jarvis. the cross-eyed cat. harry potter's sidekick. he was abandoned as a kitten but now has a happy home after being adopted by a shelter volunteer in california. jarvis, we're very pleased to meet you and take a look over there in social square powered by samsung, jarvis' owner sent us a picture of him saying good morning. >> oh. good morning, jarvis. >> the woman that adopted him had adopted 300 but never kept one until jarvis. >> fostered 300. not at the same time. that would be weird. >> we call that burying the lead. >> really. >> thank you, sara. >>> we move on to that the legal fight over fathers in the delivery room. a new jersey judge banned one dad from the delivery room because the mom did not want him there. a controversial ruling and abc's reena ninan has the story. >> reporter: dads in delivery rooms, a pretty common fixture these days seen in the movie "knocked up." >> give her the epidural. >> reporter: now a nuj judge ruled expectant moms have the legal right to keep dads out. laura's client e

abc's chief business correspondent, rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: for the people who've experienced it, it's terrifying. >> the car had its own mind. and it was going where it wanted to go. >> reporter: walter lubo was driving his 2006 chevy cobalt just last month, when the power shut down and the steering locked. >> i flipped. i spined out to the middle of the road. my air bag did not deploy. >> reporter: megan phillips says the same thing happened to here. >> all of a sudden, i had no control of the car. and i thank god i still have my life. >> reporter: gm is now recalling 1.6 million cars. models from 2003, to 2007, including the chevy cobalt, pontiac sole cities and ion. the problem was with the ignition, shutting down the car and its safety system, including the air bag. gm says a heavy key chain or rough roads can cause the problem. gm has known of complaints for over a decade. but it wasn't until last month that they issued the recall. now, abc news has learned there's a criminal investigation already under way by the fbi and justice department, focusing on what gm told regulat

rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> and today, one of the confounding mysteries about a life that seemed pretty much perfect. the death of fashion designer l'wren scott. police say, apparently, she took her own life. here's abc's mara schiavocampo. >> reporter: l'wren scott seemingly lived life at the top. mick jagger's girlfriend for more than a decade. monday morning, scott was found dead of an apparent suicide in her new york city apartment. just weeks shy of her 50th birthday, she becomes part of a stunning statistic. the age group with the highest suicide rate, those 45 to 64. police say it was death by hanging. while scott reportedly did not leave a note, police say they do not suspect foul play. scott and jagger started dating in 2001, after meeting on a photo shoot. scott, a stylist at the time, went on to become a very successful designer to the stars, who recently started broadening her reach, by partnering with brands like banana republic. at 6'3", the former model was a towering presence in life and fashion. jagger got the news shortly after landing in australia for a

rebecca jarvis, abc news, washington. >>> now, we head overseas to the fast-moving changes in ukraine. signaling the russians appear to have won this round, taking control of their prize, crimea. under pressure, the ukrainian government announced it will pull out troops. abc's alex marquardt takes us inside the simmering tension, as vladimir putin beginnings to make over a new country in the image of russia. >> reporter: falling like dominos. today pro-russian forces stormed ukrainian navy headquarters. the head of the navy taken prisoner. still held, tonight, as ukraine's military plans a full evacuation of its troops and their families. as russia takes control of crimea, symbols of the past are erased, as russian flags are raised. clocks will move ahead two hours to moscow time. the russian ruble will become an official currency. there is excitement and uncertainty, as long lines snake out of banks. >> they don't know what will be with their money in the future. >> reporter: then, there's food. no matter what country it comes from, whether it's american chips, italian pasta, it all

>> you have to be optimistic these days. >> reporter: rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> and from the jobs news we now head out west to kind of a morning after for colorado, where marijuana is now legal, but there's a new worry about who's driving and in what condition on the highways. on average, frequent marijuana users admit to driving under the influence 17 times a month. and tonight, police are scramming to learn how to spot them. here's abc's clayton sandell. >> reporter: as colorado grapples with an exploding marijuana industry, that's now legal, police here are now redoubling the fight against something that will always be illegal -- driving while stoned. >> we teach them to look at certain things and it is kind of an elimination process. >> reporter: colorado wants to train 300 officers to spot some of the telltale symptoms of marijuana impairment, including body tremors and the big give-away, the eyes. >> i'm going check your pupils, okay? >> reporter: those dilated pupils now showing up in a new state ad campaign. in this one, a pot user is installing his tv but gets di

