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The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health -- and their bank balances. Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, meaning they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco -- in any form -- by that deadline.

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Cydni Stanford On Tuesday Donald Trump signed an executive order to continue the Dakota Access Pipeline. By doing this he is totally undermining the Obama administration and the people who died to get the pipeline rerouted.

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Cydni Stanford On Tuesday Donald Trump signed an executive order to continue the Dakota Access Pipeline. By doing this he is totally undermining the Obama administration and the people who died to get the pipeline rerouted.

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The decision to advance the pipelines cast aside efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to block construction of the two pipelines, while making good on one of Trump's campaign promises.

As he signed the documents Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump also vowed to "renegotiate some of the terms" of the Keystone bill and said he would then seek to "get that pipeline built."

Trump also issued executive actions declaring oil pipelines constructed in the US should be built with US materials, streamlining the regulatory process for pipeline construction and shortening the environmental review process.

Trump during his campaign said he would streamline the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was stalled for years in the Obama administration until Obama denied approval for the pipeline's construction altogether in November 2015.

And Trump said for the first time in December that he supported construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which stalled last year amid protests opposing its construction on Native American lands. The Obama administration denied the company a permit it needed to complete the pipeline late last year.

Protesters of the pipeline projects quickly condemned the decisions Tuesday.

"President Trump is legally required to honor our treaty rights and provide a fair and reasonable pipeline process," said Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault II in a statement. "Americans know this pipeline was unfairly rerouted towards our nation and without our consent. The existing pipeline route risks infringing on our treaty rights, contaminating our water and the water of 17 million Americans downstream."

Environmental groups and activists were also quick to slam the decision, with Tom Steyer, the president of NextGen Climate, accusing the Trump administration of putting "corporate interests ahead of American interests."

"The pipelines are all risk and no reward, allowing corporate polluters to transport oil through our country to be sold on the global market, while putting our air and water at serious risk," he said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat from North Dakota where the Dakota Access Pipeline is being built, welcomed the move, as did Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia.

"What this country needs is more jobs, and that is why I have always been a proponent of the Keystone XL Pipeline and was an original cosponsor of legislation approving the Keystone XL Pipeline project," Manchin, who has already supported several of Trump's nominees and initiatives, said in a statement. "With a majority of Americans in support of the Keystone XL pipeline's construction, I'm glad we are finally moving forward with this important project."

Just as Trump on Tuesday flicked to the need to "renegotiate" the Keystone XL pipeline terms, Trump during his campaign argued not just for quick approval of the pipeline, which would shuttle oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, but also said he would push for a deal that would grant US taxpayers a share of the profits. Trump said that the US would approve the pipeline while also seeking a "better deal."

Trump's approval of both pipelines are early signs of how his administration will take a drastically different approach to energy and environmental issues. Beyond approving the pipelines, Trump has also vowed to slash environmental protection regulations and has nominated several skeptics of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change to key Cabinet posts dealing with environmental issues.

New wave of protests expected

Environmental groups and their progressive allies have already begun to mobilize against Trump's directive.

The Indigenous Environmental Network, a leading tribal organization dedicated to blocking further construction of the Dakota Access project, promised a new round of "massive mobilization and civil disobedience."

The documents signed by Trump are online now but were not provided directly to the tribes or their legal advocates.

Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization that represents the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, told CNN they were prepared to act if Trump seeks to cut off the environmental review ordered by the Obama administration in December.

"Nothing in the Presidential Memorandum changes that or even addresses (that decision)," lead attorney Jan Hasselman said in an email. "If the Corps responds to this directive by issuing the easement without the (Environmental Impact Statement) process, it will be violating the law and subjecting itself to additional litigation."

The tribe does not plan to launch legal action against Tuesday's directive, which asks for the Army Corps of Engineers to "review and approve" the final steps in the construction process "in an expedited manner" -- but not to circumvent the ongoing review.

Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline, needs an easement -- or legal permission -- from the Army Corps of Engineers to drill under Lake Oahe -- about a half-mile upstream from the Standing Rock tribe reservation border -- to complete the project.

The headsman council at the Oceti Sakowin camp, home to a large protest site during demonstrations last year, issued a call on Tuesday for "allies and people to stand up where they are" and engage in "mass civil disobedience as a showing of solidarity for Standing Rock."

