so, john berman travels back to the future to find out if they were on the mark. >> reporter: in somes, the future is now. we all chat on our "tar trek" communicators. you can get a robotic cleaner. and "survivor," isn't that different from runningman. but predicting the future isn't always so easy. not even for geniuses. in 1931, "the new york times" asked the world's great thinkers to predict what life would be like in 2011. now. w.j. mayo, founder of the mayo clinic, predicted our life expectancy, 59 years in 1931, would reach the biblical term of three-score and ten, 70. the reality, life expectancy in the u.s., is nearly 78. at a time when 35% of american homes were still heated by wood. willis whitney, who founded the research lob at general electric, predicted by 2011, that we would live in an electrically-heated, air-conditioned home. and that there would be an attached air car hangar, not quite. henry ford prepakted 1931 would seem drab. this was the new york skyline then. and now. william ogburn, got the closest. he said the imagine ib of remote-control will be common place.

for john berman, that's seriously funny. >> you guys ready for the little people in the boxes?jeff dunham has spent a lifetime playing with dolls. >> i think i know a black irish guy. >> who's that? obama. >> he liked to pal around with an old guy, a terrorist and a ha jalapeÑo on a stick. he's a comedian that tells his best jokes with his mouth closed. also, he's making a for chub. >> notice i had hair in the nose and ears. >> are you anatomically correct? >> no. i'm politically correct. i have no balls. >> this ventriloquist was number one on the "forbes" magazine list of top-earning comedians bringing in for man $22 million last year. $30 million the year before that. more than names you might know like dane cook, jerry seinfeld and sarah silverman. his new book "all by myself" was a "new york times" bestseller. and while you might not have been looking, dunham has been selling out arena after arena touring nearly nonstop for the last three and a half years. >> what cities are on this trip? >> i can't remember. this was one of the long ones. this was seven shows in eight day

>> john berman on the streets of camden tonight.hank you, john. >>> and we learned late today that a man who dedicated his life to fighting poverty has died. sargent shriver, married into the wealth and fame of the kennedy family, but spend his long career founding the peace corps and working for civic causes at home and abroad. and here's david muir. >> reporter: sargent shriver married american royalty in eunice kennedy, the sister of then-senator john f. kennedy. >> she's got real guts. she's got a terrific jaw, maybe you noticed that. it comes from both their mother and her father, who are people of great, great character. >> reporter: shriver went on to build a career in what was called president kennedy's new frontier, helping to found the peace corps and later spear-heading lyndon johnson's war on poverty. his dedication to social causes continued throughout his life. he served in leadership roles in head start, job corps, upward bound, among others. he may be best known as champion of the special olympics created by eunice i

john berman puts 2011 to the test. >> reporter: in some ways, the future is now. our "star trek" communicators. you can get a robot cleaner like rosy from "the jetsons." and "survivor" isn't that different from "running man." but predicting the future isn't always so easy, not even for geniuses. in 1931 "the new york times" asked a group of the world's great thinkers to predict what life would be like in 2011. now. w.j. mayo, a founder of the mayo clinic, predicted our life expectancy, 59 years in 1931, would reach the biblical term of three-score and ten, 70. the reality, life expectancy in the u.s. is now nearly 78. at a time when 35% of american homes were still heated by wood, willis whitney, who founded the research lab at general electric, predicted by 2011, you would live in an electrically heated, air conditioned home. but he also added there would be an attached aircar hangar. not quite. henry ford said whatever 2011 produced, it would make 1931 seem drab. well, this was the new york skyline then. and now. then they had "little orphan annie" on the radio.

