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here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: 50 years ago, "breakfast at tiffany's" was the original "sexy." new york as conceived by true man capote and styled by givinci. but this story of a worldly wise single girl living on her own in the big city was controversial stuff in the mad men era. so much so that paramount had trouble casting holly go lightly. >> the first person they went to was marilyn monroe. she was capote's first choice, but marilyn turned down the part. >> how do i look? >> reporter: among the other possibilities? john fonda. shirley maclean. even rosemary clooney? hard as it is to imagine anyone but audrey hepburn as holly go lightly. she was 32, playing an 18-year-old. newly revealed publicity stills show someone thought audrey needed air brushing. this famous party scene took a week and a half to film, much of the dialogue was ad libbed. the actors drank real champagne and they smoked. 60 cartons of cigarettes. >> reporter: that haunting song -- >> paramount hated "moon river." in fact was a song that they wanted to cut. >> reporter: in fact, "moon river" took home

abc's david wright explains. >> reporter: every day low prices for everything but the health insurance for all those nice people in blue aprons. walmart's plan is already so expressive, many workers can't afford it. >> i can't afford the health insurance that they offer. i make $9.80 and i am a department manager. >> reporter: walmart has been offering coverage to part time workers. many companies don't. now, the world's largest retailer is dramatically cutting coverage to part timers and raising premiums for everyone else. >> they're caught between a rock and a hard place. health care costs are rising. and they have the pressures of the weak economy. >> reporter: next year the most popular health plan walmart offers will cost workers 36% more. new part time workers won't even be offered health insurance, unless they work 24 hours per week for more than a year. it's a national trend. workers are paying more for less. an astonishing 14 million americans work full time but have no health insurance because they're either ineligible or can't afford it. the numbers are staggering. but it's

but the real heroes of the story are his own children, and abc's david wright is in castaic, california> reporter: 67-year-old david la vau might not be alive today, if his kids had given up hope. driving in the dark on this treacherous mountain road a week ago, his car plunged into the ravine. his kids were so worried, they didn't wait for the police. >> all of us kind of ended up doing an fbi headquarters at my house. >> reporter: they hacked his facebook account and discovered he hadn't used it in almost a week. confirmed with his bank that his last purchase was friday at 3:00 p.m. at a ralph's grocery store in oxnard. the cell phone company helped pinpoint the last tower where his phone checked in, narrowing the search to a desolate wilderness highway. this was truly a needle in the haystack-type search. the family went to each one of these switchback, calling out for their father. only when they got here did somebody answer back. >> and then i thought i heard a cat or a dog, enough where i just said, "hello," and it echoed down and -- >> it's okay. >> then that beautiful voice and

here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: in topeka, kansas, it's no longer against city law to beat your spouse. last night's 7-3 vote by the city council repealed the law that made domestic violence a crime. >> i think it's a very sad day because it sends, i think, a very bad message. >> reporter: a bad message in response to budget cuts, specifically an argument over who should pay for prosecutions. last month the county district attorney stopped prosecuting misdemeanors, saying the city should enforce its own domestic violence law. the city, unwilling to pay for those prosecutions themselves, instead dropped the law. >> i think it's an unfortunate situation, without doubt. >> reporter: topeka is a severe example of how, in the worst economy since the great depression, the politics of budget cutting can get ugly, with local officials considering cults that are not just drastic, but morally indefensivable. washington state is entertaining a plan to slash state parole programs for violent offenders so that 12,000 felons, including murders, kidnappers and sex offenders, could be released

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here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: 67-year-old david lavau taught his kids the importance of being resourceful. after he went missing on friday, they never gave up hope. you went at this with hardy boys' precision. his kids became a family bureau of investigation. >> all of us ended up kind of doing an fbi headquarters at my house. >> you must have been worried sick. >> it was like we turned into detectives and it wasn't our dad. >> reporter: neither his facebook nor his bank account showed recent activity. and his cell phone's last signal was in the angeles national forest. this is the spot where the car plunged into the ravine. as you can see, no skid marks, no guardrail and a 200-foot drop. the kids stopped at every switchback, calling for their dad. until a faint voice called back. >> hello again. it was a beautiful voice. is that you? >> reporter: he had three broken ribs, a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder. and he crashed right next to another car that had driven off the same cliff a few weeks earlier. that driver had died. literally, staring death in the face, his only f

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here's abc's david wright. ♪ >> reporter: before the stars started dancing, before america got talentf youtube were still in gradeschool, "america's funniest home videos" was already making millions of dollars and laughs. >> i've never been trapped. >> reporter: granddaddy not just of reality tv -- ♪ america this is you >> reporter: but of content-sharing. the original experiment in entertainment jen rated by the vuder e viewers themselves. in a way, you are youtube before there was youtube. >> i think you're right. >> reporter: vin di bona dreamed up the idea. are did the idea come from? >> it was originally from tokyo broadcasting. they had a variety show. it had a musical numbers a little talk segment and then they show home videos. i looked at it, home videos were hysterical. said, just, broom everything else. let's take the videos, give a prize and that's going to be the show. >> reporter: timing that first show was a slight problem. >> the first thing i got a chance to do was go on "good morning america." >> america will get a chance to produce a show for themselves. >> reporter

david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> cool as cucumbers.y got away with it. >> smart. just switch the bag. i'm out of there. a gold rush these days. yeah, there i am. >> you know all about the gold rush there, rob. >> sell that to flavor-flav make a fortune. >> this show is all the rush i need. >> about right. >>> all right. coming up next, a worldwide search for an organ donor using facebook. >> amazing story. >>> and how an alabama girl found her match is closer than you'd expect. found her match is closer than you'd expect. closer than you expect. that's next. nenenenenenenenenene >>> well, there are more than 800 million facebook user worldwide and a global reach, of course, where virtually anything is possible. >> it turns out facebook may have saved an alabama girl's life. bryant summerville of our station in birmingham has her story. >> reporter: christie davenport about to give the gift of life or at least a piece of it. >> something she has to have to live. >> reporter: about a year ago she learned via facebook a family friend's da