Desiree Kane, who spent seven months at the Oceti Sakowin Camp as a media volunteer, told CNN she ready to answer the call.

"I leave tomorrow morning," she said in an email.

Organizers from 350.org, the Sierra Club, CREDO, and other groups have already planned a rally outside the White House at 5 p.m. Tuesday to protest the decision.

"The Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines would be a disaster for the land and water, the rights of Indigenous peoples, and the climate," they said in a statement.

"Both pipelines ignited widespread grassroots resistance worldwide, and Trump's executive orders are renewing mass opposition to the projects."

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The decision to advance the pipelines cast aside efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to block construction of the two pipelines, while making good on one of Trump's campaign promises. As he signed the documents Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump also vowed to "renegotiate some of the terms" of the Keystone bill and said he would then seek to "get that pipeline built."

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Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do. Trump has now signed orders to commence the building of the Mexican border wall.

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Now, less than a week into his presidency, he is beginning to carry them out.

The grinding machinery of federal government has not checked his most extreme ambitions, as so many savvy observers predicted, and the weight of the office has not humbled or aroused in him some reservoir of internal reflection. Instead, much as we saw during the primary -- as defeated Republicans fell in line behind Trump only to be mocked or ignored -- power only emboldens him.

On Friday, he signed an executive order directing federal agencies to undermine Obamacare. After a weekend spent attacking the media -- and enlisting his new press secretary to follow suit -- for accurately reporting on his inaugural crowd size, Trump kicked off Monday by reinstating a federal ban on foreign aid to organizations that include abortion or family planning in their mission statements. TPP is dead. NAFTA is on the ropes. There has been a crackdown on government social media accounts that discuss or allude to basic environmental science. Trump on Tuesday revived the Keystone XL pipeline project and ordered a review of the Dakota Access project be expedited and approved.

The wall is next. Wednesday comes with a request for federal funds to build it, though no word on how he'll compel Mexico to pick up the tab. He told ABC News on Wednesday he hopes to start construction on the wall very quickly, although getting Mexico to pay for it could get "complicated."

Concurrent actions will seek to increase deportations and squeeze sanctuary cities by choking off grants of federal money. In his remarks at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump undermined any notion his administration lacks the cunning to effectively implement its agenda -- with or without the acquiescence of this Congress.

"People are surprised to hear that we do not need new laws," he said. "We will work within the existing system and framework."

The push is slated to continue throughout the week. Though it will not be formally titled a "Muslim Ban," the coming push to delay or block entry into the United States from Muslim-majority countries -- "terror-prone" nations in the new vernacular -- is the logical conclusion of a policy Trump introduced in December 2015, before the first primary vote was cast. And Trump this week is expected to order a halt to the US refugee program, at least temporarily closing the door on Syrians fleeing civil war and humanitarian catastrophe.

He is also focusing on what he has taken to calling "carnage" here at home. The alarmist language is familiar from the campaign, when he regularly painted American cities as blood-soaked war zones. By late Tuesday, Trump had threatened intervention in Chicago, tweeting that he would "send in the feds" absent an immediate decline in gun violence.

Hours later, a little after 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, he vowed to pursue a "major investigation" into the massive voter fraud conspiracy he's peddled as a means of explaining away his loss in the presidential popular vote -- even though there is, again, no evidence anything of the sort occurred.

And if that sounds outlandish, or like something that will never actually happen -- it shouldn't. Not anymore. Trump promised to smash the Washington power structure and showed he would defy all norms, social and political. His first actions have Republicans opposing the trade bills they once championed and Democrats floundering for a message.

It should be noted here that Trump is new in town and his party controls Capitol Hill. What he's doing this week requires a pen and not much more. It is not clear how effective he will be when he needs 60 Senate votes to pass a spending bill. Congress and the courts will both have their say on how to pay for these things. Less than a week into the Trump era, he has not yet been required to stare down a tectonic government bureaucracy that slows all proposals.

Remember: One of the first executive actions signed by former President Barack Obama during his administration was aimed at closing the prison base at Guantanamo Bay and shuttering secret detention facilities.

An unfriendly Congress kept Guantanamo alive even as Obama shrunk its population. Trump is poised to build it up again and, according to reports in The New York Times and Washington Post, the Trump team is now drawing up plans to potentially revive the "black sites."

