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we asked abc's paula faris to look for ways to help cut costs for your family, and she came back with thousands and thousands of dollars tonight in "real money." >> reporter: tyler kozimor got into his dream school -- ithaca college in upstate new york. he's taken the tours, applied, and has his heart set. >> it's just the perfect fit for me. >> reporter: tyler wants to study broadcasting at ithaca's famous communications school, and wrestle. but the family is wrestling with the price of tuition -- more than $50,000 a year. tyler was initially offered about $21,000 in financial aid. but for the kozimors, who own this small auto repair shop, unless they can get additional assistance, he can't go to the school of his dreams. how tough would that be? >> real tough. heartbreaking. >> reporter: but there's a silver lining. enter our college tuition expert, kal chaney. he says families miss out on millions every year just because they don't know how to navigate the system. kal says, think of colleges as businesses. you have more leverage than you think you do, but you have to ask for it. >>

abc's paula faris. >> reporter: thousands of happy, young faces from today's easter egg roll, except one. as the president is high-fiving children -- >> good job, guys. >> reporter: he notices little 5-year-old donovan frazier, sitting down, in tears. >> what's wrong? >> reporter: the president bends down, picked up little donovan for a first hug. offers him an easter egg. then, listen closely, as he encourages the little boy from scranton, pennsylvania to "shake it off." >> shake it off, shake it off. there you go. that's what i'm talking about. >> reporter: the commander in chief, now comforter in chief. the president knows all about shaking it off. when the festivities took him to the basketball court, he missed more than he made. only making two of 22. so you see, little donovan, we all need a hug sometimes, and maybe just maybe, it was the president who needed that big hug from you. paula faris, abc news, new york. >> and by the way, donovan was one of 30,000 people streaming to the white house today. thanks so much for watching. we'll always see you at abcnews.com. "nightline"

>> not doing it. >> reporter: paula faris, abc news, new york. >> a simple message. it's been the same message all along. don't text and drive. >> aren't you surprised, it seems like, you know, i have never done one of these. siri -- "tell mom i will be home in 20 minutes." and, it seems like it wouldn't be that distracting. >> i agree until i finally got siri. i started doing this -- essentially texting while driving, speaking my text while driving. you end up doing, you look down, and -- it makes no sense what you just typed in there is completely wrong. you are frustrated. you have to double check it. you are reading while you are driving. not only that -- you want to send the text. you resort to go back to correct it. >> hit buttons to get siri to start listening in the first place. >> you have got to hit a big button to get her to listen in the first place. the problem is going back. looking at the text. it is incoherent. you want to go back. you want to send the text, you fix it. texting while you are driving. >> no texting no matter what. >> there you go. >>>

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so, abc's paula faris tonight reports in on when a fight on the field goes too far. >> reporter: fans expecting baseball got a base brawl instead. >> now he has something to say and look out here. >> when dodgers pitcher zach greinke hit the padres' carlos quentin with a pitch, quentin, who is 50 pounds heavier, charged the mound. this moment of impact now has the dodgers' $147 million pitcher sitting on the bench with a broken collarbone. >> tried to brace himself but he took the blow. and quentin charging like a bull. >> reporter: that fight even spilling into the tunnel after the game. and tonight, fans not happy that greinke could miss the next few months after a million dollar mistake. >> he is a thug, he needs to go. he needs to be suspended. >> reporter: in this game, where the players police themselves, some now questioning if things have gotten out of control. >> this has got to stop, because these guys think being tough is doing this type of thing. that's not being tough. that's being silly. you're making a complete jerk out of yourself and out of the game of baseball. >> re

paula faris, abc news, new york. >> unbelievable. 529 fund. got a baby. >> if you have a kid. wait to do it. save a little money. >> it grows. we'll be right back. >> yeah. >>> and finally this half-hour, some of the biggest names in entertainment are cutback what they eat. >> it has the nothing to do with losing weight. they agreed to spend just $1.50 a day for food. that's it. and it is all to benefit a very good cause. hollywood's hottest director ben affleck reportedly has a net worth of $65 million. but the academy award winner and father of three is going to take on a financial challenge living on a food budget of less than $2 per day in the game of charity. tweeting, 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.50. i'm joining live below the line on behalf of eastern congo, will you. the latest star to raise awareness for those living in poverty through global poverty projects, live below the line campaign, joining josh groban, sophia bush, and hugh jackman kicked off the campaign. >> live below the line so others can rise above it. a five day challenge of living on $1.50. >

here's abc's paula faris. >> reporter: it happens every minute of every day. >> poison center, can i help you? >> yes, my daughter just bit into a rozerem. >> reporter: children taking dangerous medicine they shouldn't. >> wipe out the inside of her mouth and get as many pill fragments as you can. >> it is very easy for kids to get into bottles. and child-resistant is not a total deterrent. >> reporter: watch this. >> i just opened it. >> reporter: with their parents' permissions, we gave six kids, ages three through six, bottles that are supposed to be child-resistant to see how hard they are to open. before we even say "go," the youngest of the bunch needs only six seconds to pop open a pain prescription bottle. the other 3-year-olds had more trouble. but the kindergartners proceed to open every single bottle. >> got it! >> reporter: -- in a seven-minute period. >> oh, i just opened it. >> reporter: so why is it so simple? turns out even the government agency in charge of pill package safety, the cpsc, say there's no such thing as child-proof bottles. "child-resistant" means the va

