here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: tonight, nearly 33 years after that little boy, 6-year-old etan patz, disappeared on the walk to his school bus, a break in the case. pedro hernandez is under arrest for murder, seen here in this "inside edition" photo of hernandez. abc confirm this is the man that was arrested. hernandez allegedly confessing to police he was the one who stole that little boy on that walk to the bus. >> we believe that this is the individual responsible for the crime. >> reporter: the day etan patz disappeared was the first morning his parents let him walk alone to the school bus. the suspect, pedro hernandez, now 51, was 19 at the time. allegedly telling police he lured the boy away, just steps from the bus stop, promising him a soda at the small corner store where hernandez worked. >> he then led him into the basement of the bodega, choked him there and disposed of the body by putting it into a plastic bag and placing it into the trash. he had worked as a stock clerk in a bodega for approximately one month. >> reporter: patz was among the first of the missing ch

my suspicion is that they jokingly said, hey, let's go cut his hair. >> that was david muir reporting. >>> up next we are learning new details about the double agent who foiled the latest al qaeda plot to bomb a plane flying into the u.s. sources say the hero mole is actually a british citizen of middle eastern descent who carried a european union passport that would have gotten him through security and recruited by british intelligence to take on thedangerous mission which included him posing as a suicide bomber. >>> this morning the deadly twin car bombings in damascus fueling new fears they're trying to take root in syria and taking advantage of that political climate. >>> midday television viewers got quite a surprise yesterday. the forecast called for rain and royalty. prince charles delivered the weather report while visiting the bbc. it was specially written to highlight the royal residences in scotland, the video, of course, has gone viral and the reviews are pretty good so far. prince charles may have a new career option as he waits to take the throne. >> may be waiting forev

our david muir witnessing the devastation first hand.ht a new food crisis across the continent, stretching across eight nations in west africa. the u.n. said 18 million people are in danger, three million children on the brink of starvation. it took us two days to reach the people in need and our special coverage is called, a cry for help. >> reporter: getting here isn't easy, a series of plane rides followed by a difficult drive. when we arrived at the village, this is what greeted us. deathly silence. men, women and children, so hungry they are listless, losing a battle. mothers such as mariama can no longer feed her three children. today they ate leaves. >> is this all you have cooked for your family today? >> reporter: mariama is now eating so little, her body cannot produce enough breast milk to feed her six-month-old baby. all she can do, is place traditional charms around little conneda's neck, hoping good luck will ward off illness. families here depend on farming, but this drought has taken everything from them. it ruined last y

and david muir is tracking the story all day. fast-moving, david. >> reporter: very fast-moving, diane. it comes just 24 hours after president obama said he now supports gay marriage. so, a lot of questions about the timing of this story, first reported in "the washington post" this morning. when you read the details, these are grown men, a lawyer, a dentist, a former principal who all went to school with mitt romney and remember more than just a prank. one of them telling us tonight, this was supreme bullying. mitt romney says he does not remember the incident. tonight, one of mitt romney's former high school classmates at the prestigious kracranbrook scl in michigan tells abc news the incident but supreme bullying. and that the teenage boys, himself included, acted like a pack of dogs. that classmate, phillip maxwell, now a lawyer, offered more on the scene first reported today by "the washington post," saying that mitt romney was part of a group of students that targeted a boy, another student, who most thought was gay and had

here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: it was the $2 billion bombshell from jpmorgan.ey lost in just six weeks. one of those complex bets that spiraled out of control. and the first face to go, ina drew, 30 years at jpmorgan, gone. she made nearly $15 million last year and oversaw the division that should have stopped the bet from going bad. ceo jamie dimon trying to reassure investors and everyday customers. we made a terrible, egregious mistake. there's almost no excuse for it. he said. but american taxpayers who came to the rescue that bailout of the bank now asking, wasn't there supposed to be greater oversight after the financial collapse? retiree robert miner of dallas heard of this $2 billion loss. >> i think, not again. >> you really worry about the little guy, like us. us little people. >> reporter: the reality financial experts say is that the big banks in many ways are still at it. but it's nearly impossible for anyone trying to police them to keep up. >> it's like riding a tiger the way our financial system works. regulators, they were aware of some of thes

