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Going to be stuck here. Reporter one driver arrested and police are searching for the others behind this illegal stunt known as a side show. A scene now becoming all too familiar. Similar to those in one of the fast and the furious movies reckless riders taking over busy streets, creating chaos. Are you seeing this happen more often . We are. It is a way of showing off and its dangerous. Reporter last month in los angeles, this side show and street race brought traffic on a busy freeway to a screeching halt. Officers arrested 18 people impounding 27 vehicles. Another street takeover in oakland. Hundreds in the crowd this stolen car set ablaze. And watch when officers arrive this red van flees the scene, crashing through a fence getting stuck on railroad tracks. And police studying this video of a dangerous spinout on the world famous Golden Gate Bridge trying to identify those responsible. These are clubs, these are groups that gather together. Its a game to them. Reporter in oakland, rocks and bottles were hurled at officers responding to the scene. With charges pending against the driver of this red mustang, they hope this video will help them track down the others involved. Brandi hitt abc news los angeles. Fast and furious or dumb and stupid . With that we have more danger on the highway. Different danger. You have to watch for cows, too. One got loose and really made a break for it. Why was it udderly difficult to catch him . Were going to milk this story next. You are watching world news now. Tt2wut3nu1 bt qi1x tt2wut3nu1 a qy < tt2wut3nu1 bm qr60 tt4wut3nu1 dztq zt tt4wut3nu1 entq [i4 tt4wut3nu1 gzt byl tt4wut3nu1 hnt rw tt4wut3nu1 iztq 8x tt4wut3nu1 jntq an8 tt4wut3nu1 lzt 2 d go ahead, everyone is listening now. They werent supposed to leave our mics open. All the things we talk about in between commercial break. Oh boy. This is far worst than a traffic jam. It leaves you late and no one believes your excuse but it is too good to be true. Can you imagine going in saying you are late because there was a traffic jam and a cow on the loose. Yes, a cow on the run going down the highway. This happened folks. Thank goodness we have video of it. Reporter its impossible to know why this cow broke free from its stall an ended up on the run down i5. Starting to run south. Reporter but thats what happened in december captured by state trooper dash cam. Traffic came to a stand still, backed up for miles near the town of stanwood perhaps the cow was running from something because you see stanwood is an area surrounded by beef lots and lots of beef. Gourmet angus beef. Reporter and every day the crew at johnnys burger shop moov a ton of it. None of the customers really had a cow over the whole thing. Im not surprised, i guess. Theres a cow running through the intersection. Reporter the 911 call started beefing up around 10 30 this morning and the cows owner called dispatchers. Its my cow. I just bought him today. Reporter he tried his best to corral the cow but by then the cow turned in the median. Through the expanse of the tall wet grass, every step, another step closer to freedom. Troopers closing in behind. We need him headed that way. Until the owner gave permission to end it all. For the cows safety and for the safety of drivers. Before someone ran over it and got hurt. Reporter then troopers took aim and did just that. You have to do what you have to do. Reporter and the great cowcapeade came to a close. It is sad but its a cow. Starting to run south. Reporter back to the cows owner, i talked to him but im not going to tell you his name because hes a teenager and his friends apparently made a big beef about it. He did tell us though he was able to salvage some of the beef sold some of it but still took a loss. Komo 4 news. No one told me it was going to end like that. No matter how this piece ended, the story eventually would end with that cow on somebodys plate. I thought maybe they tranquilized him. Producers, scott told me it didnt end well but i thought he was tranquilized. After he was tranquilized and got back to his home he was going to end up in the same situation, a plate with a knife and fork next to it. Maybe the president would pardon him. That is turkeys only. Oh, right. Important message for residents age 50 to 85. Write down this number now. Right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance Life Insurance with a rate lock through the Colonial Penn program. If you are on a fixed income learn about affordable whole Life Insurance that guarantees your rate can never increase for any reason. If you did not receive your information call this number now. Your acceptance is guaranteed, with no Health Questions. Stand by to learn more. 