paula faris has the story. >> reporter: he's on a world tour, promoting his album, "believe." but this morning, many are indispleef over justin bieber's latest move. leaving what some are calling a tasteless comment at the anne frank museum. he spent an hour touring the museum on friday night. upon leaving, wrote this in the guest book. truly inspiring to be able to come here. anne was a great girl. hopefully, she would have been a belieber. anne frank is one of history's most recognizable jewish figures whose diary chronicled her time occurring the holocaust. the reps for bieber say he may have written that after seeing old magazines in her room with stars of her day. >> the great tragedy of anne frank was she was a regular teenage girl. >> reporter: still, the museum's facebook page has been flooded with fury. i belieb that is one of the most narcissistic thing i have read. we think he meant it well. he's only 19 years old and living in a crazy world with all girls being fans of him worldwide. that is perhaps why he wrote it down. it's perhaps best to leave it at the famous

faris, abc news, new york. [ cheers and applause ] >> all right. let's go back inside to george. >> thank you, elizabeth. >>> we turn to jane fonda's adopted daughter, a daughter most of us didn't even know about. mary williams is telling her story in "the last daughter" and later a famous family and finding success on her own. juju chang sat down with mary and jane for a rare interview. >> reporter: she's a hollywood legend from an acting dynasty. >> it seems like you and me have been mad at each other for so long. >> i didn't think we were mad. i thought we just didn't like each other. >> i want to be your friend. 46 >> reporter: who won one of her two oscars for "coming home." >> it's very scary for me. >> not going to like the fact that i've changed. i have changed. >> reporter: she was known for her radical politics then evolved into an exercise empress. >> three, four, five, six. >> reporter: but if you think you know all there is to know about jane fonda, you're wrong. in addition to her two biological children, she has another daughter, mar

paula faris has the story. >> get in, loser. we're going shopping. >> reporter: they're the girls we love to hate. >> cut out girls' pictures from the yearbook and write comments. >> reporter: girls who seemed downright nasty and bad to the bone, as characterized in movies like "mean girls." but what we're about to show you isn't a movie. it's real life and really profane. this e-mail containing over 50 expletives which we've concealed, was sent by one woman to her delta gamma sorority sisters at the university of maryland. saying, i've been getting texts on texts about people literally being so bleeping awkward and so bleeping boring. the now, infamous e-mail, ripping into them for not being social enough during greek week. the e-mail now spawning spoof madness on the internet. >> tie yourself down to whatever chair you're sitting in. >> because it's going to be a rough ride. >> reporter: dozens of videos like this one, from funnyordie's michael shannon. >> you're saying to yourself, omg, i've been having so much fun with my si

and paula faris has the story. >> reporter: it's a challenge not to find videos like this all over the internet. a simple search on youtube yields over 750,000. everyone, from celebs, to politicians, taking the cinnamon challenge. all you have to do is swallow one tablespoon of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without fluids. while it looks like a harmless dare, a report says beware. >> this is not a laughing matter. >> reporter: the co-author of the study says taking the challenge can cause long-term, even permanent lung damage. >> if the cinnamon dust goes into the lungs, it doesn't break down. and it remains there long-term. >> reporter: and the journal "pediatrics" finding out how dangerous. >> for somebody that's particularly allergic to it or has bad asthma or other chronic lung diseases, they potentially could be fatal. >> reporter: last year, over 200 phone calls placed to the poison control center. and 30 youths needed medical attention. some hospitalized for collapsed lungs, including this teen. she took the challenge four times. the last time, scarred for her life. >> i was lau

here is abc's paula faris with more. >> reporter: it happens every minute of every day. >> poison center, can i help you? >> reporter: children take dangerous medicine they shouldn't. >> wipe out the inside of her mouth. try to get as much as you can of any pill fragments. >> it is very easy for kids to get into bottles, child resistant is not a total deterrent. >> watch this. >> i just opened it. >> reporter: with their parents' permission we gave six kids, ages 3 through 6, bottles supposed to be child resistant to see how hard they are to open. before we even say "go," the youngest of the bunch needs only 6 seconds to pop open a pain prescription bottle. the other 3 year olds had trouble. the kindergartners proceed to open every single bottle. >> got it! >> reporter: in a seven-minute period. >> i opened this one too. >> opened it. >> reporter: why is it so simple? turns out even the government agency in charge of pill package safety, the cpsc says there is no such thing as child proof bottles. child resistant means the vast majority of kids under 5 shouldn't be able to open a bottle

