linsey davis has the inside story. >> reporter: the last 48 hours of tyler clementi's life played out online. revealing the perils of living in a digital age. some might call it the death of privacy. yesterday, police identified the body of the 18-year-old rutgers university freshman and talented violinist who jumped off the george washington bridge to his death last week. jumping off the gw bridge. sorry. he posted these words to his facebook account reportedly 20 minutes before committing suicide. his wallet, laptop and cell phone found near the bridge. this was the final post in a string of communications that took place entirely online, revealing a shocking series of events that led to the final tragic act. >> we see it really play out almost until the end over these digital forums, if it was e-mail, twitter, web cams, facebook. and it's not until the very end, sometimes, when it's too late, but it really becomes a face to face real life issue. >> reporter: it all started tuesday night, when tyler texted his roommate, asking him for some privacy. i had talked to my roommate that a

linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> burk died of natural causes after arriving in amsterdam to performally last week's ryder cup championship. it's this shot showing tiger woods sending a chip shot into a camera lens. >> hind tiger, a strange guy in a groucho marx wig. the man is being photo shopped. >> he's a 30-year-old london investment analyst. look, there he is with abe lincoln. >> he dressed up to honor

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linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> the u.s. is reportedly trying to get chinese companies to stop providing assistance to iran in violation of u.s. sanctions. "the washington post" said a state department official has given a list of suspected companies along with nuclear programs. chinese officials are investigating. >>> meanwhile, iran's leader is now welcoming a new round of nuclear talks. the president mahmoud ahmadinejad says iran will continue to enrich uranium for nuclear energy. at the same time, ahmadinejad says it is time for the u.s., other powers to crack down on israel's alleged nuclear arsenal. talks could resume next month. >>> the french says they've been warned against a new al qaeda threat. the report apparently came a couple days from saudi arabian intelligence. >> the french have been on high alert for a few weeks and the eiffel tower was closed at least twice. the france's prime minister said the threat is very real. >>> the american embassy in afghanistan could face major problems. abc news has gotten ahol

linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> and we move overseas. news tonight about that turning point battle for kandahar in afghanistan. we know that the first phase seems to be succeeding. miguel marquez traveled with the troops and he says tonight that the taliban appears to be on the run. miguel? >> reporter: diane, to show you just how hasty the taliban's retreat was, look at this. this is incredible. this is a taliban hideout, and they left so quickly because the afghan and u.s. soldiers were coming. they left their bread, and it's even fresh. wherever soldiers searched, they found evidence the taliban hightailed it. makeshift kitchens. in some, the tea still warm. medicine for treating wounded fighters left behind. for soldiers here, it's like lifting the curtain on how their enemy lives and fights. captain, it looks like someone left here in a hurry. >> yes, of course. yeah, they did. i believe this is a bed down site for them. >> reporter: when you say bed down, this is a place where they produce ieds? >> this is where they bed down. they

here's linsey davis. >> reporter: this was not a gay pride parade other carl paladino wouldn't be here>> they wear speedos and grind at each other. >> reporter: the candidate didn't show up at the columbus day parade to apologize. what would you say to the gay population directly today? >> i'm 100% in favor of all gay rights except for one. >> reporter: that is? >> gay marriage. >> reporter: and why? >> i'm a catholic. >> reporter: but his remarks last night at a new york synagogue seemed to go much further. >> my children and your children, i don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexual is an equally values voter summit and successful option. >> reporter: they're seen as insensitive in new york. eight men are arained for attacking and sodomizing a gay men and two gay teens. his opponent quickly pounced saying paladino's denigrating gays and lesbians is a continuation of his thoughtless and harmful language. the tea party tried to explain his remarks away by saying they were prepared by these orthodox rabbis part of an anti-gay sect but they're not baltimorely powerf

