>>> and david muir with what they're saying in the mitt romney camp. >>> cover-up. an iconic university ensnared in a sex abuse scandal involving young boys. the question, did a legendary football coach do enough to stop it? >>> women tell a secret. the millions of american women who need pills to help them sleep. what is the answer? >>> and made in america, countries around the world scrambling to get one all-american product. is this the way to bring a lot more american jobs back? >>> good evening, and we begin tonight as more than two years after michael jackson's death today we have an answer. a jury says his doctor, conrad murray, brought about his death through gross negligence, involuntary manslaughter. the judge had the doctor led away in handcuffs as in the room michael jackson's family wept. so let's get right to abc's jim avila reporting on the case for the past six weeks and is at the courthouse again tonight. >> reporte >> reporter: the doctor hired to put michael jackson asleep will sleep in the jail, $150,000 a month personal doctor to one of the most

abc's david muir took that question straight to president obama. >> reporter: you mention you're confident in the bailout plan. are you confident this will actually happen and, if so, that it will work? >> am i confident that this will work? i think that there's more work to do. there are going to be some ups and downs along the way, but i am confident that the key players in europe understand how much of a stake they have in making sure that this crisis is resolved. >> again, david muir reporting from the summit. >>> and now the politicians may not have taken bold action but tonight americans are. abc news has learned that as of today, 1 million american consumers are hurling a lightning bolt warning at the big banks moving their money out in protest. as we reported, the goliath banks did an about-face abandoning plans for those $5 fees on debit cards, but other fees have been creeping in. and a lot of americans are saying we have another option. abc's matt gutman has been on this story for weeks and brings us the news tonight. >> reporter: the big banks may have retreated on those $5 deb

i'm david muir with abc. >> i know. >> reporter: and it turned out, they knew what we were going to ask before we even asked it. >> reporter: where was this made? >> china. i know, i know, i know your show. i know. >> reporter: and there was andrew, and those sweaters he bought for the family. where? >> china. >> reporter: and he bought a wine air ray or the already wrapped by the store. he's hoping its american. and so are exists, because after all, the average american spends $700 on holiday gifts every year. >> what would you like for christmas? >> reporter: chances are it's not something made in america. but it wasn't always this way. in the 1960s, nine out of every ten products americans bought for the holidays were made in america. today, it's less than half. in other words, more than half of what we buy for the holiday is foreign-made. ♪ so, after nearly a year of our made in america journey, from new york to texas, minnesota to montana, tonight a new number. did you know the average american spends $700 on christmas or holiday gifts? and remember what we heard from economists? j

and our david muir is right there tonight to tell us all about it. david?> reporter: diane, good evening from france tonight, where it's actually greece's high wire economic act that sort of hijacked this summit. president obama here today meeting with top european leaders. they are trying to prevent greece's economy from collapsing and taking down global markets with it. after hearing the anger here at the summit first-hand, greece's prime minister went home to greece, abandoned his plan to allow the greek people to vote on the bailout themselves and instead offered a 40-minute plea today, trying to convince them that this european rescue deal is the only way to save greece and the global economy. president obama huddled with french president sarkozy and german chancellor merkel, the white house saying today that this european bailout plan, with built-in protections, is needed to prevent collapse. >> the most important aspect of our task is to resolve the financial crisis here in europe. >> reporter: aware stocks have taken a beating back home because of w

well, tonight, abc's david muir looks more closely at a road block aimed at entrepreneurs, eager to setp shop on u.s. soil, hire right here in the u.s. but instead, why are they being turned away? >> reporter: take a walk through so many american high tech companies and you'll find the same thing at the top. ceos, foreign entrepreneurs, who chose america to start their businesses. and employed millions of americans in doing so. among the companies, google, yahoo! pfizer, even ebay. selling just about everything and sold on doing it in america. in fact, in just ten years time, foreign entrepreneurs who fought to visas to america and got them, created 450,000 american jobs in just ten years. and that's just the high-tech sector. so why is it so difficult for foreign entrepreneurs today -- to get a visa to stay here? even when they're sitting on the the next big thing and want to employ americans to get it done. take amit aharoni. a stanford business school grad from israel who invented cruisewise.com, an online booking engine, just like orbitz or exbee yad, only for cruises. he already hi

