>> madeline janis: yes.people were so incredibly energized about winning. and then, you know, january 1, 2000, people and their families got this enormous raise and paid sick days. so then we organized the state of the city for long beach. and, you know, we had overflow crowds from every neighborhood. >> bill moyers: you organized what? >> madeline janis: we called it a state of the city. people's state of the city. and we had, you know, hundreds of people. every single person running for office, every person currently in office in long beach all came. and we were able to articulate this broader agenda, with, you know, all of the things that regular people care about. but it came off of the win, the fact that you, people said, "wow, 63% of the people are with us." >> bill moyers: i read that you did a story based strategy with homeowners facing foreclosure, that you're doing it in 11 cities. what's the story there? >> rachel laforest: so there is actually this brilliant organization that moves and does train

linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> we'll stay on top of that story throughout the morning. >>> now to cleveland. ariel castro's brothers are speaking out for the first time. onil and pedro castro say they would have called police if they knew what was going on in their brother's home. they're now hiding out, unable to go home because of death threats. >> we're seeing new pictures this morning. from the first moment the young women found their freedom. here's abc's devin dwyer. >> reporter: caught on camera, police rushed to the scene on seymour street one week ago. >> police detectives, ambulances, came out of in where. >> reporter: inside, officers found gina dejesus and michele knight, held captive for a decade. amanda berry, who first escaped and called 911, clutched her 6-year-old daughter in the street as they looked on. >> she kept holding the cop with her daughter like this. she kept telling them, keep me safe. keep me protected. >> reporter: ariel castro, the alleged rapist and kidnapper, is now behind bars. his brothers, initially thought to be accomplices, have been clear

." >>> good morning, i'm linzie janis in for diana perez. >> i'm john muller. diana is somewhere on a beach in miami right now. linzie welcome. >> lucky to be here. >> we are going to have fun. first get to some news. >> yes. we begin with tensions in the middle east after two israeli air strikes on syria. >> the white house weighing in, a response, defending israel's right to protect themselves. more from jerusalem. >> reporter: a massive fireball as a rocket finds its target. shouts of "god is great" as one of the military sites that syria accuses israel of bombing goes up in smoke. syria said israel struck three military targets around the capital damascus including a research center that reportedly develops chemical weapons. "we will not accept being hum l humilliated," syria's information minister said angrily. he warned the israeli attack "opens the door to all possibilities." sunday's attacks come after another israeli air strike reportedly against a shipment of iranian made missiles heading to the militant group hezbollah. america's main concerns in thi

here's abc's linzie janis. >> reporter: 17-year-old grant acord is behind bars because police say he was planning an attack on his school to rival columbine. >> this person had taken steps and had manufactured devices that could have been capable of causing significant injury or death. >> reporter: police say, it began late last week when they got a tipoff from a 911 caller, saying acord was planning to blow up the school and had asked friends to film the incident when it happened. bomb squad officers went to his house and discovered a secret compartment beneath the floor boards of his bedroom. inside an arsenal of information and journals, outlining the plot that would exceed the 1999 massacre in colorado. they say he even set a date. >> plans, checklists, diagrams, inspirations, sources and a focus on re-creating the model of columbine. >> reporter: his stockpile allegedly included pipe and drano bombs, homemade napalm and molotov cocktails. police say they searched the high school and found nothing. the motive is a mystery. fellow students describe acord as a loner. >> he was you

linzie janis, abc news, new york. >>> a man who gave passengers on an alaska airlines flight quite akes his first court appearance today. 23-year-old alexander herrera is said to have made some unusual statements on a flight yesterday morning from anchorage to portland. then he allegedly tried to open the plane's emergency door, and that's when the other passengers leapt into action. >> they took him down, they held him down until the flight attendants could get there with restraints, and those passengers continued to help restrain this individual who was wanting to get out midflight. >> experts say he would not have been able to open that door midflight because of the pressure holding it would have kept it from going outside. >>> well, the suspect in the colorado movie theater shooting will find out if the judge accepts his insanity plea. james holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 others in the denver suburb of aurora. that was last summer. pleading not guilty of insanity is likely his best chance of avoiding execution. >>> rutgers university is standing by its inc

