DAY TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW.

WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY. CHECKING YOU THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE CHARLIE. THAT WAS THE CRAZY STORY OF HOW THE LEMAY HOLLYWOOD MOVIE PRODUCER LALA KENT

REALITY STAR “VANDERPUMP RULES” AIR CONTROLS ABOUT THESE BEYOND HOT 20 SOMETHINGS. THIS IS THE JUICIEST TIME IN REALITY SHOW HISTORY. HOW COULD I NOT HAVE BEEN SMARTER? HOW IS MY DAUGHTER HAVING TO PAY FOR MY STUPIDITY AND ME NOT TO BE BLACK? WHO WAS RANDALL? EMMETT. REALLY?

OVER 30 LAWSUITS AND EVERY ONE. MY FIRST INTERACTION WITH RANDALL WAS HIM IN HIS UNDERWEAR, DRINKING TOTALLY HYPER AND WORKING IN THE WHERE DRAMA RANDALL AND LALA RELATIONSHIPS ARE TO FALL APART . TO HAVE YOUR DAUGHTER LIVING HER LIFE THAT WAY MADE ME FEEL VERY SAD.

>> I HATE RANDALL AND I HAVE TO PUT UP A BIG FIGHT. I DO HOPE HE GETS WHAT HE DESERVES. THE RANDALL SCANDAL, LOVE LOATHING AND VANDERPUMP ONLY ON HULU WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME, THE WORLD ALMOST FADES AWAY. SINCE THE BIGGEST AND THE MOST FAMOUS DOG EVENT THERE IS.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOPE SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOG DANCING IS SERVICED. STEADY HERE. EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC. WINNER OF THIS 2023 PART OF THE SECRET LIFE OF DANCING DOGS NOW STREAMING UNDERGROUND.

>> ALL RIGHT HERE WE GO. READY? LET’S DO IT. YES. IT’S THE SHOW, AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW? GO. HOW ARE YOU, YOU GUYS? SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAYS? ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? YES, I JUST FOUND OUT.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE. NOW. I’M ROB MARCIANO IN TAMPA, FLORIDA, REPORTING ON HURRICANE DALIA. WHEREVER THE WEATHER MAY TAKE YOU, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE DREAMING. >> NEWS LONG. >> WELCOME BACK TO “GMA LIFE”.

IT’S TIME. THE BIGGEST SURPRISE. ARE YOU READY, FRIENDS? I’M READY IN MORNING HISTORY. WE’RE CELEBRATING THE HEALTH CARE HEROES OF MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CENTER. >> TAKE A LOOK. THE TEAM AT MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING WORK EVERY DAY TO CARE FOR SURVIVORS. >> THE ROLE EVEN MORE CRITICAL AS RESEARCH SHOWS EARLY ONSET

CANCER RATES RISING 80% GLOBALLY IN THREE DECADES. >> IT’S URGENT IN THE SENSE THAT IT’S NOT WHAT WE WOULD TYPICALLY KNOW TO SEE. TRACY GOSLIN LEADS THE OVER 5000 NURSES AND SUPPORT STAFF WHO MAKE UP AND ASK, WHAT ARE THE TOP CANCER HOSPITALS IN THE COUNTRY? >> HEALTH CARE IS HARD WORK.

>> THE ADVENT OF TECHNOLOGIES NEW TREATMENTS, NEW WAYS OF DOING THINGS MAKES SOME OF IT EASIER, YET SOME OF IT ALSO HARDER. AS A DEDICATED NURSE ON THE FRONT LINE FOR 30 YEARS, TRACY UNDERSTANDS THE GRAVITY OF THE JOB. >> DURING HER DAILY ROUNDS, THE 18 OLD TRACY’S FOR HER FAMED SELFIES

AND PRIORITIZING PERSONALIZED PATIENT CARE. >> CAN THEY AFFORD THEIR MEDICATIONS? CAN THEY AFFORD CO-PAYS? IT’S A LOT ABOUT HOW DOES THAT FUNDING LOOK TO DO IT BETTER. >> FOR JILLIAN ALLEGRETTI, IT’S HER ROLE AS A COORDINATOR THAT GIVES THE PATIENT A CHANCE TO TAKE CONTROL. >> I WORK ALONGSIDE ALL THE

NURSES, ENSURING PATIENTS ARE SCHEDULED FOR THE RIGHT TREATMENTS. WHAT’S YOUR DAY TO DAY LIKE? SO THAT I CAN WORK YOUR APPOINTMENTS AROUND YOUR LIFE. >> WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT JILLIAN IS THAT SHE’S A BREAST CANCER THRIVER. TREATED AT MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING SIX YEARS AGO AND IS 20 FOUR.

>> CANCER CAN GO TO ANYBODY AT ANY TIME AND AT ALL TIMES. I WORK IN THE EXACT INFUSION UNIT THAT I WAS CHEMO. >> IT’S THE STAFF HER NOW COWORKERS WHO STOOD BY JILLIAN SIDE DURING HER PROCEDURES AND SURPRISE ON THE FINAL DAY OF CHEMO ONCE. THESE WERE PEOPLE THAT SAVED

MY LIFE. >> AND NOW I GET TO WORK WITH THESE SUPER HUMANS THAT GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO, DO EVERYTHING FOR PATIENTS. >> ALSO ON BOTH SIDES, 27-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA MORALES. HELLO. HOW ARE YOU DOING? >> NOW A DOOR ATTENDANT AT THE HOSPITAL. I’M YOUR MIND OFF YOU BEING

NERVOUS ABOUT WAITING IN THE WAITING ROOM, GETTING YOUR BLOOD DRAWN AND THE RESULTS OF IT. JOSHUA, ONLY THREE YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS ADMITTED TO MSK AS A HIGH RISK PATIENT, ENDURING MULTIPLE LIFE SAVING ROUNDS, CHEMO AND A BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT. A LOT OF PEOPLE SEE. THEY SAY, HEY, LISTEN, THIS

GUY’S, LIKE, IN GOOD SHAPE. OR WHEN I TELL THEM I’M A PATIENT, THEY NEVER BELIEVE IT. >> THOUGH JOSHUA AND JILLIAN GRATEFUL FOR THE COMPASSIONATE CARE THEY RECEIVED AND THEY’RE NOW ABLE TO GIVE HELPING OTHERS THRIVE. >> IT HELPED ME GET THROUGH MY SITUATION, SO I WANT TO BE

THE SAME WAY TO SUPPORT SOMEBODY. THE WHY WE DO THIS EVERY DAY IS DEEPLY PERSONAL. I THINK IT’S HIGHER ORDER CALLING OF CARING FOR HUMANITY DURING A PRETTY TOUGH TIME IN SOMEONE’S LIFE. >> I WASN’T THAT INCREDIBLE USING HERE. NOW. JOSHUA EVEN JOINED US. IT’S SO WONDERFUL TO HEAR

ABOUT BOTH OF THEIR JOURNEYS IN THAT. AND ALSO JOINING US IS DR. VICKERS. HE IS THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF MEMORIAL KETTERING. YOU CAN CLAP FOR HIM TO ALL THE WORDS I WAS WITH HIM, THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF CITADEL, AND ALSO HAD A PHILANTHROPIC GROUP, GRIFFIN CATALYST, I WANT

TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT YOU IN JUST A MOMENT, KENNETH, BUT I JUST WANT TO TALK TO THESE TWO RIGHT NOW. DON’T WE BOTH? WE DO. JOSHUA, WE SAW YOU AS A THREE YEAR OLD THERE AS A PATIENT AT MSK. NOW YOU’RE THERE. YOU’RE GREETING PATIENTS AS.

THEY GET OUT OF THEIR CARS WITH A BIG SMILE. WHY DID YOU THINK THIS WAS THE RIGHT ROLE FOR YOU? I FELT LIKE THE PERFECT FULL CIRCLE MOMENT. YOU KNOW, BEING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL. A PATIENT AND AN EMPLOYEE, YOU KNOW, IS COOL TO GIVE CARE NOW AND.

RECEIVE CARE WHEN I WAS A CHILD. SO THE SAME FEELING THAT THEY GAVE ME WHEN ME AND MY PARENTS WALKED IN THE DOOR AND THE WARM WELCOME. BUT EVERYTHING IS SAME WAY. I COULD GIVE BACK THE SAME WARM WELCOMES AND EASE PEOPLE’S MIND WHEN THEY COME THAT, LIKE YOU SAID, FULL CIRCLE.

FULL CIRCLE. AND JILLIAN, ONE OF THE NURSES THAT TREATED YOU WHEN YOU WERE GOING THROUGH YOUR OWN FIGHT, LIKE THE WARRIOR THAT YOU ARE, IS WITH US TODAY. TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW SHE INSPIRED YOU TO GO FULL CIRCLE AND NOW DO THAT SAME

WORK THAT THEY ALL DID YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY? AFTER MY DIAGNOSIS WAS ALWAYS MY DREAM CAREER TO WORK AT MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING AND SEEING HOW ALL THESE NURSES EVERY DAY, ALL THE COORDINATORS, EVERYBODY THAT WELCOMES YOU, I JUST REALLY WANTED TO BE A PART OF THAT TEAM. AND NOW THAT I’M ON THAT,

I SOMETIMES LIKE STAND BACK AND JUST FEEL REALLY HONORED TO WORK WITH THESE AMAZING PEOPLE IN UNIFORM. AND YEAH, KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW PIVOTAL THEIR ROLES WERE. YEAH. IN SAVING YOUR LIFE. YES. YEAH. DID YOU GET TO DO THAT NOW? YES. AND I’M VERY GRATEFUL. AND IT’S IT’S VERY SURREAL

THAT LIKE A FULL CIRCLE, LIKE HE SAID. AND I I KIND OF GET TO GIVE BACK. IT’S AWESOME. NURSES AND THE POSITION THAT YOU’RE IN AS WELL. SO MANY UNSUNG HEROES, SO MANY UNSUNG HEROES. AND WE’RE SINGING YOUR PRAISES RIGHT NOW AND SOMEBODY WHO’S GOING TO HELP US DO THAT?

I WANT YOU TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS GENTLEMAN RIGHT THERE. KENNETH IS HEAD OF CITADEL INVESTMENT FIRM AND GRIFFIN CATALYST AND HAS DEVOTED HIS PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS TO GOING AFTER SOLUTIONS TO LARGE SCALE PROBLEMS WITH A POTENTIAL THE POTENTIAL FOR LIFE CHANGING IMPACT. AND HE HAS SAID HE WANTS TO SEE

CANCER ERADICATED AND BELIEVES IN THE IMPORTANCE OF PATIENT CARE. SO GUESS WHAT, EVERYONE, KENNETH, BLESS YOU FOR THAT. GUESS WHAT, EVERYONE? YOU’RE NOT JUST HERE TO BE RECOGNIZED. YOU ARE HERE FOR SO MUCH MORE. WE HAVE A BIG SURPRISE STORE. ARE YOU READY TO HEAR THE LARGEST GIFT EVER GOING

TO SLOAN KETTERING. THE LARGEST GIFT EVER. ARE YOU READY FOR THAT? WELL, WE’RE GOING TO NEED HELP. WE’RE GOING TO NEED YOUR HELP. SO ON THE COUNT, WE’LL SHOW THE AMOUNT IN 3 TO 1 DAY, RIGHT? YOU’RE. THAT’S RIGHT. 400 MILLION. DUE TO HIS IMMENSE GENEROSITY, MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING

IS RECEIVING THE ULTIMATE GIFT OF $400 MILLION. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT? EVERYBODY TRYING. UNBELIEVABLE THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT WILL MAKE IN SO MANY LIVES. KENNETH, WHY WAS THIS? I’M SORRY? WHY WAS THIS SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO DONATE AND SUCH A LARGE NUMBER THAT WILL MAKE SUCH

A HUGE DIFFERENCE. >> SO SO ALL OF US HERE DURING THE DAY THAT WE END CANCER. YES. AND THIS GIFT IS COMING FROM BOTH DAVID GEFFEN AND FOR TO MSHA AND DOCTOR BECAUSE YOUR YOUR LEADERSHIP, OUR ASK AND YOUR TEAM, JUST EXTRAORDINARY. AND I AM CERTAIN THAT MSHA

WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN ENDING CANCER IN OUR LIFETIME. BUT UNTIL DAY, THE TEAM AT MSK, THE TEAM, ALL OF YOU ARE PART OF GIVE THE PATIENTS THAT ARE CANCER, HOPE, DIGNITY AND, COMPASSION IN THEIR CARE. AND WE KNOW THAT CANCER IS MORE JUST A DISEASE. IT’S A MOMENT OF INCREDIBLE

EMOTIONAL CHALLENGE AND ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU DO TO HELP OUR THE PATIENTS AT MSK BE CANCER AND FIND THEIR LIVES AGAIN IS GOD’S WORK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. DAVE AND I ARE SO TO BE IN A POSITION TO SUPPORT THE GREAT WORK THAT MSK. YEAH.

I HOPE YOU FEEL THE EMOTION FROM FROM EVERYBODY THAT IS HERE. THERE’S NOBODY THAT HAS NOT BEEN IMPACTED, BOTH PERSONALLY WITH FAMILIES AND FRIENDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT IMPACT THAT EVERYBODY TO VETERANS JUST TALK ABOUT $400 MILLION. HOW IS GOING TO HELP YOUR TEAM ACHIEVE WHAT IT IS THAT YOU ALL TO ACHIEVE?

>> AS I WAS TALKING TO KEN EARLIER, THIS GIFT HAS TRANSFORMED. NOT ONLY IS THE LARGEST, BUT IT MEANS SO AT THIS TIME. AND SO I PERSONALLY WANT TO THANK KEN FOR BEING HERE AND DAVID, IF HE’S WATCHING FOR ALLOWING THESE RESOURCES TO MOVE TOWARD WHAT I THINK IS A TREASURE IN AMERICAN

AMERICAN HEALTH CARE, MORRIS SLOAN-KETTERING IS A PLACE THAT LIVES DAILY, KNOWING THAT PERSON WHO COMES THROUGH THOSE DOORS, THEIR LIFE IS THREATENED BY A DIAGNOSIS, NOT JUST A CHRONIC ILLNESS, BUT IT’S THREATENED VERY MUCH. AND WE TELL THEM EACH DAY WE HAVE THIS AND WE’RE GOING

TO ALLOW YOU TO THRIVE, AS YOU SAID. SO THIS TRANSFORMATIVE GIFT WILL ALLOW US TO, FIRST OF ALL, TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE, WHICH IS FIRST, OUR PATIENTS. SECONDLY, OUR 20,000 MEMORIAL INDIVIDUALS ARE FACULTY AND DOCTORS, OUR NURSES, OUR STAFF, OUR RESEARCHERS, WHO ALL PLAY THIS ROLE IN DISCOVERY.

IT WILL CONTINUE TO ALLOW US TO TAKE THE PROGRAMS THIS GOLDEN AGE OF CANCER CARE TO TRANSFORM OUTCOMES AND PATIENTS LIVES AT A PLACE LIKE MEMORIAL BECAUSE RESOURCES THIS. AND THIRDLY, IT WILL ALLOW US TO CREATE FACILITIES THAT ARE STATE OF THE ART TO REALLY CREATE THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE THAT WE KNOW

PATIENTS HAVE ALONG THIS JOURNEY. NOT ONLY THE OUTCOMES THAT ARE REALLY SPECIAL AT MEMORIAL, BUT THE EXPERIENCE OF GOING THROUGH, KNOWING THAT WE CARE ABOUT YOU AS MUCH AS WE DO, CARE ABOUT THE OUTCOMES. AND SO, KEN DAVID, THIS IS A GIFT. >> I COULDN’T HAVE DREAMED OF SOMETHING GREATER AND.

WE HEAR FROM OUR STAFF AND HEAR FROM THE LIVES THAT WE TOUCHED AND THAT WE WILL TOUCH. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO DO EVEN MORE SO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR NOW TO OUR CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF DISNEY MAGIC. >> “GMA” IS JOINING FORCES WITH DISNEY AND THE MAKE-A-WISH

FOUNDATION TO GRANT 100 WISHES? >> YES. MEET LINCOLN. HE WAS JUST FOUR YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LEUKEMIA. HE’S NOW SEVEN AND IN REMISSION. AND HIS WISH OF GOING TO DISNEY WORLD WITH HIS FAMILY CAME THROUGH. I LOVE THAT FOR HIM. THAT’S ALL FOR “GMA LIFE”.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. . I THINK ESCAPISM IS GOING TO BE INSANE WITH DAWN. >> DON’T YOU KNOW THEM CHORDS THAT THE SONG IS UPBEAT. >> BUT FOR US RAY PLAYED IT LIKE THIS SEASON TWO AND I’M SICK AND I’LL HEAR ALL OF MY DIE IN MY METHOD AT THE BAR

SOMETHING I DO WANT YOU NIGHT. >> I KNEW THAT I WANT TO FEEL HOW OTHER NIGHT I DON’T WANT TO FEEL HOW I DID GO I AND ANYTHING WE EVER SEE I MEAN THINGS ASKING ME WHY IS IN THE MIDDLE OF HER LONGEST TOUR YET 133 SHOWS WHEN I COME OUT

THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT TO SAY YEAH WHAT DO HAVE SOME THINGS IN THE BIBLE THERE’S NO RULES, I DON’T KNOW. AND I’M ALSO A VERY PERSON. I COULD WAKE UP SOMEWHERE AND BE LIKE, I FEEL LIKE WE’RE GOING TO DROP AN EP FULL OF THIS.

THIS I JUST YOU JUST DON’T KNOW WITH ME. >> BUT THERE’S NOTHING TO REGRET. OTHER THAN THIS FULL, FULL KICK DRUM POUNDING IN MY HEAD. ONE THING IS FOR SURE, THOUGH, THERE IS A LOT OF MUSIC AHEAD COMING OUT FROM RAY AFTER DECADES ON THE SCENE WITH THE

BODY OF WORK CEMENTING THEM AS AN INDIE MUSIC STAPLE YOUNG, THE GIANT IS STILL FINDING WAYS TO INNOVATE AND CONNECT TO A DEEPER MEANING. ON THEIR FIFTH AND LATEST STUDIO ALBUM, AMERICAN BOLLYWOOD LEAD SINGER SAMIR GADHIA TAPS INTO HIS FAMILY AS INSPIRATION TO WRITE AND PRODUCE SONGS ABOUT IDENTITY AND ROOTS.

I SAT DOWN WITH SAMIR TO TALK ABOUT HIS CAREER AND THE IMPORTANCE REPRESENTATION AS ONE OF THE ONLY INDIAN FRONTMEN IN AMERICAN MUSIC. THE CHART IS BROWN AND YOUNG, THE GIANTS SELF-TITLED ALBUM RELEASED IN 2011 TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM. THEIR FIRST HUGE HIT, MY BODY, FOR IT.

AND OF COURSE, WAS ALSO COUGH SIRUP. THE BAND FORMED IN 2004 UNDER ANOTHER NAME, THE JAKES. BUT SOME MEMBERS GO BACK FURTHER THAN THAT. A TEENAGE TALENT SHOW. >> I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH TWO OF THEM AT THE TIME. THEY WERE DOING THEIR OWN THING.

>> IT WAS A COUPLE OTHER GUYS. I’M ROPED INTO DOING IT WITH ME . WE SAT DOWN WITH LEAD SINGER SAMIR GADHIA IN HOUSTON AT 713 MUSIC HALL. >> SOME OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS OF THIS ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE MOST NOTEWORTHY VENUES OR THE MOST ICONIC. OFTENTIMES, IT’S JUST THE PLACE

YOU WOULDN’T EVEN EXPECT. >> THAT MUST BE LIKE A EUPHORIC FEELING. IT’S AMAZING. A FEELING ALMOST LEFT BEHIND AT A CROSSROADS IN COLLEGE, WHEN HE WAS PRE-MED AT STANFORD. >> I THINK MY PARENTS ME TO BE SUCCESSFUL AN AVENUE THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF REPRESENTATION AND SO OBVIOUSLY

THE STEREOTYPICAL ONES ARE YOU KNOW THE DOCTOR, THE LAWYER. >> BUT WHEN SAMIR THOUGHT ABOUT BEING A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN, HE COULD ONLY NAME ONE OTHER INDIAN ROCK STAR QUEEN’S, FREDDIE MERCURY, BORN FARROKH BASRA TO BRITISH INDIAN PARENTS. >> BUT FARROKH CHANGED HIS NAME TO FREDDIE AT BLOSSOM AND HOW

MANY INDIAN PEOPLE BROWN PEOPLE STILL DON’T KNOW THAT HE IS INDIAN. I KNEW FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE AND I DIDN’T THINK ABOUT THAT. BUT MAYBE IT IT MADE THESE DECISIONS TO ME THAT, OKAY, MAYBE I HAVE TO CHANGE SOME THINGS. A BIT FOR IT TO BE ACCEPTED

BY A LARGER GROUP OF PEOPLE. I THINK THOSE VERY LIKE SMALL BUT INSIDIOUS THINGS THAT I’VE LIKE PICKED APART OVER THE COURSE OF TIME. >> I MADE THAT INTENTION NOT TO DO THAT. >> SAMIR CHOSE NOT TO CHANGE HIS NAME AND HAS BEEN OUT FRONT FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS.

MY GOAL ALSO IS TO BE ABLE TO NOT JUST BE A ROLE MODEL, BUT TO BE JUST AN EXAMPLE OF REPRESENTATION AND SUCCESS AND SHOW THAT THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND ARE THE WAYS TO DO IT. AND IF IF I’D SEEN THAT WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, MAYBE I WOULD

HAVE EMBRACED IT SOONER. >> AND HE SAYS HE WISHES MUSICIANS WEREN’T SEPARATED BY GENRE. YOU SAY IT SEGREGATES THE ARTISTS WHO MAKE IT. SO I MEAN WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT? LIKE URBAN MUSIC, YOU THE WAY YOU DESCRIBE AN URBAN POPULATION, IT’S VERY SIMILAR MUSIC AND LIKE ANY ART FORM

RESPONDS OR RIPPLES TO THE SECRET CODES THAT WE HAVE IN OUR CULTURE AND. SO THERE ARE WAYS OUTWARDLY, OBJECTIVELY, THAT PEOPLE CLASSIFY MUSIC NOWADAYS, MAYBE. I THINK THERE’S A CERTAIN POINT IN TIME WHERE MUSIC MAYBE DID CLASSIFY THE STYLE OF MUSIC, BUT I THINK NOW MORE THAN EVER

KNOW, IN AN ERA WHERE THERE’S A KIND OF POST GENRE TERMS OF THE WAY STUFF IS SOUNDING LIKE THERE’S INFLUENCE FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE AND WE’RE ALL MELDING STUFF TOGETHER. >> YOUNGER GIANT HAS CERTAINLY DONE THAT OVER THE YEARS, LIKE WITH MIND MATTER, THE TITLE TRACK OFF THEIR 2014 RELEASE,

SEASON TEN STARE IN 18 SUPERPOSITION OFF MIRROR MASTER BOOM AND FOR THEIR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM, RELEASED IN 2022, AN HOMAGE TO HIS ROOTS. >> THERE’S AN EMPOWERMENT OF THE SOUND OF THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA MUSIC AND ITS STRONGHOLD ON WESTERN MUSIC OVER THE DECADES. AND SO, YOU KNOW, AT THE

BEGINNING WE ARE WE ARE USING MORE TRADITIONAL ELEMENTS THAT PEOPLE CAN PICK APART AND BE LIKE, OKAY, THIS IS A TABLA, THIS IS A SITAR THE LYRICS IN WAKE UP, THE FIRST LINE AS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, IS WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT OF THE INDUS VALLEY. I WAS GOING BACKWARDS AND I

SWEAR I SAW ME. I LOVE THAT LINE. YEAH, I MEAN, IT SETS THE TONES. THE RECORD IS LOOSELY INSPIRED BY THE STRUCTURE OF, THE MAHABHARATA, WHICH IS PART OF THE BIOGRAPHY, WHICH IS A, YOU KNOW, LARGER INDIAN HINDU TEXT. >> NOW THAT YOU’RE HERE WITH AMERICAN BOLLYWOOD,

YOU ARE MUSICALLY, WHAT KIND OF FEEDBACK HAVE YOU GOTTEN FROM YOUR FAMILY? THE AMERICAN BOLLYWOOD? THAT SONG IN PARTICULAR IS THE STORY OF MY PARENTS AND THE STORY OF MY FATHER. AT 24, HE TOUCHES DOWN IN MICHIGAN. THAT’S THE FIRST TIME HE EVER SAW SNOW. AN AMERICAN DREAM IS REALLY

HARD TO CONJURE WITH. AND THEN JUST THE BEAUTY. THEN I THINK, IS VALIDATING FOR THEM. YOU KNOW, FOR ALL THE STUFF THAT THEY’VE ENDURED OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR LIFE. >> SAMIR IS NOW A OF TWO BOYS WHO DON’T HAVE TO LOOK FAR AT ALL TO SEE THEMSELVES REPRESENTED IN MUSIC.

YOUNG THE GIANT IS STILL SELLING OUT SHOWS, GRATEFUL FOR THEIR FANBASE. >> AND ON THIS NIGHT IN A SPECIAL PRE-SHOW PERFORMANCE HONORING THOSE DOING REALLY WELL ON THE AND JUST BEFORE TAKING THE STAGE KIND ENOUGH TO INDULGE A LONGTIME FAN WITH A VERSE FROM COUGH SIRUP.

GOOD TO SEE YOU AS WELL TO SOME FOR THAT SHE HAVE DONE. AND AFTER ALMOST TWO DECADES, SAMIR’S FAVORITE PART OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS. STILL THE LIVE SHOW. YOU KNOW, I AM OPEN READY, AND I DON’T EVER WANT TO BE CLOSED OFF TO INSPIRATION. THE I THINK THAT I DON’T

I FORGET WHO SAID THIS, BUT I THINK THE SECOND AN ARTIST THINKS THAT THEY’RE THE ONES WHO ARE WRITING THEIR SONGS IT’S WHEN IT’S DONE BECAUSE YOU REALLY ARE JUST CHANNELING SOMETHING. >> YOU’RE CHANNELING SOME CREATIVITY AND AGAIN, WANT TO THANK SAMIR FOR INDULGING ME LOVE COUGH, SIRUP.

>> IT’S STILL TO COME. FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, THIS DUO HAS BEEN SERENADING LOVERS WITH SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE BALLADS FROM THE 80S. I SAT DOWN WITH LOVE SONG LEGENDS, AIR SUPPLY TO TALK ABOUT HOW THEIR HITS HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. >> WE’VE ALSO CONSIDERED

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FOR HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME FOR SURE. THE AUSTRALIAN DUO SPENDING MOST OF THEIR TIME LIKE DECADE AFTER DECADE DECADE, TOURING THE LEGENDARY PAIR, SHARING SECRET TO LONGEVITY, A BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONGS THAT STAND THE TEST OF TIME. >> FEW GROUPS HAVE DONE IT BETTER THAN AIR SUPPLY FROM

THEIR HITS. ALL OF LOVE LOST AND, LOST IN LOVE, GUITARIST AND GO TO EVERY LOVE SONG IN BETWEEN. >> GRAHAM RUSSELL AND RUSSELL HAD BEEN RECORDING HUGE HITS AND TOURING THE WORLD FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS. >> WE TOURED EVERY YEAR EXCEPT COVERED YEAR FOR SINCE 1970S WITHOUT A STOP.

ON THIS NIGHT IN REDBANK, NEW JERSEY, WE WATCHED AS THE AUDIENCE SANG EVERY WORD. >> THEN WE SAT WITH THE LEGENDARY DUO. >> THANK YOU BOTH FOR DOING THIS. WE STARTED HOW THEY MET IN 1975, BOTH IN THE SAME PRODUCTION JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR IN AUSTRALIA. >> NEITHER OF US HAD MUSICAL

BACKGROUND OR ANY TRAINING OF ANY KIND, BUT WHEN WE MET WE KNEW SOMETHING WAS GOING ON BECAUSE WE’D SING BETWEEN SHOWS AND SUPERSTAR. PEOPLE WOULD COME BY AND GO, WOW, YOU GUYS SOUND AMAZING. WE WENT ON TOUR THE NEXT DAY AFTER SUPERSTAR CLOSED. >> WE HAD A NUMBER ONE RECORD IN AUSTRALIA.

THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM, IT HAPPENED THAT FAST, AND JUST A YEAR LATER THEY WERE ON A WHIRLWIND TOUR OPENING FOR ROD STEWART. >> BUT WHEN THE TOUR ENDED, WE GOT BACK TO AUSTRALIA. >> YOU COULDN’T GET ARRESTED. YOU KNOW, WE WE HAD SEVEN IN THE BAND. I THINK WE WERE GETTING OFFERED

$200 A NIGHT TO PLAY. AFTER TOURING LOTS. YEAH. YEAH. WE, WE WERE NOT. NO, WE HAD NOTHING. I WENT AND STAYED WITH MY SISTER IN MELBOURNE AND WORK DOING JINGLES HERE AND THERE AND NICK GRAHAM SAID HE’D WRITTEN SOME SONGS WHEN IT WOULD COME TO ADELAIDE AND ONE

OF THOSE SONGS WAS LOST IN LOVE AND I WENT, THAT’S A MONSTER RIGHT THERE. >> AND IT WAS THEIR 1980 RELEASE. LOST IN LOVE CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR THE BRITISH ROCK GROUP, CERTIFIED DOUBLE PLATINUM IN THE U.S. AND FROM THE TITLE TRACK TO ALL OUT OF LOVE AND EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD.

AFTER THAT, THERE WAS NO LOOKING BACK. THE NEXT YEAR THEY DROPPED THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE WITH HITS LIKE HERE I AM, WHO ARE YOU? >> THREE MORE ALBUMS IN THE EIGHTIES. ANOTHER FOUR IN THE 90S. AND THREE RELEASES SO FAR IN THE 2000S. >> THERE ARE BANDS THAT LAST IF

HAVE 15 OR 20 YEARS. THAT’S A SUCCESSFUL CAREER. YEAH. YEAH. YOU GUYS ARE NOW IN 47. YOU’RE SELLING OUT SHOWS, YOU’RE DOING TO A WEEK ALL YEAR LONG. STILL WITH VALID ENTHUSIASM. >> 23. JUST AS MUCH AS WE WERE IN 1976 . >> MAKING LOVE OUT OF NOTHING AT ALL.

EVEN THEN, IT’S A BETTER. EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD LIST GOES ON AND ON. THEY CROSS DECADES BECAUSE YOU WERE WRITING LOVE SONGS ON A GUITAR WITH PIANO, AND YOUR VOICES THAT ARE AS VALID AS YOU SAY TODAY IS RELEVANT TODAY AS THEY WOULD BE THEN WAS THERE WAS THAT CONSCIOUS?

WAS THAT A CONSCIOUS DECISION OR WAS THAT JUST HOW YOU WERE WRITING AND SINGING? IT’S JUST THE WAY I WROTE SONGS AND STILL DO. WE DO HAVE A CONSCIOUS DECISION FOR A VERY WHEN WE MADE OUR FIRST RECORD, WHICH WAS A WOMAN OF A SEVEN GUYS, WE

DIDN’T HAVE A PLAN OR. WE REALLY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING. WE JUST KNEW THAT WE BOTH LOVE THIS. AND WHEN RUSSELL WENT IN TO SING IT, EVERYTHING CHANGED BECAUSE SUDDENLY IT WAS, YOU KNOW. BEAUTIFUL SONG. THEN RUSSELL JUST POPPED IT OUT AT THE END AND YOU JUST

HAPPENED TO JUMP UP THE OCTAVE AND SING IT HIGHER BECAUSE YOU COULD DO THAT. >> AND IN THE STUDIO, EVERYBODY. WHOA, THAT’S IT. SO SUDDENLY OUR SOUND WAS CREATED. AND WHEN YOU WRITE THE KIND OF MOVING LYRICS THAT GRAM DOES AND SING THEM THE WAY RUSSELL

DOES, THE SONGS BECOME A PART OF FANS LIVES, ESPECIALLY DURING DEEPLY PERSONAL MOMENTS. >> WE HAD A YOUNG GUY AT A SHOW AND HE SAID, I JUST CAME OUT TO MY DAD AND HE’S DISOWNED ME AND I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT KILLING MYSELF AND I GOT PUT ON ONE OF YOUR RECORDS OR

SOMETHING AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT WORTH ANY OF THIS. >> WOW. THIS IS THIS IS FAR BEYOND SOMEBODY PAYING 20 BUCKS FOR A CONCERT AND GOING HOME WITH SOMEBODY SAID, OH, THAT WAS GREAT. YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY CHANGED SOMEBODY’S LIVES, SAVED, SAVED. AND THEN SAVED SOMEBODY’S LIFE.

