unable to download video from unknown url type: httpss

[sant527]

I am trying to download video from abc7ny.com I get the following error

+ youtube-dl --playlist-items 1 --hls-use-mpegts --no-mtime --no-check-certificate --restrict-filenames --no-part --verbose --age-limit 50 -f 'worst[height>=360][ext*=mp4]/worst/bestvideo[height>=360][ext=mp4]' https://clips.abcotvs.com/wabc/video/349322 -o /home/simha_personal_data/multimedia_audio_video_image/Videos/fb/000_2018-02-19-16_55_19-https___clips-abcotvs-com_wabc_video_349322.mp4
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--playlist-items', '1', '--hls-use-mpegts', '--no-mtime', '--no-check-certificate', '--restrict-filenames', '--no-part', '--verbose', '--age-limit', '50', '-f', 'worst[height>=360][ext*=mp4]/worst/bestvideo[height>=360][ext=mp4]', 'https://clips.abcotvs.com/wabc/video/349322', '-o', '/home/simha_personal_data/multimedia_audio_video_image/Videos/fb/000_2018-02-19-16_55_19-https___clips-abcotvs-com_wabc_video_349322.mp4']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.14
[debug] Python version 3.6.0 - Linux-4.10.2-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[abcotvs:clips] 349322: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4, ffprobe 3.2.4, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[abcotvs:clips] 349322: Downloading JSON metadata
[abcotvs:clips] 349322: Downloading m3u8 information
ERROR: Failed to download m3u8 information: <urlopen error unknown url type: httpss> (caused by URLError('unknown url type: httpss',))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 506, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2196, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 526, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 549, in _open
    'unknown_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1388, in unknown_open
    raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)

[abcotvs:clips] 349322: Downloading m3u8 information
ERROR: Failed to download m3u8 information: <urlopen error unknown url type: httpss> (caused by URLError('unknown url type: httpss',))