linzie janis, abc news, new york. >>> now we have an important reality check for american families who drive compact suvs. some of the most popular cars on the road. but there are new crash test results tonight. and only two models got high marks from the insurance institute for highway safety. the subaru forester and the mitsubishi outlander. eleven other popular brands were given poor ratings, for failing to stand up to the impact of one of the most common and deadly crashes. subaru did well because they reinforced the corners of their cars, those front corners, so important. and you can go online and see how your family car did. >>> and still ahead here on "world news," a massive jet crashes, killing all aboard except one tiny child. tonight for the first time, the miracle survivor speaks. what saved her? if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin dedicated to your eyes, from bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. o

i'm linzie janis in for diana perez. >> i'm john muller. where the women were rescued. >> it seems almost unbelievable. missing for more than a decade and then found not far from where they were last season. abc's bill weir has the latest. >> reporter: the posters have been part of cleveland's landscape for a decade. the weathered or tattered ones replaced again and again by families who refuse to give up, who refuse to stop praying for a moment like this. >> help me. i'm amanda berry. >> do you need police, fire or ambulance? >> i need police. >> okay. and what's going on there? >> i've been kidnapped. i've been missing for ten years. and i'm here. i'm free now. >> reporter: the last time anyone in her family heard the voice she was a day shy of turning 17. she called her sister to say she was catching a ride home from her job at burger king and then she vanished. >> last time i heard from her. >> reporter: she is 27 years old and free. thanks in part to police, who got an ovation on this cleveland street, and thanks in large part to a pas

lewis and janie huddled there when the 200 mile an hour tornado blew threw and destroyed their house. >> what makes the pain so strong being back here now? >> we don't have a place to stay. grand kids can't visit. everything. >> it took less than a minute for the twister to leave the couple homeless. >> by the time i shut the door i think it was like 20 or 30 seconds later we heard the roar of the tornado. >> the heywood's want to rebuild in moore but they say it would be too difficult to return to this neighborhood. >> it would just be kind of scary. you know, it's hard to sleep now just hearing the sounds. the sound comes back and you wake up wondering if you're in that closet. once the storm was coming janie headed to the closet, a place she's found comfort before. >> my kids are in the military. some are still. some have got out. when they went to the war and the fight i would always go in there and call on god. >> you would pray in that closet. >> right. many times. >> the heywood's are now picking up the pieces and hoping to rebuild out of harm's way. in moore, oklahoma, bigad s

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reformers had hoped jani might make a return to power and seek a foreign relations with the west. but his views go against those of the religious elite. the scholars also aadmitted their last. >>> the prime minister elect of pakistan is making plans to return to power with military leaders watching his every move. they forced out sharif 14 years ago then sent him into exile. now he's back and seems to be moving in a different direction from pakistan's generals and those in the u.s. >> reporter: election winners in the eastern city on monday. the pakistan lead in this month's general election. he pledged to improve the nation's precarious security situation. >> reporter: a key force of the election was rampant terrorism. he says he will try to re -- the pakistani taliban based in the northwestern tribal region is the largest militant organization. >> reporter: but washington may not agree. the u.s. wants pakistan military to aggressively clamp down on the militants who are hiding in remote areas and often cross into afghanistan. took a decision on monday that will please washington

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. >>> good morning, i'm linzie janis sitting in for diana perez. >> and i'm john muller. there are so many remarkable details about the story breaking overnight. >> the three women are safe now after years of being held against their will. doctors say at least one of the women had a child with her when she was rescued. >> and then there is the good samaritan neighbor who made it all possible. we'll begin with abc's devin dwyer. [ cheers ] >> reporter: three missing women, three cold cases now astonishingly solved. >> michelle knight, amanda berry and gina dejesus all discovered. >> reporter: a neighbor heard a woman screaming for help. >> i look and i see this girl and she's going nuts on the door. we had to kick open the bottom. it was aluminum. she climbed out with her daughter. she went to my house. we called 911. >> hello, police, help me, i'm amanda berry. i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for ten years and i'm here, i'm free now. >> reporter: amanda berry vanished in 2003. she's now 27. inside they found gina dejesus missing since age 14 and michelle knight

linzie janis reports tonight one of the young women jumping into the arms of an officer saying, please don't let me go. >> reporter: the first police officers on the scene now describing the emotional chain of events at that cleveland house. >> we see this girl. she's like raising her hand, holding a child. my partner looked at me and he's like, it's her. >> reporter: it was amanda berry, missing for more than a decade. >> i just asked her is there anybody else in the house? she goes, yes, gina dejesus. >> the officers describe entering the home that had been a prison. >> as we were going up the steps it was so quiet, like peaceful and then you hear this scuffling. it was michelle. within moments she came charging at me and she jumped onto me and she was like, you saved us, you saved us. i'm holding onto her so tight. >> when he put her down she jumped into my arms and held onto me and screamed, please don't let me go. i said honey, don't worry. i'm not letting you go. within a few seconds a see another girl come out of the bedroom. i just looked at her. you can immediately tell who it

