nearly everything up for grabs including a custom diamond engagement ring once worn by his wife. ruth. and said to be worth $300,000. he must have really loved her, and a federal court convicted her of running a billion dollar ponzi scheme, swindling thousands of clients, wrecking so many people's lives and, proceeds go to fund bernie madoff's victims. >> rick: i sohope so, do you li the ring? >> julie: president obama sitting down with his russian counterpart for breakfast in japan but not your typical kitchen table conversation and there are discussions about the most powerful weapons on earth and the outcome of a nail-biter house race, i'm julie bandaras we are live as fox reports, we are live as fox reports, tonight. captioning by, closed captioning services, inc. >> julie: the last time they'll come together like this. lawmakers, gearing up for the

final days of the 111th congress and the lame duck session could make a decision that will impact every working american's bottom line, whether you pay more taxes, just 7 weeks from now. the white house, and house republicans already looking ahead, to where else they might clash in 2011. >> president barack obama: we work to reform our budget. >> we need to cut spending and make it harder to increase it. ♪ >> julie: and, the mystery widens in the disappearance of a mother, her two children and friend, now, investigators revealing details of a disturbing find within the family's own home. and, with police, searching for leads a family member calling out, the mom's live-in boyfriend. >> i don't believe anything he says. >> julie: plus...

>> officers and crew, of the uss jason dunham, man our ship and bring her to life. >> reporter: the u.s. navy officially welcoming a new state of the art warship named after a fallen marine and medal of honor recipient. and... while america honors the latest piece of military hardware... a once mighty army experimenting with inflatable tanks, to intimidate the enemy. why russia is calling in the decoys. congress will soon get back to work, lawmakers are heading back to town for the lame duck session and will have issues, internal battles are getting lots of attention for the democrats, it's all about party leadership, in the new congress, and where it looks like a potential crisis is now averted. nancy pelosi says he will run for minority leader, the big issue, was the number 2 position, both current majority leader, steny hoyer, and

majority whip, jim clyburn, wanted the job and she's now saying she'll keep steny hoyer as her second in command and will create a new position for clyburn assistant leader and on the g.o.p. side, trouble is brewing between the establishment forces and the new tea party backed leaders now, settling in, because the tea party backers are akug. >> bill: -- accusing the g.o.p. from co-opting them. >> reporter: there are two rallies, organized by the clairmount institute, a think tank and, a memo on the event says it is important for the historic class of new members to get to know each other and discuss how we can work together as a group in general. but, the tea party patriots, a national tea party group had an event the same day and says, the clare mont gathering is an

effort to push the tea party aside and co-opt the in coming congressmen and, we have an update from the patriots who put out a clarification saying they have quote nothing but admiration for the claremont institute and don't believe they are part of the the "inside the beltway" detecti beltway"" d.c. problems and, nancy pelosi is trying to iron out the battle on the minority whip position in the new congress, settling the matter, she said she'd like steny hoyer to be the minority whip and would create a new position for clyburn so he stays in the number three 3 and wrote in the letter, quote: i'll be honored to nominate our outstanding colleague, congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. to serve in the number 3 house democratics position. i will also ask the caucus to designate the position as assistant leader. meaning he would report to pelosi and not steny hoyer and he responded with his own

letter, saying he understands many of his colleagues wanted to aprovide a prolonged battle and asking them to support the proposal. quote, promulgated by nancy pelosi. julie. >> julie: molly henneberg in washington. thank you so much. in alaska, write in candidate senator lisa murkowski is confident that she will keep her title. the incumbent maintaining 90% of the 98,000 write in votes recorded so far compared to 87,000 votes for joe miller. you will remember, she made her write-in bid after losing the g.o.p. primary, to miller, in august. nothing is decided, yet. the hand counted is expected to go through the weekend. and, run well into next week and now a pending federal lawsuit over the state's interpretation of ballots is putting the fate of the race in limbo. dan springer is live in you. >> -- in juneau, alaska, tonight. >> reporter: this is the first

