scotland yard and the family of maddie mccann launch a media blitz. can this never before seen video help find whoever took maddie. >>> how did this thing go viral. an online casanova makes a solvie to woo a girl and now it's taken off with hilarious celebrity parodies. everyone's doing spray tans, even us. >>> so, we had a regular broadcast planned, but in fact, we're going to scrap everything, we're going to talk about ginger zee and self-ie. thank you, good morning, everyone. this video is just in, partiers out of control in the streets of washington. beer bottles stopped at police trying to stop the violence, they respond with pepper spray. >> all of it caught on tape this morning. >>> also this amazing dog made a great escape from the animal shelter to freedom. he couldn't wait to find a new room. wait until you find out his name. quite fitting. >>> also on a slightly more me nacing nature, a motorcyclist and his girlfriend finding out just how fast an elk can run. let's let this video play for a second. >>> but we'll kick it off with the collapse

scotland yard and the family of maddie mccann launch a media blitz to reignite this six-year-old case. can this never-before-seen video help find whoever took maddie? >>> and how did this thing go viral? an online casanova makes a bizarre video selfie to woo a girl, and now it's taken off with hilarious celebrity parodies. this morning, everyone's doing drake hands, even us. >>> so, we had a regular broadcast planned, but, in fact, we're going to scrap everything, we're only going to talk about ginger zee and that selfie. only you can make thinning your hair out look good. >> yes, it's great. >> you do not commit. thank you. >>> good morning, everyone. we do actually have other things to tell you about, including this video just in, partiers out of control in the streets of bellingham, washington. beer bottles tossed at police who were trying to stop the violence. they respond with pepper spray. >> all of it caught on tape this morning. >>> also, how this amazing dog made a great escape from the animal shelter to freedom. he just couldn't wait to find a new home. and wait until you he

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we'll see. >>> the latest in the search for maddy mccann.e girl went missing six years ago. scotland yard is investigating a new lead that her disappearance may have been a part of a botched robbery. >> we will not give up our search. >> reporter: six years after maddy mccann disappeared from her hotel room, her parents are coming out this morning saying they finally have reason to hope. >> we're confident we're getting closer, just by filling in more pieces of the jig sar. >> reporter: gerry mccann's comments coming out just as scotland yard says they may have the most complete picture of late. 41 people are bpg investigated. police are following up 31 leads based on telephone calls made in the resort area at the time of her disappearance. >> linking real people to the phone numbers you is a significant challenge. >> reporter: speculation ran rampant other the years of what may have happened to maddy thah nighon vacation. when her parents returned from a dinner with friends to find their daughter missing from her bed. sources suggested she

. >> reporter: an image of 3-year-old maddie mccann hours before she disappeared is now part of a british tv broadcast airing tomorrow night that will reconstruct the final moments, six years after she vanished from this vacation apartment in portugal. >> primarily what we sought to do if from the beginning is bringing everything back to zero, if you like. sort of taking everything back to the beginning and reanalyze and assess everything, accepting nothing. >> reporter: after six frustrating years, the investigation has been reenergized and it's hoped this broadcast will bring new leads to explain what happened here in the room the mccanns left maddie and her brother and sister sleeping while they ate dinner at a restaurant 100 yards away. >> reporter: police are releasing computer-generated sketches of a white man between 20 and 40 years old seen by witnesses the night madeleine went missing. they say speaking to this man is of vital importance and maybe the break they need to solve this case. >> reporter: with the momentum, new hope for maddie's parents because missing madeleine does n

it was 2007, her family on vacation in this plush resort in portugal when 3-year-old maddy mccann disappearedher room. now with scotland yard taking charge of the investigation, these are the images circulating the globe, the man wanted for questioning. police want to identify a man who was heading away from the direction of this apartment right here where madeleine was staying all the way towards the beach just less than half a mile away. in his arms witnesses say he was carrying a blonde haired child between three and four years old possibly wearing pajamas. he's described as having short fair hair, in his 30s and clean shaven. they're also looking for two other fair-haired men possibly speaking dutch or german, spotted in the days before the abduction, looking at the mccann apartment. were they scoping it out? then there are the increased number of robberies prior to her disappearance. could madeleine's abduction have been related to a burglary? tonight a 25-minute tv re-enactment of what police believe happened the night she vanished. her parents leaving maddy and her siblings alone while

. >> reporter: six years after maddy mccann went missing on a family vacation in portugal, the firstmages of a person of interest seen by witnesses in the town the night she disappeared. detectives describe him as aged between 20 to 40 years old, with short brown hair, medium build, medium height and clean shaven. >> i'd ask the public to look very carefully and if they know who this person is, please come forward. >> reporter: investigators now have a list of 41 persons of interest after combing through phone records of tourists and residents near the portuguese resort at the time maddy went missing. >> we know that at 8:30, that was the time that mr. and mrs. mccann went down for their dinner and we know that at around 10:00 p.m., that was when mrs. mccann found that madeleine was missing. >> reporter: that timeline will be the focus of a tv appeal tomorrow night on britain's version of "america's most wanted." the new appeal for information will feature a dramatic 25-minute reconstruction of what police believe to have happened right here in this apartment the night maddy vanished

