and diane sawyer goes to the nerve center of the world's biggest social network. face to face with 26-year-old founder mark zuckerberg. >>> plus, private lives. we find out where facebook stands on your privacy. charging fees. and the continuing drama over just who is entitled to a piece of the empire. it's an abc news exclusive. >>> and, the video guy. he's done it again with his out of context video clip that got shirley sherrod fired. but how does andrew breitbart manage to cause political chaos wherever he goes? wherever he goes? we went to find out. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, this is "nightline," july 21st, 2010. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin with business, and rather, remarkable news at facebook, which announced today that it had signed up its 500 millionth user. not bad for a website that didn't exist until six years ago. the story of its creation by founder mark zuckerberg has become almost mythological. soon a movie will bring that story to l

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. >> facebook's camera shy ceo sit down with diane sawyer. x xñ >> closed captioning brought to >> closedcaptioning brought to >>> he is one of the bay area's best known and certainly most camera shy entrepreneurs. but today abc's diane sawyer had a sit down interview with mark zuckerberg, the harvard dropout who started facebook and a revolution. the interview came as facebook reached a remarkable file stone, 500 million users. >> 500 million. you are the third largest country in the world. what did you do to celebrate? did you do a yes! >> the main thing we did to celebrate is ef employee at facebook took a photo of themselves with a sign they said thanks to those who use the service. it is the people who make the service. >> it is your dream to be the founding father just as you are the founding father of what? globally. fill in the blank. >> you know, the way we think about what we are doing is just that there is this incredible movement on the internet of people being empowered to share what they want and stay connected with people. we were not the first to do this. >> just the conve

diane sawyer sat down with the prime minister for an exclusive interview. >> first official visit tostates. >> yes. >> what is it you most want to get done, most want to say? >> it's a very important opportunity for me and for britain. to make sure that the oldest alliance we have, the most important one, the special relationship as we see it, the essential relationship as i would call it, that it works well. >> i know you've met barack obama before. but i'm curious, when you first met him, what's the thing personally you most wanted to know about him? what intrigued you the most? >> he's one of the calmest, coolest people i've come across. extremely friendly, very easy to get to know. very clear in his mind about what he believes and what he wants. >> we have just concluded some excellent discussions, including whether the beers from our hometowns that we exchanged are best served warm or cold. >> in just their second face-to-face meeting as heads of state these two young leaders seemed casual and relaxed with each other. >> i have to say i was most impressed by how tidy your childr

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diane sawyer will be at stanford to anchor world news. she will take us behind the scenes of facebook and interview mark. >> sears and k-mart have agreed to pay one million dollars on charges that stores charged more than the advertised items. consumers filed a suit against the company. the county sued after an inspection of the price scanners turned up the issue. in addition k-mart is accuse of charging more for beverage containers. they cooperated with the investigation without admitting any wrongdoing. >> opponent will sign a financial reform bill today that gives federal regulators new power to close failing banks, monitor consumer loans and control dids. they say the regulations will build markets less prone to collapse. opponents call it overregulation. here is more from rob nelson. >> ben bernanke heads to capitol hill today to give his report card on the economy. he is expected to down-play the odds of the economy slipping back into recession despite signs of the recovery is losing momentum. he will offer new steps to bolster the

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. >> if anyone saw diane sawyer, he looks like a kid still. he is 26 years old. >> he looks old now compared to when i met him. >> he is a computer genius. there are a lot of those out there. why do you think this took off? >> for a few reasons. for one thing, he was doing it in the right place which was a college and not once didn'tly harvard so the status of starting at harvard played a role. the fact you could authentic kate their profiles with an e- mail address that was with a real person which was very connected to the fact it was using your real name which was very knew and that was part of the success and then you have mark himself and his personality. the guy is unbelieve bly visionary and hard-working and so those combinations all added up. >> i think --itis is a biography of him. >> he talked openly to you. >> he felt i was going to do a fair job and as a result pretty much opened the doors to the whole company to me and no one there refused to talk to me. >> there were interesting scenes in this where you get the details down. ther

our own diane sawyer sat down with founder, mark zuckerberg, to get a look at what life is like for himoyees. >> reporter: inside a simple building, in a suburban neighborhood, a maze of desks in a modest, open office. people who work here can come in at their own schedule. they can eat all their meals here. play an occasional guitar hero. all because the 26-year-old founder, wants to distractions from creativity. we know that at one point you lived in a room. had a mattress and little else. >> yeah. >> reporter: how about now? >> it's pretty simple. it's a pretty small house. but the most important thing to me is to be within walking distance of the office. >> reporter: and your girlfriend's in medical school? >> yeah. these a third year in medical school. >> reporter: so, this whole idea of lonely guy starting facebook because he didn't have a girlfriend. got broken up with. that's part of the creation myth. >> i think people have a lot of fiction. when i dropped out of college to start working on facebook full time out here, i later talked to my mom about it. and she told me that she