day of counting the votes in juneau, and the trend continues to look good for senator murkowski and if there is one surprise to all of this, it is how well all of her supporters can spell a not so easy to tell name and she might have enough unchallenged votes when the counts wraps up next wednesday to beat joe miller without a court fight over voter intent and miller and his lawyers maintain the murkowski name has to be spelled perfectly to counted and earlier today he made a surprise visit to the counting center and wanted to thank the volunteers and encourage them to keep the challenges coming and the observers have taken criticism from team murkowski for challenging correctly spelled votes over things like penmanship and come mass or the word, republican, after her name. >> i think what needs to be applied is the stat statute and that statute makes it very clear as to what is required. and, frankly, our position is, that will be determined, i believe by a court ultimately, assuming the votes are close

enough. >> reporter: murkowski is increasingly confident she will win when all the votes are counted by next week and is also agitated and calls it voter disenfranchisement what the miller campaign is doing. >> if what we are arguing over is whether the "o" is completely closed, it could be an o and an u but everything else is correct. i do not think that most alaskans would agree the intents of that particular voter is not clear. >> reporter: and the election director here in alaska agrees with her. and so her standard is, if she can spell it out and it sounds like "murkowski" it is close enough. >> julie: dan springer, thank you so much. and, no more questions about this race, democratic congressman ben chandler won his close re-election race in kentucky, his republican challenger, andy barr, conceding

ten days after election day and the win by a narrow 648 votes. one of the few bright spots for the democrats in the southern states and won in a district republican john mccain carried in 2008. and now that he knows for sure he's back in office he says he'll focus on job growth and the economy. president obama, in the meantime, wrapping up his trip to japan with one last high-level meeting scheduled, he'll sit down with russian president dmitry medvedev shortly and will be flying back to the u.s. in a few hours. did the president get what he wanted during the ten day trip to asia? let's ask wendell goler who joins us live from japan tonight, hi, wendell. >> reporter: the president certainly didn't get as much as he wanted, he hoped to reconfigure a bush administration free trade agreement with south korea. that basically shut the u.s. out of the korean auto market and also, gets international pressure on china to stop adjusting its currency, to gain

an unfair advantage in exports, he got neither. and, in some ways it is a result of the decision a couple of years ago to expands the world's most important economic group from 8 members to 20. the president agreed it was necessary to bring in merging economies like china and brazil, to cope with the economic crisis but, now the crisis is over, and those economies, chinese and brazilian economies are booming and the president has been unable to convince them america's economy is weak enough to threaten the rest of the world, especially since u.s. trade and -- in this region of the world seems to be expanding quite well and here's what he said to the ceos, yesterday. >> president barack obama: the u.s. is looking to expand trade and commerce throughout the asia pacific. even though our exports in this region have risen more than 60%, over the last five years, our overall share of trade in the region has declined, in favor of our competitors and we wanted to change that. >> reporter: president obama and medvedev will talk about the new

start treaty that the president hopes will be ratified by the senate, during the lame duck session, that begins next week. the pentagon wants that as well, because, u.s. inspectors have not been able to look at the russian nuclear arsenal since the old star treaty expired last december but republicans are demanding billions in spending on new u.s. nuke clear modernization for their votes and they know that the democrats will have an even smaller majorities in the senate, next year. julie. >> julie: all right, thank you so much, wendell goler and good morning to you, 9:00 a.m. where you are, thank you so much. nato reporting three coalition members died fighting in afghanistan this weekend, and it comes as the taliban launches a new wave of violence across the country. several would-be homicide bombers tried but failed to breach the perimeter of a nato base in the eastern part of the country. six taliban fighters died in the two hour gunbattle following their attempt, to attack an afghan army base in jalalabad and all of the afternoon forces survived but a bomb hidden

inside a motorcycle killed ten people in kunduz province including a police commander and three children. new clues in a mysterious disappearance in ohio. a mother, two kids and a friend all still missing. we'll tell you what police are saying about a significant cli, found inside the family's home. next. and, police in north carolina confirm remains there belong to missing ten-year-old zahra baker. we'll have the latest on the disturbing case and whether police are any closer to naming a suspect. s how to make things that are good for you. s how to make things new v8 v-fusion + tea. one combined serving of vegetables and fruit with the goodness of green tea and powerful antioxidants. refreshingly good.

