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i tell em that n ♪ tonight, easy money. >> hi. >> meet the crusader on a quest to save you thousand of dollars every year. and restore sanity. >> i'm hungry. >> by helping families buy and cook smart. the $5 dinner menu mom is on the case. plus, the $7 million madman. a deranged rebel leader with a bounty on his head as he holds hundreds of young school girls to sell into slavery. now he is making more threats. >> we have already sent in a
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team. >> what do john travolta, kevin spacey and 800 million fans have in common. >> yes, i am a very big fan. >> the bollywood invasion, oscars taking place in the u.s. this year. and no one's hips will ever be the same. but first, the "nightline" five. >> tigers both of you. i see how you are investing. setting long term goals. diversifying. you got our attention. >> we did? >> of course. you're type b. >> well, i have been researching the strategies. >> that's what t [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywhere in your home.
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good evening. it may surprise you to discover that on average, gross rceries our third biggest monthly expense. what if a simple fix could cut your food bill in half and cut down at the time at the grocery store. the $5 dinner mom is a frugal foodie who says she can spot deals and assemble gourmet meals while saving you thousand. here's abc's rebecca jarvis for our series "easy money." >> hi. >> hey. >> hi, julie. >> nice to meet you, julie. >> reporter: meet aaron chase, the $5 dinner mom. she is on a mission to help american families eat well and save thousand of dollars while doing it. a family like the kings. working mom, julie, two little kids, max and lily, and husband andrew. she hardly has enough time for a
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conversation. >> i am going to get you. much less getting dinner on the table every night for her family. >> here. >> a lot of times the kids end up eating pb & j. as for the veggies. >> i don't want green beans. >> come down the mountain. >> reporter: by 8:00 p.m. the kids are in bed and julie and andrew give up on cooking. and order pizza. >> extra large, extra cheese, well done, please. >> reporter: here is the real problem. they go grocery shopping all the time but they're too busy to cook. how much time are you spending grocery shopping? >> probably a good, two, three hours a week by the time you put all the different trips together. >> that is a lot. >> it is. it is silly. it's what happens. >> reporter: you are putting out fires constantly. what's in front of me. deal with it. move to the next thing. >> pretty much. >> reporter: the kings have no plan. that's costing them. how much money do you thinning you are spending a week on
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groceries? >> probably close to $200. >> $200. >> if not a little more. a lot of times i am double big forgetting what i have at home. >> reporter: plus extra for takeout. they realize this is no way to live. it's bad for their family. >> i do still look to cook. i would rather have efficient meals to have time together. >> spending more than $200 a week on groceries. four grocery trips. do you think you can spend a little less time both grocery shopping and paying for those groceries? >> i think so. yeah, i think i certainly can. >> reporter: this is where aaron comes in. she is about to give the king is a much-needed food makeover. one shopping trip, five family dinners, but can she do it on a shoestring budget. the makeover starts with a kitchen audit. >> first, look, i am very impressed. very nice clean, well organized. >> reporter: tip one, know what you have. >> i love you have the red peppers. what i especially love about red peppers, you can dice them up
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really small, and sneak them into a red sauce and your kids will never know. they're getting their serving of veggies. >> reporter: turns out julie had dinner ingredients hiding in her fridge. >> think i was going to use them to make tacos. i forgot. i just made the tacos without them. >> reporter: tip two, don't waste food. americans throw away nearly half of the food they buy. costing a staggering $165 billion a year. that's over $2,000 per family. these strawberries have seen better days. >> reporter: take, $2.50, $3 throw that in the trash? >> no. i wouldn't. >> essentially that's what we are doing here, right? >> reporter: so, eat what you buy. like this salad mix. before it is too late. >> i like that this is a smaller package. use it up. >> reporter: tip number three, your freezer is your friend. >> i love your freezer. it's simple. it is clean. and organized. i can see that you have chicken.
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>> reporter: all most anything can be cooked then frozen. and later quickly thawed for dinner. >> how daunting is it to come home and see all that frozen chicken. off awe awf >> it's awful. missed opportunity. start from scratch and figure something out. >> tip four, don't double buy. the kings have a well stocked basement pantry. >> tricky thing you have to remember what is down here. >> reporter: a gold mine for our dinner plans. >> so we have pasta. pasta sauce. and refried beans. >> julie didn't know it, but she has half ingredients for five home cooked meals. >> would you have thought to come down here before? >> no i wouldn't have. i would have forgot we had anything until end of dinner or something. >> reporter: then it was off to the grocery store. time for some grocery shopping. >> okay. >> reporter: in search of tasty deals. off the bat, our list was shorter. >> we already have pasta, spaghetti sauce in the freezer, you have the chicken.