and here's abc's chief business correspondent, rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: tonight, general motors ceo issuing three new recalls. 1.5 million suvs, luxury sedans and full-size vans for model years 2008 to 2014. for problems that include air bag and brake issues, not linked to any deaths. it's part of an effort to assure consumers gm is acting quickly to fix problems. >> something went wrong with our process in this instance. and terrible things happened. >> reporter: in a video message, new ceo mary barra also addressed the firestorm over that other recall last month of 1.6 million cars for defective ignition switches. linked to 12 deaths, gm now facing multiple investigations into how it handled that recall. >> as a mom with a family of my own, this really hits home for me. >> reporter: barra is now conducting an intense review of gm's internal practices. as she told us on her first day as ceo, a lot has changed at the company. >> we streamlined the leadership team. and said look, chief engineer, it's your vehicle. you're accountable. >> reporter: there were too many cooks in the kitc

rebecca jarvis, abc news. >> that solvent is nasty. >> that explains a lot., i didn't know -- >> that's what i do on the weekends. >> more cash? i know, you got to pay the bills. >> i'll let you in on other secrets. clothes on the label say can only be dry cleaned. not so. cashmere, sweaters, hand washing is just as good but you can't put it in the dryer. >> good to know. apparently the club soda thing, they say club soda if anything might make it worse. >> good to know. >>> coming up in the skin y new war of words between miley and katy. >> michael jackson's love child? possibly. you'll hear the evidence coming up next. >> announcer: "wo ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >>> time for "the skinny." we sfatart with a story that ki of blew our minds. >> we were skeptical but check it out for yourself. a dna test reveals a singer could be michael jackson's son. this is brandon howard. there's been a long rumor his mother and jackson had an affair. same year "billie jean" came out with those lyrics, that is not my son. >> here's what they found -- >> the probability of parent

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rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> it's tempting, right? >> it really is.re the break. that's something i always wanted to get into. you don't have the time or the money. you don't have the oomph to do it because you're afraid. >> some of the best flippers have like a team. a team of contractors that go in, an interior designer that goes in. they have it down. they bring in people and boom, boom, boom. >> get in, get out. that's the secret, i think. >> anyway, investors put almost 157,000 homes, in just the last year, up 114% since 2011. so there's a lot of optimism out there. >> wow. it's risky, because you could lose money. but a lot of people are doing it. it could drive the cost of houses done. hopefully. >> we shall see. >>> up next, one of the best loved sitcoms on television getting ready to sign off. one of the stars already has a new and pretty unconventional role. >>> a new film proves it's the best animated feature of all time. "the skinny" is coming up next. >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. this is your

abc's rebecca jarvis has more on this developing story include ing why it took more than ten years to implement the recall. >> reporter: this morning general motors expanding its ignition switch recall to an additional 971,000 cars from newer model years including 2008 to 2011 because the same faulty switches in older cars may have found their way into newer cars during repairs. gm telling abc news there are no known deaths linked to this recall of newer vehicles, but they're not taking chances. >> we have work to do to improve our process, and we are dedicated to doing that. >> reporter: the expanded recall coming just days after ceo mary barra, who took over at gm in january, issued this apology to customers pledging to conduct her own investigation into why gm took more than a decade to recall 1.6 million cars linked to at least 12 deaths. >> and i can commit to you we will put all those processes and learnings in place to make sure this never happens again. >> reporter: separately, gm this morning also ordering its dealers to stop all sales of 2013 and 2014 chevy cruzes with 1.4 t

rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> some interesting ideas. some make sense. the parking spot, i love that. >> you can rent out just about anything. a backyashgsd a barbecue. you can even rent a friend. there is a website called rentafriend.com. if you need a wing man. whatever it is. >>> it is the day after "the bachelor" and that can only mean one thing, our resident expert, senior "bachelor" analyst will join us. >>> and she was named sexiest woman alive last year. she will have another title soon-mommy. "the skinny" up next. in 1988, our dear friend paul newman had a vision. a place where kids with serious illnesses could just.be kids. [bruce] so he founded a camp. and the joy of playing, laughing, and simply belonging had a profound effect [julia] freeing the children to reach beyond their illnesses and discover new strength. [bruce] from that one camp the seriousfun children's network has grown, serving 30,000 kids globally every year. at no cost to their families. babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 weeks. a healthy baby is

