World News (ABC) - 2009-05-07
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[0:18] Welcome to World News. Tonight, show and
[0:21] tell. Test results are in on the health
[0:23] of America's biggest banks. What happens
[0:26] now? Out of control, a wildfire explodes
[0:30] in Southern California's heat and winds,
[0:32] forcing thousands to flee. A woman
[0:35] scorned. Elizabeth Edwards reveals new
[0:37] details of life after her husband's
[0:40] affair. Rescue mission. We get rare
[0:43] access to the space shuttle crew about
[0:46] to go on a risky journey to save the
[0:48] Hubble telescope. And a baseball
[0:51] superstar hit with a 50game suspension.
[1:00] From ABC News headquarters, this is
[1:04] World News with Charles Gibson.
[1:06] >> Good evening. For weeks now, they have
[1:08] caused speculation, anxiety, and yes,
[1:11] even stress. Those exhaustive stress
[1:14] tests on America's best known banks.
[1:16] Some mired in losses and limping along
[1:18] on bailouts. Well, tonight we get the
[1:20] results showing what shape the financial
[1:22] institutions are in and how they'd fare
[1:25] if the recession gets worse. The
[1:27] government says 10 of the 19 banks put
[1:30] to the test need to come up with a total
[1:32] of 74.6 billion in additional capital.
[1:36] But where will they get that money?
[1:38] Betsy Stark is here again tonight.
[1:40] Betsy.
[1:41] >> Charlie. The poor financial health of
[1:43] big banks and fears about their
[1:45] financial health have been a serious
[1:47] drag on the economy. But with these
[1:49] stress test results today, the
[1:51] administration believes it has taken a
[1:53] decisive step toward restoring public
[1:56] confidence and putting these banks on
[1:58] more solid footing.
[2:00] The drip drip of news about which big
[2:03] banks are strong and which are weak
[2:05] finally ended today. These actions today
[2:07] are going to bring an unprecedented
[2:09] level of transparency and clarity to the
[2:12] health of the nation's banking system.
[2:14] >> The chairman of the Federal Reserve said
[2:16] the result should provide considerable
[2:18] comfort. 150 bank examiners scoured the
[2:21] books of the nation's 19 biggest banks
[2:23] to see what would happen if unemployment
[2:26] hits 10.3%, home prices drop another
[2:29] 22%, and the recession drags on into
[2:32] 2010. Nine have enough cash right now to
[2:35] ride out the downturn. Of the 10 that do
[2:38] not, City needs 5.5 billion more. Bank
[2:42] of America 33.9 billion and Wells Fargo
[2:45] 13.7 billion. The total shortfall is 75
[2:50] billion. A big number, but some worried
[2:53] not big enough, especially if
[2:55] unemployment expected to hit 8.9%
[2:58] tomorrow continues to move higher. true
[3:01] stress test of the system is more like
[3:03] 11 to 12% unemployment rate. So I think
[3:06] you have to stress these balance sheets
[3:07] a lot harsher to to really solve all the
[3:10] problems.
[3:11] >> With the results now in weak banks will
[3:14] have 6 months to come up with the cash
[3:16] regulators say they need. The government
[3:18] says they can either raise the money
[3:20] from private investors, sell off assets,
[3:23] give the government a larger direct
[3:25] stake in their banks, or ask the
[3:27] government for more cash. Some of the
[3:29] banks are going to find it easy to raise
[3:31] the money over the next six months. Some
[3:33] will find it exceedingly difficult and
[3:35] will need new TARP money.
[3:37] >> Regulators hope all this scrutiny and
[3:39] disclosure will mark a turning point in
[3:41] this economic crisis, giving Wall Street
[3:44] the confidence it needs to invest in
[3:46] banks and giving banks the cash cushion
[3:48] they need to make more loans to Main
[3:50] Street. Whether it turns out that way
[3:52] and how quickly will depend on how well
[3:55] the economy fares from here, Charlie. So
[3:58] about half the banks will need more
[3:59] money as insurance against a worsening
[4:01] recession. About half the banks are fine
[4:03] the way they are. I gather some of those
[4:05] banks fine the way they are are saying
[4:07] well now they're ready to give back the
[4:09] bailout money the tarp money that they
[4:11] got from the government.