here's linsey davis. >> reporter: a new muppet.trip to the beauty shop ♪ >> reporter: a song. ♪ i love what i got on top >> reporter: this anthem about hair has gone friend-to-friend, mother-to-daughter, shared more than 300,000 times online. ♪ i really love my hair >> reporter: perhaps, this girl can help us understand why. >> i feel weird. my hair is curly and puffy. >> reporter: puffy is exactly how i described my hair growing up. and i remember not knowing what to say when kids would ask, why is it so big? this, by the way, is o earl our earliest lesson about beauty. joey says his daughter would ask why her hair wasn't like barbie's. >> she wanted hair that was blonde and she could do this with it. i want it to move. she didn't want it to be curly. she wanted it to be straight. >> reporter: she is from ethiopia. her dad just happens to be the head writer at "sesame street." so, joey took his unique position to address an issue that goes far beyond his daughter. ♪ i wear it up i wear it down ♪ >> reporter: he recruited elmo's pu

linsey davis reports. >> reporter: they appear to be some of the last web postings by 18-year-old tylerlementi. on september 21st, a user name reportedly linked to clementi on the past blogged on a gay website about a roommate spying on him. while he was making out with another guy. "don't want to report him and then end up with nothing happening except him getting pissed at me." the last post under this user name says he told his residential adviser. police say hours later, clementi jumped off the george washington bridge. it's now clear from his own internet trail that clementi's roommate knew clementi was gay back in august. but his friend and neighbor says it wasn't a hate crime, that ravi was a regular guy, excited about college and was not homophobic. >> very, very open-minded, and he -- i feel like if it had been a girl in the room, it wouldn't have been any different. >> reporter: still, thousands are sounding off on a facebook group calling for the college freshmen behind the incident to face manslaughter charges. ravi and his friend molly wei currently face charges of criminal

linsey davis reports. >> reporter: a new muppet, a powerful lesson. ♪ don't need a trip to the beauty >> reporter: a song. ♪ 'cause i love what i got on top ♪ >> reporter: about her hair. ♪ i love my hair i love my hair ♪ >> reporter: this anthem about hair has gone friend to friend, mother to lawyer, shown 300 thousand hits online. ♪ i really love my hair perhaps little girls like monique can help us understand why. >> i think i want to straighten my hair because it's curly and it's puffy. >> reporter: puffy is exactly how i'd describe my hair growing up, and i remember not knowing what to say when kids would ask, "why is it so big?" this, by the way, is often our earliest lesson about beauty. whoopi goldberg's early days of stand-up included her portrayal of a little black girl who tried to emulate her doll by wearing a towel on her head. >> this is my long, luxurious blonde hair. >> reporter: joey mazzarino says his daughter would also ask why her hair wasn't like barbie's. >> she wanted hair like barbie's that she could do this with. so i started to get really worried about it. >>

linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> and now, to economic news. the mortgage mess is now getting even messier. bank of america has now joined a growing number of mortgage companies that have had to freeze, completely stop, all foreclosures because there may be flaws in the process. there's now questions about whether workers rushed through the paperwork for thousands of homeowners without even reading the documents. barbara pinto is on that story. >> reporter: sonya gilkey is fighting foreclosure in a court, trying to save her family's home. >> i think i'm lobbying for a whole lot of people out there, who just did not have the energy or the fortitude to just holler and scream loud enough for someone to hear you. >> reporter: but more homeowners are following gilkey's lead, after some of the court documents that banks used to process a record number of foreclosures were filed improperly. one executive from mortgage giant gmac admitted to blindly signing up to 10,000 foreclosure affidavits a month. >> he was not reading them before he was signing th