paula faris, abc news, new york. >> unbelievable. 529 fund. you got a new baby. >> if you've got a kid, that's the way you do it. save a little money. >> it grows. we'll be right back. ey. >> it grows. we'll be right back. >> yeah. . >>> and finally this half hour, some of the biggest names in entertainment are dramatically cutting back what they eat. >> it has nothing to do with losing weight. they agreed to spend just $1.50 a day for food. that's it. and it is all to benefit a very good cause. hollywood's hottest director ben affleck reportedly has a net worth of $65 million. but the academy award winner and father of three is going to take on a financial challenge, living on a food budget of less than $2 per day in the name of charity. tweeting, 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day. i'm joining live below the line on behalf of eastern congo, will you? affleck is the latest star to raise awareness for those living in poverty through global poverty projects, live below the line campaign, joining josh groban, sophia bush, and hugh

here is paula faris. >> reporter: the new song may be called "accidental racist." ♪ i'm just a white man coming to you from the south land ♪ >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with abc news, the two stars who sing it say the national debate it is sparking was every bit intentional. ♪ but it ain't like i can walk a mile in some one else's skin ♪ >> i'm not really sure we were going to find any answers. but it was the idea that we would ask the questions. >> martin luther king had an interesting quote, he said darkness doesn't drive out darkness, only light can. hate doesn't drive out hate, only love can. so what we are talking about on the song is forgiveness, and compassion. >> reporter: in the song, paisley and ll cool j play the parts of a white southerner and a black barrista overcoming prejudice and having a back and forth from everything from fashion to slavery. ♪ i'm proud of where i'm from ♪ if you don't judge my gold chains ♪ ♪ i'll forgive your iron chains ♪ >> i'm not telling any one to truly forget slavery. i am saying, forget the slavery mentality, for

paula faris is here with the latest. good morning to you, paula. >> just trying to open up a sensitive conversation. during our interview you can tell two things, brad and ll cool jay appear to be legitimate friends, the other is that both men take the message of this song very seriously. but critics will say that message has been lost in translation. the new song may be called "accidental racist" -- ♪ i'm just a white man coming to you from the south land ♪ >> reporter: but an exclusive interview with abc the two stars who sing it say the international debate is sparking was every bit intentional. ♪ but it ain't like i can walk a mile in spun he's skin ♪ >> i'm not sure we were going to find any answers but it was the idea we would ask the question. >> martin luther king had an interesting quote. he said darkness doesn't drive out darkness. only love can. we're talking about forgiveness and compassion. >> reporter: in the song paisley and ll cool jay play the parts of a white southerner and a black barista overc

faris is here with the story. how did it come to be. >> a work in progress. it wasn't that long ago that gloria steinem, the feminist icon was actually unapproving of the kardashians saying their reality shows do not empower women. well, now she is coming to kim's defense saying above all else, our bodies belong to us. it should be one of the happiest times of a woman's life but soon after kim kardashian announced she and boyfriend kanye west were expecting their first child, the media started weighing in. tabloids criticizing everything from the 32-year-old's expanding figure to her outfit choices like bump hugging leather and gravity defying heels. one particularly cruel internet meme even compared kardashian wearing a black and white dress to shamu. >> style icon and so is kanye, the fact she's being bashed for what she's wearing and how she looks you can see how she would take that to heart. >> reporter: now she is fighting an ally in an unlikely source. feminist icon gloria steinem, the 79-year-old telling "u

two others killed in an early morning truck accident also and paula faris is here with the details. >> "buckwild" is a show about the crazy adventures of nine young west virginians. shain gandee told friends he did that show for his family and this morning his father tells one of the show's producers that his son died doing what he loved. >> yeah, how you like it? >> reporter: known as the fun-loving carefree kid, shain gandee, the 21-year-old from mtv's reality show "buckwild" was found dead on monday behind the wheel of his old truck. also inside whether the bodies of his 48-year-old uncle david and 27-year-old family friend donald robert myers. >> that vehicle was in a wooded area a mile and a half from where we are now. >> reporter: that vehicle discovered monday morning close to his west virginia home was found partially submerged in mud with muffler below the surface. he was last seen alive around 3:00 a.m. at this hometown bar where he told patrons he was leaving to go four-wheeling. >> my truck, that's my pride and joy. i'm always wrecking my truck or tearing it up somehow. >>

same place, pictures of rob nelson and paula faris used to be. next to the pictures of our high-profile colleagues. >> and our anchorhood is permanent. we were not in the picture that was photo shopped. >> now we really are together. >> we really are. joking but a big thrill. when you are next to george, diane, david, all the great people. it really. >> yes. >> no matter how many years you are in the business. not jaded by that. wow. >> only for our eyes. we really are the only ones, us and our colleagues. when we walk in and walk out of the building. >> i'm bringing my mom. has to come in now. >> we got an e-mail earlier saying it happened. first thing my mom said when she was there babysitting devon, my gosh, take a picture. show it to me. >> does that tie make me look fat? >> yes. no, kidding. >> doesn't matter. still on the wall. >> doesn't matter. >> all thanks to you guys at home. >> well done, diana. >> well done, john muller. >> as we got to know each other better we'll share things about our hometown, new york. favorite food and bunch of