[4:12] >> Yeah. Some of the strongest ones have
[4:13] been saying for a while they'd really
[4:15] like to do that. Among them Goldman
[4:16] Sachs, JP Morgan saying they'd like to
[4:18] get out from under the government's
[4:19] thumb. And as we know, Charlie, it would
[4:21] give them among other things the
[4:23] latitude to pay their executives
[4:24] whatever they wish. All right, Betsy
[4:26] Stark reporting tonight. Thanks. And
[4:28] while on the topic of billions, the
[4:30] White House today played up its proposed
[4:32] cuts to the federal budget. That budget
[4:34] weighs in at $3.6 trillion. The White
[4:37] House wants to trim a tiny fraction, 17
[4:39] billion. The president arguing that
[4:41] seemingly small amount is a major step
[4:44] in the right direction. Jake Tapper is
[4:46] at the White House.
[4:47] >> Than 100 program.
[4:48] >> President Obama today spotlighted 121
[4:51] programs he seeks to cut from his
[4:52] budget, saving $17 billion. outside of
[4:55] Washington, that's still considered a
[4:57] lot of money.
[4:58] >> And he urged the press corp to treat
[4:59] those cuts seriously.
[5:01] >> $17 billion
[5:03] taken out of our discretionary
[5:07] non-defense budget as well as portions
[5:11] of our defense budget are significant.
[5:14] They mean something.
[5:15] >> Of the president's 3.6 trillion budget,
[5:17] the proposed 17 billion in cuts amount
[5:19] to a reduction of less than one half of
[5:22] 1%. On the campaign trail last year,
[5:25] then Senator Obama seemed to belittle
[5:27] the impact of his opponent's call to cut
[5:29] eararks, $18 billion worth.
[5:32] >> Eararks account for uh 1 half of 1% of
[5:36] the total federal budget, but it's not
[5:37] going to solve the problem.
[5:39] >> The White House today said that the $17
[5:40] billion in cuts is just a start.
[5:42] >> Let's do this. Let's you and I walk out
[5:44] on the street today. Let's interview
[5:46] maybe a dozen people and ask them
[5:48] whether they think $17 billion is a lot
[5:49] of money.
[5:50] >> We did and they do. Does that sound like
[5:53] a lot to you or a little? I'll start
[5:55] with you.
[5:56] >> Sounds like a lot.
[5:57] >> A lot.
[5:58] >> Lot.
[5:59] >> But after we pointed out that 17 billion
[6:01] is less than 1/ half of 1% of the
[6:03] budget.
[6:04] >> That doesn't seem like a lot when you
[6:06] put it that way.
[6:06] >> Yeah. Tiny. Obviously, really, really
[6:09] small.
[6:09] >> Most Republicans today assailed the cuts
[6:11] as minuscule.
[6:12] >> It's as if this were the were the Gobi
[6:15] Desert or the Sahara Desert and he came
[6:18] along and took a few pieces of sand off
[6:20] the desert. But fiscal conservatives say
[6:22] those criticisms ring hollow.
[6:24] >> I don't think the Republican party has
[6:26] any credibility on spending restraint
[6:28] anymore. Deficits soared to hundreds of
[6:30] mil billions of dollars under President
[6:33] Bush.
[6:34] >> And Charlie, whether you think this is a
[6:35] lot of money or a little money,
[6:37] President Bush attempted many of these
[6:38] very same cuts last year and was blocked
[6:41] by Congress. Today on Capitol Hill,
[6:43] Democrats greeted President Obama's
[6:44] proposed cuts less than enthusiastically
[6:47] as well, Charlie.
[6:50] All right, Jake Tapper at the White
[6:51] House. Thanks to you. And as for
[6:52] household budgets, consumers continue to
[6:55] cut way back on borrowing. Consumer
[6:57] credit plunged in March at the fastest
[6:59] pace in 18 years as people put away
[7:02] their credit cards. Consumer credit was
[7:03] down 5.2%. That's a drop of more than 11
[7:07] billion in borrowing. As we broadcast
[7:10] last night, it looked as if the early
[7:12] season wildfire around Santa Barbara was
[7:14] calmed down. And then suddenly last
[7:16] evening, the winds kicked up and the
[7:18] fire was out of control, raging through
[7:20] highly populated areas. Dozens of homes
[7:22] quickly vanished in flames and thousands
[7:25] of people have been evacuated. Ryan
[7:27] Rooney is in Santa Barbara tonight.
[7:31] It had been just a slowmoving fire in
[7:33] the brush before 50 mph winds turned it
[7:36] into this. Houses burned along ridgetops
[7:39] and deep in the mountain canyons. It was
[7:41] too hot and too fast for firefighters to
[7:44] even try saving every house.
