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for linsey davis, tonight, the dougie is a "sign of the times." ♪ >> reporter: it's more than a danceent that starts in the hips and wiggles its way to the shoulders. it's called the dougie. even if you don't know it by name, you probably have seen it. on the gridiron, jets wide receiver braylon edwards was penalized for taunting after he celebrated a touchdown with the dougie. >> illegal use of the dougie. >> reporter: and on the hard wood, nba point guard john wall introduced himsz with it. his moves in his pregame introduction have garnered him more attention lately than his moves on the court. the signature move and of course the dance's name sake is the hand swirl made famous by dougie fresh. ellen is down with the dougie, and, so is cnn's wolf blitzer. what did you think when you saw wolf blitzer doing it on the soul train music awards? >> i thought it was pretty funny. but it was -- he started off like -- once he got it, like, yeah, all right, now you got it. >> reporter: the phenomenon started in texas, but this group from california is teaching it to the country. >> everybody

and right there in it all tonight, linsey davis, who spent time late today with new york city's police commissioner. linsey? >> reporter: good evening, david. we had to go through three barricades just to get into this area. as you know, for the past few days, crews have been busy when moving the snow, right all around me. but tonight, this is called the frozen zone, for security reasons. the nypd doesn't just describe their security as a precaution, experts call it the ring of steel. 17 miles of barricades. thousands of uniformed and plain-clothes police officers. spaced every few yards. some high tech, carrying beeper-sized radiation detectors. others with bomb-sniffing dogs. >> i can tell you that we have more cameras focused on this area now, we're monitoring more cameras than we've ever done in the past. >> reporter: manhole covers have been sealed. trash cans and mailboxes removed. all of it being tracked from above by more than 500 security cameras, fed into a war room. snipers, invisible to the eye, stationed on roof tops. would you say times square is the most secure that it's

linsey davis is in boston. >> reporter: more than half the country spent the day digging out yet again. a rough winter of broken records. miami beach, florida, has just shivered through their coldest december on record. on the 14th last month, atlanta dropped to 14 degrees, a record low for the day. more than 55 inches of snow has fallen this season on hartford, connecticut, which averages 46 inches in an entire winter. typically, boston gets about 42 inches worth of snowfall each year. but just in the last month, this area's had about 50 inches of snow. that's an entire season's worth of snowfall in just the first month of winter. >> feel like i'm in a different state right now. i ain't never seen nothing like this. >> honestly, i think enough is enough. >> reporter: school administrators are struggling, too. not only with the snow days wracking up, but when to cancel outdoor recess. in houston, the principal at frazier elementary typically keeps the kids inside if the temperature is below 45 degrees. but in hearty south dakota, the principal of parkstunnelmentry says it has to be bel

. >>> we begin with linsey davis braving the cold in boston tonight. good evening. >> good evening. it is currently 24 degrees in boston, but it only goes downhill from here. by monday morning, the forecast for this area, two degrees below zero. >> reporter: now is the winter of our discontent. >> it's like the arctic. it's like living in the north pole. >> reporter: arctic air ushered into the northeast. this weekend, the windchill is expected to drop below zero during the night throughout the upper midwest and much of the northeast. paying about $3 a gallon for heating oil isn't exactly a warm thought for customers desperate to stay warm. >> kaye says she pays about $700 every time she fills up her tank. >> you have to do it. you don't have a choice. it is hard to stomach. >> reporter: for those heading outdoors, dressing for the elements is essential. from minneapolis, minnesota, this man learned the hard way. >> the most painful pain that i ever had in my life. >> he hasn't been able to walk for weeks because of frostbite. the damage to the skin in the most severe cases can be s