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It is wednesday, january 14th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you, everybody. On this wednesday thank you for being with us. Im t. J. Holmes. Im reena ninan. We begin with new terror threats that have airports on alert. Coast to coast passengers are seeing ramped up security checks as al qaeda posted a chilling howto guide for the latest weapon. Abcs brian ross starts us off. Reporter at u. S. Airports a security alert over what al qaeda is calling its hidden bomb. With tsa screeners under orders to ramp up the number of random searches both on passengers and on carry on luggage. The Security Order comes after al qaeda published this alarming online, stepbystep bomb recipe. The most detailed lethal instructions ever according to u. S. Bomb experts. It is detailed. It is instructional. It appears people are reading it and it is something we need to push back on very hard. Reporter u. S. Experts say the bomb would be more powerful than this the socalled underwear and shoe bombs which u. S. Authorities replicated and exploded. The instructions even include where to sit on a plane to maximize damage. But what most alarmed u. S. Security officials is that the device with no metal parts is specifically designed to get through Standard Airport detection and would only be detected by full body scanner machines, which are not present in many smaller airports. Through this large hoop hole the instructions read you can pass through Many American airports. This group is absolutely determined. They have shown that in the past to try to take out and attack on u. S. Bound plane. Reporter the u. S. Airport alert comes as authorities in france piece together the puzzle of the terrorist sleeper cell behind last weeks attacks. The three gunmen the girlfriend and her accomplice on the run and now the arrest of a new suspect in bulgaria and at least six other people still hunted. So far from decimated, al qaeda continues to pose a threat with its behind the scene help in the french attacks and new efforts to get supporters to build and smuggle a bomb on to american aircraft. Brian ross abc news new york. Overseas the french government is apparently redoubling efforts to bear down on the threat from isis militant. Frances lower house of par a limit overwhelmly voted to extend air strikes from 481. It comes as french investigators tracked down a potential suspect linked to the deadly attacks in paris them 28yearold French National had been arrested in bulgaria for allegedly kidnapping his 3yearold son trying to take him in to syria. The four jewish victims of last weeks attack at a paris kosher supermarket have been laid to rest. Israeli leaders mourners gathered for a sem in jerusalem. The coffins of the four jewish french citizens arrived on a predawn flight from france after a request from their families to bury them in israel. In france a message of defiance against terror is handed out in thousands of newsstands ain the country. The satire magazine Charlie Hebdo is releasing the first new issue. Abcs terry moran is in paris. Reporter Charlie Hebdo survivors going public to talk about their new issue and the message they want to send out to the whole world. The cartoonist that drew the cover image, his raw emotions pouring out here. He was minutes late to work last wednesday, heard the shots, found his colleagues and friends dead executed. So he drew on the familiar Charlie Hebdo banner all is forgiven. Under that the image of the Prophet Muhammad a tear on his cheek. Holding the sign you see everywhere here je suis charlie, i am charlie. Abc news is not showing the image of muhammad. I had the image, the idea of drawing muhammad and i looked at him and he was crying and i wrote above it all is forgiven and i started crying. Reporter Muslim Leaders urged calm among the faithful that might be offended by Charlie Hebdos new cover and around the world, leading muslim clerics were denouncing it as blasphemous. Abc news, paris. Despite the magazine publishing 3 million copies 50 times the usual circulation, good luck finding a copy here in the u. S. It is selling on ebay up to 500. Lawyers for the boston bombing suspect are asking that jury selection be delayed because of the attacks in paris. They cited the jury pool to be presencejudice by the events of last week. The judge so far rejected the requests. Jury selection is set to resume tomorrow. A bizarre story about the threat on the life of House Speaker john boehner. A man who served boehner drinks at an Ohio Country Club indicated he wanted to poison him. Abcs Pierre Thomas has the details. This is about a man who appears to be mentally ill who Police Feared was a danger to Speaker Boehner. It started with a phone call when the suspect, michael hoyt dialed 911 calling an ohio police department. He told police he was jesus christ and he was going to kill Speaker Boehner because boehner