more, now, from abc's mark greenblatt. >> reporter: it's back to work already for the president, who arrives back at the white house with the first family, digging in, now, for four more years and immediate challenges. >> i return to the white house more determined, and more inspired than ever, about the work we're to do. >> reporter: top on the president's to-do list, economic growth and jobs, immigration reform. and the number one priority, those tax cuts, set to expire come new year's eve. already, signs of potential compromise from both republicans and democrats. >> mr. president, the republican majority here in the house stands ready to work with you. >> i'm going to do everything within my power to be as conciliatory as possible. i want to work together. >> reporter: the president will also still have to work directly with paul ryan, who won re-election in wisconsin as a representative, while losing the race for vice president. but this new congress will have a new feel. wins by senator-elect elizabeth warren of massachusetts and tammy baldwin, the first openly-gay senator from

that's where we find abc's mark greenblatt once again this morning. good morning, mark. >> reporter: good morning to you. right now, the death toll from hurricane sandy stands at a grisly 74. and over in new jersey, there's a looming threat ona and ongoine from ruptured natural gas lines. but in this neighborhood in lower manhattan, the lights are on for the first morning since sandy struck. the nation's largest public transit system will begin rolling again this morning, but with limited service. some tunnels and stations remain flooded. and power is still out in much of downtown. but the lights began to turn back on in some areas near wall street. still, subways won't run yet to the city's financial district. traffic clogged the streets as people returned to work. new york city mayor bloomberg announced only vehicles with three or more occupants will be allowed to enter manhattan between 6:00 a.m. and midnight. as new york rebounds, new jersey is struggling to recover. fleets of earth movers are clearing streets of sand and debris. and rescuers cont

mark greenblatt, abc news, new york. >> horrible story out of pittsburgh tonight. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news" this sunday evening. who is watching over you? tonight, on the eve of the razor thin election, will there be someone watching you in that line? the force of a million, headed out. and the controversy because of it tonight. abc's dan harris, getting answers. those little things still get you. for you, life's about her. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess with cialis. side effects may include hea

matt greenblatt has more on the woman who call the fbi. >> reporter: without jill kelly the affair may never have become known she seen leaving her house in tampa bay sunday evening. it is now known kelly call the fbi asking them to investigate threatening e-mails. she began receiving the e-mails around the same time paula broadwell's affair with the cia director was ending. the fbi traced them back to broadwell's computer that led officials to conclude the nation's cia director was involved in the affair with the woman who just this january publicly complemented petraeus' wife. >> he's married to holly petraeus, a wonderful military spouse and has done so much for their children and children of fallen soldiers, i respect her. >> reporter: at issue now, if the affair began while petraeus was still a general he could be prosecuted for adulty. broadwell spent plenty time with petraeus in afghanistan. >> for him to allow the first biography to be written about him, to be written by someone who had never written a book before, seemed odd to me. >> reporter: a retired colonel and longtime a

and abc's mark greenblatt is here with more.>> reporter: he's an acclaimed oxford-educated scientist, who said he just wanted to find love. but he apparently left his brains at home when he boarded a plane for bolivia, believing he was about to rendezvous with a famous bikini model. you're looking at the model whose allure would land this university of north carolina professor in a south american jail. convicted on drug smuggling charges. denise milano is the winner of the 2007 miss bikini world competition. she's also someone argentinean prosecutors say scam artists used images of to snare paul frampton in something called a honey trap, where the professor was duped into thinking he would meet the model and boarded a plane to bolivia. milano never showed up. instead, frampton says he was met by a man, who gave him a suitcase, and told to take it to milano in argentina. once there, he tried to board a plane home for north carolina, with the same bag, where police found four pounds of cocaine. >> he was well-known. distinguished.