linsey davis has more. >> reporter: the party, crashed. >> it's a little crazy here. >> reporter: theashed. >> there is security here. but they're not doing anything. >> reporter: the kids, smashed. >> we have four kids that are passed out. >> reporter: kegs, coolers and bottles litter the pool table, the patio, even the night stand of this multimillion-dollar home in boca raton, florida. the high school house party played out like a frat party. and it ended up with the parents, shlomo and genie rasabi going to jail. >> they said they didn't know there was alcohol. >> reporter: that 150 students were invited. and you had to have a wristband to get in. robin knowles lives nearby. >> i never saw anything like this. i saw the paramedics wheeling kids past my house. >> reporter: police say they found about 500 kids. many with alcohol. >> there were several buses and limousine buses and limos that pulled up, almost simultaneously and dropped off 400 or so kids. >> reporter: he says the kids arrived to the rasabis already intoxicated. >> four juveniles are unconscious. >> what? where. >> al

linsey davis, thank you very mu >>> another finryu.to asnapp for more than just fighting the fda is greenlighting it a headache treatment but only for those who suffer chronic migraines. c mraines. she is at author of "women's health for life," which is a fascinating story. ng uinating story. oto chro mig >> like many discoveries in medicine, this began with anecdotal reports. people were getting botox injections for cosmetic pes and came back to their doctors and said, y, iy loettt i tr my migraines are down. and so this led to research studies and then, of course, led to the company doing two pivotal trials of over 1,300 patients for fda approval for this specific indication, and it is for the prevention of chronic migraines, which is more than 15 days a month, so this is not for somebody who gets a migraine once in a while. >> i want to go back and highlight that because it's not your typical headache you may get throughout the day but ll theoughout the day but >> migraine is differen garden variety tension head a migraine is a seve

here's linsey davis. ♪ >> reporter: superstitious couples went to great lengths to tie the knot on 7/7 hoping the lucky numbers would make them lucky in love. fast forward three years to today, the most trendy wedding date ever since. >> we're seeing about 30,000 weddings on 10/10/10, which is about 10 times the number of weddings on a sunday. >> reporter: there are ten commandments, big 10 football and top ten lists. >> it's just a nice sort of easy number to remember, and people feel they're often lucky. >> reporter: october is always a big month for weddings, but according to "the toronto star" there were so many weddings planned for toronto's city hall, they had to be moved to a hotel. in las vegas, starting at 10:10 a.m., donny osmond is hosting an engagement ceremony for ten lucky couples at caesars palace, and he plans to propose again to his wife debbie of 32 years. trey hill popped the question on august 8th, 2008 or 8/8/8. >> i thought that was the perfect day to get engaged. >> reporter: there are only 12 such triple-digit dates every thousand years. so imagine the improbab

linsey davis, thank you very much. >>> another fascinating medical story over to you.a, over to you. >> that's right, dan. botox has now been approved for more than just fighting wrinkles. the fda is greenlighting it as a headache treatment but only for those who suffer chronic migraines. here to tell us about this and how the injections will work is dr. donica moore. she is at author of "women's health for life," which is a fascinating story. thank for joining us. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> let's start out with this link. how did they link botox to medicine, this began with anecdotaepor people were getting botox injections for cosmetic purposes and came back to their doctors and said, hey, feelt only look better but and so this led to research studies and then, of course, led to the company doing two pivotal trials of over 1,300 patients for fda approval for this specific indication, and it is for the prevention of chronic migraines, which is more than 15 days a month, so this is not for somebody who gets a migraine once in a while. >> i want to go back and highlig

abc's linsey davis talked to him on the parade route. >> reporter: what would you say to the gay populationoday? >> i'm 100% in favor of gay rights. >> reporter: and that is? >> his democratic opponent, andrew cuomo, said the comments were reckless and divisive, in light of recent anti-gay violence in the city. >>> anti-gay sentiments may have driven another teenager to suicide. 19-year-old zach harrington from norman, oklahoma, took his own life earlier this month. his parents say he had attended a community hearing, during which many people spoke out against declaring a gay history month. and they suspect those sentiments then drove the young man to suicide. >>> we should get new details this morning about the mysterious disappearance object a young girl in north carolina. 10-year-old zhra claire baker was reported missing over the weekend. she uses a prosthetic leg. a police dog connected the smell of human remai on the cars belonging to her father and stepmother. >>> new yorkers got a dose of wild weather usually reserved for the heartland. it dumped so much hail, it looked like the gro

linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> very important. don't forget the anniversary.ely wife and i celebrated our anniversary over the weekend. 10/9/08. >> two years you made it. >> yeah. >> congratulations, i have friends that got married on 10/10/10. got married yesterday. congratulations to -- dawn brown and jonathan myers down there in new orleans. and weddings all over the globe, people really took advantage of day to do something cool and exchange their vows. happy day. >> no

here's linsey davis. ♪ you have to call >> reporter: his style has been called a blend of sew fist andrke was the robust voice behind this song, "cry to me," in the movie "dirty dancing." and then, there was this 1964 hit, "everybody needs somebody to love." ♪ everybody needs somebody >> reporter: it was most famous for its use in this 1980 "blues broth brothers" movie. ♪ everybody needs somebody to love ♪ ♪ nothing is impossible >> reporter: labeled by a baltimore dj as the king of rock and soul, burke was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 2001. he's survived by 21 children and more than 100 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. >> our thanks to linsey. he died on board a plane flying to amsterdam where he was scheduled to perform just this week. he was 70. >>> and when we come back here on the broadcast tonight, redefining royalty. new kings and queens, right here in this country. and they are capturing the american heart. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? did the little piggy cry wee wee wee all the way home? piggy: weeeeeee,

here's linsey davis. >> reporter: a new muppet, a powerful lesson. a song about her hair. hair has gone friend to friend, mother to daughter, shared more than 300,000 times online. ♪ i really love my hair >> reporter: perhaps she can make us understand why. >> it feels weird. my hair is curly and puffy. >> reporter: puffy is exactly how i described my hair growing up. i remember not knowing what to say when kids would ask why is it so big? this, by the way, is often our earliest lesson about beauty. joey says his daughter would also ask why her hair wasn't like barbie's. >> she just wanted hair that was like blond and she could do this with it. she's like, i want the blonde hair that i move and shake. she didn't want it to be curly. she wanted it to be straight. >> reporter: segi is from ethiopia. her dad just happens to be the head writer at "sesame street." joey took his unique position to address an issue that goes far beyond his daughter. ♪ i wear it up i wear it down >> reporter: he recruited kevin clash, elmo's puppeteer, to get her moves just right. and her voice, c

here is linsey davis. >> reporter: imagine going from this to this. >> never felt better. >> reporters or prozac aids depression? vivitral, to treat alcohol dependence. life altering for tens of thousand of alcoholics like patricia. >> is has been a godsend. it is like my lottery ticket. >> the fda approved the drug to treat the americans addicted to painkillers. >> was it a no brainer? >> if you can get it in. addicts don't hatch to choose whether to take it or not. it is likely going to have an impact. >> reporter: carolyn is a recovering painkiller addict. >> i took one of my pills. >> reporter: that high she got wouldn't happen with vivitrol. the narcotic is injected once a month and releases over type the able to reduce desire to drink or pop a pill by blocking neurotransmitters in the brain associated with producing a high. vivitrol leaves patients with one decision a month instead of one every day. trials are under way for an implantable version of another drug to treat addiction. in that case the daily struggle would only happen twice a year. linsey davis, abc news, new york.

