in new york city, this is "nightline," july 8th, 2011. >>> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin with today's british invasion. earlier tonight, heir to the british throne prince william and his bride, kate, the duchess of cambridge, arrived in los angeles as part of their north american visit. kate's first trip to the u.s. unusual amount of hoopla for hollywood outsiders. since their wedding in april, watched by m me than 1 billion people around the world, kate in particular has blossomed into a source of global fascination. abc's bob woodruff has been on the road with the royals. >> reporter: tonight the world's it couple, william and kate,e, arrived in hollywood. their second stop, a star-studded gala reception at the home of the british consul general. and in this town known for creating heroes and heroines, princes and princesses, they're finally getting to see the real thing. some spectators even breaking down in tears. >> i'm really excited. i'm really touched. this is very emotional for me. >> this is the best day of my life. >> reporter: while here, they will ru

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. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 1st, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. the sexual assault case against dominique strauss-kahn, the global banking titan, is one of these rare cases where the high profile and symbolic power to influence the way we think about our justice system as a whwhe, who would protect, who would punish. today, the whole case turned upside down. the prosecution is near collapse, the defendant is released from house arrest. we take a look at the stunning developments tonight for our series "crime and punishment." he walked out of the courthouse smiling. his glamorous wife right by his side. dominique strauss-kahn seemed like a new man. >> this defendant is charged with criminal sexual act in the first degree, attempted rape in the first degree. >> reporter: just sisi weeks ag, he looked like a broken man, hulking after a night in jail as he faced serious charges. but today, in court, the shocking reversal. prosecututs themselves publicly declared t

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with er the cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city and terry moran in washington, this is "nightline," j jy 20th, 2011. >> good evening. well, it's not only hot, it's deadly hot. at least 22 people have died so far in the heat wave currently sweeping the country. and conditions will only get more dangerous in the coming days,, forecasters say. factors such as relative humidity of more than 0% and little or no wind are making temperatures that are already high feel downright unbearable. here's abc's john donvan with a snapshot of our sizzling states. >> reporter: it's all over the map this heat. 106 degrees in wichita. 98 in milwaukee. oklahoma city, 106. 99 in chicago. and while it seems to be going nowhere, this heat, it is, in fact, slowly sliding east, which is why the map, literally the map, has been in the headlines almost everywhere. hot colors we're not used to seeing. triple digit temperatures likely ahead for new york, philadelphia, washington. with 27 states in some sort of heat advisory, the almost predictable

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, and terry moran in orlando, florida,his is "nightline," july 5th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran, live here tonight in well, not guilty. that is what the jury decided today in casey anthony's murder trial. stunning verdict. and while the young florida woman was convicted on minor charges in the death of her 2-year-old daughter caylee, really, this was just a total victory for her. it means she's escaped a potential death sentence and might be free in days. the reverberations are only begins to be felt. this evening, a member of the prosecution team announced he would retire at the end of the week, after a 30-year career. and an attttney for the parents, george and cindy anthony, meanwhile, he tells abc news tonight thth the family has received death threats in the wake of this verdict. as if they haven't suffered enough. here's abc's ashleigh banfield. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. have you reached a verdict? >> reporter: it was a swift and shockin

." >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, the terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 14th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. and in the fairy tale version of sleeping beauty, a kiss is all that's needed to wake up a maiden. but the parents you're about to meet face this nightmare in real life. their daughter began to sleep for days, sometimes a week at a time, with seemingly no medical explanation. and their hunt for a cure became a life quest. abc's juju chang with what they finally found. >> reporter: louisa ball isn't your average oversleeping teenager. >> i think, oh, i'm going to lose my daughter again. >> reporter: she suffers from a rare disease that keeps her in bed, passed out, for weeks at a time, and has her parents losing sleep from worry. >> when you know she's asleep for that length of time, you feel as though you lost her for that period. >> reporter: the ordeal started two years ago, when a case of the flu triggered the beginning of louisa's extreme sleep episodes. >> it was a difficult time. worried sick

