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. >> i'm andrea canning. in for peggy bunker. >>> federal regulators are in nebraska keeping a close watch on the state's nuclear plants. >> nebraska is just one midwest spot extending from montana, john hendren has the details. >> reporter: nearly two dozen states are coping with rising flood waters. near minot, north dakota, high water have driven 11,000 people from their homes. >> it's so easy to close your doors and say i'm going to go home tonight. i thought about that last night. well, we'll go home tonight. i don't have a home anymore. >> reporter: peaked two feet lower than expected. but it's nearly 13 feet above flood stage and it's going to stay near that level for days. >> when you actually see your house and you know it's -- it's not just your basement, it's your whole house, i'm sorry. >> reporter: the river hit its peak on sunday, flooding more than 4,000 homes. >> basically, i got back from a year deployment from afghanistan. and coming back to this, this is honestly, to me, t ts is worse than

our andrea canning is back and has been looking into this. >> reporter: when was the last time you sawan on the cover of a magazine? tough question, right? well, apparently, thin isn't just in. it's engrained in the minds of very young girls. do you think sometimes your tummy is too big? >> sometimes. >> reporter: and you want to lose weight in your tummy. >> yeah. >> reporter: taylor is a healthy, active, 6-year-old pre-k student who lives outside of houston. from outward appearances she's a normal little girl, who likes to play princess and has an outgoing, easy personality. about a year ago, she came home from school and said something that shocked her mother. >> we were at home and she just, out of the blue, just said, mommy, why is my tummy so fat? a girl in the bathroom at school asked me why i was fat. >> reporter: the sad fact is, it's simply not true. we went with taylor for a visit with her pediatrician. >> good job. let's see how tall you are. >> when we use her height and weight to calculate her body maz index, it's healthy. >> reporter: at this age, with young girls, perce

just that she's happy. >> andrea canning, thanks very much.7:00 central. lara? >> thank you, george. >>> to face-lifts to botox, to love handles. men are jumping on the plastic surgery bandwagon. plastic surgery procedures make up 16% of all surgeries in the u.s. it's not always easy to get women to fess up. but we did find some guys to tell all. this was 59-year-old david culpepper just six months ago. this is david today. >> i had a face-lift and a chin implant. >> reporter: the virginia beach resident made the decision to go under the knife, after a conversation with his fiancee, cindy, a few months before their wedding. >> i lost a lot of weight. and skin was sagging on me. people said, you look more like your dad every day. >> reporter: in the last year, face-lifts among men rose 14%. liposuction rose 7%. >> men just want to look better in general. it's not just for women anymore. >> reporter: women have been pulled and plucked for decades. but now, it seems, men are just as anxious to avert the effects of father time. >> you look like a

for "good morning america," andrea canning, abc news. >> thank you, andrea. >>> now, here's our dianel over again. diane? >> and a good friday morning to you, josh, and everybody at "gma." a puppy tonight on "world news," just 5 weeks old abandoned but then found by strangers who returned him to life with four joyful bionic paws, paws. you have to see it. it's coming up tonight on "world news." >> and so we shall. that is a look at the news at 5 past the hour. george and robin. >> all right, josh, thanks. >>> ready for the buzziest showbiz news and trends? we know that you are because lara is at the big board. >> all right, you guys. now to the pop news index. it's your ultimate briefing on what's now, what's hot, what everybody will be talking about today, and we want to get started today with something we feel is inspired, george michael and elton john did let the sun go down on their friendship years ago, but after a decades-long feud, the two pop stars have apparently reconciled and were best friends until they had a public falling out over michael's drug use but after a stint in

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abc's andrea canning has the scoop. ♪ >> reporter: it was a mystery worthy of mcgruff, the crime dog.a using steve millerr front yard as aumping ground for stinky deposits. >> i picked up the bag and looked inside. it looked like dog poo and there were about ten bagag there. >> so he mounted a hidden camera and caught his neighbor red handed. watch out. a new breed are doubling as doggie detectives using dna worthy of a csi lab to nab the owe fending owners. >> if the dog is in our database, the accuracy is 99.9%. >> reporter: how does it work? dog's cheeks are swabbed for dna and the results put on file f a new pile of you know what is found around i property, it will be bagged as evidence and sent to the lab. >> the community can mail in a very small amount of feces. we extract the dna from that feces and make a match back to the dog. >> reporter: in florida this complex turned to a doggie dna kit after residents complained about the mess left in their hallways. >> collect, send it off. we know which dog it was. >> reporter: it became a crime scene at this new hampshire property. so