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disappeared as well. and ohio police believe blood found inside the family's home is a factor in the disappearance and they are not exactly saying what they believe the blood is. authors locked down the campus of the colleges, after finding herman's truck parked nearby, and, tina boyfriend, said he saw her the night before, but the children's father, isn't sure. >> i got a call from my mom asking if i knew where tina sfwho. >> the live-in boyfriend, i don't believe anything he says. >> police are not naming suspects or persons of interest in this case. >> julie: another case, police following in north carolina, they are not saying, though if any new charges will be filed soon in connection with the deaths of zahra baker. the ten-year-old disabled girl was reported missing about a month ago.

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>> julie: nightmare for four children in texas. all of them abandoned after riding in an suv that crashed and now cops are searching for the man they say was behind the wheel. their father. this is the scene where cops say

miguel torres crashed his suv, the five-year-old daughter was thrown from the ford expedition, and, police say torres drove away, leaving her there. and, they say he ended up at a park a mile away, and left his six and nine-year-old sons there with the suv and next, he brought his 11-month-old baby to a relative's house and disappeared. his oldest son had to flag down a driver for help and told cops his father had been drunk, two kids are now in the hospital with head trauma and the other two with relatives tonight and the father, he has yet to be found. the navy commissioning the latest warship in florida, today, the 510 foot uss jason dunham cost more than $1 billion, to build, a state of the art destroyer named for the first marine awarded the middle of honor in vietnam, he was 22 years old when he died in iraq. and, days after using his body, to shield his fellow marines

from an exploding grenade and president bush presented the award to his parents, in 2007 and today, his mother called the crew to their positions. >> to the crew of jason dunham, rest assured when you sail you sail with a guardian angel. officers and crew, of the uss jason dunham, man our ship and bring her to life. [cheers and applause]. >> julie: the uss justin dunham will travel to its home base in norfolk, virginia. ever wonder what it is like to walk in the boots of a veteran returning from war, many of outs will never know, but a group of iraq and afghanistan war vets are arming themselves with video cameras and hope to capture the day-t day-to-day experiences. casesy steegel joins us with

more. >> reporter: good evening, move over, james cameron, a new set of budding directors out there. and, these people not only have the good eye, but have also served in the u.s. military, and, on the fronts lines of war. now, those experiences make their documentaries even more personal, and more compelling, for the last three years, the brave new foundation has selected veterans from all in around the country, to what have an interest in film and have unique stories to tell, fund by a $4 million granted the veterans get hands on training under operation "in their boots" how to translate ideas to the silver screen. >> i began to realize that a lot of veterans either had film making skills before being deployed or were coming back and going to film school. and i knew there were a lot of trained, skilled, intelligent filmmakers. who can deliver and produce and direct. >> reporter: to date more than

20, 15 minute documentaries have been produced covering substance abuse among veterans, troops suffering from survivors guilt when a comrade has been killed in the line of duty and delving into how difficult it can be for a college student to come off the battlefield and head back into the classroom. >> i want people's reaction. when they watch it, obviously, to like it and be engaged and entertained but i alsos want them to see like a personal snip of somebody's life and want them to be able to put a face and a personality to the veterans returning home. >> all right, the big question, where can you catch these documentaries? one of two-da places, on-line o select tv stations in your city, to check complete local listings or view them on the world wide web go to www.intheirboots.com and i encourage everyone to check it out. they are absolutely fascinating. julie. >> julie: casey steegel, thank you very much.

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>> julie: in recent days arc has been the scene of what is called the most complex live fire training exercise held there since 2003, and u.s. forces are not behind the operation near basra, david piper tells us, it is iraq's own display of military might. >> it was the chance the iraqi military to show how far they had come the past few years with the top brass from iraq and the u.s. looking on, the iraqi forces set themselves to destroy an enemy position on an island near basra in the the south of the country. the u.s. military had no input, except to review the plan and make sure it didn't endanger nearby residents. and the operation started with a water barrage and motor boats with machine gun crews joined the battle and it was followed up by an amphibious assault by the 14th army division and to show they have the ability to wage war from land, sea and the air, helicopters then swooped

low to join the battle. the iraqi military wants to show it can execute complicated missions as it moves from fighting insurgency to a more traditional role. iraq's military knows it has to develop quickly, if it will be able to defend the country, from any external threats. >> training, to training our soldiers, our soldiers, to grow and, to do the international operations. >> reporter: the military's role is to advise an assist iraqis force and were impressed by what they saw. >> they've done demonstrated, they can perform complex live fire exercises. >> reporter: iraqi troops will receive advice and asister tans for one more year and the hope is then they'll have the ability to swiftly secure the whole of the country. not just the island. david piper, fox news.