[7:46] >> There are these walls of what looked
[7:48] like about 300 foot high flames right in
[7:51] front of the house. The embers were
[7:52] going like this right in front of our
[7:54] front window.
[7:54] >> As the evacuation expanded, homeowners
[7:57] grabbed what they could and packed it
[7:59] into the family car, even a trailer.
[8:01] Some dragged suitcases down the street.
[8:03] It's not even going one direction right
[8:05] now. It's going everywhere. That's fire
[8:07] in the sky. The fires were fed by what
[8:10] are called sundowner winds, and
[8:12] yesterday was a classic sundowner.
[8:14] Superheated air inland built up twice
[8:17] the usual amount of pressure. And when
[8:18] the afternoon seab breeze petered out,
[8:21] the inland air came roaring over the
[8:23] mountains, pushing flames into populated
[8:25] canyons.
[8:26] >> The effect is like putting a bellows to
[8:28] the fire. It's it's just pumping oxygen
[8:30] into it and causes the fire to increase
[8:32] and and move rapidly.
[8:33] >> Firefighters also just got out of the
[8:36] way. Abandoned hoses show how quickly
[8:38] they left, but three firefighters were
[8:40] burned when they were overrun in the
[8:42] night. Their truck is still where they
[8:44] left it on a burned out peak. They
[8:46] experience a sudden firestorm and the
[8:49] heat radiation uh which caused a lot of
[8:51] their burn injuries.
[8:54] Today, gas company workers shut down
[8:57] flaming mains where all that was left
[8:59] was the chimney and even the mailbox had
[9:02] melted.
[9:03] It's been relatively calm all day, same
[9:06] as it was yesterday. But now you can see
[9:08] smoke plumes building high up in the
[9:10] mountains. This is the time of day when
[9:12] the winds can shift, moving from uphill
[9:15] now to downhill, and it can whip up the
[9:17] flames. The next few hours, Charlie,
[9:19] will tell us whether tonight will be a
[9:22] night like last night.
[9:23] >> All right, Brian Rooney in Santa
[9:25] Barbara, California tonight. Thanks to
[9:26] you. A quiet Connecticut town, home to
[9:29] one of America's most prestigious
[9:31] colleges, is virtually shut down tonight
[9:33] with a murder suspect on the loose.
[9:35] Students at Wesleyan University are
[9:37] being told to stay inside after a female
[9:40] student was shot to death at an
[9:41] off-campus bookstore yesterday. The
[9:43] killer was apparently a stalker.
[9:46] Stephanie Sai is in Middletown,
[9:48] Connecticut.
[9:50] The picturesque Wesleyan campus,
[9:52] normally celebrating spring fling this
[9:54] week, is today an eerie ghost town. 10
[9:57] students huddled in their dorm rooms
[9:59] knowing the man who killed one of their
[10:01] own is still on the loose.
[10:02] >> You can feel the vibration of the campus
[10:05] as fearful.
[10:06] >> This has to be every parent's worst
[10:08] nightmare.
[10:09] >> Even residents of the town have been
[10:11] encouraged to stay inside. Johanna
[10:13] Justin Jinnick was a bright, popular
[10:15] junior at Wesian.
[10:17] >> But she is just I don't know you know
[10:18] very upbeat and always uh you know
[10:20] having fun. Um I know she was you know
[10:23] really excited about writing her thesis
[10:24] next year. Police suspect 29-year-old
[10:27] Steven Morgan, wearing a wig as a
[10:29] disguise, shot Justin Jinnick at her job
[10:31] in a bookstore and is now on the run.
[10:33] One of the reasons police are targeting
[10:35] Morgan is that he and the victim crossed
[10:37] paths a few years ago at a New York
[10:40] University summer program. It's unclear
[10:42] what happened in the years between, but
[10:45] experts say cases of stalking and
[10:46] harassment are notoriously difficult to
[10:48] follow, often until it's too late.
[10:51] Unless the threat is very explicit, it's
[10:55] very difficult for the police to do much
[10:57] with it.
[10:58] >> What initially appeared to be an
[10:59] isolated incident has spread fear
[11:02] throughout this community after police
[11:04] discovered the suspect's journal, which
[11:06] makes threatening remarks about this
[11:08] campus and the Jewish community. Justin
[11:11] Jennick was Jewish, but what her
[11:13] killer's real motive is remains a
[11:15] mystery. His family is pleading for him
[11:17] to turn himself in. Steve, turn yourself
[11:20] in right now to any law enforcement
[11:22] agency.
