several rivers in the upper midwest are nearing record flood levels, but will the waters recede before homes and businesses are under water? we will tell you what forecasters are saying. and this -- >> they bit me all up. >> a swarm of africanized bees attacked this man so badly they ripped through his clothes. we'll havehe story. and check this guy out. look closely, he's taking a walk 400 feet in the air with nothing

but 1/2 inch wire under his feet. wait until you hear where his mother was this whole time. you're watching hln on this first day of spring. i'm susan hendricks. our top story, president obama will head to capitol hill today to make his final case for health care reform. four officials say he plans to talk to the house democratic caucus. and tomorrow, the house is expected to vote on the health care bill the senate passed in december. yesterday, president obama td a crowd at georgeason university that something historic would happen this weekend. >> and if you believe that it's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight. you've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago. and maksome phone calls and knock on some doors, talk to your parents, talk to your friends, do not quit, do not give up, we keep on going. we are going to get this done. we are gng to make history. >> house speaker nancy pelosi

meanwhile is going over a democratic representative's amendment. it tightens restrictio on a federal band on funding abortions. one pro choice representative says as many as 50 democrats could drop their support of the bill if that amendment is included. well, democratic leaders are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass the bill. our sister network cnn's latest count says 30 democrats pn to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes ae needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn that democrats have more than 200 yes votes. 29 have not decidedow they will vote yet, and 15 have not responded. republicans, meanwhile, have vowed to do everything they can to kill the health care bill. they say nothing,ot even the new estimates on how much the bill will cut the deficit will change their opinion of it. >> this is all built and premised upon some assumptions that just don't bear out. and that now is indicative of

why they're having so many difficulties in lining up the votes. the votes still aren't there. and, you know, this notion that we're going to see the text in the morning to incorporate yet even more changes when we make amendments to the rules committee reflects the fact they're having to cut more deals. >>. it looks like florida taxpayers will cover some of casey anthony's bills. her attorneys asked the state to pay for her defense expenses because she is allegedlybroke. they argue she is entitled to it because of a right to fair trial. they would cover anything from expert witness fees to the cost of investigations. anthony is facing murder charges as you know in the death of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. thousands of british airways passengers are in limbo today. they're not sure if their flights will take off or not. the airline's cabin crews went on strike last night after union talks with management failed. now the union opposes a new plan

that would change how the cabin crews operate. the strike will go on through monday and pick up again next weekend. the airline says it will use replacement workers to get about 2/3 of passengers to their destinations. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv, it was caught on tape. we have to tell you she is okay. but here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta, there she goes getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv. it is hard to look at. now what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed, and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up, my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arreed. she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but once the

officer began helping the victim the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. it's a startling statistic, nearly 1 in 8 americans is on food stamps. well, now, looks like efforts to prevent fraud have created new opportunities for scammers. a 10-week undercover operation revealed transactions for alcohol, cigarettes, even cold hard cash. and it could be costing you millions. take a look. >> can i get $100 back off of this? >> you see a small bag in her hand. >> what you just saw is atore employee ran the debit card was the clerk allegedly keeping $100 for the store and then giving an undercover agent $100 back plus the good. and officials say it's illegal. >> it's directly stealing from the taxpayers of the united states. >> what they do is they charge the u.s. government $212.02, the

food benefit, food balance, all that, and they give us $100 in cash. cigarettes and chips for $212. >> the debit card the undercover agent used is electronic benefit transfer card or evt which can only be used to purchase food. authorities believe during the past year 16 stores in florida alone defrauded taxpayers of $3.5 million. officials say they can't provide an accurate number on the nationwide consequences, but they estimate it reaches into the billions of dollars. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsdale, arizona last night. luckily no one was inside at the time. but homes on both sides of that fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation.

africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony. sadly his 70-pound dog sox took the brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bees, the other dog i got him loose. and it w all i could take to get out of there. and i wound up naked in my front yard running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting and they were trying to get -- they were trying to go in your eyes, your ears, everywhere. >> we, there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. here is an example of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia's twitter accounts likely stopped a teenager from killing himself.

you know, this is something i'm really personally interested in. a lot of people saying ey simply don't have enough time to exercise. confess, i'm one of them, as well. well, that excuse is gone now. that could be gone. new research out there says if you can exercise less and still get just as fit. may sound a bit gimmicky. the key to all of this is something known as h.i.t., high interval training. what researchers found is just 20 minutes of high-intensity exercising burns more calories, builds mre muscle than someone who jogs leisurely for an ur. you exercise very intensely for a minute, take a break for a minute, exercise for a minute, exercise for a minute, take a break for a mute and so on and

so forth for about 20 minutes. high intenty minutes. get ten minutes of that hard exercise at the end, ten minutes of a little bit more rest. and here's what they found. here's w it'important. first of all your heart rate. while it does drop during those rest periods doesn't drop significantly. so you're still continuing to have this aerobic workout. in some cases even an anaerobic workout. the endurance seemed to be almost as good as someone who did the longer more leisurely workouts in a much shorter time. certain exercises are going to be the best for this, cycling, running, swimming are better for this type of training. here's something i thought of. if you're running, you can find a hill that takes you about a minute to run up and walk back down, keep doing that for 20 minutes. bottom line, for everybody, take a look at your fitness goals,

these short duration, high intensity exercises could be a solution that works for you. actors demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have stopped an 18-year-old from committing suicide. moore and vardalos responded to messages from young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia also reported the threat on twitter and called florida authorities. >> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not that complicated, but it sounds like it is. and she responds to him and says are you serious? and he says yes. >> we're very grateful that the people picked up the phone. in this case very well could've saved his life. >> the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive-compulsive disorder. he was crying when he told police he admitted posting the tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil.

look closely, in florida, he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervous just looking at it. he walked between two 34-story towers in ft. myers, yesterday, and no net was underneath them. this is the highest sky walk he has er performed. and get this, he says he decided last minute to include his mother. she's also a wire walker but hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the world's largest chocote rabbit. looks like they have, though. 12 feet 5 inches, it took three days to complete, the sculpture will be on display until march 27th and then it'll be broken up and given to local orphanages in time for easter. the first round of the ncaa

basketball tournament is in the book. how is your bracket doing? >> you know, i took a few more gambles on underdogs than the president did. he played it pretty safe, which was actually pretty smart. obama picked 25 of the first 32 games correctly. one of the underdogs he did pick, he picked right. cornell university upset temple university to win the school's first er ncaa tournament game. advancing to the second round pretty rare in the ivy league. well, tiger woods wille sporting a new logo on his golf bag when he tees it up at the masters. he's going with the tw logo, which is a nike brand of clothing and accessory. nike is tiger's longest corporate sponsor and will be replacing the at&t logo which dropped him december 31st. the golf bag and the golf hat are the two areas where the

companies get the most television exposure. remember this a few weeks back, he collapsed in a trainer's arms during a game? it looked like the guy was having a seizure. he was carted off on a stretcher wearing an oxygen mask and taken to a hospital. last night he returned to the court for the first time after missing six games. and you know what? he looked great. he played more than half the game and was the team leading scorer. afterwards he says the plan wasn't to play that much, but he felt fine. big-time players make big-time plays. joe johnston drains the buzzer beater in overtime to beat the charlotte bobcats. a clutch shot against defense. not a good ending for michael jordan. first game as the team's new owner. that's sports. i'm joe carter. one woman says she took her toyota in for recall work and that is when she says her trouble began. her story is just ahead right here on hln.

pope benedict xvi says he's truly sorry that the sexual abuse that victims suffered at a catholic priest in ireland. the letter was made public today and is expected to beead in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent government-backed report that catholic diocese in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 until 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries, including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the arch diocese ignored warnings to keep a molesting priest away from

children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings. more than 300 cases of alleged abuse have emerged in germany, mostly since january, but no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. we certainly cov a lot of them. and you never know how a police chase is going to end. but what happened in arizona tuesday was in no way typical. police in phoenix tried to pull over a suspicious pickup. here it is. the driver hit the gas instead. the helicopter crew from our affiliate ktvk followed the action. >> at times he was going about 90 miles per hour, and then police decided to back off when he was kind of getting in the resideial neighborhoods and stuff like that. they were suspicious of something in the back of his truck. from what i can tell, this is an f-150, looks silver or white. and in the back of the pickup truck, looks like plywood. so anyway, the chase continued at 80 or 90 miles per hour, luckily no one has been hurt. there has been no accidents in this. but the police have since pulled

off. and you can see he's continuing to go just driving around in these residential neighborhoods. police have backed off and at this point we all know where he is. so so far he's not getting away. it looks like he's starting to obey no, he just blew a stop sign right there. everybody's working together up here he doesn't know that we're still tracking him. dps helicopters overhead and they're giving that information to the ground police officers letting them know exactly where he's going. so the idea is -- you can see the cops behind him right now. so he's captured. he's caught. >> police got a big payoff once the driver and several passengers are in custody. nine people, if you can imagine were hiding underneath that plywood. the chase got up to spes of up to 90 miles per hour. that's how fast it got. all were arrested and are believed to be undocumented or illegal immigrants. president barack obama has one word for canadian prime

minister steven rper, cheers. yesterday the president made good on a bet and gave the pri minister a case of beer. the two heads of state had a friendly debateon the hockey game. canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime, it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw in a case of the president's favorite beer. eeeeeeee

several rivers in the upper midwest are nearing record flood levels, but will the waters recede before homes and businesses are under water? we will tell you what forecasters are saying. and this -- >> they just bit me all up. >> a swarmf africanized bees attacked this man so bdly he ran out of his clothes. at least he survived. his 70-pound dog was not as lucky. we'll have the story. and check this guy out, no fear of heights here. look closely, he's taking a walk 400 feet in the air with nothing

but a 1/2 inch wire under his feet. you are watching hln on this first day of spring. so glad you're with us. i'm susan hendricks. our top story, president obama will head to capitol hill today to make his final case for health care reform. four democratic officials say he plans to talk to the house democratic caucus. and tomorrow, the house is expected to vote on the health care bill the senate passed in december. yesterday, president obama told a crowd at george mason university that something historic would happen this weekend. >> and if you believe that it's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight. you've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago and make some phone calls and knock on some doors, talk toour parents, talk to your friends, do not quit. do not give up. we keep on going. we are going to get this done. we are going to make history. house speaker nancy pelosi, meanwhile, is going over a

democratic representative's amenent. it tightens restrictions on a federal ban funding abortions. as many as 50 democrats could drop their support of the bill if that amendment is included. well, democratic leaders are still trying to round the 216 vote es needed to pass the bill. our sister network cnn's latest count say 30 democrats plan to vote no. multiple sources have told cnn that democrats have more than 200 yes votes, 29 have not decided how they will vote yet, and 15 have not responded. republicans, meanwhile, have vowed to do everything they can to kill the health care bill. they say nothing, not eve the new estimates on how much the bill will cut the deficit will change their opinion of it. >> this is all built and premised upon some assumptions that just don't bear out. and that now is indicative of

why they're having so many difficulties in lining up the votes. the votes still aren't there. and you know, this notion that we're going to see the text in the morning to incorporate yet even more changes when we make amendments to the rules committee reflects the fact they're having to go cut more deals. >> and stay with hln throughout the weekend. and we will keep you up to date on the health care showdown. right now, some of the other stories making headlines. thousands of british airways passengers are in limbo today. they're not sure if their flights will take off or not. the airline's cabin crews went on strike last night after union talks with management failed. now, the union opposes a new plan. the strike will go on through monday and pick up again next weekend. the airline says it will use replacementorke to get about 2/3 of passengers to their destinations. it looks like florida taxpayers will cover some of casey anthony's legal bills. that is what a circuit judge

ruled yesterday. her attorneys asked the state to pay for her defense expenses because she is allegedly broke. they argued she is entitled to it because of her right to a fair trial. the attorney said the state would cover anything from expert witness fees to the cost of investigations. anthony is facing murder charges as you know in the death of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv, it was caught on tape. we have to te you she is okay. but here it is. the view from the dash cam o a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv. it is hard to look at. what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just rememb crossing the street and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up, my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arrested.

she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now loong for her. pope benedict xvi's letter on ireland's abusive priests will be read today. allegations of abuse in a catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the arch diocese ignored warnings to keep molesting priests away from young children. more than 30 cases of alleged abuse have emerged in germany, mostly since january. but no others have surfaced that could implice the pope. it's a startling statistic. nearly 1 in 8 americans is on food stamps. well, now, it looks like efforts to prevent fraud have created new opportunities for scammers. a ten-week undercover operation

revealed transactions for alcohol, cigarettes, even cold hard cash. and could be costing you millions. take a look. >> can i get 100 back off of this? >> what you want? >> i want 100 back. >> you see that small bag in her hand. >> what you just saw is the store employee ran the debit card was the clerk allegedly keeping $100 for the store, then givi an undercover agent $100 back plus the goods. and florida department of law enforcement officials say it's illegal. >> it's directly stealing from the taxpayers of the united states. >> see what they do is they charge the u.s. government $212.02, evt food benefit, food balance, all that. and they give us $100 in cash. cigarettes and chips for $212. >> the debit card is called

electronic benefit transfer card or ebt. during the past year 16 stores in florida alone defrauded taxpayers of $3.5 million. officials say they can't provide an accurate number on the nationwide consequences, but they estimate it reaches into the billions of dollars. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsdale, arizona last night. luckily no one was inside at the time. but homes on both sides of that fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation. africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony. sadly his 70-pound dog sox took the brunof the attack. >> one dog was covered inbees, the other dog, i got him loose.

