paula? >> thanks for that report. >>> the fallout back in washington, not only has the secret service launched an internal investigation, now congress is going to look into that unfolding scandal. abc's pierre thomas is here with that side of the story. and, pierre, peter king, republican congressman from new york is launching this congressional investigation. what do we expect now? >> reporter: paula, this is a stunning breach of protocol. chairman king who oversees the homeland security commission is launching its own investigation and they're likely to be hearings. king said if the allegations are true, then the secret service personnel compromised the mission by bringing the women, potentially prostitutes, into a secure area. he says they exposed themselves to blackmail. he believes there needs to be a singular focus, protecting the president of the united states. this type of activity clearly undermines that focus. >> why is representative king -- why is he so concerned about this parti

>> paula, it is not over yet. i'll have your forecast in just a couple of minutes. >> all right, ginger. thank you for staying safe out there. >>> we're going to go 300 miles north of where ginger is, to preston, iowa, making a direct hit on a hospital filled with patients. abc's clayton sandell joins us with more this morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, paula. three people were seriously injured here in preston. if you look at some of the destruction, some of the damage here, it's hard to believe that number isn't higher. take a look at this apartment building right behind me. half of the roof ripped completely off. now, officials here believe that a dozen homes, an apartment building, and even a library were completely destroyed. they need to wait until daylight until they can see the full destruction that they're dealing with. 20 to 30 people spent the night in a red cross shelter overnight. and just down the street from us, a hospital took a direct hit from this tornado. about 20 patients inside were ev

here is paula jordan before. all right, let's see the new paula. >> oh, my gosh!e off your blind folds. soz, my gosh! >> paula, are you ready? >> yes. >> turn around, sweetie. >> i thought it was eva longoria. >> wow. wow. wow! >> louis, tell us about the hair. >> this is the classic long layered haircut. all done by vanessa. her highlights were just way too light for her brown hair. i made it much more natural, much more subtle and that's a soft -- notice a bright lip color which is big trend for summer. >> it does look hot. >> we wanted to give her a little leather and lace, a little lace. >> very great. what do you guys think? are you freaking? >> amazing! woo! >> paula, you love it? >> oh, my god. yes. >> paula, you're going to go join your friends but you're going to have to face the wall. >> put your blind folds back on. >> our second lady is tracy wetmore from portland, oregon. she is an office staff supervisor. been married for nearly 30 years and has three children. she never dresses up and her daughters have begged her for years to change her hair style.

dan and paula?ou, ginger. >>> coming up here, the big-time college football program ime sc. how a motorcycle accident involving one of america's most prominent head coaches wound up revealing an embarrassing personal secret that could cost him his job. >>> plus, another former child star busted. what police say amanda bynes did in this weekend's "pop news." >>> all right. now to the motorcycle accident that may bring down one of the most prominent college football coaches in america. bobby petrino, head of the number five team in the country, is on administrative leave this morning after a very personal secret was revealed involving the woman on the left of your screen there. abc's newest correspondent, alex perez, joins us now. good morning. >> reporter: this is a story many people are talking about. coach petrino has two things working against him. the woman in question worked for him. and he lied. it's the love affair that was never meant to be public. the secret began to unravel at a news confer

good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, paula. abc news has learned new details about what may have caused this crash at noon yesterday. and we're learning about whether anybody lost their lives because of this jet crash. seconds after takeoff, something went terribly wrong. and just across the interstate -- >> oh, jesus. >> reporter: the jet fell to the ground. >> this is terrible. >> we heard the plane flying. >> it's a lot louder than they normally are. >> it looks like he dropped out of the sky. >> a terrible, loud crash. >> and things started to explode. >> this whole place was on fire. >> and the black smoke. >> i could smell it. >> reporter: the f-18 crashed into an apartment complex. you can see here the flaming tail in the courtyard of the buildings. residents felt their walls shake, not knowing what was happening. >> laying out on the back porch. and i seen the canopy of a plane. and i lost everything. >> i seen the two guys' parachute. >> reporter: other residents walked outside to see pilots in their ejection seats in