was mean to him at a country club in west chester, ohio. A bartender had been fired from the country club. He said he allegedly wanted to put something in Speaker Boehners drink, suggesting poison. He also said he had a loaded beretta pistol and was going to shoot boehner. He was taken for psychiatric evaluation and the fbi determined he was a serious threat. She facing a charge of threatening to murder the speaker of the house. Pierre thomas abc news, washington. The children of civil rights icon Martin Luther king jr. Are in a bitter legal fight over two of his most prized possessions. They are in an atlanta courtroom asking the judge to determine who owns his Nobel Peace Prize and bible. His sons want to sell the items and his daughter is against selling them. U. S. Womens soccer team goalie hope solo is free to focus on now that charges have been dismissed. A judge near seattle threw out the case. Solos attorneys argued her half sister and nephews were uncooperative. It started with an altercation at a party last june. A man in china is in trouble for trying to smuggle iphones in to china. He was arrested after rooif arriving with 94 devices under his clothes. Held in places mostly by plastic wrap. Iphones are more expensive in Mainland China than congress congress. They got suspicious twhan observed his weird walking posture. Always a give away. Speaking of apple the Company Patented a new design for a digital video camera. A remote controlled camera can be attached to a helmet or anywhere else. That could bad news for go pro. Shares plummeted 18 after words of this patent spread. Apple patents a lot of designs and a fraction of which are used in products. Pizza hut is the latest chain to jump on the gluten free bandwagon. Later this month customers can order a pizza made with dough supplied by a gluten free baking company. However critics will point out it is pretty much impossible for the pizzas to be truly gluten free because traces of gluten will be found on utensils prep tables and just about everywhere else. A lot of pizza chains are getting in to the gluten free trend. 2 Million People in america have celiacs disease. Want know get this for you. I thought we were going to pretend it didnt happen. This is a wireless ear piece and this is the third time in two days it has fallen out of my ear. This is how close we are. It is all nasty and waxy. You picked it up. Stick it back in my ear. Just here to help. What were you saying about that pizza. Oh lets move on. All right. To another big rollout at the auto show in detroit yesterday. We told you about new sports cars from acura and ford. This morning it is cadillac. The 2016 ctsv 640 horsepower. 200 miles an hour most powerful gm price ever. The current ctsv starts at 71 grand. So figure it will be somewhere around there. The gt we were talking about the and the acura nsx, 150 grand. This is a steal. Lets go with the cadillac. Coming up in the mix, we will talk more pizza, how to cut pizza a sneaky way to get an extra slice without anyone knowing you stole a slice. Falling gas prices impacting your budget and the entire economy. Does this mean gas guzzlers are making a comeback . You are watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by mucinex. Man sternly seriously . Where do you think youre going . Mr. Mucus to work, with you. Its taco tuesday. Man youre not coming. I took mucinex to help get rid of my mucusy congestion. Mr. Mucus oh, right then ill swing by in like 4 hours. Just set aside a few tacos for me. Man forget the tacos one pill lasts 12 hours. Im good all day. Mr. Mucus to himself wait your loss. I was going to wear a sombrero. 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I heard what i thought to be a strange sounding bird a little spec in the water. Reporter the speck turning out to be a 22yearold man. I noticed it was a young man, screaming help me as loud as he could. Somebody please help me. Passengers on a disney ship called magic spotted him. I instantly got on the phone and called zero. There was a call made mr. Mob starboard side. Man over board. That man had falln in the caribbean off another cruise ship sailing the same route earlier that morning. The crew took over at that point, brought the ship to a stop and circled around him and i started videoing. Reporter he rescue caught on camera by david who was watching from the deck of the magic. It was surreal. I never imagined in my lifetime i would see anything like that. Reporter these witnesses say people on board threw the man a life vest. The crew launched this lifeboat and raced to save him. Once i saw him start swimming i knew he was okay. It made me feel good as well to see in an emergency this is how quickly they responded. Reporter according to the eyewitnesses, the entire rescue taking only 30 to 45 minutes. They do these safety drills before