. >>> new clues of maddy mccann, she disappeared six years ago, scotland yard has launched a major newt. and abc's muhammad lila is on the story. >> reporter: on vacation when your little girl simply van ishs. new life into the investigation over the disappearance of madeleine mccann. investigators are now me tick clously combing through cell phone records. here's how it all works. the cell phone records show when phone calls were being made. what they don't show what people on the phone were talking about. police in portugal obtained the phone records six years ago, and according to scotland yard, they didn't investigate properly. they're hoping to narrow down their current 41 people of interests. tracing all those people linking real people to the phone numbers you have going to be a significant challenge. >> reporter: last year, on britain's version of "america's most wanted" police released this photo of what she might look like today. she was just days away from her 4th birthday when she disappeared. hundreds of heartbreaking, false sightings around the world. muhammad lila, abc n

maria already becoming a global beacon of hope for families of missing children like maddie mccann in u.k. who say even though this is not maddie it gives them and so many others reason not to give up. alex perez, abc news, athens, greece. >> what a mystery. the big thing is to find out who the girl belongs to. and the other thing, the parents will be in trouble regardless of the little girl. they have registered 14 kids for welfare and ten of them are unaccounted for. they registered all 14 of these kids in three different cities, getting multiple checks. >> they were getting more than $3,000 a month for these kids and the mom claims she had six kids in ten months. >> yes. that would be a guinness book of world records. you would be an alien if you could pull that off. >> maria is in the hospital, eating well, talking to psychologists, playing with toys, communicating. hopefully we can resolve this. >> and the couple said they loved her like a daughter. and treated her well. hope so. >>> coming up, how to look like a princess on a shoestring budget. >> how to get your hands on fancy

picture, now look closely, this 3-year-old girl is missing at this hour and the intense hunt for maddie mccann is growing. >> i have done nothing wrong here. somebody went into an apartment and taken a little girl away from her family. >> look around and you see these barricades. >> enough games. >> you have to ask yourself, is this any way that a commander in chief would show his respect, his gratitude to our military? >> this is yours. this belongs to you. >> i'm going to invite the president of the united states to our rally right now. he's down the block in the white house. we want him to come here and apologize for the treatment of our veterans. >> al that and more in just minutes. but first, new outrage on the national mall. and only on the record getting you up close. former alaska governor sarah palin teaming up with republican senators ted cruz and mike lee and hundreds of angry veterans just before speaking to the crowd, governor palin and senators cruz and lee going on the record. governor, welcome to washington. of course senator you are here all the time. but why are you down at t

. >>> now, to new clues of maddy mccann, she disappeared six years ago, while on vacation with her parents in portugal. now, scotland yard has launched a major new effort. and abc's muhammad lila is on the story. >> reporter: it's the worst thing that can happen to a parent. you're on vacation when your little girl simply vanishes. new life into the investigation over the disappearance of madeleine mccann. investigators are now meticulously combing through cell phone records. here's how it all works. the cell phone records show when phone calls were being made. and who they were made to. what they don't show what people on the phone were talking about. police in portugal obtained the phone records six years ago, but according to scotland yard, they didn't investigate properly. british police are going back and analyziing them in detail. they're hoping to narrow down their current 41 people of interests. >> people working in the hotels and cafes. tracing all of those people linking real people to the phone numbers you have is going to be a significant challenge. >> reporter: last year, on b

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we have the latest from london. >> reporter: six years after maddie mccann went missing from a familyion in portugal, detectives describe him as aged between 20 to 40 years old with short brown hair, medium build, medium height and clean shaven. >> he fits our clear and i'd ask the public to look carefully at them and if they know who this person is, please come forward. >> reporter: investigators have a list of 41 persons of interest after combing through phone records of tourists and residents near the portuguese resort at the time maddie went missing. >> we know 8:30 is the time that mr. and mrs. mccann went down for dinner and we know that around 10:00 p.m., that is when mrs. mccann found that madeleine was missing. >> reporter: that timeline will be the focus of a tv appeal on britain's version of "america's most wanted." it will feature a 25-minute reconstruction of what police believed to have happened here in this apartment the night that maddie vanished. >> reporter: the video re-creating that fateful day. her dad's tennis lesson with maddie acting as ball girl. that moment c

. >> reporter: six years after little maddie mccann disappeared from her hotel room in portugal, herts are coming out saying they finally have reason to hope. >> i'm confident we are getting closer just by filling in more pieces of the jigsaw. >> reporter: jerry mccann's comments coming as scotland yard announces they have the most complete picture to date of what may have happened the night maddie vanished. 41 people are investigated. 15 of whom are u.k. nationals. police are following up 31 leads in various countries based on telephone calls made in the resort area at the time of her disappearance. >> they have a lot of visitors and tracing all of those people, linking real people to the phone numbers you have is going to be a significant challenge. >> reporter: speculation has run rampant over the years about what just may have happened to maddie that night on vacation when her parents returned from dinner with friends to find their daughter missing from her bed. some sources suggested she could have been kidnapped by a sex trafficking organization. while a british newspaper recen