. >> reporter: for 16 years mike and janis enjoyed this view from their home high above cheer lake. now, they worry they may lose the view and their home. >> it is very difficult. i know -- me and my wife are -- our health is going down a little bit. actually our relationship is going a little on the edge sometimes because we don't know what to do. >> reporter: this house was the first to go. it is one of 8 abandoned. 10 others are threatened. >> the insurance companies say losses due to shifting soil are not covered. >> like a lot of the homeowners up here, we have our lives invested up here. >>> alberta's house is okay but she keeps her bags packed by the door. >> can you imagine something happening in the middle of the night and grabbing that bag and run. >> no, that is why i don't let my grandkids spend the my anymore. i don't want to put them through it. >>> >> reporter: nobody knows what is going on, the ground water shifting or the latest sewer line leaks or breaks in waterlines may of released millions of gallons in the hillside. if that is true residents may be able to get

. >>> good morning, i'm linzie janis sitting in for diana perez. >> and i'm john muller. the white house keeping a close eye after syria threatens to retaliate after two air strikes. >> there are fears that the syrian civil war could spread beyond its borders and beyond the middle east. devin dwyer is joining us from washington with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, linzie, good morning, john. syria's government says the air strikes have opened the door to all possibilities, including direct attacks on israel. the weekend air strikes obliterated syrian military targets. the rockets dropping from the night sky in what syrian officials called, a declaration of war. the israeli invaders committed a blatant act of aggression, this man says. israel has not claimed responsibility for the attacks. but this morning, put two iron dome missile defense batteries on alert for a counterstrike. u.s. officials are now concerned the situation could spiral out of control. worried that syria's stock piles of weapons could fall into the wrong hands or that syria's civil war could turn

here's abc's linzie janis. >> reporter: a happy day for so many, turns bittersweet. >> our thoughts and prayers are with andrea's family. >> reporter: wearing white ribbons and pausing for a moment of silence to honor fellow student andrea robello. she was killed during an armed robbery. after a night out celebrating the end of finals, robello and her twin sister, jessica, returned home with a roommate and a friend. that's when police say 30-year-old dalton smith came in through an unlocked door and robbed them. smith took valuables. but he wanted more. he sent the twin's roommate to an atm. she bolted and called 911. >> he told her if she did not return within eight minutes, he would kill one of the individuals in the house. >> reporter: moments later, officers arrived to find smith holding robello in a head look. pointing a gun saying, i'll kill her. >> one officer inside with the hostages and the gunman. shots fired. we have a subject down. >> everybody stay off the air. >> reporter: when smith pointed his gun at the police officer, the officer fired eight shots. seven striking and k

linzie janis, abc new, new york. >> more congressional hearings scheduled this week looking into thers targeting of tea party groups. there were knew revelations over the weekend about who knew what about targeting and when. treasury department officials were told of an investigation into irs actions a year ago, as for some republican congressmen. a white house official told abc news there was absolutely no communication between the obama administration and the irs about that targeting. >> tens of thousand of commuters in the northeast bracing for chaos this morning as the busiest rail line in the country is shut down. repairs are under way after two trains collided friday. gio benitez has dramatic video of the moments just after impact. >> reporter: the moment of impact, captured by teenagers skateboarding near the accident site. >> all i hear is a big boom behind me over there. just a big dust cloud. >> reporter: brian alvarez and friend got up close and saw the aftermat aft aftermath. >> off the track. >> reporter: friday night a metro north commuter train from new york city to ne