rob and paula? >> we hope this is not an omen for a rough spring to come, especially what happened over the winter there. but as you were driving in from the airport, what were you able to see on your way in this morning? >> reporter: you know what i saw? a whole lot of nothing because it was all foggy. the conditions here were really tough to drive in. as soon as i started making my way in, you saw police blocking off every street. as i came in here, i had to wind my way around damage. it looks like somebody took these homes, put them in a blender, hit high, and poured them back on the ground. that's the kind of damage we're talking about. and your heart goes out to the people left here, who are left to salvage what they've got. >> amazing scenes of destruction. diana alvear, live for us in texas this morning. the storms now, eastward, in louisiana and mississippi, now, in the crosshairs here. we'll have much more on the storm zone in texas and elsewhere, coming up later today on "good morning amer

i did the drywall and paula did all the hard work. paula would go to afghanistan, and we were reporting often about a month behind real-time. you know, she would unleash this firehose of information on the, and i would start basically just sort of rough out the chapters. we had a front story which was, turned out to be his year in command, a year. it also turned out to be his last command. so we had the sort of blessing of a national front story, which we digressed off. so following that, you know, i would basically without the chapters and then it became an art, sort of a matter of passing back and forth where i would produce a very rough draft, pass it to paul and she would refine it, add information that i didn't have or hadn't seen, and go back and forth until a rough draft emerged and became more collaborative when the editors at penguin and editor got involved. and the whole book was produced quite fast the economy, and it was published on january 24 and the last event in the book is petraeus being sworn in by biden, september 6

but we're very happy to have paula faris in the house.ood morning to you. >> i was just glad i made it. i was so paranoid i would sleep through the 3:00 a.m. alarm clock this morning, i didn't sleep. >> ron claiborne sets three alarms. >> three? >> actually four. >> i'll try that next time. >>> let's pull up the picture. check out this rock. angelina jolie wearing the engagement ring. can you see it? the close-up there? >> i cannot see it. >> there it is. a closer shot. pitt spent months designing this. yesterday, they announced they are officially getting married after seven years and six kids. we have full details coming up. this is like our royal wedding. >> well, almost, as special as the wedding between dan harris and your wife, bianca. almost. does she take his name? >> probably not. right? >> i don't think so. >>> we do have a lot of news to get to this morning, including what is turning into the most explosive political trial in years. the mistress of john edwards, the mother of his love child, is now expected to testify in his tr

i'm rob nelson. >> i'm paula faris. storm survivors deal with all of the power outages and wait for the power to come back on. the nation was transfixed because of all the home video showing mother nature at its very worst. just amazing pictures in texas. we'll take you live to dallas in just one moment. >> the scenes of those people drive with the huge storms not far from them. but then the footage of the tractor trailers being picked up like they were toys yesterday. you rarely see that kind of glimpse into the fury of mother nature. amazingly, so far, no deaths. at least right now. >>> another big headline this wednesday morning. mitt romney's primary trifecta. the gop presidential hope civil now a big step closer to the nomination as he picks up votes and delegates in primaries in d.c., maryland and wisconsin. and wisconsin, a very, very good night for mr. romney. >> quite a swing from just maybe even a month ago how he was polling with very, very conservative voters. >>> later this half hour, raise your hand if you

tom. >> thanks very much, paula.e'll look back to you in a short while to see if we hear more out of the south koreans and whether or not they can confirm the notion that this did not work. so far we have confirmation from the pentagon, the u.s. government saying this was a failed launch, confirmation from the japanese government saying they also believe that this was a failed launch. and as we know, they were trying to avoid flying over any land, in part because that created so many problems. if i can get victor cha back right now. victor, i want to ask one thing. there was so much talk about the idea people might shoot it down if it came over their area. first of all, that's an incredibly difficult thing to do. it sounds easy, very, very hard to do. but secondly, i cannot help but think that even if this didn't work, north korea may very well say that's what happened, they shot it down. >> yeah, they may say something like that. i think you've put your finger, tom, on a very important point as we look forward, and

