elliott and his family are looking forward, taking each day one step at a time. >> elliott is just the sweetest person. he brings a lot of joy into our life. >> i'm very proud of him. >> and i feel sorry for the really, really, really disabled kids that can't dress themselves, can't get their own showers. i don't know why god would do that to those people. why would god make people so disabled. >> elliott is among the lucky ones. he obviously has loving parents who are his primary caregivers now, and they ensure that he eats well, takes his medication and gets the help he needs. if you would like more information on mental illness and the resources that are available, you can find them on our website at wusa9.com. >> thank you, andrea. >>> talk about your nasty, a high-end grocery store in georgetown shut down because of rats, roaches, and some other creatures you'd never expect. investigative reporter russ ptacek takes his cameras to dean & deluca where the health inspector found 19 violations. >> if you sell food, especially if you're a high brow dean and de luca, you don't want me t

chief among them our own josh elliott leading our coverage from new orleans.oming up, if you're not a huge football fan -- he's bowing. if you're not a huge football fan but are going to a party today, josh will arm you with some smart things to say. >> new orleans is definitely a city that knows how to party, this is actually the tenth super bowl they're hosting. >> it is. >>> also this morning, the gun control battle heats up after the white house releases this photo of the president skeet shooting at camp david on his birthday last august. well, the photo has generated lots of buzz. some people even claiming it was doctored, so how will it play into the red hot gun debate? george stephanopoulos joins us live with more about that. >> some skepticism this morning. >>> and back to football quickly. check this out. this 6-year-old went viral crying because she couldn't propose, propose marriage, that is, to her favorite player j.j. watt. coming up we'll show you his extraordinary response and we're going to speak to him live, as well. as we said that is coming

listen to nbc news commentary here. >> elliott engel from the bronx.e is right there waiting to pounce. there he is. this is his 25th time. oh, the snub. the president went right by elliott engel who remains there on the aisle. >> skip right over him. >> he couldn't really see. congressman engel said he was not snubbed. on the president's way out you see here he went over to engel and engel got his moment. so it's all good there. the streak continues for mr. engel. now after the president's speech republican senator marco rubio delivered the official gop response. about 11 minutes in senator rubio took a pause. this caused twitter to light up. take a look. >> in the short time that i've been here in washington, nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. you think he could have gotten a water bottle. >> if you watch the whole speech, he was licking his chops a few times before. you know in his head he's doing this -- he's like all i want is a sip of water! >> the sip heard around the world! >> well, th

if you're josh elliott take a couple of friend as long for the ride.ends you left here in new york. >> reporter: i know and i'm sorry. actually i want to hear much more about dan's experience in new orleans. more later today, dan. yeah, i was lucky enough to tag along with my man sam and our pal robin roberts as she made her homecoming to the gulf coast and as we hit the town, look, there's no one better to show it to you the man who virtually owns it, the one, the only emeril lagasse. ♪ i figured if we're going to really hit new orleans for the big game we needed to recruit the biggest man in town. >> if there's a better man to be driving you around this town, i don't know. bam. emeril lagasse, who's called the cress scent city his professional home for over 30 years. what was your first job here, emeril, 1982? >> my first job i took over commander's palace. >> a famous spot. >> reporter: they're still my family and fell in love with the city and the people and the food, of course. >> reporter: sam and i were beat from a long day of travel so emeril g

elliott peters was in the midst of waiting through discovery documents which he first heard his client had hanged himself with a belt. thank you for being with us. let's start just at the beginning of the chronology. how did he get this case? why did you become his lawyer? >> i got a phone call from a law professor at stanford who was familiar with aaron and the case. i got a call from aaron a couple of days later. aaron had other lawyers before me. i was in new york a few days later. i was visiting my mom in new york. i went to see aaron. we sat down and talked. i met his dad a few weeks later. they had a very good lawyer in boston but they decided to make a change and go with me and my firm. >> there you are. you're wading through discovery documents. you get an e-mail from his dad saying aaron had passed away. >> i spent the afternoon reading discovery material, getting very excited about significance of it in the case and how we could use it in an upcoming suppression hearing. i'm driving home, having printed out a lot of stuff. and i get an e-mail saying aaron committed suicide. i