CNN has not confirmed those reports and White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the plans had not come from the White House. But they would fall in line with another promise Trump made repeatedly on the campaign trail -- to bring back torture techniques like waterboarding and "much worse."

And why would you doubt him?

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Usain Bolt's golden Olympic record was diminished Wednesday after Jamaican compatriot Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance. Carter's positive test means Bolt must return one of his nine Olympic gold medals.

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The extravagant 38,000 square foot property features 12 bedrooms, 21 bathrooms, five bars and three kitchens and comes complete with its own moat, four-lane bowling alley and an 85-foot Italian glass infinity pool fitted with an hydraulic theater-sized movie screen.

If that's not enough to attract the world's billionaire buyers, some of the home's other perks include a spa and fitness center, two cellars stocked with a multi-million dollar wine collection, and a 40-seat, James Bond-themed home cinema.

These features alone may seem luxurious, but the property's developer, BAM Luxury Development group, have equipped the residence with a range of other unique fittings that ensure the home lives up to its opulent price tag.

These include an art collection comprised of more than 100 carefully curated pieces including an interactive installation by British artist Dominic Harris and an oversized Leica camera by Chinese sculptor Liao Yibai, valued at $1 million.

A visit to the roof also reveals a helipad adorned with the helicopter that starred in the 1980's television series Airwolf. Deactivated at the end of series, the aircraft was refurbished by the developers into a piece of art that matches the style of the property.

Every good home also needs a garage, and the property's 12 car "auto gallery" -- which includes a Bugatti Veyron, a Pagani Huayra, a Rolls-Royce Dawn and a range of other rare vintage automobiles -- doesn't disappoint.

The home's realtor, Rayni Williams, said the car collection is valued at over $30 million and was a carefully planned extravagance that enhances the property's exclusivity.

"It is not common for a house to be sold with complete collections such as this. Not only is the home completely furnished with the art and the cars but every single inclusion is exotic and unattainable to the masses," Williams says.

According to Bruce Makowsky, the billionaire owner of BAM Luxury Development group, the home took over four years to construct and furnish, and is designed to cater specifically to the needs of a select few billionaires.

"It baffled me that no one was developing luxury real estate at those high levels for the super wealthy," he says in a statement.

"I set up my real estate development company in Beverly Hills, California, to cater to the super affluent that demand the very best in life."

If sold, the $250 million home would be $100 million more expensive than a 32-bedroom luxury mansion in Suzhou, China, which claimed the title of China's most expensive property in 2016. The most expensive home previously offered for sale in the US was a Beverly Hills property that was listed for $195 million.

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Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday canceled a meeting with US President Donald Trump that had been set for Tuesday after renewed tensions over Trump's plan to build a wall on the border.

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Actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at age 80.

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"Today beloved icon Mary Tyler Moore passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine," she said. "A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile."

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted in 1970 and starred the actress as Mary Richards, a single 30-something career woman at a Minneapolis TV station. The series was hailed by feminists and fans alike as the first modern woman's sitcom.

But that wasn't the role which catapulted her into stardom. Moore first found fame playing Laura Petrie, the wife on the "The Dick Van Dyke Show," which ran for five seasons beginning in 1961.

In an interview with Conan O'Brien, show creator Carl Reiner said he auditioned more than two dozen actresses before Moore's reading marked her as the only one who could play Laura.

"I grabbed the top of her head and I said 'Come with me,'" Reiner told O'Brien. "I walked her down the hall to [Show producer Sheldon Leonard] and said, 'I found her!'"

Hollywood mourned her loss on Wednesday.

"My heart goes out to you and your family. Know that I love you and believe in your strength," said former co-star Ed Asner on Twitter.

"Mary Tyler Moore changed the world for all women. I send my love to her family," tweeted Ellen DeGeneres.

Moore was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, to clerk George Tyler Moore and his wife, Marjorie.

When she was still a young girl the family, which included her two younger siblings, moved to Los Angeles. Moore would later reveal that her mother was an alcoholic, which caused the household to be chaotic.

Moore began her career as a dancer and in the 1950s landed a gig as dancing elf Happy Hotpoint, on a series of Hotpoint appliances TV commercials which ran during "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" television show.

Her dancer legs led to her being cast as Sam, the sexy answering service girl, on the TV show "Richard Diamond, Private Detective "in 1957. Moore's legs were shown, but never her face.

