Skinny, it is wednesday, january 27th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We do say good morning to you. Im kendis gibson. And im reena ninan. Were going to begin with breaking news out of oregon where one person has been killed in a shootout between the fbi and members of the armed Group Holding a federal wildlife refuge. Were getting word that the victim has been identified as Robert Lavoie fin couple who had been acting as a Spokes Person for this group. Eight people have been arrested including the leader amman bundy. The takedown did not happenn at the wild reiff refuge where militia members where is holed up for weeks armed. Instead, Oregon State Police and federal agents moved in as group leader amman bundy and his followers were on the move apparently driving to a meeting with locals. On oregons highway 395, pulling over the vehicle bundy was riding in. Law enforcement sources are telling abc news a person who died opened fire first and then was killed in the return of buts. Bundy and multiple other people who were with him were arrested. The arrrrts alsoso took place elsewhere. Immediately local hospital was put on lockdown as a follower injured in the shootout got treatment there. Alex stone, abc news. Donald trump will not take part in the debate tomorrow on foxt o fox news. Trump was demanding fox remove news anchor megyn kelly as one of the moderators. Fox refused so trump says im out. Hes been highly critical of kelly since a debate in august when she asked him about the disparaging words he used to describe women he didnt like. Megyn kellys reaeay biased against me. She knows that. I know that, Everybody Knows that. Do you really think she can be fair at a debate . Fair question and we agreed to disagree. Trumps current rival in iowa, ted cruz is firing back at him for skipping the debate and challenging him to a oneonone debate on their own ahead of the caucuses. Tom llamas the latest from the campaign trail. Reporter senator ted cruz with a warning to his supporters. A a ediction about donalaltrump. If f nald wins iowa. He right now has a s sstantial lead in New Hampshire. If he went on to win New Hampshire as well, there is a very good chance he could be unstoppable and be our nominee. Reporter cruz and the super pac supporting him now unloading a barrage of 11th hour attack ads on the billionaire, using trumps own words to trash his new york values. I lived in new york city and manhattan all my life. My views are different than what if i lived in iowa. What does trump think of iowa . How stupid are the people of iowa. Donald trump, new york values, not ours. Show his values actually do line up with iowa evangelicals. I hear this is a major theme right here. 2 corinthians. 2 corinthians. 3 17, that is the whole ball game. Reporter but a boost. Trump scoring the endorsement of Jerry Falwell junior, the son of the late tv evangelist and the president of liberty university. Im very comfortable when it comes down to it, were going to have a lot of those people make us their first choice. Chris christie snapping at a young woman asking why he wasnt in new jersey managing storm clean up. I have family sending me pictures all over the state. All over the state . Really . Theres been one county thats flooded. I dont know where from all over the state since we have 21 counties where thats happened. Second, i dont know exactly what you expect me to do. You want me to go down there christie now saying he was only joking. What will trump do on thursday . He tells us hes going to host an event to raise money for veterans and wonders how many people will watch the debate if hes not there. Tom llamas, marshalltown, iowa. Im curious to see how many people will be watching. Hillary clinton is just barely edging out Bernie Sanders in iowa. Sanders seems shocked by the huge crowd in st. Paul last night. So many people turned out, nearly 5,000 people were moved to an overflow room for the most part, stayed on script calling for a political revolution. Hillary clinton has been on the stump in iowa, as well, stepping up her criticism of sanders. Essentially calling him unelectable and at a town hall meeting clinton was asked if she would it be open to nominating president obama to the supreme court. She laughed saying that question was a first for her but said its a great idea. Following the death of a veteran principal. Susan jordan was struck and killed when a bus jumped the curb in front of her elementary school. Two 10yearold students were hurt but expected to survive. Jordan had been principal of the school for 22 years. Lets move on now to the big digout after the blizzard of 2016. The federal government by the way in washington set to reopen today and so are schools there and in philadelphia but not in baltimore. Slowly but surely life is returning to normal in the eastern u. S. We get more from abcs david kerley. Reporter take a look. A front end loader in queens needed to pull a sanitation truck out of the thick snow. Part of the reason this recovery is so slow. Residential streets fretz newark to baltimore and south remain a problem. For a third day outside of richmond, beverly wood is stuck. Her street has not seen a plow. I cant get to work because i cant get out. Reporter in virginia, one in responsible for still have not as they can. Reporter fire crews in baltimore had to work through an unplowed street to get to a rowhouse fire. This is what stranded residents up and down the east coast hope for. Maybe not a perfectly plowed road but at least a pathway out of the neighborhood. Its not just plowing but removing snow. How much . Look at this shot of Yankee Stadium from an nypd police chopper. New york city crews could have filled it 66 times. Very, very happy. We waited 48 hours for this to get done. Reporter some of these crews can finally getting to that mans home in queens. Hes one in the lucky ones. Here in arlington, virginia, they are still waiting for this street to be plowed more than three days after the storm. Good news about the housing market. Home prices have risen 5. 