he wrote a children's biography of john muir, and here he is the supreme court justice. what douglas would do is do walks. not sit-ins like in the civil rights movements. he'd gather a gun. of people and say let's save the canal, let's save the beaches along the olympic and washington state. and douglas also was very close to the kennedy family and was a promoter of racial -- [inaudible] so by 1960 douglas is a big influence on why we have the arctic wilderness saved. in the '60s he's sort of seminal with secretary stuart udall, bobby kennedy, john f. kennedy on making people understand that conservation and environmentalism was good for public health, that people needed this, that we needed clean air and clean water, and that species needed to be saved. we once had a billion passenger pigeons. there's not one alive today. but a species like the polar bear, for example, who are very stressed right now, the american public has to say, no, enough's enough. we need these species. you saw a minute ago i have three little kids running around here. all little kids love an hall

abc's david muir leafs through "life's" vintage photo album. >> reporter: july 1, 1960, then-senatordy and brother bobby in a hotel huddle. this moment during the democratic national convention in los angeles. this iconic portrait of astronaut john glenn in 1959 as "life" puts it, capturing the clear sense of purpose, glenn and colleagues embodied. opening night, 1952, the first full length color 3d feature. the audience all dressed up for the movies, wearing their 3d glasses, too, looking almost hip -- hypnotized. and the movie, "what a devil." rare pairing backstage, two actresses won best actress, audrey hepburn and grace kelly about to present themselves. they would never star in a movie together. shortly after this picture, grace kelly would move away to become a princess. george, john, paul, ringo taking a dip during their first trip to america. what we didn't know was how cold it was in miami that day. ringo's grimace our only hint all these years later. in the fall of 1955, jackie robinson taunting the pitcher, playing the yankees, brooklyn's number 42 propelling the dodgers

the national fire weather service says the extreme danger is at the golden gate recreation area and muir woods. and the point reyes national she shore. rosemary will have more in a few minutes. >>> three san francisco police officers were hospitalized early this morning. one in critical condition after their unmarked car crashed into a pole as they responded to a call. the crash happened just after 1:30 at 19th street and potrero avenue. the three uniformed officers were on their way to a call with a man with a knife at 24th street. major accident investigation team will try to determine why they crashed. >> the team uses lasers and other devices to draw a sketch of the intersection and the vehicle, any evidence will be noted and so forth. and they will come up with a cause for the accident. but that's into the been determined yet. >>> one officer is still in the hospital in fair condition. the third was treated and release. >>> the operation to unjoin twins is still underway. tara moriarty is live in stanford and she will let us know how things are going so far. >> reporter: we just rec

. -- muir road site. that property relates to the lake and management of the watershed. we are taking on responsibility for that lease. it is broken into the region into those three terms. >> can you separate that from the rowing club? >> the tenants are well established. things seem to work. one of the great concerns the rowing clubs had into time is the new docks. those have been in use for a couple of years. >> would it make sense for the puc to be in charge of the bauhaus, but not working with the rowing clubs? >> who would have on other boating activities -- kayaks? sailboats? we could expand the use of the clubs to the upper floor, because they have needs beyond just what their boats are. the third is a more general public having a space there that could be used as partly interpretation of the lake and the watershed, used for meetings of the various kinds for the department, with all its possibilities. we think it is primarily rec and park, but we would want to be involved. >> this topic has been around -- commissioner caen: this topic has been around for a long ti

. >> our correspondent jim muir is watching the events from neighboring lebanon. jim let's stick with this arab league story for a moment. do you think they have no intention of letting the syrian monitors travel into the country from the arab league? >> it is not totally clear, but the deadline has come and gone, as you remarked, and the signs are very negative. the syrians are reporting, the official media reporting, state encouraged rallies in several places, including demassous right now to denounce the arab league decision and denounce any prospect of foreign intervention which they are dismissing the arab league stands as. so it is not looking good. they would have to do a tremendous u-turn in propaganda and political terms. let's make no bones about it, if they went along with this seriously and pulled security forces out, that could easily spell their doom. a large part of the country would almost certainly slip out of their control, and that would just leave damascus and the two big cities under clear government control and the rest would be pretty much o