matt greenblatt has more on the woman who call the fbi. >> reporter: without jill kelly the affair may never have become known she seen leaving her house in tampa bay sunday evening. it is now known kelly call the fbi asking them to investigate threatening e-mails. she began receiving the e-mails around the same time paula broadwell's affair with the cia director was ending. the fbi traced them back to broadwell's computer that led officials to conclude the nation's cia director was involved in the affair with the woman who just this january publicly complemented petraeus' wife. >> he's married to holly petraeus, a wonderful military spouse and has done so much for their children and children of fallen soldiers, i respect her. >> reporter: at issue now, if the affair began while petraeus was still a general he could be prosecuted for adulty. broadwell spent plenty time with petraeus in afghanistan. >> for him to allow the first biography to be written about him, to be written by someone who had never written a book before, seemed odd to me. >> reporter: a retired colonel and longtime a

. >> the prospect of falling off the fiscal cliff frightens more than just greenblatt. numerous business owners across the country are withholding investments in choosing not to hire new workers. that is because numerous tax advantages expire at the end of the year, and at the same time, the federal government looks set to drastically cut spending. experts say the results will be dramatic. >> if we go off the fiscal cliff, we then have an immediate recession in the united states. of course, that extends to all of the world because we are still the biggest market in the world. >> now it is up to politicians in washington to find a solution. no easy task, considering the partisan divisions in congress. the democrats who control the senate do not want cuts to social benefits. the republicans who form a majority in the house of representatives are opposed to tax hikes. time is running out. both democrats and republicans have indicated a willingness to compromise, but business owners are skeptical. and many american business people are very concerned that the politicians wil

>> i think we will hear more about this that was mark greenblatt reporting. >>> now maryland's most accurate forecast. >> all right let's talk about what's going on right now because we are dry but can see some wet weather back off towards the west. this is poised to move in here going late into the evening overnight into tomorrow morning. and then it will be out of here once it does that we are going to be working with some much colder air across the area. you can even see some snow and wintery mix around illinois right now. but on the backside of this much clearer conditions and more sunshine will move back into the picture. right now temperatures at 48 in ellicott city. 50 in annapolis and 47 in man chest they are morning. and bel air coming in at 46 degrees and good morning to you centerville at 49. march della springs at 52. temperatures for the most part above average. as we go into the afternoonthat's going to hold and the reason why is we have high pressure to the south with that we are getting back return flow and that's why we will see mild air once again before this cold front mov

abc's mark greenblatt investigates. >> reporter: on hbo's "the wire," richard burton played tough-as-nailsgster "shamrock" mcginty. >> slim said they got the eye on marlo. >> reporter: but burton lost his job when "the wire" went off the air. and today, the accomplished actor and musician is in the mitdle of a real life drama, at risk of losing his home to foreclosure, all over a disputed $1,000 water bill. >> the smaller bill is there but after you add the interest, the 18%, and the lawyer fees, it's unjust. it's wrong. >> reporter: burton refused to pay. but the city of baltimore turned to a controversial tactic to collect. receiving burton's debt to a private company, which then put a lien on his home. >> then you have no choice to pay or lose your home. that can't be right. >> reporter: now, the company is asking for additional interest and high legal fees, too. ballooning burton's tab to almost $5,000. >> could actually lose their home for the failure to pay a $200 water bill. >> reporter: the national consumer law center says thousands of homeowners all over the u.s. are threatened w

mark greenblatt is on the story. >> reporter: good morning.ck off walmarts stealing gifts for the holidays. people who have these gifts on layaway. you might recall wild fights breaking out on black friday last year. or even sights like this. all in the pursuit of a gbargai. >> we got it. >> reporter: this year, police say the group you're looking at wanted to get a head start. they're seen walking out of walmart in taylor, pennsylvania, to break in these trailers. >> people have been through so much. now they're hitting them before christmas. term. >> reporter: the stolen christmas range from toys, to bikes to electronics. thousands dollars of merchandise now gone. police believe that the group consists of three men and one woman. >> it's a sign of the times. >> reporter: the preholiday heists come just as walmart is stocking up nationwide for what the ceo is calling the best friday ever. in a statement, they say, it's really someone would steal gifts for the holiday. law enforcement experts that thefts raise about 50%. >> it's a lot easier f