abc's rebecca jarvis has more. >> reporter: it is a potentially fatal flaw linked to 13 deaths and 31sh in wisconsin that killed two girls in 2005. this one in maryland that killed 16-year-old amber marie rose that same year. >> this was our girl, you know, and we've got to get the word out. >> reporter: gm already called 1.6 million cars from model years 2003 to 2007 including the chevy cobalt, sat irn ion, chevrolet hhr, pontiac solstice. in those recalls the problem was with the ignition which could turn off unexpectedly, shting down the car and its safety system, including the air bag. but gm knew about the possibility of the flaw nearly a decade ago and decided not to fix it. >> they had no answers for us. they had no apology to us. they didn't say anything. >> reporter: now gm has a brand new ceo, mary barra. two months into the investigation, she's conducting a review of gm's handling of the ignition problem. >> this is a culturewide corporate problem. i think mary barra wants to make up for mistakes of the past but she's got a lot to make up for. >> reporter: not long ago we s

rebecca jarvis on this again tonight. >> reporter: more troubles for gm tonight issuing another round of recalls on some 2013 and 2014 chevy cruze because of a problem with the axle. almost 500,000 trucks could cause fires and expanding the ignition switch recall to an additional 971,000 from newer model years including 2008 to 2011 because the same faulty switches may have found their way into newer cars during repairs. the recall coming days after ceo issued this apology to customers. >> i can commit to you we will put all those processes and learnings in place to make sure this never happens again. >> reporter: conducting her own investigation why gm took more than a decade. gm facing claims it misled some grieving family members about the potentially deadly flaw. >> they only told us that they looked at the vehicle for any flaw. and told us that they found nothing. >> reporter: now congress and the federal government have launched investigations and class action lawsuits are mounting. >>> such heart ache. reyou were saying these new recalls are different? >> there are no known dea

abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis with how to protect yourself. >> reporter: this tax season, from coast to coast, criminals are going further than ever before to get their hands on your money. >> i'm calling from the irs. >> reporter: the treasury department warning tonight -- criminals are posing as irs agents and police, telling people they owe money and must pay at once. anyone who refuses is threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a driver's license. some of the scammers even leave voice messages with callback numbers. he was told to pay up and only with cash. >> no credit card, no debit card. no checks. >> reporter: we tried dialing one of the scam numbers given to us by the police. it was still working. >> sorry i'm not available right now, please leave your message. >> reporter: clearly the person on the other end of that phone wants you to think he's a police officer. his voicemail picks up after one ring. he says, i'm an officer and here's my badge number." some are going even further. police say a scammer even made this 911 call when a victim re

abc's rebecca jarvis is here to show us how. rebecca?reporter: diane, you may have heard of renting out your home. now, people are making money on all the things around their home, going unused so much of the time. it's called the sharing economy. and tonight, we're showing you the "real money" that you can make just by renting out what you already have. >> hi. >> reporter: meet kelsey risher, a dog-lover in chicago. and ginger, a chihuahua-terrier mix who's helping kelsey pay her rent. how much do you think you've made? >> a lot. some months it's well over my rent. >> reporter: how? kelsey, whose home is already set up for her own puppies, rents it out like a hotel to other fury friends through a website called dogvacay.com. ♪ dogvacay.com >> reporter: kelsey signed up online. and ginger's owner picked kelsey to dogsit. each puppy she cares for earns kelsey about $35 a day. across town -- tim white is making money renting out his old bike for 30 bucks a weekend, through a new site called spinlister.com. >> this past summer i paid for th

abc chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis right by their side tonight. >> reporter: lisa, a stay-at-home mom, and her friend armella, and armella's sister aleta, are first-time flippers trying to get into the game. a lot of people would say you should never get into business with friends or family. >> we did both. >> reporter: and they're hoping there is still money to be made. >> we definitely missed the heyday of really cheap housing, but then we worried we would have trouble reselling it. >> reporter: they bought this modest three bedroom for $150,000. and, what did it look like when you pulled up? >> awful. it was awful. >> it was a dump. the kitchen floor was sinking in, you walked in and you were kind of crooked. the yard was a jungle. >> reporter: between renovations and real estate fees, they put $60,000 into the project, figuring things out as they went. >> this one might be a standard. >> that looks like a standard. >> it's 13 and a fourth by -- >> look how we sound, like we know what we're talking about. >> reporter: this past november, they listed the property for $275,000. b