we even leave port. We are sitting there, like lets get this over with. We are never going to need this information and to actually see it put to use was like wow, okay. They are on their game. Reporter disney the Parent Company of abc news did not issue a statement about its ships rescue. In a statement Royal Caribbean says we are grateful for the other ships assistance. It is not known exactly how the man went overboard or where he fell from but the top deck of the Royal Caribbeans oasis of the seas is 20 stories tall. A fall like that would be longer than a drop from the top of niagara a falls. The extent of the mans injuries unknown. According to eyewitness he was able to swim and do more. When they wheeled him off he was sitting up on the stretcher and waving to everybody and he was completely alert. Reporter for nightli im cecilia vega los angeles. Have you been on a cruise before . Yeah. Thats the fear i will fall over and be stuck out in the middle of nowhere. I never had that fear before. Really . No. A lot of people worry about sglit but you have taken a tumble not a tumble. You did this intentionally. For 20 20. Yes. I jumped over to test a system in miami and yeah. It is a new system that the industry wants placed on all cruise ships. It would alert people the alarm would say exactly where on the cruise ship. Let me have that back and have the sound up. Can you please sandy . Stay with us here. Three, two, one. [ screaming [ sglk there it is. You know what that is like four stories up. You would be screaming too, t. J. You said three in the commercial break and now it is four. It will be six by the time we get to the next hour. You survived. Were glad. You screamed when you fell off the rock climbing thing, right . Lets go. Hes upset. The producer is upset with us. Scotts upset. Come koming up how low can they go got to be happy about that but what ditz mean about the movement to drive cleaner and greener cars. In the next half hour social medias next step to saving lives. Facebook including amber alerts. What you need to know. You are watching world news now. If you are one of the nearly 200 million drivers on the road you are probably happy about the gas prices. In one town in texas, 1. 47. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there. The huge sign heralding 1. 47 gas is drawing a huge empty tank crowd to texas for one of the lowest if not the lowest anywhere. Good news for perry. His limo company uses two stretch hummers. You get like seven miles to the gallon. Filling one used to cost around 100 bucks. Now he can fill both for that. What is it like to look at a number that he . Good for the bank account. Thats for sure. Reporter good for a lot of bank accounts. The government estimates the average household will spend 750 less this year compared to last. But at the Detroit Auto Show more fuel efficient cars are taking a backseat to gas guzzlers. Fords ceo tells Rebecca Jarvis the ups and downs are a key challenge for automakers. Consumers are smart, they know gas prices are down but may go up and they want to make sure any vehicle they have even if it is a little bigger than they want great fuel economy. Reporter lower prices can mean layoffs for thousands of oil and gas workers. Of course that effects peoples spending money which affects our business that way too. The question is when prices like these will bottom out and the fact is we dont know. But it is now looking more likely that by the end of the month the entire country could see an average price below 2 a gallon. Clayton sandell, abc news tomball, texas. 45 states with gas under 2 a gallon. Good to hear. 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Give me the plate. Give me the plate. Take this one, too. You have a lot. And then here we go. Delicious. Nobody would know it is missing. No one will know a thing about a that asymmetrical pizza. No one i would notice it t. J. You can serve it at a fancy dinner party. What do you do when you have a laid back dinner party if this is a fancy one . Tell them to go for drinks down the street. The video is going viral because people apparently i think it is pretty. Would like to use the trick. You didnt rotate it and cut it the other way. This is the reena way of doing it. Im actually proud of this. You should be. This is one of my proudest world news now moments. Well get a top ten list. Can we get that together . Wheres katie . Can we get a top ten list of your proudest world news now moments. Still, people are loving that because it is a nice little trick. It is. One other thing here. After you eat the pizza i you may want to workout. Heres a workout. Look at this. These are dancers who do a fullon routine on the nordictrack. Lets listen to this. Thats pretty good. This is cool. Promotion for nordictrack. They are all on nordictrack treadmills but this is a video getting a lot of attention online. We will leave the mix there for now and we will work on this. How come you are not eating your 3 30 this morning on world news now, the plot to poison speaker of the house john boehner. The details emerging overnight and why police are taking no chances. 