>> julie: i'm jewulie bandaras, the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news, a deadly in afghanistan, ten people, including three children died when a bomb inside a motorcycle went off, one of several attacks, today and nato reporting three coalition members were killed, while fighting insurgents and the president meeting with dmitry medvedev in japan, planning to discuss the nuclear arms reductions pact they signed in april. and, still has not been ratified in the u.s. senate. and a deal on extending the bush era tax cuts, could start to take shape in the next several days and lawmakers are feeling the pressure because, with no decision all the cuts will expire in january. and, that could bring significant tax increases for families at all income levels and the president is out of it, though and the currents tax rates can only be extended for middle and lower income

households and, the sentiment on capitol hill is no one should see a tax hike and the question is, will that reality force the president's hand? julie kirtz is in our d.c. bureau with more. >> reporter: the tax cut battle followed the president on his asia trip, telling reporters he is willing to compromise with newly empowered republicans, but how much, and when, he is not saying. in japan the president seemed to avoid a kabuki theater performance and jumped back into political kabuki in washington over the bush era tax rates. and the president said it would be an irresponsible mistake to extend the high income tax breaks permanently but here's where the political dance comes in, he says there's a whole host of ways to compromise on tax. >> president barack obama: i continue to believe extending permanently the upper income tax cuts would be a mistake. and we cannot afford it. and, my hope is that somewhere

in between there we can find some sort of solution. but, i'm not going to negotiate here in seoul. >> reporter: the president sits down with republican and democratic leaders next week to hammer out a deal. republicans want a tax break for everyone and the pressure is onto avoid a jam, if no action by the end of the year during the lame duck session, the current tax breaks expire across the board and david axelrod, a tom obama advisor told the "huffington post" obama was ready to give in on extending the tax cuts for wealthy americans and not so, says the president, and the huge question, at this point, how far is obama willing to move ona very real money issue for millions of americans. julie? >> julie: julie kirtz, thank you. president obama in the meantime is calling on congress to stop unnecessary spending. and in his weekly radio and internet address he says he wants lawmakers to cut earmarks.

>> president barack obama: some of these earmarks support worthy projects in our local communities and many don't, and we cannot afford bridges to nowhere like the one planned a few years back in alaska, earmarks like these represent a small part of overall federal spending. but when it comes to signalling our commitment to fiscal responsibility, addressing them would have an important impact. >> reporter: the president finding common ground with republicans. greg wall den of oregon laying out the g.o.p.'s plan to cut spending in their weekly address. listen: >> we're also tracking down every last rule and roadblock rigged to keep government spending binge on auto pilot. and, if we are ever going to change the broken status quo we need to make it yeasier to cut spending and harder to increase it. >> julie: republicans are looking into changing how congress does business, he says so all members have to have time to read all bills before voting on them. and former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel officially

kicking off his campaign for mayor of chicago. he's said to be the front-runner for the post held by richard daley since 1989. and, he told the crowd at a high school in his former congressional district what the campaign means to him. >> chicago is where i was born. where my children were raised. they are the fourth generation of my family, to live here. only the opportunity to help president obama as his chief of staff could have pried me away from chicago and only the opportunity to lead the city could have pried me away from the president's side. >> julie: chicago voters will decide who will be the next mayor on february 22nd. it looks like texas governor rick perry may have enough votes to lead the republican's governors, and the spokesperson says he has the votes to be named the chairman of the republican governors association and the organization is expected to announce its choice next week, his second time in the

seat and already served in '08 and if elected will succeed haley barbour of mississippi who held the position since mark sanford of south carolina resigned after he was caught having an affair with a woman from argentina. election day, 27 gubernatorial race and 12 went to the democrats, one to independent and one undecided in minnesota. a bizarre story in florida, a woman accused of trying to sell her own grandchild. now we're hearing from the person who went undercover, and, turned her in to police, the suspect's biological daughter, who was adopted and raised by another couple, 26 years ago. kelly joyce, a fox affiliate, wofl has the rest of the story. >> reporter:ial danielle says her biological mom contacted her after 26 years and her mother called with an odd request.