i'm andrea canning. peggy bunker is off today. >> i'm daniel sieberg.rob nelson is on assignment. >,> nearly two dozen states are dealing with record flood levels this morning. there is good news in minot, north dakota, where the water is beginning to recede and attention is shifting to a nuclear power plant in nebraska. the latest on the waters there in a moment. folks there have been bracing themselves for days just watching the water slowly rise up. very difficult to see. >> i was in iowa last week and the weather was terrible, it was raining, it was cold. just to add insult to injury. i feel so bad for them right now. >>> then, health experts from around the world met in san diego this weekend to tackle a growing crisis. kids diagnosed with adult diabetes. we'll take a look at what's behind this growing epidemic. >> i'm guessing weight levels definitely contributing to this childhood obesity in some cases. >> that's just the food kids are eating these days. >>> speaking of food, maybe they didn't have enough low-sugar foods. maybe your favorite brea

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andrea canning has the story. >> reporter: they're beautiful and rich, from paris hilton to newcomerthe $85 million spelling mansion. >> meet petra, hollywood's new it girl. >> reporter: they're the new celebrity but this socialite who hobnobs with new york's elite just made the front page for all the wrong reasons. >> socialite is under arrest. >> reporter: no hair and makeup for this mug shot. and missing from the photo, the $11,000 scarf she had just been arrested for stealing. that's right. $11,000 for one scarf. you could buy this new car for less. it all happened at richards, a tony department store in affluence greenwich, connecticut. security inside the store called police who nabbed her on the sidewalk. but why would someone who prides herself on being part of the in crowd risk it all by stealing a scarf? >> people are still shocked that these women who seem to have the perfect life would get into this kind of trouble. but it shouldn't be so shocking. these are women who are trying to fill the emptiness that they have inside with objects. >> reporter: her alleged crime has p

here's andrea canning. >> reporter: it's every woman's worst nightmare. >> is your house michael? you, ma'am, he's been killed. he's been killed, ma'am. >> i want to see him -- >> we can't let you go, ma'am. >> reporter: caught on camera, dalia burst into tears, hearing that her husband mike is dead. she and mike her newlyweds, married just six months after a whirlwind courtship. mike showered her with gifts, romance, everything anyone would expect. but what no one would have expected was this. >> hey. >> hey. >> we're staying in here right? >> yeah, yeah. damn, you look good. >> reporter: just days earlier, she's caught on a hidden camera, arranging to have mike killed for just a few thousand dollars. >> i was going to get 3,000 from you today and 3,000 when it's all done. >> reporter: it's a twisted south florida story of greed, money and a plot -- >> that's how i'm going to do it. you know, robbery went back. >> reporter: that ends up here. >> all rise. court in session. >> reporter: with dalia on trial for solicitation to commit murder. elizabeth parker tells the jury she has

andrea canning has more. >> adults are catching on.. regular people and celebrities are finding out the hard way, it's hard to shake a photo once it's in cyber space. >> someone sending a picture of a wiener on weiner's account. >> reporter: he admitted the photo could have been him, but might have been manipulated. >> is it possible this started out as a private photo that ended up in public in way you didn't intend? >> it -- it -- it could be. >> reporter: the most recent seconding scandal involved blake lively. t she says the pics are 100% fake. brett favre denied sending a photo to jenn sterger. this woman admitted to sending texts of herself to her 15-year-old student. >> to adults, they sext buzz they want more power. >> whoo! sexts can take on a life or their own. >> reporter: more adults are getting in trouble. this married congressman resigns after he put this photo to a woman on craigslist. >> now people have the technology to back up their behavior. >> reporter: the fbi has gotten involved in some cases. a ring of hackers le

andrea canning is on the story. and everyone is so concerned because this killer is on the loose. >> reporter: this man is an animal. police say he may be back for more having killed these innocent people execution style but detectives are revealing he wasn't after the cash register. he was after prescription painkillers. and has some pharmacies taking precautions with this crime on the rise across the country. police are on a desperate manhunt to find this man. considered extremely dangerous. his image captured here after stealing a backpack full of prescription painkillers and going on a murder rampage, killing everyone in the store. >> so horrible. i can't believe it, actually. >> reporter: two of the victims were customers. jamie was planning a wedding. her fiance discovered her body in the store. the other two worked at the pharmacy. jennifer, just 17, was supposed to go to her senior prom this week. >> she didn't deserve this. >> reporter: police say the suspect calmly walked out of the store and now fear he c

. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. can he survive? well, not if the new york tabloids are indication today. anthony weiner is a man alone today. facing an ethics investigation ordered by his own party leader and the man with more than 63,000 twitter followers and more than 47,000 friends on facebook cannot find a friend in washington or new york. at his cringe-worthy news conference, weiner says he doesn't think he violated he house rules. >> i don't see anything that i did that violated any rules of the house. i don't see anything that i did that certainly violated my oath of office to uphold the constitution. >> nbc's luke russert covers capitol hill and interviewed anthony weiner last week. politico was at the congressional congressman's news conference in new york. welcome both to you. maggie, first to you. let's talk about the news conference, itself. describe the room and what went on when andrew brightbart took the podium. >> he took the podium in fairness at request of reporters who wanted him to be able to address everyone in

i'm here with andrea canning.ter: these women have a feeling they're building a sense of community. and they have the good news they want to share. but most women don't tell people until three months in, just to feel they're safe. these women are throwing caution to the wind. and it can have a downside for some of them. so, take a look at some of these videos. the anticipation. the anxiety. >> i'm, like, really scared and really nervous. >> reporter: waiting for the biggest news of a woman's life. is she? or isn't she? that magical moment, once a very private moment, has now become very public, with thousands sharing in the good news that a baby is on the way. >> daddy and mommy are having a baby. >> reporter: in some cases, women are sharing the news with strangers before their own husbands. >> really? >> reporter: lucy eades from ft. worth, texas, posted her first on youtube in 2008. over 128,000 people have watched her find out that she was pregnant. >> the moment i found out i was pregnant, i was ready to scre

is this true, andrea canning? i think since the beginning, you have been our "bachelor" expert.out ashley, they agree about bentley. they pretty much hate him. and after last night, he is the uncontested "bachelorette" enemy number one. he's the evil bachelor that ashley hebert just couldn't shake. >> all i can think about is bentley. bentley. bentley. bentley. i need closure with bentley. >> reporter: until last night, when closure finally came. and it wasn't pretty. bentley, if you're watching this, [ bleep ]. i'm done with you. >> reporter: the drama all started at the beginning of the season, when bentley williams played ashley like no contestant has ever done before. >> there's something about him that's so sincere. i just know that he's my guy. >> reporter: to her face, he was the doting suitor. >> how are you? >> i'm bentley. >> reporter: but behind her back, he was pure evil. >> i'm going to make ashley cry. and i hope my hair looks okay. >> reporter: then, bentley decided to leave. he told the audience it was because he really didn't like ashley. >> i couldn't give a [

as men are getting more involved, some are bringing their strong opinions with them and our andrea canthis growing trend, isn't it? >> wedding planners telling me this is really exploding in the past couple of years. men getting involved in the nuptials. while it's not considered the most macho thing, more and more men are getting involved and their brides who have business a lives are welcoming the help. >> wedding crunch time. we need to get really serious here. >> okay, not now. i just got an e-mail from our contractor. he's pushed the move-in date yet again. >> reporter: it was once like pulling teeth to get a groom-to-be to be part of the wedding planning. >> oh, my god. >> enough, enough, enough. heard this story 10,000 times. >> reporter: but today even with the mighty bride seemingly taking over every little detail as seen on the hit show "bridezillas." >> oh, my god! aaagh! >> reporter: finding her territory invaded by the groomzilla. >> traditionally you would meet with the bride, perhaps her mom and start on that. >> reporter: can you quantify how many more grooms you're see

andrea mccarren is live at the scene with the latest. what can you tell us, andrea? >> bruce, i'm standing just above indianhead highway where the crash occurred near the intersection of wilson bridge record. happened jussive just after 3 a.m. you can still see evidence of the tragedy. >> reporter: gittering in the evening sun, a lone tree took the the brunt of the crash. it is still standing with a significant gash. it was here police say a gmc yukon slammed into the back of a mazda 3 ramming it off the road and into that tree. >> there were two passengers in that vehicle. two females that were ejected from the vehicle. they were pronounced dead on scene. the driver of that vehicle was also pronounced dead. the remaining passenger, a male adult, was transported to a local hospital. >> reporter: among the dead the mazda's driver 53-year-old eugene johnson and a passenger, 52-year-old woman. both of manassas. another woman was also pronounced dead on the scene. a fourth passenger was injured but expected to survive. police say the yukon was disabled in the crash and th

andrea canning has been tracking the latest on this hollywood showdown.g is opening up about the details of what she calls a big accident that occurred while she was on the run from a photographer. she calls the paparazzi the stalkarazzi and has said in the past she's worried about the safety of her family. her every move in public is caught on camera, but now tori spelling says the paparazzi have gone too far. >> big scare for tori spelling. >> yeah, well, you know she's pregnant. well today she crashed her car trying to outrun the paparazzi. >> so glad they're all okay. >> shaken up. everybody is okay. >> reporter: she was rushed to the doctor monday after crashing her car into this wall outdecide her children's school. it's especially scary because spelling is around four months pregnant with her third child. on twitter she blamed the accident on an aggressive photographer. "i was trying to get away from him and had a pretty big accident. took down whole wall of school. he then still got out to try to get pics. 10 school moms tried to get him stop. wha