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but linsey davis reports tonight on a very important number, the so-called 99-ers. american workers still looking for work even with the giant corporate windfalls. >> reporter: banks may be optimistic, but dawn is not. >> i'm two months behind on the mortgage. i have enough to pay the utilities for maybe this month and then i have absolutely not a penny left. >> reporter: dawn is a 99-er. one of 1.5 million americans who have been unemployed for 99 weeks or more and have run out of unemployment benefits. the tax bill recently signed into law doesn't extend unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks. in rallies and online, the 99-ers are organizing. the websites are part support group, part petition to congress to pass legislation to extend benefits for people like dawn. even with a masters degree and thousands of resume submissions, still, no job. she collected her last unemployment check nine months ago. >> at this point, the only jobs that i even see available in my area are drivers for pizza hut. i sent them resumes, as well. >> reporter: people out of work for more t

and linsey davis is reporting tonight on all the people trying to hunker down and those with the coldest jobs in the country have no choice but to be outside like linsey. and is that a frozening charles river behind you, linsey? >> reporter: you're exactly right. if you can see this ice shelf, that is the charles river and most of it is frozen tonight and much of new england is trying to thaw out and many of the people we spoke to today had no option but to bundle up and endure these dangerous temperatures. this cold is so extreme, it's being blamed for two people in the northeast freezing to death. the arctic blast closed schools, killed car engines and canceled train service and talk about stopping traffic cold. it's a car in new york city. de-icing it, not an easy job and neither is this. this crossing guard appears to be frozen in place. but despite the fact that the windchill was more than 20 below in killington, vermont, in morning, she only had one complaint. >> my feet are cold. >> reporter: while some can dart in and out of the cold to get to work, for others there is no escapin

linsey davis takes us inside it all. >> reporter: taco bell's latest ad campaign is suddenly a littleess "think outside the bun" and a little more "look inside our tacos." today, the chain purchased full-page ads, "thank you for suing us." here's the truth about our seasoned beef. the ads are in response to a lawsuit alleging the meat taco bell uses is actually only about a third beef. that claim is already fodder for comedians. >> let me put it this way. on a scale of one to beef, it's got something in there. >> reporter: on "good morning america" today, taco bell's president pushed back. >> reputation has been solid and our beef is 88% usda inspected and not the 35% that's being claimed. >> reporter: the class action lawsuit filed on behalf of a single customer in california doesn't seek monetary damages but asks the court to order taco bell to change the name from beef to taco meat filling. if firm says when it tested the taco bell meat, it found that it contained less than 35% real beef. according to the usda, for a product to be labeled as beef, it has to contain at least 40%. th

linsey davis looks back at his life. >> reporter: they called him the godfather of fitness. for 70 years, jack lalanne motivated americans to improve their lives through exercise and nutrition. >> i tell the truth. >> and i practice what i preach. i'm helping people to a better life. >> reporter: he opened his first health club in 1936 and became a pioneer in body building, weightlifting and proper nutrition decades before it was in vogue. as a child, lalanne was addicted to sugar and junk foods until he attended a lecture on fitness. >> i wanted a new body. the man said i could have it. >> reporter: he changed his body and his life and urged others to do the same. lalanne designed and invent the strength machines, still widely used in the fitness industry. >> come join us. >> reporter: and by the 1980s he had his name on more than 200 health clubs. he was most influential in getting women into the gym. >> jack lalanne will show you how to have a brand new figure and be more beautiful. >> reporter: he authored books, appeared in videos, marketed exercise and nutrition produc

linsey davis hit the slopes to bring us the details. >> reporter: with all the cancellations, collisions the idea of more snow these days typically provokes frigid, icy stares. >> yes, i'm already sick of it. >> reporter: and then there are those who see all this as, well, one gigantic snow bank. a literal accumulation of wealth. and every time you hear the forecast, your response? >> my response is very positive. we're all very thrilled. when it snows in our marketplace, people are thinking about skiing and they're coming. >> reporter: at wyndham mountain in upstate new york -- >> it can snow as much as it likes up here. the more snow the better. >> reporter: they haven't had to make snow in several weeks. >> natural snow is just, you know, you can't improve on mother nature. >> reporter: the entire town of wyndham counts on snow to fuel the economy. >> last week we were so disappointed because the snow just missed us. so, there's another one coming this week, and everyone's excited about it. >> reporter: sara owns a company in new jersey that repairs snow blowers that have surrendered