. >> sophia jarvis is four years old.efore her second birthday she had trouble breathing and flu-like symptoms. her family took her to the doctor. >> as we left the appointment sophia went to the trshure box to grab a toy. i saw her left hand mid grasp stop working. >> that was a bad sign. sophia had a spinal inflammation and doctors did not know what caused it. sophia is one of 20 children in california since 2012 who have shown signs of a polio-like illness. one that leads to at least some paralysis. >> and the prognosis that we have seen is not good. >> dr keith is a paediatrician at stamford hospital. sophia's case is not the first. >> most children have not recovered use of the arm or leg. we want to emphasise that this is rare. >> polio is a disease that debilitated tens of thousands of americans from childhood to old age. many patients lived their lives in iron lungs, artificial breathing machines. a vaccine was discovered and polio eradicated from the united states in 1979. some of the calvia children have been fo

abc's rebecca jarvis has that story. >> reporter: this morning the largest automaker in the country,eneral motors, facing a congressional investigation and abc news has learned a federal probe into what it knew and when about its recent ignition switch recall. though neither gm nor the u.s. attorney has officially confirmed the probe. the potentially fatal flaw linked to at least 13 deaths in 31 crashes, among them this 2005 crash in maryland that killed 16-year-old amber marie rose. >> they had no apology to us. they didn't say anything. >> reporter: the problem, the ignition which could turn off unexpectedly shutting down the car's power and safety systems including the air bags. gm says a heavy key chain or even rough roads could cause it. last month gm announcing a recall of 1.6 million cars from model years 2003 to 2007 including the cobalt, solstice and ion. gm's new ceo mary barra says she's conducting an internal review. >> i do think that mary barra wants to make up for the mistakes of the past, but she has got a lot to make up for. >> reporter: for "good morning america," r

abc's rebecca jarvis is here with those details. rebecca, good morning. >> reporter: unbelievable, amy. good morning, the guard in that picture admits he is half blind and yet he was the only one manning the security desk on the ground floor inside what is arguably the number one terrorist target in new york. the photo in this morning's "new york post" was reportedly taken this saturday. just three days before a group of b.a.s.e. jumpers surrendered for doing this. a security breach last september in which the men snuck into the building overnight leaping from a dizzying 1,776 feet. >> we can't believe we just got into the most heavily secured building. >> reporter: and just over a week ago, this 16-year-old was arrested after breaking into the building and climbing all the way up to the building's antenna sneaking by a sleeping security guard who was fired immediately. the guard in this photo says he too is now fired and while he still denies sleeping on the job he did tell "the post" he has a nerve condition that left him nearly b

. >> rebecca jarvis, abc news. what are the drivers last spring and summer of home prices and home sales? that interest rates were going up and spiking and a year later we are looking essentially at a flat interest rate picture as far as home buyers are concerned. is there any sense on your committees that staying at this level loses its punch the longer we remain here and if i am a buyer and i'm thinking of buying the home why should i do that today as opposed to waiting a few more years or even months before interest rates do go up? >> the level of interest rates remains low by historic levels and the level of household formation is very depressed, has been very depressed for some time. there are a lot of kids shacking up with their families, probably would like to be going out and acquiring places of their own, whether it is an apartment or a home. there are a lot of demographic potentials for new household formations that would ultimately generate new construction, either single or multi family and the level of

abc's rebecca jarvis has more. >> reporter: general motor's ceo issuing new recalls. 1.5 million suvms that include air bag and brake issues not linked to any death. it is part of an effort to assure consumers gm is acting quickly to fix problems. >> something went wrong with our process. in this instance. and terrible things happened. >> reporter: in a new video message, new ceo mary barra publicly addressed the firestorm over that other recall last month of 1.6 million cars with detective ignition switches. linked to 12 deaths, gm facing multiple investigations into how it handled that recall. as a mom with a family of my own, this hits home for me. >> reporter: conducting an intense review of gm's internal practices. she told us on her first day as ceo, a lot changed with the company. >> we streamlined a leadership team. >> we said look, chief engineer, it is your vehicle. we want -- you're accountable. >> too many cooks in the kitchen. >> too many cooks in the kitchen. we don't have that any more. >> reporter: now she is hoping it is a better recipe than what gm served up in the