here's abc's mark greenblatt. >> reporter: look closely at the bank robbers in vests. police say they're part of a father, son and daughter team, an entire family of criminals, suspected of holding up seven banks in at least two states. but ronald scott catt and son hayden were arrested in connection in an armed holdup outside houston. investigators say that's hayden wearing a fake mustache. 18-year-old daughter abby is charged with driving the get away car. both children, who lost their mother at a young age, were honor students back home in oregon. hayden was a star on his high school swim team. eric lundeen knew the family. >> he was a single dad. and he had the responsibility to take care of those kids and i got to tell you, scott was there for them. >> reporter: but police now suspect the seemingly all american family robbed as many as five banks back in oregon. before scott moved his kids to texas. >> it's a complete shock. they were really solid community members. >> these suspects were identified in crimestoppers tips. >> reporter: police say surveillance tape

here's abc's mark greenblatt. >> reporter: african painted dogs like these naturally hunt in packs, which is how they attacked a 3 year old boy today who fell into their exhibit at the pittsburgh zoo. the zoo says the boy was with his mother when he fell 14 feet over a railing and off a mesh barrier where the painted dogs were. a zoo keeper snapped into action immediately, getting seven of the 11 dogs out of the exhibit and into a building, while another employee shot darts at the other four, trying to scare them away. but it all wasn't enough. >> it is with great sadness and very heavy hearts that we report today that a small child was killed by our african painted dog pack. >> reporter: the pittsburgh zoo will remain closed until further notice, while the death is investigated investigated. mark green blat, abc news, new york. >> horrible story out of pittsburgh tonight. >>> still much more ahead on "world news" this sunday. who is watching over you? tonight, on the eve of the razor thin election, will there be someone watching you in that line? the force of a million, headed out. and t

mark greenblatt is on the story. >> you have seen those pictures, frenzy shoppers attacking each otheror those deals. this morning, a store manager at a dollar tree physically going after a customer for bringing in too many coupons. you probably heard about extreme couponing by now, thanks to the learning channel. the hobby that's supposed to pay you back in green not in black eyes, like what happened to this extreme couponer in tennessee. her attacker's not a fellow customer it's the store manager herself. melissa and jennifer apparently brought too many coupons to handle. >> we were told that we were harassing her to use those coupons. >> reporter: that's when they recorded the manager getting sassy. >> get the rest of the advil. >> reporter: jennifer left first and watched melissa collected her coupons. when melissa hit the exit, she said instead, she got hit in the face. local police reportedly charged the manager with misdemeanor assault, the women say they never thought they would come to blow with coupons. dollar tree told abc news it's obviously concerned about this incident. w

mark greenblatt is on the story. good morning, sir. >> reporter: good morning. being called real-life grinches. robbers knock off walmarts stealing gifts for the holidays. people who had these gifts on layaway. they're getting an early start this year. you might recall wild fights breaking out on black friday last year, or even sights like this. all in the pursuit of a bargain. >> we got it. >> reporter: well, this year, police say the group you're looking at wanted to get a head start. they're seen walking out of walmart in taylor, pennsylvania, without paying for tools they would later use to break into these trailers where layaway gifts are held for people. >> people have been through so much. now they're hitting them before christmas. terrible. >> reporter: the stolen christmas range from toys, to bikes, to electronics. thousands dollars of merchandise now gone. police believe that the group consists of three men and one woman. in their teens, early 20s. they're said to knock off a second walmart the same way nearby. >> it's a sign of the times. >> reporter:

mark greenblatt is here with his story. >> reporter: we're talking about a rare medical condition, called the persistent hiccups. it has one family in maine desperately searching for a cure. for the last 13 days. for nearly every waking hour, mickey cheney tried just about everything you can imagine to get the hiccups to stop, all to no avail. >> i drank some red apple vinegar. i sat upside down, drank water. >> reporter: the problem eventually landed cheney in a hospital in portland, maine, earlier this month. his worried wife says it's become a serious health concern. >> i watched 15 pounds slide off of him in the past 12 days. >> reporter: it began, he was at work, making deliveries for u.p.s. >> first, i was thinking, it's got to go away. it hurts. basically, like it's doing like i do a situp every time i hiccup. >> reporter: doctors thought the cause was severe heartburn and sent him home with medicine. it didn't stop. >> anything you're going to do with that frequency has the potential for becoming a serious issue. >> reporter: one journal study says more than 4,000 americans are ho