that was abc's david muir reporting.lying victim has since died, but his family did issue a statement saying they are aggrieved that their brother is now being used to further a political agenda. >>> an fda advisory panel is recommending approval for the first weight loss drug in more than a decade. the panel said the benefits outweigh the risks which include the possibility of high blood pressure in diabetics or damaging heart valves. the fda does not have to follow the panel's recommendation, but it usually does. >>> and here's a look now at your weather on this friday morning. up to five inches of rain, flooding and also a chance of tornadoes from texas into louisiana. rain in the rockies from colorado to new mexico. also some pop-up thunderstorms around omaha, des moines and the twin cities. scattered showers in miami and the florida keys. >> 80 in new orleans. 70s from atlanta to new york. 75 in indianapolis. and 65 in fargo. phoenix inches close to triple digits. 77 in albuquerque, and 65 in salt lake city. >>> a r

abc's david muir is tracking it all. david, those elections in europe could hit home as well. >> absolutely. >> that's right, wall street watching closely. with so many every day american investors and their 401(k)s tied to what happens there and here. in both france and greece, markets already reacting all over the word, in both cases, voters sending strong messages, france throwing out nicolas sarkozy and his super model wife. here's the concern. he worked hard on trying to stabilize the european economy and the greek debt crisis. he pushed austerity plans. to get the economy back on track. all of that in the air now. look at global markets this morning. japan down nearly 3%. look at the numbers, london 1.9 %. here in the u.s., the futures show the market down 60 points or so. not as steep as the middle of the night. >> we also saw the markets drop here on friday after the mediocre job numbers. what are they looking forward now to to reinstill confidence? >> i think investors want to hear from the new leaders and their

david muir heads the made in america team, as you know and joins us tonight. david? >> reporter: diane, i know you love this. by one estimate, the u.s. will export $117 billion in goods to the arab world next year. that's 50 billion more than just two years ago. turns out, american brands big and small striking it rich tonight, where they are willing to pay a premium for made in america. 20-year-old elham mohamed, in her rear view mirror, looking for made in america. for two years, planning this day. her new dream car. a shiny new chevy bought in dubai. >> all american cars have something special. you know it's an american car. even the look, the colors everything. >> reporter: just look at this show and tell ad playing out on tvs throughout the gulf, telling us -- >> me and my father on our excellent adventure. >> reporter: their adventure through the dubai desert. in fact, the number one american car in the middle east? the chevy tahoe, and why? gm tells us customers cite the way it handles in the sand. those tahoe's are built and shipped from arlington, texas -- a

he resisted and david muir went out to find him and shows us what happened next. >> reporter: so manywers wrote in about that the lightning rod moment we saw an the popular show "shark tank." when one small town guy heard no to made in america, we asked why not? he's the small town carpenter who walked onto the tv show "shark tank," hoping to convince the judges to invest in his american idea. >> hello, my name is donnie mccall. my company is invis-a-rack. >> reporter: his invention -- a rack you unfold within seconds. instantly turning your pick-up truck into something bigger. able to carry ladders and lumber, canoes and kayaks. and more than that, he wants it made in america. >> i'm one man trying to do his best for this country. i know a truck rack's not going to save the u.s. economy, but i want to do something that can bring jobs and some hope to my small town. >> how much can the invis-a-rack hold? >> reporter: the sharks grilled him. and when the questions turned to cost, and where he could get his invention off the ground cheaper and faster -- >> you don't want to go overseas?