Fans would come to love that face on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," and Moore quickly was dubbed America's sweetheart.

The role earned her two Emmys.

After that show ended in 1966, Moore looked to working more on the big screen, including opposite Elvis Presley in the 1969 film "Change of Habit."

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' years

The next year "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered. The opening sequence, featuring Moore twirling and tossing her cap, became iconic. The show ended in 1977, but spurred several spinoffs, including "Rhoda," and "The Lou Grant Show."

In a 2002 interview with CNN's Larry King, Moore explained why she believed the series became so popular.

"I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience," she said. "I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted."

In real life, Moore was not a single woman. In 1955, she married Richard Carleton Meeker and the following year gave birth to their son, Richard Jr.

The couple divorced in 1961 and the following year she married CBS executive Grant Tinker.

While their union didn't produce any children, it did give birth to television production company MTM Enterprises, which produced "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" as well as such acclaimed series as "The Bob Newhart Show," "Hill Street Blues" and "St. Elsewhere."

Moore and Tinker divorced in 1981, a year after her son died after accidentally shooting himself while handling a shotgun.

She said problems with alcohol helped to contribute to the demise of her marriage to Tinker.

"We would have inane arguments over dinner about things I couldn't remember the next day," Moore told the National Ledger. "Alcoholism brings to the fore hostilities and resentment -- you can't have a marriage like that."

Love again, and an Oscar nod

In 1983, Moore married Dr. Robert Levine.

While she was beloved as a comedic actress, Moore also found success in dramas.

Critics praised her against-type performance as a chilly mother whose family grapples with the accidental death of a son in Robert Redford's 1980 film "Ordinary People," for which Moore was nominated for an Oscar.

She worked in theater and periodically appeared on TV shows in recent years,including "Hot in Cleveland," where she was reunited with "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" co-stars Betty White and Valerie Harper.

Moore was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in her 30s and had numerous health issues over the years, including complications from that disease and brain surgery to remove a meningioma tumor in 2011.

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Mexico's President Says 'I Regret and Reject' Plan for Border Wall

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Tech billionaires and other super-rich Americans are reportedly investing in "apocalypse insurance" in the highly unlikely event of a crack up of  civilization, whether it be from a major natural disaster or governmental collapse.

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Police dash cam footage captures the moment when a commuter train smashes through a FedEx truck.

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A team of Stanford researchers has made an AI that's able to detect skin cancer with expert accuracy.

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A team of Stanford researchers trained a computer to identify images of skin cancer moles and lesions as accurately as a dermatologist, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature.

In the future, this new research suggests, a simple cell phone app may help patients diagnose a skin cancer -- the most common of all cancers in the United States -- for themselves.

"Our objective is to bring the expertise of top-level dermatologists to places where the dermatologist is not available," said Sebastian Thrun, senior author of the new study, founder of research and development lab Google X and an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He added that those who live in developing countries do not have the same level of care as can be found in the US and other industrialized nations.

Melanomas represent fewer than 5% of all skin malignancies diagnosed in the US, yet they account for nearly three-quarters of all deaths related to this form of cancer. If detected early, the five-year survival rate for melanoma is 99%. When detected in its latest stage, the survival rate plummets to just 14%.

Generally, dermatologists identify whether a mole or other abnormality is cancerous by looking at it. They can confirm their diagnosis with follow-up biopsies and tests.

With a team of researchers, Thrun developed a deep learning computer system to perform the first task in detecting skin cancer: identifying it at a glance.

Essentially, the team created an automated dermatologist.

How it works

Thrun and his colleagues began by coaching a computer to develop pattern recognition skills. The method they used is an algorithm-based technique known as "deep learning."

Specifically, the research teamemployeda convolutional neural network.

Carl Vondrick, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, who was not involved in this study, explained the process.

"A convolutional neural net is a type of computer software that is very good at learning to recognize different concepts," he said. By downloading digital images, researchers can "tell" the computer they are images of skin cancer, or without skin cancer. The machine will basically try to learn some rules that can predict whether it's cancer.

"An algorithm is just a fancy name for a sequence of steps that the computer takes. So in this case, the algorithm refers to the whole process that they did to train the system," Vondrick said.

Andre Esteva, co-first author of the new paper with Brett Kuprel, both electrical engineering Ph.D. students at Stanford, said he, Thrun and their colleagues began by "basically teaching the algorithm what the world looks like."