elliott gould already debunked it in the movie.bout a real life totally faked thing by the government. and there totally is an elliott gould journalist debunker character in this story who is sticking to her story, even as everybody else tries to say it's false. crazy, right? that's coming up. direct rates side by side to find you a great deal, even if it's not with us. [ ding ] oh, that's helpful! well, our company does that, too. actually, we invented that. it's like a sauna in here. helping you save, even if it's not with us -- now, that's progressive! call or click today. no mas pantalones! >>> the presidential citizens medal is the second highest civilian honor this country, second only to the presidential medal of freedom. it was created in 1969. the first person to win it didn't win it in 1973. the first presented was by richard negatives and awarded posthumously to the great baseball player roberto clemente. his widow accepted it on his and a half. he died the previous year when he was only 38 years old. he died in the cras

to celebrate her triumphant return here is co-anchor josh elliott. >> it is robin.e been waiting 174 days to say this -- good morning, america. >> reporter: it was the welcome home party five long months in the making. this morning, robin roberts returned to her "good morning america" anchor chair after having had a bone marrow transplant last september. >> i keep pinching myself. i realize this is real. this is actually happening. >> she returned to a hero's welcome with messages of support pouring in from across the country. >> good morning, america, welcome back robin. >> from all of her friend on team robin. >> welcome back, robin! >> we are all very happy to see you back in the morning. >> so good to have you back. i love you. >> a day of celebration after an arduous trek that began last june when she first told us. >> it is something that is called mds, myeloplastic syndrome. >> reporter: rare form of blood cancer and she would take medical leave from "good morning america" to receive a bone marrow transplant. >> my "gma" family, my family there at home. i lov

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josh elliott in new orleans tonight. >> reporter: as brothers and rivals, jim and john harbaugh will work opposite sides of the field tonight while somewhere in the super bowl stands a mother and father quietly root for both teams. jackie and jack harbaugh have spent a lifetime guiding their boys to this history making moment. still just last week mom joked that she was hoping for a tie. >> well, i think that the nfl changed that rule. i think if it ends in a tie, it will be a tie. >> reporter: but they know only one team can win, and so only one of their sons can be the winning coach, and at the end of the night, brother will still face brother. >> i've given absolutely no consideration to the post game handshake or bear hug or anything else. have not thought about that for one second, jerry. have you, jim? >> i have not. >> reporter: but mom and dad have thought about it quite a bit. >> i'm going to hug both of them. >> my thoughts go to that one that will not experience the thrill of victory, and that's where our thoughts will be. >> reporter: josh elliott, abc news, new orleans.

josh elliott answers some morning after questions about that big night. flacco. touchdown. >> reporter: the game was furiously paced from the start. and a little one-sided. the baltimore ravens overpowered the san francisco 49ers. taking a 28-6 lead, fewer than two minutes into the third quarter, when suddenly -- >> one big click of the light switch. and we lost power. >> i think some point -- >> reporter: a clearly frustrated john harbaugh, screaming at anyone who would listen. in this case, that's the vice president of game operations, as the ravens coach demanded to know when communications would be restored. back upgenerators powered roughly half the lights in the stadium until after 34 long minutes. the superdome flickered back to life. still, the delay caused twitter to erupt. as it parsed the oddest 34 minutes in super bowl history, at a rate of some 230,000 tweets per minute. one person tweeting, "if you liked it, you should have put a backup generator on it." nfl commissioner roger goodell insists the league had a backup plan. >> there was another system

new york's elliott engel, who always gets there hours ahead of time., he had a space marked out already, but he risked stepping outside to tell us why he has to do this now. >> now, people are so used to seeing me, i think if i didn't show up, they'd think i was sick or something. >> reporter: other kinds of tweaks and improv. well, there that's point to the heroes in the high seats thing, year after year. but it only started in 1982, when a man named lenny skutnik improved a rescue in real life. and ronald reagan's speech writer tweaked the speech that put lenny in that chair. audience improv? well, the time president obama tweaked the supreme court on a decision about campaign financing. and justice alito retweaked, "not true." that wasn't in the script. but then, neither is elliott engel, who is always there, a fixture, overlooked by the constitution, but definitely part of the ceremony. john donvan, abc news, washington. >> and before we say good night, i want to thank all of you who tweeted me today, because i asked you to complete the phrase, "th