and it was all i could take to get out of there. and i wind up naked in my front yard running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting and they were trying to get -- those bees tried to go in your ey, ears, everywhere. in your mouth. >> there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. president barackbama has one word for canadian prime minister steven harper, cheers. yesterday the president made good on a bet and gave him a case molson beer. they had a friendly bet on the outcome of the u.s./canada hockey game. as you know canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, he also threw in a case of the president's favorite beer. we are keeping an eye on the flooding in the midwest. we go to reynolds wolf who is live in moorhead, minnesota.

how is it looking there? >> well, things right now are actually pretty good for the most part. no reports of an flooding of homes in either moorhead or across the river in fargo. that's really good news. one thing you can see or hear, see some trains coming in across right here moving into moorhead. now as this particular train union pacific has been moving westo east. and we do expect the water to rise to possibly 37.5 feet by tomorrow. that's the bad news. good news is that should be well shy of the record set last year of 40 feet 8 inches. what we can anticipate will be, ain, the potential flooding all across parts of the region, not just in fargo and grand forks, but over to chicago. those are your watch and warning area. and you can seeright along the lengths of the red river where we're having issues. we go from that red river to the red river that makes the texas and oklahoma border.

that area could see some snowfall day. we have winter storm warnings in effect. and susan, believe it or not, we have a state of emergency that has been declared for oklahoma. all 77 counties may receive some rough winter weather. some places i mentioned up to a foot of snow, visibility's going to be poor and farther south of the metro plex could see some strong storms. that is a quick look at your forecast. more updates throughout the day. you're watching hln. here is an example of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have stopped a teenager from killing himself.

actors demi moore and nia

vardalos' twitter accounts m have stopped an 18-year-old from committing suicide. moore and nvardalos responded t young man threatening to kill himself. they called florida authorities. >> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not that complicated but it sounds like it is. and she responds to him and says, are you serious? and he says yes. >> we're very grateful tt the people that followed on twitter picked up the phone. so in this case it absolutely very well could've saved his life. >> an amazing story. the teen's mother told police their son has obsessive-compulsive disorder. he was at his computer desk crying when he admitted to posting the tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil. look closely. in florida, he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervous just looking at it.

he walked between two 34-story towers in ft. myers yesterday and no net was underneath them. nick already i the guinness book of world records but this is the highest he's ever performed. and get this, he decided last minute to include his mother. she's also a wire walker but she hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the worls largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have, though. their easter bunny is 12 feet 5 inches and weighs more than 3 tons. it took three days to complete. the sculpture will be on display until march 27th, then broken up into chocolate be bits and given to lal orphanages in time for easter. what are the odds that two brothers from canada would make the ncaa tournament let alone play against each other in a first-round game? it did happen last night. hi, jeff. >> hi, susan. it's a pretty amazing story.

chris joseph who plays for syracuse met his older brother who plays for vermont before they played against each other last night. guess who was under the most pressure? mom, of course. she was in the stands and she wore a specifically made t-shirt with both teams on it. word is she was in pretty good spirits. older brother, maurice made a couple of nice baskets for vermont, but younger brother chris plays on a much, much better team. syracuse, the number one seed rolled over 16th seed vermont to advance. after the first round of the tournant, how is your bracket doing? president obama is doing pretty well. he picked 25 of the first 32 games correctly, only seven wrong. espn has 4.8 million online bracket entries. none are rfect. only three have missed one. steelers team president art rooney ii is taking t wait and see approach when it comes to the ben roethlisberger situation. he's under investigation after being accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student two weeks ago.

rooney said if it was summer time, the steelers may have to be thinking and doing something different, but at the moment, they're in a situation to let the investigation play out and then go from there. well, the saints are raising ticket prices for next season. expect to pay about $10 more. i know what you're thinking, though, win the super bowl and then jack up prices. but wait, the team is quick to point out there's still only a handful of professional teams out there that offer cheap tickets. they offer 6,000 for $25. we're in the middle of march madness, but a high school basketball player from michigan is getting national attentio for an impressive dunk. a senior from grand haven high school shatters a back board during a high school playoff game. they actually couldn't fixhe back board so they had to move the game five mis away. grand ven, they eventually won. th's sports, i'm joe carter. one woman says she took her toyota in for recall work and that is when she says her trouble began.

her story is just ahead right here on hln.

one woman says she had a problem with her toyota even after she took care of the recent recall. this is the aftermath. she says her camry took off on her when she t tried to back itp into a garage on thursday. the car crashed through the back wall before it stopped. and she's blaming a sudden acceleration problem for it. >> i felt it accelerating. so i tried to stop it. by hitting the brakes. but it never stopped. it was going so fast. it didn't hardly give me time to

think of what i should try to do. >> emerson says she took her car in for service two weeks ago because of the recall acceleration problem. a toyota spokesperson says the company will notify its local quality insurance team. seven more banks have shut down, georgia. the others were in ohio, utah, alabama, also minnesota. federal regulators moved in yeerday and took them over. now, the fdic was able tofind other financial institutions to buy all of the troubled banks except the one in utah. 37 banks have failed so far this year. earthquake victims in haiti probably feel like they can't catch a break because yesterday they endured one of the heaviest rainfall s since the deadly earthquake. the rain swamped homelesscamps. and next week former presidents clinton and bush will travel there to meet with relief workers and government officials. > we certainly cover a lot of

them, and you never know how a police chase is gog to end. but what happened in arizona tuesday was in no way typical. police in phoenix tried to pull over a suspicious pickup, here it is. the driver hit the gas instead. the helicopter crew from affiliate ktvk followed the action. >> at times he was going about 90 miles per hour. then police decided to back off when he was kind of getting in the residential neighborhoods and stuff like that. they were suspicious of mething in the back of his truck. from what i can tell, this is an f-150. it looks like it's silver or white. and in the ba of the pickup truck, it looks like there's plywood. anyways, t chase, then, continued at 80 or 90 miles per hour. luckily no one has been hurt. there has been no accidents in this. but the police have since pulled off. and you can see he's continuing to go just driving around in these sidential neighborhoods. police have backed off. and at this point we all kow where he is. so so far he's not getting away. i don't know. it looks like he's starting to obey -- no, he just blew a stop

sign right there. everybody's working together up here so he doesn't know we're still tracking him. helicopters overhead, and they're giving that information to the ground police officers, letting them know exactly where he's going. so the idea is -- you can see the cops behind him right now. so he's captured. he's caught. >> police got a big payoff once the driver and several passengers were in custody. nine people, if you can imagine, were riding underneath that plywood. it must have been a bone-dry ride when the chase got up to speeds of 90 miles per hour. that's how fast it got. all were arrested and were believed to be undocumented or illegal immigrants. a man may have been caught on camera doing the unthinkable, stealing money from girl scouts. take a look. hear how the robbery victim is coping with the emotional aftermath of this.

police in atlanta have arrested a 20-ye-old man who may have killed a teenager for his cell phone. broderick smith is charged with gunning down 19-year-old anthony bevers wednesday night. poce say he refused to turn over his new touch-screen cell phone to smith. they say they struggled and smith shot bevers. officials say it's the worst incident there in four years. steve jobs and arnold

schwarzenegger are pushing organ donation in southern california. jobs, an organ transplant recipient, said he almost died waiting for an organ. they were in a children's hospital to unveil new legislation to expand the number of organ donors in the state. now, the bll would require driver's license applicants to answer whether they would be an organ or tissue donor before they are issued a license. those who say yes would be added to a registry. across the nation, big lenders are finding when it comes to delinquent homeowners, foreclosure may not be their best bet. "hln" money expert clark howard explains what this means for people struggling with their mortgage payments. >> if you are an upside-down homeowner, meaning you owe a lot more on your house than what it's worth and you've been struling to make your payments and you're facing the possibility of foreclosure, i have some good news for you. for the first time in the whole housing crisis, the nation's biggest mortgage lenders are

saying, wait a minute. foreclosing isn't really working out. in fact, what are these big lenders doing? they are actually getting serious about cooperating on short sales. the financial times of london reports lenders all across the country are going to be very cooperative and much speedier throughout 2010 in working with you selling your house at a discount so that someone else moves in. why? because the average loss to a bank is 20% of the value of a mortgage on a short sale, half the value of the house if they have to foreclose. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to be clark smart with your wallet, check me out at cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> and get ch more advice from clark himself today at noon eastern. he will help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. time is running out for congress to make up its mind about reforming the country's health careystem, and

lawmakers are duking it out over the last batch of crucial votes we're following it.

two-thirds of passengers to their destinations. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv. it was caught on tape. we have toell you, she is okay, but here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes, getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv. it is hard to look at. now, what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up.

my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arrested. she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. pope benedict xvi ys he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at the hands of catholic priests in ireland. the 18-page letter was made public today and is expected to be read in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent report th found the archdiocese of dublin and other catholic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 until 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early '80s, the archdiocese ignored warnings to keep molesting priests away from children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings.

re than 300 cases of alleged abuses have emerged in germany mostly since january. but no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsdale, arizona, last night. luckily no one was inside at the time. but homes on both sides of that fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation. africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony. sadly, his 70 pound dog, socks, took the brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bees. the other dog i got loose. and it was all i could take to get out of there. and i wound up naked in my front yard running from the bees. i just took my clothes off.

i was fighting, and they were trying to -- those bees try to go in your eyes, nose, everywhere, your mouth. >> there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. here is an example of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia n nardalis's twitters may have stopped a teen from killing himself.

actress demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have helped stop an 18-year-old from committin suicide. moore and vardalos responded to messages from a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia, also reported the threat twitter and called florida authorities. >> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not as complicated as it

sounds. and she responded to him as "are you serious?" and he said yes. >> we're grateful that the peleollowed on twitter picked up the phone. so in this case it absolely very well could have saved his life. >> the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive compulsive disorder. he was at his comter desk crying when he told police he admitted pting the tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil. look closely, in florida. he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervous just looking at it. he walked between two 34-story towers yesterday and no net was underneath him. he's already in the guinness book of records, but this is the highest skywalk he has ever performed. and get this. he says he decided last minute to include his mother. she's also a wire walker, but she hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the

world's largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have, though. their easter bunny is 12'5" and weighs more than 3 tons. it took three days to complete. it will be on display till march 27th and then broken up into chocolate bits and given to local orphages in time for easter. the first round of the ncaa basketball tournament is in the books. so how is your bracket looking? that's the question. joe carter's bracket, you're in good shape, right, joe, but not as strong as the president. >> you're right, not as strong as the president. i took a few more gambles on a few more underdog teams. he played it safe. obama picked 25 of the first 32 teams correctly. one of the underdog teams he did pick, he picked right cornell university upset temple university to win the school's first ever ncaa tournament game. advancing to the second round, pretty rare in the ivy league. it's been 12 years since a school has moved on. cornell, a 12th seed, will now

play fourth seed wisconsin on sunday. tiger woods will be sporting a new logo on his golf bag when he tees it up at the masters. he's going with the t.w. logo which is a nike brand of clothing and accessories. nike is tiger's longest corporate sponsor and will be replacing the at&t logo which dropped him december 31st. the golf bag and the golf hat are the two areas where companies get the most television exposure. remember this scary moment a few weeks back? rodney stuckey who played for detroit collapsed in a trainer's arms during a game. it looked like he was having a seizure. stuckey, carted off on a stretcher wearing an oxygen mask, was actually taken to a hospital. last night he returned to the court for the first time after missing six games. and i'll have to say, he looked pretty good. he played more than half the game and was the team's leading scorer. afterwards he said the plan wasn't to play that much, but he felt fine. hey, big-time players make big-time plays. atlanta's joe johnson comes up with the huge buzzer beater in

overtime to beat the charlotte bobcats. definitely not a good ending for michael jordan's first game as the team's new owner. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter. a tour guide decided she had seen enough and it was time to get involved. patty webster brings medical care to people in the amazon jungle. she is this week's "c nchlt nchn hero." >> for someone that goes to the amazon on a vacation, you see the beauty. it's easy to overlook the realities of what people are living there. i was a guide leading adventure tourists around. as time went on, i just saw real suffering going on. people were very sick. people would actually sit around waiting for me to wake up so that i could help them with, you know, a sick child. it was frightening to me because if they're pending on me for their health care, we're all going to die. because i certainly had no medical training at all.