paula and rob? >> tahman bradley. >>> time for the weather across the nation. we mentioned earlier, that severe storm is moving east, targeting the gulf coast around new orleans, north into nashville. expect strong winds, hail and possible tornadoes. in the northeast, it's warm and dry to start. by evening, it will be cold and wet. >> expect seasonably low 50s out in the northwest. almost everywhere else, temps will be unusually high. readings in the 60s and 70s, in fact. and your main hot spot, no shocker here, florida, where the mercury is hovering in the high-80s later today. >>> still ahead, thousands of layoffs likely today at an internet giant. business news, straight ahead. >>> and video in from california. students pepper-sprayed on their own college campus. >>> and just in time for warmer weather, say it ain't so. the rising price of ice cream. >>> welcome back, everybody. markets are lower this morning because of news out of washington that the federal reserve has no further plans to shore up the economy. tokyo's nikkei average plunged 230 points toda

paula? >> try to grab a slurpee or slushee. thank you, david. >>> in other news this morning, there is outrage from the family of susan powell who vanished into thin air in 2009. the stack of evidence connecting to her husband to the young woman's disappearance is overwhelming. abc's martin greenblatt is here with this abc news exclusive. i can only imagine the wave of emotions that the family has after seeing these evidence come to light. >> reporter: you know, it's just powerful, newly unsealed documents in the case, police in utah knew much more than susan's disappearance than previously known. piling up astounding evidence against him. the family of susan cox powell knows that they can't bring susan back. but with the release of a new mountain of evidence linking her husband josh powell to her possible murder now questions for police are only growing more intense. could they have prevented the death of powell's two boys and why did they fail to act? >> look what it did. it killed my nephews. by not putting him behind bars w

. >> i'm paula faris.that. >>> this is the same problem that forced captain sully sullenberger to land a jet in the hudson river. while this emergency landing was not quite as dramatic, passengers had the scare of their lives. we were talking about this earlier. how can a bird take down a plane. >> that's what stuns me. i was no engineering major, but a bird can take out half a plane. we'll get into that in just a second. luckily everyone made it off okay. just a few scary moments there. >>> also an update on a major story we've been following all this week. the woman accused of killing the mother of a newborn and then kidnapping that baby. she finally went before a judge. how can she plead not guilty, though, after basically confessing to the crime? >> later this half hour, warm thoughts for the winningest coach in collegiate sports, pat summitt, as she steps away from the job that she loves so much. had a press conference yesterday on the campus of tennessee, and great to hear from her. she sounds like s

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i'm paula faris. >> i'm rob nelson. from several nations have told the north koreans this launch is a direct violation of u.n. security council resolutions. but this is a new era for the north korean government, of course, as new leadership flexes its military muscle. we'll take you live to seoul in just a moment here. >>> a major medical headline hits home for so many insomniacs. experts out with new proof of how harmful sleep deprivation and interruptions in your sleep can be, raising your risk of obesity, even diabetes. i know a lot of us sleep in shifts and it turns us into zombies. among other things. >> yeah, this is not a good report for those of you up right now, working overnights or late shifts. this is an alarming little story. we don't have much time left so we might as well get to the news. >>> also later this half hour, just when you thought that britney spears' career had hit a plateau, she could be in for a big money mega deal. this time she won't have to sing. thank god. details coming up in "the skinny

. >> paula fredriksen, what did jeffrey shela say that you find needs further elaboration or different elaboration from your perspective? >> well, i was thinking of there's also a second century tradition that jesus was born in a cave. i mean, there are all sorts of traditions that grow about jesus' birth the more christianity develops and when i consider that matthew and luke were probably each written by anonymous christians somewhere, i don't know, between 90-100 and that jesus himself would have been born sometime around 0, that's a lot of room to begin looking to the bible for ideas to express what you think is religioussy important about jesus and that's why i would look at these -- but i think mary was home in nazareth when she had jesus, i don't think she was in bethlehem. >> well, let's go to the basics, first of all, the year. was it not four years before a.d. started? >> well, a.d. starts as a medieval convention. jesus, if he's born -- this is one of the chronological differences between the gospels. if harrod is alive as he has to be from matthew's birth narrative to work