we return to abc's david muir and the made in america team who have been looking for solutions, ways to create jobs at home. david? >> this has been about jobs from the very start. we all remember that turbine builders posed a challenge to people all over. he said use 5% more american when buying materials and we'd create 200,000 jobs right away. so many of you at home have yet to weigh in until tonight. >>> reporter: we couldn't forget what we discovered 2,100 miles from new york, clear across the country in bozeman, montana. that home that started it all. >> here's the house here. >> reporter: the builder convinced his all-american blueprint could not only build this home, but hundreds of thousands of new jobs in america. >> so just about everything that i'm looking at is american. >> more than just. >> reporter: we inspected every corner of the house. the nails. >> reporter: the staples. so this staple came from here? where's the tub from? >> i knew you were going to ask that. >> reporter: aqua glass from oregon. the fixtures? moen from north carolina. >> reporter: literally from a

abc's david muir brings us the news tonight from the street where etan patz disappeared. david? >> reporter: diane, good evening. authorities tell abc news this evening that that arrest could come as early as tonight, involving a man who worked at a small grocery store right on that walk to the school bus, that etan patz made 33 years ago it was the first morning that his parents let him make that walk to school alone. tonight, it could be the break the parents of little etan patz have waited for, for three decades. abc news has learned pedro hernandez has confessed to strangling the 6-year-old boy, putting him in a box and leaving him somewhere in new york city. etan patz vanished during that short walk to the school bus in 1979. his mother standing at the front door of their building and seeing him off. >> he turned and he walked half a block across the street. another full block across west broadway and then the bus stop was right here. >> reporter: so a block and half walk? >> yes. >> reporter: a block and a half, and for a 6-year-old, about 223 steps to the bus. >> his moth

well, tonight, david muir tells us about a woman, a cake and the road to success. david?ter: how many of us have that family recipe we all love, passed down from generation to generation. well, tonight, what if that gift kept giving, in the form of brand new american jobs? when that sun comes up in spartan burg, south carolina, one determined baker and her mother, already -- >> oh, my god! how are you? >> reporter: and "world news" about to be in on their secret recipe. >> oh, i get a hug. >> reporter: before we dive in, how this baker got here. kim nelson, contestant on "shark tank," hoping for an investment in her all-american cakes. >> my company is daisy cakes. >> reporter: she handed them out to the judges piece by piece. >> i notice when you passed your delicious cake around, every guy here ate more than 50%. >> it doesn't mean it's a good investment. >> but after each of these guys dropped out, they bent forward and had although bite. >> reporter: one judge was in. >> do we have a deal? >> of course. yes, ma'am. >> reporter: and we wanted to know what barbara saw i

david muir has been tracking the fall-out. >> even if the president was talking first about this, there were fast-moving developments down on wall street today. in that $2 billion blunder. one of the most powerful women on wall street, out. and tonight, so many american taxpayers wondering -- after bailing out the big banks, how does this happen again? >> it was the $2 billion bombshell from jp morgan. the money lost in just six weeks. one of those complex bets that spiraled out of control. and tonight, the first face to go. ina drew, 30 years at jp morgan, gone. she made nearly $15 million last year. and she oversaw the division that should have stopped this bet from going bad. ceo jamie dimon trying to reassure investors, and everyday customers. >> we made a terrible, egregious mistake. there's almost no excuse for it. >> reporter: but american taxpayers who came to the rescue -- that bail-out of the banks -- now ask, wasn't there supposed to be greater oversight after the financial collapse? >> robert heard of this $2 billion loss. >> i think not again. >> you worry about the little

abc's david muir met some ingenius americans who cracked the code how to do that. >> we've reported so much about made in america. but about the exploding middle class in china? so tonight here are the everyday americans including one dad from memphis, cracking the code. he bids his family farewell and heads to work. if you look at the label on the suitcase, made in america, this time he's on his way to china. off to sell his american invention, dermo flaj, tubes upon concealer for the skin, hiding scars and blemishes. he knows there are 1.3 billion people in china who have never heard of it. >> here we are in beijing. we're in business in communist china. >> and when "world news" traveled to china, we were struck by what so many people told us. when you think of america, what do you picture? the technology, the products. there's a hunger for made in america. and american giants know it. this skipy plant in arkansas, they say they make the world's greatest peanut butter and they mean it. more than 70 countries and all those peanuts from the fields of little rock. they changed the flavo

