for blind people. in the past, there was a different mentality. the state made it easy for people with disabilities. they provided everything. now our living conditions have changed dramatically. market forces have put paid to the blind association factories where every blind person used to get work. >> this is one of the few people who stands up for the interests of the blind. he is also visually impaired, but he can get by without external assistance. the association head is constantly out and about visiting people who do need his help. his first appointment today is with a 79-year-old who urgently needs windows and a new door. her pension does not even cover the heating costs. she gets the equivalent of 150 euros a month -- just about enough in the warmer months but not in the winter. >> it was so cold last winter that my fridge froze. i only have a small stove, but it is too expensive for me to light. i have to spend a lot of money on vacation, so i do not put on the stove. i spend the equivalent o

if you care, if we can make the people of this country care, the blind will indeed triumph over blindness. the opportunity i bring to you lions is this -- to foster and sponsor the work of the american foundation for the blind, will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness, no little deaf, blind child untaught, no blind man or woman unaided. there is a long history both in our country and in other countries around the world of private philanthropy in these prizes. going back to the early 18th century, there was a prize for longitude, the harrisons, father and son, worked for nearly 40 years to develop a clock to precisely measure where they were on the earth to measure longitude. we currently have something called the x prize which gave money last year to a company that developed a technology to speed up the cleanup of oil in the ocean after b.p.'s disaster. siemens foundation gives a $100,000 prize and it was given last year to a 17-year-old girl from california who developed a nanoparticle that with a chemotherapy agent goes directly to treat tumors. a

braille. >> if you don't know braille, if you know a blind person, or you work with a blind person, your labels for them. >> as for bill, he's labeled everything down to his microwave oven. >> there are things like pop, pop corn. >> and not stopping any time soon. >> i'd like to label that camera before you get out of here. >> mazing. >> thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm larry beil. abc 7 gift to you is a host of free apps for smart phones and tab blets hopefully a loved one will be getting for you. you can down load our app for iphone, or tablet as well as kindel fire in or abc 7 news app available for the devices as well as ipad. you can down load for free. abc 7 news at 5:00 begins right if you. >> thank you very much. california school safety plans under review following the sandy hook tragedy. now, schools could pay if they don't need meet a mandatory requirement. >> i'm sandhya patel. live tracking just a few showers now. when we'll see another round of rain here and what could settle in coming up. >> people rush to protect pipes and plants from the frost, there is

and to this day, the hospital has toured 3 million people of blindness. now you imagine the entire metropolitan area about 3 million people come imagine all those people blind, now they can see. that's not an obscure story. it's not obscure in the words of people who circulate and know about the hospital, they respect the hospital. people traveled from all over the world to train to bring the programs to their countries. it becomes a movement to end needless blindness. it's just one example. you might say that's a crazy story. that's got to be an exception. hundreds of stories like that. and those are the stories that are transforming the global economy, not just the economy but the society in the future. >> as you say in the next 20 years, 3 billion more people will enter into the world of economic freedom. >> is it the wild wild west, does it need to be managed, how should it be managed? >> welcome my metaphor in describing the economy in the society is reinforced. when we go to rainforest whether it is the pacific northwest, we have a sense of life all

he was blind 200 years ago. he could not read. still he wanted to experience the literature of his people. he wanted to share in the dialogue that was talked about. he wanted to be part of the world that he had things to say. necessity is the mother of invention, and it was necessity. not just a wish, not a passing fancy. it was an imperative, a necessity that led him to create a reading and writing system that he as a blind person could use. wanted to participate in the dialogue. he had things to say. he had a perspective on life that was unique to himself, and he wanted to know about other people's thoughts and ideas and experiences. he refused to accept what others thought was a simple fact that a blind person could not read. he heard about a night writing system developed by the military command he took that idea and he responded to create a reading and writing system that we know by his name today, which is braille. brail has a it one to one equivalency with french. and a copy to monday,. , parentheses, whenever. so then i re