3yearold left in his mothers car for a moment gets taken for a ride by a car jacker. How the boy help ed to end the ordeal. Helping police, how facebook users can locate missing children. The power of social media and its users going to work. And woody allen doing something hes never done before. The major career move and why he says hes perplexed about it. Thats in the skinny on this wednesday, january 14th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good monday oh, my goodness. What day is it . It is wednesday. Its wednesday. If this paper is correct, its wednesday. Dont know what year it is sometimes. Oh my goodness gracious. It is wednesday. Im t. J. , i think. Thanks for spending some time with us on this wednesday. Goodness. A lot of crazy news on this wacky wednesday. This story had me scratching my head, what in the world is going on . He is talking about the alleged plot against the life of House Speaker john boehner. Police say the man behind this plot is apparently mentally ill, even believing himself to be jesus christ, but they were taking no chances and taking the threat seriously. Here now abcs josh haskell. Reporter a bartender that served john boehner at his country club is apparently trying to kill the speaker of the house. That bartender michael hoyt worked at the Wetherington Country Club in west chester, ohio, for five years. He was fired in october and indicted by a grand jury last week. The complaint says hoyt told a Police Officer he had been fired and didnt have enough time to put something in John Boehners drink and he said he thought the speaker of the house was responsible for ebola. Inside of his home, police found an automatic handgun and a rifle magazine. Hoyt threatened his wife in emails. The complaint says hoyt was treated for a psychotic episode two years ago. Boehner spokesperson released this statement on tuesday. Speaker boehner is aware of the situation and sincerely thanks the fbi, the Capitol Police and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. The fbi and u. S. Capitol Police Believe hoyt is a threat to boehner and he is held at a federal facility in massachusetts. Hoyt is undergoing a 45day mental evaluation and facing up to 30 years in prison. Josh haskell, abc news, new york. A new threat in america has airports on high alert. From coast to coast, the tsa is beefing up up security, stepping up random searches of passengers and carry on luggage after al qaeda posted a chilling stepbystep instruction guide for what it calls its hidden bombs. The instructions include where to sit on the plane to inflict maximum damage. It is detailed. It is instructional. It appears people are reading it and it is something we need to push back on very hard. Most alarming to u. S. Security officials is the device with no metal parts is specifically designed to get past Standard Airport metal detectors. Frances lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved extending air strike against isis in iraq by a vote of 481. It comes as french investigators track down a potential suspect linked to the deadly attacks in paris already behind bars now the 28yearold French National had been arrested in bulgaria for allegedly kidnapping his 3yearold son and trying to take him in to syria. Two families filed suit over the shooting at sandy hook elementary school. Claiming security at the school was lax. The suit has been filed on behalf of the states of noah pozner and another first grader killed that day in 2012. They are seeking unspecified damages. Adam lanza killed 20 students and six adults. A 3yearold utah boy is safe after a frightening car jacking. Police say a stranger drove away with the mothers car was while the child was still inside. Abcs brandi hitt has the details. Reporter it began with a mother dropping off her child at this day care in ogden, utah, leaving her car running with 3yearold aden alone in the backseat. Thats when police say a suspect got behind the wheel and took off. 2012 white mazda 3 stolen from the parking lot. There was a baby in the backseat. Reporter a terrifying carjacking underway. Adens mother realizing her cell phone was still inside. Officers hoping aden would pick up. The 3yearold child answered it. He is by himself in the car. Reporter the thief had ditched the vehicle after a few blocks. So police asked aden to start honking the horn. All units the vehicle out of ogden has been located. A similar case in colorado last year. This 4yearold boy left in a running van outside a Convenient Store also car jacked and taken on a wild