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 15th, 2011. >>> good evening. i'm bill weir. a 16-year-old bride may seem like something from another culture or century. but did you know it's legal in 39 states? parents giving their blessing is one thing, but the 16-year-old bride you're about to meet is another. because the inspiring starlet is married to a hollywood actor more than three times her age. could their nuptials be a play for reality show-style attention, or is this a real love story? here's abc's lara spencer. >> am i your toy? >> you're my little -- >> plastic toy? >> my little plastic barbie doll. >> reporter: meet hollywood's most controversial newlyweds. doug hutchison is a 51-year-old actor. perhaps you remember him best as the abusive prison guard in "the green mile." >> they got all the men they need. >> reporter: and his wife? courtney stodden. she's an aspiring singer and actress. ♪ it's not my fault ♪ you can't control your guy >> reporter: believe it or not, the m

. >>> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. in a remarkable abc news exclusive last night, jaycee dugard told diane sawyer the wrenching story of how she was kidnapped at age 11 by a convicted sex offender and held for 18 years. her self-possession and strength in telling her story in that interview and in the new book she's written made us all wonder how, how did she endure, display extraordinary courage? jaycee allowed us to interview not just her but also her therapist to begin to answer that estion. here's abc's diane sawyer. >> reporter: if there is a way to endure and triumph over hell, who would have thought an 11-year-old girl, jaycee dugard, would be the one to find it? her story is the story of hope. >> sometimes you just have to hold on to any kind of hope to survive. >> reporter: now 31 years old, dugard says surviving must be your strength and not your shame. it was an indetractable resilience and clinging to her dream that kept dugard alive during those 18 years. when her life changed, she was just 11 years old an

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 28th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. of the hundreds of thousands of children reported missing each year, only a tiny percentage, around 11 or less, are taken by complete strangers. that is one reality on the minds of the fbi child abduction specialists who have joined tonight's search for a missing 11-year-old girl in a small new hampshire town right near the canadian border. they also know that time is of thes sense. celina cass is her name, and abc's ron claiborne as her story. >> reporter: tonight, police were back at selencelina cass' hunting for any shreded of evidence that might lead them to the missing 11-year-old. it's the latest in the search for the young girl that allegedly went missing just over 72 hours ago. her parents say they last saw her around 9:00 monday night at the family computer. the next morning when they went to wake her up, she was gone. by that afternoon, the search was under way. police joined by border pa

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 21st, 2011. >> good evening, i'm b bl weir. through countless interviews, a web cast and national tour, charlie sheen seemed to provide most of the western world with a front row seat to his epic meltdown this spring. but that was his version. tonight, we hear from a woman who was really in the room. a farm girl and pre-med student turned porn star and goddess of the sheen estate. after leaving the scorned sitcom star, she decided to tell her version of events, and does just that with abc's dan harris. >> reporter: she was one of the star players in charlie sheen's alternate universe. >> these are my girlfriends. the women that i love, that have completed the three parts of my heart. >> reporter: and now, bree olson is lifting the curtain for the first time, revealing this situation to be even stranger than we already thought. so, how did a farm girl from indiana end up in the middle of this bizarre love try angle? well, first, it helps to b

. >>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 19th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. they're the most powerful media family in the world. the murdoch clan. and all his professional life, the billionaire patriarch rupert has been asking the questions, not answering them. well, all that changed today, when he and his son and a top lieutenant were called before the british parliament to explain the criminal behavior of journalists at one of their tabloid papers. the murdochs have issued a public apology. but the public uproar continues. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: he's the godfather of a media syndicate that he runs like a family business. a $40 billion business that probably touches your life every day. are you a gleek? that's'swn fox, owned by news corp. "mr. popper's penguins," distributed by news corp. fox news channel, theirs, as well. so is "the wall street journal," "the new york post" and five of brit tape's most popular newspapers. rupe rupert's net worth is in the $7

." >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 13th, 2011. there is suspicion tonight in . the wake of the september 11th attacks, british journalists used bribery and wiretapping to access the voice mail of victims and their families. a new york congressman has asked the fbi to investigate news corporation, which owns fox news and the now shamed "news of the world." at the center of the scandal is the man who built news corp, rupert murdoch. and abc's jeffrey kofman has the latest. >> reporter: unlnls you live in a cave, rupert murdoch's media empire probably touches you every week. fox tv. fox news. "the wall street journal." 200 newspapers around the world. here in britain, he dominates the media landscape. but this has been a bruising week for rupert murdoch. >> there is a firestorm that's engulfing parts of the media, parts of the police, and, indeed, our political system's ability to respond. >> reporter: it's been one stunning revelation after another. murdoch's headline hungry re