>>reporter: bill has been blind his whole life.it didn't stop him from becoming an engineer. >> micrometer that i copied and improved. >>reporter: designing tools made especially for blind people. >> it has, it has a whistle that changes pitch. >>reporter: from carpenter level to soldering iron he adapted almost every common tool except one. >> blind people don't have a pencil. or didn't until this sixth.machine. this is the 6.labeller and spits out a label like this. if. >>reporter: designed by group of recent stanford graduate, the 6.labeller pripts out sticky label in braille. system of raised.that used to require a huge typewriter like device or strenuous manual writing lake this. >> it takes 4 pounds to make each. >>reporter: gary says it tack more than three-months to label all of the little drawers in this workshop with the labeller he says it would take three days. advancement so big that now the inventor of the did he advice hit the jackpot. >> we have been starving ourselves sort in the red every month. >>reporter: not an

i've read that your parents didn't really want you talking about the fact that you were blind. >> yes. you know, i think they didn't quite know what to make of it, you know? and there certainly was this fear that in society they would somehow get pitied or labeled in some way. you know, remember, i said we went to gurdwara friday night, saturday night, and all day sunday. they didn't want people to be staring at them. so i did spend a good portion of my childhood trying to, you know, not let people know. so i almost had two lives, where in the gurdwara you were always trying to hide it, and in school you were, of course, labeled as the one that had the special needs. >> hinojosa: what was that like for you, to know that, you know, this is who you are, and yet you weren't really being allowed to kind of choose how you dealt with the fact that you were blind? >> well, it was certainly difficult to pretend. i mean, it was certainly, at times, stressful. >> hinojosa: i can't even imagine what that is like. >> well, you do start to develop some interesting tricks, which actually have helpe

it becomes a movement to end needless blindness. it's one example you might say that's -- got to be an exception. hundreds and hundreds of stories like that. and those are the stories that are transforming the global economy. not just the economy, societies building the future. >> so as you say in the next twenty years, 3 billion more people will enter to the world of economic freedom or another least -- >> right cognitive freedom. economic freedom. >> is the wild west does it need to be managed? how should it be managed? >> well,, you know, i like the core metaphor in describing the economy and the interaction of the economy and the society is reinforced. and when we go the rain forest whether it's the pacific northwest or amazon, you have the sense of life around you. the complexity. that's what human society is. right. the rain forest is a self-regulating environment. when we put regulations in we put government regulations in. part of self-regulation. when we self-regulate ourself we create rules for ourself that's self-regulati

assigned the good please help me i'm blind. my friend is kind of walked by them and, but then he stopped and he saw this guy only had a couple coins in his hat was so he dropped in a couple of quarters and then he asked the man permission to just change the story a little bit for this guy, which he did and later in the afternoon he came back and pass the guy again and the hut was full of coins of those and he stopped and talked to the guy in a blind man admitted have never had a day quite like this. you have to tell me what she wrote. how did you change my story? and my friend said i just added a couple of words and error please help me i'm blind and it's spring. it just change the whole story for the guy. we all have a story. maybe a couple stories people use to describe those. our families have a story about who we are to them and usually are often they involve a nickname we don't particularly care for. my father used to call me skippy. i have no idea why to this day. do we have many kids here? kids? a few. names we are known

i haven't even met with the guy, i'm going to be blind. >> you're blind, yes. >> how am i going to adapto play tricks with you, and -- >> it's much tougher to dodge bullets when you're blind. >> yeah, and i literally could not see my hand in front of my face. it was like all -- >> did you have on sunglasses, anderson? >> no, i don't like wearing sunglasses, that's the thing. so now i have to wear sunglasses all the time, yeah. >> small price to pay, i'd say. >> we've just discovered this amazing thing about anderson. he does not know as much about music in the segment we just had, as we might have imagined you'd know. >> i really know nothing about music music. >> we think about you as the king of pop culture as well as a war correspondent. >> i don't want to let you down but yeah no music was just -- i didn't grow up listening to music. >> what do you do when you work out? >> i listen to like rihanna and up-tempo dance music and stuff, but honestly, my assistant puts it on my ipod for me because i don't even really know how to do that. >> this amazes me because i'm not that tech-savvy,