highspeed chase. The young boy rescued unharmed just like little aden now back safe in his mothers arms. Oh, my gosh, it felt so good, knowing he was safe and knowing what he did. He was just brave. Reporter so brave the Ogden Police Department is making aden an honorary junior Police Officer. Brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. President obama says the u. S. Needs to up its game to guard against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. The president laid out his cybersecurity legislation now. It would increase government information sharing and protect businesses from lawsuits for revealing cyber threats. With the sony attacks that took place, with the twitter account that was hacked by islamist jihadist sympathizers yesterday, it just goes to show how much more work we need to do. Today the president will be focusing on new steps to increase access to highspeed broadband during his visit to iowa. Can you believe it is the official start of tax season. Its just days away. The irs has an alert for taxpayers. Abc news learned refund checks will take longer than usual to arrive and thats not the only bad news. Abcs Jonathan Karl has the details. Reporter coming soon from the irs, delayed tax refunds, more risk of Identity Theft and worse Customer Service. Thats the word from irs commissioner john koskinen. In an email to irs employees obtained by abc news the commissioner says the irs budget has been cut so severely we have no choice but though do less with less. Refund checks will be slowed by a week or more and that irs help line only about half of the people who call will actually get through. About the only people to benefit, tax cheats. The irs will conduct 46,000 fewer audits. Spending less on the irs budget will cost the government money because there will be fewer audits, fewer officers going after tax cheats and as a result 2 billion less in revenue coming in to the treasury. Jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. Folks in eastern connecticut are wondering when the next earthquake will be felt. Residents in the town of plainfield are pointing out cracks in the streets and inside of their homes after six small earthquakes in the last two days, the largest 3. 3 on monday morning. A New Hampshire timehonored tradition is playing thought out this week. It is harvest time for ice. For more than a century blocks of ice have been carved from the frozen waters of the lake there for use in the ice boxes of the deep haven camps. Back in the 60s they tried to replace the ice boxes with electric refrigerators but in new england, as you can see here, traditions die hard. Families who have been summer ing there for generations said no to the fridges and are still using the ice boxes. Kind of cool. Thats old school. I appreciate that. What is New Hampshire, die free live cold live cold and die free. I dont know that one but it could be right. Live cold. What are we talking about here . Its like the saying for New Hampshire. The state motto. It is like im blanking. It is too early in the morning. It is live free or die. Live freezing or die. Live freezing. Free or die. Oh, my goodness. I said it is monday. I cant give you a hard time. Lets look at today, which is wednesdays forecast. Coldest air hitting this northeast. Freezing rain in the midatlantic. Chilly but not dangerously cold in the midwest. Mountain snow tapering in to mexico and arizona and mild in california. 71 los angeles. 40s dallas and atlanta. 30s in new york. Salt lake city and kansas city teens and 20s from minneapolis to boston. Well, a little more weather. Last time it was hot in brazil. It was because of how the countrys soccer team played in the world cup. Now it is just really hot. Summer in rio. Zookeepers are giving animals frozen treats. Temperatures there yesterday were over 100 degrees. One tiger was given frozen meat. He tried to eat it pool side but that didnt go well. He finished in the water. The monkeys got sugarfree ice cream, like we will be doing in august, they dreamt of cooler temperatures. Sugar free, why sugar free for the monkeys . Because they are like toddlers, too rambunctious. You have to limit the sugar intake. Good point. The skinny coming your way in a bit. Taylor swift is back in the skinny. These been out this the skinny for a while. You will see how the superstar surprised a fan who need some help. And later the dog that takes mass transit without anyone leading the way. We are going along for the ride. You are watching world news now. Going along for the ride. You are watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by lysol. World news now weather brought to you by lysol. Your clever moves wont stop the flu. But practicing Healthy Habits with lysol can. The cdc recommends washing your hands often and disinfecting surfaces. This season use lysol to kill 99. 