linsey davis has the story. >> reporter: silicon valley has apple. redmond, washington, has microsoft and spanish fork, utah, has this, the public library where robert nay, the ceo of nay games researched and developed the number one free app for the iphone. the only difference is the company that's just dethroned some of the biggest boys in technology is run by a 14-year-old boy. >> yeah, i think it's pretty cool because i never thought my game would do that well. >> reporter: while other eighth graders are playing them he's creating them. >> my friend suggested me making an iphone app and i thought why not, that would be pretty cool so i checked out some books in the library and eventually found a program called corona stk. it has a built in physics engine which is really nice. >> reporter: the game he created is called bubble ball, and in just the last two weeks it's been downloaded more than 2 million times and counting. on thursday alone it got 400,000 downloads, and it just knocked out angry birds from the top of the app charts. >> when i saw t

linsey davis has more on these so-called 99ers. >> reporter: banks may be optimistic but dawn rainerrter: dawn is a 99er. one of 1.5 million americans who have been unemployed for 99 weeks or more and have run out of unemployment benefits. the tax bill recently signed into law doesn't extend unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks. in rallies and online the 99ers are organizing. the websites are part support group, part petition to congress to pass legislation to extend benefits for people like dawn. even with a masters degree and thousands of resume submissions, still no job. she collected her last unemployment check nine months ago. >> at this point, the only jobs ee available in my area are drivers for pizza hut. i've sent them resumes as well. >> reporter: people out of work for more than a year only have a 9% chance of being rehired. >> i think the job market is starting to rev up at just the right time, provide these folks with some opportunity when they desperately need it. >> reporter: for the first time in more than three years the job market is expected to show stronger gains

linsey davis is in one of the coldest spots in the nation once again battling the storm for us. good morning, linsey. you are a trouper. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. i was just about to start doing my jumps in place to stay warm dance. just getting dressed in the morning, it's becoming a process. the key, of course, layers and covering the extremities. even hearty cities like minneapolis, they're starting to have increased reports of frostbite cases. temperatures are about 10 to 20 degrees below normal. it is bundle up, cover your ears, see your breath cold. >> keep moving. you stop, especially on a day like today, that's it. you're done. >> reporter: the kind of weather where mailmen earn their reputations and meteorologists say, i told you so. >> it is still pretty cold out here. >> reporter: the arctic blast's grip on much of the midwest and east coast is so extreme, this north carolina beach is covered in snow. and in boston, the commute to work will require a ski mask. so brutal, it's downright painful. >> the most pain that i ever had in my life. >> this has been a re

for "good morning america," linsey davis, abc news. >>> and the rock legend chuck berry fell ill during performance in chicago on saturday night. berry slumped over and was taken off stage to be checked out by an ambulance medical crew, but the 84-year-old singer returned briefly to thank the audience, but the concert did not go on. >> it's amazing he's still going at 84. >> it's amazing, isn't it? >> it's incredible. he is a legend. >> he is a legend. >> just like you ron claiborne. a legend. >> this man love going on. >> am i being put on? >> not the 84-year-old. the legend. >> and i'm a man. >> yeah, you are also the man. >>> here's a quick look at the weather. showers along the east coast, rain moves back into southern california. highs will be in the teens and 20s. from montana to michigan, and mild meanwhile, in the east, a high of only 49 degrees in newton, massachusetts. and that is a look at the national forecast. now >> bianna? >> all right, ron. >>> well, we're getting new details this morning about a horrifying new year's eve hostage drama that played out after a botched ban

our linsey davis is bundled up for us once again in boston tonight. hi, linsey. >> reporter: good evening to you, dan. on the east coast and throughout much of the midwest, this bone-chilling cold is prompting code blew ablue act vases, warning residents to bundle up and stay inside. this picture shows what you can't feel. robin westfall was so amazed when she saw more than 30 degrees below, she tweeted the image from carp lake, michigan. in north carolina, not a white, sandy beach. that's snow. and, in boston, sub-zero temperatures are expected by early morning. shelters are extending hours and the homeless are being urged to go indoors. >> this is the type of weather that people die. literally. >> reporter: timothy ralph has spent each night this winter inside this tent. tonight will be the coldest in six years. you've been living out here the whole winter? >> so far. >> reporter: haven't gone inside one time? >> no, i can't -- no. >> reporter: timothy took some convincing. what are you going to do tonight? >> i'm going inside. somewhere. >> people g