SO WE DON’T TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED. AND THAT IS AT THE CORE OF AIR SUPPLY, TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED AND REACHING AS MANY FANS POSSIBLE, HELPING THEM THAT ON TOUR, AN AMAZING GROUP OF MUSICIANS BUILDING ON THOSE LOVE SONGS WITH GUITAR SOLOS, HARD HITTING DRUMS AND A SOLID

BASS LINE, A CHARISMATIC PIANIST KEEPING IT ALL TOGETHER . WE JUST LOVE PLAY AND, YOU KNOW, WE LOVE STEPPING ON STAGE AND SEEING PEOPLE’S FACES THEY JUST LIKE IT. >> I MEAN, YOU CAN’T BUY THAT. YOU ALSO CAN’T BUY THE KIND SUPPORT THEY GET FROM THEIR WIVES. RUSSELL, MARRIED TO HIS WIFE,

CARRIE GRAHAM, FIRST MET JODIE ON THE SET OF THEIR MUSIC VIDEO FOR MAKING LOVE OUT OF NOTHING AT ALL SHE WAS CAST AS HIS LOVE INTEREST. THEY LATER MARRIED EVEN THEN. >> NICE ENOUGH TO GET TOGETHER NOW IN THEIR 17TH. THE LEGENDS ARE NOT SLOWING DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF YET

ANOTHER WORLD TOUR. >> YOU GUYS ARE ROCKSTARS. YEAH. WE’VE ALSO CONSIDERED OURSELVES ALWAYS A TOURING ROCK AND ROLL BAND BECAUSE WE DON’T SEE THEM FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. >> WE’VE DONE OVER 5300 SHOWS, NETWORKS AND NO SLOWING DOWN? >> NO? YEAH, WE DO 120. >> I MEAN, THINK ABOUT THAT 120

SHOWS A YEAR YOU’RE TOURING MOST OF THE YEAR FOR, 50 YEARS, AND THESE GUYS ARE 80. AMAZING. THAT’S SHOW. AND YOU CAN WATCH FULL EPISODES OF THE PLAYLIST RIGHT HERE ON ABC LIVE, ALSO STREAMING ON HULU. I’M PHIL LIPOFF UNTIL NEXT TIME. >> THE MUSIC NEVER STOPS. THANKS FOR

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Great detail having a secret abortion that not even her family knew about. The closer you were to Britney, the more at risk you were of disappearing overnight. The conservatorship saga of Britney Spears raises a lot of questions as to how a person can gets so much control over another person’s life.

I just believe that if my sister wanted to be out of the conservatorship, then that conversation should be had. I hesitate to ask this but. I feel like I need to. Do you ever feel guilty? BRITNEY SPEARS: Everything that you’re about to hear has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional to say the least.

[music playing] JUJU CHANG: That plea from Britney Spears to a judge ruling on her conservatorship in June 2021, now a reality. The 41-year-old sharing her truth in her new memoir, The Woman in Me, saying in her author’s note– [clamoring] JUJU CHANG: Her life, defined by global fame

And extreme scrutiny, now laying bare her heartaches and traumas, including new details about the 13 years a conservatorship ruled her life. What struck you as you read the book about what she was going through that you might not have seen as you were standing next to her? The reality is I saw it.

So what she describes is what she was feeling. And it’s what I observed. This book is an emotional experience. I mean, every page there is a revelation. JUJU CHANG: In many ways, her carefully crafted pop princess image began to crack when her first love broke her heart. I walk into her trailer.

And Britney is not dressed for the next scene. She’s not ready. Her hair and makeup isn’t ready. That’s Britney right there. She looks amazing. JUJU CHANG: Director Chris Applebaum witnessed the breakup firsthand while on set filming her music video “Overprotected.” In fact, she’s in tears. She’s crying.

She’s still in like a like a Juicy Couture sweat suit. And I could immediately tell something was wrong. I asked her if everything was OK. And she said, no, things are not OK because look. And she held out her flip phone. And I saw this text, which said, it’s over,

Which was from her boyfriend at the time, Justin Timberlake. JUJU CHANG: With time running out in their shoot day, Applebaum had to make a decision. It seemed like that was the end of the video shoot. And I acknowledged that with everybody. And said, you know, I completely understand.

But on the other hand, if you feel like you want to get out there and show him that he just lost the best thing that he ever had, let’s do it. 10 or 15 minutes later, she came out. And she was on fire. [BRITNEY SPEARS, “OVERPROTECTED”]

I don’t need nobody telling me just what I want to. CHRIS APPLEBAUM: This was the Britney that everybody knows and loves. JUJU CHANG: Applebaum says, in true Britney form, she pushed away her pain and nailed it. But my life has been so overprotected. JUJU CHANG: But despite the strength she showed that day,

She reveals now in the book for the first time the depths of the heartbreak she hid from the world. “I could barely speak for months. Whenever anyone asked me about him, all I could do was cry. I barely left the house. I was that messed up.

I lay in my bed and stared at the ceiling. The two soon-to-be superstars first met when they were cast in the Mickey Mouse Club remake from Disney, ABC’S parent company. The TV show that brought 11-year-old Britney Spears of Kentwood, Louisiana her first real taste of fame. (SINGING) Baby, when I’m with you.

She beats out thousands of kids to join the Mickey Mouse Club. She’s working with future superstars like Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, and of course, Justin Timberlake. JUJU CHANG: She snagged her first record deal at age 15. Her first two studio albums, among the best selling of all time with hits like–

[BRITNEY SPEARS, “BABY ONE MORE TIME”] –“Baby One More Time.” Hit me, baby, one more time. [BRITNEY SPEARS, “OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN”] Oops, I did it again. JUJU CHANG: “Oops! I Did it Again.” I played with your heart, got lost in the game. [britney spears, “crazy”] You got me crazy.

JUJU CHANG: And “Crazy.” [music playing] Cementing her status as the Princess of Pop, a teenager seeming to own her own sexuality, from steamy magazine covers to MTV appearances and provocative performances at the Video Music Awards. (SINGING) Oh, baby. Don’t you want to? She was immediately a star, immediately. It was really stunning.

And it never stopped from there. The first time I met Britney Spears was at the rehearsal for the first music video I directed for her. I have to admit. I was a little nervous because she was the biggest star in the world at that time.

Back in the day, I would have, you know, there were these wardrobe fittings. And I had these cool Polaroids of Britney that we took. And this is from “Overprotected.” Some of her fans think that this is like some of the best that she’s ever looked in terms of wardrobe.

JUJU CHANG: And the child-star-turned-pop superstar, Applebaum says, was surprisingly down to Earth. The moment Britney opened her mouth, she was like disarmingly pleasant, so kind, and was really caring about wanting to make me feel comfortable. There were couches and chairs in the room. But Britney chose to sit on the floor.

And so I sat on the floor with her. JUJU CHANG: Her work ethic, he says, unparalleled. CHRIS APPLEBAUM: She was probably one of the hardest working people I’ve ever met. I don’t know if there’s anybody else that I’ve seen that’s like that, that just has this drive to perfect every performance.

Britney on a video set was empowered. And her ideas were good ones. And she got what her audience wanted to see in her. JUJU CHANG: Applebaum says he found her talent mesmerizing as he directed her for a pop homage to “I Love Rock and Roll.” [BRITNEY SPEARS, “I LOVE ROCK AND

ROLL”] I love rock and roll. So put another dime in the jukebox, baby. CHRIS APPLEBAUM: She didn’t have a lot of time to rehearse. So she was learning steps and trying things out, essentially, on set. I was watching the monitor. Her performance was so incredible.

I got so lost that I forgot to yell cut at the very end. JUJU CHANG: Applebaum says Britney was comfortable wielding her sexuality. But her management objected. Applebaum saw that tug of war over Britney’s image play out on the set. In this one sequence, like, what

If things get so crazy that the amps start to overheat and start, you know, instead of, like, fizzling we see this like Black goop dripping from it as if it were motor oil? And we see Britney crawling like a cat across the ground until she gets to it.

And then, she licks it up like a cat. Maybe it was off brand. Maybe it was too sexy. Maybe it was too provocative. But we shot it. She loved it. And it’s a good thing that she only needed one take because as soon as her manager saw it, he came over.

And he put his hand in front of the camera and said, that’s it. The shoot is over. That’s it. We’re done. JUJU CHANG: Ultimately, a more sanitized version of the video was released. She says in her book, “No one could seem to think of me as both sexy and

Capable or talented and hot. If I was sexy, they seemed to think I must be stupid. If I was hot, I couldn’t possibly be talented.” She says, she began noticing a sexist double standard in her personal life too, especially when it came to her relationship with Timberlake, at this point

The frontman in boy band NSYNC. [nsync, “bye bye bye”] Don’t want to be a fool for you. Britney says that she kind of envied how carefree Justin got to be. She noticed that the questions that talk show hosts and journalists were asking him were wildly different from the questions that she got asked.

When did you know that you wanted to do a solo album? Honestly, it’s always been in the back of my head. I’m just wondering how you feel about all the constant speculation about your virginity and whether you are a virgin or not? Have there been any changes on that front?

That’s a personal question. JUJU CHANG: At the turn of the century, the pair were teen pop royalty. Their now iconic matching denim outfits at the 2001 American Music Awards, plastered everywhere. She remembers it as a blissful time, two people who totally understood each other, two people who

Uniquely kind of got what the challenges of each other’s lives were. One of the revelations that comes out in this book is that they had a home that they shared in Orlando, Florida. I think at the time, the world perhaps was really intent on painting this picture of virginity of Britney Spears.

And I think discovering that she and Justin lived together really lets you know that this was an adult, fully realized, fully formed relationship that the two of them had. JUJU CHANG: Britney says she hoped it would last forever. But after three years, it was over.

And she now says she was hiding a painful secret. Britney describes an excruciating great detail having a secret abortion that not even her family knew about. JUJU CHANG: Britney claims that Justin said Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal

We have really gone again. I was terrified. It was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand. These were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives now out of their control. I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health our debatable

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“I do, 20 years later, remember the pain of it and the fear. After that, I was messed up for a while, especially because I still did love Justin so much. It was insane how much I loved him. And for me, it was unfortunate.” In light of this revelation, some fans

Are now taking another look with a new lens at the music video of her 2003 hit, “Every Time.” [britney spears, “every time”] Every time I see you in my dreams, I see your face ace. You’re haunting me. KELLEY CARTER: It is essentially about a woman

Who looks as if she might be on the verge of ending her life. But then, there is a birth. And all of a sudden, she is renewed and kind of born again in a way. Was she perhaps telling her fans in a really subtle way that she was pregnant?

JUJU CHANG: In the book, she says her relationship with Justin was troubled in other ways. She writes that he cheated on her multiple times and that she cheated too. But the difference, she says, is that Justin used her infidelity to further his career, playing it out in his “Cry Me a River”

Video, where a Britney lookalike steps out on him. [JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, “CRY ME A RIVER”] Cry me a river. Cry me a river. JUJU CHANG: In a 2003 interview with Rolling Stone, Justin implies it’s Britney’s fault they broke up. “I mean, she has a beautiful heart.

But if I’ve lost my trust in someone, I don’t think it’s right for me to be with them.” The way he brought everyone into their lives, the way he characterized her in that song, that makes this a topic that she gets to address at length because it did,

More than anything else, kind of shatter the image that she had at that point. JUJU CHANG: “”Cry Me a River’ did very well. Everyone felt very sorry for him. And it shamed me. I felt there was no way at the time to tell my side of the story.

I couldn’t explain because I knew no one would take my side once Justin had convinced the world of his version. I don’t think Justin realized the power he had in shaming me. I don’t think he understands to this day.” Britney says, throughout her career, media interviews amplified a distorted image of her,

Adding to her pain. The media kind of made it seem like Britney was the evil-doer. And Justin used his pain to create a really beautiful project. If any of the things that she writes about are real, everybody was wrong. I think it also says something really disillusioning about our perception of men.

We expect men to cheat. So we’re not surprised when we hear about their indiscretions because boys will be boys. JUJU CHANG: And after almost 20 years in 2021, as old interviews resurfaced online, Justin apologized. “I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem,

Where I spoke out of turn or did not speak up for what was right. I specifically want to apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson, both individually, because I care for and respect these women. And I know I failed.” Two years after the breakup with Justin, Kevin Federline would enter her life.

KELLEY CARTER: So she meets Kevin. And Kevin gives her the thing that no one else is able to give her, which is a sense of comfort and partnership at the time. JUJU CHANG: After a whirlwind romance, they married and quickly started building a family, having two sons within two years,

First Sean Preston in 2005, then Jayden James. But she says Kevin was hardly around, trying to make it as a rapper. This is that hip hop flavor mixed with a little bit of rock and roll. JUJU CHANG: And within two months of Jayden’s birth, Britney filed for divorce.

Newly single and struggling with what she now recognizes was postpartum depression, the microscope under which she lived was magnified even further. What’s your 20, guys? JUJU CHANG: Nightline embedded with the online tabloid, Hollywood TV and their team of paparazzi, in 2008 as they followed Britney Spears through Los Angeles. We all make money.

Like, the gym makes money because the paparazzi join. The paparazzi join so they can use the parking lot. Right. So they can use the parking. So it’s kind of a smooth move. Yeah. And then, the apartment building over here makes money from Britney because they rent out the apartment.

So those guys are paying rent up there to look down on the dance studio. See all those guys that kind of look down. Britney economy. Thank you, Britney. The economy of Britney made a lot of people a lot of money, particularly when she was spiraling down.

And so she was, in some cases, provoked because provoking her would get you a response. And that would make for a picture that made more money. JUJU CHANG: Britney and Kevin were locked in a bitter custody battle over their sons. She says he kept them away from her for weeks at a time.

At the same time, she was also grieving the death of her beloved aunt. All this anguish and turmoil once again exploding into the public eye she says leading her to do something that would make headlines for days. Britney Spears is back in the headlines in a big way this morning.

–video of Britney Spears with a shaved head circulates over the internet. JUJU CHANG: Britney explains that moment in the audiobook, narrated by actress Michelle Williams. And when you look at it from that point of view, it’s not really a psychotic break anymore. It’s this symbolic gesture from someone

Who’s in pain who’s rebelling and essentially saying I don’t want to be what all of you are defining or telling me to be. JUJU CHANG: While she says she was never an alcoholic, she does admit for the first time she was abusing prescription amphetamines. KELLEY CARTER: At one point in the book,

She describes herself as being hell on wheels. She was taking a lot of Adderall. And she apologizes and says she probably was horrible to people at that time. JUJU CHANG: In early 2008, she says her fears of losing her sons led to a dramatic standoff with Kevin

When she was supposed to hand the boys back. She wound up hospitalized against her will. “Before I knew what was happening, a SWAT team in black suits burst through the bathroom door as if I’d hurt someone. The only thing I was guilty of was feeling

Desperate to keep my children for a few more hours and to get some assurance that I wasn’t going to lose them for good.” It was that incident and two involuntary psych holds that would lead to a decision that altered Brittany’s life for more than a decade. First, she loses custody of her kids.

Now, she essentially loses custody of herself. Britney Spears’s very public tailspin took another turn after an LA judge named her father conservator of the 26-year-old pop star’s estate. JUJU CHANG: Britney was placed into a conservatorship run by her father, giving Jamie Spears full control of her career, finances, and health decisions.

A conservatorship, whether it be for personal reasons, or for your estate, is handing over the responsibility of another person to take care of someone because they can’t take care of themselves for very either specific reasons, like you can’t enter contracts, you can’t bathe yourself, you can’t make financial decisions,

Or general reasons where we’re just going to do a holistic wraparound taking care of you. AZADEH AALAI: That’s particularly distressing when we look at the history of conservatorships is that there is a lot of discretion that’s given to the evaluation team. Because of that discretion, there is a huge vulnerability for exploitation.

JUJU CHANG: And shortly after, she began one of the biggest tours of her career. Dan George was one of the managers on that tour. People who saw the Circus tour describe it as one of the most memorable concerts of Brittany’s career. [britney spears, “circus”] There’s only two types

Of people in the world, the ones that entertain and the ones that observe. 2008, 2009 was my time with her. The conservatorship was established in February 2008. JUJU CHANG: George says the lead up to Circus was grueling, hitting different cities. Each night to promote the tour. [britney spears, “womanizer”] Womanizer, woman-womanizer,

You’re a womanizer. Oh, womanizer, oh, you’re a womanizer, baby. JUJU CHANG: On her 27th birthday, she gave an over-the-top performance for Good Morning America. (SINGING) Womanizer, womanizer. Womanizer. Boy, don’t try to fight it. JUJU CHANG: What do you remember of that performance?

DAN GEORGE: What was really fun for her about it was her kids were in the audience that day. What she’s saying is the hypocrisy of the conservatorship is that, on the one hand, I’m too sick to make any personal decisions for myself,

But I’m not sick enough to go out and perform, as she says, like a wind-up doll. Yeah, a wind-up doll or the goose who lays the golden egg. Protect the goose. Don’t let it die because we need the golden eggs. But take the eggs. JUJU CHANG: Despite her internal conflict,

George says Britney still brought her A-game every day. It was one of the biggest tours in 2009. Was the Circus Tour seen as a redemption tour or a comeback tour? Well, we didn’t like to say, comeback, because she never really went away. But there was a period of turmoil that was very public.

She was under a lot of scrutiny. You must have asked yourself that same question everybody did, which is, was she OK? Yeah. JUJU CHANG: How did you assess that? Was she OK? DAN GEORGE: It was a hard time. I saw her frustration. I saw her shouting into her phone.

Sometimes she had a phone. Sometimes she didn’t. She was in the hallway of the rehearsal and talking to someone, saying she felt like she didn’t have a voice. This was unprecedented. The idea of a conservatorship had not been done in this context.

JUJU CHANG: But it didn’t seem menacing to you at the time. It seemed like a reorganization, like a company going into bankruptcy and coming out anew. And when I left the organization, we left her in a very good place. So it looked more like guardrails than it did like something oppressive? Yeah.

I thought that the guardrails would be taken off within a year or two of that. I never expected that it would last 13 years. And I was surprised to hear that it did. I’m still scratching my head as to how did you evaluate this conservatorship.

We know it’s supposed to be temporary, to begin with, and then extended to days, to weeks, to months, to 13 years. Was no one checking in on her? What was it about her that we needed to go this far? As a lawyer, I can say, yeah, these could make sense for some people.

I don’t see why it makes sense for Britney Spears. JUJU CHANG: As the tour progressed, George recalls that the controlling grip around Britney seemed to get tighter. He says her inner circle of friends disappeared. DAN GEORGE: The closer you were to Britney, the more at risk With so much at stake.

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I think that it was the people who had Britney’s trust were the most targeted. [somber music] JUJU CHANG: Through it all, she says her father stole her womanhood and that those 13 years under conservatorship were soul-crushing. “I became a robot. But not just a robot– a sort of child-robot.

I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself.” [shouting, whistling] CHRIS CONNELLY: You think, how could she put up with this for so long? And as she says in the book, I did it for one reason only. I did it for my kids.

I did it for my boys. [somber music] Do you ever feel guilty that– Oh, yeah. Well, I wish I could do more. And it was so hard to know. It was incredibly difficult to know. JUJU CHANG: Britney says the Circus Tour grossed $130 million. After Circus–

[britney spears, “piece of me”] You want a piece of me. You want a piece of me. JUJU CHANG: –she’d go on to a landmark four-year Vegas residency. (SINGING) I’m Mrs. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. You want a piece of me. I’m Mrs.– JUJU CHANG: Britney, Piece of Me helped draw a younger

Generation to Sin City. CHRIS CONNELLY: I know feel like to have celebrated the residency is like congratulating a prisoner on how well she made the license plates. You feel, sort of, complicit in thinking that, like, someone who was, essentially, a prisoner was being made to do that.

If there is any good to come out of such a horrible event for Britney Spears, I think it’s society’s viewing of conservatorships in a different light and that they should be examined in a much more thorough and effective way. JUJU CHANG: Britney says her father became a multi-millionaire under conservatorship, with court

Documents showing he made $6.3 million throughout his tenure as conservator. [pensive music] Jamie Spears defended the conservatorship in a 2022 interview, telling the Daily Mail, “For protecting her and also protecting the kids, conservatorship was a great tool. Without it, I don’t think she would have got the kids back.”

Her father is cast as a business failure, an alcoholic, a verbally abusive father who she tried to avoid as much as possible. JUJU CHANG: One could even argue that her father was Britney’s first heartbreak. “The saddest part to me is that what I always wanted

Was a dad who would love me as I was, somebody who would say, ‘I just love you. You could do anything right now. I’d still love you with unconditional love.’ My dad was reckless, cold, and mean with me.” She says his alcoholism made him unpredictable and volatile. –really made you stop.

[claps hands together] Britney’s younger sister, Jamie Lynn, shared her memories about their dad when I spoke with her last year. You are very candid and vivid about your dad’s drinking. How did his drinking shape your lives, both you and your sisters? For me, it was–

Created a lot of anxiety of the not knowing what I was going to get and also feeling like I didn’t have anybody there to just cut it out until it could be consistent. So for me, I think it contributed a lot to my– later on, my anxiety or my OCD.

Do you agree with her assessment that your father was out of line? I just believe that if my sister wanted to be out of the conservatorship, then there should– you know, that conversation should be had, and she should be able to facilitate that. And I tried many times to do that for her.

JUJU CHANG: Britney believes Jamie Lynn did not try to help her in her time of need. But her little sister claims she tried. So you didn’t always agree with the conservatorship? Everyone has a voice, and it should be hers. So if she wanted to talk to other people, then I did.

I set that up, yes. I would put I put her in contact with several people who could have helped this situation. How many times can I take the steps without– you know, she has to walk through the door. What was your reaction when the conservatorship was dissolved? I mean, I was happy.

I was– first off, I don’t understand when it was put into place nor was I focused on that. I was focused on the fact that I was a 17-year-old, about to have a baby. I understand just as little about it then as I do now. JUJU CHANG: But the conservatorship

Left Britney feeling betrayed by her whole family. “As I was fighting the conservatorship and receiving a lot of press attention, she was writing a book, capitalizing on it. She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous. I was really let down. Shouldn’t sisters be able to confess their fear

Or vulnerability to each other without that later being used as evidence of instability?” Tell me about just how close you were. I felt like she was another mama. It was like– it was safe, you know? It was more than love. It’s like I adored her.

I just felt like everything to me, you know? What happened to that love? What has caused this rift between you? Oh, nothing has happened to that love. That love is still there, 100%. I love– I love my sister. JUJU CHANG: And Britney still clearly has a soft spot

For her little sister as well. “She will always be my sister, and I love her and her beautiful family. I wish the absolute best for them.” While Britney says she felt wronged by her family, an unlikely savior appeared. [crowd cheering] Her devoted fans launching the Free Britney Movement, and they prevailed.

Today, effective immediately, the conservatorship has been terminated as to both the person and the estate. [crowd cheering] This is a monumental day for Britney Spears. JUJU CHANG: After 13 years, Britney was finally free. Posting on social media– I’ve been in the conservatorship for 13 years.

It’s a really long time to be in a situation you don’t want to be in. So I’m just grateful, honestly, for each day and being able to have the keys to my car, and being able to be independent, and feel like a woman, and owning an ATM card,

Seeing cash for the first time, being able to buy candles. It’s the little things for us, women, but it makes a huge difference. JUJU CHANG: The end of her conservatorship, in essence, a breakup with her father. “I felt relief sweep over me.

The man who had scared me as a child and ruled over me as an adult, who had done more than anyone to undermine my self-confidence was no longer in control of my life.” One of the few bright spots of the conservatorship was her love affair with actor and model, Sam Asghari.

[BRITNEY SPEARS, “SLUMBER PARTY”] She says sheas instantly smitten when they met on the set of the music video for “Slumber Party” (SINGING) Slumber party. JUJU CHANG: After six years of romance with her new freedom, she got married again at their secluded home in Thousand Oaks. CREW: Camera A and C.

JUJU CHANG: ABC News’ Will Reeve caught up with the groom right after the wedding, asking him about his relationship with Britney. Personal life is going to be really, really Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal

Three. What you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon. So, join us afternoon for everything you need to know. I love that. We got married, we moved. I was going to go to a honeymoon, and we’re just happy. JUJU CHANG: Brittany writes about those same hopes

For their life together. But the newly-wedded bliss lasted just over a year. After finishing the memoir, turmoil bubbled to the surface. Asghari filed for divorce and is now seeking spousal support. Writing on Instagram, “After six years of love and commitment to each other, my wife and I decided to end our journey together.

We will hold on to the love and respect we have for each other and I wish her the best always.” In the nearly, two years since Brittany became a free woman, she’s communicated with her fans on her terms, her images, her dancing, her worldview, all on her Instagram.

Nobody makes a dime off of her when she posts those pictures except her. And for all the people who made jillions of dollars off of her pictures, and so many of them did, you do you, Britney Spears. JUJU CHANG: Brittany explaining, “I love playing dress-up on Instagram.

I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses. But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people’s approval, they’d understand that I get a lot of joy

From posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture, doing whatever I want with it.” I think for someone like Brittany Spears who came of age at a time where she had virtually no control over her public persona, social media is really transformative.

And it’s a way for her to recapture her voice, and to share what she wants to share. [metal clanking] JUJU CHANG: But some posts have raised concerns, including this one where she is dancing with knives. The police were called to do a wellness check. People can make welfare check calls.

It’s absolutely within their right and their ability. However, they need to be truthful. They need to be verified. They need to be investigated because welfare checks can be extremely detrimental to a person’s life if they are not properly verified. JUJU CHANG: Brittany quickly posted that the knives were fake.

Police told ABC News they didn’t check to see if the knives were real or not, but were assured of her safety. If we are to take anything away from the book that she has written, it’s that this is a woman who was lonely, who was manipulated, and who was suffering from postpartum depression.

So if that is the case, then we have to erase whatever we have conjured up over the last decade and a half about our thoughts on Britney Spears. [BRITNEY SPEARS, “HOLD ME CLOSER”] (SINGING) Hold me closer. JUJU CHANG: Despite a major collab with Elton John on “Hold

Me Closer,” Britney says music is not her priority right now. She says she’s focusing on her spiritual life, slowing down, and finding herself. Every celebrity memoir, rock memoir, I read them all. It seems like ends in, and now, finally, I am in a better place. She’s not writing that.

She’s come out of a nightmare. But I don’t think anyone would say she’s there yet. JUJU CHANG: And that’s just fine with her fans, still drawn to her power. [music playing] She’s being forced to don a lot against her will as well,

And she now decides to, I don’t want to do this right now, I want to wait, I want to give my own time, it’s OK. [crowd cheering] Britney has always meant the freedom of self-expression. I think that she’s always been really scrutinized for just being herself. FAN: You look really lovely!

I hope that she can just find happiness in whatever it is that she decides to do. So if that, at some point turns out to be new music, great. If not, she’s given us a lot of great stuff that we can enjoy. [music playing] These fans flocking to Times Square

To celebrate the re-release of “Crossroads.” [crowd cheering] A movie Britney made at the tender age of 19. Now, none of us has any idea where life’s going to take us. Because what we have is now, and right now, we have each other. JUJU CHANG: One of the film’s songs,

I’m not a girl, not yet a woman. Inspiring the memoir’s title, and perhaps this moment for Britney nearly two decades later. [BRITNEY SPEARS, “I’M NOT A GIRL, NOT YET A WOMAN”] I’m not a girl. I’m not a girl don’t tell me what to believe. Not yet a woman.

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BETH HOLLOWAY: We are going to find Natalee. Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder. He is the killer. REPORTER: Are you guilty? He also enjoyed the attention. He seemed to relish in it. He wanted the $250,000 reward if he would tell me what happened to Natalee.

INTERVIEWER: Did you kill Natalee Holloway? No. What did you make of him as a person? Just a liar, a murderer, and a psychopath. There’s absolutely no reason to believe it. Joran van der Sloot– ANCHOR: The subject of an international manhunt. This was astonishing.

It’s not fair for the world that we have Joran alive and we have Natalee dead. DEBORAH ROBERTS: The chilling words of a killer finally admitting to one of the most infamous crimes in recent memory DEBORAH ROBERTS: The murder of teen Natalee Holloway Natalee was such a bright star.

And then you have this dark, evil place of a person. And it’s not fair for the world that we have Joran alive and we have Natalee dead. It should be the opposite. DEBORAH ROBERTS: These are words no family should ever have to hear. DEBORAH ROBERTS: But for Natalee’s

Younger brother Matt it’s the confession from Joran van der Sloot– DEBORAH ROBERTS: –he has waited nearly two decades to hear. What was that like for you to hear that? MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: It angers me. It makes me just want to return the favor to him.

I think anybody in my position would feel the same way. So I have no regret saying that. I would love to return the favor to him. [chatter] DEBORAH ROBERTS: When the year 18-year-old old from Alabama went missing in 2005, it set off an international firestorm. Terry, tomorrow marks one week since 18-year-old Natalee

Holloway vanished. ANCHOR: In Aruba, the search for– ANCHOR: New details in the case of Natalee Holloway– ANCHOR: Natalee Holloway’s mother– ANCHOR: Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway– DEBORAH ROBERTS: A story of a missing teen that consumed a family, a small island nation– JULIA RENFRO: Early on, the government let every government employee off work.

Could you imagine a whole country was out searching for her? DEBORAH ROBERTS: –and quickly the world. Natalee’s killer playing a years-long game of cat and mouse with the family and authorities, contributing to the seemingly endless coverage. INTERVIEWER: Did you kill Natalee Holloway? No. INTERVIEWER: Did you harm Natalee Holloway? No.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: Nearly two decades later, the Alabama teen’s disappearance still casting a long shadow. Everybody knew that Joran van der Sloot had something to do with it, if not everything to do with it, but they just could not get there. DEBORAH ROBERTS: For the Holloway family,

It’s been a global search for the truth, from Aruba– JOHN KELLY: They said you get a real creepy feeling being here at night. DEBORAH ROBERTS: –to the Netherlands, to Peru, and finally to a courthouse in Alabama. Natalee would be 36 years old today. I still miss her every day.

It’s been a very long and painful journey, but we finally got the answers we’ve been searching for for all these years. Well, it’s very freeing now to be able to say now he’s no longer the suspect in Natalee’s disappearance. He is her killer. DEBORAH ROBERTS: The string of lies and unanswered questions

Pushing the family on a seemingly impossible quest for justice. It’s been 18 years since you lost your sister. What has been the hardest part for you? It’s always there. For 18 years, it’s always there. CREW: Mark. CREW: All right. So we want you to set the focus.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: It’s funny looking at these photos of you two. You look like you’re thick as thieves. Oh, all the time. So she was always– she was always so caring. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Matt Holloway cherishes his memories of his older sister. MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: You got the bunny ears. DEBORAH ROBERTS: After their parents divorced,

The two grew up in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama with their mother, seeing their father Dave on the weekends. We were just, I mean, such a tight knit, the three of us together. Her friends had a nickname for her. They called her Hooty Hoo Holloway. WOMAN (ON VIDEO): Who’s our special guest today?

It’s Hooty. WOMAN (ON VIDEO): Hooty Hoo Holloway. Hi, friend. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Was she the classic big sister? Does she push you around? MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: Oh, yeah, absolutely. She can lay it on me when time came. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Two years younger, Matt was 16 when his sister left for that fateful high school

Graduation trip to Aruba. How excited was she about what was coming up? She just couldn’t wait to go. They went shopping, oh, for like a whole month in advance where they were just getting the outfits, the swimsuits, really preparing. We didn’t go to a lot of exotic places like that.

So hearing them getting ready to go to Aruba was– that was a trip of a lifetime. Do you remember when they took off? Yeah, they left early that morning. I just remember just kind of being in the background. Like, hey, have a good time. You know, I’ll see you next week, so.

[tense music] DEBORAH ROBERTS: In May 2005, Natalee and her friends were staying at this Holiday Inn for a five-day celebration. The drinking age in Aruba, just 18. Before heading home, she and her friends are out for a final night. They go to a bar. ALBERTO GROENEVELDT: Carlos’n Charlie’s

Was like any other club, that you can go in there. You can dance. And you have shots. They have shows. You see everybody in Carlos’n Charlie’s. That was the club. The night that Natalee disappeared, I was at Carlos and Charlie’s with a group of friends.

And these kids were all like 16, 17, 18 years old, and they were just jumping and singing. DEBORAH ROBERTS: At some point, Natalee meets 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national and son of a prominent lawyer on the island. Joran was a loose cannon, could never be controlled by his parents.

He was just known to be, you know, a gambler and a drinker. The last anybody remembers, Natalee was seen driving off in a vehicle with a young man. He seemed like a tourist. He seemed harmless. Everybody assumed that she was going to make it back to the Holiday Inn fine that night.

And she just never showed up again. So everybody is getting ready to come back to the US. Natalee’s roommate realizes she’s not here. I don’t see her. So they go back up to the room, and her bags are still there. Her passport. Her passport is still there. She’s nowhere to be found.

So they notify a chaperone. Natalee’s not with us. And who then notifies Beth, Natalee’s mother, that nobody knows where she is. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Home in Alabama, Natalee’s mother Beth got the call every parent dreads. Her daughter didn’t show up for her flight home. I knew something was terribly wrong. This was not Natalee.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: Beth immediately flew to Aruba, retracing her daughter’s last steps. What I saw on the footage from the Excelsior Casino was Natalee was seated at this blackjack table in just kind of her own little space. DAN ABRAMS: There was surveillance video from a Casino where she’s seen with Joran.

And so immediately, that leads the authorities to him. He’s the last known person to have been with her. BETH HOLLOWAY: Once I saw him, I was like, we’ve got it. Let’s go. It’s time to go to the police now. DEBORAH ROBERTS: She sprung into action,

Convincing police to accompany her to the van der Sloot home. When they arrived, Joran told authorities he and Natalee fooled around a little, and then he and two friends dropped her off at the hotel. Police had the security tapes ready from the lobby entrance, where Joran said that he dropped Natalee off.

And as we watched the tape and the night turned into daylight on the screen, Natalee never appeared. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Beth realized the story Joran told police was not true, the first in what would become an endless string of lies. So I thought, now, OK. This is it.