paula? >> remarkable story there. ron, thank you. >>> what do you get when you put "daily show" host jon stewart together with former president bill clinton in an arena full of college students. you get this -- the fifth annual clinton global initiative university. a unique summit that aims to find solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges. it's no easy task. president clinton's annual cgi summits have become legendary featuring world leaders, titans of business and huge stars, and this weekend it was comedian jon stewart taking the spotlight. >> with the enthusiasm that you bring to it and the passion and the ingenuity, and i made a bong out of an apple once. >> reporter: but the true stars are these young people, college students from across the country united by a common goal to make a difference. one of the initiatives, the grassroots project, uses division snoof i athletes to promote hiv/aids awareness among middle schoolers in d.c. volunteer jarrett james runs track at howard university. >> for me, it'

hi, ginger. >> hi there, paula. good morning, everyone.he tornado that ripped through norman yesterday afternoon, did damage like this. this used to be a business made of very thick bricks. it did not stand a chance when it came to the tornado yesterday. as you'll see in the coming graphics, there's more where that came from. video from storm chasers. norman, oklahoma, is the epicenter when it comes to storm chasing. you have meteorologist students, storm chasers. everyone in the nation that loves weather does it here. you see video from this storm chaser that caught that on tape. many of these coming in. a lot of them great. and today, going to see even more, i'm sure. don't forget, too, you have the sooners here. all of the college students in place. and the video we'll show you next has the sirens going off, students running for cover. very active severe weather today yesterday. not that they're not used to it here. they knew where to go for shelter. but still, when you can see a tornado on the horizon from your campus, it's going to sh

rob and paula?ne, thank you. >>> that same storm system caused more chaos, forcing a united airlines jet to make an emergency landing when the plane was hit by pretty severe turbulence. ambulances were waiting when the plane finally landed at its destination in houston. five passengers and two flight attendants were hurt in the chaos. >>> and we are learning grim new details about the circumstances surrounding whitney houston's death. the final autopsy report shows that white powder was found in the singer's hotel room and that she had cocaine throughout her system. drug paraphernalia was also found on a bathroom counter nearby. an investigator also noted a hole in houston's nose listed under history of substance abuse. she reportedly had abrasions on the left side of her forehead. houston accidentally drowned in a bathtub nearly two months ago. >>> a very bitter chapter in the aftermath of hurricane katrina has come to a close. a federal judge imposed stiff prison sentences on five new orleans cops

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the name paula came up. be the nurse the officer told me about. >> they said that they recognized her voice on the telephone. we were communicating, you know, outside of the prison system. i didn't want to get her in any kind of trouble, but i couldn't stop communicating with her. there was no way that that was going to happen. >> one day i was out on my med run, and one of the sergeants came and got me from the pod and said that the captain wanted to talk to me. so we went on up there, and when we went up there, they asked me if my cell number was a certain number, and i said it was, and they asked me if i had been talking to david, and i said no. and they began to play a tape. >> after we played the tape for her, she confessed to everything. she confessed to having a relation with him. >> i just didn't know what to do, and they just said they wanted my badge and i was going to be escorted off the grounds, and so i said okay. they took my badge, and there i went. >> her security clearance was pulled, and sh

good morning, paula. imagine that for mitt romney, rick santorum is a pesky little nat who is going to be sticking around for a couple of weeks and he really just wants to ignore him. with his decisive sweep, mitt romney has fully pivoted to his november showdown. at a speech in washington, romney blasted president obama. >> he wants us to re-elect him so we can find out what he'll actually do. with all the challenges the nation faces, this is not the time for president obama's hide and seek campaign. >> reporter: the president also seems antsy for the bell to ring to start the general election fight. he slammed romney for supporting the republican budget plans in congress. >> he even called it marvelous, which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget. >> reporter: a new poll shows the president with his largest lead yet nationally. in 12 battleground states, he's leading romney by 9%. and if you dig deeper, even though they are in a dead heat among men, among women, it's a blow

