la audiencia de ayer el juez dijo que no estaba seguro cuÁl era la polÍtica ilegal mientras que anthony s la cancelacion de un programa federal que permite a propietarios de casa reducir sus hipotecas. >> puso fin a la modificaciÓn y que ha ayudado a unos 600 mil propietarios a re financiar sus pagos de hipoteca para recuperar sus casas. >> el programa no justifica el costo para contribuyentes, se espera que el senado rechace la cancelaciÓn del programa y el presidente barack obama adelanÓo que la vetarÍa. >> varios videos mostraron a un policÍa de miami beach en la florida y un guardia de seguridad privado, tratando de controlar a una mujer y un hombre que se resistÍan al arresto, se ve forcejeando con la turista sara g de 25 aÑos de edad, la policÍa dijo que una tercera persona de nombre abelardo soto lanzÓ arena y un objeto a la gente y una multitud insultaba a agentes del orden, finalmente acudieron mÁs policÍas que lograron realizar arrestos, dijeron que el oficial actuÓ de manera adecuada. >> un nuevo reporte indica que aumentaron los problemas de aerolÍneas para que los equipajes l

look at the way -- you see people in their 80's -- in fact, anthony store the other day, famous british psychologist who died at age 80 was giving a lecture at oxford at the university there. he was one of the fellows. he was 80 years old and has continued to be active, writing books. >> how do do you spell his name? >> storr. >> that leads me to another man who lived over 100 and at certain periods in his life, in order to move from one activity or avocation to another, we can get into that in a moment, because you are a favor of avocations, are you not? >> yes. >> not to be confused with hunting. >> that's correct. >> you are concerned that when your brain is used that, keeps the brain healthy? >> no question about it. look at grandma moses. she started painting at 77 and lived to be 103. >> this gentleman's name was saure. he not only changes avocations but after a certain number of years he would change his name. you think that's carrying things too far? >> i think if he was starting off with a clean slate -- >> in order to live longer, should people avoid retirement? we'll answer t

abc7's lawrence anthony has the story from martinez. >> i know this is tough but it's the right thingpervisors did was vote to eliminate a long-standing vacation buy back policy for 300 top employees. mostly managers and supervisors not represented by a union. >> the sad thing is it's probably only the beginning of a long series of other things that we are going to need to do. >> until now managers could sell back up to one-third of their unused vacation per year. >> please do not take away this benefit. >> district attorney mark peterson told abc7 his deputies da's will be impacted. >> now they will take the vacation time and i will have to replace them with one and a half or more attorneys which will cost me additional money. >> they say the move is expected to save the struggling county nearly $1 million a year. besides short term savings, they hope long-term cutting vacation for managers will help them reign in costs. vacation pay outs could no longer be added to salaries used to compute pension. >> we are taking action because of the immediate savings of the benefit but it will h

abc7's lawrence anthony has the story from martinez. >> i know it's tough but it's the right thing tofrom contra costa supervisors did was vote to eliminate a long-standing vacation buy back policy for 300 top employees. mostly managers and supervisors not represented by a union. >> the sad thing is it's probably only the beginning of a long series of other things that we are going to need to do. >> until now managers could sell back up to one-third of their unused vacation per year. >> please do not take away this benefit. >> district attorney mark peterson told abc7 his deputy da's will be seriously impacted. >> now they will be forced to take that vacation time so i will have to replace them with one or one and a half more attorneys which is going to cost me additional money. >> supervisors say the move is expected to save the struggling county nearly $1 million per year. besides some short term savings, supervisors hope in the long-term cutting vacation buy back from managers will help them reign in skyrocketing pension costs. vacation pay outs could no longer be add today final y

anthony and elizabeth katie stanton in the 1860's to say, wait a minute, women should have the right to get married, to get divorced, to raise children and oh, by the way have their own children, own property, be able to vote, we shouldn't be surprised that protecting the child and the birth of that child was part of their platform. and today in 2011 i am very proud to stand here and carry on with their message because today ever more so the assault of life is all around us and i believe that assault on life is there because we don't recognize the meaning of life at its conception. and when you compromise it at its conception i think you question the validity of life all the way through to its end. you know, each year, and i'm so proud to represent the second congressional district of ohio, each year i am really proud of the hundreds of thousands of people that come out to the lawn on the capitol in probably the coldest day in january to petition congress to end abortion. it's called the right to life march and in the five years that i've been in congress, standing with them, we've y

abc 7's laura anthony introduces us to evan. >> he's playing his own competition, a song he's makingalong. ♪ >> playing the piano is one of the 17 year olds many gifts. earlier this week, included out of washington d.c. to pick up the $100,000 intel science research award. >> it was a math project about aproximating a square root with fractions. and compared two methods for doing this, the classic method, which gives the most accurate results as possible and the dynamic method. >> he was 19 months old when he could count to 20. he knew equals at 20 months. >> at age five, evan taught himself to play piano in 2007 he was a scrips national spelling bee, won. >> here he colored the regions. >> home schooled, he'll head off it harvard in the fall and takes graduate level classes at berkley. >> what do you do for fun? >> i work on math problems for my own fun. i can remember getting breaks like for thanksgiving and just getting on the computer and exploring all of this interesting mathematical ideas. >> this is like-- >> sometimes evan does act like a kid and like any teenager, he's looki