. >> with no opportunity to pull his gun, deputy jarvis harris positions himself between the attackersd the defendant. >> he tried to get in the way and block them as best he could. but they ran right over the top of him. >> the two large males were like linebackers and bolted over him. >> while this is going on, deputy erpp makes a desperate call for backup. all three attackers now reach henderson handcuffed, unable to defend himself. >> they were stomping on him. they were kicking him. >> owe see one guy lying on the suspect punching him while another suspect was walking around and puts his hand against the wall to get leverage as he's profuse willing aggressively kicking him. >> he draws his taser and fires taking out one of the two bigger attackers. almost simultaneously, officer erpp tasers the other. and both assailants drop to the ground. >> the officer who had been pushed on the outside of the door, boom. swings into action. >> deputy cooley quickly zaps the remaining attacker. meanwhile, a separate brawl is raging just a few feet away. set in motion when the defendant's father

rebecca jarvis, abc news, washington. >>> enjoy the low interest rates while you can.er year or so and then let them rise. the fed chief janet yellen says the decision to let them rise will no longer be tied solely to the unemployment rate. she also said the central bank will cut back the bond-buying program to shore up the economy as expected. >>> more than 100 people have been freed from a so-called stash house. the people thought to be victims of a human smuggling operation were found crammed into a small house in houston. they were living in filth, most were wearing underwear only, one toilet, no hot water. five suspects arrested and the other people are being questioned and fed. >>> a bizarre story from a wealthy community in northern new jersey. a former inspector in the village of ridgewood has pleaded guilty to stealing $460,000 in money collected from parking meters. thomas rica basically took the money one quarter at a time over the course of about two years. he got busted when a village employee noticed lots of quarters missing. >> there was no money spent o

include aden buford, scott cole, kendall motley, jared moore, henry baker, thomas baker, trayvon muse, jarvis muse, b.j. shore, william lee ladarvis, and lowell furlough. i would like it acknowledge the head coach and his assistant coaches, cliff, charles, kenny, justin, and hugh for their outstanding work. on behalf of the seventh congressional district of the state of alabama, and this nation, i ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the accomplishments of the delal county high school basketball team for their victory in alabama's class 4-a state basketball championship. we honor and pay tribute to this team, the coaches, and the school for this distinguished honor. and we appreciate their contributions to the school spirit and the community pride that we have in them. congratulations and go hornets. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in this house on ash wednesday to talk about a problem that should be heavy on the hearts of everyone in this body and around the

here now, rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: you hand the dry cleaners your most precious, your most irreplacableo you get back? >> you shrunk it! >> reporter: not always what you thought. annoyance at the dry cleaner is so common. >> you're crazy, you're a fool. >> it shows up in tv and movies all the time. >> i don't see my yankee jersey. >> it's must be gone, i'm sorry. >> what? >> dry cleaners sometimes don't have the best reputation. >> reporter: jerry pozniak runs "jeeves," sort of the rolls royce of new york city dry cleaning. but tonight, he's letting us in on "dirty little secrets" of the industry. it makes you angry. >> it does make me angry. >> reporter: secret number one -- scummy solvent. let's face it, dry cleaning is a mystery for most of us. the key to the whole process, says pozniak, is this. the solvent. it's supposed to look like this. clear as a mountain stream. but the stream can turn to a swamp according to pozniak. >> it's kind of like taking a bath and you have bath water and five other people took a bath before you and then you got into that water, would you feel clean wh