and in an exclusive interview, british prime minister, david cameron tells diane sawyer he is frustrated, too. >> when you see it doing much damage to wildlife, to beaches, to livelihood, that makes you angry. and i want bp to sort it out. >> reporter: bp announced yesterday it is selling $7 billion in assets in north america and egypt to help cover the oil spill costs. this morning there is a potential new concern that could stall progress. thad allen says officials are now very closely watching some storms that are forming over puerto rico to see if they could actually move into the gulf and impact the work there. rob? >> emily schmidt in washington. thanks. >>> prime minister cameron is also having to answer questions about the release of the convicted lockerbie bomber. there are mounting criticisms that bp pressured the government to release him from jail to gain access to oil. senators from new york and new jersey met with the prime minister and asked him to order an investigation. >> the best news that we came out with was that the prime minister said that our request for an indepe

hanna shared the ordeal with diane sawyer. >> we have to get out of his way.i seem like a seem like an hour, but it was just five minutes. >> reporter: where were you looking? >> no, i wasn't looking it in the eye. just looking to back up on this trail. it's not a matter of looking in the eye. the thing is, you cannot run from these animals. they run a football in six seconds. 100 yards. i finally found a clearing, as i'm backing to my left. because remember, on the other side is a cliff. i say, everybody, get on your hands and knees. >> reporter: then, one of the big, young bears, seen in this picture taken by jack's wife, suzy, turns toward them. >> just stops. and his hairs brisle up on his back. i said to myself, crap, you know, which means, this ain't good. so i take my pepper spray and i unload the first blast with the wind blowing. it blew the pepper spray right away. he's still coming. so, i blast him again about 15 feet. he goes like that. about ten feet, right in front of me, i have the pepper spray right in his face. i said, this is it for me. i jus

. >> reporter: in a conversation with diane sawyer yesterday, erica andiola, a recent college graduate, feared for her future. >> i want to stay here in this country. i mean, this is my home. >> reporter: she crossed the border with her mom, sister and brothers illegally when she was 11 years old, running from domestic abuse. >> yesterday, i went to bed really depressed. this morning, knowing this, everything came back. like, the hope, the faith, knowing that all those prayers are really working. >> reporter: but not everyone is happy. 60% of americans support arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants. support for the law is twice as high among whites than non whites. >> i was in shock and a little bit disappointed. >> reporter: long-time phoenix resident andrew clark says he's seen the problem first-hand, working in the trucking business. >> just a consistent record of the federal government not doing anything, and that's disappointing. >> reporter: randy leads arizona's republican party. >> i think they're celebrating a little early. they might want to wait until the judge has heard

. >>> and our diane sawyer takes us inside facebook. >> it's really the people who make the service.rvices right now. it's thursday, july 22nd. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> did you know that if you work at facebook, you not only get all of your meals if you want paid for, you get all of your laundry done. how cool is that? >> they don't want anyone distracted from the creative process. everything you need is there at work. your food, your laundry. sweet, huh? >> great job. >> we need that here at "world news now." we'll look into that. >> we'll take anything free at this point. >> no kidding. >> good morning and thanks for being with us. i'm vinita nair. >> i'm rob nelson. >>> it is two steps forward and one step back in the oil spill cleanup. one week ago today the containment cap finally stopped the massive flood of oil. >> the whole operation is now grinding to a halt as a new storm threatens the gulf. here's matt gutman. >> reporter: this armada could begin evacuating the spill site and work on that relief well just days from intersecting the crippled well has n

diane sawyer is right back here tomorrow night.y much for watching, and have a great night. >> alan: the bomb squad dealt nates the contents of a pickup truck after a shootout with a convict wearing a bulletproof vest. >> carolyn: the freeway was shut down all afternoon. afternoon afternoon two -- >> alan: two officers were injury from flying grass, and the suspect this the hospital '. >> carolyn: that's again after midnight when officers saw the car speeding and weaving on interstate 580. we're overhead. westbound 580 remains shut down near grand avenue, all the way to the 980 split. >> reporter: 18 hoursat

for diane sawyer and all of us at "world news," have a great night. >>> a vicious pit well attack leavesad and evidence to suggest there is more going on that meets the eye. >> the police chief calls for help after some painful, local belt tightening. priorities for fighting crime. >> driver's disputed ac transit. >> and crisis if the delta. why california water officials are urging us to start using less. >>> good evening. tonight the oakland police department is asking for help to fight crime. >> help from the federal government. that is because in the words of the police chief, oakland's pd cannot do it alone. especially with 80 fewer cops on the force after layoffs. we're live to explain what the chief wants. >> there is no details given on his plan. but i did say that the crime rate increases here in the summer, worst months being august and september. with fewer police officers, the chief said they'll need reenforcements the chief said a meeting will take place

diane sawyer is back here tomorrow night. i'm bill weir. make it a great sunday, everybody.ood night. >> alan: an early morning fire burns a south bay apartment, killing a young girl and injuring nine others. the eight-year-old girl was visiting from north carolina. >> carolyn: the cause of the fire is under investigation, its started just after 2:00 a.m. we have a report now. >> reporter: work crews board up the windows at the gutted apartment. now a place of mourning where a little girl was killed in an overnight fire. hours earlier it was a time to celebrate. >> they had a baptism. >> reporter: firefighters made it to the scene in six minutes about it was too late. they found the girl in