9 of germs and help keep your family healthy. Janet . Cough if you can hear me. Dont even think about it. I took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. Yeah. But what about mike . cough it works on his cough too. Mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs for 12 hours. Lets end this. Each year, more than 800,000 children are reported missing according to the National Center for missing and exploited children. Theres a new tool in the fight to find them thats at your fingertips. Marci gonzalez explains. Reporter a new initiative by facebook aimed at saving lives them social Network Partnering with the National Center for missing and exploited to send amber alerts to users in an area where a child is gone missing. When they receive amber alerts, this is rare and they are in a position to help. Reporter as soon as it is issued users will see a post on their news feed like this one in the real life case of myra lewis that disappeared last year. It will include a picture and where they were last seen and what they were wearing. John walsh, whose 6yearold son was abducted and murdered in 1981 believes the new notification system will make a big difference. That childs face, which you dont see on the highway sign, which you dont see on the radio that puts Important Information on someones cell phone or laptop immediately. Reporter the lifechanging impact of that is something 11 year old catelyns loved ones know firsthand. Investigators in South Carolina say the girls father abducted her and brought her to this motel last march. The owner saw an amber alert on facebook and called police. Since amber alert started in 1996, 700 children have been found. And with this new ability to reach many more people, that number is expected to climb. Marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. Amber alerts you see them on the highways, television. It started in 1996 and its helped 728 children. What a better way to do it. Everybody is connected and should get the alert. Remember, the milk cartons. I do. Think of the transition. I do. Think of the transition. . I do. Think of the transition. Makes total sense, right . Coming up, woody allen creating his first Comedy Series on the internet. He doesnt even own a computer. Also, the controversial comments involving race and showering. This one has us scratching our heads. This is in the skinny next. Announcer world news now continues after this from our abc stations. Tt2wut ount6 bt q4ge tt2wut ount6 a q k8 tt2wut ount6 bm q 4 tt4wut ount6 dztq v7p tt4wut ount6 entq 30 tt4wut ount6 gzt . 4h tt4wut ount6 hnt tt4wut ount6 iztq ese tt4wut ount6 jntq w < tt4wut ount6 lzt on skinny so skinny all right. Leading off the skinny, big news for Amazon Studios on the heels of their big night at the Golden Globes. Yep, they signed on revered and controversial filmmaker woody allen to write and direct his first Comedy Series. Amazon elevated its status this weekend with transparent pulling in apparent Golden Globes but what woody allen will bring to the table sun clear. His body of work is praised but his personal life has been the subject of much scrutiny including decades old allegations of Sexual Assault that have resurfaced. Woody allen said to the statement, i dont know how i got in to this. I have no ideas. I have no ideas. Sure amazon feels good about that. Oh, man. He is a big name and makes interesting films. This internet thing isnt going away. This internet thing. Good to get ahead of it. Relatively speaking it has been ages since taylor swift has been in the skinny, maybe a whole week. Thats a big deal around here. It is. The pop star is continuing her gift giving in to the new year, this time helping out a fan by writing her name on a big fat check. Swift sent this young lady by the name of rebecca, you see her there, she sent her a check in the amount of 1,989. The check was to help her pay off her student loans. She certainly appreciated it. How did they get the video . How was this set up . Right . Taylor keep up the good work. Im sure the young lady appreciated it. Turn to the ladies of the view. Words fly on that show, but one of the guest hosts had everyone talking. Glee actress naya rivera was on the show and the topic of conversation that is driving the most controversy was showering. I have a theory about showering. Which is . Which is i think that white people shower a lot more than ethnic. Really . Like showering more than once a day or every day is a white people thing. I am married to a white man and he showers a lot, a lot. Like two or three times a day. Im like what are you doing . Washing the goop off. 28yearold lady offered some sort of explanation saying her mom is half black or half puerto rican and showers every day. This was offensive to a lot of people. Yeah. A lot of people talking about this and