i had to involve myself more. it was either stay and do something or leave. my name is patty webster. and i bring down medical teams into the amazon jungle. we work in so many diverse areas where the ministry of health doesn't get to. so we often take extreme measures to get out to places. some of these areas, many of them would never see a doctor. we work morning to night. you have so many people. you want to make sure everybody gets treated. this is our 17th year. we are seeing more patients providing more services. anything i can offer them that is going to help them, it's just a real gift. it certainly wasn't what i had planned for my life, but you can't go against these forces of nature. >> patty's really helping so many people. to learn more about her work or

to nominate someone who you think is changing the world, just go to cnn.com/heroes.

one woman says she had a problem with her toyota even after she took care of the recent recall. this is the aftermath. she says her camry took off on her when she tried to back it up into a garage on thursday. the car crashed through the back wall before it stopped. and she's blaming a sudden acceleration problem for it. >> i felt it accelerating. so i tried to stop it by hitting the brakes. but it never stopped.

it was going so fast till it didn't hardly give me time to think of what i should try to do to stop it. >> emerson says she took her car in for service two weeks ago because of the acceleration problems. a toyota spokesperson says the company will notify its local quality assurance team. seven more banks have shut down, and three of them are in georgia. the others were in ohio, utah, alabama, also minnesota. federal regulators moved in yesterday and took them over. now, the fdic was able to find other financial institutions to buy all of the troubled banks except the one in utah. 37 banks have failed so far this year. earthquake victims in haiti probably feel like they can't catch a break because yesterday they endured one of the heaviest rainfalls s s since the deadly earthquake struck. the rain swamped homeless camps, and next week former presidents bill clinton and george bush will travel there to haiti to meet with relief workers and

government officials. we certainly cover a lot of them, and you never know how a police chase is going to end. but what happened in arizona tuesday was in no way typical. police in phoenix tried to pull over a suspicious pickup. here it is. the driver hit the gas instead. the helicopter crew from our affiliate ktvk followed the action. >> at times he was going about 90 miles per hour. then police decided to back off when he was kind of getting in the residential neighborhoods and stuff like that. they were suspicious of something in the back of his truck. from what i can tell, this is an f-150. it looks like it's silver or white. and in the back of the pickup truck, it looks like there's plywood. anyways, the chase then continued at 80 or 90 miles per hour. luckily no one has been hurt. there has been no accidents in this. but the police have since pulled off. and he's continuing to drive around in these residential neighborhoods. police have backed off. at this point we all know where he is. so far he's not getting away. i don't know, it looks like he's

starting to obey -- well, no, he just blew a stop sign right there. everybody's working together up here so that he doesn't know that we're still tracking him. dps helicopters overhead, and they're giving that information to the ground police officers, letting them know exactly where he's going. so the idea is, you can see the cops behind him right now. so he's captured. he's caught. >> police got a big payoff once the driver and several passengers were in custody. nine people, if you can imagine, were hiding underneath that plywood. that must have been a bone-dry ride when the chase got to speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. that's how fast it got. all were arrested and are believed to be undocumented or illegal immigrants. a man may have been caught on camera doing the unthinkable, stealing money from girl scouts. take a look. hear how the robbery victim is coping with the emotional aftermath of this. ddddddd

several rivers in the upper midwest are nearing record flood levels, but will the waters recede before homes and businesses are under water? we will tell you what forecasters are saying. and this -- >> they just bit me all up. >> a swarm of africanized bees attacked this man so badly, he ran out of his clothes. at least he survived. his 70-pound dog was not as lucky. we'll have the story. and check this guy out. no fear of heights here. look closely. he's taking a walk 400 feet in the air with nothing but a

half-inch wire under his feet. wait until you hear where his mother was this whole time. you are watching "hln" on this first day of spring. so glad you're with us. i'm susan hendricks. president obama will head to capil hill today to make his final case for health care reform. four democratic officials say he plans toalk to theouse democratic caucus. and tomorrow the house is expected to vote on the health care bill the senate passed in december. yesterday president obama told a crowd at george mason university that something historic uld haen this weekend. >> and if you believe that it's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight. you've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago and make some phone calls and knoc on some doors, talk to your parents, talk to your friends, do not quit, do not give up. we keep on going. we are going to get this done. we are going to make history. >> house speaker nancy pelosi, meanwhile, is going over a democratic representates' amendment.

it tightens restrictions on a federal ban on funding abortions. one pro-choice representative says as many as 50 democrats could drop their support of the bill if that amendment is included. well, democratic leaders are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass the bill. our sister network cnn's latest count says 30 democrats plan to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes are needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn the democrats have more than 200 yes votes. 29 have not decided how they will vote yet, and 15 have not responded. republicans meanwhile have vowed to do everything they can to kill the health care bill. they say nothing, not even the new estimates on how much the bill will cut the deficit, will change their opinion of it. >> this is all built and premised upon some assumptions that just don't ar out. and that now is indicative of why they're having so many

difficulties in lining up the votes. the votes still aren't there. and, you know, this notion that we're going to see the text in the morning to incorporate yet even more changes when we make amendments at the rules committee reflects the fact they're having to go cut more deals. >> and stay with us throughout the weekend and we'll keep you up to date on the health care showdown. right now, some of the other stories making headlines. thousands of british airways passengers are in limbo today. they are not sure if their flights will take off or not. the airline's cabin crews went on strike last night after union talks with management failed. now, the union opposes a new plan that would change how the cabin crews operate. the strike will go on through monday and pk up again next weekend. the airline says it will use replacement workers to get about two-thirds of passengers to their destinations. it looks like florida taxpayers will cover some of casey anthony's legal bills. that is what a circuit judge

ruled yesterday. her attorneys asked the state to pay for her defense expenses because she is alleged broke. they argued she is entitled to it because of her right to a fair trial. the attorneys said the state would cover anything from expert witness fees to the cost of investigations. anthony is facing murder charges, as you know, in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, caylee. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv. it was caught on tape. we have to tell you, she is okay. but here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes, getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv. it is hard to look at. now, what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up. my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arreed. she really needs to be arrested.

>> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her pope benedict xvi says he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at e hands of catholic priests in ireland. the pope's 18-page letter was made public today and is expected to be read in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent government-backed report that found the archdiocese of dublin and other catholic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975ntil 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the munich archdiocese ignored warnings to keep molesting priests away from children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings. more than 300 cases of alleged abuses have emerged in germany

moly since january. but no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. it's a startling statistic. nearry one in eight americans is on food stamps. well, now it looks like efforts to prevent fraud have created new opportunities f scammers. a ten-week undercover operation revealed transactions for alcohol, cigarettes, even cold, hard cash. and it could be costing you millions. take a look. >> can i get 100 back off of this? >> what you want? >> i wanted it back. >> small bag in her hand. >> what you just saw is that the ore employee ran the debit card was the clerk allegedly keeping $100 for the store, then giving an undercover agent $100 back, plus the goods. and florida department of law enforcement officialsay it's illegal. >> directly stealing from the taxpayers of the united states. >> see, what they do is they charge the u.s. government

$212.02. ebt food benefit, food balance, all that, and they give us $100 in cash. cigarettes and chips for $212. >> thedebit card the undercover agent used is an ebt which can only be used to purchase food. now, authorities believe during the past year 16 stores in florida alone defrauded taxpayers of $3.5 million. officials say they can't provide an accurate number on the nationwide consequences, but they estimate it reaches into the billions of dollars. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsdale, arizona, last night. luckily no one was inside at the time. but homes on both sides of that fire were evacuated. fireghters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation.

africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony. sadly his 70-pound dog, socks, took the brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bees. the other dog i got him loose. and it was all i could take to get out of there. and i wound up naked in my front yard, running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting, and they were trying to get -- the bees try to go in your eyes, nose, ears everywhere, your mouth. >> there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. president rack obama has one word for canadian prime minister stephen harper. cheers. yesterday the president made good on a bet ad gave the prime minister a case of moulson beer. the tw heads of state had a friendly bet on the outcome of the u.s./canada olympic gold medal hockey game. as you know, canada beat the

u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw in a case of yuengling, the president's favorite beer. > here is an example of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts likely helped stop a teenager from killing himself.

actress demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have helped stop an 18-year-old from committing suicide. moore and vardalos responded to messages from a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia, also reported the threat on twitter and called florida authorities.

>> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not as complicated as it sounds. and she responded to him as "are you serious?" and he said yes. >> we're gratel that the people followed on twitter picked up the phone. so in this case it absolutely very well could have saved his life. >> an amazing story. the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive compulve disorder he was at his computer desk crying when he told police he admitted postinghe tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil. look closely, in florida. he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervous just looking at it. he walked between two 34-story towers ift. re towers in ft. myers yesterday, and no net was underneath him. he's already in the guinness book of records, but this is the highest skywalk he has ever performed. and get this.

he says he decided last minute to include his mother. she's also a wire walker, but she hasn performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the world's largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have, though. their easter bunny is 12'5" and weighs more than 3 tons. it took three days to complete. it will be on display tillarch 27th and then broken up into chocolate bits and given to local orphanages in time for easter. what are the odds that two brothers from canada would ma the ncaa tournament let alone play against each other in a first-round game? it did happen last night. e carter has more. >> it's a pretty amazing story. chri joseph who plays for syracuse met his oer brother, maurice, who plays for vermont before they played each otr last night. guess who was under the most pressure. mom, ocourse. shwas in the stands and she wore a specially made t-shirt with bothteams on it.

word is she's in pretty good spirits. older brother, maurice, made a couple nice baskets for vermont, but ynger brother, chris, plays on a much better team. syracuse, the number one seed, rolled over 16th seed vermont to advance. so after the first round of the tournament, how's your bracket doing? president obama's doing pretty well. he picked 25 of the first 32 games correctly. only seven wrong. espn has 4.8 million online bracket entries. none are perfect. only 3 have missed one. steelers' team president art rooney ii is taking the weig wait-and-see approach when it comes to the ben roethlisberger situation. his star quarterback is under investigation after being accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student two weeks ago. rooney said if it was summertime, the steelers may have to be thinking and doing something different. but at the moment, they're in a situation to let the investigation play out and then go from there. well, the saints are raising ticket prices for next season.

expect to pay about 10 bucks more. i know what you're thinking, though. win the super bowl, they jack up prices. but wait, the team is quick to point out there's still only a handful of professional teams out there that offer cheap tickets. they offer 6,000 for 25 bucks. we're in the middle of march madness, but a high school basketball player from michigan is getting national attention for an impressive dunk. nate vanarendonk shatters a backboard during a high school playoff game. they couldn't fix the backboard, so they had to move the game five miles away. grand haven, nartte's team, the eventually won. that's sports. i'm joe carter. one woman says she took her toyota in for recall work, and that is when she says her trouble began. her story is just ahead right here on "hln." now it's time for some "fancy footwork." from the spanish soccer league.

barcelona taking on valencia. and lionel messi leaves defenders in his wake for the goal. watch it again. this is one of his three goals in the game. and that's why he was voted the best player in the world because of that "fancy footwork."