. >> diane sawyer will be at stanford for a special edition of abc world news. she will take us behind the scenes of facebook and interview the founder. world news airs from stanford at 5:30. >> all right. so diane -- >> hot new york weather. >> you know it's so hard because we have some regions 99 degrees and here we are in the 50s and 60s. we've got water skiers and people that are closer to the coast. that is one of the things about the bay area we love. you can see overcast skies from this picture from the embarcadero center. this is a live hd picture of the bay bridge. a little bit of sunshine but we have to mix that out. today it's going to be slow to burn off. once it does, we'll see sunshine the overcast extends well onshore, up 680, 580 and all areas, 101 north, as well. late morning burnoff around the bay and inland. still a little cooler and couple reasons for that. not only do we have the fog at the coast but also got this cool weather system and this is coming down. you assembling water vapor with the cooler air, different color there. that will mov

but cameron told them what he told diane sawyer before the meeting. >> i don't need an inquiry to telllready know, which is a bad decision to release him. >> reporter: al megrahi was given a compassionate release by the scottish government, because the doctor said he only had three months to live. that was a year ago. now, one of the doctors say he could live for ten years or longer. >> we cannot tolerate a convicted terrorist going free on the basis of evidence that may well have been fraudulent. >> reporter: adding to the anger, revelations that bp lobbied the british government to turn over the libyan prisoners, just as the company was negotiating an oil deal with libya. for its part, bp claims it did not lobby specifically for al megrahi's release. after his release, bp did get its oil deal with libya. in fact, the company plans to begin new drilling in libya later this summer. drilling the senators want the company to stop until this controversy is resolved. >> jon karl. clearly tough questions lay ahead. thanks for that update. >>> in other news, a dramatic turn of events for a g

diane sawyer. >> i cannot believe you would go out and hear shows without me.irley maclane in our rat pack. >> nancy and i will be up until dawn with you, two. >> larry: bring mr. nickels. >> i want to say what a monument of vitality you have built for all of us. i cannot wait to hear your specials because everybody in the world wants to talk to you. to see you do them in a concentrated way when you choose to do them will be a thrill. >> larry: thank you. when we do the last week of larry king live, we hope you will come on as one of the guests that week. >> caller: i will definitely be there. put me down in ink. >> larry: congratulations on the anchoring. that's a great gig for you. >> thank you. and again we love and honor you. >> thank you. nice lady. >> she is smart, credible, easy on the eyes. like you, larry. >> larry: we have about a minute left. >> probably a minute too much. >> larry: do you want to give me a forecast on the elections? >> you know what? >> larry: how many republicans pick up how many house seats? >> i don't know. it looks tough for oba

that came out as the real zuckerberg talked with diane sawyer in an interview last night. this movie about facebook is based on the book "accidental billionaires." it's a fictsionalized understanding of how facebook came around. so you'll see more and more controversy about this. a lot of stuff may not have really happened the way it did. >> how many people use facebook? >> about 500 million, i've heard. >> extraordinary. amazing. >> how many people served. >>> the morning pep talk you have to see before walk out the door. >>> plus putting more officers on the door and keeping schools opened. one of the biggest cities turns to voters trying to get out of the red. >> more fog over the bay area. it's going to take awhile to burn off. i'll have your forecast coming up. >>> and we're still pretty bay area proud of this one. cheer sf gave it her all but didn't make it to the next round of "america's got talent." she did raise money for aids and others with life-challenging problems. they are celebrating their 30th year. >>> new this morning, the usda official who was fired afte

as for when the company might go public, facebook ceo told abc's diane sawyer today that facebook will have an ipo "when it makes sense." jessica? >> thank you, scott. >>> well, those california sea lions at pier 39 in san francisco, they are getting an entourage. they are a big tourist attraction, lots of fun to watch and now people will also be able to learn about them when they visit them. when you advice is the sea lions a naturalist will be station there had every day to answer questions, part of an outreach program coordinated by the pier and the bay institute and the bay and marine mammal center. the naturalist will discuss the comings and "of the mammals along with their habitats and and efforts to protect the environment. why they fight on the dock and push each other off. >> where do they go in the spring? we still need an answer to that. >> what do they think of us when we are sitting there looking at them? >> i think they tell us. >>> rob in today with the weather, right? >> yeah. watching the temperatures around san francisco, probably wanting to stick together today, the