our linsey davis joins us. good morning. >> reporter: students grieve. last nig night's vigil told us that students just sobbed into his jacket. it's clear that many students on this campus and beyond feel a very personal connection with tyler's passing. the vigil was silent. the message, loud. >> my prayer is that our acts become something greater. that it becomes the actions of something bigger. >> reporter: hundreds showed up, part of a call for compassion in the name of tyler clementi. >> it was the next in a series of tributes for the young man who jumped off the george washington bridge after his sexual interaction with a young male was broadcast over the internet. facebook already with 100,000 supporters. yet some say the university still has to do more. has rutgers had an adequate response? >> in a word? no. >> reporter: students in the gay community tell us that months before the suicide, they went to the university for help. >> 4 out of the last 7 students to take their own life were identified. we asked for safe places in dorms around here. we

linsey davis has more from the campus of rutgers university, where a 20-year-old junior was paralyzed weekend. >> reporter: it could have been just another great play in just another college football game. >> ooh. big open-field hit by eric le grant. >> reporter: but for rutgers' defensive tackle, eric le grand, it was tragic. >> players on both teams have taken a knee. >> reporter: le grand is now paralyzed from the neck-down. >> hit just wrong, i guess. i really had a bad feeling. when i got out there, it was what i feared. >> reporter: doctors are cautious. >> by 72 hours, if they've not shown a sign of improvement, that is a person who would not recover and play. >> a guy a big part of your team emotionally. >> reporter: the nfl saw its share of injuries over the weekend, too. including several possible concussions caused by these deliberate helmet-to-helmet hits. the eagles and the falcons. >> oh. big hit by deshawn jackson. >> dante robinson, down, as well. >> reporter: the patriots and the ravens. >> is still down. >> reporter: and the steelers/browns game. >> drilled. oh, my g

here's linsey davis. >> reporter: this was not a gay pride parade.rl paladino wouldn't be here. >> the men wear little speedos and they grind on each other. would you take your children there? >> you're a disgrace, paladino. >> reporter: new york's republican candidate for governor didn't show up at the columbus day parade to apologize. >> what would you say to the gay population directly today? >> i am 100% in favor of all gay rights except for one. >> that is? >> marriage. >> and why is that? >> i'm a catholic. >> reporter: but his rem seemed to go much fer. >> my children and your children, i don't whem be raino ti that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option. >> reporter: these coment seen as especially insensitv over the weekend, eight men arraigned for attacking and sodomizing a gay man and teens. his opponent quickly pounced saying paladino's denigrating gays and lesbians is a continuation of his thoughtfless and harmful language. the tea party favorite tried to explain his remarks away by saying they were prepared by these orth

linsey davis is has the latest. hi, linsey. >> reporter: hi, george.of the networking sites that his roommate tried to use to expose him, people are using to find out more information about tyler clementi. especially what was on his mind in the days and hours that led up to his suicide. the investigation into what happened inside this rutgers university dormitory is quickly shifting to why it happened. this morning, prosecutors are considering ratcheting up the charges against dharun ravi and his friend molly wei to bias intimidation, making it a crime to invade someone's privacy because of sexual orientation. at issue, whether or not ravi's decision to stream video of tyler clementi was a harmless prank or a sign of something deeper. this morning, there were reports that ravi reportedly posted on twitter before he started, quote, found out my roommate is gay. and posted a link to a profile where clementi went by cit2mo on a website. the postings on a website, appear to be clementi, discussing his spying roommate. he wrote, come on, he was spying on me

first, here's linsey davis. >> reporter: the chaos that night is clear. so are the contradictions.is cell phone video doesn't show is what triggered the events that ended danron henry's life. the football player was shot and killed by police last weekend. but there's differing accounts of what wednesday wrong. police say there was an unruly crowd outside of this intashen bar. their accounts is that an officer approached henry's car, which was parked in this fire lane. and when the officer knocked on the window, henry tried to speed away. >> the officer ended up on the hood of the vehicle, as he accelerated in the fire lane. at some point in time, the officer drew his pistol and fired into the vehicle. >> reporter: but henry's teammates who were in the car with him, said that they thought that they were asking e him to move the car out of the fire lane. the lawyer said they were handcuffed, arrested and one was tased when they were trying to help their dying friend. massachusetts senator, scott brown, says he wants a thorough investigation. >> regardless of who is at fault, there is