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sevel rivers in the upper midwest are nearing record flood levels, but will the waters recede before homes and businesses are under water? we will tell what you forecasters are saying. and this -- >> they just bit me all up. >> a swarm of africanized bees attacked this man so badly he ran out of his clothes. at least he survived. his 70-pound dog was not as lucky. we'll have the story. and check this guy out. no fear of heights here. o'clock closely. he's taking a wal 400 feet in the air with nothing but a

half-inch wire under his feet. wait until you hear where his mother was this whole time. you are watching "hln" on this first day of spring. so glad you're with us. i'm susan hendricks. our tostory, president obama will head to capitol hill today to make his final case for althare reform. four democratic officials say he plans to talk to the house democratic caucus. and tomorrow the house is expected to vote on the health care bill the senate passed in december. yesterday president obama told a crowd at george mason university that something historic would happen this weekend. >> and if you believe that it's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight. you've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago and make some phone calls and knock on some doors, talk to your parents, talk to your friends, do not quit, do not give up. we keep on going. we are going to get this done. we are going to make history. >> house speaker nancy pelosi, meanwhile, is going over a democratic representatives' amendment. it tightens restrictions on

abortions. one pro-choice representative says as many as 50 democrats could drop their support of the bill if that amendment is included. well, democratic leaders are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass the bill. our sister network cnn's latest count says 30 democrats plan to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes are needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn the democrats have more than 200 yes votes. 29 have not decided how they will vote yet, and 15 have not responded. republicans meanwhile have vowed to do everything they ca to kill the health care bill. they say nothing, not even the new estimates on how much the bill will cut the deficit, will change their opinion of it. >> this is all built and premised upon some assumptions that just don't bear out. and that now is indicative of why they're having so many

difficulties in lining up the votes. the votes still aren't there. and, you know, this notion that we're going to see the text in the morning to incorporate yet even more changes when we make amendments at the rules committee reflects the fact they're having to go cut more deals. >> and stay with us throughout the weekend and we'll keep you up to date on the health care showdown. right now, some of the other stories making headlines. across the upper midwest, people are keeping an eye on this, rising floodwaters. in delano, minnesota, about 100 volunteers are stacking sandbags in an attempt to hold back the crow river. the national weather service says the river will crest tonight at 20 1/2 feet, nearly 2 feet above major flood stage. and in fargo, north dakota, the red river has actually dropped a half a foot. that has led the national weather service to revise its projection downward for where the river will crest tomorrow. that doesn't mean everyone in the city is safe just yet. yesterday volunteers and city officials had to begin a

emergency sandbagging operation after an unexpected leak. >> so you have a joint ery six feet. those joints, we believe, started failing. and so we started getting water on the dry side of our levee system. >> we're kind of at ground zero right out of our back windows. >> the national weather service says that after tomorrow's crest of the red river, water levels should begin dropping slowly but steadily. it looks like florida taxpayers will cover some of casey anthony's legal bills. that is what a circuit judge ruled yesterday. her attorneys asked the state to pay for her defense expenses because she is allegedly broke. they argued she is entitled to it because of her right to a fair trial. the attorneys said the state would cover anything from expert witness fees to the cost of investigations. anthonis facing murder charges, as you know, in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, caylee. thousands of british airways passengers are in limbo today. they are not sure their

flights will take off or not. the airline's cabin crews went on strike last night after union talks with management failed. now, the union opposes a new plan that would change how the cabin crews opate. the strike will go on through monday and pick up again next weekend. the airline says it will use replacement workers to get about two-thirds of passengers to their destinations. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv. it was caught on tape. we have to tell you, she is okay, but here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes, getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv. it is hard to look at. now, what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up. my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arrested.

she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her hicle at first, but once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. pope benedict xvi says he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at the hands of catholic priests in ireland. the 18-page letter was made public today and is expected to be read in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent government-backed report that found the archdiocese of dublin and other cathic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 until 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the munich archdiocese ignored warnings to keep molesting pries away from children.

that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings. more than 300 cases of alleged abuses have emerged in germany mostly since january. but no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. it's a startling statistic. nearly one in eight americans is on food stamps. well, now it looks like efforts to prevent fraud have created new opportunities for scammers. a ten-week undercover operation revealed transactions for alcohol, cigarettes, even cold, hard cash. and it could be costing you millions. take a look. >> can i get 100 back off of this? >> what you want? >> wanted 100 back. >> small bag in her hand. >> what you just saw is the store employee ran the debit card was the clerk allegedly taking 100. and florida department of law enforcement officials say it's illegal. >> directly stealing from the taxpayers of the united states.

>> see, what they do is they charge the u.s. government $212.02. ebt food benefit, food balance, all that. and they give us $100 in cash. cigarettes. and chips. fo$212. >> the debit card the undercover agent used is called electronic benefit transfer card or ebt which can only be used to purchase food. now, authorities believe during the past year, 16 stores in florida alone defrauded taxpayers of $3.5 million. officials say they can't provide an accurate nmber on the nationwide consequences, but they estimate it reached into the billions of dollars. africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony. sadly his 70-pound dog, socks, took the brunt of the attack.

>> one dog was covered in bees. the other dog i got loose. and it was all i could take to get out of there. and i wound up naked in my front yard running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting, and they were trying to -- those bees try to go in your eyes, nose, everywhere, your mouth. >> there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. president barack obama has one word for canadian prime minister stephen harper, cheers. yesterday the president made good on a bet and gave the prime mister a case of molson beer. the two heads of state had a friendly bet on the outcome of the u.s./canada olympic gold medal hockey game. as you know, canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw in a case of yuengling. the president's favorite beer. here is an examp of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vaal

vardalos' twitter accounts likely helped a teenager from killing himself.

actress demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have helped stop an 18-year-old from committing suicide. moore and vardalos responded to messages from a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, e fr california, another from british columbia, also reported the threat on twitter and called florida authorities. >> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not as complicated as it sounds. and she responded to him as "are you serious?" and he said yes. >> we're grateful that the ople followed on twitter picked up the phone. so in this case it absolutely very well could have saved his life. >> an amazing story. the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive compulsive disorder. he was at his computer desk

crying when he told police he admitted posting the tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil. look closely, in florida. he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervous just looking at it. he walkebetween two 34-story towers in ft. myers yesterday, and no net was underneath him. he's already in the guinness book of records, but this is the highest skywalk he has ever performed. and get this. he says he decided last minute to include h mother. she's also a wire walker, but she hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it wl be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the world's largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have, though. their easter bunny is 12'5" and weighs more than 3 tons. it took three days to complete. it will be on display till march 27th and then broken up into chocolate bits and given to local orphanages in time for easter.

the first round of the ncaa baetball tournament is in the books. so how is your bracket looking? that's the question. joe carter's bracket, you're in good shape, right, joe, but not as strong as the president. >> you're right, not as strong as the president. i took a few more gambles on a few more underdog teams. than president obama did. he played it pretty safe which was actually pretty smart. obama picked 25 of the first 32 teams correctly. one of the underdog teams he did pick, he pked right cornell university upset temple university to win the school's first ever ncaa tournament game. advancing to the second roun pretty rare in the ivy league. it's been 12 years sce a school has moved on. cornell, a 12th seed, will now play fourth seed wisconsin on sunday. tiger woods will be sporting a new logo on his golf bag when he tees it up at the masters. he's going with the t.w. logo which is a nike brand of clothing and accessories. nike is tiger's longes corporate sponsor and will be replacing the at&t logo which dropped him december 31st.

thgolf bag and the golf hat are the two areas where companies get the most television exposure. remember this scary moment a few weeks back? rodney stuckey who played for detroit collapsed in a trainer's arms during a game. it looked like he was having a seizure. stuckey, carteofon a stretcher wearing an oxygen mask, was actually taken to a hospital. last night he returned to the court for the first time after missing six games. and i'll have to say, he looked pretty good. he played more than half the game and was the team's leading scorer. afterwards he said the plan wasn't to play that much, t he felt fine. hey, big-time players make big-time plays. atlanta's joe johnson comes up with the huge buzzer beater in overtime to beat the charlotte bobcats. definitely not a good ending for michael jordan first game as the team's new owner. that's a look at sports. i'm jocarter. one woman says she took her

toyota in for recall work, and that is when she says her trouble began. her story is just ahead right here on "hln."

one woman says she had a problem with her toyota even after she took care of the recent recall. this is the aftermath. she says her camry took off on her when she tried to back it up into a garage on thursday. the car crashed through the back wall before stopped. and she's blaming a sudden acceleration problem for it. >> i felt it accelerating. so i tried to stop it by hitting the brakes. but it never stopped.

it was going so fast till it didn't hardly give me time to think of what i should try to do to stop it. >> emerson says she ok her car in for service two weeks ago because of the acceleration problems. a toyota spokesperson says the company will notify its local quality assurance team. seven more banks have shut down, and three of them are in georgia. the others were in ohio, utah, alabama, also minnesota. federal regulators moved in yesterday and took them over. now, the fdic was able to find other financial institutions to buy all of the troubled banks except thene in utah. 37 banks have failed so far this year. earthquake victims in haiti probably feel like they can't catch a break because yesterday they endured one of the heaviest rainfalls since the deadly earthquake struck. the rain swamped homeless camps, and next week former presidents bill clinton and george bush will travel there to haiti to meet with relief workers and government officials. we certainly cover a lot of them, and you never know how a

poce chase is going to end. but what happened in arizona tuesday was in no way typical. police in phoenix tried to pull over a suspicious pickup. here it is. the driver hit the gas instead. the helicopter crew from our affiliate ktvk followed the acti. >> at times he was going about 90 miles per hour. then police decided to back off when he was kind of getting in the residential neighborhoods and stuff like that. they were suspicious of something in the back of his truck. from what i can tell, this is an f-150. it looks like it's silver or white. and in the back of the pickup truck, it looks like there's plywood. anyways, the chase then continued at 80 or 90 miles per hour. luckily no one has been hurt. there has been no accidents in this. but the lice have since pulled off. and he's continuing to drive around in these residential neighborhoods. police have backed off. at this point we all know where he is. so far he's not getting away. i don't know, it looks like he's starting to obey -- well, no, he

just blew a stop sigright there. everybody's working together up here so that he doesn't know that we're still tracking him. dps helicopters overhead, and they're giving that information to the ground police officers, letting them know exactly where he's going. so the idea is, you can see the cops behind him right now. so he's captured. he's caught. >> police got a big payoff once the driver and several passengers were in custody. nine people, if you can imagine, were hiding underneath that plywood. that must have been a bone-dry ride when the chase got to speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. that's how fast it got. all were arrested and are believed to be undocumented or illegal immigrants. a man may have been caught on camera doing the unthinkable, stealing money from girl scouts. take a look. hear how the robbery victim is coping with the emotional aftermath of this.

>> the temperatures may be frigid, but the atmosphere here is red hot. welcome to comcast on the red carpet. i'm at the 14th annual maryland state police polar bear plunge, maryland's premier winter event. >> this is my kind of weather. >> perfect day for a plunge. >> you got to get in. >> this is a huge event. it's amazing. we started back in '96 and it was probably like hundreds of people, and now it's just thousands.

it's turned into a major standout event for the state of maryland. >> this is the it first time we've had a snow like this and it really does tell who this is all about. it's raising money for a special group of people and they're coming no matter what the weather is. >> how do you do this? >> why? because i love the energy. >> the show must go on. the polar bear plunge, great benefit for special olympics, one of the great charities in maryland, and a ton of people out here. everybody is warm and in the spirit of giving, so it will be a great day. >> for one of the rookie soup sr plunger, this was an item on his life to do list. >> i've never done it. you've heard of the movie the bucket list. this was on my bucket list of things to do. i've accomplished it and can check it off my list. it was a great, great opportunity. >> this is the most amazing group of people i've ever worked with. for those of you who have not been here before, you'll leave

here with life long friends. >> as a first time plunger, it's not what you expect. i never expected to cry, but i did yesterday and today because the super plungers were so much. to hear the stories are heart-felt. >> i was a first time super plunger in freezing cold water. >> what's the water temperature? >> cold. >> my first time, i could never do it. this this year, i was like, alright, i'm here, i'm going to do it. we're in little costumes. it's cold out there. nothing compares to how cold it is out here. >> it's rewarding because of the smiles you put on the athletes faces and the camaraderie you get to be with the parents, then the family atmosphere that keeps drawing everybody back. >> are you ready? are you ready? >> it gets better every time. >> this is serious business. >> every year i challenge all of

the delegates and the house delegates to come out and plunge f they are not going to plunge, they should give us money for the special olympics. >> it's a wonderful cause, special people, and an important segment of our society, and we have to step up and be there for them. >> for law enforcement, it's a special, unique connection with the spec olympics. police officers love to be out there among the crowd, and they love to be around everyone, the young and the old. >> the 2010 marked the inaugural year, a special plunge on friday for maryland's elementary and high school students. >> we had about 2,000 students out here yesterday. the energy was amazing. these kids embraced the concept. for them to do something bigger than themselves and be active, it's awesome. >> it's for the special olympians. we live for, go for, die for, is to give them an opportunity to

participate if the games. >> our athletes are children and adults. we have athletes in their 70's. they can choose from 28 different sports all year long. we're not a one-time a year attraction event. everyday of the year an athlete is benefits from the funds raise. >> with over $3 million raised from the efforts this year, some may wonder where the money goes? >> it goes straight to the athletes like myself and show that athletes with disabilities can do anything that they put their minds to. >> think about it t you can sit there as a child and see kids playing tennis, basketball, football, running track. now as a kid because somebody looked at you as having some type of disability, you don't have a disability. this allows you to go out there and do everything that everybody else can do. you're just like everybody else. >> the bay may be chilly, but you see the steam off of me. that's the warm from our hearts.

