After season 16 of "Dancing with the Stars" came to a close Tuesday night with country music star Kellie Pickler being crowned the winner, all the stars traveled overnight from Los Angeles to join " Good Morning America" in Times Square this morning for an epic After Party.

The finalists and their partners - Kellie Pickler, Derek Hough, Zendaya Coleman, Val Chmerkovskiy, Jacoby Jones, Karina Smirnoff, Aly Raisman and Mark Ballas - gave "GMA" the inside scoop on everything that really went on behind the scenes as the ballroom battle heated up.

Pickler, 26, credits her grandfather for being the reason she signed on to do the show, which was obviously good advice as she's now the Mirror Ball Trophy winner, although her grandfather claims he's the one who's actually going to keep it.

"It was so great because he actually talked me into doing the show," Pickler said on "GMA" this morning. "He's never, ever missed an episode each season. He was really excited. It's going in his bedroom,

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An Orlando man being questioned by the FBI about his relationship with the accused Boston bombers was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by a federal agent who felt threatened, law enforcement officials said.

Love. It’s something we all want, but when you consider that there are over 300 million people in the country and 7 billion people on the planet, it’s amazing that two people in love would have had the chance to meet, let alone connect.

Finding someone - the right someone - can seem daunting with so many people out there, but what if you could crunch the numbers to figure the odds of finding that perfect someone for you? And then what if you could maximize the chances of meeting him or her?

Well, it’s all been done and we’ll show you how, on today’s Just Explain It.

After considering things like looks and personality, age and location, and intangibles like chemistry, the chances of finding Mister or Miss Right can seem statistically impossible.

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Well, hopefully you will find some measure of comfort in the story of Peter Backus.

In 2008, after three years of not having a girlfriend, Peter Backus, then- a London graduate student,

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One of the most gripping images to emerge from the deadly tornado that devastated the town of Moore, Okla., Monday was of a man in a red shirt grasping a young student in an emotional hug, both of them covered in debris and surrounded by devastation.

The story behind the photo is even more emotional, the story of a first responder who was the first familiar face the young boy saw when he realized he'd survived the EF-5 twister that killed 24 people Monday and injured hundreds more.

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"I was so happy that I saw him," the boy, Hezakia Darbon, said today on " Good Morning America." "I didn't know that he was coming. I thought my mom and dad were going to be the first ones."

The "he" in the photo is Jim Router, a first responder from Moore who rushed to one of the most devastated spots in the city, Briarwood Elementary school, where Hezakia is a first-grade student, after surviving the storm himself in a

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