here's linzie janis. >> reporter: one of the richest and savviest investors in the world but paul tudor remarks about working mothers may have many wondering what was he thinking. >> as soon as that baby's lips touch that girl's bosom, forget it. >> reporter: the billionaire and father of three daughters was explaining why he believes there will never be as many great women traders like himself because divorce and motherhood are focus killers. >> there's nothing like the mother and child connection. can you imagine trying to divert yourself particularly from your first child in your 20s. >> reporter: his comments ignited a firestorm on line. yesterday he apologized, saying he was only talking about an elite group of traders. jamie zimmerman and the mother of two says her male employees are equally devoted parents. >> they're just as connected to them when somebody winds up having an accident the man runs home the same way the woman runs home. it doesn't affect their work. >> reporter: here's a stat for paul tudor jones. one account found that women hedge fund managers performed three ti

abc's linzie janis on this again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, new revelation, 17-year-old grant accorday have dropped hints to classmates about the massacre police say he was planning at his oregon high school. police say they found a stockpile of home-made explosives in the teenager's bedroom. pipe bombs, napalm bombs, molotov cocktails, detailed plans, even a date for the attack. now we're also learning accord spoke to classmates about making bombs. >> he just walked up out of nowhere and asked if we were talking about bombs. we gave him a funny look, well, no. he kept going on about the different materials you would need to make a pipe bomb. >> reporter: he says he wasn't alarmed at the time. >> it was strange, but he's a fairly strange kid. >> reporter: but police say someone did report strange behavior, calling 911 late thursday night saying accord was planning to blow up the school and had asked friends to film it. investigators rushed to his home, finding an arsenal hidden under his bedroom floor. grant accord will face charges in court tomorrow, the same day his fellow students

here's abc's linzie janis. >> have you seen this lady? we're looking for her. >> reporter: it's been 48 hours since 82-year-old victoria kong's plane arrived at washington, d.c.'s reagan national airport. she had flown in from barbados. and her family says she was supposed to be escorted by wheelchair to where they were waiting. she never showed. and now, her family is frantically searching for her. >> she may look confused and disoriented. she's weak. she's showing early signs of dementia, alzheimer's. and we're very concerned for her health, her well-being. >> reporter: police have released this surveillance video of her at the airport. after searching through footage, they spotted her twice. first, in a taxi line at the arrivals curb. and then, walking away from the airport, on a bike trail, headed north along the george washington parkway. but that was 6:30 on friday evening. >> we have been up and down the trail at george washington. we've been in and out of the airport. we talked to taxi dispatchers. we talked to airport employees.

and here tonight, abc's linzie jan janis. >> reporter: tonight, 17-year-old grant acord, whose photo we're obscuring, is behind bars, because police say he was planning an attack on his school to rival columbine. >> this person had taken substantial steps and actually manufactured devices that would have been capable of causing significant injury or death. >> reporter: police say it all began late last week when they got a tip-off from a 911 caller, saying acord was planning to blow up the school and had asked friends to film the incident when it happened. bomb squad officers went to his house and discovered a secret compartment beneath the floorboards of acord's bedroom. inside, an arsenal of homemade explosives and journals outlining a plot that would exceed the 1999 massacre in colorado. they say he even set a date. >> plans, checklists, diagrams, inspirations, sources and a focus on recreating the model of columbine. >> reporter: his stockpile allegedly included pipe and draino bombs, homemade napalm and molotov cocktails. police say they've searched the target, west albany high

it wasn't the attacker who fired the fatal shot and linzie janis is on the story. >> reporter: such aad story made even sadder overnight. by a shocking revelation. saying they mistakenly kill her. as if their grief wasn't already too much to bear, the reality is that she was killed by police gun fire not but an armed intrud intruder. they concluded it was the bullet of a highly-decorated police officer. >> fired eight rounds in total. seven of those rounds struck her. subject one of those rounds subject the victim. >> reporter: during an intense firefight during the cop and the suspect. >> one of the officer inside with the hostages and the gunman. we have a subject down! >> police said that had in the head lock saying i'll kill her. someone came out to move a car after 2:00 a.m. on friday morning. when smith didn't find what he wanted to the house, he sent the sister's roommate to the atm. >> reporter: overnight, instead of celebrating graduation ceremonies, instead, friends held a memorial. >> very sad. she's a very sweet girl. >> reporter: now, jessica, once inseparable from her tw