8 in november thanks to low mortgage rates, a shortage of hopesn the market and solid hiring growth. Prices rose fastest in portland, oregon, San Francisco and denver. And portland is one of the hottest markets in the country right now with prices at an alltime high. I guess if youre a buyer, this isnt good news. I guess not. Up and down day for weight watch areas literally. Shares of the Weight Loss Company jumped 1 on the heels from a new ad revealing Oprah Winfrey has lost 26 pounds claiming she its bread every day on the plan. The struggling company also saw shares increase when the talk show queen joined the company last october and buying 10 of its stock. Were talking about this in the hair and makeup room yesterday when you werent around. Girl talk. I dont need to hear. And we were saying we know a lot of women who in the past couple months joined Weight Watchers and seen tremendous results. Because of that. It teaches them how to eat in a way theres such a gym craze but people forget eating is a huge parts of it, too. I think thats a starvation diet. They were saying theyre eating pretty well. Motor scooters are a popular way to get around southeast asia. Definitely for humans. Were not the only ones. Check this out. A man in thailand rolling with his best friend the pup carrying umbrella in its mouth ready to guard his human companion against a sudden rainstorm. Despite riding with no apparent safety harness or helmet for the dog, but cluck it up to the internet gods blessing us with this story this morning. I dont think this is a blessing. I look at that dog and think if they were to get into an accident, he doesnt have a seat belt, he doesnt have a helmet. I this i hes just heading to the restaurant and that dog is no longer with us. Oh. I dont know. Kendis. All right. Coming up in the skinny, the growing controversy over whether the earth is really flat spilz this is really a serious story. The rapper who is now taking on a celebrity astro physicist. And a new warning will the zika vius. The rise in the number of cases here in the u. S. Youre watching world news now. World news now weather, brought to you by zoo lilly. Com. Abab seriously . Where do you think youre going . To work, with you. 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The 1 brand used by septic coffee and tea and the java and me a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup that was the number one song from 2014. Good news for coffee and tea lovers. Caffeine consumption is not linked to extra heart beats. Previous smaller studies said there was a link. So the Heart Association has been recommending patients with a problem should avoid anything with caffeine in it. The group still isnt convinced and wants more research. An Influential Health panel says all adults should be screened for depression but especially pregnant women and those who have just given birth. One inn eight such women and possibly as much as one in five develop Mental Health issues. The panel says the screening is especially important because untreated depression may also harm the child. President obama is calling for speeding up research to diagnose and prevent and treat the zika virus. Yesterday he met with Top Public Health and Security Officials in the situation room. Right now there are 1 cases in states. The latest person infected had traveled overseas and excuse latest person came back infected. Now United AirlinesCarnival Cruise lines offering pregnant women refunds,credits, exchanges on ticks to places where it is found. More now from abcs linsey davis. Growing concerns about the spread of the zika virus. Many pregnant women are rushing to doctors to get checked. Ey are getting cranial ultra sounds and eye exams if their mothers were possibly infectct. We are gegeing calls every day. Unfortunately. Any patients with symptoms we are having them tested. The fear is a possible link between the virus and birth defects like microcephaly in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and linked to paralysis in adults. Theres already a travel advisory in effect for pregnant women to avoid these 24s areas where the disease has been detect detected. And el salvador, they are asking in brazil, the host country for this summers olympics, the Health Minister says the country is sending some 220,000 troops to battle the mosquito blamed 18 cases reported in seven states among travelers returning to the u. S. Out her doctor found nothing to worry about. Linsey davis, abc news, new york. We have another medical note about the health of your pets. Highly contagious train of dog flu is spreading across the u. S. The canine influenza has sickened thousands of doings across 25 states. Most dogs recover within two to three weeks. If your dog has a persistent cough, sneezing, nose discharge or lack of appetite or energy, experts recommend taking him or her to a vet immediately. Many of the vets are saying this morning, make sure that your dogs and your pets when we come back, the big announcement from kanye west. And j. Lo showing a little bit too much of her behind in the skinny. No such thing. Its impossible. Announcer world news now continues after this from our abc stations. I believe, i believe believe were still worth the fight youll see theres hope for this world tonight yeah rock guitar skinny, so skinny time now for the skinny morning, the big announcement from kanan west. According to ticketmaster the rapper is set to launch the d premiere of his seventh album. In its entirety on february th in new Yorks Madison Square garden. It isd ways, and west is referring to it as the best album of all time, not his best album, the best. The event by the way is dubbed yeezy season 3 and its set to coincide with new York Fashion Week and presumably the debut of some of his new couture offerings, as well. Next to a growing scientificc controversy spipiing over i io the world of hiphop. Really serious. It started out as a twitter spat between rapper bob and astro physicist Neil Degrass Tyson over flat earth theory. The rapper tweeting out pointing out questions about the lack of proof that the earth is round. But tyson was less on facts and more on ridicule. Why is nasa part of the dedertment of defense t ty divided up the seas into 33 degrees be careful what you read flat line oh. But not to be outdone tyson released his own rap response. Im not sure what it was that really made you think that you could disrespect a tyson and your ship wont sink i mean whoa cant fool the people they know whats up im in the Hayden Planetarium getting shoulder rubs i think its very clear that bobby didnt read enough and believing all this Conspiracy Theory stuff pretty good. His nephew did that. B. O. B. Isnt the first celebrity to question the paradigm joining tila tequila. It really is a serious issue. So from that debate to something that is definitely round. Where are we going here . J. Los booty. Las vegas concert residency and shes making headlines. 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Go up on deck and have a look. Reporter bececse Movie Technology can now make this look real. Its a real story. May day, may day. Two gigant oil tankers at the same time and this huge storm. Every fellow here wants to live. The only way that happens is if we run her aground. Reporter affleck plays an engineer on board the stricken s. S. Pendleton and chris pine boson of the tiny coast guard cutter sent to residue them against apparently insurmountable odds. Youve got about five seconds, boys. Some guys, i wont mention who, chris pine, guys like that, they wore wet suits and dry suits and complained all the time. I never did any of that. Affleck is baby brother to ben. Who is that . That is bruce wayne. When i said i didnt want to do batman, there was a little bit of tension, you know, but im glad that he got the job after all. If they c ct get casey, they take n. Repororr casey is bffes with Joaquin Phoenix. They met on to die for. Now case i is married to his matt at the time was up you for the Joa