new york congressman elliott engel joins me now to talk about this. aisle hog, but they did give you proper respect about your vrt throughout the years and being able to get this seat that you first grabbed in 1989 after joining congress. what's your secret, though, to be able to getting the same spot? >> well, you get there early. that's the secret. the problem is more and more people have caught on so more and more people get there early, but really it's just a tremendous honor for me to be at the state of the union. as a kid growing nup a working class family in the bronx i could have only dreamed someday that i would be able to say hello to the president at the state of the union when the whole world is actually watching, and i just think the trappings of democracy are just a great celebration, and i'm honored to do it. i've done it with every president since i've been in congress regardless of what the president was a democrat or republican because it's the president of the united states, and it's an honor for me to be there. >> sir, i think a lo

that's because elliott peters is possibly the best lawyer in california.of the year by the journal "the reporteder" and the magazine "california lawyer." he's represented major league baseball players. he was lance armstrong's lawyer. and just got a client released from prison for a crime the man did not commit. and peters did that pro bono. it was peter's representation of aaron schwartz that first caught our attention. >> it wasn't the government went to people and asked them to take down particular material that was illegal. they shut down whole web sites. >> schwartz, in many people's eyes, was

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with more on this here's abc's josh elliott. ♪ >> caller: call it a cajun homecoming.ntry superstar tim mcgraw, born four hours from new orleans, swooped in for his own pre-super bowl party. unveiling a new song. ♪ one of those nights. on "good morning america." ♪ one of those nights >> reporter: in the country music world that the 45-year-old mcgraw is a true legend. and now, a new album, "two lanes of freedom." at the heart of it all marriage to country mega star faith hill. they met on the road and have been married for 16 years and have three daughters. he reveals he almost lost it all until he finally get drinking. >> are these decisions you reach with faith or something that just sort of comes to you. >> i would say she had a lot of input in my decision to quit drinking. five years ago, a lot of things professionally were going on in my life, personally were going on in my life. i was using that more as a crutch to get past some of the things instead of dealing wit them. i felt that could be dangerous. the further you got away from dealing with things and sort of

very much like greg elliott's crew at at&t park in san francisco.crew here in scottsdale making it happen. take a look. each day at sunrise in arizona be it a day marked by rain or shine, the giants have to be ready for whatever is thrown their way. even ice in the outfield. the field crew at scottsdale stadium is always up for the challenge. >> we do a lot of smoke and mirror tricks to get by this little 45-day stretch and when the team breaks, it's back to a little bit of normalcy. >> reporter: josh is the arizona's field operations manager and explains what makes this spring training home so unique. >> so many players on one field. we're not set up like a lot of the other complexes that have eight to ten fields at their mercy. we really have 2 to 2 1/2 and minor leaguers are a mile and a half away where it's tough to rotate foot traffic. you never know when we'll get an irrigation break or they are going to say we want to do something early and we're stuck. so the goal is always to be prepared in the bay and then pull tarps off. >> reporter: the

week, james franco, rachel weisz, carl reiner will be here, chef bobby flay, music from josh groban, elliott goulding, and fall out boy. "nightline" is next. good night. >>> tonight on "nightline," the monster blizzard barreling down on 42 million americans, dumping several feet of snow and unleashing extreme winds, with states of emergency declared across the east coast, we report from inside a mighty nor'easter. >>> over 100 officers on a massive manhunt for one of their own, the fugitive ex-cop wanted in a deadly rampage. why police say he has become their worst nightmare. >>> and the love doctor. we're going to amp up the romance this valentine's day? well, legendary sex expert dr. ruth share >>> from new york city, this is "nightline" with bill weir. >> good evening. thank you for joining us tonight. well, a massive blizzard is battering the northeast, dropping up to three feet of snow, whipping up hurricane-force gusts of wind. connecticut, rhode island, new york, new hampshire, and massachusetts have all declared states of emergency tonight and at least 500,000 homes and businesses no