[11:23] >> A synagogue near the school has been
[11:25] closed and this tight-knit college town
[11:27] remains on edge. Stephanie Sai, ABC
[11:30] News, Middletown, Connecticut.
[11:32] >> A sports note. One of baseball's biggest
[11:35] stars has been suspended for 50 games.
[11:39] It is Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles
[11:41] Dodgers who has always denied drug use.
[11:44] Has anyone ever approached you any time
[11:46] during your career about using?
[11:49] >> You were never tempted.
[11:51] >> No.
[11:52] >> In announcing the suspension, Major
[11:54] League Baseball did not say what drug
[11:56] was involved. In a statement, Ramirez
[11:58] said he got the drug from his doctor,
[11:59] who thought it was legal. ESPN is
[12:02] reporting the drug was hcg, a women's
[12:05] fertility drug. ABC talked by phone with
[12:08] Dr. Lewis Maharam at New York University
[12:10] about hCG. It is banned because the only
[12:14] reason to use it is after using
[12:17] steroids. So, it's sort of in the same
[12:19] little circle of drugs that people use
[12:22] to make themselves normal.
[12:24] >> Ramirez is not contesting the
[12:26] suspension. He will lose over 30% of his
[12:28] $25 million salary. He'll be able to
[12:31] return to baseball around July 4th. And
[12:34] still ahead on World News, Elizabeth
[12:36] Edwards talks of her husband's affair
[12:38] and why she didn't give up on the
[12:40] marriage. The risky space mission to
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[12:44] scenes with the astronauts and the
[12:46] three-year-old boy barely clothed and
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[15:43] first time about a painful chapter of
[15:45] her life, her husband's affair with a
[15:47] campaign videographer. Elizabeth Edwards
[15:50] spoke about her husband's deceptions and
[15:52] why she has stayed with him. Here's
[15:54] ABC's Kate Snow.
[15:56] She's willing to relive a public
[15:58] humiliation, a memoir, and a sit down
[16:00] with Oprah on one condition, that they
[16:03] would never use the name of the woman
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[16:26] that.
[16:26] >> Elizabeth Edwards told Oprah it was just
[16:28] two days into her husband's campaign for
[16:30] the presidency that he confessed to
[16:33] having a one night stand. My first thing
[16:35] to do was to said you need to get out of
[16:37] the campaign. He said and and truthfully
[16:39] he was right. It was hard to argue with
[16:41] this that if you wanted to raise a lot
[16:43] of questions, what you do is get out of
[16:44] a campaign you got into two days before.
[16:47] >> By the time she and the world learned
[16:49] the full truth of the affair, the
[16:50] questions would be even more
[16:52] complicated.
[16:52] >> The other woman has a baby. I've seen a
[16:55] picture of the baby. I have no idea. It
[16:56] doesn't look like my children, but I
[16:58] don't have any idea.
[16:59] >> But you could easily find out.
[17:01] >> Yeah. I mean, I suppose that it would be
[17:02] easy, but you know, if somebody, you
[17:04] know, wants to go to um the the trouble
[17:07] of finding, but it was not going to
[17:08] change my life in any way.
[17:10] >> If they discovered that it was, then,
[17:11] you know, that would be part of John's
[17:13] life, but it's not part of mine.
[17:14] >> Was there a point where you thought that
[17:16] she would leave you?
[17:19] >> Um, I didn't know. I think the honest
[17:21] truth is I didn't know. Were you afraid
[17:24] that she might?
[17:25] >> Um, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I love her. I
[17:28] care about her. So,
[17:30] >> Elizabeth hasn't addressed why she wrote
[17:32] the book was willing to reopen these
[17:34] wounds. She says she stayed in her
[17:36] marriage because nobody's perfect.
[17:38] >> This is a really good man, you know, who
[17:41] really, you know, who's who did a very,
[17:43] very bad thing. But if you take that
[17:45] piece out, I do have a perfect marriage.
[17:48] >> Elizabeth's terminal diagnosis played a
[17:50] part, too. my life was going to be last
[17:52] long. Um, and I didn't want to spend it
[17:55] fighting. Kate Snow, ABC News, New York.