>> this is what you call freezing for a reason. to learn how you can contribute to special olympics maryland, check out smoddot organize. go to on demand and click get local for what's going on in your community. for comcast red carpet,

president obama heads to capitol hill today to give house democrats a pep talk. he is hoping this weekend congress will finally pass a sweeping health care reform bill. the house voteon it tomorrow. republicans vow to do all they can to kill the legislation. israeli air strikes in gaza have hurt at least 12 people. that is what hamas officials are saying. israel defense forces confirm they hit the ea. they say the targets were terror sites that manufacture weapons. and don't tell people in oklahoma this is the first day

of spring. a powerful storm is blowing through with heavynow and strong winds. forecasters warn it could cause blizzard conditions and make driving hazardous. and that is a quick check of your headlines on this first day of spring. glad you're with us. i'm susan hendricks. this is "hln." well, democratic leaders are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass president obama's health care bill. our sister network cnn's latest count says 30 democrats plan to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes are needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn that democrats have more than 200 yes votes. 29 haven't decided how they will vote yet. and 15 have not responded. and stay with "hln" throughout the weekend and we'll keep you up to date on the health care showdown. right now, some of the other stories making headlines. broward county deputies call

the 138-year-old girln accessory to a beating. an eighth gde student was beaten wednesday at a school bus stop. police say a 15-year-old boy seen here, and because of his age we are blurring his face, knocked ratley down, then kicked her in the head with his steel-towed boots. he's facing attempted murder charges and ratley is in a medically-induced coma. >> she's battered. >> hooked up to machines. >> she's controlled by machines. she caot respond to us. she's in a coma. >> authorities say ratley and the suspect had never met before the attack. instead, they say, a text messaging dispute may have triggered the fight. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv. it was caught on tape. we have to tell you, she is okay. but here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta, there she goes, getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv.

it is hard to look at. now, what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up. my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arrested. she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. pope benedict xvi says he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at the hands of catholic priests in ireland. the pope's 18-page letter was made public today and is expected to be read in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shan by a recent government-backed report that found the archdiocese of dublin and other catholic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 until 2004.

allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's nate germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the munich archdiocese ignored warnings to keep molesting priests away from children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings. more than 300 cases of alleged abuses have emerged in germany mostly since juary but no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsdale, arizona, last night. luckily no one was inside at the time. but homes on both sides of that fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation. africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony.

sadly his 70-pound dog, socks, took the brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bees. the other dog i got him loose. and it was all i could take to get out of there. and i wound up naked in my front yard, running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting, and they were trying to get -- the bees try to go in you're eyes, your ears, everywhere, your mouth. >> there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. it's a startling statistic. nearly one in eight americans is on food stamps. well, now it looks like efforts to prevent fraud have created new opportunities for scammers. a ten-week undercover operation revealed transactions for alcohol, cigarettes, even cold, hard cash. and it could be costing you millions. take a look. >> can i get 100 back off of this?

>> what you want? >> i wanted 100 back. >> small bag in her hand. >> what you just saw is that the store employee ran the debit card was the clerk allegedly keeping $100 for the store, then givingn undercover agent $100 back, plus the goods. and florida department of law enforcement officials say it's illegal. >> it's directly stealing from the taxpayers of the united states. >> see, what they do is they charge the u.s. government $212.02. ebt food benefit, food balance, all that, and they give us $100 in cash. cigarettes and chips for $212. >> the debit card the undercover agent used is called electronic benefit transfer card, o ebt, which can only be used to purchase food. now, authorities believe during the past year 16 stores in florida alone defrauded taxpayers of $3.5 million. officials say they can't provide an accurate number on the nationwide consequences, but they estimate it reaches into

the billions of dollars. president barack obama has one word for canadian prime minister stephen harper, cheers. yesterday the president made good on a bet and gave the prime minister a case of molson beer. the two heads of state had a friendly bet on the outcome of the u.s./canada olympic gold medal hockey game. as you know, canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw in a case of yuengling, the president's favorite beer. we are keeping an eye on the flooding in the midwest. we go to meteorologist reynolds wolf who is live in mohead, minnesota. reynolds, how's it looking there? >> reporter: well, i'll tell you, things right now are actually pretty good for the most part. the have been no reports of any flooding of homes in either moorhead or in fargo. so that's really good news. one thing you can see or actually hear, trains coming across this trussle right here moving into mohead. as this particular train, union

pacific, has been moving west to east, the floodwaters right below, have been moving from south to north. again, we expect the water to rise to possibly 37.5 feet by tomorrow. that's the bad news. good ns, that it should be well shy of the record set last year of 40'8". let's show you what else we have in terms of the forecast. as we look at our maps, what we can expect will be, again, the potential flooding all across parts of the region. not just in fargo and grand forks but possibly toward chicago. you see areas shaded in green, those are watch and warning areas. as we zoom in, you see along the banks of the red river, that's where we'll be having issues. even towards aberdeen. we go from that red river to the red river that makes the texas and oklahoma border. that area could see some snowfall today. we have winter storm warnings in effect. and susan, believe it or not, we have a state of emergency that has been declared for oklahoma. all 77 counties may receive some rough winter weather. some places up to a foot of snow. visibility's going to be poor. and even farther south of the

dallas-ft. worth metroplex uld see strong storms. that is a quick look at our forecast. more updates throughout the day. you're watching "hln." here is an example of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts likely helped stop a teenager from killing himself.

actress demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have helped stop an 18-year-old from committing suicide. moore and vardalos responded to messagesrom a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia, also reported the threat on twitter and called florida authorities.

>> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not as complicates like it sounds it is. and she responds to him and says, "are you serious?" and he said yes. >> we're very grateful the people that follow on twitter picked up the phone. so in this case it very well could have saved his life. >> a amazing story. the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive compulsive disorder. he was at his computer desk crying when he told police he admitted posting the tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil. look closely, in florida. he walked across a wire nrly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervous just looking at it. he walked between two 34-story towers in ft. myers yesterday and no net was underneath him. nick already in the guinness book o records, but this is the highest skywalk he has ever performed. get this. he decided at the last minute to include his mother. she's also a wire walker but

hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the world's largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have, though. their easter bunny is 12'5" and weighs more than three tons. it took thre days to complete. the sculpture will be on display until rch 2th. then it will be broken up into chocolate bits and given to local orphanages in time for easter. what are the odds that two brothers from canada would make the ncaa tournament, let alone play against each other in a first-round game? it happened last night. joe carter has more. >> hi, susan. it's an amazing story. chris joseph who plays for sear cuss met his older brother, maurice. guess who wa under the most pressure. mom, of course. she was in the stands and she wore a specially made t-shirt with both teams on it. word is she's in pretty good spirits.

older brother, maurice, made a couple nice baskets for vermont, but younger brother, chris, plays on a much better team. syracuse, the number one seed, rolled over 16th seed vermont to advance. so after the first round of the tournament, how's your bracket doing? president obama's doing pretty well. he picked 25 of the first 32 games correctly. only seven wrong. espn has 4.8 million online bracket entries. none are perfect. only 3 have missed one. steelers' team president art rooney ii is taking the wait-and-see approach when it comes to the ben roethlisberger siatio his star quarterback is under investigation after being accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student two weeks ago. rooney said if it was summertime, the steelers may have to be thinking and doing something different. but at the moment, they're in a situation to let the investigation play out and then go from there. well, the saints are raising ticket prices for next season. expect to pay about 10 bucks more. i know what you're thinking, though. win the super bowl, they jack up

prices. but wait, the team is quick to point out there's still only a handful of professional teams out there that offer cheap tickets. they offer 6,000 for 25 bucks. >>we're in the middle of march madness, but a high school basketball player from michigan is getting national attention for an impressive dunk. nate vanarendonk shatters a backboard during a high school playoff game. they couldn't fix the backboard, so they had to move the game five miles away. grand haven, nate's team, they eventually won. that's sports. i'm joe carter. here is an example of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts likely helped stop a teenager from kilng himself.

oe woman says she had a problem with her toyota. this is the aftermath. she says her camry took off on her had she tried to back it up gu a garage on thursday. e car crashed into a back wall before it stopped. she's blaming a sudden acceleration problem for it. >> i felt it accelerating. so i tried to stop it by hitting the brakes. but it never stopped. it was going so fast till it didn't hardly give me time to think of what i should try to do to stop it. >> emerson says she took her car in for service two weeks ago because of the acceleration problems.

a toyota spokespersosays the company will notify its local quality assurance team. seven more banks have shut down, and three of them are in georgia. the others were in ohio, utah, alabama, also minnesota. federal regulators moved in yesterday and took them over. now, the fdic was able to find other financial institutions to buy all of the troubled banks except the one in utah. 37 banks have failed so far this year. earthquake victims in haiti probably feel like they can't catch a break because yesterday they endured one of the heaviest rainfalls since the deadly earthquake struck. the rain swamped homeless camps. and next week former presidents clinton and bush will travel there to haiti to meet with relief workers and government officials. thousands of british airways passengers are in limbo today. they are not sure if their flights will take off or not. the airline's cabin crews went on strike last night after union talks with management failed.

now,he union opposes a new plan that would change how the bin crews operate. the strike will go on through monday and pick up again next weekend. the airline says it will use replacement rkers to get about two-thirds of passengers to their destinations. across the nation b lenders are finding had it comes to delinquent homeowners, be th best bet. money expertlark howard explains what this means for people struggling with their mortge payments. if you are an upside down homeowner meaning you owe more on your house than what it's worth, and you've been struggling to make your payments and you're facing the possibility of foreclosure, i have some good news for you. r the first time in the whole housing crisis, the nation biggest mortgage lenders are sayingait a minute, foreclosing isn't really working out. in fact, what are these big lenders doing? they are actually getting serious about cooperating on

short sales. the "financial times" of london reports lenders all across the country are going to be very cooperative and much speedier throughout 2010 in wking with u selling your house at a discount so that someone else moves in -- why? because the average loss to a bank is 20% of the mortgage on a short sale, half the valley of the house if they have to foreclose. i'm clark howard for more ways for you to be clark smart with your wallet, check me out at cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> and get much more advice from clark himself today at noon eastern. will help you save more, spend less, and avoigetting ripped off. a man may hav been caught on camera doing the unthinkable -- stealing money from girl scouts. take a look. hear hothe robbery victim is coping with the emotial aftermath. !d!d!d!d!d!d!d!d!d!d!d

rev rivers in the -- several rivers in the upper midwest are nearing record flood levels. will the waters recede before homes and business are under water? we'll tell you what forecasters are saying. and this -- they bit me all up. >> a swarm of africanized bees attacked this man so badly he ran out of his clothes. at least he survived. his 70-pound dog was not as luck we'll have the story. check this guy out. no fear of heights here. he's walking 400 feet in the air with nothing but a half-inch

wire under his feet. wait until you hear where his manager was this whole time. you are watching hln on this first day of spring. so glad you're with us. i'm susan hendricks. our top story, president obama will head to capitol hill to make a final case for health care reform. four democratic officials say he plans to talk to the house democratic caucus. tomorrow the house is expected to vote the health care bill the senate passed in december. yesterday, president obama told a crowd at george mason universities that something historic would happen this weekend. >> and if you believe that it's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight, you've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago, and make some phone calls and knock on some doors, talk to your parents, talk to your friends, do not quit do not give up, we keep on going, we are going to get this done, we are going to make history! >> house speaker nancy pelosi, meanwhile, is going over a

democratic representatives amendment. it tightens restrictions on a federal ban on funding abortions. one pro-choice representative says as many as 50 democrats could drop their support of the bill if that amendment is included. democratic leaders are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass the bill. our sister network cnn's latest count says 30 democrats plan to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes are needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn the democrats have more than 200 yes votes. 29 have not decided how they will vote yet. and 15 have not responded. republicans meanwhile have vowed to do everything they can to kill the health care bill. they say nothing, not even the new estimates on how much the bill will cut the deficit, will change their opinion of it. >> this is all built and premised upon some assumptions that just don't bear out. and that now is indicative of

why they're having so many difficulties in lining up the votes. the votes still aren't there. and, you know, this notion that we're going to see the text in the morning to incorporate yet even more changes when we make amendments to the rules committee reflects that they're having to go cut more deals. >> stay with hln throughout the weekend. we'll keep you up to dat on the health care showdown. right now, some of the other stories making headlines. across the upper midwest, people are keeping an eye on this, rising floodwaters in delano, minnesota. about 100 volunteers are stacking sandbags in an tampa to hold back the crow river. the national weather service says the river will crest tonight at 20.5 feet, nearly two feet above major flood stage. and in fargo, north dakotas, the red river has actually -- north dakota, the red river has actually dropped half a foot, causing the national weather service to revise its estimate downward from where it the crest tomorrow.

yesterday, volunteers and city officials had to begin an emergency sandbagging operation after an unexpected leak. >> so you have a joint every six feet. those joints we believe started failing, and so we started getting water on the dry side of our levee system. >> we're kind of ground ze right out of our back windows. >> the national weather service says that after tomorrow's crest of the red river, water levels should begin dropping slowly but steadily. thousands of british airways passengers are in limbo today. they're not sure if their ights will take off or not. the airline's cabin crews went on strike last night after union talks with management failed. now the union opposes a new plan that will change how the cabin crews operate. the strike will go on through monday and pick up against ne weekend. the airline says it will use replacement workers to get about 2/3 of passengers to their destinations. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv, it was caught on tape.

we have to tell you she is okay. but here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv. it is hard to look at. what the video does not show though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treate and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street, and i saw a police car waitinfor the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up. my knee is swollen so bad. she need to be arrested. she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but one the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. pope benedict xvi says he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at the hands of catholic priests in ireland. the pope's 18-pageler was made public today and is expected to

be read in churches acrs ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent government-backed report that family archdiocese of dublin and other catholic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 until 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the munich archdiocese ignored warningso keep a molesting priest away from children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings. more than 300 cases of alleged abuse have emerged in germany, mostly since january. no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his back yard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony. sadly his 70-pound dog socks took the brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bees,

the other dog i got it loose. and it was all i could take to get out of there. and i wound up make itted in my front yard running from the bees. i just tack my clothes off. i was fighting, they were trying to get -- the bees were trying to get in your eyes, ears, everywhere, in your mouth. >> there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. president barack obama has one word for canadian president harper, cheers. he made good on a bet and gave the president a case of molson beer. the two had a friendly bet on the outcome of the u.s.-canada olympic gold medalockey game. as you know canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw in a case of yuengling, the president's favorite beer. here is an example of n technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia

vardalos' twitter accounts likely helped a teenager.