students and faculty that were inside during the lockdown were told to keep their lights off and the blinds closed so any kind of light like that probably indicates that the police are up there and conducting their search in that area. i will say that the police officers coming in and out of the building seem very calm. no one is rushing in and out so the light at the top of the floor could be a good indication that the search is, you know, well underway on what might be the final floor of this building. we've been talking to students as they come out of the campus area and, again, as we said before, it's more of a partial lockdown now. one of the students who was in the tech building before said there was probably maybe 100 the 200 students in the whole building at one time mainly because it's finals week and they thought there were mainly about 60 people on the floor that he was on so it wasn't as active a day as it could have been but they said the police came in and they first heard an announcement and then the police came in and explained that a gunman had been spotted or had been repo

macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of 55. there has been virtually no chance of seeing what is directly in front of them again but a new device, -- a telescope the gets implanted offers new hope. >> you can get this down here, i would have a magnifying glass about here with that the paper here. >> joanne zorn has a critical part of her vision back thanks to a brand new twinkle in her eye. the light is reflected off a tiny telescope implanted in her left eye. that has brought back the central vision she lost to macular director -- a generation. dr. stephen when explains -- >> the area that allows for central vision to watch television or read a book or drive a car is called the macula. when that macula is damaged by an age-related process, there is essentially a hole in people's vision. >> this is what most of us see and this is what does with macular degeneration see. >> with the blind spot on both sides, in both eyes, i have to get up close to recognize somebody's face. >> the telescope magnifies central vision tremendously.

i'm going to be blind. how am i going to adapt?u know, your mind starts to play tricks with you. >> and easier to dodge bullets when you're blind. >> yeah. and i didn't see my hand in front of my face. >> did you have on sunglasses? >> no. i don't like wearing sunglasses. that's the thing. now i have to wear sunglasses all the time. >> small price to pay. >> amazing thing about anderson. he does not know as much as music in the segment we just had as we might have imagined he would know. >> really nothing about music. >> we think of you about the king of pop culture as well. >> i know. >> as well as a war correspondent. >> sorry to let you down. music, i didn't grow up listening to music. >> what do you do when you work out? >> rihanna and up tempo dance music and stuff. honestly, my assistant puts it on my ipod. i don't know how to do that. >> i do down load my own music and recently playing, who did this? i did it myself. >> i am so -- i just got apple tv, which is, if you don't have it, the greatest. >> just got apple tv? >> oh

uv light bouncing off water, like snow blindness.eballs, and it feels like i mean, i didn't know what it was for hours. it feels like you have sand in your eyes. that's what i thought i had. >> did you see your career flash before your eyes? >> i did. in the middle of the night i woke up with excruciating pain couldn't. see i'm thinking jeff zucker has just taken over cnn. i haven't even meant with the guy. i'm going to be blind. how am i going to adapt? like, 1:00 a.m. you know like you know your mind starts to play tricks with you. >> and easier to dodge bullets when you're blind. >> yeah. and i didn't see my hand in front of my face. >> did you have on sunglasses? >> no. i don't like wearing sunglasses. that's the thing. now i have to wear sunglasses all the time. >> small price to pay. >> amazing thing about anderson. he does not know as much as music in the segment we just had as we might have imagined he would know. >> really nothing about music. >> we think of you about the king of pop culture as well. >> i know. >> as well as