>> i can tell you, you don't want to talk about the past. this is about, him, i need a place for him to go. >> reporter: she was talking about her grand son, and it turns out her 21-year-old daughter, left the baby with her and took off with the boyfriend and shortly after their conversation, she says she was slapped in the face with a facebook message from her mom. >> $75,000. is what she wanted. >> reporter: she said no way, she said she made it clear she'd find another buyer and she called police. she assisted in an undercover operation, negotiating with big buy for the baby while agents listened in and talked her down to $30,000 and helped arrange a meeting. the first time she was to meet her biological mother and it was a trap. >> she said come see him and instructed her boyfriend to move the stuff to my car and she was saying, meet your new mommy, aden, and, you know, put the

baby in the car and it was all about a business transaction, not, haven't seen you in 27 years, how are you doing, how is your family, it was a business transaction. >> julie: and she says she just found out from her adoptive parents that they were also bribed 26 years ago for a similar amount of money, from the woman who threatened to take the baby back if they didn't pay. thanks to kelly joyce of wofl for that story. tragedy at a fairgrounds event and one state with two huge lottery jackpots, a first, as we go across america. yoit ♪ >> julie: oklahoma. an accident at a charity event ending in tragedy. a makeshift ride of 5 a gallon barrels being pulled by a four wheeler overturned, and left one child dead and four others seriously injured. the children ranging in age from 3 to 8 years old.

indiana. the hero who safely landed a plane on the hudson river last year honored at purdue university. chesley "sully" sullenberger receiving the neil armstrong medal of excellence, he told the crowd it was almost unbelievable that armstrong and his name would be in the same sentence, he received a masters in industrial psychology from purdue in 1973. texas: a different approach to parking in death downtown fort worth. the city swapping coin meters for a credit card based system. >> swipe it and add time by pushing the blue button. >> julie: rates remain the same, however officials saying the new meters are a way to generate extra revenue. michigan: a group is suddenly filthy rich after claiming a $129 million jackpot. the winning powerball ticket

purchase at a detroit area porn shop and the recipients planning on how to use the cash. >> a huge portions will go to the church. >> reporter: that is not the only winner, a $140 million mega millions jackpot was purchased at a convenience store in gladstone, and that is the fox watch across america. >> julie: facebook is back after a temporary shut down in an entire country, what caused the social network to go dark? find out coming up. and we know about some of the most famous names that came out of west pointed. now, we're learning more about what it took to get them in, find out, peter doocy was a live report coming up next. you might also want to try lifting one of these. a unique sea salt added to over 40 campbell's condensed soups. helps us reduce sodium, but not flavor. so do a few lifts. campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™

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>> julie: mod evan -- modern technology has a rare glimpse into america's past, these are documents from the 19th century back in the early years of west point and many of them are

application letters from i-cons of our military past and thousands of the documents are posted in the internet for all to see and peter doocy is here to tell us where we can view these historical artifacts. >> reporter: julie, i have a sister applying for college this year and the application ask things like what is your favorite word or what is the best invention of the 21st century and she has to answer a lot of this stuff on-line. and, we learned this weekend, that the application process in the 19th century for west point cadets was a lot different. back then every word was written in cursive that is often tough to decipher, but, when you do read it you get a good idea of how very famous american figures tried to sell themselves to the military academy, like george picket in 1842 who years before his picket's charge at gettysburg wrote, quote, i am a young man, 19, 6 feet tall and moderately good looking as i'm told and an ohio congressman focused on academics in his nomination of george custer

writing he was with, quote, no deformity and, quote, able to perform with facility and accuracy, the groundrules of arithmetic. and, he went to push last in his class years before the last stand at little big horn and ancestry.com made 115,000 west point application available for free, until tomorrow. and they have the years 1805 to 1866 covered and west point has the rest locked up and they were able to do it with the help of the national archives, who have done an amazing job of keeping track of all of these documents from all of that time. and, keeping them safe from disasters and, the elements. >> this record right here has a page which was damaged in the fire. we have a large number of records that were burned in the fire, in 1973. and, that is the bulk of our work here in the sons creation lab. >> now, some cadets like robert e. lee's files remained sealed