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[20:41] >> Next Monday, the space shuttle Atlantis
[20:43] takes off on a long overdue and risky
[20:46] mission to repair the Hubble Space
[20:47] Telescope. The Hubble has vastly
[20:50] expanded what we know about the
[20:51] universe. But its batteries, main
[20:53] camera, gyroscopes, they all need
[20:54] fixing. If anything goes wrong, the crew
[20:57] won't be anywhere near where they could
[20:59] be rescued. For a year, ABC News has
[21:02] been given extraordinary access to the
[21:04] crew's training for this rescue mission.
[21:06] And in coming nights, we're going to
[21:08] show it to you starting tonight with
[21:10] ABC's Ned Potter.
[21:11] >> N Kennedy Space Center, a space shuttle
[21:13] roars to life. Main engine ignition. The
[21:16] commander is Scott Alman.
[21:19] >> Boom. Off the pad. 102. 102.
[21:22] >> In fact, Alman isn't going anywhere
[21:24] today. He's in a simulator in Houston.
[21:26] and he has a complete amateur, me as his
[21:29] co-pilot.
[21:30] >> We just saw the launch tower disappear
[21:32] at 8 seconds. I see the roll and I call
[21:36] >> program. Roger.
[21:38] >> Alman is rehearsing for one of NASA's
[21:40] most sensitive shuttle mission, the
[21:42] Hubble Rescue.
[21:43] >> But we have a warning. A master alarm
[21:45] goes off. Flight control system has
[21:47] malfunctioned.
[21:48] >> The mission is to be flown by the
[21:49] shuttle Atlantis, and we've been given
[21:52] special access to the astronauts as they
[21:54] count down. There is literally a clock
[21:57] ticking.
[21:57] >> Hubble has captured the sun.
[21:59] >> The Hubble telescope is slowly dying.
[22:01] Its batteries and gyroscopes in need of
[22:04] replacement.
[22:04] >> And we see first motion. Looks good.
[22:06] >> From orbit, the Hubble has taken some of
[22:08] the most spectacular pictures of the
[22:10] universe, even help determine how old
[22:12] the universe is.
[22:14] >> Every time we get a new discovery with
[22:16] Hubble, uh, it's something that's just
[22:19] mindbending. You just go, "Wow."
[22:22] 195t long. John Grunsfeld is one of the
[22:25] crew's space walkers along with Michael
[22:27] Good, Drew Foell, and Mike Masamino who
[22:30] shows us a notebook he kept as he
[22:32] trained.
[22:33] >> Like, you know, I've got a picture of
[22:34] the Hubble. I wasn't rendevous trained,
[22:36] but I figured the least I could do is
[22:37] try to make sure we were at the right
[22:38] satellite, you know, so I had a picture
[22:40] just to make sure we were in the right
[22:41] place. So, your feet are coming out.
[22:43] >> But behind all the kidding is serious
[22:45] business. Fixing a $6 billion telescope
[22:49] is a little like doing brain surgery in
[22:51] hockey gloves.
[22:54] Well, and NASA says if the shuttle is
[22:56] damaged, the crew will be nowhere near
[22:58] the safe haven of the space station.
[23:01] >> We would be stuck in the shuttle until
[23:02] someone could come rescue us. We don't
[23:03] have that much time.
[23:04] >> So, for the first time ever, a second
[23:07] shuttle is on the pad, ready to go if a
[23:09] rescue is needed.
[23:10] >> We were shaking and rolling.
[23:12] >> And for safety sake, Scott Alman has
[23:14] been practicing launches in the
[23:16] simulator more than 100 times.
[23:19] Ned Potter, ABC News, Johnson Space
[23:21] Center, Houston.
[23:23] >> Much more on this tomorrow and next
[23:25] week. The astronauts, by the way, will
[23:27] be blogging from space about their
[23:29] mission, and you'll be able to follow
[23:30] them at our blog, The World Newser, at
[23:32] abcnews.com.
[23:34] And still ahead, how a missing
[23:35] three-year-old survived alone in a
[23:38] rugged national forest.
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[26:12] >> Well, I was a bloody mess.
[26:14] >> K2 wants to know why a pitbull is
[26:16] allowed to stay where it was after a
[26:17] local man says he and a service dog were
[26:19] attacked.
[26:20] >> Plus, how in the world did a missing
[26:21] autistic girl from Vancouver end up more
[26:23] than 100 miles away, just minutes away?