. >> while the doom's day predictions come and go, the blind obedience could some day lead to tragedy. >> i have a brother in law who

he actually went blind. >>> and good morning, everybody. we begin this wednesday with breaking news out of los angeles. a deal to end a crippling strike at the busiest port -- one of the busiest ports in america. a walkout with a multibillion dollar impact around the country. >> 10,000 workers will be back on the job at the ports of los angeles and long beach today, which handle about half the cargo coming into the u.s. an overnight contract agreement ends an eight-day walkoff that kept billions upon billions of dollars in cargo from getting to warehouses nationwide. crucial merchandise in these days before christmas. they estimated it was about $1 billion a day that this strike was going on. >> it's over now. that's the good news out of l.a. this morning. >>> now, we turn to the battle over how to keep the nation from going over that so-called fiscal cliff. the clock is ticking now. 27 days to go. >> and president obama and congressional republicans are making plenty of sound bytes about it all. but very little progress. abc's tahman bradl

dodge, iowa, blinding snow caused this 35-car pileup. two people are dead because of that. there could be another foot of snow on the way to parts of the midwest. meteorologist karen maginnis joins us with the latest. what are you hearing right now, karen? >> the form is moving rapidly through the great lakes. it's ushered in snowfall in places like chicago and northern illinois that have not seen snow for 290 days. that is a record. this imagery coming out of williamsburg, iowa, you may see two people kind of sliding on the ice as they are being blown across a layer of ice on the roadway by 60 mile-an-hour winds and then in ames, iowa, kevin says the visibility was down to about 100 feet and it's the heaviest snowfall they've seen so far this season but also the heaviest snowfall that they've seen since 2009.

i'm tommy -- >> he's pretending -- ashley told me she was setting us up on a blind date -- >> they'reng at him like -- >> am i not what you thought i would you would look like? >> they all feel really bad for him. >> i got this for you, and so, yeah -- i brought this for you. >> i love this one, because he throws out -- >> roses are red, violets are blue -- >> they're trying to convince him, they're not the girl he's looking for. when he finally gives up, they offer -- >> do you want your roses back? >> i was kind of bummed, i thought one of them would be like why don't you join me. >> one of the comments in the video says watch and meet his future wife this way by accident. >> at the end, one of the girls looks over and spots the camera. >> oh snap. >> you can really have -- you can really keep this. >> oh, awesome. >> just a little over a week away, and i have an early christmas present for you guys, matt from ebaum's world. >> time for real or fake videos, again. we're going to begin with this is russia. >> the emergency vehicle just kept going? >> i'm going fake on this one, becau

it was also nice to be part of the dynamic duo; the blind and the deaf. we made a good combination together. in between the two of us, it was always something to cherish very very much. thank you for all of your service. thank you for everything that you have done for the council. and thank you for everything that you have done for me as well. i do hope that you have fun in hawaii. thank you. >> i am deeply touched. the sentiment goes both ways. i think we were a great team in retrospect. i wish what we were able to -- upon the council. that passion and commitment and dedication for inclusion. it's been a wonderful ride, and a wonderful place too to meet diversity and bridge the gap between human beings. find out what makes us all the same. thank you so much for your kind words. do we have any other public comment at the moment? moving along in our agenda, we are on to, public comment from the phone. a good time to let folks know that i will be leaving at the end of the year. i have issued my resignation the mayor lee. and i have thanked him for the oppor

he experienced temporary blindness for 36 hours, posted this photo of him wearing an eye patch.ection off of the water caused temporary blindness because of his light blue eyes. it sunburned his eyes. yeah, take a listen. >> i wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyes are on fire. my eyeballs. i think maybe i have sand in my eyes or something. i douse my eyes with water. anyway it turns out i have sunburned my eyeballs and i go blind. >> that's frightening. >> wow. i didn't know you could sunburn your eyes. >> i had no idea either. but, of course, his vision returned. he joked that pic of him on instagram will work well on his match.com profile. that's a good look, anderson. >> there are far better ways to go blind. >>> this is interesting too. jay-z had a big run at the barclays center in brooklyn, the new stadium out here, the new arena out here as well. 43rd birthday was this week as well. they released a documentary, his eight-show stint in brooklyn, and one highlight from the movie, "where i'm from" he is taking the subway to the final show in brooklyn an

there were two other people in the room helping me with pulling down the blinds and that. i was focused on the kids and just keeping them safe. i'm not about to tell them that i think something is very bad or very wrong. so we waited and waited and it seemed like a very long time. maybe it was 20 minutes, a half hour, i'm not sure. there were knocks at the door. it was police, someone, telling us we had to leave. didn't want to open the door at first but we did.