andreas fault. it is the longest. it can generate the greatest earthquakes. >> it is just south of san francisco. it goes offshore down here. >> from my house to the fault is about 3 miles on average. >> the closest area in san francisco to the fault is this area here in the southwest part of the city. people said that the closer you are, there are conditions that exacerbate issues. >> the fault's effect on development depends on the fault type and soil component. the san andreas is the main fault. there is the hayward fault. the difference between the two is that the san andreas is predominantly offshore. the hayward fault actually crosses beneath populated areas and poses a larger threat. as we speak, there is a 67% probability of a major earthquake on one of these faults in the next 30 years. it is of major -- high probability. it is a magnitude 6.5. the 1906 was 7.9. the 1957 earthquake was 5.7 on the san andreas. the loma prieta was 7.1. it was so far with it we got a little effects of it. that is the overview of the geology. >> i would like to setup a wonderful old chart of san francisco fr

of our century as pipeline no. 3 which runs through the development site -- san andreas pipeline number three. the public can obtain a copy from the table. 1 is to modify the proposed relocation of the pipeline as part of the project. been there is the change that follows the staff report -- then there is to change that follows the staff report, that makes it clear the relocation will take place using the plans and the relocation, and we are very comfortable with the language at this point in time. i wanted to make sure you understand there is one change, one modification. president vietor: before we take public comment, is there a motion to adopt the amended resolution? >> so moved. >> second. president vietor: do we have public comment on this item? >> public comment on the amendment. president vietor: sorry, on the amended item. so, if there is no comment on the and then men, all those in favor? opposed? -- if there is no comment on the amendment, all those in favor? opposed? public comment on the amendment in motion. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i run the san francisco housing action commission. i c

i think of the stuff that can get caught in the vagina. that's not nice. andrea. if this child is jewish. he needs to be sircumicized. you don't want your boy to feel strange. that's true. i think my anxiety is fear of having a boy. i am terrified of boys. they are wild and smelly. i said, there is no way to know that. well i know for a fact you don't need it. like i wanted to talk to my dad about his penis. week 34, i don't have the double wide vagina i was hoping for. with just six weeks to go. instructions for peroneal massage. lock hands. apply lubricant. extra virgin olive oil. hold the thumb in place for two minutes or until it becomes numb. slowly massage over the vagina. it's best done with a partner. instead, i take a back door approach and use my finger. i have a lot of stretching to do. week 41, 3:45 p.m. it feels like i have to pee and poo. she says long contractions indicate early labor. she says call in a few hours. >> dana comes over. she feeds her tea while i'm having contractions. i am in active labor. i am surprised you're so calm. i say, i'm sur

can survive. tom? >> thank you, andrea. >> joining me now john than alter and margaret carlson. john than you were at the press conference. what was the feeling in the room anyway bill clinton can survive this? >> i think people are just unsure. the media's unsure about how to handle it lawrence after leaving the hotel ballroom where that press conference by jennifer flowers took place, i went to "the fill donahue show." the audience was perplexed. the media was perplexed. i wrote that ""newsweek" story where she lied about jerez may. clearly the idea that she was just an acquaintance of bill clinton is not true. >> margaret carlson listening to those tapes today, i don't see any waybill clinton can survive this. >> i don't see how president clinton could survive it either. >> moving pictures, tapes all of the rumors about bill clinton were coming to fruition. they were there for all to see in the flesh. of jennifer flowers. and not to put too fine a point on it. so i thought he's not that well known. he's doing well in new hampshire, that's partly because nobody wanted to run ag

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. >>> and don't forget, you can get the news, weather, and traffic every morning. join mike, andrea, howard, and angie weekdays. it all gets started at 4:25 a.m. and in the mail bag tonight, our facebook page going off the scale with comments about the congressman anthony weiner's rather shocking admissions earlier this evening. yes, he did send that picture of himself in his underwear to a young lady and yes, he's been having online sexual relations with as many as six different women and some of this was going on since he's been married. terri sums up many of your thoughts. what is wrong with these men? they have been doing this stuff for ages. it's just in cyber space now for all to see. but katherine weiner had a bit of a dissent take. she says such news because politicians are not human at all and boohoo. he happens to be in the public eye. and similar sentiments from jeff. he says why are we wasting time on this? as long as no laws were broken, the recipients consented to receiving the picks and a hypocrite, who cares who he shows it to? keep attention focused on the real prob