"We taught it with cats and dogs and tables and chairs and all sorts of normal everyday objects look like," Esteva said. "We used a massive data set of well over a million images." This phase of learning took about a week.

Then, Esteva trained the algorithm in different skin conditions. Here, the team addressed a complex problem: Cancerous and noncancerous skin aberrations vary greatly in appearance from patient to patient.

To overcome this difficulty, the researchers presented the now-trained -- or "artificially intelligent" -- computer with an extensive dataset of 129,450 images representing more than 2,000 skin diseases. The images came from 18 doctor-curated online repositories as well as the Stanford University Medical Center.

Since each image of a mole or abrasion had been diagnosed, the computer was fed this information as well.

Differences between AI and human intelligence

"What's really powerful about computer vision and these convolutional neural nets is, all you have to do is specify the input and output, and the machine will learn its own rules how to do that automatically," Vondrick said. "It learns kind of a series of mathematical transformations to essentially transform an image into an answer (to the question) 'Is there skin cancer or not?' "

There's an important distinction between computer visual systems and the human visual system, added Vondrick. Though humans can learn to recognize patterns from very little data, machines require thousands or even billions of examples.

"You can grow up to be in your 20s and never have seen skin cancer, and you can go to medical school and just see a few examples on slides, and all of a sudden, you're going to be pretty good at recognizing that," he said.

No computer has been trained to do the same, but computer visual systems may detect subtleties within digital photographs unseen by the human eye, the researchers pointed out.

The moment of truth came when the researchers presented previously unseen images to their algorithm. Would their artificial intelligence system be able to recognize both the most common and the most deadly types of skin cancer: malignant carcinomas and melanomas, respectively?

"This algorithm performed as well as board-certified dermatologists at several key diagnostic tasks," Esteva said.

Notably, the computer was able to "diagnose multiple different kinds of skin cancer, not just melanoma, and we were able to do this with regular clinical images, rather than with specialized dermoscopic images," said Roberto Novoa, a co-author of the study and a dermatologist at Stanford Medicine.

He explained that doctors commonly use a dermatoscope, a specialized tool, to examine the skin for cancer. This tool enables a view from a similar distance with similar lighting and magnification, for easier diagnosis.

Though the algorithm lacked access to this expensive tool, its performance still equaled the accuracy of 21 dermatologists.

Though Thrun, Esteva and their colleagues warn that real testing in a clinical setting -- a doctor's office -- is still needed, they believe their research might be expanded to include other areas of medicine, such as ophthalmology, radiology and pathology.

With 6.3 billion smartphone subscriptions estimated to be in use by 2021 (PDF), the researchers noted, their new system, in the form of an app, could provide low-cost universal access to diagnostic care.

Paging Dr. McCoy

Science fiction is rife with visions of technology replacing human doctors. Dr. Leonard McCoy used a portable diagnostic device known as a tricorder to determine the medical condition of the USS Enterprise crew members in the "Star Trek" TV series and movies, recalled Dr. Sancy A. Leachman, a dermatologist and chairwoman of the department of dermatology at Oregon Health and Science University, and Glenn Merlino, a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute, in their published commentary on the new study.

Though still "fanciful," machines capable of non-invasive diagnosis are "becoming a reality," wrote Leachman and Merlino, neither of whom was involved in the new study.

That said, at least one issue still requires more investigation when it comes to a skin cancer-detecting automated system.

According to Leachman and Merlino, it is not known whether the artificial intelligence system featured in the new study can distinguish between similar-looking diseases. For example, a system would need to be able to identify melanoma versus benign seborrhoeic keratosis -- basically, a non-cancerous wart.

"Even the benign growths can be associated with certain syndromes and diseases that only a physician that has been clinically trained for detecting can diagnose," said Dr. Jill Waibel, a dermatologist and owner of the Miami Dermatology and Laser Institute.

Waibel, who did not participate in the study, added that "medical Imaging has dramatically transformed the practice of medicine," especially her field of dermatology. Yet despite many exciting developments, all of the new imaging systems are still being studied and explored for optimal uses, she said.

For many scientists, though, "Star Trek" still beckons: a future filled with machines that learn with each corrected mistake, improving their performance over time.