stocks soaring to a four-year high and david muir was on wall street for the right. >> we were all watching this today. the dow was at its highest level since 2007 at one point. the workers on the assembly line are picking up the pace there and also in our 401(k)'s too. >> wall street hit a four-year high during trading today. why? inside americans factories, now numbers revealing the pace of manufacturing in the u.s. rising to his highest level in nearly a year. with factory strength again, economists and wall street hope for something else. >> this is better than anyone thought it would be. >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: the numbers deliver job security and the hope that more workers will be added, like in charlotte, north carolina. they're choosing americans to manufacture their turbines and power plants all over the world. saudi arabia, venezuela, thald. two of the new hires able to support their family again. a challenge he and so many other new workers were desperate for. 6 50 new hires in the last year, they still need 825 more. appliance maker eelectrolux, 500 new hires in the las

i'm david muir. from all of us here, good night. >> ama: hanging in the balance.ree lands precariously on muni lines in san francisco. >> alan: that tree is causing a lot of problems tonight, and removing it is proving to be a difficult and dangerous job. the tree landed squarely on powerlines out church and elizabeth liz street. here's the latest. >> reporter: we're here on church and 24th street, and you see the pg&e crews have finished work on the power pole. it almost came down after a large r large tree branch fell on the powerlines and now the street is re-opened and the j church muni service has resumed. churchee

economy, reaching right into american 401(k)s and david muir tells us what happened and what happens next. >> good evening. you know when it comes to the economy, we live in a very small world, which is why when voters speak across europe, americans are looking to protect their 401(k)s and they're now listening too. >> reporter: voters revolt in greece and in france, and in both countries, send the same message. punishing leaders who pushed through austerity plans, drastic cuts aimed at saving europe's economy. >> the vote in france and also in greece was a thumb's down on austerity. >> reporter: it was not long ago we were all trying to pull out of a recession/ the u.s. taking one path, while it seemed the uk, france, greece taking another with those steep cuts. here it seemed the opposite. bailing out banks. the stimulus package. taxpayer help for the automakers. those automakers now posting profits. we slowly pulled out of recession. and unemployment ticking down, certainly not quickly, but still downward. overseas and those cuts, the uk slipping back into recession. france's unem

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david muir, abc news, new york. >> occupy protesters hit the streets yesterday re-emerging in dozensf cities across the country and the world. things got violent in some areas. police fired tear gas at anti-wall street demonstrators in oakland, california, before making several arrests and there were also clashes here in new york but thousands later gathered for a peaceful protest. >>> a florida couple has been arrested taking their granddaughter on a dangerous joyride. sarasota police officers spotted paul and belinda maloney towing the girl in a toy car attached to their suv by two dog leashes and say both grandparents were intoxicated. the little girl was sitting in the hot wheels car wearing a bathing suit. she wasn't even wearing a helmet. the grandfather was driving about ten miles an hour on a paved access road. fortunately, though, the child was not hurt. who spiked grandma and grandpa's prune juice. >> the grandparents were intoxicated. >> it's a crazy world. are you kidding me? oh, man. >> thank goodness no one was hurt. >>> here's your wednesday weather, hail, gusty winds

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. >> all right, david muir, reporting in. and, of course, a very different kind of day for president obama. 24 hours after making history, he's making money. his declaration in support of same sex marriage triggering a lot of campaign donations. from hollywood's a-list. in fact, more than 12 million and counting. here's abc's jake tapper. >> reporter: hollywood tonight premieres -- starmageddon. billy crystal. robert downey jr. sal ma salma hayek. ed deal murphy and barbra streisand. all turning out for an obama campaign and democratic party fundraiser, catered by wolfgang puck, hosted by george clooney and expected to raise north of $12 million. >> i'm a democrat and i'm a supporter of the president's, so i hope -- i hope he has a very good -- i hope he has a successful election. >> reporter: it's one of three fundraisers the president's attending today. whatever polls in battleground states may say, in gay-friendly hollywood tonight, the president is finding a receptive audience for his support of same sex marriage. even if