and abc's linzie janis is here with overnight developments for us. >> reporter: prosecutors say 17-year-oldrant acord, seen in this facebook photo, was on a mission to blow up his oregon high school. this morning, he's being held at a juvenile jail, after police say they found a deadly arsenal, including homemade bombs, hidden under the floor boards of his bedroom. >> reporter: police say they were tipped off late thursday by a 911 caller, who said acord was planning an attack and wanted friends to film it. they briefly searched his mother's house that night and returned with the bomb squad friday. inside, they say they found pipe bombs, bombs made from drain cleaner, homemade napalm and molotov cocktails. six devices in total. >> this individual manufactured devices that would have been capable of causing injury or death. >> reporter: prosecutors do not have a motive for the attack. they say they found detailed plans in journals. even a timeline. >> checklists, diagrams, inspirations. sources. and a focus on re-creating the model of columbine. >> reporter: fellow students describe acord as

abc's linzie janis is here with this story. >> reporter: dan and bianna, police say they were tipped off by a 911 call. saying the man was making bombs and targeting the school. this morning, this 17-year-old grant accord is behind bars because police said that he was planning to blow up his high school. >> we anticipate filing charges of attempted aggravated murder. >> reporter: they discovered a secret compartment below the floor board in his bedroom. journals outlining a detailed plan to rival one of the worst school massacres in history. >> plans, diagrams, inspirations, sources. and a focus on recreating the model of columbine. >> reporter: allegedly his stock pile included pipe bombs. home made malatov. >> i will be little on edge, i mean, this whole thing is so scary, because of the potential that it could have had if somebody didn't come forward. >> reporter: as for a motive for the foiled plot, investigators said that abc news that there was no information that he was bullied. he'll be charged as an adult for attempted aggravated murder and possession of bombs. he's being he

here's abc's linzie janis. >> reporter: it is stressful. they have to get the gifts themselves. and they have to make sure the kids get a good gift for mom. if you haven't got your gifts yet, dads, we have ideas that mom will likely appreciate, much more than breakfast in dead. forget flowers and spa treatments, the stuff moms really want can't be bought. >> what they really want is to be less stressed. >> reporter: bruce is a family expert and author of the best-seller, "the secrets of happy family." and he knows the perfect gift to give mom stress relief. relief that lasts a lot longer than just a day. first, tackle the hardest part of the day. destress mom's morning. >> you stop any mom on the street and say what's the worst time of the way? they're going to say the morning. >> reporter: he suggests transferring responsibilities to the kids. that way, mom doesn't have to nag them to keep on schedule. >> who is the morning list captain? >> me. >> you can assign a child certain days of the week where they are the captain of the morning. so, it is their job to actually monitor e

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for "good morning america," linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> you can find the recipes for mary'sn and andrea are here for a sneak peek at their new movie. >> "good morning america's" secrets of living longer brought to you by walgreen's >>> welcome back with clive owen and andrea riseborough in the new movie "shadow dancer." a world of suspicion. we welcome you both. that's pretty succinctly said and well put. that's got to be a nice phrase for you both having worked on the film. >> thank you. that's good. >> clive, you play a british agent. if you could try to explain what you're trying to get andrea's character to do. >> well, the film begins with co lc colette trying to put a bomb on a train. she's go to prison for a very long time or comes to work for us. that's the beginning of the movie. she goes back into her hard-core i.r.a. world and we're supposed to monitor her from there. you have this incredibly tense, dangerous situation. >> yeah, and what a choice your character is forced to make and your scenes are so heart wrenching. not a lot of words and that was your doing. >>

and abc's linzie janis has details. >> reporter: this young man is so lucky and so fearless.ike adler is recovering from surgery in a florida hospital. just hours earlier, the 16-year-old was fending off a shark attack. >> his whole jaw just cramped down on my leg. and right from there, i knew it was a shark attack. i was paddling in as fast as i could. >> reporter: the ft. lauderdale teen and his four friends were surfing at this central, florida beach. >> i started sprinting towards him. >> reporter: mike didn't see the shark that bit him. but the wounds from its teeth reveal enough. >> the doctors told me that i was lucky that it didn't hit, like, a major artery because that would have been a lot more bleeding. >> reporter: and it's not for a mysterious stranger, he may have lost his foot. >> i'm grateful he was there. >> reporter: according to friends, a man with military training raced to mike's aid, using his surfboard leash has a tourniquet. because of him, doctors were able to repair four tendons. and mike's expected to make a full recovery. despite the pain, mike twe