"This is a very specific study, and it has a very encouraging result," Thrun said. But he warned that before this research might be leveraged into anything resembling a tricorder, "we would have to run many more studies."

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Mr. Kohl-  Today, Trump’s expected to set aside federal funds to make that wall along the US-Mexico border a reality. He’s also reportedly going to temporarily ban many refugees from entering the US, including Syrians and people from some Muslim countries.

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&#151; -- In his first one-on-one television interview since being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, President Donald Trump told ABC News anchor David Muir that Mexico would be paying for the proposed border wall and that negotiations between the two nations would begin "relatively soon."

"Ultimately, it will come out of what's happening with Mexico ... and we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico, which I've always said," Trump said.
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During the interview, which took place at the White House this morning, Trump said that Mexico would pay the U.S. back "100 percent."

He confirmed that U.S. taxpayer dollars would be used to start the construction but said reimbursement would follow.

"All it is, is we'll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from Mexico," he said. "I'm just telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form. What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico."

When asked about the start of construction, Trump said it would happen in "months."

"As soon as we can, as soon as we can physically do it," he said. "I would say in months, yeah. I would say in months -- certainly planning is starting immediately."

In the hours after the ABC News interview took place, Trump issued two executive orders, one of which is about the commission of the border wall. The order calls for the secretary of homeland security to "take all appropriate steps to immediately plan, design, and construct a physical wall along the southern border."

The order calls for agency and department heads to "identify and quantify all sources of direct and indirect Federal aid or assistance to the Government of Mexico." It does not specifically state how or if those payment sources will be connected to the payment of the wall.

Trump talked about these orders during a speech he gave at the Department of Homeland Security this afternoon, saying that "Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders."

Talking about his executive orders, Trump predicted that they will "save thousands of lives, millions of jobs, and billions and billions of dollars."
Catch more of the exclusive one-hour prime-time special "President Trump: The First Interview" with David Muir tonight at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Mr. Sessler- A stranger making small talk in an Uber decides to donate money so that a 4 year old will be able to walk. 

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One preschooler stood tall this month, thanks to a stranger's kind donation that helped him take his very first steps.

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Luis Tamarez, 4, a student at North Main Street Elementary School in Pleasantville, New Jersey, took his steps this month using an Upsee mobility device and again today with his mom and stepdad watching.

"I have no words to describe what I felt," Luis' stepfather, Argenis Borbon, told ABC News today. "It's phenomenal just by seeing my son's face. It's incredible. These people in the school, they've been so great to him.

"He doesn't want to miss a day. Even on the weekends he wants to come back here and we are very grateful for that."

Luis has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to get around. His teacher, Amy Cutler, said Luis has an "incredible spirit" and is loved by his peers and educators alike.

Cutler said she learned about the Upsee in December from a fellow teacher. It is a harness that attaches to another person and allows a child with motor impairment to stand upright and walk with assistance from that person.

Cutler began researching crowdfunding pages to raise money for the $500 Upsee for Luis.

Yorel Browne, a substitute teacher at North Main Street Elementary and former principal, was intrigued by Cutler's idea.

Browne also works as an Uber driver and was chatting one day with a local businessman whom he was driving to Atlantic City. The two made small talk that led to a random act of kindness.

Courtesy Esmarlin Nunez

"I'm telling this story of how great this kid was ... who has a disability and is so enthused to help himself," Browne recalled. "He said, 'Wait a minute, you don't have to do a fundraiser, I will write a check to cover this device.' We brought the gentleman to the school. He wrote a check for $500."

Jim Burke, 49, of Mays Landing, New Jersey, was the stranger riding in Browne's Uber that day. He is the owner of a local heating, ventilation and air conditioning company.

Burke told said he donated the money for Luis' Upsee simply because he was in the "right place, at the right time."

"It was a no-brainer. It touched me," he said. "It didn't even take a split second. It was a very easy decision."

Burke was invited to the school Jan. 5 to witness Luis use his Upsee for the first time while attached to his one-on-one aid, Collins Days.

"He was just overjoyed and smiling. ... I remember him saying, 'I'm walking,'" Burke said.

Luis' mother, Esmarlin Nunez, said she cannot thank Burke enough for his generosity toward her son.

"It's something that doesn't have a price," she said. "I have no words to describe it."

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4-Year-Old Takes 1st Steps, Thanks to Stranger's Good Deed

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