. >> andrea, clearly the defense is trying to bring up everything they can possibly think of, which i is their job. but does it make them look kind of scattered? >> well, you have to remember that george anthony said to this woman that it was an accident. and that is the -- >> he denies it though. >> of course he denied it. but she confirmed it. i mean, you know, he's going to deny it now. but that's in fact what at leaf the investigation at the time i was on the case showed. >> andrea, we also heard from roy cronk, the meter reader who discovered caylee's remains. the defense is saying he tampered with the remains, hid them in the woods to collect the reward money. he denied that on the stand. you think it could be damage to go the state's case? >> for a number of reasons. first his own testimony today was that he put his stick into the skull and moved it, that he moved the bag. so that means that if those were the remains that were there and they were not moved, he at least disturbed the scene. at the very minimum that was what was shown. secondly, his behavior is pretty difficult t

andrea. >> it sounds it. >> thank you, mike hydeck for the back-up there. >> 63 to 73 at the bus stop this morning. you can always count on mike. sunrise, 5:43. even though we have a touch of fog in the mountains of west virginia, that will be burning up here. in the next hour, 90 minutes or so. 73 degrees by 9:00. we'll warm up pretty quick with a southwesterly wind bringing on the heat. that's upping the humidity levels. by 1:00, mid-80s. some spots, upper 80s. the high today around 91. southwest winds 5 to 10. we're still in the upper 80s with a few more clouds. a slight chance to see a thunderstorm pop in the mountains later on. your temperatures, look how cool. georgetown, delaware, 53 in the delmarva. 57 out in culpepper. 59 in gaithersburg. a comfortable morning. reston also in the 50s. while at 63 for bethesda and college park. in columbia, 63. heard from e.j. he's 62 with the dew. bowie, terry said 61 there. partly cloudy with south- southwesterly winds. the dew points yesterday were in the 50s. this morning, they're in the low 60sment we've got 50s and 60s here. chicago, 77. st. louis, 79. memphi

can always find him on tweeter. >> i think tweeter is destined to find its way into the language. andrea, thanks. >>> we turn to news overseas. breaking news about the financial crisis we've been following in greece. the whole world is watching as the greek government's struggling to get its house in order. survived a big hurdle today despite protests outside parliament. the government got the vote of confidence it needed to stay in power but it was a narrow victory. this vote doesn't do anything to solve the financial mess, but it does give the government the go-ahead to vote on austerity measures necessary to avoid total default. >>> in russia, 44 people, including four with duel u.s./russian citizenship died when a 31-year-old russian tupolev 134 passenger jet crashed in heavy fog, burst into flames near finland. eight people survived including a 9-year-old boy. they say pilot error appears to be the cause. >>> when we come back here tonight, first lady michelle obama and family in south africa for a face-to-face meeting. >>> and later, for kids in a tough environment a teacher making

can resolve the situation. i think our european partners need to prove that this was a viable way how. >> chancellor andrea merkel of germany, grease's -- greece's biggest creditor held the vote out as a really good piece of good news. but thousands on the streets of athens disagree. tomorrow there is a second vote, this is where they decide how to implement the bill. it wi they hope to raise several billion dollars by selling off the water company, the utility company and some of the country's beaches. brian? >> michelle, i know it's been a long day there inhaling tear gas and reporting on the violence. we appreciate your reporting here tonight. >>> just as we were on the air last night, there was breaking news out of kabul, the capital of afghanistan where a couple of suicide bombers attacked the intercontinental hotel, a well known landmark there, after a six-hour standoff with taliban security. u.s. choppers fired at the roof, killing the taliban gunman who had taken refuge there. a big fire broke out in the process. 21 people killed, including civilians, our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is state

brook's son payton, also called michael, and payton's girlfriend and andrea naylor, said to be a relative of howard brooks. you can look for coverage today on myfoxdc.com and then on fax 5 news at 5:00. >>> and another controversy dogging city hall now. the attorney general is expected to announce details of the investigation into harry thomass personal suv and who paid for it. the councilman said he used his own money to buy the audi suv from a company before he became a council member but there are questions about whether that company got a sizable payment from his campaign committee and whether the suv should be reported as a gift or income. >>> we have a developing story in iraq this morning. military said five american troops were killed today. officials have not released details about where the incident happened or how the five died. this is the single largest loss of life for the american military in iraq in the past two years. >>> we are also getting record of several missile strikes hitting pakistan this morning. at least three were fired from u.s. drones, killing at least 16 people near the afghanistan b