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we asked david muir why married women, not single women, these are married women. >> married women carry a very powerful voice. they were instrumental in george w. bush's re-election. now this incumbent with a small lead among married women, just a month ago. tonight here, no longer. the gap among women voters is narrowing. just last month, president obama led by 19 points. tonight he leads mitt romney by seven points. why the sudden change? primarily married women. just last month, president obama was four points ahead among married women. tonight he trails him. and significantly. 55% for romney, 38% for the president. what could be driving this? there was that debate over women's rights, whether employers and their health insurance should have to cover contraception. that debate for a time helping president obama in polling, but that debate has now subsided. also now the country has learned more about ann romney after it was said, she never worked a day in her life. overnight the country learned she has raised five boys, survived breast cancer, and is living with ms. telling diane what

here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: the picture from above of that enormous home in the woods wherey richardson kennedy, in the end, was lonelier and more troubled than many on the outside ever knew. in 1994, mary kennedy married the son of the late robert f. kennedy. two years ago, the marriage fell apart. overnight, rfk jr. was seen arriving at the moment, where the couple had four children. the family releasing a statement. "mary was a genius at friendship, a tremendously gifted aborchitect and pioneer." his sister was matchmaker. when the marriage fell apart, for mary kennedy, it was crushing. just days after, an arrest on suspicion was was driving drunk. a separate arrest for prescription drugs. >> do you want to say anybody to the public about what happened? >> no, that's okay. thank you. >> reporter: a quiet answer from a wife whose silent struggles were spiraling. in the end, her body found hanging in a barn, outside. >> the fact she would choose to end her life in one of the out buildings is kind of a metaphor for someone who may be was not fully comfortable with the life o

and david muir will be here this weekend.ight. >>> new at 6:00 laid off auto workers are the targets of a scam. one man who fell for it. >> a ride along with police as they cruise through gang territory. >> and new protest policies for uc campus police, officials recommend mediators be sent in before violence breaks out. >> and dangerous duties of water rangers in a policy putting their lives in jeopardy. >> good evening, we're going start with a scam you need to know about. >> there is a warning that someone trying to friend you on facebook may be out to scam you. those who are vulnerable are laid off auto workers from numy. abc 7 news is live in fremont with the story for us. >> they're on high alert here in fremont. that is because someone on facebook is trying to cheat 2700 laid off auto workers and possibly their friends out of thousands of dollars they can't afford to lose.

and david muir will be right here tomorrow night. i'll see you on monday.ight. >>> tonight facebook ipo. how the creation of hundreds of instant millionaires could trigger a wave of new innovation. >> an fbi investigation into the police at the oakland school. and a follow up for whistle blower tip autos the foreclosure crisis hit hard among military families but efforts to help them is facing stiff opposition. >> a bay area woman helped a quarter million college students with their home work. >> this seems like a big deal but here is the thing. our mission isn't to be a public company. our mission is to make the world more open and connected. >> that said, facebook founder mark zuckerberg launched an ipo despite the hype turned out to be kind of a dud. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> facebook's ipo put $20 billion in mark zuckerberg's bank account and made billionaires of early backers and will create a tax wind fall for california but didn't pay off very well for investor who's hoped to turn a profit. the

and the captain of our "made in america" series, david muir is here. >> diane, we had so much fun traveling to this town. it spent six months making its pitch, even traveling overseas, to convince a global giant to build their new factory here in america. they promised american know-how and a town willing to educate an entire workforce, and they have. for more than a year, we've been on this "made in america" journey, but this is the first time we'd been told, we needed to see this from the sky. lifting off to get a view of the 21st century factory bringing a tiny american town back to life. right there, carved out of the woods in front of us, the new factory. this factory could fit six football fields inside. but more importantly, it now fits 1,300 new jobs. look at the brand new parking lot, not an empty space. and on the ground, from main street to the high school, everyone talking about the new jobs. how many of you all hope to land a job? these high school students are training for the factory. their parents ahead of them. her father already hired. this student's mother trying next. al

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