david wright, abc news, seal beach, california. >> our hearts go out to the residents of that town. > monday after another day of harsh criticism over his care of michael jackson. a sleep therapy expert returned to the stand, describing conrad murray's treatment as unethical, disturbing and beyond comprehension. he also bashed murray for not keeping records of the drugs he gave to jackson. he says it was an egregious violation not to keep written notes. >>> millions of people ride the new york city subways every day. but usually they do it safely on the inside. but not so for this guy. he was actually videotaped clinging to the outside of the moving train. this is actually something called subway surfing. riders were at the edge of their seats during all this screaming when it looked like the guy may actually lose his grip. >> honestly i was saying i hope this guy don't fall. it's like 2:00 in the morning and i'm trying to get home. so, if he falls, who knows what would happen. >> by the time someone tracked down the conductor the man had jumped and vanished. the video is posted on yo

abc's david wright reports on this tragic case and the staggering statistics. >> reporter: today, we are learning more about what would have led this 42-year-old to go on a killing spree at this salon. his ex-wife, michelle, worked as a hair dresser there. she was among the victims. >> this was not a random act of violence. >> reporter: dekraai, who used to work on a tug boat crew, was a devoted father, according to his neighbors. >> he had a dog, he had a son. played in the yard. i would wish him happy father's day, he would say, you too. >> reporter: but he was fighting a bitter custody battle over his 7-year-old son. the couple had a court hearing just one day before the murders. michel dekraai hadn't dongotten away to putting away the papers. there they are outside in her car. in one document filed with the court in may, she described him as mentally unstable and said he threatened to himself or someone else. >>> think people are very fragile and when they snap, they snap. and there's no way to make sense of it. there's just -- it's just devastating. >> reporter: most custody fig

here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: in new york and london, in germany and germantown, pennsylvania, this wasn't just a product launch, it was a worldwide event. >> i have an old iphone 4 and this is trash today. today is day of iphone 4s. >> reporter: one man flew 5,000 miles from amsterdam to pasadena. first stop, the apple store. >> i left wednesday, 5:00 a.m. from the netherlands. i got on an 11-hour plane flight. then i went straight here. >> reporter: in the san francisco bay area, the first person online was the cofounder of the company, apple employee number one, steve wozniak. >> it made me think of when i was in college waiting in line overnight to get tickets to see the rolling stones in winterland. >> reporter: in this first weekend alone, apple's on track to sell as many as 4 million phones. more than double the number of iphone 4 in its opening weekend. that's $1.2 billion in consumer spending. more than the entire u.s. box office for the first four "harry potter" movies combined. in fact, so many people were eager to buy apple's latest creation, that today, the activa

we have details from abc's david wright. >> i probably got an hour sleep last night. >> reporter: nopeling her story in court isn't lindsay lohan. she's kind of her stepmom. >> mr. lohan is in custody for assaulting me again. >> reporter: 28-year-old kate major, ex-fiance of lohan's dad, 51-year-old michael lohan. that's him in the hospital gown, being placed under arrest. >> he thought the officers were gone. he was trying to check out and leave. but they were there waiting. and they placed him under arrest. >> reporter: he checked into a florida hospital with chest pains. now, charged with domestic battery. >> tampa police 911. what's the nature of your emergency. >> reporter: it was a stressful night. >> my ex-fiance, had an argument. >> reporter: according to the police report, major had redness on her arms with bruising an her arm and knee. she said they were arguing about a restraining order she had taken out against michael lohan. michael lohan's arrest came on the day his daughter reportedly got a job. lindsay lohan is baring it all for "playboy." x17 had pictures of her arrivi

>> thank you, david wright.here in seal beach, california. >>> meanwhile, two amtrak trains collided in northern california. in oakland overnight. one was parked. the other traveling about 20 miles per hour. 16 people were injured in the collision. it's unclear how the trains ended up on the same track. >>> and this morning, tainted cantaloupe has claimed two more lives. a total of 23 people have now died from listeria-contaminated melons in these 23 states. it was all traced to a single farm in colorado. it's the deadliest food-borne illness in a century. >>> a school bus driver faces criminal charges because of what you see. attacking a 14-year-old, even biting him. the attendant said she had been kicked in the face and the boy had thrown another child over a seat. but now, it is she who faces one county of child abuse. >>> also in florida, the pilot of this small plane is being praised, pulling off an emergency landing, as you can see, on a highway, north of miami, with just minimum damage. avoiding all of th

david wright joins us from seal beach this morning. david? >> reporter: good morning, josh.his is being called the worst mass murder in orange county history and it happened here in this quiet beach town. 8 people dead, 1 person critical and the suspect is now in custody. when the gunman started shooting in salon meritage, every hair dressing station inside was busy. >> all i could hear was pop, pop, pop. >> reporter: 1:20 p.m. local time, witnesses say a man dressed in body armor and carrying an arsenal of weapons entered the salon and started shooting everyone in sight. >> everyone was shook up. screaming, hollering. >> he said he had a knife in each pocket. >> reporter: after shooting nine people, the gunman calmly got into his truck and drove off. police caught up with him a half-mile away, where he surrendered without incident. >> they had him by the shirt. when they pulled his shirt up, they realized he had on a bullet-proof vest. an they took the vest off. by that time, they already had him handcuffed. >> reporter: the suspect has been identified as scott dekraai, an

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