. >> i could go completely blind and i could go the rests of my life without another detachment.ed to my mom, my grandma, a couple of uncles. even my sister is having the same issues. >> reporter: paul on the other hand is now legally blind. >> my left eye has blind spots and my peripheral vision is excelle excellent. >> reporter: he wears a contact lens in his left eye, he can read but not well by scanning book into a computer. he says family friends and music saved his life. >> i just realized that no amount of worrying or being upset or feeling sorry for myself was going to change it. >> b flat, and -- the only thing that was going to change the outlook of the future was how i approached every situation. so i just strapped up my boots and went to work. >> he made the mazoo drum line first playing symbols and then after an extensive interview process, clinched the drum major spot. most of the band didn't even know he was legally blind. >> he's definitely more than dusted himself off. i mean he's set the standard for every drum major i will have in my career. >> i could walk awa

they may be blind. they may have other handicaps or disabilities that prevent them from opening a book and using a book as intended. we circulate about 850,000 different items, represent the huge vast array of fiction, popular fiction, non-fiction, quotation books, the holy bile, you name it. most of those are either mailed to people. the movement now is for digital books or for people to be able to download from their home computer or a home device full book or magazine for them to use at home. we serve individuals about 15,000 people are regularly part of our clientele, and then we serve people through about 3,000 institutions, nursing homes, hospitals, day care centers, and other places where people in the community gather to meet. many of the places we have deposits of the material, and those might be talking booings or books in braille, but also where we get people connected to the service. the network we're a part of includes all the states, every state in the union has at least one talking book l

some of the complications are what die a diabetic retinopathy blindness blindness it's the leading cause of blindness leading cause of amputations because of the impaired circulation to the legs so the leading contributor to kidney disease so you end up on dialysis and if you put it all together people lose a decade easily of life or more for having type two diabetes her having type two diabetes so and if it does not have to happen right so what's what is the mechanism what is that is causing people to have type two diabetes and what can they do about it besides going to the doctor and saying give me some of that whatever the drug here's what it's not and. when that when the doctor does a blood test they say there's too much sugar in your. that's glucose and so don't eat sugar and don't eat bread because that turns to sugar and don't need any other carbs like potatoes and passed and so forth and that's not the issue that never was the issue the problem has been shown now because we can look inside the cells in ways we couldn't before and if you look inside the muscle cells in particular

for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross.t can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch w

blind person.here may be some opportunities for people who are visually impaired. >> the director of our center is blind. she was telling us a story. she had a lot of fun playing bolling -- bowling. if you can remember what movement and where you had to do it, it is very fond -- very fun. bowling is one of the possibilities with the wii without having any adaptation, just having the remote and directing the person in the right spot. >> i have heard a couple of people have commented they cannot afford the wii. go to your local senior center. the broadband technology grant program has purchased about 40 systems to be distributed throughout the city. find out if your local senior center is part of that program and has a wii. i am going to be doing training with all of the senior center a activity directors in the next couple of weeks so that all of them will know how to supervise and manage and use the system. by this summer, there should be wii at a senior center near you. we urge you to try out this