. >> rebecca jarvis, abc news. one of the drivers of home prices and home sales was that since that interest rates were going up. looking atr, we are a flat interest-rate picture as far as home buyers are concerned. is there any sense that staying at this level loses its punch the longer we were main year? -- remain here? todayould i do that instead of waiting a few more years? >> the level of interest rates remain low by historic levels. the level of households , hastion is very depressed been very depressed for some time. a lot of kids are shacking up with their families and probably would like to be going out and acquiring places of their own, whether it is an apartment or a home. a lot of demographic potential there for new household formation that would ultimately generate new construction, either single or multi family. it is something that should serve as a stimulus to people coming back into the housing market. we have not yet seen the pickup after the last -- after interest rates went up last summer, i do

creation of the monument, including a hearing attended by the national park service director, john jarvis, and hundreds of delawarians and pennsylvanians who expressed strong support for the protection of the woodlawn property. the first state national monument continues to enjoy -- ually unanimous en enthusiastic support. the provisions in this bill under consideration today would have jeopardized this process, and we may not have been able to realize -- the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. grijalva: i'd yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. mr. carney: i thank the gentleman for the additional time. teddy roosevelt, a republican president, a great outdoorsman and a lover of nature, said this about the importance of protecting our natural treasures. he said, it's not what we have that will make us a great nation. it's the way in which we use it. let's continue our nation's tradition of protecting our public lands in a way that reflects the greatness of this nation. i ask my colleagues to oppose this legislation, and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from delaware

rebecca jarvis with that. good morning, rebecca. >> reporter: good morning. this is just bizarre.you think of corporate espionage, this is not what comes to mind. the chief executive of one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country going undercover at his competitor's store in disguise. but that's exactly what a new lawsuit alleges. >> i just saw it. i'm going to go undercover. >> reporter: he is the undercover boss who donned a shaved head and mustache on reality tv to spy on his employees. >> can't get his arm in here. >> reporter: but this morning, mitchell modell, ceo of modell's sporting goods, facing some real-life drama, as his competition alleges he carried out his own undercover mission to scope out their operations. in a lawsuit filed in superior court, heavyweight competitor dick's sporting goods claiming modell snuck into one of its new jersey locations posing as a dick's senior executive named joseph. the same fake name he used on the show. and after maneuvering his way in, allegedly convinced employees to show him private backrooms, even persuading them t

andrew jarvis lives in philadelphia, works in new york and has a home in new york city.checked tax rules and in order to avoid taxes in new york, he has to live in philadelphia more than half the year. andrew did not want to tempt the irs. he took pictures of himself in case he was ever audited as proof that's where he was. his daughter anne recently found the photos and figured the irs isn't watching. let's hope they are. she started instagram with internal revenue selfies. it has gone viral. the irs has yet to look into andrew. speaking of which, have you filed your taxes yet? >> oh. nice. >> irs watch out. >> i'm good. all good. >> none of us have done our taxes? >> not at all. >> i've thought about it. >> that's half the battle. >> i have a pile. >> i have a pile somewhere. >> you think about it and then come to the conclusion you're going to do it. then you do it. >> step one. we're at step one jenna. >> that's slightly before step two. >>> still to come, bringing home baby, baby, and baby. and more babies. quintuplets. wow. >>> good morning to you, looking live at

abc's rebecca jarvis has all the details. rebecca, good morning. >> reporter: josh, good morning. this is a huge settlement this morning. toyota expected to announce it will pay $1 billion to settle a justice department investigation into those runaway cars that suddenly accelerated without warning. that was a problem abc news was first to expose back in 2009. at issue, how toyota handled reporting those sticky gas pedals which led to a recall of more than 10 million vehicles and whether the company provided false or incomplete statements to the government. toyota has already paid nearly $2 billion to car owners and millions in fines. but this settlement is expected to help the company avoid criminal charges. in a statement overnight, a toyota spokesperson said "we have made fundamental changes to become a more responsive and customer-focused organization and we are committed to continued improvements." josh. >> thank you, rebecca. >>> new details about massive child pornography bust. a louisiana man and 13 of his alleged associates have been arrested accused of running a secret m