They can go get these men and arrest them. It didn’t happen. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Instead, the police suggested Natalee ran off. BETH HOLLOWAY: The police told me that, you know, this happens a lot. So don’t really worry about her too much. She’ll show back up. Don’t worry about it.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: Desperate to find their daughter, Natalee’s parents, Beth and Dave, along with their friends organized search parties. Everybody kind of split up. We will go over there. And then someone go down that road. MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: Me and my dad, we got on ATVs.

I mean, there were times where I would drive off down into, like, over like a hilltop. And I would shout out Natalee’s name just as loud as I could, hoping I would hear something back. I mean, I did that for about two days straight.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: Part of Beth’s plan to keep the pressure on and Natalee’s name in the headlines was media exposure. Please help bring her home. DEBORAH ROBERTS: She agreed to sit down with me in an exclusive interview just days after Natalee disappeared. NARRATOR: Missing in paradise, the Alabama teen at the heart

Of a massive search. Will you even let your mind entertain the possibility that you might not find her? No, no. There, again, that’s not an option. It’s any parent’s worst nightmare, Deborah. There is no other worst nightmare. Thanks, everyone, OK? Thank everybody for their help. Please keep looking for her, OK? Please.

Thank you. I appreciate it so much. DEBORAH ROBERTS: I also spoke to Natalee’s father, Dave. Why do you still feel that every day you’ve got to go out there? You know, I just can’t sit in a hotel room. You’ll drive yourself crazy pacing the floor.

And I just feel like I have to be out there looking. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Natalee’s friends, home in Alabama, made prayer bracelets, hoping for her safe return. FRANCES ELLEN BYRD: She’s smart. She’s going to be fine. She’s coming home. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Were you holding on to hope at that point? Oh, yeah.

I never– I held on hope for a long time. We were all determined that we were going to find her. DEBORAH ROBERTS: But the search for Natalee, quickly turning into an investigation. Nearly two weeks later, Joran and two of his friends were arrested. REPORTER: Are you guilty?

DEBORAH ROBERTS: Those friends, released after nearly a month of detention. In Aruba, two of the three young men held in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway are now free. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Back in the States, parents began keeping a closer eye on their teen daughters. Tori and Tyrella were around Natalee’s age at the time.

They now run a popular true crime podcast called Killer Queens. We have had so many requests for this case. Mm-hmm. I was not 18 yet, but I was like, my parents are never going to let me go anywhere outside of the country, probably let alone outside of the state,

After something like this has happened. I was like, OK, so I’m going to be homebound for forever. DEBORAH ROBERTS: More than two months after Natalee had disappeared, the reward for information was up to $250,000 with a million-dollar reward for her safe return. Every twist and turn in the case fed nonstop media

Coverage over the summer. And you have never wavered in saying you will be there, you will be there until your daughter is found. I’m not– I’m not going anywhere. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Only when Hurricane Katrina hit in late August 2005 did Natalee Holloway’s name disappear from the headlines.

ANCHOR: Hurricane Katrina is now Category 5. DEBORAH ROBERTS: While the country’s attention focused on an American city under water, in early September, Joran was released from jail, the police saying they didn’t have enough evidence. And as soon as that happened, it was over. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Joran moved to the Netherlands

To go to college but didn’t stay out of the spotlight for long. In 2006, he came to New York for an exclusive interview with ABC News. I understand if Natalee’s family is mad at me and she– they point their attention towards me. Did you kill Natalee Holloway? No. Did you harm Natalee Holloway?

No. And why should you be believed after all the lying that you’ve done in this situation? There’s absolutely no reason to believe me. He also enjoyed the attention. He seemed to relish in it. He’s not the type of person that is going to be upset about bad publicity.

Anything is good publicity to Joran van der Sloot. What did you make of him as a person, as a character? Yeah, just a complete disgusting person, a liar, a murderer, and a psychopath. DEBORAH ROBERTS: For five years, Natalee’s case goes cold. Then, in 2010, Beth’s longtime attorney, John Q. Kelly,

Received something completely unexpected, an offer from Joran van der Sloot. We have really gone again. I was terrified. It was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand. These were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives

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It’s got to be on the left. It’s creepy. It’s deserted. I would not have wanted to have been Natalee with someone like Joran. DEBORAH ROBERTS: This is the place where Natalee Holloway is believed to have taken her last breath. I think the story starts here and ends here.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: Not far from Aruba’s bright lights and tourist traps, the story ends at a dark, desolate beach, a place few would ever venture over to find. And we only know this because Joran van der Sloot said so. It’s here where he has admitted multiple times

That he was walking with Natalee on May 30, 2005. Just out of the blue, I get an email that says, John, this is Joran. I want to talk, you know, about certain things. DEBORAH ROBERTS: It’s now 2010, five years since Natalee Holloway went missing, five years since the world learned Joran’s name.

And now, seemingly out of nowhere, Joran says he has a story to tell, and he wants to tell it to Beth’s longtime attorney, John Q. Kelly. He wanted the $250,000 reward if he would tell me what happened to Natalee and where she could be found.

And I said, let me check with the client. You know, she’s desperate to find out where her daughter is or what happened to her. So Joran agrees to disclose what he knows about the death of Natalee Holloway, his involvement in killing her in exchange for $250,000. They pay him $25,000 up front.

ALBERTO GROENEVELDT: Working with the FBI and other US authorities, they orchestrated a sting operation in Aruba. They were in the next room, you know, had all their equipment set up, told me they had, you know, audiotape microphones in the next room, where I was going to meet with Joran,

Rented a car with video cameras in it. It was time to call Joran and see if he was going to come over. DEBORAH ROBERTS: He did, and took Kelly down to this very spot on Aruba’s coastline, where he said he and Natalee were fooling around the night she disappeared.

He is very obviously trying to take advantage of somebody who may be in a vulnerable state. He does everything he can to get them isolated and away from other people. He sets that up very strategically. And then when he doesn’t get the response that he wants, he snaps. He snaps.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: But that was just the beginning of the tale. He told Kelly where Natalee’s body was buried, in the foundation of this house. JOHN KELLY: I dropped him off at, I think, one of the casinos again. And that was it. The FBI was all high fiving and telling me

What a great job I did, that they had everything on videotape, went back to New York and was waiting for one of those banner headlines coming across that, you know, Joran van der Sloot had been arrested in Aruba for extortion, wire fraud. And it didn’t come, didn’t come.

A week, two weeks, three weeks, nothing from FBI. BETH HOLLOWAY: You got to remember, we’re still a guest in a foreign country. It’s a sovereign country. We have no jurisdiction. And yes, would the FBI have liked to have gotten their hands on him right then? Of course.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: And to add insult to injury, Joran emailed again, this time saying he’d made up the entire story. And then he quickly retracted everything. It was like a roller coaster ride. Yeah. I remember my mom saying, he got the money and disappeared and said, I lied about everything.

You shouldn’t be so naive. Sickening. That had to be a punch to your mother, your family. MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: Oh, it was. It was. But we knew we got him. At that point, he was ours. The next I heard, someone told me to flip on the TV.

Joran van der Sloot, once suspected in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is being sought as a suspect in the death of a woman in Peru. ANCHOR: Police say he murdered a young woman he took to his hotel room. ANCHOR: Tonight he’s the subject of an international manhunt.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: Just one month after taking the money and before US authorities could indict him, Joran fled to Peru, where, five years to the day of Natalee Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba on May 30, 2010, he murders 21-year-old Stephany Flores. This was astonishing, the idea that the chief suspect

In the death of Natalee Holloway has now been charged with another murder of a young woman. And the evidence seemed overwhelming. I think anyone who had covered this case almost couldn’t believe it. You later learned that he is charged with murder in Peru in the death of Stephany Flores.

What did you think when you heard that? I had mixed emotions. I was devastated. And I was also not surprised. I just had a feeling that he was going to resurface with another victim. DEBORAH ROBERTS: At the same time in the US, that sting operation into Natalee’s death, well,

It was beginning to bear fruit. This morning, my office obtained an arrest warrant for Joran van der Sloot based upon a complaint charging him with extortion and wire fraud. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Extortion and wire fraud charges in the US, murder charges in Peru– Joran’s house of cards came crashing down.

He’s all over camera footage with Stephany in the hotel. She’s found in his hotel room. There’s not really a lot that you can do to distance yourself from that in the way that he was able to distance himself from the Natalee Holloway case. And at this point, he’s pretty much caught red-handed.

His fingerprints are everywhere. There are cigarette butts. There are soda bottles, coffee cups, all presumably containing DNA. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Still, the reality of catching Joran was bittersweet. I had to deal with the fact, as did Beth, that Joran was given the $25,000 that he used to get over to Peru

And eventually killed another girl on Natalee’s anniversary. I felt really badly then, and I still feel badly now. Not that it was my fault, but I had, in some way, enabled it. DEBORAH ROBERTS: This time, Joran pleads guilty. The Stephany Flores case confirmed for many people what they believed in the Natalee

Holloway case, which is that Joran van der Sloot was a murderer. Did that, in your mind, validate your feelings and your thoughts that he had killed your sister to learn that he was charged with murder in her death? MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: Yes. When he– officially, their court system found him guilty of murder.

Then I knew that for a fact he did the same thing to Natalee. So that was, in your mind– MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: That was it. That was it. – That was it? That was it. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Joran, sentenced to 28 years, to be served at a remote prison in the Andes mountains.

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Wherever the story is, will take you there your streaming ABC News live. [tense music] 13 years after Joran van der Sloot’s guilty plea to murder in Peru, in June of this year, he was extradited to Alabama, finally facing those charges from 2010 of extortion and wire fraud

From when he demanded money from Natalee’s mom in exchange for details about her daughter’s death. They were expecting a plea to the extortion charges. And to everyone’s surprise, he ends up confessing to Natalee Holloway’s murder. DEBORAH ROBERTS: A stunning revelation– the details of what happened to Natalee and this time

Taking a polygraph while doing it. DAN ABRAMS: Joran van der Sloot is a serial liar. And so the authorities here wanted to do everything they could to verify his account. It seems that admitting to the murder and providing accurate information was the only way that prosecutors were going to agree

To this plea deal for Joran and the only way that Beth Holloway was going to sign off on it. DEBORAH ROBERTS: This is from the tape of that admission. We’ll warn you. It’s graphic and disturbing. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Joran’s confession was pretty brutal. What was that like for you to hear that from him

And to hear his voice in court? MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: I was ready to hear it. And I think I needed to hear it at the same time and– As difficult as it was? Yeah, as difficult and as graphic, I needed to hear it. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Finally, what Joran said he did with Natalee’s body.

And when he talks about putting her in the ocean, that he disposed of her body, putting her in the ocean, was that a surprise to you? Was that shocking to you? I believe that’s why we can’t find her body, that he walked her knee deep and pushed her off into the water.

I mean, it’s just what a cowardly way to do things. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Matt Holloway was there in the courtroom when Joran pleaded guilty, finally face to face with his sister’s killer for the first time. What was that like for you to see Joran van der Sloot in court?

I loved every minute of it. I hate the guy. And then at the same time, I was feeling happy that he’s finally having to answer to something he did, something that he did wrong. He was so powerful to me at the night of May 31 of 2005.

It’s just he and I. We’re outside at the Holiday Inn Hotel. I’m in the rental car seated. But the door is open, and he is right here, leaning above me. And Joran’s a big guy, you know? He’s a big guy. He’s like 6′ 5″. And so he had all that power over me.

Yet now, swing it to today, I was able to turn around now, and I had the power over him. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Joran was sentenced to 20 years in prison for wire fraud and extortion in the US, to be served concurrently with his 28-year sentence for Stephany Flores’s murder in Peru.

After pleading guilty in the US, he’s flown back to Peru, where he’ll serve the remainder of his sentence. As for the killing of Natalee Holloway– DAN ABRAMS: Aruba has a 12-year statute of limitations for murder. So Joran van der Sloot knows that he can come clean

About this, get the benefit of a deal on the wire fraud and extortion, and know that he won’t be charged in connection with her murder. He’s eligible for release now in Peru around 2045. If he had not made this deal, he would have had to serve his time in Peru

And still potentially face the possibility of extradition to the United States after the fact. If he indeed gets out of prison in just over 20 years, will be able to go on with his life, how does that hit you knowing that Natalee never had that opportunity? Oh, that’s terrible.

That’s– That’s what gets me. He took that away from her. I mean, he took away nieces from me. He took away nephews. That’s what breaks my heart. She always wanted to be a doctor. That’s all she ever talked about. Natalee would have been caring and so kind.

And I couldn’t even imagine how many lives that she would have saved. DEBORAH ROBERTS: Still, all these years later, finally having answers to what Joran did to Natalee gives some long overdue closure the Holloway family had been missing. I was glad to remind him that you are a murderer now.

And that’s what I told him, that every time that jail cell door slams shut, you are a killer and that you didn’t get what you wanted from Natalee. And now he will spend the rest of his days in Peru in his little rat hole.

After 18 years, your mom said that she was finally able to sleep a little bit peacefully after hearing this confession. What about you? MATTHEW HOLLOWAY: Yeah. Oh, yeah. I slept great too. It was– that night, we went we went back to her house, and it was a celebration for us. A celebration?

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All right, we got a situation. My abs are so ripped up, it’s– we call it The Situation. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): –from MTV’s hit show Jersey Shore, spanning six seasons. SNOOKI: I’m going to Jersey Shore, bitch! RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Reality TV’s self-proclaimed original Guido. A Guido is a good-looking, smooth, well-dressed Italian.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The cocky, shirtless, club rat everyone loved to hate. Oh! The face? Oh! JULISSA BERMUDEZ: When he walked in for a casting, they were like, oh, yeah, this is our guy. I mean, he was TV gold. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Synonymous with fist pumping, bottle popping– [paparazzi yelling]

–ripped abs, and this, lots and lots of it. MIKE SORRENTINO: The success of the show, it’s skyrocketed everything. It was like gasoline on a fire. Talk about being a lottery winner. You go to a house and party for the summer. And the next thing, we’re now in it 15 years later.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): And Mike, The Situation, and all of his excesses, was at the center of it all. JULISSA BERMUDEZ: You kind of wanted to root for him because you felt like he was trying, but then, you, also, are like, wait, now, you know better. [music playing]

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): But behind his onscreen persona, which triggered and charmed fans, Mike was struggling with his own painful reality, a brutal battle with addiction. I never told anybody that story before. It’s a very dark story. You know? And it could have cost me my life. It’s incredible, like, just everything

That you went through to be here, healthy, sober, with a family. At any point, did you think, I should be dead right now? Oh, God. There’s many moments that could have led to my demise or death. And I’m very lucky to be here sharing my story with you today.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Mike, now sharing how he flipped his narrative from multiple trips to rehab, federal prison lockup, hitting rock bottom, but ultimately, reclaiming his life. MIKE SORRENTINO: I believed that or I hoped that my life story one day would be someone else’s survival guide. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Jersey Shore

Was just the latest MTV show that signaled the network’s shift– It’s a live blowout with performances from the Beastie Boys. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): –from music videos– I want my MTV. [madonna, “material girl”] In a material world. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): –to reality TV. MAN: This is the true story.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): MTV’s The Real World was the start of it all, premiering in 1992. WOMAN: The Real World. JULISSA BERMUDEZ: When The Real world premiered, we couldn’t get enough. It was literally, an insatiable appetite. MAN: Crazy. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): In the years that followed, viewers would fall in love with The Osbournes,

Giving them front row seats to the beloved dysfunction of Ozzy Osbourne’s home life. Rock and roll! Sharon! Sharon! Ozzie! [glass breaking] OZZY OSBOURNE: Saya hello to the window. [music playing] What’s up, y’all? Big Snoop D-O-G-G. I want to welcome you out to my house. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): And Cribs, another spotlight on celebrity.

But Jersey Shore took reality TV to a whole new level. This is their living room. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Sallyann Salsano, the executive producer and creator of Jersey Shore, has been running the show from day one. Wakey, wakey. Oddly enough, the Jersey Shore was an incoming call.

There was a network executive that wanted to do a show on a bunch of Guidos. [paparazzi yelling] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Jersey Shore focused on a group of eight roomies all living, working, and partying together in this nondescript, six bedroom house. Just steps away from the boardwalk of Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

There’s alcohol involved, and there’s good times, and there’s warm weather. Not a lot of clothing. You never know what’s going to happen. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): In 2009, the cast went from anonymity to reality stars overnight. Snooki, the 4′ 8″ flirt, famous for her poof and cheetah print. We’re all real.

And we like to have a good time. And we say what other people are scared to say. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Pauly D, the house DJ, always ready to hit the club with his perfectly coiffed hair. It’s a 25-minute process, but I take my pride in it.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The fiery, fiercely loyal JWOWW. We really just, relied on each other a lot. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Drama-prone Ronnie. Cameras definitely add a little bit of stress. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Deena, Angelina, Sammi, and resident mama’s boy, the baby-faced Vinny Guadagnino. Gym, tanning, laundry, that’s how they, like, make the Guidos.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): And then, of course, The Situation. Gym, tan, laundry is a way of life. It’s really, just self-care. Everyone loved to hate Mike, but also, everyone loved to love Mike. Because there was a lot about Mike where you agreed with half the stuff he was saying.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): With cameras filming their every move, the show captured raw, unbridled drama like never before. Hold my earrings, please. [commotion] Bring it on, bitch. Oh! It’s only two girls. Don’t get shook. SALLYANN SALSANO: The show definitely had an impact on pop culture.

The scariest thing to me is that it had an impact on fashion. I would go out and be like, oh, my God, this is bananas. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Jersey Shore would revitalize an ailing MTV and become one of the most-watched series in the network’s history, reaching nearly 9 million viewers at its height.

The show itself? Oh, huge. Mega, mega show. Jersey Shore was definitely, a ratings juggernaut. Like, people tuned in. Outside of the house would be anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people 24 hours a day. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): After just three weeks on the air, the show was parodied by SNL.

A sign of the impending wave of Jersey Shore mania. Oh, no, it’s Mike The Situation. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The show prompting a slew of international spin-offs, including in Mexico– WOMAN: [non-english speech] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): –Spain– WOMAN: [non-english speech] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): –and Poland. MAN: [non-english speech] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): And even years

Later, the infamous house becoming a tourist destination. For $3,500 a night, you can live out your Jersey Shore fantasy. WOMAN: I rented the Jersey Shore house for my sister’s 25th birthday. MAN: (SINGING) To do something crazy. Did you ever think that the show would be this popular?

I’m a positive guy, but I don’t think I could have foreseen this. This is you turn 15 minutes of fame into 15 years, that’s unheard of. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Mike Sorrentino grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey and began modeling in his mid-twenties, showing off those washboard abs.

MIKE SORRENTINO: I ran into a casting sign for the hottest Guidos and Guidettes in the Tri-State area. I was like, well, I’m Italian, that kind of describes me. I’m in amazing shape. And that’s really where it started. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): In his upcoming raw and unfiltered memoir, Reality Check, Mike writes–

MIKE SORRENTINO: “There was no other career prospects on the horizon. I had no backup plan. I was the backup plan. At the time, all I had to my name was $7 and a six pack.” Jersey Shore eventually calls you. What was your reaction when you got that call and they said,

We want you to be on this show? MIKE SORRENTINO: I mean, they called me and I definitely had goosebumps. I was couch hopping at the time. So by me getting that call, I had felt that it was a sign from– from above. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Fast forward.

The show was a wild success. Mike’s lifestyle went from zero to 60. The millions are coming in. Your phone is off the hook from sponsors. Appearances. Women. You’re on a flight every single day. You’re exhausted. And then, if you start to make the decision that, hey,

Maybe if I take this substance and self-medicate, I’ll feel better, and I’ll be able to perform better. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): He says he relied on prescription opioids, a habit he picked up even before the show’s launch. MIKE SORRENTINO: I always had an obsessive personality. Everything was either zero or 100.

“it became clear to everyone but me that my addiction had reappeared with a vengeance, clenching me in a ferocious hold. I was high all the time, taking upwards of 20 pills a day.” RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Meanwhile, Mike’s star was continuing to rise meteorically. [dancing with the stars theme]

ANNOUNCER: Dancing the Foxtrot, The Situation. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Even competing on Dancing With the Stars at the show’s zenith. MIKE SORRENTINO: On Dancing With the Stars, they didn’t know that I was probably, a good six Percocet 30s deep while on live TV. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): He says he was high, even

While on set for Jersey Shore. MIKE SORRENTINO: Where every single season would be like Mission Impossible for me to try to smuggle various amounts of drugs into the house or a different state or a different country. We absolutely had a no drug policy on the show, no drugs on set.

But I always say, good people do bad things. And if you want to do something, you can always find a way to get it done. Mike had a lot of struggles and a lot of issues that he was hiding from all of us. But Mike was a tough one to wrangle.

Mike would go missing. Mike gave us a run for our money. Was there a moment when you realized, OK, this is it, I really need some help? MIKE SORRENTINO: There was many times in my life that I thought to myself, wow, I really need some help.

And that first time probably was in 2012. When I was in the Italy season, I was actually going through withdrawals on camera, and America didn’t even know. They just saw me ram my head into a concrete wall. I remember that. I’m going to do it! [bleep] Stop. [grunting] Stop. Stop!

MIKE SORRENTINO: I had smuggled in hundreds of prescription pills to Italy through my bottom of my shoe in an Altoid case. And eventually, those hundreds of pills ran out. I started to go through withdrawal. And I couldn’t believe. I’m like, how am I going through withdrawal

On the biggest TV show in the country at the time? I mean, imagine going through withdrawals with five big cameras pointing at your face. What were you feeling? What is that like? MIKE SORRENTINO: I mean, your skin is crawling. You are cold and you’re hot at the same time. You’re sweating.

You have a headache. Your nose is running. You feel that you’re going to possibly even vomit. I tried to drink copious amounts of alcohol to sort of get away from some of those withdrawal feelings. That didn’t really work. And then, one night, Ronnie sort of

Picked a fight with me at my weakest moment. And then, you saw what I saw. Yo, look at me. You OK? MIKE SORRENTINO: I think, almost like subconsciously, that act of almost like self-sabotage, it caused me to go to a hospital. And guess what’s going to happen when that happens?

They’re going to prescribe me an opiate because I have a concussion and a sprained neck. I don’t think that that was what I planned to do. But maybe, subconsciously, deep down, you know? Like a scream for help. Yeah. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): For years.

Mike says he was in and out of rehab. MIKE SORRENTINO: “It was very important to me to hide my addiction from the world. I worried that if people knew the full story, if they realized how many times I’d failed at sobriety, they would think less of me.”

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RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Partying, drugs, and drinking weren’t the only things Mike says he did to extreme levels. There was, also, lots of sex with groupies and random hookups, as he bragged about to ABC in 2011. If these walls could talk, Mike, what would they say? [music playing] Mike, you are a pimp.

I was just a ladies man. I was just, really good with women. Was that the norm, that type of lifestyle for you? That was a time of excess in the heyday of the start of Jersey Shore. It would be a slow night for a threesome. A slow night. A slow night.

There was upwards of 10 naked, beautiful women in my room at one particular time. And I thought to myself, is this my life? RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The show was vulgar, loud, and offensive. Often, objectifying women in ways that would not pass muster in 2023.

Like the coining of the term “grenade” to refer to women they didn’t find attractive. The terms that they came up with to describe women, all of it is very, very questionable. Jersey Shore set a record for MTV when its season finale aired last week. It was the most-watched show in the network’s history.

[paparazzi yelling] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The cast, high on the show’s success, commanded substantial raises for seasons two and three. PAPARAZZI: Mike. Mike. Mike. MIKE SORRENTINO: We got, like, $1 million raises. I went straight to a Ferrari dealership. And I had a pocketful of pills in my pocket, as well.

I was just young and inexperienced. And you think at that particular time period that you’re invincible. And eventually, years later, I would find out, that was not true. [paparazzi yelling] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): That success fueling and financing an unsustainable lifestyle. Especially after the show wrapped in 2012.

Mike says he was spiraling out of control. He even considered selling his own sex tape, featuring him and a group of women. MIKE SORRENTINO: But I remember having a conversation with my mom and with my then girlfriend, who’s now my wife, to say, hey, listen, times is dire.

And there is a secret sex tape that I do possess, that I had for emergency situations. I guess, pun intended. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): He ultimately decided against trying to cash in on the tape. He had recently gotten back with his college sweetheart, Lauren.

And he says the money wouldn’t have been worth it. For years, he struggled to get a handle on his life, hitting a breaking point in 2015. MIKE SORRENTINO: I was in a really bad place. I was broke. I was unemployed. And I was depressed. Self-doubt was through the roof.

I had lost the millions and the Ferraris. And I, pretty much, was in and at rock bottom. And I called up my friend who I used to party with. I was looking to just cop some prescription painkillers, you know? That’s what I was looking to do. And he said, “Don’t worry Mike.

I got you.” He said, “Come pick me up.” RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Instead of the usual pills, this time Mike came home with something he vowed he would never do, heroin. MIKE SORRENTINO: I told myself, all right, maybe, I’ll just try it. So I locked my door.

And I told Lauren that I was going to sleep for the night. And that I wanted to be alone. So I just took a little key bump of it. And I tried it. So then I went in for another key bump. And at that very moment, my phone rings. It was my mother.

And my mom’s like, “Are you OK?” She had a feeling. She had a feeling. And I said, “I’m fine, mom. Why?” She goes, “I feel like something’s wrong.” And this was a come to God moment. As she said that, I took that as a message from the Almighty, and I put it down.

And as I hung up the phone, knock on the door. A second angel. Lauren. She was right there. MIKE SORRENTINO: Yeah, my wife. Yep. My wife was knocking at the door at the same time. So this is definitely, a very emotional moment for me. They saved me. [music playing]

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): This wasn’t the first time Lauren had stood by his side through his struggles with addiction. RACHEL SCOTT: In the moment when you knocked on the door and you stopped him, did you know what was about to happen? I had no idea. I knew that he was suffering.

I knew that he was an addict. I didn’t his whole side of it. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): This experience led him to rehab for the final time. MIKE SORRENTINO: Before, I didn’t take it seriously. I would just, get detox physically. And I didn’t do the necessary work, mentally and spiritually, that was

Needed to have a full recovery. And the fourth time, with my back against the wall, my life was on the line. I had no other choice. Did you have those moments where you were just livid that this was still an ongoing problem? Definitely. I definitely had those moments.

But I think the difference was that I had the history with Mike. And I had known him before his addiction, I had known him during his addiction, and I knew him after his first rehab. So I had seen the cycle, and I knew that he could do it.

And I knew the man he was without drugs. And to me, that was a man worth fighting for. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): In 2018, now sober, Mike reunited with his squad for a reboot, Jersey Shore– Family Vacation. The cast, arguably, all grown up with careers, spouses, and even children.

We’ve partied hard before, but I’ve never seen anybody party like a mom. They, like, funnel wine. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Some things never change, including their friendship. This is a vacation from our real lives. So we really took advantage of it. Every single day we talk. Our group chat is amazing. Yep.

The day that we left the house, we were texting each other. Like, we have this unbreakable bond. We’re back, bitches. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): While much was the same, Mike says The Situation had come a long way from his early days in Seaside Heights. People are surprised to hear, you’re sober. Yeah, 28 months.

28 months. We’re very proud of him. – He’s amazing. – He took care of us. And they supported me every single night that we went out. And before I even got here to do this show, I was already two years sober. He had already been about two years

Sober when he got that offer. Had it come any earlier than that, I don’t know that I’d have that confidence. But it truly came at the right time, where I was able to feel the excitement that he was being rewarded for his work, and what he’s good at.

And given an opportunity to show the world who he actually is. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): But as he showed the world this new version of himself, parts of his past followed him. Left to the barrier. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Eventually, years of overindulgence and financial recklessness caught up with him.

PAPARAZZI: How is The Situation? No pun intended, bro. Uncle Sam came knocking at the door, you know? I thought things were amazing, you know? I was an amazing earner. Everyone loved me on TV. But Uncle Sam was saying that things were not done properly, and I had no idea. [music playing]

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Mike, along with his brother, Mark, was indicted in 2014 for tax evasion and fraud, having allegedly failed to pay taxes on $8.9 million of income. MIKE SORRENTINO: You go from not having to file a tax return because you didn’t make enough money and you’re a young kid in his 20s–

And this was partly my mistake– until the next year, making millions. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The indictment also mentions drawing from business accounts to pay for personal items, such as high-end luxury vehicles and clothing. MIKE SORRENTINO: I was careless. I was reckless. I had the mindset of whatever happens, happens.

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Dragged on for years until Mike ultimately pleaded guilty, and in October of 2018 was sentenced to eight months in federal prison. The reality star known as The Situation pleaded guilty today. MIKE SORRENTINO: “I felt like I’d been knocked down in a prizefight. At that moment, I went to one knee.

I clenched my eyes tight and said a prayer to God before rising to my feet.” It was in a very emotional time. And I was in early sobriety at the time. I was two or three years sober. I wanted to handle these mistakes in front of the world,

Which I knew the world was watching, with grace and class and show an example of how a man should act. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Just weeks after Mike was sentenced, he married his longtime on and off girlfriend, Lauren. Oh, honey, you did an amazing job picking out– I haven’t seen this in a while.

Oh. Beautiful. Five years. OK. Oh. This is the day. Look at you guys. I know, right? If you look through any of those photos, you’re going to see a couple madly in love. Not a couple that is going through a dark time. What was that like, being a newlywed and now alone?

That was really hard. However, addiction was so much harder. Oh, yeah. So much harder. And the sentence and him turning himself in, it was horrible. But everyone saw it as like the worst part of the story, but for us, it was our light at the end of the tunnel. [music playing]

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): After Mike reported to prison in January of 2019, Lauren would drive 2.5 hours to upstate New York every Friday to visit her new husband. Did you think Lauren would be here after all these years? She stood by your side through a lot. She did. She did.

My wife saved my life, you know? My wife is the one that has propelled me through– or inspired me through all of those tough times. Did this time change you at all? It definitely changed me. I mean, going into prison, you’re away from your family.

You’re not able to provide for your family, pay bills. But I read the Bible. I would spread that message of positivity to the other inmates. And I was very proud of how I used my stay in prison. I became a better man. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The couple

Relied on faith to get them through these difficult months. MIKE SORRENTINO: God was with me when I didn’t think I was with anyone, you know? I was never alone. God was with me the whole time. It’s like the footprints. It’s when there’s two footprints in the sand– MIKE SORRENTINO: Yes.

–and then when there’s just one, it’s because He carried you. Yeah. So a lot of the times, I know, for myself, there were many moments where that was all I had, was to pray about things. So that’s what I did. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Mike was released from prison in September 2019–

[doors closing] Where to? Back to the Jersey Shore. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): –and began sharing his story, hoping to inspire others. MIKE SORRENTINO: “All energy went into being my best self. The Situation was morphing into The Inspiration.” If you look too far ahead, you’re going to trip.

So I take it one day at a time. MIKE SORRENTINO: I don’t think that people realize that when you help other people, you help yourself. So me and my wife, to this day, we do appearances. We work at treatment centers. We share our message. And it’s one of the most rewarding

Things we’ve done in life. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Today, with a house and a yard in the suburbs of New Jersey– Who is that? RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): –and a third kid on the way, his life is unrecognizable. MIKE SORRENTINO: Did you ever think that The Situation would, also, have a chicken

Coop in his back yard? – Nope. Nope. Not at all. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): But still true to himself, decked in Versace, Mike shows me his latest project. MIKE SORRENTINO: It’s nine chicks. And guess what I named them after? RACHEL SCOTT: Your castmates? MIKE SORRENTINO: Yes. RACHEL SCOTT: So there’s a Snooki in there.

MIKE SORRENTINO: Yes, we have a Snooki in there. A DJ Pauly D. We have them all there. There’s, obviously, a Situation there, as well. We have– RACHEL SCOTT: And you said, this was always, kind of, on your bucket list, right– MIKE SORRENTINO: Yes. RACHEL SCOTT: –to have chickens. MIKE SORRENTINO: Yes.

I’ll be honest with you, I’m really proud. I executed on my vision. I have chickens in the backyard. We’re about to have eggs. [music playing] RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): More than a decade after the debut of Jersey Shore, and in the midst of filming their seventh season of Family Vacation,

Mike is back in Seaside Heights at the house where it all began. Wow. Well, here we are. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): Seemingly frozen in time. Bella, it’s your first time at the Shore house. MIKE SORRENTINO: Exactly. You’ve come a long way. You want to take a walk around?

Yeah. Let’s show me and Bella around. MIKE SORRENTINO: The house still smells the same. It looks the same. It’s really special for me to come back here. I’ve had so many moments here and so many special memories. I’m happy to go on the boardwalk. LAUREN SORRENTINO: It’s a beautiful day.

RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): The old stomping grounds on the boardwalk, more or less, unchanged. LAUREN SORRENTINO: Romeo, look, it’s daddy. MIKE SORRENTINO: Oh. There’s daddy. Wait. That’s Aunt Snooki. RACHEL SCOTT (VOICEOVER): But the man standing here today, surrounded by his family, now finds himself in an entirely new situation.

MIKE SORRENTINO: I’d have to say that my biggest flex is being a dad. You know? RACHEL SCOTT: Suburban dad. MIKE SORRENTINO: You know, I love being a sober dad. I love being a husband. The money and the cars, I’ve been done that. I’ve been on all the shows.

