als is known as lou gehrig's disease.r sure and possibly finding a cause for this. als a neurodegenerative disorder certainly no cure and no effective treatment for some time. it affects all of the different muscles in the body. let me show you here, if i can, for a second here. think about the brain continuously sending yimpulses o the muscles in the body. if this pathway is sending a message to the muscle starts to die off, what happens is the muscles eventually just stop working, they just have no function whatsoever and that can affect the diaphragm as well which is why people, about universally, three to five years don't survive this and you get paralysis in the hands and feet first and it moves progressively more and more toward the center of the body. it's one of the most frustrating things i'll tell you to try to address in my world, the world of neuroscience. now they think they found this protein that seems to be present in every patient they have been studying since the late 1980s that has als, this one protein

als is also known as lou gehrig's disease named for the first one diagnosed with the ailment of 36. he died two years later. discovering the cost of als is expected to help in the treatment and in the search for a possible cure. >>> you don't have to be smart and a california woman proved it. she was shoplifting even though there were signs. she took $300 worth of merchandise stuffing it in her purse and then paid for a $20 item and left. store owners say they may not have been able to find her if she hadn't stopped to enter the store's raffle. >> she is filling out a raffle ticket with her name and phone number, her address. brilliant. >> a little on the not bright side. >> police went to the woman's home and arrested her. she faces felony charges. >>> scientists have may have solved mystery. five years of detective work have turned up the origin of the german lager. it happened about 600 years ago when a species of wild yeast may i had to argentina somehow hitchhiked it's a way to europe and mixed with europe there. hybrid yeast child it into lighter crisper drinks the ones we kno

als also known as lou gehrig disease named for the yasee power house who left baseball after being diagnosed witness. he died two years later. . discovering the cause of als is expected to help in its treatment ultimately. more than 30,000 americans have this dreaded disease. more than half die within three years time. >>> when we continues here tonight. thousands of local investors postpone retirement. abc 7 news i team on what may be california biggest case of abc 7 news i team on what may be california biggest case of security fraud latest bill working its way in sacramento has to do with every hotel in the state but not about regulations, cleanliness or even taxes. it is about be beds and the kind of sheets that can go on them. >> also tonight. newest oakland raider. find out why he may be a perfect fit for oakland raider. find out why he may bso the jury fit for has rendered its verdict -- guilty. [ cheers and applause ] i'm here with the defendant. sir, the plaintiff claims she changed her travel plans, paid the difference in airfare, but you added a 150-dollar change fee. oh, boo hoo.

i mean lou gehrig held out for $25,000 in the late '30s. they benched him. he had a long struggle. television has made the .230 hitter or the .240 better than ted williams at .406. there's a lot of serendipity. everybody in this country owes their good fortune in some way to the rest of the country. >> brown: newshour economics correspondent paul solman has been looking into the reality and impact of the wealth gap in the u.s. today. here's the first of several stories, part of his ongoing reporting, "making sense of financial news." >> reporter: near times square, at the line for late show tickets, we borrowed david letterman's audience for a short quiz on economic inequality. so this is three different societies, it's the distribution of wealth in the different societies... in each chart, we explained, yellow represents the richest fifth of the population, blue the second richest, and so on down to orange, the poorest fifth. which chart, we asked, represents the distribution of wealth in the u.s.? this one's exactly equally distributed... ...from the top to the bottom. in the fir

lou gehrig held out for $25,000 in theate 30s and they benched him. he had a long struggle. television has made the .240 hitter bette than ted williams at .406. so there's a lot of serendipity. we... everybody in this country owes their good fortune in some way to the rest of the country. >> rose: there's your 2010 tax return. >> that's my 2010 tax return. >> rose: what will i see there? >> you'll see a lot of income. you'll citoal... adjusted gross income about $62 million. but then i gave... you're only entitled to deduct 30% of your contributionso i've got a chartable carry forward of $10 billion, i don't think i'm going to use it up. but then get to taxable income and i've got $39.8 million and you get down to tax and i've got $6.9 million. >> rose: that comes to what percent of taxable income. >> i think it comes to 17%. >> rose: and other people in your office are paying... >> 33% to 41%. nobody's below 33%. >> rose:ow much of that has to do with the payroll tax? >> a lot because they all pay it. i pay it, incidentally, but it's $15,, now for me. $15,300 and it's$15,30

. >>> a possible break-through that could lead to an effective treatment for lou gehrig's disease.rchers say they have found that the basis of the disease is a malfunctioning protein recycling system in the neurons of the brain and the spinal cord. these neurons become severely damaged when they can't repair op or maintain themselves. >>> investors bracing for another rocky week in the markets after steep losses across the board last week. right now u.s. stock futures for the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 are all trading higher ahead of the opening bell. investors getting a boost interest a dip in oil prices overnight. >>> and that's the news you need to know to start your day. "american morning" back after this. >>> 54 minutes past the hour. we asked you to talk back on one of big stories of the day. that would be libya. we asked you this question -- was u.s. involvement in libya worth it? this from craig, he says you make it sound like our involvement there is over. if we never spend another dime on libya maybe it was worth it but we know that will not be the case. this from ann -- and