>> reporter: this is something i'm personally interested in. people saying they don't have enough te to exercise. i confess, i'm one of them, as well. that execute is gone now. it could be gone. new research out there says if you can exercise less and still get just asfit. this may sound gimmicky, but stay with me. the key is something known as h.i.t., hit, or high interval training. researchers found 20 minutes of high intensity training burns more calories and burnsmore muscle than someone who jogs

leisurely for an hour. you exercise intensely for a minute, take a break, exercise for a minute, rest for a minute, exercise for a minute -- high intensity when you're exercising. ten minutes of exercise, ten minutes of rest. here's why it's important. first of all, your heart rate. while it does drop during those rest periods, it doesn't drop significantly, so you're still continuing to have this aerobic workout. in some cases, each an anaerobic workout. second thing measured was the same as someone who did the longer, more leisurely workout than someone who did it in a shorter time. certain exercise rebest, cycling, running, swimming, they'll be best for this type of training. for example, if you're running, you could find a hill that takes you a minute to run up and walk down the hill. run back up, walk back down, keep doing that for 20 minutes. bottom line -- for everybody -- take a look at your fitness

goals. if lack of time is an issue, which it is for a lot of people, short duration, high intensity interval exercises should be a solution that works for you. actress demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have helped an 18-year-old stop from committing suicide. they responded to messages there a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia, also reported the threat on twitter and called florida authorities. >> i saw it on -- demi moore's page because i follow her. it's -- it's than complicated but it sound like it is. and she responds to him and said, "are you serious?" he says, "yes." >> we're grateful that the people that follow on twitter picked up phone. in this case it absolutely -- it very well coulhave saved his life. >> the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive-compulsive disorder.

he was at his computer desk crying when he admitted to posting the tweet. he is in protectsive custody. check out this daredevi look closely. in florida, he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes me nervous just looking at it. he walked between two 34-story towers in ft. myers yesterday and no net was underneath him. nick wallendez is already in the wod book of records but this is highest walk he's performed. he decided at the last minute to include his mother. she's also a wire-walker but hasn't performed in years. his next goals to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the world's largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have. the easter bunny is 1'25" and weighs more than -- 12" and weighs more than three tons. it will be broken up into cholatbits and given to local orphanages in time for easter.

the first round of the ncaa basketball tournament is in the books. so how is your bracket looking? that's the question. joe carter's tournament bracket, you're in good shape, right, but not as strong as the president. >> reporter: you're right. not as strong as the president. i took a couple more gambles on a few more underdog team than president obama did. he played it safe which was smart. obama picked 25 of the first 32 teams correctly. one of the underdog teams he did pick, he picked right, cornell university upset temple university to win t school's first-ever ncaa tourism game, advancing to the second round, rare in the ivy league. it's been 12 years since a school has moved on. cornell, a 12th seed, will play the fourth seed, wisconsin, on sunday. tiger woods will be sporting a new logo on his golf bag when he tees it up at the masters. he's going with the t. with logo, a -- t. w. logo, a nike brand. it's his longest corporate sponsor and will be replacing the at&t logo which dropped him december 31.

the golf bag and the golf hat are the two areas where companies get the most television exposure. remember this scary moment a few weeks back? rodney stuckey who plays for detroit collapsed in a trainer's arms during a game. it looked like he was having a seizure. stuckey, carted off on a stretcher weing an oxygen mask, was taken to a hospital. last night, he returned to the court for the first time after missing sick games. i have to say he looked pretty good. he played more than half the game and was the team's ladying scorer. afterwards he said the plan wasn't to play that much, but he felt fine. big-time plays ma big-time plays. atlanta's joe johnson comes up with the huge buzzer beater in overme to beat the charlotte bobcats. definitely not a good ending for michael jordan's first game as the keep's new owner. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter. one woman says he took her toyota in for recall work and that is when she says her

trouble began. her story is just ahead right here on hln.

one woman says she had a problem with her toyota even after she took care of the recent recall. this is the aftermath. she says her camry took off on her when she tried to back it up on thursday. the car crashed through a back wall before s stopped. she's blaming a sudden acceleration problem for it. >> i. it accelerating, so i tried to stop it by hitting the bres it never stopped. it was going so fast until it didn't hardly give me time to think of wt should try to do

to stop it. >> emerson says she took her car in for work two weeks ago because of the recall problems. a toyota spokesperson says the company will notify its local quality insurance team. seven more banks have shut down and three are in georgia. the others were in ohio, uta alabama, also minnesota. federal regulators moved in yesterday and took them over. now the fdic was able to find other financial institutions to buy all of the troubled banks except the one in utah. 37 banks have failed so far this year. earthquake victims in haiti probably feel like they can't catca break because yesterday they endured one of the heaviest rainfalls since the deadly earthquake struck the area. the rain swamped homeless camps. next week former presidents bill clinton and george bush will travel to haiti to meet with relief workers and government officials. it's a startling statistic. nearly one in eight americans is on fd stamps. well, now it looks like efforts to prevent fraud have created

new opportunities for scammers. a ten-week undercover operation revealed transactions for alcohol, cigarettes, even cold-hard cash, and it could be costing you millions. take a look. >> can i get $100 back off of this. >> what did you want? >> i wanted it back. >> she's out felt small bag in her hand. >> what you just saw as a store employee ran the debit card was the clerk keeping $100 for the store, then giving an undercover agent $100 back plus the goods. and florida department of law enforcement officials say it's illegal. >> directly stealing from the taxpayers of the united states. >> see what they do is they charge the u.s. government $212.02, food benefit, food balance, all that, and they give us $100 in cash. cigarettes and chips for $212.

>> the debit card the undercover agent use sudden called electronic benefit transfer card or eb which can only be used to purchase food. now authorities believe during the past year, 16 stores in florida alone defrauded taxpayers of $3.5 million. officials say they can't provide an accurate number on the nationwide consequences, but they estimate it reaches into the billions of dollars. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsde, arizona, last night. luckily no one w inside at the time. homes on both sides of that fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries were reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation. a man may have been caught on camera doing the unthinkable, stealing money from girl scouts. take a look. hear how the victim is coping.

president obama heads to capitol hill today to give house democrats a peptalk. he is hoping this weekend congress will finally ps a sweeping health care reform bill. the house votes on it tomorrow. republicans vow to do all they can to kill the legislation. israeli air strikes in gaza have hurt at least 12 people. that is what hamas officials are sayi. israel defense forces confirm hate the area, they say the targets were terror site that manufacture weapons. d don't tell people in oklahoma, this is the first day

of spring. a powerful storm is blowing through with heavy snow and strong winds, forecasters warn it could cause blizzard conditions and make driving hazardous. and that is a quick check of your headlines on this first day of spring. glad you're with us, i'm susan hendricks. this is hln. > democratic leader are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass president obama's health care bill. our sister network, cnn's, latest count says 30emocrats plan to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes are needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn that democrats have more than 200 yes votes, 29 haven't decided how they will vote yet, and 15 have not responded. stay with hln throughout the weekend. we will keep you up to date on the health care showdown. right now, though, so of the other stories making headlines. another florida teenager has been arrested in the brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl. broward county deputies called a

13-year-old girl an accessory to the beating of josie ratley. ratley, an eighth grate student, was beaten wednesday at a school bus stop. a 15-year-old boy, seen here, and because of his age we are blurring his face, knocked ratley down, then kicked her in the head with his steel-eed boots. he is facing attempted murder charges and ratley is in a medically induced coma. >> just batted. >> hooked up to machines. >> swollen. she's controlled by machines. she cannot respond to us. she's in a coma. >> authorities say ratley and the suspect h never met before the attack. instead they say a text messaging dispute may have triggered the fight. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv, it was caught on tape. we have to tell you she is okay, here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes. getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another won driving that suv. it is hard to look at.

what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street, and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up. my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arrested. she really need to be arrested. >> luckily she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first,ut once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. pope benedict xvi says he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at the hands of catholic priests in ireland. the pope's 18-page letter was made public today and is expected to be read in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent government-backed report that found the archdiocese of dublin and other catholic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from

1975 until 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the munich archdiocese ignored warnings to keep a molesting priest away from children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings, more than 300 cases of alleged abuse in v emerged mostly since january but no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsdale, arizona, last night. luckily no one was inside at th time. homes on both sides of the fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation. africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his back yard in south florida and got too close to the

killer bees' colony. sadly his 70-pound dog socks took the brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bee, the other dog i got him loose. and it was all i could take to t out of there. and i wind up naked in my front yard running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting and they were trying to get -- bees were trying to go in your eyes, ears, everywhere, your mouth. >> there were more than 7,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. president barack obama has one word for canadian prime minister stephen harper -- cheers. yesterday the president made good on a bet and gave the prime minister a case of molson beer. the two heads of state had a friendly bet on the outcome of the u.s.-canada olympic gold medal hockey game. as you know, canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw i a case of yuengling, the president's favorite beer.

we are keeping an eye on the flooding in the midwest. we go to meteorologist reynolds wolf, live moorehead, minnesota. how is it looking now? >> reporter: things are looking good for the most part. no reports of flooding of homes in moorehead or across the river in fargo. that's really gone. one thing that you can see or actually hear -- see trains coming across the truss letrus trusstritrusstries -- trestle and moving west to east, the floodwaters have been moving from south to north. we expect the floodwater to rise to 37.5 feet by tomorrow. that's the bad news. the good news is that it should be well shy of the record set last year of 40 feet, eight inches. let's show what else we have in terms of the forecast today. as we look at the maps, what we can anticipate will be again the potential oflooding across parts of the region. not just in fargo and grand forks but toward chicago. you see areas in green, those are the watch and warning areas. as we zoom in we can see along

the red river, that's where we'll be having issues. even toward aberdeen. we go from that red river to the red river thamakes the texas and oklahoma border. that area could see snowfall today. we have winter storm warnings in effect. susan, believe it or not, we have a state of emergency that has been declared for oklahoma. all 77 counties may receive some rough winter weather. some places, as i mentioned, up to a fat of snow. visibility is going to be poor. farther south of the metroplex could see strong storms. that's a quick look at the forecast. more coming up dwluts the day. -- coming up throughout the day. here's an example of good technology doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts likely stopped a teenager from killing himself.

actress demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts may have helped stop an 18-year-old from committing suicide. the two responded to messages from a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia, also reported the threat on twirtd and called florida authorities -- twitter and called florida authority. >> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's -- it's not that complicated, but it sounds like it is. and she responds to him and says, "are you serious?" he says, "yes." we're grateful that the people who follow on twitter picked up the phone. in this case it absolutely could have saved his life. >> an amazing story. the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive-compulsive disorder. he was at his computer desk crying when he told police he admitted posting the tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil. look closely. in florida, he walked across a

wire, nearly 400 feet in the air, makes you nervous just looking at it. he walked between two 34-story you toers in ft. myers yet -- towers in ft. myers yesterday, and no net was underneath him. he's already in the world book of records but this is the highest skywalk he's ever performed. he decided last empminute to include his mother. she's also a wire-walker but hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the world's largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have, though. their easter bunny is 12" 5" and will be on display until march 27 and will be broken up into chocolate bits and given to local orphanages in time for easter. what are the odds that two brothers from canada would make the ncaa tournament let alone play each mother a first round

game? -- each other in a first round game? it did happen. joe? >> reporter: an amazing story. chris jose whoef plays for syracuse met his older brother, maurice, who plays for vermont before they played each other last night. and guess who was under the most pressure? mom, of course. she was in the stands, and she wore a specially made t-shirt with both teams on it. word is she was in pretty good spirits. older brother maurice made a couple of nice baskets for vermont. younger brother, chris, plays on a much, much better team, syracuse. the number-one seed, rolled over 16th seed vermont to advance. so after the first round of the tournament, so how your bracket doing? president obama's doing pretty well. he picked 25 of the first 32 games correctly, only seven wrong. espn has 4.8 million online bracketen trees, none are -- bracket entries, none are perfect. only three have missed one. steelers team president art rooney ii is taking the wait-and-see approach when it comes to the ben roethlisberger

situation. his star quarterback is under investigation after being accused ofexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student two weeks ago. rooney said if it was summertime the steelers may have to be thinking and doing somethin different. but at the moment they're in a situation to let te investigation play out and then go from there. the saints are raising ticket prices for next season. expect to pay about $10 more. i know what you're thinking, though. win the super bowl, jack up prices. the team is quick to point out the are only a handful of professional tea that hand out cheap tickets, they offer,000 for $26. a high school basketball player from michigan is getting national attention for an impressive dunk. nate vanarendonk shattered the backboard during a high school game. nay couldn't fix it and had to move the game five miles away, grand haven, nate's team, eventually won. that's sports, i'm joe carter.

if you spend most of your day at a desk, sit up and pay attention. we are going beyond the surface and finding out how good posture can straighten up your health. posture is so important. when we slouch, it actually compresses the spine. when we do that we feel those aches and pains, the muscles get really tight. you can also start to feel a lot of tightness in the hips. over time, you know, the spine gets used to sitting in a certain place. the best thing to do is just to have an awareness of what your body's doing already. notice if you tend to be someone that rolls the shoulders back too far or rolls the shoulders forward. breathing actually helps with posture. naturally when you breathe, you're able to sit up tall. there's absoluly some easy stretches to improve your posture. ju take five minutes. and you're set.

one woman says she even had a problem with her toyota after she took it in for the recall. she was backing up and it crashed through a wall before it stop. she's blaming a sudd acceleration problem for it.