>> let me make an observation, and part of this is the work of our ranking member elliott engel, thehe syrian accountability act. his pressure to make certain that we don't have a situation where iran, as you know right now, is trying to prop up assad. iran has forces on the ground assisting assad, as does hezbollah. it is his judgment that we should be pushing harder, and i agree with him, and at this point you see the administration coming around today and saying, okay, we can give nonmilitary aid, but aid that will help the syrian opposition counsel. aid that will help the free syrian army. this will counter balance the iranian support there, and i think will expedite the time frame in which assad is removed and will also include the united states with europe in our efforts to work with civil society in syria in order to repair the damage and cut off iran's last ally that exists in the middle east. >> well, congressman engel, you've been leading the way on this. is this step enough? >> by the way, i'm glad you mentioned the bipartisanship. this is the most bipartisanship you'll fi

elliott richardson, ceo of the small business advocacy council, is here to break down the numbers with us. good to have you on set. > > thank you so much for having me. i appreciate it. > just how wide is the range on these fees going state-by-state? > > it is incredibly wide. and it also depends on whether you are starting up as a corporation or an llc. it can range anywhere from $500 to as little as $150 to start an llc or to start a corporation, and it really depends on where you are at to determine the fees, not only for forming the corporation, but operating the llc or the corporate structure. > if it is less expensive to do a corporation, say, than to do an llc, is it worth it? should somebody be tempted to go that route? > > it absolutely depends on your business. but so many times, especially in our state of illinois, people will choose to form as a subchapter s corporation instead of an llc because of the fees. but, llcs have so much more flexibility. they are such a better choice for small businesses. > why are they better? > > if you wanted to have an investor come in, and y

and i think that those specific elliott from et and huckle barry finn were specific ones we looked at is. she's going to-- in her simplicity and innocence and in her purity she's going to be the answer. >> two other best picture contenders are zero dark thirty and less miserables. using cia sources, intelligence and reporting kathryn bigelow directs a gripping thriller about the hunt for osama bin laden. >> well, i mean, in my humble opinion mark did an extraordinary job of reporting this and then out of the reporting turning this into an incredibly dramatic screenplay so i'm the lucky recipient of that, simply trying to transform those pages on to a screen. but early on and again my understanding from the firsthand accounts, there was a courier that swabs that in the case of this movie, the woman in the intelligence community decided to focus on. >> would you say you're made to make that kind of movie, to capture the essence of that 40 minutes. >> i mean that was a very logistically challenging sequence to shoot. but fascinating. just learning about the methodology of how the special

. >> democratic congressman elliott angle said the white house has acted appropriately so far but added they can always do more. >> i think we have to make it very clear to them that this cannot be business as usual. if they're going to continue to do this to the extent they're doing it, there's a price to pay. i was just in beijing with the chairman of foreign affairs committee, and we raised this with the top chinese officials, and they just let it roll off their back. >> the american security firm -- published 60 pages that pinpoints it to a building in shanghai, but it's said to be irresponsible to blame them when hacking is an international problem. in washington, peter dusey, fox news. >>> italian voters head to the polls today to elect the next prime minister. the election is important because that decision could have a big impact on europe's national crisis. right now, the democratic party leader is leading in the polls. the former prime minister is in second place. voting continues tomorrow. and there's a lot of hustle and bustle in korea as they prepare to welcome their leader

want to say hello to students a is vitted at elliott hine middle school. went to the radio production class they do there. interviewed by two of the young ladies in that class who asked a lot of really great questions. it's encouraging to see young people sort of look at our profession and sort of take a stab at it. a little threatening at the same time. think did a great job and i appreciate the time. >> i had to think through. it's live. aits n internet radio broadcast that they do. had to be quick about it. similar to the way we do things here with producers and such. >>> we want to go to live pictures of the vatican, pope benedict xvi. this will be his first ma mass celebration. this is live pictures on this ash wednesday much the beginning of the lent season in which christians will observe a time of reflection and prayer and of course, this will be an interesting season as pope benedict prepares for his final days as the pope. >> right. this is his regular weekly audience that you're watching live. just started a few minutes ago. the pope literally j

she arrived in new orleans yesterday with josh elliott and sam champion for the first time since here marrow transplant a few months back. among those who dwreeted her, members of a bone marrow donor program and students from her alma mater. you can see more on "good morning america." i love new orleans. super bowl, carnival time. the fleur-de-lis, the hat. >>> oh, say, can she sing? hoping to quiet her critics once and for all, beyonce belted out the national anthem during a super bowl news conference. ♪ can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ >> beyonce, though, admitted she did lip-synch her performance during the inauguration, saying she didn't have time to rehearse and didn't want to take any chances with such an important moment. beyonce -- >> due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper soundcheck, i did not feel comfortable taking a risk. i decided to sing along with my prerecorded track. >> she insists she won't need a backup track for the super bowl. she's been preparing more months. >> makes me only love her more. controversy silenced. >> i'm not sure. i'm not su