. >> after hustling sinatra into the back seat of their car and blind folding him, they began the 450ile drive back to los angeles in a blinding snow storm. >> i ran down stairs and banged on the door of the manager of the motel and i convince ised him that he needed to call the sheriff's office. and about five minutes they were there. >> the police quickly set up road blocks to try and ensnare the kidnappers. >> we did give him a sleeping pill and some whiskey. i knew that we would eventually run into a road block so i said to frank, jr. there may be a lot of unplay but if you do your part there is no reason for it and you will be sleeping off a drunk. >> and you made it through you road blocks that were set up specifically to find frank sinatra, jr. >> that's correct. we got back to l.a. and the rest is history. >> coming up. >> coming up. >> the whole thing was sometimes life can be well, a little uncomfortable. but when it's hard or hurts to go to the bathroom, there's dulcolax stool softener. dulcolax stool softener doesn't make you go, it just makes it easier to go. dulcolax sto

they cut off his eyelids and forced him to look at the blinding midday sun.e 1830s, britain's confidence gave way to misgivings about empire, industrialization and inequality. as always, turner considered contemporary events to be fitting subjects. he kept his politics a secret but his distaste for slavery was addressed in slavers throwing overboard the dead and dying-- calling attention to the horrific practice of slave ships lightening the load of their human cargo in the face of a typhoon. ♪ (narrator) the burning of the houses of parliament in 1834 gave turner one of his great subjects-- the destruction of a national symbol of unity and the horrors and agonies that accompanied it was the stuff of tabloids. turner made it the stuff of drama. sequences of watercolors show he viewed the catastrophe from a variety of locations-- liquid splotches of red, grey, and blue fight dramatically with each other. this contest between hot and cold colors would explode violently in the oil paintings he exhibited. his 1835 version is viewed from the south bank of the tham

. >>> and a new study finds there may be a link between as prin and a new form of blindness. at higher risk for age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness for old people. >>> people across the country are being warned to watch out for grinches preying on their presents. surveillance video from a south florida home captured two thieves stealing a family's presents right off their front porch. the couple actually pulls into oscar sosa's driveway and takes the boxes that u.p.s. just dropped off. >> the holidays, you know, people tend to be more giving and stuff like that. and instead, there's people taking advantage of situations like that. >> thanks to the video, jorge and gloria perez were arrested. and the retailer reimbursed sosa for his presents, which cost more than $500. >> and maybe the things you can do to protect yourself is don't have your packages delivered without a signature. >> right. >> you have to be there. take it inside so it's safe. >> and perhaps not have it delivered to your home, but have it delivered to your office. i think that is j

. >> teacher said had to close the blinds and had to close the blinds and had to shut off the lights and [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: outside, the first family members on the scene witnessed a horrific site. >> three children that came out, one of them was -- had a very bloody face, it was a very violent scene. they were in the arms of a state trooper. they did not move. their face was very pale. >> there's 20 parents that were just told that their children are dead. it was awful. >> reporter: as armed officers stormed the school, others guided students to safety at a nearby firehouse. >> police made them hold hands and the police told them to close their eyes. >> i hope it's lucky for everyone else. i hear maybe that's not the case and it breaks my heart. >> reporter: parents whose children made it out alive are faced with how to tell them not everyone did. >> when we tell them what happened in detail it's going to make it worse. >> the violence in connecticut caused several bay area police departments to step up their presence around schools. oakland, fremont, san leandro, palo a

it is a leading cause of blindness for the elderly but this is quite rare.t will kill you if it is not working. your eyes, not is much. so you have to weigh the risks and talk to your doctor but even over-the-counter medications can have long term effects so do not assume because you can buy it without a prescription it is totally safe. if you have a chronic medical condition or you are taking other medicine check with me or talk to the pharmacist before you grab the medication over-the-counter. >>shepard: almost all of them bury aspirin and along comes the daily as written and it is all they advertise. >>guest: it is one of the oldest medicines we have but it has been shown to have great benefits for heart, preventing stroke, and now, many types of cancer could be prevented. so, it can be good for you but it can irritate your stomach and can cause ulcers. >>shepard: only the amount of a baby aspirin. >>guest: they did not find a big difference how much they took and the increased risk so even the baby aspirin could have this effect. >>shepard: everyone is o

so we are transitioning along with the national library service for the blind, in all the areas of our collection. you see behind me all these. cases these additional materials but if you look around you see a lot of cases in green. those are often filled with cassette materials. that will be obsolete. our challenge at the federal level, the challenge is how many of these older materials do we need to reconfigure into new formats so they will be available for people? how long can we afford to operate in several different modes, sometimes particularly older people find themselves once they learn a particular technology or particular piece of machinery they stick with it because they understand it. we try to be sensitive to individual needs but at the same time our goal is to get as much material available to as many people at the lowest possible cost as quickly as we can. the structure of the talking book library and national service to the blind is a structure based on federal statutes that permits the national library service which is part of the library of congress to secure copyrigh