>> i felt if accelerating and tried to stop it by hitting the brakes, but it didn't stop. it was going so fast until it didn't hardly give me time to think of what i should try to do to stop it. >> emerson says she took her car in for service two wes ago because of the recall acceleration problems. a toyota spokesperson says the company will notify its local quality assurance team. ven more banks have shut down, and three are in georgia. the othe were in ohio, utah, alabama, also minnesota. federal regulators moved in yesterday and took them over. now the fdic was able to find other financialnstitutions to buy all of the troubled banks except the one in utah. 37 bank have failed so far this year. across the nation, big lenders are finding when it comes to delinquent homeowners, foreclosure may not be their best bet. hln money expert clark howard explains what this means for

people struggling with their morning payments. -- tir mortgage payment. >> reporter: if are you an upside down homeowner meaning you owe more than it's worth and you're struggling with payments and are facing the possibility of foreclosure, i have some good news for you. for the first time in the whole housing crisis, the nation's biggest mortgage lenders are saying wait a minute, foreclosing isn't really working out. in fact, what are these big lenders doing? they are actually getting serious about cooperating on short sales. the "financial times" of london reports lenders all across the country are going to be very cooperative and much speedier throughout 2010 and working with you selling your house at a discount so that someone else moves in. why? because the angelos to a bank is 20% of the value of a mortgage on a short sale, half the value of the house if they have to foreclose. i'm clark howard.

for more ways for you to be clark smart with your wallet, check me out at cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> and get much more advice from clark himself today at noon eastern. he will help you save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. a minnesota woman encourages people to improve their community by drinking beer. pau "leaders with heart." ♪ >> we have the social suds and we need a half barrel. >> reporter: for jackie, owning a beer company is about helping others, no making a fortune. >> i thought what if we gave the profs back to the community? >> reporter: ten years ago, she did just that if finnegan's irish amber. a mission to donate 100% of the profits to charity. >> grants twice a year to nonprofits in the beer market that are all about alleviating poverty. >> reporter: supported bay army

of volunteers, finnegans is primed t continue to aid charities even in the down economy. >> doi think that times are tougher for nonprofits and long term imfookt being able to have healthy communities takes business people and community funds to generate rev view. >> reporter: social activism that starts with raising a pint. >> cheer, ladies. cheers! a new study suggesting less people are less interested in religion than older folks. >> almost looked negatively upon. >> for some kids, finding jesus really does do something for them. >> that's a couple of different views. here what other people are saying when our joe carter talks to you, people on the street.

several rivers in the upper midwest are nearing record flood levels. will the waters recede before homes and business are under water? we'll tell you what forecasters are sayi. and this -- >> they just bit me all up. >> awarmf ricanized bees attacked this man so badly he ran out of his clothes. at least he survived. his 70-pound dog was not as lucky. we'll have the story. check this guy out. no fear of heights here. look closely. he's taking a walk 400 feet in

the air with nothing but a half-inch wire under his feet. wait until you hear where his manager was this whole time. you are watching hln on this first day of spring. so glad you're with us. i'm susan hendris. our top story, president obama will head to capitol hill today to make his final case for health care reform. four democratic officials say he plans to talk to the house democratic caucus. and tomorrow the house is expected to vote on the health care bill the senate passed in december. yesterday, president obama told a crowd at george mason university that something historic would happen this weekend. >> and if you believe thatt's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight. you've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago and make some phone calls and knock on some doors, talk to your parents, talk to your friends. do not quit. do not give up. we keep on going. we are going to get this done, we are going to make history! >> house speaker nancy pelosi, meanwhile, is going over a

democratic representatives amendment. it tightens restrictions on a federal ban on funding abortions. one pro-choice representative says as many as 50 democrats could drop their support of the bill if that amendment is included. democratic leaders are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass the bill. our sister network cnn's latest count says 30 democratplan to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes are needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn the democrats ve more than 200 yes votes. 29 have not decided how they will vote yet. and 15 have not responded. republicans, meanwhile, have vowed to do everything they can to kill the health care bill. they say nothing, not even the new estimates on how much the bill will cut the deficit, will change their opinion of it. >> this is all built and premised upon some assumptions that just don't bear out. and that now is indicative of why they're having so many

difficulties in lining up the votes. the votes still aren't there. and, you know, this notion that we're going to see the text in the morning to incorporate yet even more changes when we make amendments to the rules committee reflects that they're having to go cut more deals. >> stay with hln throughout the weekend. we'll keep you up to date on the health care showdown. right now, some of the other stories making headlines. across the upper midwest, people are keeping an eye on this, rising floodwaters in delano, minnesota. about 100 volunteers are stacking sandbags in an attempt to hold back the crow river. the national weather service says the river will crest tonight at 20.5 feet, nearly 2 feet above major flood stage. and in fargo, north dakota, the red river has actually dropped half a foot. that's caused the national weather service to revise its

estimate downward from where it the crest tomorrow. yesterday, volunteers and city officials had to begin an emergency sandbagging operation after an unexpected leak. >> so you have a joint every six feet. those joints we believe started failing, and so, we started getting water on the dry side of our levee system. >> we're kind of ground zero right out of ourack windows. >> the national weather service says that after tomorrow's crest of the red river, water levels should begin dropping slowly but steadily. it looks like florida taxpayers will cover some of casey anthony's legal bills. that is what a circuit judge ruled yesterday. her attorneys asked the state to pay for her defense expenses because she is alegedly broke. they argued she is entitled to it because of the trigt a fair trial. the attorney said the state would cover anything fro expert witness fees to investigations. anthony is facing murder charges as you know in the death of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. thousands of british airways passengers are in limbo today.

they're not sure if their flights will take off or not. the airline's cabin crews went on strike last night after union talks with management failed. now the union opposes a new plan that would change how the cabin crews operate. the strike will go on through monday and pick up against next weekend. the airlinsays it will use replacement workers to get about two thirds of passengers to their destinations. some unbelievable video here. a woman was hit by an suv, it was caught on tape. we have to tell you she is okay but here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving that suv. it is hard to look at. what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the street, and i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up. my knee is swollen so bad.

she needs to be arrested. she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily, she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. pope benedict xvi says he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at the hands of catholic priests in ireland. the pope's 18-page letter was madeublic today and is expected to be read in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent government-backed report that found the archdiocese of dublin and other catholic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 until 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the munich archdiocese ignored warnings to keep a molesting priest away from children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings.

more than 300 cases of alleged abuse have emerged in germany, mostly since january. no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. it is a startling statistic. nearly one in eight americans is on food stamps. now it looks like efforts to prevent fraud created new opportunities for scammers a. ten-week undercover investigation revealed transactions for cigarettes, alcohol and cash and could be costing you millions. take a look. >> can i get a hundred back off of this? >> what? >> back, small bag in the hand. >> what you just saw is the store employee ran the debit clerk and keeping $100 for the store and giving an undercover agent $100 back dean goods and department of florida law enforcement services say it's illegal. >> directly stealing from the taxpayers of the united states.

>> see what they do is they charge the u.s. government $212.02. ebt food benefit. food balance. all that and they give us $100 in cash, cigarettes and chips. for $212. >> the debit card the undercover agent used is electronic benefit card which can be used for food. authorities believe in the past year, 16 stores in florida alone defrauded taxpayers of $3.5 million. officials say they can't provide an accurate number on the nationwide consequences but they estimate it reaches into the billions of dollars. check thought massive fire. it destroyed wat was once a huge house in scotsdale, izona, last night. luckily no one was inside at the time but homes on both sides of the fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported.

the cause of this fire is under investigation. africanized bees killed a dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony. sadly, his 70-pound dog socks tookhe brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bees, the other dog i got it loose. and it wasll i could take to get out of there. and i wound up naked in my front yard running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting, they were trying to get -- the bees were trying to get in your eyes, ears, everywhere, your mouth. >> there were more than 70,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. president barack obama has one word for canadian president prime minister steven harper, cheers. stery the president made good on a bet and gave him a case of moulson beer. the two had a friendly bet on the outcome the u.s.-canada

olympic gold medal hockey game. as you know canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw in a case of yuengling, the prident's favorite beer. here is an example of new technology actually doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter accounts likely heed stop a teenager from killing himself.

actress demi moore and nia vardalos twitter accounts may have helped keep a teenager from commit suicide. he was threatening to hang himself in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia also reported the threat on twitter. and called florida authorities. >> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not that complicated but sounds like it is and she

responz to him and says, are you serious? he says, yes. >> we are grateful that the people that follow on twitter picked up the phone. in this case, it absotely, very well could have saved his life. >> amazing story. the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive come pulsive disorder. she was crying when he admitted to the tweet. he is in protective custody. check thought daredevil. look closely. in florida. he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervo just looking at it. it was yesterday an no net was underneath him. nick's already in the guiness book of records but this is the highest sky walk ever performed and said he decided to include his mother. she is also a wire walker but she hasn't performed in years. the next goal to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team

found out if it's created the largest chock rat rabbit. it's 12 feet 5 inches and weighs more than 3 tons, took three days to complete. it will be display until march 27th. then it will be broken up into bits to give to 0 lo call orphanages in time for easter. the first round of ncaa basketball tournament is in the book how's your bracket looking? joe carter's, you're in good shape, right? not as strong as the president. >> you're exactly right. i took a couple more gambles than president obama did. he played it pretty safe which was actually pretty smart. obama picked 25 of the first 32 teams correctly. one of the underdog teams he did pick, he picked right cornell university to win the first ever ncaa tournament game. vancing to the second round, pretty rare in the ivey league. it's been 12 years since a school's moved on. cornell, a 12th seed playing

wisconsin on sunday. tiger woods will have a new logo teeing up at the masters with the tw logo, nike brand of clothing. it is the longest corporate sponsor and replacing the at and t logo that dropped him december 31st. the golf bag and the golf hat are two areas where companies get most exposure. remember this scary moment a few weeks back? rodney stuckey collapsed in a game. it looked like he was having a seizure. he was carted off on a stretcher with an oxygen mask and taken to a hospital. well, last night he returned to the court for the first time after missing six games and i have to say he looked pretty good. he played more than half the game and the team's leading scorer and saying the plan wasn't to play that much but he felt fine. hey, big-tim players make big-time plays. joe johnson with the huge buzzer

beater i overtim to beat the charlotte bobcats. not a good ending for michael jordan's first game as the team's new owner. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter. one woman says she took his toyota in for recall workand that is when she says her trouble began. her story is just ahead.

one woman says she had a problem with her toyota even after she took care of the recent recall. this is the aftermath. she says her camry took off on her when she tried to back it up on thursday. the car crashed through a back wall before it stopped and she's blaming a sudden acceleration problem for it. >> i felt it accelerating so i tried to stop it by hitting the brak. but it never stopped. it was going so fast until it didn't hardly give me time to thinof what i should try to do to stop it.