linsey davis, abc news, windham, new york. >> glad somebody's enjoying it.going to do it for "world news" tonight. diane sawyer is right back here tomorrow. i'm dan harris. thanks for watching, and good night. >> i just presumed that british airways is probably flying. >> alan: a bay area man prepares to leave cairo as thousands of egyptians defy a curfew for a third night. good evening. today egypt's military put on a show or force over cairo protestors. fighter jets buzzed the demonstrators as police returned to the streets with a high profile display of authority and a situation spiraling out of control. now in its sixth day, the protests are centered in the main square. the official death toll stands at 97, thousands injured. witnesses believe the

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linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> well, now here is a look at your friday forecast. in the cascades and northern rockies. freezing rain in the idaho and montana valleys. one to four inches of snow from the dakotas to wisconsin. and some lake-effect snow in ohio and upstate new york. >> 20 degrees in beantown. 31 in baltimore. 70 in miami. just 45 in dallas. kansas city at 32. minneapolis, 16. 40s from boise to albuquerque and a wet 53 in seattle. >>> get ready to cringe. >> oh, this story. >> it's a fact of life that living here in new york city, there are plenty of rats. you see them all the time on the subway. take a look at this brave rat. it's gross. >> oh! a commuter took this video. you see the rat running around inside a subway car. then while one guy is sleeping, it runs right up his leg. take a look at that thing. oh, my. >> the most shocking thing is that the guy -- it only briefly woke him up and then he goes right back to sleep and the rowdy rat continues running around, if you can imagine. this is totally viral. this video is everywhere. one of the thing

linsey davis is in port jefferson, long island. you're in one of the areas rumored -- wow. t's incredible. >> reporter: it is pretty incredible, sam. the snow is coming down at a rate of two to four inches an hour. so far, we're at ten inches and counting. some parts of long island are expecting up to 20 inches of snow. what makes that bad is that's on top of the roughly foot of snow that this area already had from two weeks ago that hadn't exactly thawed out just yet. on top of that, we have the wind. 35-mile-per-hour wind gusts that's reducing visibility to less than a quarter of a mile. sam? >> linsey, sometimes i don't need to say anything but just look at that picture. you're in the worst spot so far. thank you, linsey. let's look at who is going to get what today. there's some left in this storm system. there's a heavy band of snow going right down the berkshires right now. going through massachusetts and into connecticut. danbury, connecticut, with 18 inches of snow so far. and where you see the pink and purple, that's who gets snow throughout the day. new york city,

and linsey davis is here with the story. linsey, good morning. >> good morning, dan. he's starting to give you a little competition. 65-year-old, his net worth is $12.4 billion. he earned almost half of that just last year. >> reporter: "forbes" ranks him number 20 on the list of richest americans, even beating out mark zuckerberg and considerably higher than oprah. he is hedge fund manager john paulson. and "the wall street journal" says last year he raked in a jaw-dropping $5 billion. >> good for him. too bad it's not me. >> reporter: just to put that in perspective, $5 billion is the entire gdp of greenland and fiji combined. that's more than $13.5 million a day. $158 a second for an entire year. how did he do it? by betting big on gold and other precious metals and investing in troubled citibank. in 2007, he made $4 billion by placing bets against those subprime mortgages that ultimately crashed the economy. he was allegedly involved in a series of trades with goldman sachs in which the s.e.c. charged goldman sold products to investors it believed would fail, so t