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Where they are not making sense, start giving them water. Can you put maybe, like, two more shots of vodka? No. I’m your mother– You’re living with the consequences of your actions while the whole world can watch them until the end of time. RICH SCHOENSTEIN: They are absolutely signing up for that.

These people want to be on TV. They want to get a contract. They want to be on this show. The executives, the producers– they hold your edit in their hands. JUJU CHANG: Chew you up and spit you out. Exactly. Once the money’s been made and they can’t

Make any more money off of you. Are you biting the hand that fed you? That hand that did feed me deserves to be bitten. It’s time. [bell tolls] Hi. JUJU CHANG: Hi! BETHENNY FRANKEL: Hi. Oh, hi, babies. BETHENNY FRANKEL: Oh, my god. They– no barking for you. That’s so interesting.

JUJU CHANG: No barking. Well, do you want– do you want to see where the magic happens? Absolutely. OK. JUJU CHANG: We’re inside the palace with the once-reigning queen of reality TV. This is the glam room. Oh, my gosh. It’s exactly as I would imagine Bethenny’s closet. – Really? – Yeah! Yay.

It’s perfectly organized. BETHENNY FRANKEL: Thank you. And it’s perfectly curated. You, like, tell it like it is, unfiltered. That’s always been your brand. – I do. I do. But even to say it’s a brand feels like it’s not being honest. JUJU CHANG: If somebody came to you and said,

You know, Bethenny, I’m thinking of signing up for a reality show, what would you say? They think it’s going to be the fun next chapter. They don’t realize that it could put them in a detrimental situation. Is that the price of fame? It might be the price of fame.

You’re the most unintelligent human being I’ve ever had the pleasure to be around. PAPARAZZI: Bethenny, right this way. JUJU CHANG: When it comes to The Real Housewives franchise, there’s perhaps no one more famous than Bethenny Frankel. After nearly two decades in the reality game, nearly 400 episodes across four networks,

Bethenny leveraged all that reality TV fame– or infamy– and launched an empire. One of her most famous products– Skinnygirl Margarita. Hi, I’m Bethenny, creator of the Skinnygirl Margarita, the margarita you can trust. JUJU CHANG: Bethenny is essentially an elder statesman of the genre. And now, she’s trying to launch a revolution, the

So-called Reality Reckoning. Reality television exploits affairs, bankruptcy, falling off the wagon, saying something inappropriate, risking cancelation every single time the camera goes on. You called it the Reality Reckoning. Yes. It was OK to do things that, one day, we all woke up and said, how is that OK?

This isn’t about you clawing for money? BETHENNY FRANKEL: I don’t– I haven’t asked for one thing. I don’t want one thing. I want to be respected, and I’m going to change the entertainment industry. I myself have generated millions and millions of dollars in advertising and online impressions,

Being on reality TV, and have never made a single residual. JUJU CHANG: And now other reality stars are rallying, too, arguing that when they joined the reality TV industry, they signed away more than they bargained for. From Netflix’s smash hit, Love is Blind– NICK THOMPSON: I think the connection

That we built is so strong. In those contracts, there’s language that says we can misrepresent you. We can defame you. JUJU CHANG: –to Bravo’s juggernaut franchise, The Real Housewives– LEAH MCSWEENEY: Can you put maybe, like, two more shots of vodka in these drinks? WOMAN: No. I’m your mother. You’re not having this.

LEAH MCSWEENEY: I’m glad that the shows bring people joy. I just think there is a way to make shows without ruining people’s lives. JUJU CHANG: The stars say the chaos that makes these shows so addictive comes at a high cost to their real lives. This group of talent is the most overworked, overexploited,

And least compensated. There’s no group that has a greater risk. They’re clearly being exploited. Exploiting the reality TV star is the whole point of the show. But they are absolutely signing up for that. The benefit is that people who are on reality shows, it’s become a reality show career for people.

It’s your life on display– Correct. –and your mess-ups on display? Yeah, it’s a weird workplace, but it’s a workplace. It’s Game of Thrones. You’re killing or you’re being killed. There is no middle. There is no gray. Gray are women that become friends or women that become fired.

Watching things like that normalizes bad behavior. You know, these shows normalize substance abuse. They normalize physical violence with the catfights that break out. And it normalizes emotionally abusive behaviors. JUJU CHANG: But some would argue that behavior is exactly the thrill of reality TV. And some fans wonder, would changing the industry

Kill the genre? You know, a lot of people think, well, are you biting the hand that fed you? That hand didn’t feed me. We fed each other. And that hand that did feed me deserves to be bitten. It’s time. JUJU CHANG: This is all happening at a time

That reality shows have been rocked by scandal after scandal. This season, on Below Deck Down Under, a drunken crew night out took a horrifying turn on camera. JUJU CHANG: Producers had to remove a naked cast member who’d been drinking from another unconscious cast member’s bed. JUJU CHANG: A cast member from Love

Is Blind season five accused her partner of sexual assault and the producers of false imprisonment. Now, she’s suing her former partner and the production companies, which have all denied the allegations. CREW: Leah interview, take one. I would just like people that are

In charge to treat the women on these shows with more dignity. Because they deserve it, and I deserve it. We deserve it. JUJU CHANG: Leah McSweeney says she knows what it feels like to be mistreated on a reality show. A fashion designer and New York City party girl

Of the early 2000s, she joined The Real Housewives of New York in 2019. I’m having more fun than I’ve had in a [bleep] month and a half. JUJU CHANG: Leah says she’s not ashamed of being a recovering alcoholic. She’d been doing drugs and drinking since she was 13.

You’re a little out of control right now. [arguing] LEAH MCSWEENEY: Oh, like nobody’s ever been out of control in this [bleep] group? Are you kidding me? The same week that I got the call to audition was the same week that I relapsed, after nine years. JUJU CHANG: Leah says some of the moments

That made her a fan favorite were actually some of her darkest. The Hurricane Leah night. Oh, yeah. What was that night like for you, when you think back to that, when you watch that? Horrible. It was horrible. I need two shots in that, because it’s time. Dorinda! – Fine.

I thought you were a recovering alcoholic. [screams] LEAH MCSWEENEY: The next day, when I’m done filming, and I’m crying hysterically in my apartment, my stomach hurts so bad. I don’t know what I did. I don’t remember what I did. I don’t know what I said. What you’re describing, though, is the definition

Of blackout drunk. Oh, I was totally blackout drunk. And I was so nervous to see myself. And what are people gonna say? They’re gonna say, you’re a drunken disaster. You’re a horrible mother. You were disgusting. Instead, they loved it, which was– really messed with my brain, you know?

Because I’m like, this isn’t funny. JUJU CHANG: Leah is far from alone. Bethenny says she believes these reality shows harness personal pain for entertainment. If you see someone drinking 12 drinks, that’s OK at work. That’s encouraged at work. You see someone having a nervous breakdown or someone falling off the wagon? That’s exciting.

Let’s bring the cameras in. JUJU CHANG: Shed Media, the company that produces Housewives, told ABC News that cast members and cast members only make their own decisions about whether to consume alcohol, adding that medics are present on all international or large cast trips. When the product in particular is sort of dramatic television,

What’s the best way to get dramatic television? It’s not to have, like, happy, well-adjusted people who have slept well at night. I’m a much less dramatic person when I’ve had eight full hours of sleep and when I have not been drinking till 2:00 in the morning.

JUJU CHANG: When Leah joined the cast of season 12, she says she got paid $3,000 an episode and thought she knew clearly what the downsides might be. The pros were maybe I’ll be able to help my mom retire. I’ll be able to live in a true two-bedroom apartment

With my daughter, send her to private school. You were thinking financial success? Yes. And stability. JUJU CHANG: She says she told producers about her lapsed sobriety and that they also knew about her mental health struggles. And so when you told the producers you’d started drinking again, but you sort of downplayed it– Yeah.

–why not say this was a fullblown relapse that I was going through? So I think, at that point, I was also in a lot of denial about my own relapse. And I was still holding on somewhere in the back of my head that maybe I could drink normally.

JUJU CHANG: But Leah says her drinking quickly spun out of control. WOMAN: Where are you going! [screaming] The Tiki torch– – The Tiki torch. – –night– Right. –is the stuff of legend now. Yeah, for sure. Oh, my god, I hate these Tiki torches! They suck! JUJU CHANG: What was going through your mind?

Not a lot. [laughs] And look. Alcoholism, addiction– it’s a complicated, complex thing. It’s much more complicated than personal choice. Did I choose to drink that day? Yes. Was I an alcoholic in the middle of a relapse? Like, absolutely. I just know that I was really struggling.

And that was actually the time where the production company had me speak to a doctor. The doctor did not even mention alcohol to me once. Give us a sense of how the producers might have had an influence on your behavior. I’m not going to put that on them

For this, because I made my own decisions. It’s more about having an endless, you know, copious amounts of alcohol for multiple people. There is no “this isn’t OK.” There is “get the cameras in her face more.” JUJU CHANG: She also says the producers knew she was struggling with bipolar disorder.

In fact, she’d been outed on the show. You know, I found out she’s bipolar. And she’s on medication, and I know people who are bipolar. And you cannot mix alcohol with meds. From what we’ve heard, most– I won’t say all– most of these shows, if it’s not being actively encouraged,

Alcohol is just always available. I don’t begrudge reality TV its bottom line. I understand that they need this to be dramatic. I think that is fine. I think it’s a problem when they’re willing to sacrifice people’s mental health, their physical health, their relationships, in order to do that.

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And it’s very easy to start drinking too much, and suddenly, you’re living with the consequences of your actions while the whole world can watch them and rewatch them until the end of time. This is ABC News live the crushing families here in Poland a refugee centers in

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Do you think it’s up to the producers to cut somebody off while they’re drinking? I do, actually. Yeah, I do. I think that bars cut people off. I think that you would not put a gun in a suicidal person’s hand. So if you see someone who is drinking to the point

Where they are not making sense when they’re talking or they can’t walk straight, start giving them water. And generally, I mean, alcoholism is a disease, right? It’s not– it’s not anybody’s fault. So it would be difficult, I think, to attack producers as encouraging their alcoholism, enabling their alcoholism, or certainly causing their alcoholism.

JUJU CHANG: Shed Media says that producers work very closely with all cast members to ensure their boundaries are respected with regard to alcohol. After making a splash on season 12, Leah decided to return for another season, newly sober. Why’d you go back to the show? LEAH MCSWEENEY: Well, I think that financially, I

Was very dependent on it. I was going to actually leave, and then they offered me over three times more per episode. I haven’t drank since March 31. Yeah. JUJU CHANG: But season 13, she says, proved to be even more painful, filming during a global pandemic while her beloved grandmother was dying.

She says she told the producers she was having a mental health crisis. LEAH MCSWEENEY: I told them numerous times that I was struggling. And it was just like as if I was a nuisance. And just get it together, you know. Focus on work. Well, I thought this was a reality show.

This is my reality right now. I’m not in a good place. JUJU CHANG: Bravo disputes this claim. Impact has learned that a member of production at one point offered Leah some emotional support. Shed Media also told ABC News that “The mental and psychological well-being of our series cast

And crew is a top priority,” adding that “cast members complete an Intro to Psych session” and that production provides additional mental health services, during and after production, at no cost. Leah says she tried to quit the franchise. First, she says she went to an executive

From Shed Media, the company that produces the show. LEAH MCSWEENEY: One of the executives from Shed said, I understand that you want to put your mental health first. JUJU CHANG: Then, she went to speak to Bravo. LEAH MCSWEENEY: The network executives said, no. You cannot quit.

I said, please let me out of my contract. She said, we have so much more storytelling to do from you. You haven’t even reached your potential whatsoever. Wait, at least. Don’t make the decision yet. JUJU CHANG: Bravo disputes this claim. She didn’t quit, but she did check herself into a mental health institution.

I felt like I was never going to recover. I felt like I was never going to get better. I felt like I was– [sighs] I thought my daughter would be better off if I wasn’t here. That’s hard to hear. Yeah. It’s hard to say out loud. LEAH MCSWEENEY: Yeah, it is.

This is not, like, all because of one thing or one person. I just think that when someone says, I’m struggling, or I’m dealing with addiction issues, there just needs– there needs to be a seriousness. JUJU CHANG: But a few months later, Bravo asked her back again for a one-week trip to Thailand

For The Housewives spinoff, Ultimate Girls Trip. After all that you’ve been through, why go back? I want to give everybody the benefit of the doubt. I just was, like, nothing could be worse than season 13. That’s what I thought. JUJU CHANG: The cash incentives, at that point, she says, proved irresistible.

You were offered $250,000 for one week of filming? Yes. JUJU CHANG: After getting to Thailand, Leah’s sobriety quickly became a talking point on the show. Here comes Leah. Let’s get Leah drunk. You guys, let’s get Leah drunk. Do you have any Tylenol? Leah doesn’t drink. That’s the whole challenge, Porsha.

It’s not gonna be easy. – I know, but is that rude? Like, if you drank this week, would that be a big deal? Is my– I guess, my question. It would ruin my life. JUJU CHANG: Filming ended in July 2022, and Leah decided to not return for another season.

And in March of the next year, she and her lawyers filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which covers workers like her. Why file through the EEOC? You’re claiming discrimination. Discrimination, yes. Yes. Because alcoholism, mental health issues, substance abuse issues– you know, this is protected by the ADA,

Which I really didn’t even know until my lawyer told me. JUJU CHANG: New York State’s Division of Human Rights tells us that Leah’s complaint has been dismissed. Sources tell us that Leah was offered a sober coach by the production team, and Impact has learned that at least once, a member of production

Offered to have her accommodations moved closer to AA meetings. Leah’s attorneys then reached out to Bravo. LEAH MCSWEENEY: In April, through my attorneys, asked the network to please implement rules where if someone is blackout drunk and cannot consent to filming, that you do not film them. And what was the response? No.

[chuckles] And I also asked them to just have more protocol for people having mental health issues. What was your reaction to the “no”? I mean, I wasn’t surprised. Because they think it’s good TV. I think that they can do better. This is a well-oiled machine that makes a lot of money,

And they are going to protect it at all costs. So I think we’re kind of far away from things being changed. JUJU CHANG: Sources tell Impact that McSweeney’s request was rejected, citing already existing policies around alcoholism and substance abuse. You may not know what it’s going to be like.

You may sign up for this, but “this” what? You could never understand what it’s like to actually do it. JUJU CHANG: Bethenny’s trademark brashness that put her at the forefront of this fight also helped spark her television career in 2005 on the Martha Stewart spinoff of the Apprentice.

You’re looking for a star and someone who has total potential. JUJU CHANG: She parlayed that into a role on the original cast of The Real Housewives of New York. BETHENNY FRANKEL: I want to be a household name like a modern, healthy Martha Stewart. JUJU CHANG: Her unfiltered and unapologetic persona, a ratings

Bonanza for Bravo for years. Mention it all. Mention it all. May my heart be your shelter and my arms be your home. JUJU CHANG: Her wedding back in 2010 at the time was the highest rated event Bravo had ever broadcast. BETHENNY FRANKEL: I went through a 10-year, horrific divorce.

And that marriage is being exploited and monetized and sold to so many different entities. JUJU CHANG: Early on, Bethenny says she knew nothing about business. In her first contract, she agreed to a season-long salary of $7,250 and no residuals. I know that my content is all over the world

That I did 15 years ago, before I ever knew that there would be a Peacock streamer or any streamers or GIFs or memes or anything– YouTube clips, social media. So we signed our lives away, not realizing where it would be distributed for decades to come. The idea of residuals is, every time

Your episode plays again, you get a little tiny bit more money. And the more popular your show is, the more it’s gonna get played again. JUJU CHANG: Rich Schoenstein has an expertise in entertainment contracts. He doesn’t represent any of these reality stars, but says the old ways are outdated.

The person who comes on a show in the first instance is not given residuals. And I bet, at the start of reality television, nobody thought that was strange. The industry has changed. The technology has changed. So it does create a new landscape. Those original contracts will still be enforced according to their terms.

They have to be renegotiated or amended by the parties if the parties want to change them. JUJU CHANG: Bethenny still managed to strike gold during her time on the show. I’ve never been great at contracts, but I’ve always been good at concepts. So I agreed to the money but crossed out

The part where they could take a percentage of my future business. Little did I know that I was the only one who crossed that part out. I mean, really cashed out big time. JUJU CHANG: That savvy move allowed her to keep all of the reportedly $100 million

Payout from her sale of Skinnygirl in 2011 and triggered what’s now known as the Bethenny Clause. Every Bravo star since has had to promise to give Bravo a cut of any money they make on products they talk about on Bravo’s shows. So in the last several years, the companies

That make these shows have realized that they can monetize a lot about who these people are in the world outside of the shows. JUJU CHANG: At this year’s BravoCon, Bravolebrities were showcasing their personal brand and their product lines. MAN: BravoCon day one. KATHRYN VANARENDONK: BravoCon is one example.

It’s this huge convention where fans flock. And it also helps to create this sense of Bravo as this cohesive interior universe. Bachelor universe works the same way. Netflix recently created a show called Perfect Match, where they all get to date each other and kiss, and then go back to their other home shows.

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Generation gap, Thursday, Sunny VC, and stream on Hulu. JUJU CHANG: Bethenny, the serial entrepreneur, is still growing her own profitable ideas. – Isn’t that elegant? – That is elegant. You know, it’s just beautiful, and it’s like a gorgeous bottle to keep. JUJU CHANG: Trained as a chef, she

Even became a lucrative TikTok food critic and beauty influencer– And that’s where you put your phone? So you put your phone here. Some beauty products that are at the level. JUJU CHANG: –with 1.5 million followers. You really have the Midas touch. I push to make things successful that I like to do.

It’s the opposite of reality TV. And truthfully, in beauty, in my podcast, in my philanthropy, like, everything is direct. JUJU CHANG: The now-53-year-old single mom was living her best life in her cozy suburban home, when the writers and actors in Hollywood went on strike. –contracts, no peace!

What is it that makes labor issues so hot right now? There is a big thing going on in society about exploitation overall. People just are starting to open their eyes and realize what’s OK and what’s not OK. Reality television needs a systemic overhaul and a governor and possibly a union.

I was just talking about the strike in general that was going on. You have to think about your work as work. You have to think about the fact that you are being exploited, that your conditions could be better, and that somebody has the power to make your conditions better.

You know, a lot of these entry-level reality show contracts– they don’t pay very much at all. Surprisingly little. And I think the performers are saying that’s not right. We should be paid more. And if it takes a union to get us that, then that’s what we want to do.

JUJU CHANG: Page 6 showed the moment at BravoCon this year when Andy Cohen, host and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise, was asked about the reality reckoning. WOMAN: We need to talk about reality reckoning and Bethenny Frankel. No, I don’t want to talk about that.

What I think is, I live in the joy that these shows bring people. And I think we all do. You were good friends with Andy Cohen. He literally made you a star. He didn’t make me a star. He made himself a star on the backs of all of these women.

I’m sure I’ve surprised and disappointed Andy Cohen. And he really was a big fan of mine as a housewife. Andy knows that I’m right on so many levels. Otherwise, he wouldn’t all of a sudden be making this whole franchise about joy. JUJU CHANG: Impact reached out to Andy Cohen.

His team declined to comment. Bethenny says it’s not joy, but pathos that sells. The higher the drama, the higher the ratings. A case in point– Scandoval. Unfortunately, I was the punching bag for a lot of that. That’s Rachel Leviss, formerly known as Raquel– whose cheating scandal boosted Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules into stratospheric ratings.

Nothing has happened between Raquel and I. Vanderpump Rules this last year went on what I can only say is like a legends run in the world of reality programming. The numbers were insane. It was the only thing anyone could talk about. JUJU CHANG: Longtime cast member Tom Sandoval

Was caught cheating on Ariana Madix, his girlfriend of 10 years. Me and Raquel became, like, really good friends. I don’t give a [bleep] about [bleep] Raquel! Your friendship is [bleep] bullshit! Here’s what happens on reality TV, is that the vulnerable person who seems a little bit like the Bambi or the weaker one

Often gets taken advantage of. This woman, Raquel, was raked over the coals in a way that was so disproportionate to what was going on. This girl was emotionally abused. You [bleep] slither. What the [bleep] did you think you were gonna get? You are lower than the [bleep] lowest of low people.

You really are. I know. You’re a [bleep] psychopath. You are terrifying to me as a person. The fact that you are capable of this shit– un [bleep] unbelievable. Hi. Hi. JUJU CHANG: Rachel went on Bethenny’s podcast, Just B, to talk about the hate she experienced off camera.

Did you actually receive death threats and online bullying and– – Yes. Yes. I shut off social media pretty early on. And thank god, I didn’t have my phone while I was in treatment. With all the vitriol online and hate that’s been thrown at me,

If I were to take that on as my own, I don’t even know how I would survive. JUJU CHANG: Shortly after filming the reunion show, Rachel says she admitted herself into a mental health treatment facility. Meanwhile, her fellow cast members got brand deals like Uber One.

(SINGING) I got this Uber One tip for you. (SINGING) Hot membership, oh, yeah. (SINGING) To save on rides and eats! That’s it! Pick him up, three. JUJU CHANG: Tom went on the reality show Special Forces. ANNOUNCER: Dancing the tango, it’s Ariana Madix. JUJU CHANG: And Ariana performed on Dancing With the Stars.

(SINGING) I don’t need anybody else. JUJU CHANG: But Rachel says her reality was bleak by comparison, even though she felt the show profited from her pain. This woman, whose edit and whose role on the show made her a target for a lot of intense public ire,

Tried to go back to them and say, I would like more money, please. And because there is nothing in her contract that says, when the show does better, we pay you more, she had no power to then say, it’s doing so great, and I’m the reason it’s happening.

They were able to say, no. You signed the contract. That’s the money you got. JUJU CHANG: Bravo told ABC News that cast members on reality shows are compensated based on the number of years they’re on the cast and are not given raises for ratings or performance. The network is running to the bank,

Like, laughing, running to the bank with this scandal. And I feel like I’ve been portrayed as the ultimate villain. My mistakes that I made on camera live on forever. With so much at stake. So much on the line, more Americans turn here than any

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You’re watching America’s number one streaming news keeps streaming with ABC News live. JUJ. But it’s not just reality show villains who say they’ve been harmed. NICK THOMPSON: I can’t believe that I fell in love with someone, and then I didn’t get to see them. JUJU CHANG: Nick Thompson was supposed

To be one of the biggest success stories on Netflix’s mega-hit Love is Blind. I love you. I love you, too. So the idea of Love Is Blind is that people who are single and who want to get married go on this reality show where they date people that they cannot see.

They sit in a sort of little pod. Welcome to my pod. [laughs] And they talk to somebody. They don’t know who that person is. If you fall in love with someone, you propose. Yeah. Yeah what? [laughter] Yeah, I’ll marry you. KATHRYN VANARENDONK: And you get to see each other.

And then, after that, the show follows couples who’ve decided to get engaged. Oh, my god. It is an incredibly popular show. It is usually at the top of the Netflix top 10. It consumes popular culture discourse anytime a new season drops. Nick, you got married on national television. International television.

Very popular in Brazil. [chuckles] I have no question whatsoever that you’re the person I’m supposed to be with. I now declare you to be husband and wife. Nick, you may kiss your wife. [cheering] JUJU CHANG: At the time, or even looking back, do you think you were really in love? 100%, yeah.

I came out of the experience thinking, well, OK, that wasn’t ideal, but I fell in love, and I got married. JUJU CHANG: Nick and his then-wife Danielle Ruhl both say that they were extremely distressed by the experience. Just six months after their wedding episode aired, they separated.

If you were to explain why you were divorced, what would you say? There’s a giant pressure cooker from the moment you step in there. And I believe that if we were treated better, if we were supported better, things might have been different. JUJU CHANG: Now, he and one of his fellow castmates,

Jeremy Hartwell, are pushing for change. So I don’t want to say, “naive.” You can say it. I can say that? JEREMY HARTWELL: Yeah. Why? There were things I was naive about, definitely. Everyone knows a little bit about how reality TV is produced, how it’s edited, all of that.

Where I was naive was, I was thinking, if I’m just myself, I have a good value system. Nothing bad could happen to me. Going into this experience with one perspective and a little bit of naivety, and then going through it and understanding, it is nothing like you

Were told it was going to be. JUJU CHANG: Nick says he felt blindsided after his then-wife had a panic attack. He said the producers never told him about it or helped her with it. Danielle was instructed to spend the day alone quarantining due to a stomach bug.

On the show, it appears they’re having a lover’s quarrel. This stuff is going to cause big issues. You’re gonna let it. Why? Why does this cause an issue? Because I had three hours to sit here and not do anything but be in my head. I sat in the closet. I locked the door.

I shut this. And I sat in the closet and cried. JUJU CHANG: Months later, his now-ex-wife Danielle shared what she says was really going on, for Nick’s podcast, Eyes Wide Open. It was a nightmare. It was a nightmare. I have a panic attack and the–

Like, I go into the closet because I’m like, I don’t know if the rooms are bugged. I don’t know they’re filming me. I was just out of my mind. No, I had no idea any of this went on until you told me. They didn’t tell me.

So I was like, I just had a panic attack. I’m not filming right now. There was no mental health support that came in to help her with tools to regulate. And to send me in there, not knowing, in this new relationship with my new fiancee,

In this extreme circumstance, is a complete disservice to me, and even more so, to her. There is no therapist on set, or there’s no covering of therapy afterwards to deal with whatever they went through for the drama that they’re producing. I think that’s the real problem.

It made it seem like you were upset at each other. That’s not really what happened. When you peel back the onion, the issue was that she was unregulated in that moment. JUJU CHANG: It was scenes like this during Love is Blind that inspired Dr. Morley to start her research.

A friend of mine said you should watch Love is blind. This is the most popular show right now, and there’s a lot to write about. JUJU CHANG: She published an article based on what she observed. Jeremy saw it and reached out to Dr. Morley. Both he and Nick offered to share their experiences

While filming the show. As I went through with her in the course of several hours over two interviews, the way she was explaining to me that– the circumstances you’re put under, the lack of support, the timeline in which things are happening, the alcohol, the food– all of that stuff all works together

To where you’re just constantly having ups and downs and angst and anxiety. And when someone’s in that state, you’re more likely and more susceptible to be conditioned to do certain things. Other cast members, if they aren’t speaking up and saying, this is a problem, this is unacceptable,

You can’t treat us like this, then you’re thinking, they think this is OK, so I guess this is OK. JUJU CHANG: Even though Jeremy, a former management consultant, was only on the show for a few days, he says he saw other issues– multiple labor violations due to the cost-cutting, breakneck shooting schedule.

I filed a class-action lawsuit last year, alleging California labor law violations. So we worked anywhere from 16 to 20 hours a day on set. And we were paid a thousand-dollar-a-week stipend. That’s like $7.14 an hour. When we would get our dinner break, the crew would be swapping out.

And that’s when I started to realize– because I know how unions work– oh, like, they’re working their 10, maybe 12 hours, depending on what their contract is. And we’re just kind of, like, getting started here if we want to stay and do night dating. JUJU CHANG: Hartwell’s lawsuit also alleges

The production company fostered inhumane working conditions and failed to provide uninterrupted rest periods. The focus is on how they handled you during that process, right? The focus is on not letting us sleep more than three or four hours a night, never getting enough food, having to ask for water.

The focus was on the gaslighting and the manipulation that we experienced so that they get their storylines. Unless you want to make your career going on various reality TV shows, it’s churn-and-burn in the way that they tell your story, they tell your season, and then it’s on to the next.

Why are former reality show cast members afraid to talk? They’re afraid for several reasons, mostly related to that contract. In those contracts, there’s language that says we can misrepresent you. We can defame you. People look at the NDA, and they see the fines.

You can be fined $50,000 if you leave without a producer’s permission during. So then you’re forced to stay. And then, there’s a million-dollar charge for every time you go against the edit once it comes out. There’s “you can’t unionize” language in there. There’s all this language that’s designed

To silence you for fear of massive amounts of damages and court fees. And it scares people. If you’re putting a person on reality television, they are going to be disparaged. They are going to be defamed. They are going to be mocked and ridiculed and made fun of publicly.

That’s the whole point of reality television. That kind of clause, to me, is entirely appropriate for this sort of contract. JUJU CHANG: Nick filed his own complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the production company, Kinetic, and the casting company, Delirium. One of the ways that reality TV production has skirted

Labor laws is by classifying you in these contracts as a contractor. An employee is somebody who has a job, who works and goes to work every day. An independent contractor is somebody who does, usually, a temporary task. SARAH JAFFE: There are a lot of companies that say workers are independent contractors

But actually exercise the amount of control over them that is more like an employee. So in television, the amount of control exercised over these reality TV performers is really intense. If they were treated as employees, the companies would have additional obligations. They would have to pay minimum wage.

They would have to pay overtime. JUJU CHANG: Netflix and the companies that produce Love is Blind have not responded to Impact’s request for comment. Nick and Jeremy are doing more than just speaking out. They founded the Unscripted Cast Advocacy Network, or UCAN, to provide outside support for cast members

Before, during, and after production. Their goal is to eventually join forces with production companies– something the organization says the shows desperately need. Dr. Morley now works as a director with the organization. We’re here to support, with legal and mental health services, cast members before, during, and after production

As well as advocating for change in the industry. JEREMY HARTWELL: At its most reductionist, again, it’s flipping that equation, so that it’s no longer more profitable to produce things unethically. It’s the systems we’re going after. We’re not going after a show. We’re not going after a person. We’re going after the systems.

I think that if the people who make reality TV can be sued for what happens to the contestants out in the world, for how they’re treated, how they’re mentioned, whether they’re disparaged, I don’t see how you could produce a reality television show. JUJU CHANG: But some systems are slowly changing.

Bravo tells impact that going forward, cast members will have even more access to show psychologists and that they’re enacting stricter guidelines on alcohol consumption. Leah says she’s pushing for systemic change as well. In a genre with legions of devoted fans, she’s hoping audiences can take a step back and realize reality

TV isn’t always reality. LEAH MCSWEENEY: I hope that people think a little more when they’re watching these shows. I hope that people have a little bit more compassion for people who are struggling with alcoholism or substance abuse issues. That’s really what I want. BETHENNY FRANKEL: They’re making a lot of changes,

And not just Bravo. This is the entire entertainment industry. This is streamers. This is networks. They’ve awakened, and no matter what, a change has been made and will continue to be made. Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal

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♪ >>> THERE HAD BEEN A MURDER, AND THE PLACE WAS CRAWLING WITH POLICE. >> YOU CAN SEE THE LEGS LYING ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR. >> SO, SHE’S JUST SHOT IN COLD BLOOD. >> SHE IS GUNNED DOWN IN HER OWN HOUSE. >> IT WAS A SENSATIONAL CASE

BECAUSE OF WHO WAS INVOLVED. IT HAPPENED WITH A GENTLEMAN WHO WAS HIGH POWERED. FORMER MARINE, FORMER COP IN NEW YORK CITY, VERY SUCCESSFUL. SHE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL. >> WHO IS ANGELA BLEDSOE, AND WHO WAS THIS MYSTERY COUPLE? >> ANGELA WAS DONE. SHE WANTED OUT. PERIOD. >> HE BECAME MORE CONTROLLING.

>> HE WAS LOOKING UP HIDDEN CAMERAS, SPY CAMERA. >> SURVEILLANCE — WHY? WHAT DID HE FIND OUT? >> TURNS OUT THEY BOTH HAD SECRETS, AND HE WAS CARRYING HIS AROUND IN A SORT OF DIARY. DID YOU THINK JAMES RAY WAS DANGEROUS? >> THERE’S TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY.

>> DID YOU SEE ANY INDICATION SHE LOST IT AND DECIDED TO ATTACK? >> WHEN SHE MOVED IN, THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END, LITERALLY. >>> YOU’RE ALONG FOR THE RIDE WITH JAMES RAY, A NEW JERSEY LAWYER AND FATHER WHO APPEARS TO

BE IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROUTINE DAY, LIKE PICKING UP HIS DAUGHTER ALANA FROM SCHOOL. BUT THERE IS NOTHING ROUTINE ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE. IN JUST A FEW SHORT HOURS, THE LIVES OF DAD AND DAUGHTER WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER. >> WHENEVER I WAS IN HIS

PRESENCE WITH THE CHILDREN, HE JUST WAS LIKE A CARING FATHER, YOU KNOW. >> THAT EVENING, 6-YEAR-OLD ALANA AND HER DAD ARE MAKING THEIR WAY TO A NEW JERSEY STEAKHOUSE TO MEET UP WITH SOME FAMILY MEMBERS. IT’S A MEAL THAT WILL BE BOTH

BRIEF AND BIZARRE, BEGINNING FROM THE MOMENT JAMES RAY PULLS INTO THE PARKING LOT. >> JAMES RAY MEETS UP WITH HIS BROTHER, ROBERT RAY. IN THE BACK OF THE RESTAURANT PARKING LOT WHERE IT IS DARK. HIS DAUGHTER AND ROBERT’S WIFE AT THE TIME GO INSIDE THE RESTAURANT.