this morning, scotland yard is heralding a breakthrough moment in the maddie mccann investigation, withine that places the little girl's abduction 45 minutes later than first thought. ♪ one of the shocking new theories on bbc 1's "crime watch," reveals that kate mccann may have missed her daughter's kidnappers by just minutes. the re-enactment includes the moment when kate found she had vanished. >> i was looking at her bed. i couldn't make it out. and then, i realized she's not in that bed. and i thought, i wonder if she had woken up and gone to our bed. she wasn't in our bed. and that was the first time that i guess, you know, the panic kicked in. >> reporter: today, six long years later, new images and new hope, as scotland yard reaches out to the public for information on this man. authorities say he was seen walking away from the apartment where the mccanns were staying, the night maddie disappeared. >> if they know who this person is, please come forward. >> reporter: authorities say several independent callers have phoned in with the same name for the man in these images. >> he w

mccann found that madeleine was missing. >> one theory is maddy may have been taken from this apartmentere staying. her parents had left it closed but when kate came back to check up on the kids, they found the window and the shutters open. more an six years p since she disappeared while on vacation n portugal, locals are not following the case. >> they're >> reporter: well, this portuguese vacation resort is popular among so been europeans, the mccanns will take their case to germany and holland as well. robin. >> they are definitely not giving up. all right, lama, thank you. brad garrett has been following this case very closely. he's with us this morning. the new digital images that are being released, what do you make of that? >> i think they're potentially crucial. a number of individuals said they saw a person carrying a child away from the resort. they've never identified that person. i think him and other people can give them potential leads. when you tighten up the time line, other people may come forward and say, i saw that. new leads is the short answer. >> you can jog someon

new leads in the disappearance of madeleine mccann have investigators cautiously optimistic may they find the little girl alive. maddie disappeared from a seaside town in portugal. cell phone records have turned up leads. and 41 people are under investigation. and it's giving her parents new reason to hope. >> in the event that we are getting closer, just by filling in more pieces of the jigsaw. >> you have a lot of temporary visitors. and tracing all of those people, linking real people to the phone numbers you have, is going to be a significant challenge. >> the mccanns sit down next monday for a show called "crime watch." they hope it will trigger more leads that may bring their daughter home alive. >>> now, to a health scare at a los angeles area school. three teachers at malibu high have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. and a third of the teachers have complained about construction on moldy class problems. the results are expected any day now. >>> back here on the east coast, demolition gets under way on the boardwalk in seaside heights, new jersey. that boardwalk was devastated by a fire last month, just a fe

mccann. it comes as investigators look more closely as cell phone records from the portuguese resort town where maddie disappeared from. >>> the people of newtown, connecticut, have voted to tear down and rebuild that school where 20 first graders and six others were killed bay crazed gunman last year. the town will be given $50 million in state funds to rebuild sandy hook elementary school. the new school will be built away from the initial site to leave room for a memorial. >>> there's a major bright spot this morning in the government shutdown crisis. thousands of employees are now headed back to work. the defense secretary ordered 350,000 works to return to their jobs, but for millions of others the shutdown is still having a negative impact. with more on this, here's abc's larry jacobs. >> reporter: west coast fishermen are the growing list of americans still suffering from the government shut down. >> we are caught in the middle of a partisan battle. >> reporter: because they can't get the needed permits to fish alaskan crabs. >> until furloughed workers are allowed back on the job we can't be i

mccann. investigators are now tracing thousands of cell phone calls made to and from people at the portuguese report where maddie5 of them are british. >>> and new evidence how beneficial exercise can be in fighting breast cancer. researchers found walking for one hour a day can reduce the risk in older women by 14%. and those who did more vigorous activities got nearly double the protection. during this breast cancer awareness month, a beautiful sight in boston. the museum of fine art, lit up to promote its big pink collection. a beautiful sight there. >>> and more on the story we told you about at 7:30. and the plea deal in the case of a florida teenager charged with having a sexual relationship with her younger female schoolmate. kaitlyn hunt, facing 30 years. she's agreed to a deal to lessen the punishment. she is speaking out for the first time. it happens tonight on "20/20." >>> finally, tiger woods' girlfriend, lindsey vonn, springing a surprise on the golfer during a tournament in ohio. but tiger wasn't amused by it. vonn got ahold of sammie the squirrel, and decided to place sammy on tiger's shoulder th

mccann, who's been missing for six years. a spokesman for her parents said it gives them great hope that their daughter could be found alive. maddieppeared from a portuguese vacation apartment. this week detectives investigating the case are following up hundreds of phone calls from the public after releasing these new computer generated images. they show a man believed to have been seen on the night she went missing. >> we miss her every day. >> her parents have been appearing on european crime shows, trying to create new leads, hoping their little girl is found too. yeah, thousands of phone calls have been made about maria in greece. some are from parents looking for their own children. alex, a sad story, a worrying story, but one with just a little bit of hope in it. >> yeah, for which we thank you, duncan. >>> next hour, we talk about a new jfk book and the key evidence that led the house to a conspiracy theory that's wrong. we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ we ar