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>> reporter: speaking of shopping lists. it shouldn't be a stream of consciousness. >> if i make a list it is random. like whatever i thought of. i needed at that second. its what goes next on the list. but you have really organized it. >> reporter: organize by department. produce at the top. you walk in. in the produce section. you have everything in order. you don't have to backtrack through the store. >> reporter: a list was one thing. but, could julie chop her food budget in half? >> how much money do you think you are going to spend? >> i would guess $100. >> reporter: and her shopping time done to just one trip a week. >> that's cheap. this right here is our money right here. we found the black beans. they're on sale too. want to grab those too. >> reporter: erin found us deals in every aisle. >> looks like all is on sale. fantastic. $1.29 off for each of them. huge. salmon on sale for $7.99 a pound. >> reporter: the thing where you want to buy extra? >> yes. something you are making regularly. then you can cook one this week. and you can put the other one in
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the freezer with your favorite marinade. >> reporter: at checkout we are saving a bundle. $23. the salmon went through. talk about the $100 mark. way under $100. >> reporter: grand total. $54.32. >> awesome. five dirnnners and extras for t freezer. that's less than $3 per person, per meal. but would julie be able to get dinner on the table in time for a family meal with 30 minutes to cook. two kids under foot. and a hungry husband. it's down to the wire. but by 6:30, the whole family is at the table. >> cheers. family dinner. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: a dinner together worth far more than just dollars and cents. for "nightline," i'm rebecca jarvis in east chester, new york. >> for money saving recipes go
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i sell girls. that's the chilling warning being made by one of the most notorious men in the world right now. after kidnapping hundred of students in broad day light. now the u.s. joins the global manhunt as he threatens to sell them into slavery. so who is this self-proclaimed mad man? here is abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporter: the world was
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introduced to a new mad man this week and now the united states is going to help track him down. and the hundred of nigerian school girls he and his terror group have claimed to kidnap. today at the white house, president obama told ginger zee of abc news the u.s. is joining the hunt. >> we have already sent in a team to nigeria. they have accepted our help, a combination of military, law enforcement, and other agencies who are going in trying to identify where in fact these girls might be and to provide them help. >> reporter: the young girls have been brought to this school in northeast nigeria to take their final exams in safety. young women, age 15 to 18. who then came face to face with the very terror group they tried to flee whose name means western education is a sin. three weeks later, the government of nigeria says it still has no idea where the missing girls or their kidnappers are.
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>> the more time goes by, i think, the less likely it is that they will be rescued. the failure of nigeria to find the high school-aged girls led to protests around the world today. including this gathering in front of the united nations in new york. >> let us pray. >> reporter: in washington there was a moment of silence on capitol hill. and growing anger at the nigerian government seeming ineptitude. at the heart of it all, the leader of the terror group, boko haram, who had a $7 million u.s. reward on his head before he made himself the most wanted man in the world with the school girl kidnappings. his name is abubakar shekau, the 40-something leader of the islamic terror group. proudly announcing on this video that he and his men had kidnapped the several hundred school girls and plan to sell them as sex slaves. abubakar shekau has actually
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described himself as a mad man and people who study him agree. >> i think he is one of those leaders that enjoys being labeled a mad man, that enjoys being labeled evil and relishes in this spotlight. >> reporter: in another portion of his 56-minute video, abubakar shekau proclaimed i will kill obama if i capture him. let the corpses decompose he said and begin to smell. the corpses of unbelievers like obama, george bush. and in just some four years, shekau turned boko haram into a ruthless, deadly force that has spread fear across nigeria and concern as far away as washington. >> it has conducted a range of attacks against civilians. it built up a major arsenal of improvised explosive devices. mid and heavy weapons. and presents a notable threat to the nigerian state. and a threat for that matter to u.s. interests in north and west africa. >> the kidnapping of the girls
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by abubakar shekau's men took place at this government high school in the nearby town. all that was left was the burned out desks of the classrooms. about 50 of the girls have else scaped, including these four avoiding the grim fate that may await their friends. >> translator: we thought they were soldiers this young girl said. they asked us to board the vehicle which headed towards the town and my friend and i jumped from the vehicle and rand back home because we realize they'd didn't look innocent. the remaining girls, 276 are now in the hand of boko haram. and its leader's threat to sell the captives as sex slaves is considered entirely possible by experts. human right groups say there remains a thriving slave market in africa despite laws and crackdown. by some estimates. hundreds of thousand of children a year are sold into slavery in this area as domestic workers, laborers, child bride or
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prostitutes. >> younger women carry a price premium in these kind of transactions. and yes, boko haram has done this in the past as well. it is a behavior that's quite typical of an african rebel group. >> reporter: now with the u.s. joining in the search in nigh jenigh -- nigeria for boko haram and missing school girls, president obama told abc news tuesday this could be a turning point. >> this may be the event that helps to mobile i the international community to finally do something against this horrendous organization that has perpetrated a terrible crime. >> the urgency for nigeria intensified tuesday with a report from unicef that eight more nigerian school girls had been abducted by boko haram. another brazen kidnapping by a group that no one seems able to stop at least so far. juju? >> thank you, brian for that chilling report. next up -- it is big, it is brassy, it's bollywood. and it is coming to america.