[26:28] >> She miraculously survived being shot in
[26:31] the face by her husband. Now, tomorrow,
[26:33] the first American to go through a face
[26:35] transplant tells her unbelievable story
[26:37] to Diane Sawyer.
[26:38] >> When you looked in the mirror, what did
[26:40] you see?
[26:41] >> The face of courage on Good Morning
[26:42] America and go to abcnews.com. Click GMA
[26:45] for an exclusive preview of this
[26:47] remarkable woman's story.
[26:50] >> Finally, tonight, the story of a
[26:51] three-year-old boy who disappeared from
[26:54] his home Monday. For over two days, he
[26:56] was missing in the Missouri wilderness
[26:58] in a national forest filled with lakes
[26:59] and caves, snakes, bears, and mountain
[27:02] lions. Just three years old. His story
[27:05] is a little bit of a miracle. Here's
[27:07] Barbara Pinto.
[27:09] >> He's scratched up and exhausted, but
[27:12] otherwise fine. Three-year-old Joshua
[27:14] Childers's amazing luck is the source of
[27:16] his father's incredible joy.
[27:19] >> Anybody that's got a kid, all I want to
[27:21] say is don't don't take one minute and
[27:23] waste it. On Monday afternoon, Joshua
[27:25] unlocked the deadbolt on the back door
[27:27] and slipped outside, wearing only a
[27:29] t-shirt, sneakers, and a diaper.
[27:32] >> The dad works nights. He was sleeping
[27:34] and mom was on the phone.
[27:35] >> Little Joshua wandered three miles from
[27:37] home, losing a sneaker and his diaper
[27:40] along the way. It was late Wednesday, 52
[27:43] hours into a massive search, when a
[27:45] volunteer spotted Joshua's bare bottom.
[27:48] >> Went over there and said, "Hey, bud."
[27:49] And he just sat right up. You want to go
[27:52] home? He said, "Yeah." He put his arms
[27:54] up and I got him and carried him down
[27:56] the hill.
[27:56] >> So, how does a 35 lb toddler wearing
[27:59] practically nothing survive 2 days and
[28:02] 240° nights alone in the woods?
[28:05] >> The world looks very much different to a
[28:07] three-year-old than it does to older
[28:09] people, adults and whatnot. And so, the
[28:11] things that we might know to be afraid
[28:13] of, it's quite possible that he at that
[28:15] age was not afraid of those things.
[28:17] >> Joshua told his grandmother he was
[28:19] walking to her house 5 miles away. I
[28:21] asked him if he crossed those creeks and
[28:23] he said, "Did it."
[28:24] >> I don't know how he did it. I don't know
[28:26] grown men that could do it. But all I
[28:28] can say is he's a tough little burger.
[28:30] >> For days, all anyone has wanted was
[28:32] Joshua's safe return. Now Joshua's
[28:35] wishes are far simpler. Hot dogs and
[28:38] milk. Barbara Pinto, ABC News, Chicago.
[28:42] >> Tough little guy indeed. And that's
[28:43] World News for this Thursday. I'm
[28:44] Charlie Gibson and I hope you had a good
[28:46] day. For all of us at ABC News, have a
[28:49] good night.
[28:50] Michael J. Fox has faced life's toughest
[28:53] challenge.
[28:53] >> 19 years ago, I woke up with a twitching
[28:55] left pinky finger.
[28:56] >> Now he's bringing inspirational stories
[28:58] to an ABC prime time special. Michael J.
[29:01] Fox. Adventures of an incurable
[29:03] optimist. Tonight, 10:9 central on ABC.
[29:08] Cutting down on criminal supervision to
[29:10] save money.
[29:11] >> Any type of change will definitely
[29:13] change people's behaviors.
[29:14] >> K2 wants to know which criminals will
[29:16] have to check in less. A missing teen
[29:19] found more than a 100 miles from home.
[29:21] >> I was happy like just to know that she
[29:24] was alive.
[29:24] >> How police found the autistic girl in
[29:27] Tacoma.
[29:28] >> Coming up, we'll show you a place where
[29:30] you can drop what you don't need, take
[29:32] what you do need, all for next to
[29:34] nothing.
[29:38] >> Live at 6, this is K2 News on your side.
[29:43] >> First on, an on your side investigation.
[29:45] Just days ago, the on your side
[29:47] investigators revealed Portland's mayor
[29:49] has a credibility problem with lawmakers
[29:51] in Salem.
[29:52] >> It could cost the city when it comes to
[29:53] important issues. And now there are new
[29:55] questions about