perhaps, abc's david muir reports. >> reporter: cyber monday once a made up event is the real deal.es figures skyrocketing, shoppers on line breaking records since thanksgiving. $860 million spent on line up 26% over last year. >> i love cyber monday because you get great deals. >> reporter: fromumented their bargains. from peggy taylor in texas to florida buying for a family back home. on the hunt for a digital camera, sony cybershot. searched three retailers prices from $99 to $124. she chose wal-mart and the $99 price and one very big difference too. >> if you buy this item you get $45 of store credit. >> reporter: it was a deal. hope this doesn't ruin the surprise for my sister. but i think i am going to go ahead and get one, from wal-mart for her christmas. >> reporter: our producer on the story, diane men dez taking a break, looking for a deal, glasses on reading fine print, buying two kindle fires from amazon.com. we want to know what happens after she clicks. we want to phoenix, arizona to find out. one of amazon.com's 45 warehouses. holding portable scanners. as soon as you

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abc's david muir, who is in cannes, set out to answer that question for us tonight. >> reporter: diane, good evening from france tonight, where there is a real sense of your essential. >>>. leaders from all over the world coming here, president obama on his way tonight, to address what is quickly becoming a worldwide economic emergency. what to do to save greece from collapse. and what it's already doing to american 401(k)s back home. the mediterranean backdrop is deceiving. yachts line the docks and movie stars come every year for that famous film festival. but this trip is to prevent an economic horror show from playing out in real life. the protests already underway here in neighboring niece. just a few days ago, everyone thought there was a deal. europe would bail greece out, keeping european and american banks and every day investors from being left with the bill. thanks to that deal, the average american 401(k), about $107,000, recovered immediately. 12% increase in ott. a recovery of $11,340 in one month alone. but then this week, the bold move by greece's prime minister, allowi

here's our champion of made in america, anchor david muir. >> reporter: so you're in?'re in. >> reporter: you heard them here. the usrys of dallas are in. ready for the challenge this time. armed with those new numbers -- the average american spends $700 on christmas gifts. holiday gifts. remember, the economists who told us just $64 of that, less than 10%, on gifts made in america -- and we create 200,000 jobs right now. would you be willing to take your $64 and find something american? >> absolutely. >> reporter: cue the andy williams. because the usrys are just the beginning. we're about to hop into our own red sleigh, dressed up by the family. the first stop? these are the -- >> this is the tocar family. >> reporter: this poor family. they didn't need us to make the case. >> the average american spends $700. >> reporter: and she told them, 64 of that on something american. you're in? >> we're in. >> reporter: next stop, the chances. >> i got some crazy numbers for you guys. >> reporter: and that question -- are you in? >> we're in! >> reporter: and it's not just da

david muir at this desk over the weekend.day. ♪ ♪ >>> we're live as police begin to serve eviction notice autos two injured protestors and their demanding his aest for what happened last week. >> and are you ready to pay more at the gas pump? a preliminary report says the state needs more than $500 billion needs through 2020 saying it may be time to raise the gas tax. >> and espn sets up shop at stanford for a pack 12 football showdown with national implication autos good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> police in oakland appear to be getting ready to shut down the occupy camp. >> and police are handing out flyers to people camping, telling them it's time to go. and what will happen next on the authorities know at this point but it seems clear this is about to escalate again. and there is laura anthony begins our coverage. >> this was done before the campers were evicted last month. the city posted numerous

and abc anchor david muir tackles the question for us again tonight. >> i know you've been tracking the numbers ail day long. they show it could be a blockbuster cybermonday. one estimate says sales up 20% over last year. what happens after you click place order online? tonight we track here what happens next. cyber monday is now the real deal. sales figures skyrocketing. shoppers breaking records since thanksgiving. $816 million spent online. up 26% over last year. >> i love cyber monday, because you get great deals. >> reporter: today "world news" viewers from florida to texas documented their hunt for bargains from peggy kaiser in midland, texas. >> we go to the e-mails. >> reporter: to lee ra harding in gainesville, florida, buying for her family back home on the hunt for a digital camera and searched three retailers prices ranging from 99 to $124. she chose walmart and the $99 price and one very big difference too. >> if you buy this item, you get $45 of store credit. >> reporter: for leah, it was a deal. >> hope this doesn't ruin the piece for my sister, but i think i'm going to g