and everybody else you can think of is on there and it gives you a rare glimpse of what the tough guys were like when they were teenagers and no bandarases in there. >> julie: really? peter, thank you very much. there is only wouldn't of me, in myanmar, activists and nobel peace prize winner angle san sue chy she won the country's last democratic election in 1990, in a statement the president described aung san suu kyi calls on myanmar's government to release thousands more political prisoners. a tragic blaze threatening the lives of animals, at a zoo. and, facebook temporarily off limits, for an entire country. as we go around the world, in 80 seconds. >> julie: germany, a fire tearing through a zoo in the

nation's southwest region, at least 26 animals killed, it took 100 firefighters battling strong winds to control the blaze, an investigation is under way, to determine what triggered the fir fire. bangladesh, clashes between police and political activists, and the reuters are proteio rio demonstrators smashing cars and setting fire to buses along the road. and belgium, a christian group leading a march in the city of brussels. protesting the recent wave of violence against christians in iraq. over 4,000 people showed up despite the pouring rain. the event ending in a rally outside the european commission, the executive body of the european union. saudi arabia, the social networking site, facebook, back on-line after being temporarily

blocked. users throughout the country, received error messages when they tried logging onto the site. the nation's communications authority defending the block, saying facebook doesn't conform with the kingdom's conservative values, and this after similar bans in pakistan and bangladesh, that is a wrap on the fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. >> julie: a fleet of russian tanks, is often enough to strike fear in hearts of the enemy and you cannot blame russia for some unusual stems to protect its fleet. we'll show you russia's latest strange new tool, coming up. and, turning the tables on bernie madoff. finally his loss could be your gain. we'll look at his personal items now, hitting the auction block. next. okay, now here's our holiday gift list. aww, not the mall. well, i'll do the shopping... if you do the shipping. shipping's a hassle. i'll go to the mall. hey. hi. you know, holiday shipping's easy with priority mail

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>> julie: military around the world are looking for new ways to gain advantage over their enemies and one of the latest ideas outs of russia is really, full of hot air. amy kellogg has an inside look. >> reporter: the russian army, what is left of the once mighty red army has gone through growing pains as the soviet union dissolved and the threats the country faces have morphed into terrorism and guerrilla warfare and military production declined and russia struggles to keep competitive on the international arms market and a lesser known aspect of the military reality is actually trickery, a cost-cutting camouflage. the russian army is experimenting with inflatable tanks, and rocket launchers, to give the enemy the illusion of a faux, formidable -- foe more formidable than it is. >> everybody thinks it is real but the real one is hidden elsewhere, it is about

deception. >> reporter: the company, specialized in hot air balloons and bouncy castles for kids until the idea of rubber dummies for the battlefield came along and at 6 grand a decoy they are much cheaper, casualties of war than "the real mccoy" and up to 1 million, and no filter inside and in order to be i believable target it's not just shape that matters. >> we used a special metallic film to make a radar signature and, special heaters so it would look as if the engine is hot through an infrared scope. >> reporter: they've used decoys for ages and they were heavy and difficult to transport and this, as huge as it is is light to lift up even when fully inflated. they won't say how much hardware has been actually deployed. it is a state secret. for now, the subterfuge continues, amy kellogg, fox news. >> julie: no one would like to be in bernie madoff's shoes, but

apparently some people would like to own a pair of 'em. footwear, clothing, jewelry and furniture and more, thousands of items, once owned by the fall in financier and his wife, ruth, went on the auction block, today. in new york. and, bidders were more than happy to invest. a steinway grand piano, that once decorated his penthouse was supposed to fetch $7,000 and sold for... $42,000. a leather foot stool was auctioned off at $3300. proceeds go to the more than 3,000 clients madoff swindled in a multibillion-dollar ponzi scheme, and he's now in prison for life. hell hath no fury like a scorned lover. ask this california man, he hoped a girlfriend would say "i do" but said, i won't. and, you won't believe what he is accused of doing next.

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athletes from around the globe gathered in south africa to play soccer? well, new york today show casing a different kind of world cup, yes. it is the quittich world cup, from the harry potter books, they try pass is a volleyball through a large hoop, over 100 schools throughout the country organizing informal quittich matches for fans of wizardry. ♪ >> julie: on this day in 19812 the vietnam veterans memorial dedicated to americans who didn't come home from service in the war. nearly 58,000 names inscribed on the black granite wall, the memorial different from others, because the names are arranged in order of death, not rank and countless relatives, friends and complete strangers make it one of washington's most visited memorials, but a grateful nation officially said thank you, to our heros, 28 years ago. today.