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, a and terry mn in orlando, florida, this is "nightline," july 6th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran with a special edition of "nightline" here in orlando, florida, where a little more than 24 hours ago, casey anthony was found not guilty of murdering her young daughter caylee. and we want to start right away here with a new angle on this story, just hours ago. one of the jurors in this trial, jennifer ford, a 32-year-old nurse in training, the only juror to have spoken to the media so far, sat down with me for an extensive, scloou exclus interview to shed light on what happened inside that deliberation room. here's what she told me. why did you and the other jurors acquit casey anthony of murdering her daughter? >> there wasn't enough evidence, there wasn't anything strong enough to say -- i don't think anyone in america could tell us exactly how she died. if you put even just the 12 jurors in one room with a piece of paper, write down how caylee died, nobody knows. >> rep

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 22nd, 2011. >>> good evening, i'm bill weir. and we begin tonight with breaking news from the normally placid nation of norway, where police now say at least 80 people were killed in a shooting spree at a youth camp for that country's ruling labour party. that horrific assault came as a car bomb outside a government building shattered downtown oslo, the norwegian capital, killing at least seven more. tonight police say they have a suspect in custody, the man they believe to be responsible for both attacks. and in oslo tonight, here's abc's miguel marquez. >> reporter: it was a day of unspeakable horror and loss. people here still trying to make sense of it all. late tonight, the police said that 80 people at the summer camp were killed. the police have not released the name of the man they arrested, but norwegian media say it's this man. it all started around 3:30 on a quiet friday aftereron in oslo, the capital of norway. explosions from a

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 26th, 2011. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran. and tonight, we're going to bring you a major broadcast exclusive on a scandal that has rocked the globe. a hotel maid in new york city accuses a top banker, dominique strauss-kahn, of sexual assault. but the maid's story, her whole story, in her own words, has not come out until now. she has come forward, out of the shadows, to speak. and joining us now is abc's robin roberts, who's got the compelling first television interview with the maid. for two months she held her silence. she spoke with you, robin. this is the voice that has been missing from this case, really, in public. what did you make of her? >> well, she wants a jury to find out what they make of her, not a reporter, not the public. and she's concerned that that won't happen, and that's part of the reason she came forward, terry. she wawaed to put a face to the story. and as prosecutors are still weighing whether or not to proceed

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline." july 25th, 2011. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran. we were planning on bringing you robin roberts' extraordinary interview with the hotel maid who's accusing the international banking titan dominique strauss-kahn of sexually assaulting her. and we will bring you that full interview tomorrow because the news tonight is out of washington, where the nation is on the brink of fiscal crisis. just one week away from the august 2nd deadline. there's the clock. the showdown over the national debt spilled over into prime-time television tonight. in dueling addresses by president obama and house speaker john boehner. with one week to go until the united states of america runs out of money to pay its debts, the world watched as the democratic president and the republican speaker of the house hurled accusations at each other. >> for the past several weeks republican house members have essentially said that the only way they'll vote to prevent america's firs

. >> i remember this great cynthia mcfadden episode.e that clutter out of your wallet. think about it when you take change out of your pock, take the receipts out of your wallet. keep them around until your bank statement comes and reconcile them. >> what else should we not have. >> the three ps, don't ever have your passport with you. even if you're traveling abroad. draw up the first page and keep the passport back in the hotel. no password and no p.i.n. they keep them right next to the atm so you lose the wallet andnd someone can raid your account. there's apps for that to help you remember your password. >> three ps. easy to remember. cards sometimes expire and have other stuff in there. >> i was shocked by the number of people that have old stuff in their wallet expired driver's license and expired credit cards. even though they're expired don't think identity thieves won't try to lose them. you're swimming with information that's not essential makes it very hard to keep track. >> how much cash do we need to have have? a little cas