abc's david muir set out to find out what's going on. >> reporter: they're lining up all over the worldts who want to come and spend money in america. the exploding middle class in china, proudly showing us their passports, as they wait, hoping to get a tourist visa to come visit her. the average chinese tourist who visits the u.s. spends $6,200 while they're here. visitors from india, $6,100. brazilian tourists coming to the u.s. spend $4,900 each. listen to this brazilian man we found waiting in line for his visa in rio de janeiro. >> i want to go to new york and california, maybe las vegas. >> reporter: and there was this young woman, hoping to come here with her family. >> to go to disneyland. >> reporter: but there's no guarantee they'll get a visa to come here, to buy things made in america. in fact in brazil, tourists had to wait up to 145 days last year just for an interview. in china, only five places where you can get an american visa. the wait time? up to 120 days. and you often have to fly or take a train just to get to the visa office. this husband told us about the big pla

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. >>> i'm david muir.k you for watching. >>> new video from streets of oakland. a war veteran getting clubbed by police. tonight we ask did he provoke them? or did cops go too far? >> we live here this, is not an appropriate place. >> occupy leaders get a taste of their own medicine. new encampment may be worse than the first. >> and they stopped a fire in reno and saved thousands of homes but the threat is far from over. >> and the bay area bike riders breaking rules of the road. >> get on the ground. hay stop. >> this is a crucial confrontation at the oakland occupy demonstration two weeksing ayochl the man being hit by police is a local war veteran who ended up in the hospital. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> we see him ignoring police orders but also see an officer breaking ranks and clubbing him repeatedly. wayne freedman has a look at the video, andy ree yax. -- reaction. this is a slido thatol

i'm david muir. good night. >> more evictions.rotesters are kick out in oakland and san francisco. good evening. >> alan: let's start tonight with the eviction of "occupy" protesters in san francisco. police moved in on the smaller camp at the federal reserve early this morning. lillian kim is live with the latest. >> reporter: the early morning raid did not affect the encampment here at justin herman plaza. police left these occupiers align. the encampment they did dismantle was in front of the federal reserve bank on market street. a block down from the plaza. within the hour a couple hundred demon starters are gathering in market street to protest the raid. a couple tents were set up on the street. officers are monitoring the situation,

the sierra club founded by john muir in 1892 and the club protected nearly 10 million acres of wilderness. now planning to focus on working with unions and business autos community and interfaith leaders gathered to remember more than 100 people who have been murdered in oakland this year. and this toork place in west oakland. organizers hold a service to remember those killed and encourage the community to prevent what they call rampant violence in the city. >> in the middle of the tragedies what number do we use? to count misery index? how many bullets are go tok expended until we come to see that this violence must be stopped? >> organizers of the event say there have been 102 murders so far this year. there were 94 killings for last year. >> and san francisco school officials may be the last hope for a bilingual speech therapist. he came to the u.s. nine years ago to work with chinese special education students and applied for permanent residency authorities ordered her deported. a third of the students need help and schools are in need of language pathologists. >> there is a national

. >> the helicopter through the second driver to john muir hospital to be checked out. >> as for the woman who died, chp isn't releasing her name until they notice the family. >>> this morning penn state played the first game without joe paterno in nearly 50 years. a candlelight vigil was held in support of the victims in a child suspects sex abuse scandal. they have forced the out the university's president as well as paterno. it was in stark contrast to the violent demonstration in support of paterno. >> this morning a kidnapped major league baseball player is safe and sound in venezuela. wilson ramos of the washington nationals, venezuela officials are calling it a kidnapping. first major league player to ever be a victim of that type of violence. three men are in custody in connection with the kidnapping. >> coming up next, a bay area exploding gang problem, even our smaller cities aren't safe but a new way to fight back. pg&e gets ready to retest a segment of pipeline that burst during safety testing last weekend. >>> the growing gang problem in the bay area is hitting small cit