JAMES IS WEARING SUNGLASSES IN THE EVENING, AND ACCORDING TO HIS BROTHER, HIS DEMEANOR IS DESCRIBED AS PANICKY. >> BEFORE HE BECAME A LAWYER, JAMES RAY SERVED AS A MARINE AND A POLICE OFFICER, SO HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH STRESSFUL SITUATIONS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS

BROTHER, THIS FELT VERY DIFFERENT. >> ONCE ALONE, JAMES MAKES AN UNUSUAL REQUEST OF HIS BROTHER. AND IT’S INTERESTING TO POINT OUT THESE TWO ARE NOT PARTICULARLY CLOSE. BUT RAY ASKS HIS BROTHER TO WATCH HIS DAUGHTER ALANA FOR 24 HOURS. ROBERT RAY AGREES AND THE TWO

MEN TRANSFER ALANA’S LUGGAGE FROM ONE CAR TO THE OTHER. THEN THEY GO INSIDE THE RESTAURANT. >> EVERYBODY’S BEGINNING TO ORDER THEIR MEALS, BUT THINGS ARE PRETTY STRANGE. RAY PASSES ON FOOD AND SIPS HIS WATER, AND IT’S CLEAR THAT SOMEBODY IS MISSING FROM THIS

FAMILY GATHERING, ALANA’S MOM, ANGELA. >> THEY’RE SITTING IN A BOOTH. AND HE ASKS HIS BROTHER TO TAKE A PICTURE OF HIM WITH HIS DAUGHTER. AND AFTER THE PICTURE, HE SLIPS OUT AS IF HE’S GOING TO THE BATHROOM. >> HE EXCUSES HIMSELF FROM THE

TABLE, EXITS THE RESTAURANT, AND BEGINS TO LEAVE THE PARKING LOT. ROBERT TRIES TO STOP HIM, BUT JAMES JUST KEEPS ON DRIVING. ROBERT RAY IS SO TAKEN ABACK BY WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED, HE DRIVES OVER TO HIS BROTHER’S HOME IN MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY. WHEN HE ARRIVES, THE HOME IS

DARK, AND THE CAR HE SAW JAMES LEAVE THE RESTAURANT IN IS NOT IN THE DRIVEWAY. >> WITH HIS NIECE NOW IN THE CAR, ROBERT DECIDES THAT THE BEST THING TO DO IS TO DRIVE THE NEARLY 70 MILES BACK TO HIS HOME IN ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, AND

GET 6-YEAR-OLD ALANA SETTLED IN FOR THE NIGHT. >> WHEN THEY WERE GETTING THE CHILD READY FOR BED, MEANING ROBERT RAY AND HIS WIFE AT THE TIME, THAT’S WHEN THEY DISCOVERED IN THE SUITCASE THE LETTER. IT’S A ONE-PAGE TYPEWRITTEN LETTER TELLING HIS BROTHER

SOMETHING AWFUL HAS HAPPENED. >> AND BASED ON THE CONTENT OF THAT LETTER, ROBERT RAY CALLED 911. >> MONTCLAIR POLICE, INSPECTOR RICCI. >> UH, HELLO, INSPECTOR. UM, MY NAME IS ROBERT. I LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA. I JUST GOT WORD THAT, UH, SOMETHING HORRIBLE POTENTIALLY HAS HAPPENED AT MY BROTHER’S

HOUSE THERE IN MONTCLAIR. >> AND WHAT HAPPENED? >> I AM NOT CERTAIN, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE MAY BE A MURDER VICTIM THERE. >> WHAT’S THE ADDRESS? >> NORTH MOUNTAIN AVENUE. >> ALL RIGHT, RECEIVED. I’M EN ROUTE. SEND ME SOME UNITS UP THERE, MEET ME UP THERE.

JUST CONFIRM THE ADDRESS. >> SECURING THE SCENE AND SECURING ANY EVIDENCE AND SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE AT THE SCENE IS MY PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY. AS AN INVESTIGATIVE SUPERVISOR, I NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT WHAT I HAVE TO DO ONCE I GET TO THE SCENE AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE

DONE PRIOR TO MY ARRIVAL. AS FAR AS THE SUSPECT GOES, I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE HE WAS AT THIS POINT. WE HAD TO ASSUME THAT THERE’S A POTENTIAL THREAT INSIDE THE HOUSE AND PROCEED ACCORDINGLY. >> FROM THE REAR OF THE HOUSE LOOKING THROUGH THE SLIDING

DOOR, YOU CAN SEE THE LEGS LYING ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR. >> I CAN SAY HOMICIDE NOW? >> YEAH, YEAH. THEY CONFIRMED IT. IT’S ONE DOA INSIDE THE HOUSE. UH, WE’RE GONNA BE PUTTING IT IN AS A FELONY VEHICLE. YEAH, CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. USE CAUTION. >> INSIDE THE HOME,

INVESTIGATORS BEGIN TO PUT TOGETHER PIECES OF A PUZZLE. >> THERE WAS A HANDGUN IN THE POOL OF BLOOD. >> THERE WAS A HANDGUN IN THE LIVING ROOM ON A COFFEE TABLE. THERE WAS A GUN CLEANING KIT IN THE LIVING ROOM ON THE COFFEE TABLE, AND OBVIOUSLY THE

PROJECTILE THAT WAS EMBEDDED IN THE COUCH. >> THERE’S A BLOOD TRAIL LEADING FROM THE LIVING ROOM COUCH TO THE KITCHEN. ALSO, THERE WAS ANOTHER SHELL CASING THAT WAS ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR. >> THE CLOCK THAT HAD APPEARED TO HAVE COME OFF THE WALL WAS

LYING IN THE KITCHEN SINK AND IT HAD STOPPED. >> THE VICTIM IS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS 44-YEAR-OLD ANGELA BLEDSOE, JAMES RAY’S LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND. THE LITTLE GIRL PICKED UP FROM SCHOOL IS THE COUPLE’S DAUGHTER. >> THAT WAS A DISTURBING ASPECT OF THE CASE. A MINOR CHILD, 6 YEARS OLD

AT THE TIME, PICKED UP BY HER FATHER AND NEVER WENT HOME. SHE NEVER SAW HER MOTHER AGAIN. SHE ENDED UP GOING TO ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, WITH TWO PEOPLE SHE BARELY KNEW. AND THEN AFTER HER FATHER WALKED OUT, SHE NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN EITHER. >> DOWN IN MARYLAND, ANGELA’S

PARENTS GET THE DEVASTATING NEWS THAT THEIR YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IS GONE. TELL ME ABOUT THAT DAY, MR. BLEDSOE. >> I THINK I YELLED AND NOTHING CAME OUT. I CRIED. AND THEN I SAID TO MYSELF, BLEDSOE, YOU GOT TO GET YOURSELF TOGETHER. >> WHAT DID YOU THINK HAD HAPPENED?

>> I DIDN’T ASK FOR DETAILS. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. >> WHAT’D YOU LEARN ABOUT THIS STORY AND THESE TWO PEOPLE? >> SHE WAS INDEED A VERY SUCCESSFUL WOMAN. I BELIEVE HER SISTER EVEN SAID THAT SHE WAS MAKING MORE MONEY

IN HER 20s THAN HER PARENTS HAD MADE THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. >> BUT WHERE EXACTLY IS JAMES RAY? >> DEVELOPING STORY OUT OF NEW JERSEY WHERE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MURDER SUSPECT. >> AT THAT POINT, WE CAME UP WITH A GAME PLAN. PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE WAS

JAMES RAY. >> LAWYER BY DAY, TONIGHT DESCRIBED AS ARMED AND DANGEROUS. >> SOMETHING WAS OFF. SOMETHING WAS WRONG. >> I STARTED KNOCKING ON NEIGHBORS’ DOORSM AND NOBODY REALLY SEEMED TO KNOW THE VICTIM OR HER BOYFRIEND. >> BACK IN ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, INVESTIGATORS ARE

HEADED TO ROBERT RAY’S HOME TO FIND OUT WHAT ELSE WAS IN THAT SUITCASE, AND WHAT THEY FIND WILL SPARK AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT. >> THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. NOW THEY JUST NEED TO FIND HIM. This is ABC News live

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What crime Blood Mountain now streaming only on Hulu >>> AUTHORITIES BELIEVE HE SHOT AND KILLED HIS LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND INSIDE THEIR MONTCLAIR HOME BEHIND ME. >> THE CRIME ITSELF OCCURRED IN MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY, WHICH IS A QUIET, SUBURBAN, AFFLUENT TOWNSHIP. >> MONTCLAIR IS A TOWN OF ABOUT

40,000 PEOPLE, 12 MILES WEST OF MANHATTAN. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO RESIDE IN MONTCLAIR WORK IN NEW YORK. >> VERY FAMILY ORIENTED, AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF NEW YORKERS, EVEN SOME CELEBRITIES, NOW MOVING TO MONTCLAIR. >> A MIX OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUSES AND VERY DIVERSE ALL AROUND.

>> IT’S BEAUTIFUL. THERE ARE A LOT OF OLD STOCK VICTORIAN HOMES. IT’S GOT A BUSTLING DOWNTOWN, A LOT OF GREAT RESTAURANTS. >> POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE UPSCALE HOUSE HERE ON THE 300 BLOCK OF NORTH MOUNTAIN AVENUE SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. >> I WAS LIVING IN MONTCLAIR

WHEN THIS CASE HAPPENED. AND EVERYBODY KEPT THINKING, ARE WE IN DANGER? IS THERE SOMETHING GOING ON? IS IT A SPREE? BECAUSE NOBODY’S USED TO THAT KIND OF CRIME HAPPENING IN THAT AREA. >> YOU EXPECT A CALL FROM THE CITY AT SOME POINT, BUT GETTING

A CALL FROM MONTCLAIR WAS SURPRISING. >> THEY FOUND 44-YEAR-OLD ANGELA BLEDSOE HAD BEEN SHOT. SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. >> NEWS OF A MURDER WAS SHOCKING IN THIS PICTURESQUE TOWN OF TREE-LINED STREETS. JAMES RAY AND ANGELA BLEDSOE, LIKE MANY HERE, WERE A

PROFESSIONAL COUPLE RAISING A 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. >> JAMES WAS VERY ACCOMPLISHED. HE HAD AN MBA AND HE HAD A LAW DEGREE. >> JAMES LOOKED GREAT ON PAPER. HE HAS HIS OWN BUSINESS. HE WAS A MARINE. HE WAS A FORMER POLICE OFFICER. >> THEY MET IN BROOKLYN. ANGELA WAS WORKING AS A

FINANCIAL ADVISOR, AND RAY OFFERED TO HIRE HER AT HIS INSURANCE BROKERAGE. >> AND ANGELA, WHAT SHE WOULD DO IS SHE RECRUITED PEOPLE TO SELL LIFE INSURANCE. THEY HAD AN AGREEMENT AS FAR AS THE COMMISSION THAT SHE WOULD GET AND THE CUT THAT HE WOULD GET.

>> SO SHE DIDN’T WORK FOR HIM, SHE WORKED ALONGSIDE AND HELPED HIS BUSINESS? >> EXACTLY. >> THEY HAD A LOT IN COMMON AS IT PERTAINED TO BUSINESS, AND I KNOW THAT THEY HAD THIS POWER-COUPLE DYNAMIC BETWEEN THEM. I THINK SHE WAS ATTRACTED TO THAT AS WELL.

>> FAMILY AND FRIENDS WE SPOKE WITH SAID THEY WERE HAPPY THAT ANGELA SEEMED TO HAVE FOUND A GOOD GUY. >> THE FIRST TIME THAT I SAW HIM WAS AT MY DAD’S SURPRISE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. AND FROM AFAR I COULD SEE THEM. AND THEY SEEMED VERY HAPPY TOGETHER.

I MEAN, THEY WERE DANCING, AND HE TWIRLED HER AROUND. SHE — YOU KNOW, SHE WAS LAUGHING AND SMILING, AND THEY SEEMED HAPPY. SO I WAS LIKE, OH, LIKE THEY LOOK NICE TOGETHER. >> YOU COULD SEE THAT THEY HAD A CONNECTION. THEY HAD A SPARK AMONGST THEMSELVES.

>> AND SHE TOLD MY MOM, WELL, MOM, HE’S SPECIAL. >> INITIALLY, I THOUGHT HE WOULD BE A NICE INDIVIDUAL FOR HER. >> I COULD TELL HE WAS A LITTLE OLDER THAN HER WHEN I FIRST MET HIM, SO I WASN’T SURE HOW SERIOUS IT WAS.

>> THERE WAS AN 11-YEAR AGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGELA AND JAMES. >> HE PROBABLY WAS EXTREMELY CHARMING, WHICH IS I’M SURE HOW HE ATTRACTED ANGELA, BECAUSE I KNOW ANGELA. SO HE WOULD’VE HAD TO KIND OF BRING HIS “A” GAME TO GET HER TO

EVEN WANT TO LOOK HIS WAY. >> I COULD SEE HOW JAMES WAS CHARISMATIC. AND HE DID HAVE WAYS ABOUT HIM BEING FUNNY, INTELLIGENT, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I THINK SHE LOOKED AT HIM KIND OF AS A CATCH. >> DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN SHE MET

JAMES RAY AND WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT HIM? >> SHE ADMIRED HIM. AND THEN I THINK THE RELATIONSHIP KINDA MOVED ALONG PRETTY QUICKLY. >> YOU TALKED A LOT. DOES SHE SHARE MUCH ABOUT HER LOVE LIFE? DOES SHE WANT TO BE MARRIED AT SOME POINT?

DID SHE TALK ABOUT WHAT SHE WANTED FOR HERSELF PERSONALLY? >> SHE DID. SHE WANTED TO BE MARRIED, AND WE DID TALK ABOUT THAT. >> SO FOR THIS COUPLE, CLEARLY SOMETHING WENT TRAGICALLY WRONG ON THAT OCTOBER NIGHT. >> AND FOR THE DETECTIVES WHO BEGAN TO INVESTIGATE, THEIR

ATTENTION TURNED TO JAMES RAY. HAVING LEFT BEHIND HIS DAUGHTER WITH HIS BROTHER, ROBERT RAY, AND THOSE TWO SUITCASES. >> THERE WERE TWO SUITCASES THAT HE PACKED FOR HIS DAUGHTER WITH A LOT OF CLOTHING. HE PRINTED OUT AND LEFT FOR HIS BROTHER A DISNEY CRUISE ITINERARY.

THERE WERE CERTIFIED CHECKS. ONE WAS IN THE AMOUNT OF $11,500 FOR HIS DAUGHTER. THE OTHER WAS IN THE AMOUNT JUST SHY OF $10,000 FOR ROBERT RAY TO CASH FOR THE DAUGHTER. HE ALSO LEFT A LETTER FOR HIS BROTHER. >> THIS LETTER THAT RAY LEFT FOR HIS BROTHER IS CHOCKFUL OF

INFORMATION FOR INVESTIGATORS. BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, IT’S A STARTLING ADMISSION THAT RAY DID IN FACT SHOOT ANGELA. HE SAYS HE HAS AN EXPLANATION. BUT ALSO GOES ON TO SAY QUOTE, I AM SCARED AND DON’T WANT THE LONG BURDEN OF A TRIAL TO PROVE MY POINT.

>> IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SHOOTING, HE FELT HE WAS IN A NO-WIN SITUATION, SO HE HAD TO FLEE. >> AND HE ALSO DIDN’T HAVE HIS DUCKS IN A ROW. >> HE KNEW HE WAS GONNA BE ARRESTED AND THAT HE WOULD NEED BAIL MONEY.

SO HE HAD TO FIGURE THAT OUT BEFORE HE TURNED HIMSELF IN. >> ON THE NEWS, IT WAS SAYING THAT JAMES RAY WAS ON THE RUN, FOR KILLING ANGELA. >> INVESTIGATORS ARE NOW LOOKING FOR BLEDSOE’S BOYFRIEND 55-YEAR-OLD JAMES R. RAY III. >> WE DIDN’T KNOW WHERE HE WAS.

IT WAS VERY DRAMATIC. >> HE IS IN THE WIND, AS WE LIKE TO SAY, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, WE DON’T KNOW HIS WHEREABOUTS. AND ALL WE CAN DO IS GATHER ENOUGH INFORMATION. >> IT IS QUITE A STORY, AND THERE’S MORE — IN THE LETTER, RAY DROPS SEVERAL BOMBSHELLS,

INCLUDING CLAIMS THAT ANGELA WAS BECOMING VIOLENT WITH HIM. >> AFTER NINE YEARS OF THIS LONG RELATIONSHIP, ANGELA WAS DONE. SHE WAS LEAVING JAMES RAY. SHE WANTED OUT. PERIOD. >> SOME ARE EVEN WONDERING IF THE RELATIONSHIP WAS DOOMED FROM THE START WHEN ANGELA DISCOVERED AN EXPLOSIVE SECRET HE’D BEEN KEEPING FROM HER.

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>> A WOMAN WAS FOUND DEAD ON NORTH MOUNTAIN AVENUE. POLICE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR THE BOYFRIEND. >> I GOT A CALL EARLY ONE MORNING INDICATING THAT THERE HAD BEEN A MURDER IN MONTCLAIR. COMMUNITIES LIKE MONTCLAIR, IT IS VERY, VERY RARE. SO THAT’S A SITUATION THAT IS

GOING TO GET A LOT OF MEDIA ATTENTION. >> I WAS CALLING EVERYONE I KNEW IN TOWN, ALL MY CONNECTIONS. I WROTE A DEEP DIVE ABOUT WHO IS ANGELA BLEDSOE AND WHO WAS THIS MYSTERY COUPLE. >> ANGELA’S FAMILY DESCRIBES HER AS A GENTLE SOUL, QUIET, SOFT-SPOKEN.

THEY SAY SHE’D BEEN THAT WAY SINCE CHILDHOOD. TAKE ME BACK TO CHILDHOOD, GROWING UP. GIVE ME A SENSE OF WHAT THAT WAS LIKE AND HOW YOU ALL GOT ALONG. >> WE’RE PRETTY MUCH A MIDDLE INCOME FAMILY. CHURCH GOIN’ FOLKS. WE WENT TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY, WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.

WE GOT ALONG VERY WELL. >> WHAT WERE HER INTERESTS AS A CHILD? >> ANGELA, SHE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN SCHOOL. SHE WAS A HONOR STUDENT. SHE WAS A PART OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION. AND ALSO A FELLOW RATTLER. BECAUSE WE BOTH ATTENDED FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY.

>> ONCE SHE WAS IN COLLEGE, AND SHE MAJORED IN BUSINESS. >> YES. SHE WAS A PART OF A STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION. SHE PLEDGED A BETA ALPHA CHAPTER OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY INCORPORATED. AFTER SHE GRADUATED, SHE MOVED TO NEW YORK. ♪ >> I BELIEVE SHE WAS VERY

SUCCESSFUL AS A FINANCIAL ANALYST, AND I DIDN’T KNOW TOO MANY 27-YEAR-OLDS WHO WERE ABLE TO BUY THEIR FIRST HOME, LET ALONE IN NEW YORK, IN BROOKLYN, IN A BROWNSTONE. >> AND THAT BROWNSTONE WAS ONE OF THOSE STEPPING STONES TO GET

HER TO WHERE SHE WANTED TO BE. IF I HAD TO SAY SHE HAD A TYPE, ANGELA WOULD HAVE A TYPE OF SOMEONE WHO WAS GOING TO BE AS SUCCESSFUL AND DRIVEN AS SHE IS. >> AND THAT’S WHEN ANGELA MET JAMES RAY. >> YOU COULD DEFINITELY TELL

THAT HE WAS VERY INTO HER AND THAT SHE WAS VERY INTO HIM. >> THE COUPLE SEEMED TO BE HAPPY AND IN LOVE, BUT IT TURNS OUT JAMES RAY WAS HARBORING A DEEP SECRET. >> JAMES WAS MARRIED. THEY HAD TWO GROWN, ADULT CHILDREN.

>> I DO NOT RECALL HOW SHE FOUND OUT, BUT SHE WAS NOT PLEASED, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. IT’S NOT IN HER CHARACTER TO DATE A MARRIED MAN, AND IT WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN HER FIRST CHOICE TO BECOME INVOLVED WITH A MARRIED MAN.

>> I KNOW WHAT SHE TOLD ME WAS THAT SHE DIDN’T KNOW IT FIRST, SO MY ONLY GUESS IS THAT SHE WAS ALREADY SMITTEN BY THIS POINT AND COULDN’T LET GO OF THE RELATIONSHIP. BUT ONCE YOU FIND OUT, THEN YOU HAVE A DECISION TO MAKE.

>> ALTHOUGH ANGELA KNEW JAMES WAS MARRIED, SHE STAYED IN THE RELATIONSHIP. >> AND I WAS SURPRISED AT HER DECISION TO CONTINUE TO DATE HIM. SO I DON’T KNOW IF SHE WAS ALREADY TOO DEEP IN THE RELATIONSHIP TO STOP IT. >> ANGIE WORE ROSE-COLORED GLASSES.

IN A LOT OF CASES. >> LOVE KIND OF BLINDS YOU TO CERTAIN THINGS AND MAKES YOU MORE WILLING TO OVERLOOK OR GIVE GRACE, AS IT SHOULD, RIGHT? WHEN YOU’RE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE, YOU WANT TO OPERATE FROM A PLACE OF GRACE. >> I WAS BEGINNING NOT TO LIKE

HIM, AND I DIDN’T LIKE THEIR DYNAMIC TOGETHER. AND I WAS JUST HOPING IT WAS A PHASE AND IT WOULD GO AWAY, BUT THEN WHEN SHE GOT PREGNANT WITH THEIR DAUGHTER, I THINK THAT LOCKED HER IN. >> IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE

PICTURES THAT SHE TOOK WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT, YOU COULD TELL SHE WAS ALREADY IN LOVE WITH HER BABY. >> ANGELA AND JAMES’ DAUGHTER, ALANA, WAS BORN IN 2012. >> I FEEL LIKE ANGELA APPROACHED MOTHERHOOD IN THE SAME WAY SHE APPROACHED ALL THE OTHER THINGS IN LIFE.

LIKE, SHE WAS COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT HER CHILD HAS THE BEST EXPERIENCES, BEST OPPORTUNITIES. >> WAS SHE HAPPY AS A MOM? >> OH, YES. YES, INDEED. SHE LOVED BEING A MOTHER. YOU WOULD ALMOST THINK SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE FIRST MOTHER. SHE WAS EXTREMELY PROTECTIVE OF ALANA.

>> AFTER SHE HAD THE BABY, ANGELA LIVED LARGELY ON HER OWN IN BROOKLYN WHILE JAMES LIVED COMFORTABLY WITH HIS WIFE IN UPPER MONTCLAIR. >> WHAT ABOUT JAMES RAY? WAS HE A GOOD FATHER? WAS HE AN INVOLVED FATHER? >> EARLY ON, HE WAS NOT.

AND EVEN ONE TIME WHEN SHE WANTED TO GO TO A MEETING, HE WASN’T AVAILABLE AND SHE WAS REALLY FRUSTRATED. AND I ASKED HER, I SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, BEFORE YOU ALL HAD HER, DID YOU ALL DISCUSS HOW YOU ALL WERE GOING THE FACILITATE AND HANDLE THINGS?

AND SHE SAID NO, SO THERE WAS FRICTION THERE. >> EVENTUALLY, AFTER RAY’S WIFE OF MORE THAN 20 YEARS AND MOM OF HIS TWO GROWN CHILDREN MOVES OUT, ANGELA MOVES IN TO HIS MONTCLAIR HOME. WHEN SHE MOVED IN, WAS THE HOPE THAT THEY WOULD BECOME MORE OF A

FAMILY, THAT THEY WOULD PARTICIPATE TOGETHER? WHAT WERE THE EXPECTATIONS, DO YOU THINK? >> I THINK THE LONG-TERM EXPECTATION WAS THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET MARRIED. THAT’S WHAT SHE HOPED FOR INITIALLY. >> AND THEY BOTH WERE VERY CLOSE TO THEIR DAUGHTER. HE TOOK HER GOLFING THREE TIMES

A WEEK. HE COOKED. AND THEY JUST LOVED HER. >> AND I THINK IT STARTED OFF IN A POSITIVE LIGHT WITH HOPES, YOU KNOW, OF A FUTURE MARRIAGE AT ONE POINT, AND THEN IT JUST — IT CHANGED OVER TIME. ONCE SHE LIVED WITH HIM IS WHEN

YOU CAN SEE SOMEONE DAY IN AND DAY OUT OF WHO THEY ARE. AND I THINK THAT’S WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO GET A SENSE FROM HER THAT SHE WASN’T AS HAPPY AS I THOUGHT. >> THEY WEREN’T REALLY COMMUNICATING WITH ONE ANOTHER. THEY WERE KIND OF PAST THE

HONEYMOON PHASE OF THE RELATIONSHIP AND INTO THE REALITY. BUT IT REALLY BECAME A CO-PARENT EXISTENCE IN THE HOUSEHOLD, AND IT WAS NO LONGER A RELATIONSHIP. >> SHE COMPLAINED ABOUT HIM TO HER FAMILY. SHE SAID HE WAS CONTROLLING. HE WOULD CRITICIZE HER IN FRONT OF THEIR DAUGHTER.

>> AFTER A WHILE, I NOTICED EVERY TIME SHE CALLED, SHE WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT HIM MORE AND MORE. >> SHE WOULD JUST TEXT ME LITTLE THINGS HE WOULD SAY, LITTLE THINGS HE WOULD DO. HE BECAME A LITTLE PARANOID, AND HE BECAME MORE CONTROLLING AFTER A WHILE.

>> WE WERE AT HOMECOMING ONE TIME, AND WE WERE GOING TO TAKE A GROUP PICTURE. AND THERE WERE SOME GUYS IN THE PICTURE, FRIENDS THAT WE ALL WENT TO SCHOOL WITH. AND SHE WAS LIKE, JUST DON’T POST THAT. I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THAT

WHEN I GET BACK HOME. >> THE MORE SHE WOULD SHARE, THE MORE HIS ACTIONS WORRIED ME. IT EVEN GOT TO A POINT ONE TIME, I WAS LIKE, “DO YOU NEED TO COME STAY WITH ME UNTIL YOU FIGURE OUT THIS SITUATION? BECAUSE IT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE YOU’RE SAFE.

IT SOUNDS LIKE HE’S UNRAVELING.” AND I EVEN PUT THAT INTO TEXT MESSAGES TO HER. >> SO YOU WANTED HER TO MOVE ON. DID SHE SAY WHY SHE HADN’T MOVED OUT? >> WELL, SHE — SHE NEEDED TO FIND A PLACE. AND SHE WAS WAVERING, LIKE, CAN

I TRY AND MAKE THIS WORK? SHOULD I STAY? SHOULD I LEAVE? SHE WANTED, YOU KNOW, HER DAUGHTER TO HAVE A FULL FAMILY, A MOM AND A DAD. >> AND YOU WANTED HER, AT THAT POINT, TO MOVE ON AND TO CLAIM HER OWN LIFE.

>> I WANTED HER OUT OF THE HOUSE. >> BUT AS THE TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP HEADS TOWARDS A VIOLENT END, MORE SKELETONS WOULD COME OUT. IT TURNS OUT ANGELA HAD BEEN KEEPING SECRETS OF HER OWN. With so much at stake.

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Magic winner 2023 The Secret Life of dancing dogs now swimming in Hulu >>> A MANHUNT IS — FOR JAMES RAY, WHO IS SUSPECTED OF FATALLY SHOOTING HIS GIRLFRIEND. >> 24 HOURS AFTER ANGELA BLEDSOE’S BODY IS FOUND, JAMES RAY IS ON THE RUN. AND AS WITH ANY FUGITIVE

CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS, THE U.S. MARSHALS ARE CALLED IN. MEANWHILE, POLICE ARE STILL PROCESSING THE CRIME SCENE AND EXAMINING THAT STUNNING LETTER S RAY WROTE TO HIS BROTHER. >> ROBERT RAY IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED US OF WHAT WAS IN THE LETTER, WHICH BASICALLY

INDICATED THAT HE WAS CLEANING HIS WEAPONS, AND THAT MS. BLEDSOE CAME AT HIM WITH ANOTHER WEAPON. >> RIGHT THERE IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH, RAY SAYING THAT HE WAS CLEANING HIS GUNS WHEN ANGELA PICKED ONE UP AND WAS GOING TO SHOOT HIM.

>> HE SAID THAT HE SHOT HER IN SELF-DEFENSE, THAT SHE PULLED THE GUN ON HIM. >> HE SHOT HER AND COULDN’T STOP SHOOTING HER. >> IT WAS A SENSATIONAL CASE. IT HAPPENED WITH A GENTLEMAN WHO WAS HIGH-POWERED. SHE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL. IT GOES BACK TO THAT WHOLE THING

OF YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. >> ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS INVESTIGATORS STARTED TO PORE OVER WAS THE COUPLE’S TEXT MESSAGES, AND A PICTURE BEGINS TO EMERGE OF A RELATIONSHIP ON THE BRINK. >> WHEN SHE MOVED IN, THAT WAS

THE BEGINNING OF THE END, LITERALLY. AT SOME POINT, JAMES BECAME CONTROLLING, JAMES BECAME JEALOUS, JAMES BECAME A COMPLAINER. HE CALLED HER NAMES. HE SAID SHE WAS LAZY. >> IT JUST SEEMED LIKE HE WASN’T IN THE RIGHT STATE OF MIND. HE WAS VERY JEALOUS AND NOT

TRUSTWORTHY OF ANGELA WHATSOEVER. >> HE WAS LOOKING UP HIDDEN CAMERAS, WALL CLOCK HIDDEN CAMERAS, SPY CAMERAS, GPS TRACKERS. >> SURVEILLANCE, WHY? >> I CAN’T ANSWER THAT. HE WAS ASKING HER ABOUT HER WHEREABOUTS ALL THE TIME, ACCORDING TO THE TEXT MESSAGES THAT WE HAD.

>> AT THAT POINT IN TIME IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP, HE WAS VERY WELL AWARE THAT ANGELA WAS LOOKING TO KIND OF MOVE ON. >> BECAUSE HE WAS BREAKING INTO HER PHONE, HE DID DISCOVER AT SOME POINT THAT SHE COULD HAVE BEEN SEEING SOMEONE NAMED BAKARI.

HE HAD A SENSE THAT SOMETHING WAS GOING ON BECAUSE HE WAS READING TEXT MESSAGES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. >> HE THOUGHT SHE WAS LEAVING TO GO HAVE THIS AFFAIR AND CONTINUE ON A RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER MAN IN ANOTHER STATE AND TAKE AWAY THEIR DAUGHTER.

>> BAKARI AND ANGELA WENT TO SCHOOL TOGETHER, FAMU. THEY WERE FRIENDS THERE, STRICTLY FRIENDS, NOTHING ROMANTIC. AND WHEN THEY GRADUATED, THEY KIND OF SEPARATED. SHE WENT TO A FAMU HOMECOMING EVENT AND RECONNECTED WITH BAKARI. >> THEY SAW EACH OTHER AT THIS HOMECOMING, AND THAT

PRECIPITATED A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP THAT THEY HAD. >> BAKARI BURNS. >> YES, BAKARI BURNS. AND THEN THEY BEGAN AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP. >> DID YOU HEAR OR HAD SHE SHARED THAT SHE WAS SEEING SOMEBODY ELSE? >> WELL, SHE HAD HER FRIEND, BAKARI. I DO FEEL THAT SHE HAD FEELINGS

FOR HIM, BUT AS FAR AS DATING AND ALL OF THAT, SHE DIDN’T SAY THAT THEY WERE DATING. >> WHEN I READ THE TEXT, JAMES FOUND OUT ABOUT BAKARI, I CALLED HER. WHAT DID HE FIND OUT? WHO IS BAKARI? BECAUSE YOU NEVER TOLD ME ANYTHING ABOUT BAKARI.

SHE JUST MADE IT SEEM LIKE HE WAS JEALOUS OF AN OLD COLLEGE BOYFRIEND. >> TWO DAYS BEFORE THE MURDER HAPPENED, JAMES RAY HAD CALLED BAKARI BURNS, AND HE FRIGHTENED HIM. “DO YOU KNOW THAT I EXIST? DO YOU KNOW THAT ANGELA HAS A DAUGHTER?

DO YOU KNOW THAT ANGELA LIVES WITH ME AND SLEEPS IN MY BED WITH ME EVERY NIGHT? ARE YOU AWARE OF ME?” AND BEFORE THAT CONVERSATION ENDED, JAMES RAY SAYS TO HIM, I MAY BE COMING DOWN TO VISIT YOU IN FLORIDA. >> THINGS STARTED TO COME TO A

HEAD APPARENTLY BETWEEN ANGELA BLEDSOE AND JAMES RAY. ANGELA BLEDSOE SENT A TEXT MESSAGE TO JAMES RAY INDICATING THAT SHE WAS DONE. SHE WAS DONE WITH THE RELATIONSHIP, SHE CHECKED OUT, AND THEN SHE GAVE HIM A LIST OF REASONS WHY SHE WAS DONE. >> SUCH AS?

>> THAT HE JUST WASN’T COMPASSIONATE, HE DIDN’T RESPECT HER, THAT HE WAS CONTROLLING. >> THAT HE WASN’T INVESTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP. >> HE WASN’T INVESTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP, AND IT BECAME APPARENT TO HER THAT SHE CAN’T CHANGE HIM. >> SO THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS FALLING APART.

>> IT WAS NOT SALVAGEABLE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STRUCK US WAS A PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT THAT HAD DRAWN UP BETWEEN THE PARTIES. >> BUT THEY WEREN’T MARRIED. >> THEY WERE NOT MARRIED. AND THEY HAD NO INTENTION OF GETTING MARRIED. >> SO WHY WOULD THERE BE A PRENUP?