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you are about to get an inside look at one of the biggest movie award ceremonies on the planet. no it is not the oscars. world are colliding as hollywood meets bollywood bringing billions of fans along. here's abc's senior national correspondent jim avila. >> reporter: it is glam, spectacular and over-the-top movie making, made famous here in the states by "slum dog millionaire." ♪ ♪ and now bollywood comes to america attracting american stars. yes, that's kevin spacey. and that is john travolta. >> i find the indian films very original and in energy and life. >> reporter: travolta is india's favorite american actor because of his dancing in "grease." and of course "saturday night fever." ♪ ♪
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dancing yeah ♪ >> reporter: the big bollywood fan base gathered in tampa, florida, filling a football stadium with mostly american, out-of-their-mind fans. to celebrate indian film at their version of the oscars. they are enthralled with the indian way of making movies. bollywood with monster sellers like, "chenai express" is seen by more movie-goers than hollywood block busters. 3 billion tickets sold over there. 1.3 billion in north america. so now bollywood meets hollywood, india seek a bigger audience. mega stars like travolta and spacey aren't treated like bollywood actors are in theirs. her name is deepa kapatcomb, she may be the biggest movie star you ever heard of. >> she could not walk down the streets of bomb bay, she would be mobbed.
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>> reporter: indian actors made popular by the key to bollywood movies, the dance numbers as in this indian classic from 1975, getting bigger and bigger every time the curtain rises. this is 2001. some times happiness. some times sad. and this is the man largely responsible for the splash and dash that is bollywood. as he like to be called, the guru of indian dance. he even directed dance numbers in american movies. this is his work on "mission impossible 4." >> more on the sidish, a little bit. not too much. little more center. that's it. >> reporter: and now he goes by one name like oprah is directing the seven musical numbers that dominate the indian oscars. allowing "nightline" to follow along through rehearsals. >> five, six, seven, eight. >> reporter: as he cajoles. coaches. >> why are you bouncing off?
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keep your feet together. >> reporter: he disciplines. praises his dancers. >> lovely. >> reporter: he took me back stage to see the props. he designs them all. he designed the wardrobe too. his dance troupe brought more than 140 bags of costumes on their trip from mumbai, to outfit 90 indian dancers. >> what are you going for? >> what is the sflook. >> reporter: what is the look? >> very indian, very bollywood, glitch, chic, loud. >> reporter: can you go sexy? >> very sexy. >> reporter: can you go skimpy? >> i am particular about not looking vulgar. >> reporter: from rehearsal to light, makeup, wardrobe. this is the finished product. ♪ ♪ but before we go, a little time for a lesson in bollywood moves. >> very, very bollywood. >> reporter: what are the characteristic moves of the dance? >> everything bollywood is
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hip-oriented for the girl and very subtle for the guys. >> reporter: seems easy enough. teach me one move. >> make him do this one. not that difficult. >> reporter: one foot out there. okay. >> that's it! that's it! >> yeah. >> doing bollywood. >> reporter: that could be the end of bollywood as we know it. for "nightline" in tampa, florida, i'm jim avila. >> thank you for watching abc news. tune in to "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always, we're online at
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and a congress standing in the. way. . their budgets are late; jobs bills are stalled... and special nterests run rampant. as an economics teacher at stanford, i know education means good jobs. so here's my plan: i'd start teaching computer coding in public schools right away. open doors for women in science and technology. and prepare young people for middle class manufacturing jobs.

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