here's john berman. >> rudy! rudy!in the movies, rudy hears the adoring call from thousands of fans. nice. >> how you doing? >> i'm good. >> reporter: but nothing compared to the adoration earned four nights a week by a real-life rudy, from just one fan. >> somebody wants to talk. here's your rudy. >> reporter: rudy favard is there for sam parker, an 8-year-old with cerebral palsy. sam can't speak, see, or walk, and spends much of the day on a cot near the family kitchen in the middle class suburb of melrose, massachusetts. until a few months ago, at the end of the day, his father rick would carry sam upstairs to put him to bed. >> i used to look forward to holding my son, being able to take him upstairs and care for him. >> reporter: but rick had major heart surgery. and those 14 steps, with his 75-pound son, were just impossible. sam was too heavy for mother patty as well. they put a call out to a local high school for help. the answer came from the 18-year-old captain of the football team. a linebacker with giant ar

john berman, abc news, new york. >> so many different people, loving the same thing, their families.t with your family and that we see you right back tomorrow night. until then, good night.ab >>> pipeline safety and the new public utilities commission p.u.c. how the california p.u.c. is wining and dining companies that it regulates. >> and there is a demand for neighborhood jobs and a new pledge that should help ease their concerns. >> and oakland police threatening a lawsuit over high mileage cars and radios that don't work. >> and there are budget cuts that could shut down half of the san francisco court system due, perhaps to a bureaucratic mistake. >> pipeline safety is a new priority. >> they promised change. and tonight they're sitting down in a swanky dinner party with utilities they're supposed to be regulating. >> it's a controversial fund-raiser. and we're live in san francisco tonight. >> and this is across the street from 4:56 california. guests have begun arriving and there are protesters

here's john berman. >> reporter: the saying goes, it's 5:00 somewhere.hat saying generally applies to humans. on the pristine caribbean island of st. kitts, "20/20" discovered a whole new definition of party animal. ♪ yes, what you just saw is a monkey sneaking a cocktail. ♪ and another. ♪ and another. lab studies find that given a chance to drink alcohol, monkeys drink just like humans. like us, more than half are casual drinkers. 15% are teetotalers and 20% drink too much. monkey drunks. scientists are studying them to learn more about the affects of heavy drinking. >> you can say that this is brain loss. this animal has lost brain mass. >> reporter: he's losing his mind from booze. >> that's one way of putting it. >> reporter: offering monkeys liquor is controversial. but scientists say it has the real potential to save lives. though, these monkey drinkers have a heck of a time just saving face. john berman, abc news, new york. >> and there is so much more to see and to learn from these monkeys. do not miss it tonight, the entire report on "20/20." >>

john berman discovered that opposites attract, just about everywhere. >> reporter: there are urban oddples, political odd couples, even cartoon odd couples. but perhaps none so surprising as this. >> come on. >> reporter: this baby leopard lives with john and jenny on their sprawling 1,500 acres in south africa. her best friend is tommy -- the golden retriever. >> just thinks it's natural to have a leopard as a sister. >> there's your friend. >> reporter: it does carry risks. leopards are predators. but nature does give us other examples. the canadian polar bears that visit these huskies every year. the baby elephant and the sheep. they ate together, played together and slept together. and, yes, even a lion and tiger and bear. these three now live on a refuge outside atlanta, together, as friends. for some reason, it just works. >> you have animals who would probably never have a reason to even know that each other exists. >> reporter: lions and tigers and bears. sometimes there's nothing left to say but -- oh, my. john berman, abc news, new york. >>> and, you can see a lot more of the

john berman explains. >> reporter: you could call him the original thigh master.es before jane fonda's workout, losing it generations before "the biggest loser." the waist, the hips. >> reporter: jack lalanne created a fitness industry in a country that had odd ideas about being fit. >> shape up and live. >> reporter: when he opened his first gym in 1936, this is what people thought about lifting weights. >> you'd lose your sex drive, you'd get hemorrhoids, have heart attacks. that's what they thought about exercise. >> reporter: once a pale and pimply kid, he discovered fitness at age 15. >> my whole life changed. >> reporter: he invented many of the weight machines we use today, the juice machines we use today, and when he went on tv in the '50s with "the jack lalanne show" -- >> one, two. >> reporter: -- with that crazy enthusiasm and crazier jumpsuit, he inspired millions including someone who's no slouch in the health department, arnold schwarzenegger. we called him today. >> jack lalanne was somewhat of i would say a freak in a way because i mean humanly imp