. >> after hustling sinatra into the back seat of their car and blind folding him, they began the 450ile drive back to los angeles in a blinding snow storm. >> i ran down stairs and banged on the door of the manager of the motel and i convince ised him that he needed to call the sheriff's office. and about five minutes they were there. >> the police quickly set up road blocks to try and ensnare the kidnappers. >> we did give him a sleeping pill and some whiskey. i knew that we would eventually run into a road block so i said to frank, jr. there may be a lot of unplay but if you do your part there is no reason for it and you will be sleeping off a drunk. >> and you made it through you road blocks that were set up specifically to find frank sinatra, jr. >> that's correct. we got back to l.a. and the rest is history. >> coming up. >> coming up. >> the whthe boys uses capital one venture miles for their annual football trip. that's double miles you can actually use. tragically, their ddy got sacked by blackouts. but it's our tradition! that's roughing the card holder. but with the capital

i got blinded by being hit in the face with a tree branch.ay, found this letter at the post office this morning timmy. i figured lassie must have dropped it on the truck floor yesterday. the address was so smudged you could hardly read it. my letter. just look at it. well i'll tell you what you'll do. you just rewrite the name and address on it and i'll see it gets delivered. it's too late now. ah don't say that. it's never too late to mail a letter. well talk about being late. i better get going. i was late yesterday and i don't wanna be late again today. oh don't you worry about it mr. huff. nobody could be expected to read that. thanks again lassie. and if ever you need a special favor, just remember i am mighty in your debt. well, ya sure ya don't want me to mail that letter for you? well...goodbye. oh goodbye, mr huff. goodbye. ♪ ♪ was it your contest letter? it was supposed to be. it was a good one too. it's too bad it didn't get there. gosh, lassie why weren't you a little more careful with it? you shouldn't blame lassie, timmy. she wa

blizzard warnings are in effect for eight states, with blinding snow coming down in major cities like omaha, des moines and green bay. >> whiteout conditions have caused numerous car crashes across several states, including nebraska, kansas and iowa. a state of emergency has been declared in wisconsin where many schools are close ed today. abc's ginger zee braved the storm in des moines. >> here to madison, wisconsin, in the next 24 hours, it will be a foot or more. the wind gusts will make drifts three to five feet, just as all of these holiday travelers hit the roads. >> planes, too. air travelers hoping to beat the christmas travel crush were stranded in denver as their flights were canceled. crews tried to deice planes and clear the runways. but they couldn't keep up with all of the falling snow. winter getting an early start. officially tomorrow, right? >>> and more on where that storm is headed and who will get the worst of it. >> meteorologist jim dickey is tracking it all from accuweather. good morning, jim. >> good morning, rob and sunny. a powerful area of low pressure will

shackles him and tells him to come outside of the caves when the prisoner complies he's not first blinded by the sun and then horrified by the realization that his entire reality is nothing more than an illusion so player then poses a question a question that is a personal challenge and nate within us all when after getting a glimpse of an ugly truth and scary reality would you choose to go back. to blissful ignorance would you be scared of the personal responsibility that will never be calm with the truth or would you pursue it no matter how horrifying it may be the reality is such as accepting the fact that the this government kills its own people that sacrifices us to advance an agenda of global control military dominance corporate profit those are the realities that so many people choose to be blinded from. dark truths like operation northwoods a government plan drafted to stage an attack and kill americans to primm to the cuban invasion in the sixty's the j.f.k. assassination nine eleven or the fact that what the government tells us is safe to eat is really killing us about the fact