here's diane sawyer. diane? >> and happy friday to you, juju, and everyone at "gma."g woman who has navigated so much in her life. why are so many people around the world watching her next move? she's our "person of the week." want to guess? it's tonight on "world news." see you then. >> we'll keep guessing throughout the morning. that's the news at 8:03. >>> time to go out to central park, with thousands of your close, personal friends. >> oh, juju. if you could see this. this is an amazing crowd. you guys, give it up for yourselves here. [ cheers and applause ] show the people what it's like to get up and come to central park at 5:00 a.m. to be here for the black eyed peas this morning. yeah. there's no other place in new york city to be but right here. so, cozy up to the tv set, if you can't be here. and we'll give you an amazing concert. it's the black eyed peas and your party in the park friday, in case you're just waking up. let's get to the boards. one or two things going on this morning. look at that. look at this crowd. it's crazy. in case you don't know abou

. >>> now, a look at what's coming up tonight on "world news," here's diane sawyer. y morning to you, juju. tonight, on "world news," the first of two conversations this week. the first, britain's prime minister, whose energy has stunned the world. you'll have a chance to meet him. also, this week, mark zuckerberg, the founder of facebook. big interview ahead. >> we look forward to that. >>> finally, think you can turn a cell phone into a porsche? it's not a magic trick. a california teenager did it. thanks to craigslist and some patience. he started trading two years ago. he eventually traded an iphone. then, a dirt bike. then, another bike. then, eventually, a truck. and the suv, up to the porsche you're staring at right there. he just got his license. so, he'll really be able to enjoy his new porsche. that's the news at 8:04. >>> time, now, for the weather and sam. sam, i'll trade you my cell phone for your car. >> juju, this is the one time where you get the short end of that. i don't have a car right now because i'm solely in the city. so, i'll take your cell pho

. >>> on that note, let's check in with our friend, diane sawyer, for a preview of what "world news" you on this wednesday? well, tonight on "world news," dr. richard besser will be here to tell us how you can save a life in a crisis. you never know when this will be and now, you will know what to do. that will be coming up tonight hyou orld n." bye, juju. >> we'll surtch. that's the news at 8:04. >>> time for the weather with my good friesam on. sam, youther > here's the de we're having an negotiation because -- veronica, right? >> yep. >> and you're from -- >> virginia. >> it's your 16th birthda >> ye>> on a and everybody in the birthday party is wearing this hat, right? >> yep. >> so, for me to be in the party, i have to wear the hat. >> yes. >> here. your name? >> ariel. >> ariel, hold the microphone for me. [ cheers ] i only do this -- happy birthday. >> thank you. >> let's get to the twitter picture, shall we? twitter picture from honolulu, hawaii. by turkeyboy808. we thought this was such a beautiful picture to remind everybody that this is perfect 80s, mid-80s temperatures in

. >> reporter: in a conversation with diane sawyer, erika, a recent college graduate, feared for hertay here in this country. i mean, this is my home. >> reporter: she crossed the border with her mom, sister and brothers illegally when she was 11 years old. running from domestic abuse. >> i went to bed really depressed. it's been like everything just came back. like the hope fades knowineporo happy. 60% of americans support arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants. support for the law is twice as high among whites than nonwhites. >> i was in shock and a little bit disappointed. working in the trucking business. >> just a consistent record of the federal government not doing anything and that's disappointing. >> randy pullen leads arizona's republican party. >> i think they're celebrating a little early. they might want to wait until the judge has heard all the arguments. >> repouldke men > ordets fm federal officials say a temporary cap is holding firm and there's very little oil sheen on the water's surface. if all goes well, crews could begin work on that important step as soon as

here's diane sawyer. hey, diane. >> good morning, juju.morning america." coming up tonight, talk about a story of american heart. you're going to meet a young woman who put her entire life on hold. and ended up leading a lot of other women in a moving race to victory. you have to see this tonight. see you. >> and that's a story we all want to see. that's the news at 8:04. >>> time, now, for the weather. and sam champion. hey, sam. >> how are you? on this tuesday morning, with a crowd with lots of signs. we have to reward -- tell me your name and where you're from. >> jackie, clayton, delaware. >> you're more decorated than anybody before. who did this to you? >> my daughter-in-law, jamie. >> it worked. not only is it a great sign. but we will say happy birthday to her. you must really love her a lot. >> i do. like a daughter. >> you look fabulous. >> thank you. >> one or two things going on this morning we want to talk about. here's a live shot out of atlanta this morning. we think atlanta's one of the areas that's going to fire up with st