paula faris may be busting in. >>> here's your weather. southeast with hail and dangerous winds from raleigh to orlando. showers from the dakotas to chicago. ten inches of snow in the northern rockies. lighter snow in the cascades. also some showers from seattle to northern cali. >> 76 in sacramento. 62 in boise. 56 in fargo. 71 in chicago. and 60 in detroit. miami, 83. baltimore, 61. 57 in boston. >> i like the way you said fargo. >> fargo. >> there you go. >> is that better? >> i still like it. >>> time now for our -- boom -o it's called hiring heroes. a job fair at ft. riley in kansas aimed at wounded soldiers and their spouses making the transition back to the civilian workforce. this year more than 600 soldiers and 66 employers took part. >> with record numbers now leaving the military, that, as you can imagine, is just not enough. as an incentive, though, the government is now offering"w ld news now" right after this. follow the wings. >>> all right. welcome back, everybody. some news now about investor warren buffett. he says he fee

paula what about the syrian opposition women are they taking steps to implement the peace plan. well so far there's been no confirmation from the syrian opposition that indeed they will agree to the conditions put forward by the united nations he spent thursday before would buy coffee or not and they all gunning for the unconditional departure of the syrian president bashar assad before they can be any kind of talks of permanent peace what we saw recently was the so-called friends of syria which really has become the friends of the syrian opposition and here we've had countries nuclear age support and increasing support for the syrian opposition they are calling for the syrian president bashar assad to step down they've also pledged more material support with countries like the united states and its allies saying that they will give more financial support there will be an increase in salaries and want at the same time lawn bowls not only to the syrian government to listen to the international community the syrian regime has spoken to the u.n. chief banki moon and has pulled so-c

. >> i'm paula faris. trayvon martin's parents have been demanding this ever since their unarmed son was gunned down during his visit to suburban orlando back in february. now just hours from now, george zimmerman will face a judge after so many outspoken critics spoke up and demanded his arrest. he turned himself in today after the prosecutor charged him with second-degree murder. >> and that was a higher charge, a more serious charge than a lot of people thought. a lot of folks were saying it ought to be manslaughter, but the prosecutor who is known to be a tough one, she's like, no, we're going for the bigger one, second-degree murder. so it all starts today. >>> also this morning, emotion and relief after charles manson was denied parole for his murderous rampage in l.a. the killings of actress sharon tate and others in l.a. have not been forgotten. some victims' relatives hope manson simply dies behind bars. >> he didn't even show up for his parole hearing. >> 12th time he got denied. his fate is seal

paula faris, abc news, new york. >>> and we welcome paula. >>> and today, a valedictory above the skyline of new york city. the space shuttle, still taking is final voyage atop a 747 yet. it flew low and there it was, near lady liberty, drifting by the 'em pirl state building. and above 1 world trade center. new yorkers, who like to claim they have seen everything, stopped to look up, take pick churms and say good-bye. >>> and coming up, don't mess with this mom. she said enough is enough to aim abusive debt collectors and tonight, they have to fork over $10 million for what they did to her. our reporter tracks them down.♪ oh. let's go. from the crack, off the backboard. [ laughs ] dad! [ laughs ] whoo! oh! you're up! oh! oh! so close! now where were we? ok, this one's good for two. score! [ male announcer ] share what you love with who you love. kellogg's frosted flakes. they're gr-r-eat! prego?! but i've been buying ragu for years. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ club scene music ] [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. [ sig

now the latest joining us live on the program up paula with the clock ticking now until the end of the ceasefire deadline the two sides don't look to have moved any closer to complying with a peace plan well can you give us some other. well the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of written guarantees that he plans to lay down arms and this is just hours after the syrian regime before it adequate for such explanations what the syrian regime is asking for is written confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before with all the times and the troops some population seems has now this does place in to derail the peace process just two days before the cease plan that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan goes into effect what we know is that the rebels are saying that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the syrian president bashar assad's regime and as such they will not be giving any kind of guarantees what they want is for the syrian troops to return to their bases and for all security checkpoints to be removed from