and abc's rebecca jarvis has the story. the millions of people who spent hundreds of hours trying to clear all the jelly, the game is just beginning. at least that's what king digital entertainment, the uk-based company behind the deliciously addictediive game cy crush, is counting on. king is expected to become a public company tomorrow morning and will likely debut on the new york stock exchange at between $21 and $24 a share, meaning it would be an eye-popping $7.6 billion. >> for king it's a big deal in the sense it will raise a significant sum of money, perhaps upward of $300 million. >> reporter: it debuted in november 2012. topping farmville, texas hold 'em poker, bejeweled blitz and subway surfers. and now this morning, the game reportedly rakes in nearly $10 million a week. thanks to its more than half a billion users who play the game over a billion times each day. but in the world of fickle tastes and constantly changing obsessions, investors may not be as sweet on candy as its users. >> selling a fad product, th

abc chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis here with the details.urprised by what you found. >> as was i. turns out there is good reason for that old expression getting taken to the cleaner's. so what happens after you leave your cleaner with your most valuable clothes? take a look. you hand the dry cleaner's your most precious, your most irreplaceable garments and what do you get back? >> you shrunk it. >> reporter: not always what you thought. annoyance at the dry cleaner's so common it shows up in movies. and tv all the time. >> crazy, a fool. i can't cope with this. >> dry cleaner's don't have the best reputation. >> reporter: jerry pozniak runs jeeves the rolls-royce of dry cleaning. but today he's letting us in on the dirty little secrets of the industry. makes you angry. >> it does make me angry. >> reporter: secret number one, scummy solvent. dry cleaning is a mystery for most of us, the key to the process is this, the solvent. it's supposed to run clear as a mountain stream. except he says when some dry cleaner's cut corners and increase pr

abc's rebecca jarvis is here with those details. rebecca, good morning. >> hi, good morning.t was better than expected news on jobs in america this morning. suggesting the economy is bit stronger than we thought. take a look. our economy created 175,000 jobs last month. that is an increase from january, but still short of the numbers that we were seeing last year. the unemployment rate picked up slightly to 6.7%. more people tried to re-enter the labor force. the harsh winter weather impacted these numbers. the snowstorms and record cold put a real damper on everything from construction to car sales to travel. and analysts estimate more than 600,000 people were unable to work this winter because of bad weather. so amy, there are hopes for a bigger spring recovery that will spring forward with those clocks. >> 13 days away, rebecca. all right, thanks so much. >>> well, a bizarre scene during a college basketball game. an angry uc santa barbara fan ran on to the court to confront the opposing coach. after a technical foul was called, players quickly pushed him back and he was l

. >> to the families of my smith,l friends, mike krista, and greg jarvis. grace and i extend to you our at the time prayers of this hour of your loss and .ur shared grief it will continue to be so in the future, as long as man has a thirst for knowledge, we will continue to press outward. in the process, there is risk. the risk is taken by each one of and that risk is understood by all the members of a crew that climb into a loaded spaceship. my concluding remarks would be, as we reflect upon the tragedy, it tragedy the whole nation grieves in, let's remember the remarks by someone who knew something about risk, a gallant lady named helen keller, when she spoke of risk and security. this is what she said. security is mostly a superstition. nature, norexist in do the children of men as a whole experience it third avoiding the danger is no safer in the long run than out right exposure. listen to what she ends with. "life is either a daring adventure or nothing." god bless, and be with and keep in the palm of his hand our departed brothers and sisters, daring

rebecca jarvis is here to explain how this affects millions of drivers.ebecca, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, josh. good morning, this new recall as you say affects 1.5 million suvs, luxury cars, and full-sized vans for model years 2008 to 2014 because of problems associated with air bags and brakes. those problems are not linked to any deaths at this point but the company is trying to prove its commitment to safety following its recall last month for faulty ignition switches blamed for 12 deaths. a recall that's the subject of a federal investigation now. in a new video message ceo mary barra says she's conducting an intense review of gm's internal practices. and the company is spending $300 million on repairs. but josh, despite all of this, despite all of it, money analysts on wall street think the company's reputation and its stock price will hold up over the longer term, josh. >> certainly something to keep an eye on. rebecca, thank you for that. >>> meanwhile, a new prediction this morning about prices at the grocery store. they are expected t

so california is a populous state characterized by a guy named howard charged -- howard jarvis tried two or three times and made a coalition with another guy named paul gand. they got a half a million or so signatures to put a drastic two-thirds cut in the property taxes. he was derided by all of the establishment liberals. establish republican party was not in favor of proposition 13 but the people rose up thinking it was the right thing to do. on election day two-thirds of the people of california were against everybody and they lower their taxes by 57% for property taxes. it had an effect and in actually helping the economy. tax revenues went down only in the property tax category according to art laffer for about five years, five or six years. after that five years property tax revenues were back to where they were because of expansion of the economy. every other category of taxation revenue grew because this created an economic boom and it said very well into the economic expansion. i don't think there is much hope for california but you raise a terrific point. california has ri