>> erson says she took her car in for service two weeks ago because of the recall acceleration problems. a toyota spokesperson says the company will notify its local quality insurance team seven more banks have shut down and three of them are in georgia. the others were in ohio, utah, alabama, also minnesota. federal regulators moved in yesterday and took them over. now the fdic was able to find other financial institutions to buy all of the troubled banks except the one in utah. 37 banks have failed so far this year. earthquake victims in haiti probably feel like they can't catch a break because yesterday they endured one of the heaviest rainfalls since the deadly earthquake struck the area. the rain swamped homeless camps. next week former presidents bill clinton and george bush will travel there to haiti to meet with relief workers and government officials. we certainly cover a lot of them and you never know how a police chase is going to end.

but what happened in arizona tuesday was in way typical. police in phoenix tried to pull over a suspicious pickup. here it is. the driver hit the gas, instead. the helicopter crew of ktvk followed the action. >> at times, he was going about 90 miles per hour. then police decided to back off when he was kind of getting in the residential neighborhoods and stuff like that. they were suspicious of something in the back of the truck. from what i can tell it'sf-150, silver or white. and in the back of t pickup truck, looks like plywood. the chase then continued at 80 or 90 miles per hour. luckily, no one has been hurt. there's been no accidents in this but the police have since pulled off. you can see he's continuing to go just driving around in these residential neighborhoods. police have bacd off and, you know, that the point we know where he is. so so far he's not getting away. i don'know -- looks like he's started to obey -- well, no. just blew a stop sign right. there everybody's working

togeth up here so he doesn't know we're still tracking him. dps helicopters overhead and giving that information to the ound police officers. letting them know exactly where he's going. so the idea is -- you can see the cops behind him right now. so he's cap which you shalled. he's caught. >> police got a big payoff when the drivers a several passengers in custody. nine people hiding under the plywood. must have been a bone jawing ride up to 90 miles per hour. that's how fast it got. all arrested and believed to be undocumented or illegal immigrants a man may have been caught on camera doing the unthinkable. stealing money from girl scouts. take a look. hear how the robbery victim is coping with the emotional aftermath of this. eeeeeee

president obama heads to capitol hill today to give house democrats a pep talk. he is hoping this weekend congress will finally pass a sweeping health care reform bill. the house votes on it tomorrow. republicans vow to do all they can to kill the legislation. israeli airstrikes in gaza have hurt at least 12 people. that is what hamas officials are saying. israel defense forces confirm they hit the area. they say the targets were terror sites that manufacture weapons. and don't tell people in oklahoma this is the first d

of spring. a powerful storm is blowing through with heavy snow and strong winds. forecasters warn it uld cause blizzard conditions and make driving hazardous. and that is a quick check of your headlines on this first day of spring. glad you're with us. i'm susan hendricks. this is hln. democratic leaders are still trying to round up the 216 votes needed to pass president obama's health care bill. our sister network, cnn's latest count says 30 democrats plan to vote against the legislation. 38 democratic no votes are needed to kill that bill. multiple democratic leadership sources have told cnn that democrats have more than 200 yes votes, 29 haven't decided how they will vote yet and 15 have not responded. stay with n throughout the weekend. we will keep you up to date on the health care showdown. right now, though, some of the other stories making headlines. another florida teenager has been arrested in the brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl. broward county deputies called a

13-year-old girl an accessory to the beating of josie ratley. ratley, an eighth grade student, was beaten wednesday at a school bus stop. police say a 15-year-old b seen here, and because of his age we are blurring his face, knocked ratley down, then kicked her in the head with his steel-toed boots. is facing attempted murder charges and ratley is in a medically induced coma. >> just battered. >> hooked up to machines. >> swollen. she's controlled by machines. she cannot respond to us. she's in a coma. >> authorities say ratley and the suspect had never met before the attack. instead they say a text messaging dispute may have triggered the fight. some unbelievable video here. a womawas hit by an suv. it was caught on tape. we have to tell you she is okay, here it is. the view from the dash cam of a police cruiser near atlanta. there she goes. getting hit. the woman's crossing the street in a crosswalk when she is hit by another woman driving tt suv. it is hard to look at.

what the video does not show, though, is the driver leaving the scene. the victim was treated and released from the hospital. here she is. >> i just remember crossing the streetand i saw a police car waiting for the light as i crossed. and it just came out of nowhere. i just can't get up. my knee is swollen so bad. she needs to be arrested. she really needs to be arrested. >> luckily, she is okay. the driver did get out of her vehicle at first, but once the officer began helping the victim, the driver of this suv got back in and left. police are now looking for her. pope benedict xvi says he is truly sorry for the sexual abuse victims suffered at the hands of catholic priests in ireland. the pope's 18-page letter was made public today and is expected to be read in churches across ireland tomorrow. the country has been shaken by a recent government-backed report that found the archdiocese of dublin and other catholic church authorities in ireland covered up child abuse by priests from

1975 until 2004. allegations of abuse in the catholic church have been made in six countries including the pope's native germany. when the pope was archbishop in the early 1980s, the munich archdiocese ignored warnings to keep a molesting priest away from children. that is according to the doctor who issued those warnings. more than 300 cases of alleged abuse have emerged mostly since january but no others have surfaced that could implicate the pope. check out this massive fire. it destroyed what was once a huge house in scottsdale, arizona, last night. luckily, no e was insi at the time. homes on both sides of the fire were evacuated. firefighters sprayed water on at least one home next door. no injuries reported. the cause of this fire is under investigation. africanized bees killea dog and sent its owner running out of his clothes. george williams was trimming trees in his backyard in south florida and got too close to the killer bees' colony.

sadly, his 70-pound dog socks took the brunt of the attack. >> one dog was covered in bees. the other dog i got him loose. and it was all i could take to get out of there. and i wind up naked in my front yard running from the bees. i just took my clothes off. i was fighting and they were trying to get -- bees were trying to go in your eyes, ears, everywhere, your mouth. >> there were more than 7,000 bees in the colony. a bee expert was called in to kill the hive. president barack obama has one word for canadian prime minister stephen harper -- cheers. yesterday the president made good on a bet and gave the prime minister a case of molson beer. the two heads of state had a friendly bet on the outcome of the u.s.-canada olympic gold medal hockey game. as you know, canada beat the u.s. 3-2 in overtime. it was a close one. even though it wasn't part of the bet, mr. obama also threw in a case of yuengling, the president's favorite beer. we are keeping an eye on the

flooding in the midwest. we go to meteorologist reynold wolf w's live moorehead, minnesota. how is it looking now? >> reporter: things are looking good for the most part. there have been no reports of any flooding of homes in either moorhead or across the river in fargo. you can see trains right here in -- moving into moorhead. at this particular train is moving from west to east, the floodwaters right below that trestle moving west to east. we expect the floodwater to rise to 37.5 feet by tomorrow. that's the bad news. the good news is that it should be well shy of the record set last year of 40 feet 8 inches. let's show what else we have in terms of the forecast today. as we look at the maps, what we can anticipate will be again the potential of flooding across parts of the region. not just in fargo and grand forks but possibly even towards chicago. you see areas in green, those are the watch and warning areas. as we zoom in we can see along

the red river, that's where we'll be having issues. even toward aberdeen. we go from that red river to the red river at makes the texas and oklahoma border. that area could see snowfall today. we have winter storm warnings in effect. susan, believe it or not, we have a state of emergency that has been declared for oklahoma. all 77 counties may receive some rough winter weather. some places, as i mentioned, up to a foot of snow. visibility is going to be poor. farther south of the metroplex could see strong storms. that's a quick look at the forecast. more updates coming up throughout the day. you're watching hln. here's an example of new technology doing some good. find out how demi moore and nia vardalos' twitter acunts likely helped stop a teenager from kilg himself.

actress demi moore and nia vardos' twitter accounts may have helped stop an 18-year-old from committing suicide. the two responded to messages from a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in florida. two other people, one from california, another from british columbia, also reported the threat on twitter and called florida authorities. >> i saw it on demi moore's page because i follow her. it's not that complicated, but it sounds like it is. and she responds to him and says, "are you serious?" he says, "yes." >> we're grateful that the people who follow on twitter picked up the phone. in this case it absolutely could have saved his life. >> an amazing stor the teen's mother told police her son has obsessive-compulsive disorder he was at his computer desk crying when he told police he admitted posting the tweet. he is in protective custody. check out this daredevil. look closely.

in florida, he walked across a wire nearly 400 feet in the air. makes you nervous just looking at it. he walked between two 34-story towers in ft. myers yesterday, and no net was underneath him. he's already in the rld book of records but this is the highest skywalk he's ever performed. get this. he says he decided last minute to include his mother. she's also a wire-walker but hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. it will be a few days before a south african sculpting team finds out if it's created the world's largest chocolate rabbit. looks like they have, though. their easter bunny is 12'5" and will be on display until march 27 and will be broken up into chocolate bits and given to local orphanages in time for easter. what are the odds that two brothers from canada would make the ncaa tournament let alone

play each other in a first round game? it did happen. hi, joe. >> hi, susan. chris jose who plays for syracuse met his older brother, maurice, who plays for vermont before they played each other last night. and guess who was under the most pressure. mom, of course. she was in the stands, and she wore a specially made t-shirt with both teams on it. word is she was in pretty good spirits. older brother maurice made a couple of nice baskets for vermont. younger brother, chris, plays on a much, much better team, syracuse. the number-one seed rolled over 16th seed vermont to advance. so after the first round of the tournament, how's your bracket doing? president obama's doing pretty well. he picked 25 of the first 32 games correctly, only 7 wrong. espn has 4.8 million online bracket entries, none are perfect. only three have missed one. steelers team president art rooney ii is taking the wait-and-see approach when it comes to the ben roethlisberger situation.

his star quarterback is under investigation after being accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student two weeks ago. rooney said if it was summertime the steelers may have to be thinking and doing something different. but at the moment they're in a situation to let the investigation play out and then go from there. the saints are raising ticket prices for next season. expect to pay about $10 more. i know what you're thinking, though. win the super bowl, jack up prices. but wait. the team is quick to point out there are only a handful of professional teams out there that offer cheap tickets. they offer 6,000 for $26. a high school basketball player from michigan is getting national attention for an impressive dunk. nate vanarendonk, a senior at grand haven high schl, shattered the backboard during a

high school game. nay couldn't fix it and had to move the game five miles away, grand haven, nate's team, eventually won. that's sports, i'm joe carter. one woman says she took her toyota in for recall work and that's when she says her trouble began. her story is just ahead.

one woman says she had a problem with her toyota after she took it in for the recall. she said her camry took off of her as she was backing up in a garage. she was backing up and it crashed through a wall before it stop. she's blaming a sudden acceleration problem for it. >> i felt it accelerating so i

tried to stop it by hitting the brakes. but it never stopped. it was going so fast until it didn'tardly give me time to think of what i should try to do to stop it. >> emerson says she took her car in for service two weeks ago because of the recall acceleration problems. a toyota spokesperson says the company will notify its local quality insurance team. seven more banks have shut down, and three are in georgia. the others were in ohio, utah, alabama, also minnesot federal regulators moved in yesterday and took them over. now the fdic was able to find other financial institutions to buy all of the troubled banks except the one in utah. 37 banks have failed so far this year. earthquake victims in haiti probably feel like they can't catch a break because yesterday they endured one of the heaviest rainfalls stins deadly effort quake struck the area. the rain swamped homeless camps

and next week former presidents bill clinton and george bush will travel there to haiti to meet with lief workers and government officials. across the nation, big lends are finding when it comes to delinquent homeowners, foreclosure may not be their best bet. hln money expert clark howard explains what th means for people struggling with their mortgage payments. >> reporter: if e you an upside down homeowner meaning you a lot more on your house than what it's worth and you've been struggling to make your payments and you're facing the possibility of foreclosure, i have some good news for you. for the first time in the whole housing crisis, the nation's biggest mortgage lenders are saying wait a minute, foreclosing isn't really working out. in fact, what are these big lenders doing? they are actually getting serious about cooperating on short sales. "the financial times of london" report lenders all across the

country are going to be very cooperative and much speedier throughout 2010 and working with you selling your house at a discount so that someone else moves in. why? because the average loss to a bank is 20% of the value of a mortgage on a short sale, half the value of the house if they have to foreclose. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to be clark smarwith your wallet, check me out at cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> and get much more advice from clark himself today at noon eastern. he will help you save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. this week's "eco solution" is one you may say you can drink to. we have a look at how beer is beefing up the environment. >> what doe a pint of beer have to do with cows? they're two of the ingredients

in oregon natural meatings. >> it is a pretty simple concept that ties in the elements of sustainability. >> the doctor takes cattle and adds a beer bifroukt the diet. this is the malt after the brewers taken the sugar out thi brewers have taken the sugar out of it. this is still full of protein, fiber, and carves. without. it would go to waste. it is a perfect fit for a town where the local food movement has been gaining momentum. >> we will see the ranchers come in and deal with me at the counter. i always introduce them. >> do you think it is because people care so much now about where their food com from? >> i think the main factor is

that there is such a food awareness. people want to have confidence. if they are going to be a carnivore that they can be one with a high degree of confide e confidence. here is what you do. head to our website, cnn.com/ecosolutions. a new study suggesting that young people are less interested in religion than older folks. >> you go to church, you are looked down on. >> for some kids finding jesus really does do something for them. >> there are a couple of different views. people on the street.