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WJLA World News Now April 5, 2016

The battle of the brothers comes to an epic conclusion on this tuesday, april 5th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. That was a good line. Super nova, villanova, i like that. They lived up to it. Wow, the final seconds. Four seconds left on the clock. Theyre calling it probably one of the best nba moments in history. Thats a pretty big,n caa. It absolutely was. It lived up to the hype. Take a look at the celebrations. This is outside the pavilion there in philadelphia near bryn mar. A lot of people just out there. Thousands celebrating. Into the wie morning hours. I love my cinderella stories. Theyre great teams. Dont get me wrong. But unc was really ahead. Dipped down a little bit. I always like it when the underdog kind of wins. The fourth seed coming there and winning, first time in some 30 years. Some full coverage of it. Almost as exciting at womens basketball. Thats tonight. Thats tonight. That will be fun. Almost as exciting. Well, okay. Thank you. But yeah, of course were going to get to the other big competition taking place tonight. Also tonight. Critical contest in the race for the white house with the frontrunners on both sides facing an uphill bat. They sure are. Hillary clinton locked in a tight matchup with Bernie Sanders in wisconsin. Theyre both looking ahead to the next big state, agreeing to debate in brooklyn next week before the new york primary. Donald trump hoping to bounce back from a difficult week enlisting his wife to deliver a rare scripted speech on his behalf. Its your voice, your vote. We get the latest from abcs megan hughs. Reporter donald trump didnt sound like his usual confident self on the stump monday in wisconsin. If i think area going to have the delegates but who knows. Who knows. Reporter polls show the republican front run ser to lose the badger state to senator ted cruz. Already sounding like the victor. Donald trumps angry screaming cursing yelling attacks, people are tuning it out. Reporter trump floundering in recent days after his Campaign Manager was charged with battery of a female reporter and after trumps incoherent answers on abortion. Melania, come. Reporter on election eve trump called on his wife melania hoping to close his gaping gender gap with women. No matter who you are, a man or a woman, he treats everyone equal. Reporter a cruz win in wisconsin will make a contested Gop Convention far more likely. I dont want to get Hillary Clinton more nervous than she already is. Reporter even though Hillary Clinton has what she now calls a nearly insurmountable lead nationally, Bernie Sanders is pressing her hard in wisconsin and in her home state of new york. Im absolutely confident i will be the nominee. Reporter even with a wisconsin win to beat clinton, sanders would need nearly 3 4 of the remaining delegates. The latest wisconsin polls so Bernie Sanders with a slight edge. Its within the margin of error so its a virtual tie. Reena, kendis. Thanks to megan there. The other major story were following this morning is the crash of a sight seeing helicopter in tennessee, all five people on board were killed when the chopper went down near the Great Smoky Mountains park. Abcs diane macedo is joining us now from the newsroom. Good morning to you. The faa is launching an investigation into what made this helicopter go down. Time lapse videos shows the moment of impact. You can see clear blue skies, then suddenly thick black smoke emerging from the trees. He investigators found no sign of life. Theres not much life. The helicopters pretty well consumed in the fire. Reporter the victims were on a sight seeing tour, an activity tuft popular are tourists. This isnt the first time its ended badly. In field. Six years before that, another into a nearby mountain leaving the pilot with critical injuries. A aviation expert is warning people to be careful as their safrt record isnt great. A number of things can go wrong. Well have to wait to see what the faa say about what it go wrong in this case. Thank you. Were going to get another update in our next half hour. New details this morning from the investigation into sundays deadly train accident south of philadelphia. Officials say the train was going 106 Miles Per Hour when it you can have a backhoe that was on the same track. The speed limit in the area is 110 miles an hour. The trains engineer applied the emergency brake five seconds before the backhoe was struck killing two workers. Today, investigators will be interviewing work crew members who witnessed the accident. From the great lakes to the northeast, it looks and feels as if winter is back. Not only are the temperatures know and siice. More now from abcs rob marciano. Reporter spring storms giving millions another taste of winter. Heavy snow wreaking havoc in upstate new york. A bus carrying three dozen College Students flipping upside down north of albany luckily, no lifethreatening injuries. But south of rochester, one person killed and 13 taken to the hospital in this wreck. In this accident. My heart is broken. I dont know who they are. Im its just sad. Reporter investigators trying to determine if the van driver was distracted. This blast, the second in two days. A massive pileup on i88 sunday amid whiteout conditions. No fatalities here, but south of boston, two people inside this bmw killed after a rotted tree cracked in the wind. Brian easton watched it all happen. I ran out to the car and i screamed a couple times, are you okay . Are you ok reporter wind gusts over 60 miles an hour in spots. More than 100,000 losing power. Even hardy new englanders have had enough. I dont want any more of ats where im at right now, nestly. Reporter and Mother Nature messing up baseballs opening day. Home openers in cleveland and new york, postponed. Behind this cold air even out of the snow zone, brutal windchills and here in the snow zone, some of these slushy roads will be slick. Rob marciano, abc news, framingham, massachusetts. Californians are you the canning back on water use coming close to meeting goals set by the state. Residents used nearly 24 less water between last you know and past february compared to the same months. 