mark greenblatt is here with that story. >> reporter: good morning, bianna.e badly beaten her husband, leaving him to go off to get a manicure. but this morning, lawyers from this tennis referee are hoping that science will set their client free. lawyers for lois goodman hope that new dna evidence will exonerate their client. the tennis umpire stands accused of bludgeoning to death her husband with a coffee cup. >> my mother would never do something like this. she's completely innocent. >> reporter: the tennis line judge has sparred with john mcenroe and some of the sport's biggest stars on the court. and was still in uniform when police arrested her just days before the u.s. open in august, charging her with the murder of alan goodman. >> we did an autopsy. and it was determined that he died at the hands of another. >> reporter: but now, her lawyers say forensic evidence recently turned over by prosecutors, shows lois goodman's dna was nowhere to be found on the murder weapon, bolstering their claim alan goodman fell down the stories and hit his own head on

the father and his son and the 18-year-old daughter in the getaway car, and mark greenblatt is on theg. people we talked to who knew this family say that the father was a good dad and the kids even giggly, successful athletes but if what police say is true, this father ended up raising his children to be bank robbers until their luck ran out in texas. take a close look at the bank robbers in orange vests. police say it's a father, son and daughter team, an entire family of criminals suspected of robbing as many as seven banks in two states. under arrest now for one in texas, ronald scott catt and son hayden went inside with guns. police say that's hayden wearing a fake mustache while 18-year-old daughter abby is charged with driving the getaway car. incredibly both children were honor students back home near portland, oregon, with hayden an outright star on his high school swim team. and abby joining him on the mcminnville swim club. eric lundeen told abc news he knew the dad. >> he lost his wife and he had the responsibility to take care of those kids and i got to tell you scott was

abc's mark greenblatt joins us. >> reporter: good morning.urs after the cease-fire went in effect, the israeli defense forces have announced they've tracked five more rockets going from israel into gaza, a sign of just how fragile the situation over there remains. in gaza, celebratory gunfire and cars honking their horns as a cease-fire takes in effect between israel and hamas. >> united states welcomes the agreement today for a cease-fire in gaza. for it to hold the rocket attacks. >> reporter: just hours before, a bomb tore through this bus in tel aviv, as secretary of state hillary clinton worked frantically with the egyptian foreign minister to broker a truce. both sides claim a tenuous hold as a victory. israeli president benjamin netanyahu thanks the leader him for the stakes leading up to the truce. supporting israel's right to defend itself. but hamas claimed a major win from the cease-fire, saying for now on, if israel responds to attacks from bombing gaza, hamas will strike. >> there is no in back. >> reporter: case in point, that b

mark greenblatt is on the story. mark, good morning. >> and good morning to you.ave seen those pictures, frenzy shoppers attacking each other for those deals. this morning, we got the video of a store manager at a dollar tree physically going after a customer for apparently bringing in too many coupons. you probably heard of extreme couponing by now, thanks to the learning channel show. >> this is "extreme couponing." >> reporter: it's the hobby that's supposed to pay you back in green, not in black eyes, like what happened to this hard-core couponer at the dollar tree in germantown, tennessee. >> as you can see i have broken blood vessels. >> reporter: but her attacker's not a fellow customer, rather, they say, it's the store manager herself. melissa monzo-mart and jennifer hill apparently brought too many coupons to handle. >> we were told that we were harassing her to use those coupons. and she threatened to call the cops. >> reporter: and that's when they say they recorded the manager getting sassy. >> can i get the rest of the advil? >> no, you cannot. >> so

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