abbie boudreau explains. >> it's 4:30 a.m. >> everybody's sleeping, but me. >> it's 1:00 in the morningn the asleep. >> reporter: millions of sleep-deprived americans. >> most of the time, i'm tired all the time. >> reporter: and for women it's worse. a third of all women relying on medication to get sleep. the restless nights have real consequences. people that get less than 6 hours of sleep are twice as likely to suffer a stroke or a heart attack. >> when people sleep too little. not just one night of missing a few hours of sleep, but chronically sleep deprived, we see real metabolic changes. court sol levels go up. blood sugar can go up. >> reporter: while so many fight to get more sleep, new science warning not to get too much. more than eight hours of sleep a night put you at higher risk of coronary heart disease. getting the six to eight hours should be a priority. just as much as hitting the gym. heart doctors say you have to get the right amount of sleep, or it may make all that have effort here in vain. abbie boudreau, abc news, los angeles. >> good to know. >>> pranksters have

abbie boudreau, abc news, los angeles. >> several days away, and they're already crying.t's going to do it for us tonight on "world news." "good morning america" first thing in the morning. have a great week. good night. >> good evening. >> a historic visit, israeli president shimon perris arriving to spend five days here in the bay area. we're live in the newsroom with details about what peres is doing in northern california. >> president simone peres is coming to the bay area and will be talking to silicon valley high-tech giants, and he carries lot of weight. the president was in washington, dc earlier today. there he spoke at the american israel public relations committee. most of the speech centered around the possibility of an iranian nuclear weapons program and also

with more on that, here's abc's abbie boudreau. >> reporter: fighting fatigue after her baby was borntress january jones tried an old trick to help boost her energy. she took pills made from her placenta. and she credits this growing trend for her speedy recovery, even telling "people" magazine, "i suggest it to all moms." some herbalists believe the placenta which grows in a pregnant woman's uterus and nourishes the baby is full of vitamins and nutrients, claiming that when ingested, it wards off baby blues, increases your energy level and helps you drop those dreaded pregnancy pounds. so, how old is august? >> august is 8 months old. >> reporter: but this new mom, nancy redd, calls this nothing more than a celebrity-driven fad, one she fell for and now regrets. >> when i saw the placenta pill trend, i immediately hopped on the bandwagon, even though i had no idea where the train was going. >> reporter: redd, a "new york times" best-selling author, had also heard about the supposed health benefits, so, she, too, tried it. >> i'm the person that always tells young women, diet pills do

and tonight abc's abbie boudreau on the hunger for heroins. the message it's sending about strong women. >> happy hunger games. >> it's not just shattering numbers at the box office, it's also shattering the typical image of a young gun. move over edward, move over edward. this time the strongest character quite literally is katniss. >> i volunteer as tribute. >> reporter: the powerful stereotype rewritten, a message heard by young women and men across the country. >> she's such a warrior. it shows you girls don't have to be pretty or whatever, they just have to be smart. >> jennifer lawrence, hollywood's newest "it" girl transforming to a red carpet beauty to a bow and arrow toting bombshell and just today the personal trainer revealed to us how the star transformed her body. her secret. grueling obstacle courses, running and biking and training with an olympic medalist for months in archery, shooting 80 arrows a day for months. telling robin roberts about the tape around her legs so she can run even faster. >> they taped my ankles to make my

abbie boudreau has the story. >> reporter: she was everything to her mother, whitney houston. now her 19-year-old daughter, bobbi kristina, will get everything her mother left behind. an entire multimillion dollar estate. not a singer penny going to the superstar's ex-husbanding bobby brown. now she's sitting down with oprah. along with the executor of the will, pat houston. for the first time, she's speaking out, revealing why she feared tragedy would come. >> did you thing that drugs would end up taking her? >> i -- the handwriting was kind of on the wall. i would be kidding myself to say otherwise. >> were you afraid she would be on gone too soon? >> if things hadn't changed. but they were changing. it wasn't about substance abuse, anything like that relative to the latter days or anything like that. i thing it was just more of life that i was afraid for other things. lifestyle. >> reporter: though patricia focused on the better times at the memorial service. >> today the world is celebrating the life and times of this woman of enormous grace, beauty, and talent. >> what ca

i welcome bob abby and mr. boudreau and mr. watson to the hearing this morning. and just a few quick words about the 2013 department of interior budget. there's been a lot of talk about oil gas leasing and development in the u.s. and the need to expand. the developments reduce our dependence on foreign oil and i firmly do believe we need to reduce over dependence sending $1 billion a day to countries that don't like us much hadn't done us much good in securing and developing our economy or enhancing our national security. but i think it's important not to confuse reducing our dependence on foreign oil with reducing prices at the pump. we all know the price of gas isn't just about supply and demand factors and the talking point of "drill, baby, drill." it's not getting it for us. be honest. there's for drilling rigs in the united states than there are anywhere else in the world. production is up. we're producing more than we have in the last eight years, dms on imported oil is declining and consumption domestically is down. but we're facing competition from china

abc's abbie boudreau looks into that in los angeles. >> reporter: fighting fatigue after her baby wasary jones took pills made from her placenta. and she credits this growing trend for her speedy recovery. even telling "people" magazine i suggest it to all mom. some herbalists believe the placenta that grows in the uterus and nourishes babies wards off baby blues and helps you drop those dreaded pounds. >> it's like taking an energy pill. >> reporter: this mom made her placenta made into pills after her daughter lily was born and took them twice a day. >> i really felt the difference. i'd eat my lunch and started feeling a little -- i'd take my two capsules. very soon after. some peopling might think it's the placebo effect. i don't think. >> reporter: thornton likes it so much, she started a service encapsulating placenta for new moms. she plans to take the pills once again. >> how would is august? >> august is 8 months old. >> reporter: but this new mom calls it nothing more than a celebrity-driven fad. one she fell for and now regrets. >> when i saw the placenta pill trend, i immed

. >> reporter: for "good morning america," abbie boudreau, abc news, los angeles. >> more information so soon. >>> going to turn to bianna golodryga, here with other top stories that are developing. >> good morning, robin and josh. good morning, everyone. we begin with new developments this morning in the case against the u.s. army sergeant accused of killing civilians in afghanistan while they slept in their beds. sergeant robert bales is expected to be charged today. and abc's martha raddatz joins us with the latest. martha, officials now say he will face 17 counts of murder? >> that's right. 17 counts. that's one more than we were originally told. one of the wounded may have died or there was a miscount in the beginning. he will also face six charges of attempted murder. the military trial will be held at his home base of ft. lewis, washington. bales talked to his wife for the first time since the murder accusation. they spoke for about ten minutes but were told not to discuss the case because the call was being monitored. they instead talked about, quote, family matters. and we le