>> HE KNOWS SHE’S LEAVING. HE KNOWS THAT SHE WAS INTERESTED IN ANOTHER MAN. AND IT WAS AN ACT OF DESPERATION. >> WHAT DID HE WANT IN THE PRENUP AGREEMENT? PRENUP AGREEMENT? WHAT WAS HE GOING FOR? >> THERE WAS A CLAUSE IN THAT PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT THAT WE

COINED “THE INFIDELITY CLAUSE.” AND IT BASICALLY SAID THAT IF EITHER PARTY IS CHEATING, THE OFFENDING PARTY SHALL PAY A SUM OF $300,000 PER ACT OF INFIDELITY. THE DATE TIMELINE THAT HE REFERENCED WAS FROM JANUARY 1st OF 2018 UP AND UNTIL OCTOBER.

>> HE WAS GOING BACK TO THE PERIOD THAT HE KNEW THAT SHE WAS INVOLVED WITH ANOTHER MAN. >> EXACTLY. EXACTLY. >> BUT EVEN THOUGH ANGELA WAS SEEING ANOTHER MAN, WHY AND HOW WOULD IT HAVE COME TO THIS? WITH RAY’S ALLEGATION THAT ANGELA GRABBED THE GUN AND TRIED

TO KILL HIM? >> ANGELA WAS NOT A VIOLENT PERSON. IF ANYTHING, I FELT LIKE SHE FELT SORRY FOR HIM BECAUSE SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO LEAVE HIM. AND I THINK SHE ACTUALLY FELT BAD FOR HIM. SO, I CAN’T IMAGINE HER THREATENING HIM OR TRYING TO

HURT HIM. >> DID YOUR SISTER HAVE FAMILIARITY WITH GUNS? >> NO. >> DID SHE SHOOT GUNS? >> NO, SHE DID NOT. >> SO, THERE WAS NO DOUBT IN YOUR MIND — >> NO DOUBT AT ALL. >> — ABOUT WHETHER SHE SHOT HIM. >> IT DIDN’T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE.

>> I DID ASK HER ONE TIME IF THERE WAS ANY ABUSE IN THE HOUSE, AND SHE DENIED IT. AND SO, I WAS LIKE, “ARE YOU SURE HE’S NEVER SHOWN ANY VIOLENT TENDENCIES OR SOMETHING YOU’RE NOT SHARING WITH ME?” AND SHE WAS LIKE, THERE WAS ONE

TIME WHERE HE TRIED TO CHOKE ME, BUT THAT WAS IT. >> I WAS JUST LIKE, “HOW CAN YOU NOT TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY?” I WOULD THINK THAT WOULD TRIGGER HER TO WANT TO LEAVE SOONER. AND I THINK ONCE THAT ERRATIC BEHAVIOR STARTED BECOMING MORE FREQUENT, THAT’S WHEN SHE WAS

LIKE, OKAY, NOW I’M GOING TO START LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LIVE. >> SHE WAS LOOKING TO GET A HOME IN NEW JERSEY. SO SHE DECIDED, IF I’M GOING TO DO THIS, I’M MOVING OUT WITH MY DAUGHTER AND KEEP HER IN STATE,

BUT I NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE. >> BACK AT THAT HOUSE ON NORTH MOUNTAIN AVENUE, POLICE ARE ALSO MAKING OTHER DISCOVERIES. CLUES LEFT BEHIND AT THE BLOODY CRIME SCENE ARE TELLING THEIR OWN TALE. WHEN YOU SAW THIS, YOU SAID THIS WAS SIGNIFICANT.

WHY WAS THAT IMPORTANT TO YOU? >> THIS IS ACTUALLY GOLD FOR US. National Forest are good places to get away. But sometimes bad things happen in good places. It’s the stuff of nightmares. There’s something wrong here. All I could see was a torso and feet sticking up. My knees went

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>>> POLICE CAME TO THIS HOME ON A WELLNESS CHECK AROUND MIDNIGHT AND MADE THE HORRIFYING DISCOVERY INSIDE. 44-YEAR-OLD ANGELA BLEDSOE DEAD FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS. >> I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS HEARING AND WHAT I WAS SEEING ON THE NEWS. >> INSIDE THE HOUSE ON MOUNTAIN

AVENUE, POLICE ARE TRYING TO PIECE TOGETHER WHAT HAPPENED TO ANGELA BLEDSOE, AND THE ONE PERSON THEY CAN’T QUESTION IS HER PARTNER AND KILLER JAMES RAY, WHO’S VANISHED AFTER CLAIMING SELF-DEFENSE. NOW, HE IS A FORMER MILITARY PERSON, A FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, HAD MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING.

DID IT MAKE SENSE THAT HE WOULD RUN FROM HER IF SHE WERE EVEN POINTING A GUN AT HIM? >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIS BACKGROUND, WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT POLICE OFFICERS, WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT MILITARY PERSONNEL, WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT PEOPLE TRAINED IN

THE MARTIAL ARTS, IS THAT THEY’RE TRAINED TO DIFFUSE SITUATIONS, BUT HE CHOSE DEADLY FORCE. >> THERE IS ONE PERSON WHO’S CLAIMING THAT HE COULD DO NOTHING ELSE BUT FIRE AT HER TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE. BUT THERE’S MUCH MORE TO IT,

BECAUSE THERE’S TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. >> AND FORENSIC EVIDENCE OFTEN TELLS ITS OWN STORY. HOWARD RYAN IS A CRIME-SCENE EXPERT WHO SPENT 25 YEARS WITH THE NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE. WE ASKED HIM TO WALK US THROUGH THE EVIDENCE FOUND AT THE SCENE.

YOU BEGIN LOOKING AT THESE CRIME SCENE PHOTOS. YOU’RE GOING TO SEE SOMETHING THAT WE DON’T SEE. >> IF YOU’RE IN THIS FIELD, YOU TEND TO KEY IN ON CERTAIN THINGS. A LOT OF TIMES IN A SHOOTING OR ANY ACT OF VIOLENCE, THE QUESTION THAT HAS TO BE ANSWERED

IS, HOW? HOW DID IT HAPPEN? >> INSIDE THE COUPLE’S HOME, A NUMBER OF THINGS WERE FOUND, INCLUDING A CACHE OF WEAPONS. >> RECOVERED ONE SPRINGFIELD 9-MILLIMETER ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR. THERE WAS ONE SPRINGFIELD 9-MILLIMETER ON THE COFFEE TABLE. TWO .22-CALIBER REVOLVERS.

AND THEN THERE WAS TWO 12-GAUGE SHOTGUNS THAT WERE RECOVERED FROM THE BEDROOM. >> THERE WAS ALSO A GUN CLEANING KIT AND A COUPLE OF GUN CASES. >> AND DETECTIVES NOTICE SOMETHING ELSE — THAT FALLEN CLOCK IN THE KITCHEN SINK. >> THE CLOCK WAS DISPLAYING A

TIME OF 11:15, SO IT’S A PRESUMPTION THAT THE CLOCK FELL OFF OF THE WALL AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING. >> THEY TOGETHER DROPPED OFF THEIR MINOR CHILD AT SCHOOL THAT MORNING, SO NOBODY ELSE IS THERE. >> LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE, RYAN ZEROS IN ON THAT 9-MILLIMETER

LYING NEAR ANGELA’S BODY. YOU SEE THE GUN HERE WITH A LOT OF BLOOD UNDERNEATH IT. WHAT JUMPS OUT RIGHT AWAY TO YOU HERE? >> WHAT IT TELLS US REALLY IS THAT THE GUN WAS PLACED THERE AFTER THE BLOOD. >> WHAT ABOUT HERE THOUGH?

YOU DO SEE BLOOD ON THE GUN RIGHT THERE. >> WITH THE AMOUNT OF BLOOD, IF THIS GUN HAD MOVED THROUGH THIS BLOOD, I WOULD HAVE AN EXPECTATION OF BLOOD BEING ALL OVER THE SURFACE OF THE GUN ON THAT SIDE, AND IT’S JUST NOT THERE.

>> SO THAT IMMEDIATELY WAS AN ALARM BELL FOR YOU. >> YES, IT WAS. >> AT THIS POINT, INVESTIGATORS DON’T THINK THAT 9-MILLIMETER WAS THE GUN USED TO KILL ANGELA. >> AUTHORITIES ARE LOOKING AT RAY’S CLAIM OF SELF-DEFENSE. AND TO THEM, THE EVIDENCE AT THE SCENE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE.

>> THERE WAS NO GUN IN ANGELA BLEDSOE’S HAND. >> AND THERE WERE ALSO NO FINGERPRINTS. IF THE GUN WAS POINTED BY ANGELA BLEDSOE AT JAMES RAY, THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOME FINGERPRINTS. >> IT WAS APPARENT THAT THINGS HAD BEEN MOVED.

>> SO THIS LOOKED LIKE A STAGED CRIME SCENE TO YOU. >> YES. >> ALONG WITH THE GUN AT HER SIDE, THEN WE SEE A STOOL, A STOOL WHICH THEY SAY DIDN’T BELONG THERE. >> THERE IS A MOBILE PHONE SEATED, PERFECTLY CENTERED ON

THE TOP OF THE STOOL, WITH A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TRANSFER BLOODSTAIN. >> WHAT DOES THIS BLOOD TELL YOU? >> WHAT THAT TELLS US IS THIS PHONE WITH THE BLOOD ON ITS SURFACE WAS PLACED IN THIS POSITION AFTER THE BLOODSHED. >> INVESTIGATORS ALSO HAVE

QUESTIONS ABOUT FOUR SHELL CASINGS FOUND AT THE SCENE, THREE OF WHICH THEY SAY APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN MOVED. >> THERE WERE FOUR DISCHARGED .45-CALIBER SHELL CASINGS THAT WERE RECOVERED IN THAT HOME. ONE WAS FOUND ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR. THREE HAD BEEN PICKED UP AND

PLACED IN A GUN BOX THAT WAS ON THE GLASS COFFEE TABLE WHERE THE OTHER GUNS WERE PLACED. >> DETECTIVES SAW THEM RIGHT ON THE COFFEE TABLE LINED UP NEXT TO EACH OTHER. HIGHLY UNUSUAL. >> THREE SHELL CASINGS, RIGHT SIDE UP ON THE LIVING ROOM TABLE?

SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT HERE. >> OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE HAD PLACED THEM THERE. >> WHILE MUCH OF THE EVIDENCE IS RIGHT THERE INSIDE THE KITCHEN, A PICTURE IS BEGINNING TO EMERGE FOR INVESTIGATORS OF A DEADLY CONFRONTATION THAT STARTED IN THE COUPLE’S LIVING ROOM. >> THERE WERE FOUR SHOTS FIRED

AT ANGELA BLEDSOE. ONE MISSED. THREE WENT INTO HER BODY. ONE TO THE CHEST, ONE TO THE BACK, AND ONE TO THE HEAD. >> SO YOU WERE ABLE TO KIND OF MAP OUT WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED. >> YES. WE BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST SHOT WAS RIGHT HERE ON THE COUCH.

THE PROJECTILE IS THERE. THE BLOOD IS ON THE CUSHION OF THE SOFA. WE KNOW THEN SHE MOVES. THERE IS A TRANSFER OF BLOOD ON THE ARMREST OF THE SOFA THAT SHE RAN AROUND. WE KNOW THAT SHE’S MOVING TOWARDS THE KITCHEN BECAUSE THAT’S HER FINAL RESTING POSITION.

AT THAT POINT, SHE RECEIVES A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE BACK, SO I BELIEVE THIS IS THE SECOND SHOT. SHE GOES DOWN. SHE’S ON THE GROUND. AS SHE ENDS UP IN THIS FINAL RESTING POSITION, THERE IS A SHOT THAT RICOCHETS AND STRIKES THE FLOOR.

AND AFTER THAT, WE BELIEVE SHE’S SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD. >> WHAT’S IMPORTANT ABOUT THAT IS THAT IT SHOWS THAT ANGELA BLEDSOE WAS BEING FIRED UPON FROM ABOVE. SHE WAS ALREADY ON HER BACK ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR. >> SO SHE’S JUST SHOT IN COLD BLOOD.

>> SHE IS GUNNED DOWN IN HER OWN HOUSE. >> THIS IS A COUPLE THAT WAS IN THE MIDST OF A LOT OF TURMOIL. DO YOU SEE ANY INDICATION THAT MAYBE SHE JUST LOST IT AND DECIDED TO ATTACK? >> I DON’T THINK SO. THE GUN THAT WAS PLACED NEXT TO

HER ON THE FLOOR, THERE WAS NO ROUND IN THE CHAMBER. EVEN IF SHE WERE TO GRAB THE GUN IN DEFENSE, SHE WOULD’VE LOADED THE WEAPON. I DON’T THINK SHE EVER TOUCHED THE WEAPON. >> BUT THOSE WHO KNOW JAMES RAY SAY THERE’S GOT TO BE ANOTHER

SIDE TO THIS STORY. >> PERSONALLY, I CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. I CAN’T IMAGINE. >> WE DON’T KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. >> IT WAS ONLY TWO PERSON IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME. ANGELA, SHE CANNOT SPEAK. THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOW IS GOD, AND HE’S NOT TALKING.

>> BUT JAMES RAY IS TALKING, ON THE LAM AND ON THE PHONE AS HE FLEES THE POLICE. >> FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, HE WAS SPEAKING TO THIS WOMAN. >> AND HE’S GOT A LOT TO SAY. >> I HAD TO CALL YOU. I HAD TO SPEAK WITH YOU.

America’s number one, most watched news cast across all of television, Give it to me. National Forest are good places to get away. But sometimes bad things happen in good places. It’s the stuff of nightmares. There’s something wrong here. All I could see was a torso and feet sticking up. My knees went

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The turkey-syria border. I’m James Long wherever the story is, will take you there straining. ABC News live. >>> ES SECONDS COUNTY A SUSPECT ON THE RUN. >> AUTHORITIES BELIEVE HE SHOT AND KILLED HIS LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND INSIDE THEIR MONTCLAIR HOME. >> AFTER THE MURDER, HE IS ON

THE RUN, HE’S GETTING OUT OF TOWN. >> YES, HE’S IMMEDIATELY GETTING OUT OF TOWN. >> IF YOU COMMIT A CRIME IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, WE WILL NOT FORGOT, WE WILL NOT FORGIVE, WE WILL FIND YOU. >> THAT’S SOMEBODY LOOKING TO

GET OUT OF TOWN AFTER THEY COMMITTED A BRUTAL HOMICIDE. >> TONIGHT WE’RE TAKING YOU INSIDE THE MIND OF THE MAN WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER. HIS WRITTEN RAMBLING ON THE ROAD. >> WHILE THERE WAS A MANHUNT FOR HIM, HE WAS WRITING THIS, KIND

OF LIKE AN ADVENTURE STORY. >> HIS STORY WAS WHAT? >> ANGELA WAS IN A TIRADE. >> HE FEARED FOR HIS LIFE. >> DID SHE TELL YOU HOW MUCH SHE HATED JAMES, HOW MUCH SHE DESPICED HIM, HOW MUCH SHE WANTED TO SPIT IN HIS FOOD?

>> HE WANTED TO LEAVE THE RELATIONSHIP. >> NO QUESTION. >> HE WAS NOT HAPPY. >> NO QUESTION. >> WE DIDN’T KNOW WHERE HE WAS. >> HE WAS JUST LIKE A GHOST ON THE ROAD. >>> 44-YEAR-OLD ANGELA BLEDSOE, A DEVOTED MOM, HAS BEEN FOUND

SHOT TO DEATH IN HER HOME HERE IN UPSCALE MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY. THE LAST PERSON TO SEE HER ALIVE IS HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND, JAMES RAY, WHO ADMITS TO KILLING HER — HE SAYS IN SELF-DEFENSE. NOW THERE’S A PROBLEM. JAMES RAY HAS VANISHED. >> POLICE TONIGHT ARE SEARCHING

FOR A 55-YEAR-OLD MAN, LAWYER BY DAY, TONIGHT DESCRIBED AS ARMED AND DANGEROUS. >> WHEN THE NEWS WAS THEY’RE LOOKING FOR HIM, HE’S ON THE RUN, AND I SAID, WELL, HE MUST HAVE SNAPPED IF THIS REALLY HAPPENED. >> WE WANT TO SHOW YOU A PHOTO

OF THE MAN THEY ARE NOW WANTING TO ARREST, 55-YEAR-OLD JAMES RAY III. >> GIVE ME A SENSE OF HOW YOU ARE COPING. YOU’VE LOST YOUR DAUGHTER IN A VERY TRAGIC WAY, YOU’RE TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER, AND THE MAN WHO’S ACCUSED OF KILLING YOUR DAUGHTER

IS ON THE RUN. HOW ARE YOU COPING WITH ALL OF THIS? >> WE DID NOT KNOW WHERE HE WAS. >> WHAT WAS THAT LIKE FOR YOU AND THE FAMILY? >> HE COULD HAVE COME FOR US. THERE WAS A FEAR OF WHAT ELSE HE COULD DO.

>> BUT THE BLEDSOE FAMILY, IN THE MIDST OF THEIR GRIEF, HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO PUT THEIR FEARS ASIDE. YOU’RE PLANNING A FUNERAL FOR YOUR DAUGHTER, AND HE IS ON THE LOOSE. TELL ME ABOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH A FUNERAL AND BURY YOUR DAUGHTER, YOUR YOUNGEST.

>> YOU KNOW, IT — IT HURT WALKING IN THERE, BUT THEN TOO, I SAW AN ABUNDANCE OF FLOWERS. I SAID, MY GOODNESS, SHE HAS REALLY TOUCHED A LOT OF LIVES. >> IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL HOMEGOING SERVICE FOR HER. WE HAD TO HAVE IT A MEGACHURCH

BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE IN ATTENDANCE. >> ANGELA’S FAMILY IS WAITING ANXIOUSLY FOR NEWS OF RAY’S WHEREABOUTS, AND AUTHORITIES ARE NOW BEGINNING TO BUILD WHAT THEY SAY IS A TIMELINE OF RAY’S ACTIONS AFTER THE DEADLY ENCOUNTER. >> IN THOSE IMMEDIATE HOURS,

HE DOESN’T LEAVE THE HOME. ANGELA IS THERE, LIFELESS IN THE KITCHEN, BLEEDING OUT, AND HE GETS EVERYTHING IN ORDER. >> HE WAS ALONE IN THE HOUSE FROM 11:30, WHEN ANGELA DIED, TO 4:30. SO HE HAD A LOT OF TIME. >> HE WAS PLANNING HIS

DEPARTURE, AND HE WAS PLANNING ON GETTING OUT OF TOWN. >> HE WAS ALSO WRITING HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. HE WAS DOING A LOT OF BANKING. >> REMEMBER, PART OF THE TROVE OF ITEMS RAY LEFT BEHIND IN A SUITCASE WITH HIS BROTHER WERE

THOSE TWO CHECKS — ONE IN THE AMOUNT OF $11,500 FOR HIS DAUGHTER AND ANOTHER JUST SHY OF $10,000. >> SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS CAPTURE RAY PICKING UP HIS 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER FROM SCHOOL. >> AFTER JAMES PICKS UP HIS DAUGHTER, HE MAKES SEVERAL MORE PHONE CALLS, INCLUDING ONE TO

HIS ADULT DAUGHTER, CHELSEA. >> HEY, CHELS. HOW YOU DOING? THIS IS DAD. LOVE YOU. JUST WANTED TO HEAR YOUR VOICE. YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. DADDY LOVES YOU VERY MUCH. LISTEN, I’M GONNA ASK YOU A BIG, BIG FAVOR. GET TO KNOW YOUR SISTER ALANA PLEASE. >> THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENT YOU

GAVE ME! >> TALK TO YOU LATER, CHELS. LOVE YOU. >> AND THEN HE CALLED HIS ADULT SON JAY AND LEFT HIM A VOICEMAIL AS WELL. >> HEY, JAY. HOW YOU DOING, BUDDY? THIS IS DAD. JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU. GIVE ME A BUZZ WHEN YOU CAN.

>> THE LONGEST CALL RAY MAKES IS TO AN OLD FRIEND. >> FOR ABOUT AN HOUR WHILE HE WAS ON THE ROAD, HE WAS SPEAKING TO THIS WOMAN. >> HELLO? >> AS HE’S SPEAKING TO HER, HE’S RECORDING IT. >> THE PHONE CALL STARTS OFF WITH MR. RAY DISCUSSING MUNDANE

ISSUES SUCH AS THE WEATHER, BUT EVENTUALLY IT GOES INTO MR. RAY AIRING OUT HIS GRIEVANCES ABOUT THE SITUATION WITH MS. BLEDSOE. >> SHE’S UPSET AND ANNOYED BECAUSE FIVE YEARS AGO I WASN’T AVAILABLE TO BE THERE WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT. >> HUH?

>> I SAID, I WAS — I WAS MARRIED. YOU KNOW THAT. I DID EVERYTHING THAT I CAN POSSIBLY DO. I WAS OFTEN SO TIRED FROM STAYING OUT LATE AT NIGHT, VISITING HER AND THE BABY. >> WHEN HE STARTED TO DISCUSS THE RELATIONSHIP AND THINGS THAT

HE DISCOVERED ON ANGELA’S PHONE, YOU CAN HEAR HIS TONE START TO CHANGE AND HIS DEMEANOR START TO CHANGE. >> I FIND OUT THAT SHE’S PLANNING TO TAKE ALANA. SHE WROTE HER COUSIN, AS SOON AS I GET MY HOUSE, I’M OUT. AND SHE’S GONE, LIKE GONE.

>> IT WAS CLEAR, BASED ON THAT CONVERSATION, THAT HE HAD SEEN CONVERSATIONS ANGELA WAS HAVING VIA TEXT. >> HEAR THE NEXT PART. THE BROTHER-IN-LAW HAS THE AUDACITY TO SAY, SOMEBODY OUGHT TO TELL HIM — MEANING ME — THAT NOBODY IN THE FAMILY LIKES HIM.

>> JAMES RAY AND HIS FRIEND HAD THIS LONG CONVERSATION, BUT HE LEFT OUT ONE GLARING OMISSION, THAT HE HAD JUST KILLED ANGELA. >> RAY ALSO NEVER MENTIONS THAT HE IS A MAN ON THE RUN. SO WHAT IS EXACTLY IS GOING ON IN THE MIND OF THIS KILLER?

>> IF I FLY TO ETHIOPIA AND MY BROTHER AND ALANA NEED SUPPORT, I NEED TO BE ABLE TO COUNT ON YOU, MISS. >> YOU CAN. We have really gone again. I was terrified. It was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand. These were wanted babies 18

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The story is, will take you there. You’re streaming, ABC News line. >>> JAMES RAY SEEMS TO HAVE FALLEN OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. ONCE A DOTING DAD, HE’S NOW A WANTED MAN, AND HE’S BEEN MISSING FOR NEARLY A WEEK. >> A MANHUNT IS FOR JAMES RAY,

WHO IS SUSPECTED OF FATALLY SHOOTING HIS GIRLFRIEND INSIDE THE HOUSE THEY SHARED WITH THEIR CHILD. >> IT WAS A LONG TIME THAT HE WAS ON THE RUN. PEOPLE WERE NERVOUS. >> RAY HAD ALREADY KILLED HIS GIRLFRIEND, ANGELA, AND NOW SOME ARE TERRIFIED ABOUT WHO COULD BE NEXT.

>> HER LOVER IN FLORIDA HAD TO GO INTO A HOTEL, INTO HIDING. HE HAD THREATENED THE LOVER. >> WE WERE FEARFUL. WE DIDN’T KNOW WHERE HE WAS. COULD HAVE CAME TO MARYLAND. >> AUTHORITIES KNEW THEY WERE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. >> THIS WAS A WELL-COORDINATED EFFORT BETWEEN FEDERAL, STATE,

LOCAL, INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS. WE KNEW THAT IF WE DID NOT MOVE QUICKLY, IT WOULD HAVE THE RISK OF HAVING A COLD CASE. >> FINALLY, AFTER MORE THAN A WEEK, THERE’S A HUGE BREAK IN THE CASE. >> WE WERE ABLE TO PUT IN MOTION A RED NOTICE.

A RED NOTICE IS BASICALLY AN INTERNATIONAL WARRANT. >> WE EVENTUALLY RECEIVED SOME INFORMATION THAT HE HAD TRAVELED TO MEXICO. >> ONCE WE FINALLY FOUND OUT WHERE HE WAS, WE PUT OUT AN APB ON HIM, INCLUDING A NOTIFICATION SHOULD HE GET ON A PLANE.

AND AS IT TURNED OUT, HE DID GET ON A PLANE. >> JAMES RAY TAKES A FLIGHT TO MEXICO CITY. HIS PASSPORT HITS, AND AUTHORITIES NOW KNOW HE HAS BOOKED A FLIGHT TO HAVANA, CUBA. SOMEBODY REACHES OUT TO CUBAN OFFICIALS, WHO TAKE RAY INTO CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.

>> NOW, KEEP IN MIND, THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE AN EXTRADITION TREATY WITH CUBA, MAKING THE EXTRADITION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS FROM THE COUNTRY EXTREMELY RARE. >> JAMES RAY COULD HAVE GONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BUT HE CHOOSES CUBA. IT SEEMS HE IS TRYING FIGURE OUT

WHERE HE CAN GO AND MAYBE NOT COME BACK. BUT FBI AGENT BRANDON LACKEY FLEW TO CUBA TO DO JUST THAT, BRING JAMES RAY BACK TO THE U.S. >> THE SUPERVISOR YELLED AT ME AND SAID, HEY, BRANDON, IS YOUR OFFICIAL PASSPORT GOOD? AND I SAID, YES, SIR, IT IS.

HE SAID, OKAY, WELL I NEED YOU TO GO TO CUBA TOMORROW. WHEN I BECAME AN FBI AGENT, I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE TRAVELING DOWN TO CUBA TO TAKE A FUGITIVE INTO CUSTODY. AS WE LAND AT THE AIRPORT IN HAVANA AND START TAXIING TOWARDS

WHAT WE BELIEVE WAS THE TERMINAL — >> CAPTURED ON CUBAN STATE TELEVISION AND OBTAINED BY NBC NEWS IS THE ARREST OF JAMES RAY. SEEMS CUBAN OFFICIALS WANTED SOMETHING IN EXCHANGE FOR RAY. >> IT WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT THEY EXPECTED ME TO GIVE SOME

TYPE OF SPEECH, SO THEY USHERED ME TOWARDS THE PODIUM. I SPENT A COUPLE MINUTES JUST THANKING THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT. ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, WE ARE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE AND YOUR SUPPORT IN DETAINING HIM AND GETTING HIM BACK TO THE UNITED STATES.

>> AFTER AGENT LACKEY GIVES HIS SPEECH, CUBAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TURN RAY OVER TO AMERICAN FEDERAL AGENTS. >> MR. RAY LOOKED HEALTHY. I CAN BEST DESCRIBE HIS DEMEANOR AS A MIX BETWEEN A LITTLE BIT OF A SURPRISE AND A LITTLE BIT OF RELIEF.

>> WHEN HE ENDS UP GETTING ON THE PLANE FROM CUBA BACK TO AMERICA, ESCORTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS, HE BLURTS OUT HE JUST WENT THERE TO CLEAR HIS HEAD. THAT HIS INTENTION WAS TO COME BACK IN EARLY DECEMBER. >> MYSELF AND MR. RAY SAT RIGHT

BESIDE EACH OTHER FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS, SO WE TALKED. HE DID NOT DESCRIBE ANY TYPE OF MISTREATMENT BY THE CUBAN OFFICIALS, OR HE DIDN’T HAVE ANY ALTERCATION WITH ANY OTHER INMATES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. >> A MURDER SUSPECT FROM NEW JERSEY ON THE RUN FROM POLICE

NOW IN CUSTODY. >> HE WAS ON THE RUN FOR NEARLY TWO WEEKS AND FINALLY CAPTURED SOME 1,300 MILES AWAY TRYING TO ESCAPE INTO CUBA. >> LAST NIGHT, THE DEFENDANT, JAMES RAY III, WAS RETURNED TO TETERBORO AIRPORT AND IS NOW AT THE ESSEX COUNTY CORRECTIONAL

FACILITY HERE IN NEWARK. MR. RAY LEFT NEW JERSEY, TRAVELED TO THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES, AND THEN CROSSED OVER THE BORDER INTO MEXICO. FROM THERE, HE TOOK A PLANE TO CUBA. >> WHEN THEY FINALLY SAID THAT THEY HAD APPREHENDED HIM AND

THAT HE HAD GOTTEN ALL THE WAY TO CUBA WAS JUST MIND-BOGGLING. >> NOBODY SEEMS TO REMEMBER ANY CASE WHERE CUBA WAS INVOLVED, WHERE THERE WAS AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT, A PURSUIT OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AN APPREHENSION, LET ALONE THE FACT IT WAS A HOMICIDE

IN ONE OF THE MOST AFFLUENT TOWNS IN NEW JERSEY. >> I THINK HE FELT LIKE, OH, AMERICA DOESN’T HAVE AN EXTRADITION TREATY WITH CUBA, SO I’M GOING TO BE HERE AND FORGET ABOUT IT. BUT THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS, BUDDY.

>> IF YOU COMMIT A CRIME IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, WE WILL NOT FORGET, WE WILL NOT FORGIVE, AND WE WILL FIND YOU. >> IF SOMEONE’S ACTING IN SELF-DEFENSE, WHY WOULD THEY RUN? THAT’S NOT SOMEONE ACTING IN SELF-DEFENSE. THAT’S SOMEBODY LOOKING TO GET

OUT OF TOWN AFTER THEY COMMITTED A BRUTAL HOMICIDE. >> IT WAS SUCH A RELIEF, AND I WAS VERY GRATEFUL THAT THEY BROUGHT HIM BACK FROM CUBA. I WISH THEY WOULD OF KEPT HIM THERE. >> WITH RAY NOW BACK ON U.S. SOIL, POLICE BEGIN TO SEARCH HIS

SMALL, BLACK DUFFEL BAG. AND HIDDEN IN THERE IS SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED. >> THE VERY FIRST PAGE WHERE HE BEGINS TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ACTUAL INCIDENT DOES TAKE US INTO THE MIND OF A KILLER. >> COULD THIS BE THE DIARY OF A KILLER? With so much at stake.

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The Secret Life of dancing dogs now swimming in Hulu >>> WHEN JAMES RAY FINDS HIMSELF IN CUSTODY BACK IN THE U.S., AMONGST HIS MEAGER POSSESSIONS ARE A WAD OF CASH, A CHANGE OF CLOTHES, A ROAD ATLAS, AND MOST CURIOUSLY, AN 18-PAGE HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL.

IT’S PART MEMOIR, PART SPY THRILLER. THE FORMER POLICE OFFICER AND MARINE DETAILING FOR THE FIRST TIME THE FULL VERSION OF WHAT HE SAYS HAPPENED THE DAY HE KILLED HIS LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND, ANGELA BLEDSOE. >> IN HIS HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL, HE LAYS OUT A VERSION OF EVENTS

AFTER DROPPING HIS DAUGHTER OFF AT SCHOOL ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 22nd, 2018. >> HIS STORY WAS WHAT? >> HIS STORY WAS THAT THEY, TOGETHER, DROPPED OFF THEIR CHILD AT SCHOOL THAT MORNING. AND ON THEIR WAY HOME, THEY BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

AND IN HIS WORDS, ANGELA WAS IN A TIRADE. >> SHE BEGAN TO GET EMOTIONAL AND STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOW NO ONE IN HER FAMILY LIKES ME, THEN REFLECTING ON WHAT SHE CALL THE WORST YEARS OF HER LIFE BECAUSE I CALLED HER LAZY. >> MS. BLEDSOE INDICATED THAT

SHE WAS GOING TO RUN ERRANDS. THINKING THAT HE WAS ALONE IN THE HOUSE, HE DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME FOR HIM TO CLEAN HIS GUNS. HE TOOK HIS GUNS OUT OF HIS SAFE, WENT DOWNSTAIRS, PLACED THEM ON THE COFFEE TABLE, AND

THEN WENT TO THE BATHROOM. HE HEARD ANGELA CALL OUT TO HIM. UPON ENTERING THE LIVING ROOM, HE SAW HER SITTING THERE WITH A GUN IN HER HAND. >> AND HE SAID SHE WENT ON A TIRADE COMPLAINING ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRONG WITH THE RELATIONSHIP AND WRONG WITH

HIM. >> THE VERY FIRST PAGE WHERE HE BEGINS TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ACTUAL INCIDENT — >> WE ASKED KATHERINE RAMSLAND, A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST, TO ANALYZE RAY’S JOURNAL. >> LEAVING BEHIND A NARRATIVE THAT THEY KILLED SOMEONE AND SPENDING THE TIME, IT’S STUNNING. THERE’S NO SENSE OF BEING

DISTURBED BY WHAT HE’S DONE. IT’S VERY CALCULATED. THERE’S A DEFINITE URGE TO CONTROL HOW — EXACTLY HOW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO UNDERSTAND THIS. JAMES RAY’S NARRATIVE DOES TAKE US INTO THE MIND OF A KILLER. >> AS SHE CONTINUED TO RANT ABOUT ALL THE DYSFUNCTIONAL

THINGS IN OUR RELATIONSHIP, WITH A WEAPON POINTED AT ME, AND NOT HEARING THE WORDS COMING FROM MY MOUTH — PUT THE GUN DOWN WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT — I REMEMBER FEELING NERVOUS AND SCARED AND OUT OF OPTIONS. >> HE SAID HE VERY CAREFULLY

KEPT EYE CONTACT WITH HER BUT TRIED TO REACH FOR A GUN TO PROTECT HIMSELF. HE SAID HE SHOT ONCE IN HER DIRECTION. HE THOUGHT HE MISSED. >> HE THEN RAN BACK TO THE BATHROOM WHERE HE REMAINED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES, OR WHAT HE

DESCRIBES AS “WHAT FELT LIKE AN ETERNITY.” MR. RAY THEN EXITS THE BATHROOM AND FOLLOWS THE TRAIL OF BLOOD LEADING FROM THE LIVING ROOM TO THE KITCHEN. >> SHE WAS INITIALLY SITTING UP WITH THE GUN TOWARDS HER SIDE. HER HEAD TURNED TOWARDS ME AS

I TOOK A STEP FROM THE STOVE IN HER DIRECTION. SHE LIFTED HER ARM AND POINTED AT ME AGAIN. OUT OF REACTION, I FIRED IN HER DIRECTION, AND IT SEEMED LIKE I COULDN’T STOP FIRING. >> HE THEN FIRED MULTIPLE SHOTS IN HER DIRECTION, ULTIMATELY KILLING HER.