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madam chair, rebecca jarvis, abc news. one of the drivers last spring and summer of home prices and home sales was that sense that interest rates were going up, that they were spiking, and now a year later we're looking essentially at a flat interest rate picture as far as home buyers are concerned. so is there any sense on your committee that staying at this level loses its punch the longer we remain here and if i'm a buyer and i'm thinking about going out and buying a home, why should i do that today as opposed to waiting a few more years or even months before interest rates then do go up? >> well, i think the level of interest rates remains low by historic levels, and the level of household formation is very depressed, has been very depressed for some time. there are a lot of kids who are shacking up with their families and probably would like to be going out and acquiring places of their own whether it's an apartment or a home. there's a lot of demographic potential there for new household formation that would ultimate

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police that say around two hundred fifty british jarvis have now returned home and could carry out their lower smith reports now from london. what's happening in these muslim families it seems is that people are seeing someone becoming more and more radicalized thinking positively about going to fight in syria whether it be a brother or a sister or even a friend and rather than going to. their local mosque which is what they most have done in the past going out what is often a very close knit community and going to the police who often are seen as essentially the enemy and reporting that to the police with all the implications that that brings including rest and even potential imprisonment so it's obvious that the muslim community if we can call them that the whole kind of thing it's very worried about the threat of people going to fight in syria now this information comes straight from the horse's mouth from the metropolitan police assistant commissioner quested dick she's been talking about these families coming forward and saying to the police that we're worried about somebody we thin

on fox news channele guy you've a volkswagen team member, mike jarvis.>> good morning, sir. >> okay. where are we? the uaw has filed an appeal to what counteract this vote. by the way, how many people voted, all the people that you work with? >> well, we had 89% vote. >> wow. >> something like 712 to 626, in that neighborhood. >> and before we talk about the appeal, what is it like, you know, at the factory now? is there tension there? >> well, we're professional and we're building a quality product at chattanooga, but naturally, there is an unspoken tension. you know, there was this side and that side of the opposition and what we're doing now is we're reaching our hand out to our fellow teammates and let's get this behind us. instead of us standing toe to toe on these issues, let's stand side by side and work on those issues you have trouble with and we'll do it better together than we can separately and that's what our message is right now. >> how is it going to work? about 53% of you voted to not unionize and so the other people kind of want to do it

capito: anna jarvis gave us mother's day. we have two women that reached the very pinnacle of their fields, nautilus pearl buck from hillsbre -- novelist pearl buck from hills bro west virginia won a noble price in literature and no one can forget mary lou rhettton who won gold in the olimp exs. that's why i support the national women's history commission act. it is my privilege to talk about so many wonderful west virginia women. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to the tragic events that took place in austin, texas, on thursday at the annual south by southwest festival. a suspected drunk driver being chased by the austin police slammed his car into the festival crowd. two of those injured were in high school, patricia davis and deand ray tatum, students at trimble tech high school in my hometown of fort worth, texas. ms. visa: she is a senior and has broken bones and deand ray i

. >> reporter: for "good morning america," rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> thanks, rebecca forhat. >>> now good news for millions who suffer from migraines. the fda has approved the first medical device that can prevent migraine attacks. dr. jen ashton with more on that. 36 million americans suffer from migraines. >> i'm one of them, george. if you think about migraines as a very complex disorder that involves blood vessels and nerves, here's the device called cefaly. this targets a nerve in the brain ha did the major player in causing migraines and stimulate commandment big time ripping off $600,000, a big jackpot from the ultimate church, lakewood in houston. >> god puts people in our path so we can brighten their death. >> reporter: the church is home to joel osteen. 40,000 attend every week, people from more than 140 countries watch every week and houston police say they stole $400,000 in checks and $200,000 in cold hard cash gathered in the complexion plate. the haul of a single weekend lifted after being put in the safe right after sunday's services. was it an inside job.