2013. Governor jerry brown ordered a 25 reduction. This was met in part by watering yards less and taking shorter showers. The state is now in the fifth year of drought despite heavy rain and snow from el nino. In southern california, two homes destroyed by a fire that quickly spread from a recycling home. One additional home and attached garages were partially damages. Smoke filled the air as crews battled the blaze. A rescue from a burning apartment in chattanooga caught on a Police Officers body cam. Now, police were at the apartment complex on another call when a resident reported smoke inside an apartment. They found a burning pot on stove and a man lying unconscious on a couch who had fallen asleep while cooking. One of the officers pulled that man to safety. Another milestone stemming from the worst oil disaster in u. S. History six years after the bp oil spill. A judge granted final approval for 20 billion settlement. The money will be paid to the u. S. Five states and local governments. But environmental groups are angry that much of it will be tax deductible for bp. The company had already reached a similar settlement with businesses and residents. The offshore explosion killed 11 workers and caused 134 in illon gallons of oil to spill into the gulf of mexico. Parts are of th oil pipeline shut down. There may be a leak in south dakota. A farmer reported finding oil on the ground. Crews are digging down to the pipeline to find the source that have oil. Residents wonder why the hitech detection systems didnt report the problem. That part of the pipeline will remain shutdown for the rest of the week. All right. As we mentioned at the start of the show, villanova is the new champion of mens college basketball. The wildcats were facing North Carolina last night in houston and fell behind trailing by five at halftime. But in the second half, villanova got hot. Building a lead over their own. The tar heels clawed back into down into the stretch. Marcus tied the game at 74. On an incredible threepoint shot less than five seconds to play. On the final possession of the play, Chris Jenkins nailed the championship winning threepointer as time expired. That was a big shot. Thats one ill remember forever, with this group of guys, this team, ill remember it forever. We should remind you its villanovas Second National title. The first in 1985. Thousands of studentsed inned flooded into the quads on the campus near philadelphia. Some lighting small fires. At one line a line of mounted police came through in an attempt to disperse the crowd. Whats up with the bonfires after big wins. They were excited. Everything was calm for the most part. They need to burn the place down . Why cant you hold your iphone up . The funny thing is in philadelphia, they expected the students to climb the pole. So yesterday crews spent the day greasing the light poles. Youre kidding. Is that true. True story. Thats a good detail. Our powerhouse station was reporting that. Still some students made it up to the poles there. The villanova fans do have plenty to sbras as does anyone who picked the wildcats in bracket poll. One girl in indiana picked nova. 17yearold rebecca gentry picked all but three tournament games correctly. She had middle tennessee over michigan state. Wow. And she hispaniced steven f. Austin over west virginia. Who picked them for anything. A woman. I just would like to remind all the men watching it was a woman. Gentry says shes not a sports fan and only filled out her brackets as part of a class project. She also says shes unlikely to fill out a bracket for next years tournament. Miss gentry, come on down. Youre the next host of sports with reena. There she is dancing all the way to the bank. Jack, who won . Congratulations to george in the back. George. He had villanova. We should have had a live cam on george. How much did he win . He didnt win because he cant bet. But george, congratulations. You win our gets his money. I hope all of you foreclosed up into the pool. Theres no pool. I dont know what youre talking about. Coming up later in the mix, a look at how the most famous tar heel is reacting to the games outcome. Are you really not allowed to do a pool. Im going back to being a fan. Police on a high speed chase, the dangerous highway maneuvers and how it finally ended. And drug prices on rise. The new numbers this morning and why the most popular prescriptions keep going up. Im rooting for sunni oswego next year. Follow us on instagram, abcwnn for our behind the scenes pics. Youre watching world news now. Hey spray n wash is back. Ws . And even better. Its powerful formula removes everyday stains the first time. Which is bad news for stains, and good news for you. Spray n wash. Back n better. Now. Impact video, a teenager faces serious charges after leading police in oregon on a high speed chase. The end of that chase captured on this video as the stolen ford skids across the interstate before heading into the opposite direction. The 15yearold behind the wheel was finally arrested when he put his hand in the air and got out of the truck. Well, questions of financial propriety