john berman explains. >> reporter: 6 billion separate people, 6 billion separate lives. when you look at it closely, there is a remarkable oneness. >> fundamentally we're only really interested in the same thing, which are children, loving our families, getting old and dying. that's kind of the -- not much else to think about really. >> reporter: what do you love, what do you fear? those were the questions asked in an unprecedented film project by director kevin mcdonald, youtube and you. it's called "life in a day." july 24, 2010, mcdonald asked anyone and everyone to post videos of their day on youtube. they got 80,000 clips from 192 countries. 4,500 hours of footage. it was a day when a little girl in barcelona climbed a human mountain. a day when a father in dubai worked to send money home to his family. a day when a young man in russia took an acrobatic walk to work. and took liberties at the grocery store. a family in illinois struggles with cancer. >> so, tell me what happened to mommy. >> boob cancer. >> reporter: what was it like to be part of this project, whic

more now from abc's john berman. >> reporter: for so many in the midwest, 2011 means cleaning up. from the final fury of 2010. in the tiny town of cincinnati, arkansas, the twisters hit without warning. they brutalized this house, killing an elderly couple inside and man in a barn nearby. >> we dug him out. and then we just started looking for the other people that were missing. >> reporter: this man had just renovated his home. >> kind of a weird feeling. all the work and stuff i put into it. it's just sad for me. because i worked pretty hard doing this. now it's gone. >> reporter: the storms pounded missouri. in this video, you can see the clouds in the town of desoto and hear the eerie warning sirens. not far, jessica barnes was home with her 3-year-old when the tornado came calling. >> i placed him in the tub first and laid on top of him. when we came to, he was on top of me. and first thing he said was, my house is broken. >> reporter: the tornadoes, fueled by warm air, extremely rare for this time of year, touched down from arkansas, all across southern missouri, and into so

we have a team of reporters braving the weather, starting with john berman in central park. hi, john. >> reporter: good morning, george. it's pretty out here this morning. but it was a lot prettier a month ago, when winter started. we've had about a year's worth of snow in a month. with this storm, it's bringing what some of the others did, bringing the coldest air yet in much of the country. in the northeast, the fifth storm in less than a month. a rapid burst of snow dumps two inches an hour in some places. look at these time lapse videos from these storm spotters. in new york city, three to six inches fell. and in boston, five to nine inches. even before this dumping, new york city had been hit by 32 inches of snow, more than the yearly average. and there's still two months of winter left. if it continues at this rate, it could break the all-time record. the snow has already plowed over the city's annual snowplow budget. not to mention our patience. >> honestly, enough is enough. >> reporter: and this snow is just the appetizer for cold. epic cold. nine states were under w

. >> our john berman has been driving the snowy streets of new york all night. like out there. >> reporter: we've been out all night. and some of the snowplows in new york, we've seen dozens and dozens of them on the street. they had a light on a backhoe clearing out an intersection. they're taking this storm very, very seriously. and they want to have these roads as clean as they possible can. we have just seen the emergency operation center. they've been so far, so good here. the only problem they've seen is some disabled vehicles on the road. they've been able to clear them out fairly quickly. the emergency vehicles have been able to get where they need to go. it is snowing very hard. you can see it. coming down an inch or two an hour. i can't tell if it will accumulate the inches that were predicted. so far, the streets are drivable, passable. i wouldn't recommend it unless you have a four-wheel drive week like this. and a great driver here. >> thanks, john. we'll get more later today on "gma." >>> this storm started in the south, where some cities could be

and that's never truer of anyone than the man john berman brings to us now. >> reporter: on screen, they fighter." >> irish micky ward! >> reporter: in real life, fighting is all micky ward has ever known, in the ring and out. >> you know, sometimes it wasn't the smartest thing. that's the only way i know how to do it. with me, it was hit and get hit more. >> reporter: he had to fight his way through lowell, massachusetts, an edgy, blue collar town known for its dwindling industry and tough streets. >> i guess surrounding towns think lowell is crazy and stuff, but i don't think it's crazy. i'm just so used to it. >> reporter: he had to fight to stand up for his brother and trainer, dicky, played by christian bale in the film. a crack addict who ended up in jail. >> you ain't going to leave someone because someone did something wrong. that ain't what it's all about. >> reporter: what gave him the courage to fight? maybe it was being the eighth of nine kids. including seven sisters. >> it got a little crazy here and there. i can tell you there were a lot of fights. not fist fights, but lik