linsey davis is here with more on that story. linsey, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan.nce and one of the massive check, as of this morning, holly lahti still has not collected. earlier this month, the 29-year-old found out she won the second-largest jackpot in u.s. history. most people would simply start adding up the money. but for holly, there's also some long division involved. this is where holly lahti lived until earlier this week, when neighbors say, she waited for her daughters to get off the school bus and loaded them into the car. they do not expect her to return. >> we just all said, it couldn't have happened to a better person. totally worthy of it. she's a great person. and we've all just been on cloud 9 for her. >> 15, followed by 47. >> holly lahti claimed her prize late yesterday. >> reporter: lahti, a mother of two, knew the first half of her $380 million jackpot would go to the couple with the other winning ticket. what she may not have known is she might have to split the remaining half with, well, her other half. her estranged husband and her children

linsey davis is on the story this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. welcome to the snow dump. for those of you wondering what happens to all the snow after you have the snowiest january on record in new york city, well, this is one of about a dozen locations in new york city, they load up the snow over here and then they take it to what's known as the hot tub. this is where the snow meets its demise. wait for it. and that's where it all gets melted. between the buckled buildings and blown budgets, many cities in the northeast have had it up to here or even here. >> and that's enough. you know, we had enough this year. >> reporter: the problems just seem to snowball. boston has already plowed through 2/3 of its $16 million snow removal budget. new york city has used all 38 million it set aside for snow four storms ago and earlier this week new jersey asked fema for $53 million. to combat post-christmas snow, and it's not only a matter of running out of money, some ci cities in new england have simply run out of space. municipalities with their salt are

our linsey davis is shivering in boston for us where they are still digging out from yesterday's snowstorm. good morning, linsey, you're suffering for your art this morning, and we appreciate it. >> reporter: good morning, dan. shivering, teeth are chattering, bones chilling. first we got walloped by the snow, now the iceman cometh. the northeast is about to have its coldest weekend so far this winter. in some areas, the mercury will drop well below zero. even the hearty folks in northern minnesota are starts to shiver. just yesterday, they broke record cold for the date, dropping 40 degrees below zero. the arctic blast has a large swath of states in the midwest in a deep freeze. reporters are enduring some of the most brutal weather in the nation. >> 40-below windchills of the last two days, they're done. light winds today, sunshine and a high minus 5. 15 below tonight. light snow for sunday and a high near 10 above. >> we're also dealing with ice fog which is a phenomenon that happens when the temperatures are 22 below zero and there's enough moisture to work with. >> it's so cold out, i

. >>> for more on just how bad the latest winter wallop will be, let's go to linsey davis, who is in boston for us this morning. good morning, linsey. >> reporter: good morning, robin. it's starting to feel like groundhog's day, over and over and over for new england. this snowbank tells the story. this is the third snowstorm in boston in three weeks. now, the area is bracing for another half-foot of snow on the ground by noon. schools in the area have been closed. they've reduced the speed limit on many of the highways by about 20 miles per hour. all to accommodate the snow, which is currently falling at about an inch an hour. and that pace is only expected to pick up. and as you said, more snow's expected to hit this area next week. robin? >> unfortunately so. linsey, thank you. >>> now, for a check on conditions in connecticut, we're joined by kent pierce, with our abc station, wtnh. good morning, kent. how is it going there? >> good morning, robin. yes. we've been driving around for several hours. connecticut is white yet again. we had snow like this last week, earlier this week a

linsey davis is joining from us boston. y. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. that ice shelf behind me, that is the charles river. most of it is frozen. much of new england is still trying to thaw out. many of the people we've spoken to had no option but to bundle up and endure these dangerous temperatures. this cold is so extreme, it's being blamed for two people in the northeast freezing to death. the arctic blast closed schools, killed car engines and canceled train service. talk about stopping traffic cold, it's a car in new york city. de-icing it, not an easy job. and neither is this. this crossing guard appears to be frozen in place, but despite the fact that the windchill was more than 20 below in killington, vermont, she only had one complaint. >> my feet are cold. >> reporter: while some can dart in and out of the cold to get to work, for others there's no escaping the deep freeze. so, do you think they should add neither rain nor sleet or cold shall keep these couriers from the swift completion of their app