>> RAY GOES ON TO WRITE THAT HIS INTENTION AFTER REALIZING THAT ANGELA’S GONE WAS TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE AS WELL, EXCEPT HE HAD OTHER THINGS TO DO FIRST. >> LEFT THE HOUSE ONLY WITH PLANS TO RETURN TO THE HOUSE, LAY NEXT TO ANGELA, AND PULL THE TRIGGER.

HOWEVER, I WANTED TO GET ALANA TO A SAFE PLACE AND PLACE HER IN THE CUSTODY OF MY BOTHER. >> HE WAS GOING TO LIE DOWN AND SHOOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD, AND HE KEPT BEING DISTRACTED FROM THIS IDEA THAT HE WAS GOING TO KILL HIMSELF, TOO.

>> AFTER THE MURDER, HE IS ON THE RUN. HE’S GETTING OUT OF TOWN. >> YES. HE’S IMMEDIATELY GETTING OUT OF TOWN AND GETTING OUT OF THE STATE. >> AFTER THE TRAGIC COURSE OF EVENTS, A SIX-DAY ROAD TRIP WAS UNDERWAY TO ARRIVE AT MY PLANNED DESTINATION OF OBSCURITY.

>> HE GOT A TAXI TO PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AND HE PAID CASH FOR THAT CAB RIDE. >> HE KNOWS TO LOSE HIS CAR, BECAUSE HE KNOWS POLICE WILL BE LOOKING FOR THAT CAR. REMEMBER, THIS IS AN EX-COP. HE’S A LAWYER. HE KNOWS HOW THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION WORKS.

SO HE’S BEING VERY METHODICAL ABOUT WHAT HE’S DOING. >> DESCRIBING WHAT HE SAYS HE DOES AFTER HE LEAVES NEW JERSEY, RAY’S WRITINGS BECOME EVEN MORE BIZARRE, ALMOST AS IF HE’S NARRATING A NOVEL. >> WHILE THERE WAS A MANHUNT FOR HIM, HE WAS WRITING THIS KIND OF

LIKE AN ADVENTURE STORY. HE WRITES THAT, THIS SHOULD BE PUBLISHED AND HALF OF THE PROCEEDS CAN GO TO MY DAUGHTER. >> IN THE JOURNAL, NAMES ARE CHANGED. RAY CALLS HIMSELF JACK, ANGELA, MOUSEY, AND HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER, SNOOKUMS. THE CHRONICLE IS EVEN HAS AN APT TITLE, “ON THE MOVE.”

>> THE TAXI FROM NEWARK AIRPORT DROPPED JACK OFF IN PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN AT 2:00 A.M. AS HE PASSED A BLOCK WHERE HOMELESS UNDERTOOK SHELTER, JACK SOUGHT COVER OF POLICE BY BLENDING IN WITH THE HOMELESS TO GET SOME SLEEP. >> AND HE HAD THE MURDER WEAPON. AND HE DISLODGED VARIOUS PIECES

AND LEFT THEM IN DIFFERENT RESTROOMS ALONG THE WAY. AND THEN HE WENT TO A TRUCK STOP AND STARTED HITCHING RIDES. >> JAMES, CALLING HIMSELF JACK, HITCHHIKES THROUGH MULTIPLE STATES INTO MEXICO BEFORE ULTIMATELY MAKING THAT ILL-FATED TRIP TO CUBA. THE ONCE SUCCESSFUL ATTORNEY

AT LAW NOW RUNNING FROM IT WITH JUST THE CLOTHES ON HIS BACK. >> WITH LITTLE MONEY AVAILABLE, JACK HAD TO ADOPT A SURVIVOR’S MENTALITY. ONLY FOCUS ON SHELTER, MONEY AND FOOD. >> I DON’T THINK JAMES RAY EVER THOUGHT HE WAS COMING BACK TO

FACE A COURT AND A JURY IN ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. >> HE CHRONICLED SO MUCH OF HIS ESCAPE IN THIS STORY, IN A JOURNAL. HOW IMPORTANT WAS THIS JOURNAL TO YOU IN YOUR CASE? >> IT WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. YOU COMPARE IT TO THE EVIDENCE

THAT YOU HAVE AND YOU’RE ABLE TO CORROBORATE OR CONTRADICT WHAT HE IS CLAIMING. >> NOW CHARGED WITH MURDER, JAMES RAY IS ABOUT TO STAND TRIAL, AND HIS WORDS WOULDN’T BE THE ONLY ONES COMING BACK TO HAUNT HIM. >> I ENJOYED GOING TO THE CONFERENCE WITH MY SISTER.

IT REMINDS ME OF WHAT LIFE THAT I COULD HAVE HAD HAD I LISTENED TO HER WHEN I WAS IN MY 20s. >> ANGELA BLEDSOE WAS DEAD, BUT IN SOME WAYS, SHE WAS ALMOST ABLE TO SPEAK TO YOU. >> ABSOLUTELY. National Forest are good places to get away.

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Wherever the story is, will take you there. You’re streaming. ABC News law. >>> THERE’S A SAYING, THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE TURN SLOWLY, BUT IN THE CASE OF JAMES RAY, THAT WAS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. IT WOULD TAKE FOUR AND A HALF YEARS BEFORE HIS HIGH-PROFILE CASE, DELAYED BY THE PANDEMIC,

WOULD FINALLY MAKE IT TO THIS NEW JERSEY COURTHOUSE. WEEKS TURN INTO MONTHS TURN INTO YEARS. YOU WERE DEALING WITH YOUR GRIEF AND YOUR BROKEN HEART, AND NOW YOU’VE GOT THIS TRIAL THAT’S FACING YOU. HOW IMPORTANT WAS THAT TO YOU, TO STAY THE COURSE FOR THE TRIAL?

>> VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR DAUGHTER, UNTIL THE TRIAL CAME. >> FOUR YEARS AFTER ANGELA BLEDSOE WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN HER MONTCLAIR HOME, HER BOYFRIEND IS NOW STANDING TRIAL FOR MURDER. >> EVERY DAY, ANGELA’S GRIEF-STRICKEN PARENTS SIT SIDE-BY-SIDE IN THE NEW JERSEY COURTROOM.

OTHER FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF HERS WEAR PINS ADORNED WITH HER PICTURE TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT. >> WE WERE GOING TO SHOW UP ON A REGULAR TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT WE LOVED HER, WE’RE GOING TO BE HERE FOR HER. >> WE KNEW THAT THIS IS GOING TO

BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST TRIALS THAT HAPPENED IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY IN A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. >> THE PROSECUTION’S CHALLENGE IS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT HE DID NOT ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE, THAT IT WAS INTENTIONAL. WHAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO

ME IS THAT THE JURY IS 14 WITH ALTERNATES AND 10 OF THEM ARE MEN. THERE’S ONLY FOUR WOMEN ON THE JURY. AND THAT WAS PRETTY STRIKING TO ME, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE VICTIM IS FEMALE. >> SHE WAS BRUTALLY GUNNED DOWN BY JAMES RAY, THE DEFENDANT

SEATED HERE BEFORE YOU, IN THE HOME THEY SHARED WITH THEIR 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. >> MICHELE MILLER, SHE IS A PIT BULL. SHE STAYS ON A CASE LIKE A PIT BULL ON A PORK CHOP. SHE REALLY SUNK HER TEETH INTO IT. >> AND WHILE HER BODY WAS

BLEEDING OUT AND GETTING COLD FROM DEATH, THIS ATTORNEY AND FORMER UNITED STATES MARINE WAS PREPARING FOR A LIFE OF OBSCURITY IN THE HOPE OF TAKING REFUGE IN THE NON-EXTRADITING COUNTRY OF CUBA. >> PITTED AGAINST THE PROSECUTION IS HARD-NOSED, BRASH NEW JERSEY NATIVE, DEFENSE

ATTORNEY BROOKE BARNETT. >> BROOKE BARNETT IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL LAWYER. SHE’S WON MANY CASES. SHE DOES A LOT OF THESE HIGH-PROFILE CASES. >> WHEN CONFRONTED BY ANGELA WITH A GUN POINTING DIRECTLY AT HIM, THAT HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO SHOOT. >> SHE’S REALLY FIERY, AND

BROOKE MADE SOME REALLY, LIKE, BIG BOMBSHELL ACCUSATIONS. IT WAS THEATER, REALLY. >> MS. MILLER, YOUR NEXT WITNESS. >> UH, THE STATE WILL CALL ROBERT RAY. >> NATURALLY, ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE PROSECUTORS CALL TO THE STAND, JAMES RAY’S BROTHER, ROBERT. >> TESTIFIED AGAINST HIS OWN BROTHER?

>> HE DID. HE DID. WHY DID YOU FEEL YOU HAD TO CALL THE POLICE? >> I DIDN’T THINK ANYONE ELSE HAD. IF THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER WERE WHAT WERE WRITTEN IN IT, THEN, UM, THE POLICE NEEDED TO BE CALLED. >> IT WAS RIVETING.

PEOPLE WERE LIKE, OH, MY GOD. I FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A “I’M DOING THE RIGHT THING, BUT THAT’S MY BROTHER.” I THINK THAT FIRST DAY ROBERT RAY SET THE TONE FOR THE ENTIRE TRIAL. >> ANGELA BLEDSOE WAS DEAD, BUT IN SOME WAYS, SHE WAS ALMOST

ABLE TO SPEAK TO YOU. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> — THROUGH TEXT MESSAGES. >> ABSOLUTELY. ANGELA COMPLAINED THAT HE WAS CONTROLLING AND DEMEANING. HE WAS SENDING HER BIBLE VERSES ON HOW A WOMAN SHOULD BE SUBMISSIVE TO HER MAN. >> ANGELA’S SISTER, LISA LABOO, TOOK THE STAND TO READ SOME OF

THE TEXT MESSAGES THEY EXCHANGED IN THE MONTHS LEADING UP TO THE SHOOTING. >> WHAT DID SHE TEXT YOU ON, UH, OCTOBER 12th, 2018 AT 5:37 A.M.? >> SHE SAYS, “HE’S BEEN UP ALL NIGHT. I THINK, WONDER IF HE WENT THROUGH MY PHONE.” >> WHEN YOU WERE ON THE STAND,

AT ONE POINT, YOU READ A TEXT THAT YOUR SISTER HAD SENT YOU THAT HAD ALARMED YOU. WHAT DID IT SAY? >> PRETTY MUCH, I’M GOING TO BEAT YOU UP IF I FIND THAT YOU’RE CHEATING. >> THAT’S PRETTY SCARY STUFF. >> LISA LABOO WAS ASKED TO READ

EXCERPTS FROM ANGELA’S DIARY. SHE SAW ENTRIES ABOUT HOW JAMES RAY TREATED HER. SHE LITERALLY BROKE DOWN IN TEARS. >> I ENJOYED GOING TO THE CONFERENCE WITH MY SISTER. IT REMINDS ME OF WHAT THE LIFE — OF WHAT LIFE THAT I COULD HAVE HAD HAD I LISTENED TO

HER WHEN I WAS IN MY 20s. I WOULD HAVE MOVED TO FLORIDA, PURCHASED A VERY NICE HOUSE, AND BUILT A PRACTICE. >> CAN WE GET A MINUTE, JUDGE? >> YOU BECAME SO EMOTIONAL, AT SOME POINT THEY HAD TO PAUSE THE COURT. WHAT WERE YOU FEELING AT THAT MOMENT?

>> THAT JUST TORE ME APART. >> SHE WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE THIS RELATIONSHIP. >> NO QUESTION. >> AND HE KNEW THIS. >> NO QUESTION. >> HE WAS NOT HAPPY. >> NO QUESTION. >> SO THERE WAS YOUR MOTIVE RIGHT THERE. >> ONE OF OUR MOTIVES. >> IT BECAME VERY CLEAR THAT

THERE WAS NOT ONLY MOTIVE EVIDENCE THAT WOULD PRESENT A REASON WHY MR. RAY WOULD WANT TO KILL ANGELA, THERE WAS ALSO EVIDENCE THAT WOULD DIRECTLY REFUTE HIS CLAIM OF SELF-DEFENSE THAT HAD BEEN PUT FORTH IN HIS HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL. IT REALLY PUT TOGETHER A VERY

CLEAR PICTURE OF WHAT OCCURRED. >> WE HIRED AN EXPERT. A BLOODSTAIN PATTERN ANALYSIS EXPERT, AND HE WAS CRITICAL TO THE CASE AS WELL. >> HOWARD RYAN, WHO WALKED US THROUGH THE CRIME SCENE ANALYSIS, TESTIFIED FOR THE PROSECUTION. >> WAS THERE ANY EVIDENCE THAT

YOU COULD SEE FROM THIS CRIME SCENE THAT WOULD SUPPORT THAT HANDGUN IN THE KITCHEN EVER BEING IN ANGELA BLEDSOE’S HAND? >> NO, I DON’T THINK IT WAS EVER IN HER HAND. >> BASED ON THE EVIDENCE, SHE WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY AND HE GUNNED HER DOWN FROM BEHIND.

>> THAT’S NOT EXACTLY SELF-DEFENSE. >> IT’S NOT SELF-DEFENSE. >> I THINK WHEN THE JURY HEARD THIS FORENSICS ANALYSIS, THAT SAID TO THEM, THERE IS NO DISPUTING THE SCIENCE HERE. WE WERE ALL VERY CURIOUS TO SEE, HOW IS THIS GENTLEMAN GOING TO DEFEND HIMSELF?

>> THAT’S WHEN BROOKE BARNETT TAKES CENTER STAGE. >> ANGELA HAD GROWN TO HATE, EVEN DESPISE, DISDAIN FOR JAMES. >> SHE WAS FINDING FLAWS, AND IT WAS WORKING. SO I BELIEVE AT THAT POINT, THE TIDES SHIFTED. >> ANGELA WAS NOT CONTROLLED. WHERE DOES IT SHOW THAT JAMES IS CONTROLLING?

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INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE AGAINST JAMES RAY. NOW IT’S THE DEFENSE’S TURN, AND RAY’S FIERY, THEATRICAL LAWYER, BROOKE BARNETT, GOES ON THE OFFENSIVE. >> THIS IDEA THAT HE’S THERE TO TRY TO CONTROL HER? PROVE IT! SO, IN THE END THAT REALLY SHOWS A LOT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

ANGELA HAD GROWN TO HATE, EVEN DESPISE. SHE HAD DISDAIN FOR JAMES. >> BROOKE BARNETT DIDN’T HOLD BACK, AND IT WAS SHOCKING TO EVERYBODY INVOLVED. YOU COULD HEAR GASPS AT TIMES. SHE WENT RIGHT AT THOSE JURORS, TRYING TO GAIN SOME KIND OF SYMPATHY FOR HER CLIENT AND

PORTRAYING ANGELA IN A VERY NEGATIVE LIGHT. >> WHILE PROSECUTORS FRAMED RAY AS CONTROLLING AND JEALOUS — >> ASKING ABOUT PASSWORDS TO HER PHONE. >> THAT MY BROTHER WAS FRUSTRATED BECAUSE ANGELA WANTED TO MOVE. >> — BARNETT PAINTS ANGELA BLEDSOE AS AN OPPORTUNIST, A WOMAN INVOLVED

WITH TWO MEN OF MEANS, RAY AND BAKARI BURNS. >> SHE WANTED TO GO TO FLORIDA TO GET HER SHOT WITH BAKARI BURNS. >> I LEARNED KIND OF LIKE WITH EVERYONE ELSE THAT BAKARI WAS ACTUALLY A PERSON THAT SHE WAS INVOLVED WITH. >> 49-YEAR-OLD BURNS, AN

ORLANDO, FLORIDA, CITY COMMISSIONER AND THE MAN WITH WHOM ANGELA WAS HAVING THAT AFFAIR, IS CALLED TO THE STAND AS A PROSECUTION WITNESS. >> “GOOD MORNING, ANGELA, BABY. I WISH I WAS ROLLING OVER TO GIVE YOU A GOOD MORNING KISS AND SOME GOOD MORNING [ BLEEP ].”

WHAT DID THAT MEAN, BAKARI? >> IT’S SELF-EXPLANATORY. >> WELL, EDUCATE ME. >> THE DEFENSE WAS TRYING TO SHOW JAMES RAY AS A SYMPATHETIC FIGURE, AND THAT’S WHAT THEY WERE DOING HERE. BAKARI BURNS WAS HAVING THESE EXCHANGES WITH ANGELA BLEDSOE. >> WHEN BROOKE BARNETT WAS

TRYING TO PAINT THE PICTURE THAT ANGELA BLEDSOE WAS THIS HOMEWRECKER, I’M LOOKING AROUND THE ROOM, AND EVERY SINGLE DAY HER PARENTS SAT ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE COURTROOM IN THE GALLERY, AND THEY’RE CRYING. ONE DAY IT GOT SO BAD — >> IT WAS THEIR MOTION.

IT WAS THEIR MOTION. I DIDN’T HAVE TO MAKE — >> — THE FATHER FAINTED. HE HAD TO BE TAKEN OUT OF THE COURTROOM. >> HOW DIFFICULT WAS THAT FOR YOU TO HEAR UNSAVORY THINGS ABOUT YOUR DAUGHTER? >> IT WAS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT. IT SEEMED LIKE YOU ARE

VICTIMIZED OVER AGAIN. OVER LIES. AND I USED TO SIT THERE, IS THIS HOW THE LAW ACTS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SITTING HERE SUFFERING? >> OUR FAMILY, FOR US TO HAVE TO SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO THAT AND TO BE TREATED LIKE WE WERE, THAT REALLY BOTHERED US.

>> THEN YOU WERE CROSS-EXAMINED. >> RIGHT. >> MEANING NOBODY, NOT YOU NOR ANYONE ELSE, IF YOU DON’T LIVE WITH THE COUPLE, YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, CORRECT? >> I WOULDN’T SAY NOBODY, SO I DON’T AGREE TO THAT. >> WELL, DID ANGELA KNOW THE INS

AND OUTS OF YOUR MARITAL ISSUES OR PROBLEMS BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND? >> WHAT PROBLEMS? >> OH, YOU HAVE A PERFECT MARRIAGE? >> JUDGE, ARGUMENTATIVE, JUDGE. >> OBJECTION AS TO ARGUMENTATIVE, SUSTAINED. >> I’VE NEVER BEEN IN A COURTROOM LIKE THAT BEFORE. AND IT WAS GRUELING, AND I HAD

NO IDEA IT WAS GOING TO BE OVER A TWO-DAY PERIOD. >> DID SHE TELL YOU HOW MUCH SHE HATED JAMES, HOW MUCH SHE DESPISED HIM? HOW SHE WANTED TO SPIT IN HIS FOOD? >> SHE DID SAY THAT SHE WANTED TO SPIT IN HIS FOOD. >> SHE COULDN’T STAND HIM.

YOU COULDN’T STAND HIM. SHE COULDN’T STAND HIM, RIGHT? >> I DIDN’T LIKE HIS BEHAVIOR, NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> THE DEFENSE STRATEGY APPEARS TO BE TWO-FOLD — PAINT ANGELA IN AN UNFLATTERING LIGHT AND PUT THEIR OWN WITNESS, A FIREARMS EXPERT, ON THE STAND TO REBUT

THE STATE’S CRIME SCENE ANALYST TESTIMONY. >> THE DEFENSE HAS TO PUT SOMEBODY ON THE STAND WHO WILL CORROBORATE WHAT JAMES RAY IS SAYING. >> I CAME TO A CONCLUSION THAT HIS ACCOUNT WAS CONSISTENT WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE THAT I LOOKED AT AND WITH SCIENTIFIC THINGS

I KNOW ABOUT SHOOTING AND SHOOTING SCENES AND BALLISTICS. >> I THINK FROM THE START, BROOKE BARNETT AND THE DEFENSE TOOK THE TACK THAT THIS WAS SOMEWHAT OF A LACKADAISICAL INVESTIGATION BY DETECTIVES. >> I DIDN’T SEE IT AS FULLY UNTIL MURAD MUHAMMAD GOT ON THE STAND.

>> DETECTIVE MURAD MUHAMMAD WAS THE LEAD INVESTIGATOR ON THE CASE. BARNETT ACCUSED HIM OF WILLFUL BLINDNESS FOR FAILING TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE RAY CALLED ON THE DAY OF THE MURDER AND FAILING TO SEND ANGELA’S CELL PHONE FOR EXTRACTION. >> SO, IN THIS CASE, YOU DID NOT

OBTAIN THE TELEPHONE EVIDENCE FROM ANY OF THESE WITNESSES BECAUSE YOU DID NOT FEEL THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE VALUABLE TO YOUR INVESTIGATION. IS THAT YOUR TESTIMONY, DETECTIVE? >> NO. >> NO, YOU DIDN’T FEEL IT IMPORTANT? >> EVERYTHING’S IMPORTANT. >> BUT YOU DIDN’T OBTAIN ANY

TELEPHONE EVIDENCE OR COMPLETE TELEPHONE EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE, CORRECT? >> YES. >> SHE WAS FINDING FLAWS, AND IT WAS WORKING. SO, I BELIEVE AT THAT POINT THE TIDES SHIFTED. >> AS THE TRIAL WENT ON, WERE YOU WORRIED THAT HE MIGHT BE ACQUITTED? >> THERE WERE CONCERNS BECAUSE

ALL YOU NEED IS REASONABLE DOUBT BY ONE PERSON. SO, YEAH, THAT’S KIND OF SCARY. AND IF YOU KEEP SAYING CERTAIN THINGS ENOUGH, THEY’RE GOING TO BELIEVE IT. >> ALL STAND FOR THE ENTRANCE OF THE JURORS. >> I SUBMIT THAT IF WE ARE TO CONSIDER THE ONLY AVAILABLE

ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MOMENTS, THE HOURS, AND THE DAYS PRIOR TO JAMES RAY BEING CONFRONTED WITH DEADLY FORCE, THEN YOU MUST FIND JAMES RAY NOT GUILTY. >> THE EVIDENCE WOULD SHOW THAT THIS WAS A KNOWING AND PURPOSEFUL MURDER. I THINK MS. MILLER DID AN

EXCELLENT JOB IN HER SUMMATION. >> THE DEFENSE SAID TO YOU YESTERDAY THAT I HAVE THE LAST WORD. WELL, THAT’S NOT TRUE. YOU HAVE THE LAST WORD HERE. WHEN THE STATE SUBMITS AFTER ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT’S BEEN PRESENTED, THAT LAST WORD SHOULD BE GUILTY. >> THE JURY FINALLY GETS THE

CASE. HOW WORRIED WERE YOU ABOUT WHETHER YOU WERE ACTUALLY GOING TO PREVAIL? >> I FELT VERY CONFIDENT IN THE EVIDENCE THAT WE PRESENTED TO THE JURY. BUT THERE’S ALWAYS A RISK IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDE SUCH AS THIS, AGAIN, WHERE THERE ARE NO WITNESSES. HOWEVER —

>> BUT WHEN THE JURY WENT OUT. >> YEAH, WHEN THE JURY GOES OUT, IT’S OUT OF YOUR CONTROL. >> PREDOMINATELY MALE JURY. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO DECIDE. >> AND AFTER A SEVEN-WEEK TRIAL, THE JURY TOOK ALL OF THREE HOURS TO COME BACK WITH THE VERDICT,

WHICH IS EXTRAORDINARILY FAST. >> HOW DO YOU FIND ON THE CHARGE OF MURDER? >> ON THE CHARGE OF MURDER, WE FIND THE DEFENDANT GUILTY OF MURDER. >> THE VERDICT IS IN, AND THE VERDICT IS GUILTY. A JURY DECIDES JAMES RAY KILLED ANGELA BLEDSOE.

>> THERE WAS PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD. >> THE JURORS HAVING RETURNED A VERDICT OF GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS. >> AS SOON AS THAT FOREMAN SAID, “GUILTY,” WE LOOKED AT JAMES RAY AND THERE WAS NO CHANGE. THIS WAS A STOIC MAN THROUGH AND

THROUGH, EMOTIONLESS TO THE END. >> YOU HEAR THAT GUILTY VERDICT. WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND AND YOUR HEART? >> I FELT RELIEVED. I FELT HURT. I KIND OF ASKED MYSELF, WHO REALLY WON? WHO WON AFTER WHAT WE HAVE GONE THROUGH? >> IT’S LIKE, THANK YOU, WE’RE

GETTING JUSTICE, BUT SHE’S STILL NOT HERE. LIKE — IT’S LIKE YOU’RE BACK TO REALITY THAT SHE’S NOT HERE. AND IT GIVES YOU A MOMENT OF SATISFACTION, BUT THAT FEELING JUST COMES BACK, LIKE YOU’RE SAD AGAIN. >> JAMES RAY STOOD UP, HE SAID ONE OR TWO WORDS, WHICH HE

WHISPERED IN THE EAR OF HIS ATTORNEYS, AND HE WAS LED AWAY IN HANDCUFFS BY THE SHERIFF’S OFFICERS BACK TO HIS JAIL CELL. >> BUT TWO DAYS BEFORE RAY’S SENTENCING, WHEN IT SEEMS THE BLEDSOE FAMILY IS ABOUT TO FIND THE JUSTICE THEY’VE BEEN SEEKING, A BOMBSHELL.

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DELIBERATIONS FOR THIS JURY TO COME BACK WITH A VERDICT OF GUILTY AGAINST JAMES RAY. >> AFTER NEARLY FIVE LONG YEARS, WHEN IT SEEMS THE BLEDSOE FAMILY IS FINALLY ABOUT TO SEE THE JUSTICE THEY’D BEEN PRAYING FOR, A SHOCKING TURN ON OF ALL DAYS, FATHER’S DAY.

>> IN NEW JERSEY, A MAN WHO MURDERED HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS JAIL CELL. THE ESSEX COUNTY PROSECUTOR SAYS JAMES RAY WAS DISCOVERED OVERNIGHT NOT BREATHING. HE WAS DUE TO BE SENTENCED LATER THIS WEEK AND FACED THE POSSIBILITY OF A LIFE SENTENCE.

>> ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT RELEASED BY THE ESSEX COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE, THE CAUSE AND MANNER OF RAY’S DEATH ARE UNKNOWN, AND AN AUTOPSY IS PENDING. >> AND IN A STUNNING TWIST, RAY’S DEATH HAS A DRAMATIC AND UNEXPECTED IMPACT ON HIS CONVICTION.

>> IF SOMEONE DIES IN CUSTODY BEFORE THEY’VE HAD A CHANCE TO BE SENTENCED, IT’S NOT UNCOMMON ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR THOSE CHARGES TO BE DROPPED. >> DOES THE MURDER CONVICTION STAND? >> NO, IT DOESN’T. ACTUALLY, WHAT HAPPENS IS THE CASE IS LIKELY TO BE DISMISSED. >> DISMISSED.

>> YEAH. >> AFTER ALL OF THAT? >> TECHNICALLY, YOU’RE NOT CONVICTED IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY UNTIL YOU’RE SENTENCED, SO WHILE THE JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY, IT’S NOT CONCLUDED UNTIL A JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION IS RENDERED BY THE COURT. >> THIS ADDS INSULT TO INJURY

FOR THE BLEDSOES, WHO FEEL CHEATED OUT OF JUSTICE. >> THERE’S NOT A DAY THAT GOES BY, NOT ONE DAY THAT ANGIE IS NOT ON OUR MIND. EVERY DAY WE THINK ABOUT THAT GIRL. >> I STILL HURT. I STILL HURT. AS A FATHER, I WASN’T THERE TO PROTECT HER.

>> ONE DAY, I TOLD MY HUSBAND, I SAID, YOU KNOW, I COULD JUST GO TO SLEEP AND NOT WAKE UP, BECAUSE THE PAIN AND THE SORROW, IT’S LIKE YOU’RE JUST DROWNING, YOU KNOW? >> BUT IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF THIS TRAGEDY, A GLIMMER OF HOPE.

>> THEIR DAUGHTER IS LIVING HER BEST FUN, PRETEEN LIFE DOWN IN FLORIDA WITH HER AUNT LISA. >> AND I’M GOING TO MAKE SURE SHE HAS EVERYTHING THAT SHE NEEDS, AND SHE’S LIKE A DAUGHTER TO ME. SHE’S SUPER SMART, JUST LIKE ANGELA WAS. SHE SAYS SHE’S DOING EXTREMELY

WELL IN SCHOOL, STRAIGHT-A STUDENT, COPING WELL. >> DO YOU LIKE THE KIDS AT SCHOOL? >> YEAH, THEY’RE NICE. >> YEAH? I HAD A CHANCE TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH ALANA IN NEW YORK CITY RECENTLY. SHE TOLD ME ABOUT HER LIFE AS A CHEERLEADER. SHE’S NOW IN SEVENTH GRADE.

IN SPITE OF ALL OF THAT LOSS, REMARKABLY, SHE’S THRIVING. >> ANGELA LOVED HER SO MUCH. ANGELA AND I USED TO TALK ABOUT CARDINALS, LIKE RED BIRDS ALL THE TIME. AND WHENEVER I THINK OF HER, ONE ALWAYS APPEARS OUTSIDE OF MY KITCHEN WINDOW. >> DO YOU FIND YOURSELF TALKING

TO ANGIE IN YOUR THOUGHTS, IN YOUR PRAYERS? >> MM-HMM. >> IN MY DREAMS. I DO. I HAD A DREAM THAT SHE GRABBED MY HAND, I GRABBED HER HAND, AND I SAID, ANGIE, ANGIE, DON’T GO. AND SHE SAID — SHE SAID, I GOT TO GO. I CAN’T STAY.

AND SHE FLOATED ON AWAY. >>> AS I SAT THERE WITH THAT FAMILY, THERE WAS SO MUCH EMOTION, BUT THERE COULD BE A BIT OF CLOSURE COMING FOR THEM, DAVID. >> I KNOW THE PROSECUTOR HAS TOLD YOU SHE HOPES THE JUDGE WILL STILL HEAR THE VICTIM

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>> EVERYBODY WAS SCARED THAT YOU WERE SHOWING UP TO LAREDO. SOMEBODY NEEDED TO PUT IT OUT THERE, YOU KNOW? SOMETHING WAS WRONG, AND BODIES WERE BEING FOUND ALL OVER THE PLACE. >> IT WAS ALONG THIS DUSTY ROAD THAT A RANCHER FOUND A WOMAN’S

BODY FACE DOWN ON THAT BUSH. >> IT IS A FEMALE IN HER MID 30s. >> IT SEEMED LIKE AN ACTUAL EXECUTION. >> HOW CAN SOMEONE JUST BE THROWN ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD? >> WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD DO THIS? >> A MONSTER.

>> THESE BACK STREETS BECAME A KILLER’S HUNTING GROUND. >> THERE WAS CONCERN OUT THERE, COULD WE BE NEXT? >> AND THEN ANOTHER VICTIM IS FOUND. >> I’VE GOT A FEMALE IN THE GRASS LAYING. >> COME ON, Y’ALL. Y’ALL GOT TO HURRY. >> I THINK MY WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD

HEARD ME SCREAM. >> JUST TO KNOW THAT SHE WAS LEFT THERE TO DIE. >> I’M SORRY. >> NOBODY DESERVES THAT, NOBODY. >> WE MAY HAVE A SERIAL KILLER ON OUR HANDS. >> I TOLD THE CHIEF, YOU NEED TO FIND HIM, BECAUSE THERE’S GOING TO BE MORE.

[ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] >> HELP ME, HELP ME. >> AND THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING OF OUR NIGHTMARE. THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING. >> HEY. HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! >>> IT’S A BORDER TOWN, BUT IT’S ALSO ONE OF THE BIGGEST BORDER TOWNS IN THE UNITED STATES.

SO, WE ARE IN THE BACK STREETS OF SAN BERNARDO AVENUE IN DOWNTOWN LAREDO. COMMONLY KNOWN AS “LA SANBER.” THIS IS PERSONAL TO ME, BECAUSE THIS IS OFTEN WHERE MY MOTHER WORKED AND WALKED AROUND. SHE STAYED AROUND THIS AREA. THERE WOULD BE TIMES WHERE I

WOULD HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE TO LOOK FOR HER. >> CLAUDINE LUERA WAS A MOTHER. SHE LOVED HER FIVE CHILDREN, AND HER FAMILY LOVED HER. LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR MOM. WHAT WAS SHE LIKE? >> MY MOM, SHE WAS PERFECT. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL. SHE WAS FUNNY. SHE WAS THE BEST COOK EVER.