john berman goes back to the future. >> reporter: in some ways the future is now. communicators. you can get a robot cleaner like rosie from the jetsons. and survivor isn't that different from running man. predicting the future isn't always so easy. not even for geniuses. in 1931, the "new york times" asked a group of the world's great thinkers to predict what life would be like in 2011. now. w.j. mayo, founder of the mayo clinic, predicted our life expectancy -- 59 years in 1931 -- would reach the biblical term of three score and ten, 70. the reality? life expectancy in the u.s. is now nearly 78. at a time when 35% of american homes were still heated by wood, willis whitney, who founded the research lab at general electric, predicted by 2011, you would live in an electrically heated, air conditioned home. but he also added there would be an attached aircar hangar. not quite. henry ford said that whatever 2011 produced, it would make 1931 seem drab. well, this was the new york skyline then. and now. then they had little orphan annie on the radio. we have "jersey sh

for "good morning america," john berman, abc news, new york. >> what did rex say last week, it's personal>> yeah, but they backed it up. the jets, steelers, bears and packers. >> a lot coming up. >> great final four. >>> coming up on "good morning america," sad news out of tennessee. why did an 8,000 pound elephants fatally crush its zoo keeper. >>> and the next on the mommy wars. my the mother that says she doesn't believe in play dates or sleepovers that sparked even death threats. >>> wait for it, the latest on will and kate. the big bachelor party is being planned and which palace they'll be calling home. at purina one, we want your cat to be as healthy as possible. so we set out to discover the nutritional science in some of nature's best ingredients. that's how we created purina one with smartblend. nutritionally optimized with real salmon, wholesome grains, and essential antioxidants for strong muscles, vital energy, a healthy immune system, and a real difference in your cat. purina one with smartblend. discover what one can do. but the nicoderm cq patch gradually steps you down of

our very own john berman has been sort of braving these streets. , we're fine, we're fine. look, we've been out all night, and so have the snowplows in new york city. we've seen dozens and dozens of them on the street. i even got to ride on a backhoe that was clearing out an intersection. they are taking this storm very, very seriously, and they want to have these roads as clean as they possibly can. we were just in the emergency management operations center, and they said so far so good here. the only problem they've seen is some disabled vehicles on the roads, and they've been able to clear them out fairly quickly. the emergency vehicles have been able to get where they need to go. it is snowing very hard. you can see it. i don't know if you can see it out of this car here. it's coming down an inch or two an hour. but you know, i can't tell if it's really going to accumulate more than the eight inches that were predicted. and so far the streets are drivable, passable. i wouldn't recommend it unless you have a four-wheel-drive vehicle like this and

it's not a problem unique to camden either, as john berman reports. >> reporter: a cold, rainy day iny. newark, new jersey, laid off 167 cops in november. in december carjackings shot up one-quarter of their year's total. tulsa, oklahoma, cut back 11% of its force. at one point the domestic violence unit had just four officers to handle about 5,000 cases. in oakland, california, they fired 100 police officers. officials say they can no longer respond to vandalism, identity theft and some burglaries. >> we're in a new period in which cutting police hasn't happened in the last ten years. we're about to test the theory of do police matter. >> reporter: the mayor says what she's hoping for is some kind of agreement toward pay concessions or pay cuts with the police union that will help them get 100 officers back on these streets. that's 100 of the 160 that were laid off. that is a best-case scenario. right now, only a hope. john berman, abc news, camden, new jersey. >>> in oregon, they've had plenty of rain this week but along the coast, it's another problem -- sand. strong winds have bee