scratching their heads. Its one thing if you dont shower, knock yourself out but to say that is Something White people do, now white people have cornered the market on showering. Yeah. People say they are scratching their heads, i say try head and shoulders. Oh. Rivera responded on twitter. When you get out of the shower today, get a sense of humor. Love ya. She will be back on the view cohosting today. It was supposed to be funny. Funny. It did rub people the wrong way. Hilarious. Got exciting news about a couple of big stars. First up congratulations to one of our usher irsh thats how we say it in atlanta. Is that true . Yeah. He goes by irsh. We got word he got engaged to his manager grace miguel. In an issue of billboard magazine last year, he said his fiance helped him through the hardest times in his life and career. Double dose of congratulations to zooey deschanel, who is pregnant with her first child. She and her boyfriend jacob. They are expecting the child this summer. She is a 34yearold and she has a pal in pregnancy, her sister emily whos also an actress. Congrats, everybody. Lets get to the birthdays, shall we . A happy birthday to academyaward winning actress faye dunaway. She is turning 74. Also apollo creed 67 years old. Hip hop icon turned actor ll cool j turns 47. And dave grohl of the foo fighter and nirvana turns 46 today. Happy birthday, everybody. And coming up rolling with my dog. Say what now . Rolling with my dog. Rolling Rolling Rolling this dog actually rides the bus, no owner needed. At the edge of your seat and be ready to get up. Theres no deep couch sitting. Definitely not good for my back. This is the part i really dont like right here. doorbell whats that . A package its a swiffer wetjet. It almost feels like its moving itself. This is kind of fun. That comes from my floor . Eww this is deep couch sitting. [jerry bell iii] deep couch sitting Important Message for residents age 50 to 85. Write down this number now. Right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance Life Insurance with a rate lock through the Colonial Penn program. If you are on a fixed income learn about affordable whole Life Insurance that guarantees your rate can never increase for any reason. If you did not receive your information call this number now. Your acceptance is guaranteed, with no Health Questions. Stand by to learn more. 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For elephants and the artist had a complaint launched in his honor pushing for an oscar. In downtown seattle a 2yearold lab mix named eclipse has eclipsed them all. No special effects just a dog that rides the city bus all by herself. Just sits like a person does. Reporter we spent the day bouncing along downtown seattle with eclipse. Full disclosure, i had no idea what stop to get off at and had to follow the dog. When she is not pawing strangers and making friends hes looking out the window and no joke she knows exactly when it is time for her to get off. Shes looking out the window and no joke she knows exactly when it is time for her to get off. So where does a bus riding dog go . The dog park, of course. At the park we met her human jeff young who says he generally rides with eclipse but on nearly a dozen occasions, he says shes done it totally on her own. Just the bus to the dog park and back. Keeps it simple. Reporter shes a dog. Yes. But she rode it with me so many times. Its engrained. Reporter there arent many that can get away with licking the seat in front of them and be the most popular passenger on board. Of course Public Transportation can be grueling. Eclipse is the one passenger no one complains about when she nods off on top of you. Im Neal Karlinsky on the d line bus in seattle. The d lines but, huh. I cant figure out the buses and trains, a, b, c, one, two, three, i dont know. If i cant walk there i dont go. Really . You dont go far. I dont go very far. Look at the dog. He is clearly loved by the riders. Im sorry. It is a she, not a he. I did not mean to offend the dog on world news now. The dog is sleeping right now it has to get up early to catch the bus. Coming up more news from abc. Announcer this is abcs world news now informing insomniacs for two decades. Making news in america this morning, poison plot. John boehners bartender planning on an assassination on the House Speaker with a spiked drink. Live with the details. Homemade and hard to detect. The new terror warning for american airports after al qaeda releases details about invisible bombs. Teenage hero. A young man being hailed a hero for saving the Police Officer who just arrested him. And caught on camera. Hippo on the hunt. Chasing a group of boaters in a video going viral this morning. Good wednesday morning. We begin with that poison plot targeting House Speaker john boehner. Investigators say a former bartender who often