YOU KNOW, VERY THOUGHTFUL, VERY LOVABLE. ALWAYS REMINDING ME, LIKE, HOW MUCH SHE LOVED ME. >> WE WERE, I THINK, WELL GROUNDED BY MY FAMILY. WE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH, BUT WE HAD WHAT WE NEEDED. >> WE WERE KNOWN AS THE LITTLE WHITE GIRLS, BECAUSE MY

MOTHER WAS ORIGINALLY FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND AND MY FATHER, HE WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE IN LAREDO, TEXAS. FAMILY WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR HER. >> SHE WANTED US TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE AND FELT LIKE SHE COULDN’T PROVIDE THAT FOR US, SO THEN SHE RESORTED TO THE

STREETS. >> SHE STARTED GOING INTO A DEPRESSION, AND SHE DIDN’T KNOW THERE WOULD BE A WAY OUT. AND WE STARTED NOTICING MORE HABITS. >> SHE HAD HER OWN DEMONS, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, SHE LOVED US. >> DID YOU WORRY ABOUT HER SAFETY?

>> EVERY DAY. I WOULD, YOU KNOW, CRY, PRAY TO GOD, BECAUSE SHE WAS ON THE STREETS, YOU KNOW. I ALWAYS HAD THAT WORRY IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD. >> CLAUDINE WAS A WOMAN WHO WORKED ON SAN BERNARDO AVENUE. >> SAN BERNARDO HAS A UNIQUE

KIND OF CHARACTER ON ITS OWN. IT’S KNOWN AS HAVING THOSE LITTLE MOM-AND-POP SHOPS. IT’S ALSO KNOWN FOR ITS DARK SIDE — THE DRUG USE, THE DRUG EXCHANGES. IT’S ALWAYS BEEN REALLY KNOWN AS SORT OF THAT RED LIGHT DISTRICT. >> I WAS BORN AND RAISED RIGHT

HERE IN SOUTH TEXAS, SO I KNOW THE GOOD PEOPLE OF LAREDO ARE HUMBLE, WARM, WELCOMING, AND GROUNDED IN THEIR MEXICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE. >> YOU’RE GOING TO SEE SO MUCH OF THE MEXICAN CULTURE HERE IN LAREDO. >> LAREDO’S KNOWN FOR THE JALAPENO FESTIVAL. >> GO! >> LAREDO!

>> THIS TOWN IS CALLED THE GATEWAY CITY. AND BECAUSE IT’S RIGHT HERE ON THE BORDER, THERE’S A HEAVY LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE HERE. THIS IS NOT A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE FEAR FOR THEIR SAFETY. AND THAT’S WHY THE MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF

TOWN IN 2018 SHOOK THIS COMMUNITY TO ITS VERY CORE. >> 911. >> I’M HERE DRIVING BY JEFFRIES ROAD. I BELIEVE I FOUND A DEAD BODY THERE. >> I’LL GO AHEAD AND SEND SOMEBODY. >> OKAY, THANK YOU. >> SHE WAS FOUND IN WEBB COUNTY IN A COLONIA AREA.

>> THERE’S NOTHING OUT THERE. ONCE YOU GET OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS, IT’S RURAL TEXAS. YOU KNOW, IT’S JUST FARMLAND, IT’S VERY FLAT LAND, DIRT ROADS. >> NOT AN AREA THAT CITY FOLKS WILL VISIT UNLESS THEY HAVE A PURPOSE TO BE THERE. >> IT WAS ALONG THIS DUSTY ROAD

THAT A RANCHER FOUND A WOMAN’S BODY FACE DOWN IN THAT BUSH. SHE HAD BEEN SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE SEVERAL TIMES. TO INVESTIGATORS, THIS WASN’T JUST A MURDER — >> IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED ABOUT RIGHT HERE. >> RIGHT HERE. >> IT SEEMED LIKE AN ACTUAL EXECUTION.

BACK OF THE HEAD AND SHOT HER HERE. >> CAPTAIN FEDERICO CALDERON OF THE WEBB COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TEXAS RANGER E.J. SALINAS LED THE INVESTIGATION, AND THEY BROUGHT US TO THE CRIME SCENE. SHE WAS FOUND OUT IN THE OPEN. ANYONE COULD HAVE SEEN THIS. >> RIGHT HERE.

HALF ON THE ROAD, HALF ON THE BERM THERE, BUT YEAH, COMPLETELY OUT IN THE OPEN. >> HOW LONG HAD SHE BEEN OUT HERE? >> HOURS — IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED THAT NIGHT BEFORE. >> WHAT LEADS YOU TO BELIEVE THAT SHE WAS KILLED HERE AND NOT

SOMEWHERE ELSE AND THEN HER BODY DUMPED HERE? >> THE EVIDENCE — >> THE EVIDENCE. >> I MEAN, THE SHELL CASINGS WERE RIGHT THERE NEXT TO THE BODY. >> THE EAGLE-EYED DETECTIVES FIND .40-CALIBER SHELL CASINGS, AS WELL AS DISTINCT TIRE TREAD MARKS THAT APPEAR TO BE FROM A

PICKUP TRUCK. WHERE WERE THE TIRE MARKS FOUND? SHOW ME BACK HERE. >> SO, THE TIRE MARKS WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE FROM WHERE HE TURNED AROUND. >> AND THEN HE JUST LEFT HER HERE. >> HE JUST LEFT HER HERE. >> WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD DO THIS? >> A MONSTER.

>> WE HAVE NEW INFORMATION REGARDING THE BODY OF A WOMAN FOUND IN NORTHWEST WEBB COUNTY. AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT YET RELEASED THE NAME OF THE VICTIM. >> I WAS EXTREMELY WORRIED THAT THAT COULD HAVE BEEN MY MOTHER. THAT WAS A FEAR I HAD, YOU KNOW, EVERY NIGHT GROWING UP.

>> LATER THAT DAY, THE MEDICAL EXAMINER WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE VICTIM, BUT IT WASN’T CLAUDINE LUERA AS HER DAUGHTER CIARA HAD FEARED. >> AUTHORITIES CONFIRMED TONIGHT THAT THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE IS 29-YEAR-OLD MELISSA RAMIREZ FROM RIGHT HERE IN LAREDO. >> AS SOON AS LAW ENFORCEMENT

IDENTIFIED THE VICTIM AS MELISSA RAMIREZ, INVESTIGATORS NOTIFIED HER MOTHER, MARIA CRISTINA BENEVIDES. >> TWO DETECTIVES GO TO YOUR FRONT DOOR. WHAT DO THEY SAY? [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] >> I GREW UP WITH MELISSA SINCE WE WERE LITTLE. WE WERE BEST FRIENDS, SO I KNEW

HER SINCE SHE WAS A BABY. EVERYBODY JUST LOVED BEING AROUND HER ‘CAUSE SHE WAS ALWAYS JOKING AROUND, SINGING AND DANCING. AND SHE WAS A HUMAN BEING, A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING. >> I SPOKE TO MY MOTHER, AND I WAS VERY RELIEVED THAT IT WASN’T

HER, AND SHE DID SHARE WITH ME THAT SOMEBODY FROM SANBER HAD BEEN MURDERED. >> THE COMMUNITY ITSELF IN SAN BERNARDO, EVERYBODY KNEW EACH OTHER AND THEY WOULD WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER. >> WHAT WAS HER RELATIONSHIP LIKE WITH MELISSA? >> THEY WERE VERY CLOSE.

THEY WOULD PROTECT EACH OTHER IN THE STREETS. >> NO ONE KNEW WHAT HAPPENED, HOW IT HAPPENED. IT WAS JUST A WAITING GAME. >> BUT IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE INVESTIGATORS GET A BREAK IN THE CASE. >> A VEHICLE HAD BEEN SEEN LEAVING THE SCENE OF THE

CRIME IN A SUSPICIOUS MANNER. >> WITNESSES AT THE SCENE HAD SPOTTED A DARK TRUCK ALONG SPOTTED A DARK TRUCK ALONG JEFFERIES ROAD NEAR THE VICTIM’S BODY. >> BEFORE THE VEHICLE LEFT THE SCENE, WITNESSES WERE ABLE TO GET A LICENSE PLATE. >> WHO WAS THAT PERSON?

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>> GOOD AFTERNOON, I’M BRENDA CAMACHO. IT’S A STORY THAT SHOOK THE LAREDO COMMUNITY. MELISSA RAMIREZ’S BODY WAS FOUND ON U,S, 83 NORTH NEAR CAMINO COLOMBIA ROAD. >> ON THE DAY THAT WE FOUND OUT WHO THE VICTIM WAS, OUR REPORTERS STARTED GOING OUT IN THE FIELD.

WE HAD LEARNED THAT SHE WAS A SEX WORKER THAT WAS PICKED UP ON SAN BERNARDO. >> SAN BERNARDO AVENUE IS KNOWN IN LAREDO. IT’S DEFINITELY A PLACE AT NIGHT WHERE THE SEX WORKERS WALK ALONG. YOU KNOW, THERE’S PROBABLY DRUGS BEING SOLD ALONG THE ROADWAY AS WELL.

>> ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, MELISSA RAMIREZ HAD BEEN ON THE STREETS FOR YEARS, USING MONEY FROM SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS TO BUY DRUGS. BUT HER FAMILY SAYS SHE KEPT THIS LIFESTYLE A SECRET FROM THEM. >> HOW DID SHE START WORKING ON SAN BERNARDO AVENUE?

[ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] >> SHE NEVER TOLD YOU. >> I DIDN’T KNOW THAT. I DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING. I NEVER SAW HER — NEVER SAW HER DRINK OR DO DRUGS. >> WHATEVER SHE DID, SHE DID, AND WHO WAS WE TO JUDGE? WHAT IF SHE WAS ALREADY GOING TO

LEAD THAT LIFE? WE DON’T KNOW. SHE WAS PRIVATE. SHE WAS VERY, VERY PRIVATE. >> WE DO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE TO DO SEX WORK. OFTEN IT’S ADDICTION OR THE NEED TO FEED OUR CHILDREN. AND ONCE THAT CYCLE BEGINS, IT’S VERY DIFFICULT. >> CLAUDINE LUERA’S DAUGHTER,

CIARA, WATCHED HER MOTHER STRUGGLE WITH THOSE PROBLEMS. >> SHE NEVER EVER WANTED TO TELL ME LIKE, “OH, I’M A SEX WORKER.” >> SHE WAS ASHAMED. BUT ADDICTED. >> SHE WAS, LIKE, SEVERELY ADDICTED TO HEROIN. AND SHE WOULD NEED TO GO BACK TO SAN BERNARDO TO GET THAT FIX.

>> WHEN MELISSA DID GO OUT, DID YOU WORRY? [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] >> IN FACT, TWO WEEKS BEFORE HER DAUGHTER’S MURDER, CRISTINA SAYS MELISSA CAME TO HER WITH A CHILLING PREMONITION. [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] >> WE WERE TRYING TO FIND OUT

WHO DID IT. AT THAT POINT, WE DIDN’T KNOW WHO IT WAS, BECAUSE ANYBODY CAN BE A SUSPECT. >> AND WHILE MELISSA RAMIREZ’S FAMILY QUESTIONED WHO MIGHT WANT HER DEAD, INVESTIGATORS WERE CHASING DOWN THAT LEAD ABOUT A BLACK PICKUP TRUCK SEEN NEAR HER BODY.

>> THERE WAS A VEHICLE ON THAT SPECIFIC RANCH ROAD WHERE HER BODY WAS FOUND, AND THE HOMEOWNERS THAT WERE AT AN ADJACENT PROPERTY SAW THE VEHICLE. THEY SEE THAT IT WAS PARKED THERE FOR SOME AMOUNT OF TIME THAT CAUGHT THEIR ATTENTION, AND

WHEN THEY SAW IT DRIVE AWAY, THEY NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A BODY NEXT TO THE TRUCK. SO THEY NATURALLY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT TRUCK WAS INVOLVED WITH THAT BODY SOMEHOW. >> I’M THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. MY COMMUNICATION TO THE DEPUTIES WHO ARE WORKING THE SCENE IS,

WE NEED TO FIND THIS MAN WHO DID THIS. WE HAD TO FIND THAT TRUCK. >> POLICE USE ANY SORT OF RESOURCE THEY CAN POOL TO GET THAT LICENSE PLATE AND FIGURE OUT ALL OF THE INFORMATION ATTACHED TO IT. AT SOME POINT, THEY ENLIST THE

HELP OF BORDER PATROL TO TRACK DOWN WHOSE LICENSE PLATE IS THIS? >> AT THE TIME I WAS ASSIGNED TO AN INTEL CENTER THAT’S HOUSED THERE WITH BORDER PATROL. AND EVERY TIME WE RUN ACROSS A NAME, A NUMBER, I USUALLY CALL UP THERE TO GET RESEARCH DONE.

>> AND THEY HAVE CAMERAS OUT THERE. >> THEY MONITOR CAMERAS THAT’S MAINLY ALONG THE RIVER IN SOME BRUSH AREAS. >> THAT CAN BE HELPFUL. >> THAT CAN BE BENEFICIAL. SO THAT WAS ONE OF MY FIRST CALLS. >> LAW ENFORCEMENT IS ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE DRIVER.

>> WHO WAS THAT PERSON? >> THAT PERSON ENDED UP BEING A POLICE OFFICER. >> IT WAS SURPRISING TO HEAR THAT A POLICE OFFICER WAS IN THAT TRUCK AND COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY BEEN THE SUSPECT. >> WE’RE MAKING SURE THAT, CROSS YOUR Ts, DOT YOUR Is. BUT YES, THEY’RE THINKING

HOPEFULLY WE HAVE THE PERSON. >> THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND THE RANGERS CONFRONTED HIM, BROUGHT HIM IN FOR QUESTIONING, AND THEN THEY GOT A SEARCH WARRANT TO GO TO HIS HOUSE AND RECOVER WEAPONS AND TRYING TO CHECK HIS ALIBIS, CHECK HIS HISTORY. >> THIS INDIVIDUAL COOPERATED

WITH INVESTIGATORS AND TOLD HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. >> ACCORDING TO THE OFFICER, HE WAS OUT WITH HIS KIDS LOOKING AT PROPERTIES FOR SALE. >> HE NEVER SAW THE BODY ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. AT THE END, IT ENDED UP BEING

A CASE OF BEING AT THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME. >> ALL OF THAT WAS CORROBORATED AND HE WAS CLEARED AS A SUSPECT. >> THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE IS 29-YEAR-OLD MELISSA RAMIREZ. SO FAR NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. >> ONCE POLICE ALREADY RULED OUT

THE POLICE OFFICER AS THE SUSPECT, THEY GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. >> IT WAS IMPORTANT TO TRY TO GET INFORMATION ON ANY OF THE JOHNS OR BOYFRIENDS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN VISITING WITH HER LEADING UP TO THE MURDER. >> WE DIDN’T KNOW IF WE WERE

DEALING WITH A PERSON WHO WAS IN THE DRUG OR PROSTITUTION WORLD OR HUMAN TRAFFICKING. WE WERE TRYING TO FIND WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT, WHO SHE WAS WITH. >> MELISSA’S MOTHER, CRISTINA, HAD PROVIDED INVESTIGATORS WITH THE NAME OF A MAN SHE SAYS SPENT TIME WITH HER DAUGHTER JUST DAYS

BEFORE HER MURDER. >> SHE WAS A HE WAS A REGULAR. A REGULAR CUSTOMER. HE WAS DRIVING A VEHICLE SIMILAR TO A VEHICLE THAT WAS IN THE AREA EARLY ON. >> AND HE HAD PICKED HER UP? >> AND HE HAD PICKED HER UP. >> WHEN INVESTIGATORS RAN A

BACKGROUND CHECK ON THE SUSPECT, THEY LEARNED HE OWNED A GUN SIMILAR TO THE ONE USED TO KILL MELISSA. >> WITH THAT INFORMATION IN HAND, LAW ENFORCEMENT SETS UP SURVEILLANCE AT HIS HOME. >> ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THAT SITUATION. >> HE COULD BE ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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>>> INITIALLY, YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD A SUSPECT. >> YES. WE HAD SEVERAL LEADS. OF COURSE, BEING IN THE BUSINESS, YOU TEND TO PICK UP DIFFERENT PEOPLE. >> INVESTIGATORS HAD SET THEIR SIGHTS ON A SUSPECT WHO, ACCORDING TO MELISSA’S FAMILY, HAD SEEN HER DAYS BEFORE THE

MURDER, AND SO THEY PLACED HIS HOME UNDER SURVEILLANCE. >> THEIR CONCERN IS WHAT IS THE SITUATION GOING TO BE LIKE ONCE WE CONFRONT HIM? THEY HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH THIS SITUATION, BECAUSE YOU DON’T KNOW, IS THIS GUY GOING TO PULL OUT A GUN?

IS HE ARMED AND DANGEROUS? LAW ENFORCEMENT HAD A CLOCK THAT WAS TICKING. >> SO, ON SEPTEMBER THE 6th OF 2018, WHEN THEY WERE CONDUCTING SURVEILLANCE, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THEY GOT A LOOK AT HIM. SURE ENOUGH, THEY’RE ABLE TO INTERCEPT HIM AS HE’S WALKING

OUT OF HIS HOME. ONCE THEY APPROACH HIM, THEY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS TO WHAT THEIR PURPOSE IS. HE COOPERATES AND AGREES TO GO TO THE STATION. AND QUESTIONED HIM AS TO WHEN THE LAST TIME HE SAW MELISSA. HE RELATES THAT IT WOULD’VE BEEN TWO TO THREE DAYS BEFORE HER

MURDER AND THAT HE PICKED HER UP ON SAN BERNARDO AVENUE. HE’S WITH HER THAT EVENING, AND AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, HE DROPS HER OFF AT THE PAN AMERICAN MOTEL, AND THAT IS THE LAST TIME THAT HE SAW HER. >> HE HANDED OVER HIS CELLPHONE

AND WAS EVENTUALLY CLEARED AS A SUSPECT AFTER CELL TOWER DATA PLACED HIM ELSEWHERE ON THE DAY OF THE MURDER. >> AT THE END, HIS STORY CHECKED OUT. >> AND AT THIS POINT, YOU HAVE SOME NAMES OF RAMIREZ’S ASSOCIATES. >> CORRECT. >> IN FACT, YOU FOLLOWED UP ON

THREE LEADS OF THREE MEN WHO HAD KNOWN MELISSA. >> CORRECT. >> AND NONE OF THEM TURNED OUT TO BE THE KILLER. >> THEY ALL SEEMED LIKE GOOD LEADS AT THE TIME. AND, UH, WE — WE DID OUR INVESTIGATION, FOLLOWED UP, INTERVIEWED AND WE DID WHAT WE

HAD TO, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THEY WEREN’T PANNING OUT AS VIABLE SUSPECTS. >> WERE YOU PRAYING FOR THAT THE KILLER BE FOUND? [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] >> I KNOW THAT THEY WERE WORKING TIRELESSLY, THE INVESTIGATORS IN THIS CASE. >> WE WEREN’T SLEEPING.

ME AND FRED WERE TIGHT AT THE HIP FOR THOSE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. >> THEY’RE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, HONE IN ON WHO COULD HAVE PICKED UP MELISSA? WHO WAS THIS PERSON? THEY WERE LITERALLY WORKING NON-STOP TRYING TO FIND THE KILLER.

>> WE WERE OUT THERE EVERY DAY TALKING TO PEOPLE, VISITING DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, RESIDENCES AND BUSINESSES, DRIVING UP AND DOWN SOUTH BERNARDO AND AREAS AROUND THAT AREA, AND TALKING TO PEOPLE ON THE STREETS, TALKING TO PEOPLE IN THE FRONT YARDS AND HOPING SOMEBODY COULD GIVE

US SOME INFORMATION. >> OLD FASHIONED POLICE WORK. >> EXACTLY. WE HAD BEEN ABLE TO PIECE TOGETHER THE DAYS LEADING UP AND WHO SHE HAD BEEN WITH AND WHO SHE HAD FREQUENTED WITH, BUT THAT CRITICAL TIME BEFORE SHE DIED WAS WHAT WE WERE MISSING.

>> I THINK THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT WE WANTED TO KNOW IS TO FIND PEACE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT PERSON DIDN’T HURT SOMEONE ELSE. OR HURT OUR FAMILY. >> WITH A KILLER ON THE LOOSE, THE CITY OF LAREDO REMAINED ON

HIGH ALERT, AND SO DID THE WOMEN OF LA SANBER. >> I THINK THEIR FRIENDS THAT WORKED IN THAT SAME INDUSTRY PROBABLY PIECED IT TOGETHER FIRST. >> MM-HMM. >> SOMEBODY’S GOING AROUND KILLING OUR FRIENDS. >> THOUGH MELISSA RAMIREZ’s CASE CONFOUNDED INVESTIGATORS, THEY SUSPECTED THAT THESE BACK

STREETS HAD BECOME A KILLER’S HUNTING GROUND. I’M WALKING DOWN SAN BERNARDO AVENUE, BETTER KNOWN AS LA SANBER. IT’S LAREDO’S RED-LIGHT DISTRICT. AND ALTHOUGH THINGS HAVE CHANGED A LITTLE BIT SINCE 2018, IT’S STILL BUSINESS AS USUAL HERE. WHAT BRINGS YOU OUT HERE?

>> UM — I DON’T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO SAY IT. I DON’T REALLY KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN MYSELF. I GUESS NECESSITIES. >> YOU HEARD WHAT HAPPENED. HOW SCARY WAS THAT TO YOU? >> VERY. I ACTUALLY WAS ASLEEP THAT NIGHT. I WAS GOING TO BE OUT HERE, YOU

KNOW, AND THANKFULLY, I WAS ASLEEP. >> YOU WERE GOING TO BE OUT HERE THAT NIGHT? >> YEAH. ‘CAUSE I’M ALWAYS AROUND HERE, SO — YEAH. >> HOW DANGEROUS IS IT? >> VERY. >> YOU NEVER KNOW WHOSE CAR YOU’RE GETTING INTO. >> YEAH. >> WHY DO YOU DO IT?

>> I REALLY DON’T KNOW. >> AND EVEN AFTER WHAT HAPPENED, YOU’RE STILL OUT HERE. IT’S DANGEROUS. DO YOU THINK YOU’LL EVER LEAVE THE STREETS? >> YES. >> ALL RIGHT, YOU BE CAREFUL, OKAY? >> ONE OF THE NAMES THAT HAD COME UP IS CLAUDINE LUERA.

SHE’S A FRIEND OF MELISSA’S WHO WOULD’VE BEEN ALSO WORKING ON THE SAN BERNARDO. LAW ENFORCEMENT FELT THAT PERHAPS SHE COULD HAVE PROVIDED INFORMATION ON THE LAST TIME THAT MELISSA WAS PICKED UP. >> HOW DID YOUR MOM REACT TO MELISSA’S MURDER? >> SHE WAS AFRAID.

>> SHE WAS WORRIED. >> MM-HMM. MY MOTHER HAD ASKED ME TO GET HER A TAXI. AND TO PAY FOR IT, FOR HER TO GET TAKEN TO MY APARTMENT. AND SHE ASKED IF SHE COULD STAY THERE THEN BECAUSE SHE JUST DIDN’T FEEL SAFE.

SHE JUST, YOU KNOW — I COULD TELL THERE WAS FEAR. >> POLICE ARE STILL NOT RELEASING MUCH INFORMATION IN CONNECTION TO THE CASE OF A WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN A RURAL PART OF WEBB COUNTY. >> IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING MELISSA’S MURDER, THERE HAVE BEEN NO ARRESTS.

>> NO ARRESTS. >> ARE YOU FEELING PRESSURE FROM THE COMMUNITY? >> THERE’S ALWAYS PRESSURE WHEN SOMEBODY’S BEEN KILLED, ESPECIALLY IN THIS MANNER. >> PEOPLE CARED BECAUSE HOW CAN SOMEONE JUST BE THROWN ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND NOTHING’S DONE ABOUT IT?

>> SHE’S JUST AS IMPORTANT AS EVERY OTHER PERSON. SO THE COMMUNITY WANTED ANSWERS, AND THEY WANTED TO PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. >> ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES WE HAVE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IS TIME. RIGHT? SO TIME IS THE BIGGEST ENEMY

THAT WE — WE HAVE WHEN I SAY THAT, BECAUSE ONLY THE CRIMINAL CAN DECIDE WHEN, WHERE AND HOW TO COMMIT THE CRIMES. >> THERE WAS CONCERN OUT THERE, COULD WE BE NEXT? >> TEN DAYS LATER, THERE WERE REPORTS OF A SECOND VICTIM.

>> THE VICTIM WAS FOUND ABOUT A MILE AWAY FROM LAREDO’S PREVIOUS HOMICIDE VICTIM. >> AND THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING OF OUR NIGHTMARE. THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING. We have really gone again. I was terrified. It was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand. These were wanted babies 18

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>> TEN DAYS INTO THE INVESTIGATION, YOU STILL DIDN’T HAVE MUCH. >> WE STILL DIDN’T HAVE MUCH. >> AND THEN ANOTHER VICTIM WAS FOUND. >> CORRECT. >> ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 13th, 2018, A TRUCK DRIVER SPOTS THE BODY OF A YOUNG

WOMAN IN A DITCH ABOUT A MILE UP THE ROAD FROM WHERE MELISSA RAMIREZ WAS KILLED. >> WEBB COUNTY 911. >> HEY, I’M AT, UH — I’M ON HIGHWAY. >> OKAY. >> — AND I-83. >> OKAY. >> AND I’VE GOT A FEMALE IN THE GRASS LAYING —

>> HE INITIALLY THOUGHT THAT SHE PROBABLY GOT HIT BY A CAR, BUT THEN CLOSER INSPECTION, HE LEARNED SHE WAS SHOT. >> THE VICTIM HAD BEEN SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD BUT WAS STILL CLINGING TO LIFE. >> AND I DON’T KNOW IF SHE’S

UNCONSCIOUS, BUT SHE IS BREATHING RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE IS BLOOD ALL OVER THE GRASS, OKAY? SO Y’ALL BETTER SEND A PARAMEDIC AND THE POLICE FIRST. >> YES. >> SHE WAS PROBABLY THERE LAYING FOR HOURS BEFORE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUND HER. >> I CAN’T BELIEVE NOBODY ELSE

STOPPED FOR THIS FREAKIN’ LADY. COME ON, Y’ALL. Y’ALL GOTTA HURRY. SHE’S STILL BREATHING THOUGH. Y’ALL GOTTA HURRY. >> WAS SHE ABLE TO GIVE YOU A DESCRIPTION OF HER ASSAILANT? >> NO, SHE REALLY COULDN’T PROCESS MUCH INFORMATION OTHER THAN THE AMOUNT OF PAIN THAT SHE WAS FEELING.

>> THE VICTIM WAS FOUND THIS MORNING AFTER A CONCERNED CITIZEN REPORTED THE DISCOVERY TO THE WEBB COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. SHE WAS ALIVE WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED BUT LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL, AND AN INVESTIGATION IS NOW UNDER WAY. >> THERE WERE A LOT OF PERSONAL

BELONGINGS, AND EVEN HER SHOES WERE THERE. THERE WAS TWO CASINGS RECOVERED FROM THIS CRIME SCENE, BUT THE VICTIM HAD ONLY ONE IMPACT TO THE BACK OF HER AD, WHICH WAS INDICATIVE TO ME THAT THE VICTIM WAS TRYING TO RUN AWAY AT THE

TIME THAT SHE WAS SHOT. >> MY HUSBAND TOLD ME, I SAW IT ON THE NEWS. IT SAID, SECOND VICTIM FOUND. I DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING. NOBODY KNEW ANYTHING. >> IT WAS A SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCE TO MELISSA. WE HAD NO IDEA WHO THE VICTIM WAS YET, BUT BASED OFF OF HO

SHE WAS FOUND AND THE SIMILARITIES IN THE CASE, IT WAS NATURAL TO ASSUME, COULD IT POSSIBLY BE ANOTHER SEX WORKER? >> NEWS TRAVELS FAST IN LAREDO, AND CLAUDINE’S SISTERS WERE SOON HEARING RUMORS THAT SHE MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED. >> PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THE PERSON THEY FOUND WAS CLAUDINE.

THAT’S THE WORD ON THE STREET. I CALL MY SISTER AND I’M SHAKING. AND I’M LIKE, “Y NEED TO CALL THE POLICE. WE HAVE TO FIND HER. WE HAVE TO FIND HER.” >> THE LAST TIME I SPOKE WITH HER WAS ON TUESDAY, I BELIEVE. IT WAS THE 11th.

>> AND WHAT HAPPENS? YOU GET A PHONE CA? >> YEAH, I GET A PHONE CALL. I ANSWER, WE TALK FOR A BIT, AND THEN I GET SOME MESSAGES JUST TELLING ME HOW MUCH SHE LOS ME. AND SHE TELLS ME THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS LIKE, “CHULA,

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AND SHE SAID, WE CAN CONFIRM THAT IT IS CLAUDINLUERA. AND AT THAT POINT, I JUST LOST IT. I THINK MY WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD HEARD ME SCREAM. >> COLLETTE THENAD TO BREAK THE DEVASTATING NEWS TO HER NIECE CIARA. >> THEMAGES THAT I SAW, YOU

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I’m bowlinon the border of Lebanon and Isra. Wherever The Story Goes. We’ll ta you there you. >>> THE INFORMATN THAT WAS RELAYED TO ME WAS, MR. D.A WE HAVE ANOTHERNE. WE HAVE FEMALE WHO WORKS IN PROSTITUTI, SHOT EXECUTION STYLE. >>ERY SIMILAR. >> THESE WERE AMONTHE DARKEST

DAYS LAREDO HAD EVER FACED A POSSIBLE SERIAL KILLER WAS ON THE LOOS TARGETING VULNERABL WOMEN ONHE STREETS OF LA SANBER. THE WOMEN ON SAN BEARDO WERE MORE HEIGHTENED BECAUSE THEY’RE COMING AFTERUR OWN. SEX WORKERS BECAUSE THEY PRESUME . BUT IN LAREDO,HEY CARED. LAW ENFOEMENT TOOK THIS SERISLY.

>> IT WAS SO CALLOUS. THLOCATIONS WHERE THEY WERE FOUND AND THE OUTSKIRTS, IT APPEARED TO ME TT THESE PEOPLE WERE BROUGHT TO THEIR FINAL >> SAME THING. >> ALMOST SHOWING OFF. >> ALMOST OWING IT OFF, YOU KNOWAND THAT’S THE CHALLENGE. ERE’S THE BODY.

GOOD LK FINDING THE KILLER. >> IT HAD BECOME A DEADLY GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE, AND IN T WAKE OF THE MURDERS, CLUES LEFT BEHIND THAT COULD HELP INVESTIGATORS CATCH A KILLER. >> THEY WERE ABLE TO RECOVER A VERY GOOD READABLE CAST OF THE

TIRE TREAD, WHICH MATCHED THE TI TREAD IN THE FIRST AREA. CRIME SCENE TWO, CRIME SNE ONE MATCHED. >> BUT THAT’S NOT ALL. THE SHELL CASINGS RECOVERED FROM AUDINE’S MURDER APPEARED TO MATCH THE GUN USED TO KILL MELISSA. >> WE’RE AT THE ARENA GUN CLUB IN LAREDO, TEXAS.

SO, WE’RE GOING TO DEMONSTRATE A .40-CALIBER SEMI-AUTOMATIC HANDGUN. >> THE KILLER HAD USED THIS TYPE OF GUN. >> YES, SIR. >> CAPTAIN, THAT WAS A PRETTY GOOD SHOT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THE SHELL CASES WHEN YOU’RE FIRING? >> THE BLOWBACK FROM THE DISCHARGE OF THE BULLET ITSELF

PUSHES THE SLIDE BACK, EJECTS THE CASING. SO THE FIRING PIN WHEN IT STRIKES THE BACK OF THE CASE, IT LEAVES A VERY SPECIFIC INDENTATION. >> RIGHT HERE? >> YES. AND THROUGH FORENSICS WE CAN ANALYZE IT AND WE’RE ABLE TO LINK THE DIFFERENT SHELL CASINGS

AT THE DIFFERENT CRIME SCENES. >> AND WHOEVER KILLED THESE WOMEN, WHY DID HE LEAVE THESE ALL OVER THE GROUND? >> BEING RECKLESS, WHICH IS GOOD FOR US. >> POLICE ARE STILL NOT RELEASING MUCH INFORMATION. >> WE KNEW OF THE COVERAGE OF THESE MURDERS, BUT POLICE WEREN’T SAYING MUCH.

>> YOU MUST HAVE TRIED TO KEEP THE FACTS OF THE CASE OUT OF THE MEDIA INITIALLY. >> THAT’S HARD TO DO OBVIOUSLY. >> NOW, WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THE CASE IS BEING TREATED AS A HOMICIDE. >> LAREDO’S A SMALL COMMUNITY. CRIME IS ALWAYS ON THE FRONT

PAGE, SO PEOPLE STARTED TO GET NERVOUS, PEOPLE STARTED TO GET SCARED. AND RIGHTFULLY SO. >> THE THOUGHT OF A SERIAL KILLER IN A COMMUNITY LIKE OURS WAS UNFATHOMABLE. AND NOW THAT IT WAS REAL, IT BROUGHT ALONG REAL FEARS.

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