the story from john berman. >> in the movie he hears adoring call from thousands of fans.compared to add 0ration earned 4 night a week by a real life rudy from just one fan. >> i think somebody wants to talk. he hears you rudy. >>reporter: rudy is there for sam parker. 8-year-old with c p. can't speak sea or walk and spend much of a day on the cot near the family kitchen in the middle class suburb in go at the evenly of the few day his father rick would carry sam upstairs to put him to bed. >> i used to look forward to holding my son, being able to, to be able to take him upstairs and care for him. >>reporter: but rick had major heart surgery and the 14 steps and 75 pound son were just impossible. >> yes. >>reporter: sam was too heavy for mother patty as well. they put a call out to local high school for help. the answer came from the 18-year-old captain of the football team. linebacker with giant arms and colossal heart. >> i didn't think it was a big deal. >>reporter: how many teenagers would show up 4 nights a week at 8:00 o'clock? how many teenagers would say he is the

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and john berman stayed up all night with emergency crews. john? >> reporter: that's right, george. we're up all night, chasing the snowplows. and we found them, all shapes and sizes, big and little. and the streets this morning are fairly clear. for the people up out of bed, and headed for work. if you hit the streets, you hit the snow, right in your face. but legions of city workers were there to greet it. some 365 salt spreaders to go along with some 1,700 plows. okay. it's after midnight. we're on the side streets of brooklyn. plowing with tommy, who has been plowing for 20 years. tommy says the biggest problem, dodging cars. and those potholes. ooh. that was one of those potholes. that was a pothole. the city is still reeling from the christmas blizzard. this mangled car has been on the street since then. the owner says, hit by plows. this time, the city called in extra, private contractors. it's just before 1:00 a.m. and we're out here on this backhoe with todd lawlor. his job right now is this intersection. he's only wearing a t-shirt. but don't worry. it's heated inside. how

john berman is here with a sneak peek. >> good morning, george. the super bowl? horses, monkeys, babies and scantily-clad women, not necessarily in that order. yes, when it comes to the big game next sunday the ad game, advertisers are pulling out all the stops. >> we are not doing. >> reporter: at $3 million a pop for a 30-second spot, the ads better be eye-opening or eye-brow raising. that's clearly the philosophy of go daddy. ♪ >> go daddy girl coming to set. >> everybody is staring. >> reporter: audi is going upscale. volkswagen, mysterious. best buy is going odd, as in odd couple, justin bieber and ozzy osbourne. and skechers is getting real. or at least reality star, kim kardashian. >> sorry about last night. >> reporter: all of the old favorites will be back. the etrade baby, the budweiser clydesdales. and the career builder kids. chimps. you wonder what babies and chimps have to do with those proeds? not much. they grab your daengs. >> it's still a huge deal to have an ad in the super bowl. 100 million people at one time, combined with all

and john berman has been covering the speech and all the reaction on social media. jake, let me begin. the president had a goal of laying out his strategy of winning the future. the snap polls, pretty positive for the president. all they they tend to have a bias for the democrats. was the white house surprised by any of the reaction of the speech? how do they feel coming out of it? >> i think they feel positive about it. they wanted the president to lay out, basically, a narrative for his presidency. not just his spending proposals. but his presidency. and the term, winning the future, is now on newspapers across the country. i think they successfully did that. next, you're going to hear republicans take that apart. it's not winning the future. it's about spending our way into bankruptcy or further bankruptcy. that's really going to be the test. how long this motto survives. >> you got a preview of that from congressman ryan's speech last night. in some ways, this is new packaging, for the president, the win the future strategy. but most of the proposals are things

senator john berman.he use of identified, do you consider yourself a republican, -- how do you identify yourself, as a republican, tea party? guest: i am a conservative commentator. i went through a difficult period a few -- with no child left behind with the bush administration and i actually thought my media career and would never have an opportunity to appear on broadcasts. so, i made up my mind that it is an inherent conflict for people in the media to also contract with the government. . syndicated column has returned and we blog daily. i enjoy being a journalist. if the republicans do something of a critical, you up to call them to the carpet. it is working very well. i am just a conservative commentator. i am not in the republican or democrat camp, but i am a third generation republican. i will always be a republican because it is the party of my parents. and i embrace the tea party, not just because i give financial contributions to them, but they represent the fiscal responsibility values that i

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