are being raised here at home over the soaring costs of americas most popular prescription drugs that treat art right, cholesterol and asthma. New Analysis Finds Major Drug Companies have more than doubled the price of f nations top ten drugs. Reporter new data suggests martin cell little the bad boy of pharmaceuticals who boosted the cost of a drug by 5,000 isnt the only pharmaceutical executive now accuses after hiking prices. What do you say to your critics to people who say youre just being greedy. I think they have a fundamental misunderstanding of the way pharmaceutical companies operate. Reporter four of the nations top ten drugs have increased more than 100 since 2011 based on a new reuters analysis. The price hikes show up across a variety of commonly used medicines, even nexium is up 54 . Why . In. The united states, there is nothing to stop a drug company from picking any price they want. Reporter when reuters shared its findings with the eight companies that sell the top ten drugs, some of the companies explained they set prices to recoup investments in failed drugs, support new research and pay for clinical trials. Many of those defended their costs saying their medications help prevent much costlier hospitaldations. Linsey davis, abc news, new york. Thats interesting. Coming up in our next half hour, an the hot button issue of cyberbull ying. What some kids are telling us they havent been telling their parents what happens on their cell phones. Coming up, a reality check for the grandparents. Why choosing where you spend your golden years can make or break your plans for retirement. Youre watching world news now. Announcer wor okay. So while millions of americans cram to finish those income tax returns, many others are looking at more longterm deadline. Retireme. Climate and beautiful scenery to consider when it comes to choosing where you spend your golden years. Abcs Rebecca Jarvis explains. Reporter debbie and john moore of arlington, texas, soon to be empty nesters hope to sell their home and move to Greener Pastures for retirement. Our daughter is starting college in the fall. So always thought about going someplace close to the mountains. Reporter many couples, deciding when and where to move can be a challenge. We think its really important people focus on their own priorities. Is this new Community Going to offer me the things i want. Reporter experts say you need to consider many factors when choosing where to spend your golden years. Most important, cost of living. Since your income will decrease, you want a city thats affordable. Look for places where the economy is growing and the Unemployment Rate is low. In case you want to pick up a parttime job on the side. Access to Quality Health care facilities, and finally, a place activities including golf courses or lakes for fishing. People are going to be healthier if theyre involved in activities. Reporter according to Forbes Annual list of best places to retire, theres a few cities they say fit the bill. Abilene, texas, where the cost of lynning is 17 below the National Average and average home prices are 142,000. Cape coral, florida with its its warm weather and good cost of living and great falls, months month for its Strong Economy and easy access to doctors. Do your research and be very clear whats most important to you. For me its balance. Balance with leisure. Reporter Rebecca Jarvis, abc news, new york. Get saving. Yeah. Still looking at those tips. Thats interesting. Yeah. Learned anything . Id like to retire at 50. How do i make that happen. I hope thats rebeccas next years for that. Yeah. Sure. Something like that. Coming up sic group surprise oh my goodness happy birthday oh, you. laughing this was a wonderful surprise. You know, at our age, not all surprises can be this good. Youre not kidding. female 1 remember peggys surprise last month when frank died . So sudden; all the funeral expenses. They were not prepared. 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Were going to start this mix with the ncaa tournament. You remember years ago when Michael Jordan was put into the Basketball Hall of fame. There was a photo of him crying. I remember this one. It has taken on a life of its own. Of course, he went to the university of North Carolina who got beaten last night by villanova. The internet took on that meme of that photo of Michael Jordan there sitting in the stands there be all weeping. Heres another one. Take a look. Do you remember the young girl with the flute from last year crying over the loss . Yeah. Now it all came together. Now Michael Jordan during the game, he was on his phone. This is what he was looking at, at himself it was a thriller. No. But in all the wrong way. Oh. Look at that jheri curl. Look at that. Coming to America Jerry curl curl right there. A guy cant cry without being turned into a meme . No, its not socially acceptable. Its okay, jordan. You want to cry, you can cry anytime. We want to get next to a canadian couple who have an interesting way of presenting the sex of their new baby theyre expecting. Take a look at this. Three, two, one. Theyre pink its a girl. Nope, they didnt have balloons or put a photo on facebook. They did it through fire works. If it was blue, it would have been, if the they were blue, it would have been a boy. Pink is for the girl. Yes, exactly. Kind of cool. To family and friends. Going to the deny kistist is frightening for many kids. A Dental Clinic in illinois have a beautiful golden retriever. This little therapy dog there, and the 6yearold golden retriever serves as sort of like a comfort dog for many kids as they go through

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