>> reporter: in philadelphia.cknowledged there might have been a problem in philadelphia in ebony's case, but maintained overall that hud is keeping a close eye on the country's low income housing authorities. >> i think a vast majority of housing thorgt authorities are doing a good job. >> reporter: but our investigation uncovered a range of problems across the country. one top local official used taxpayer money to buy this $1 million mansion np florida. all the property of this man, chief financial officer for the new orleans housing authority. convicted of embezzlement and sent to prison. one of at least 43 housing officials across the country we found convicted of crimes over the last two years. >> public housing often is the course of last resort for many people and to take money away from them, you know, is a sad commentary. >> reporter: inspector general kenneth donahue, who has since left his post, say s krugs, frad and income me tenls flourished as washington housing officials were asleep at the switch. >

and 20 miles away is philadelphia. and in philadelphia the occupying forces of the british army are having a grand time in. they are not starving to death. they're getting three meals a day. and more remarkably, when you put into it a little more you find that there's some eyewitness accounts of the british coming into philadelphia, the british army, congress had skedaddled a short time before. liberty hall is going to have a british flag flying over in a few minutes, and that's the british come into philadelphia, the streets are lined with cheering people. when the british start settling in, some of these cheering people go to the british and say, would you like to know where the rebel leaders are? and they take the british around and the rebel leaders are put into a jail in philadelphia. well, that's the other side of valley forge, that the reason was there was a valley forge, recent survey was that there was a great deal of hesitation to openly support the continental army, and a lot of areas of america had a longti

katie. >> couric: elaine quijano in philadelphia. thank you.have an update on the bomb scare we told you about last night. the bomb was planted along the route of a martin luther king day parade in spokane, washington. bob orr has new details on the investigation. bob, how dangerous was this bomb? do they know? >> reporter: they do know, katie. there's no doubt the backpack bomb could have caused serious damage, injuries, and maybe deaths. there are no arrests so far and the target was monday's martin luther king day parade in spokane. now investigators believe the suspect was an attempted bombing. it was racially motivated. they think that was the cause. the bomb was found on a bench along the parade route shortly before the celebration began. sources say the pipe bomb stuffed in the backpack with two t-shirts was filled with small bits of metal shrapnel and placed in such a way that the blast, had it gone off, would have been directed towards the crowd. the device, we're told, is sophisticated with a remote- controlled detonator. there have b

he went away, came back to philadelphia, and met another man in philadelphia, another student, or a guy who just had a ca named acord. and this is all the rage somewhere going to do, how to go to catch the things that the war effort needs? and so moxley wrote to atanasoff in october and said what we need, try building a computer. do you think that would be okay? and atanasoff was sort of a moderately unkosher and because he still wanted his invention to be patented. in the meantime, the man who's in charge of the project that mark was working on who is associated with the army was a man named goldstein who is also a mathematician. he was walking along, another one of those coincidences. he was on a platform in philadelphia and he saw john was quite famous at the time, things as a mathematician and is also working on the atom bomb. he walked up to don norman and to s uck up to a file he said, i'm working on a computer project and bond or we just went wow, you know. so don norman got very involved. and he of course had absolutely top, top, top security close. is also extremely sociable. h

[applause] >> the san diego padres -- the atlanta braves, the philadelphia phillies, the texas rangers, they are all otta here! [applause] -- outta here! i came to this organization in 1982 and i only knew the couple of things about it. one, it had a really bad ballpark. it used to have a center fielder by the name of willie mays. its current center fielder was some guy named chilly. i also knew that it had not won a change in ship. my daughter started in 1982 and i am happy to say, thanks to these gentlemen here, the torture is over! [applause] how great was that parade? i know everyone up here felt it. i know you felt it. everyone here today, you are standing here, and you are not standing alone. you are standing with the person who taught you the great story of the san francisco giants, whether it is your dad, mom, friend, a sister, grandpa. they taught you right. they thought you had to be loyal. you have to love your team. to a man on this team, to a man back in august, you fuel and energized this group all the way through september, and through the epic month of october, and what

>> this explosion in philadelphia tuesday night killed one gas company worker who had responded afteresidents reported smelling gas. three source suffered severe burns. it came from a high-pressure pipe traveling through the neighborhood. that was the exact same situation in san bruno last september. that transmission line was 30 inches. it killed eight and destroyed 37 homes. local lawmakers are demanding answers and better record keeping. pg&e didn't realize there was a weaker type of pipe underground. >> if you don't know what type of pipe you have, you can't do the right risk assessment. >> the san francisco chronicle is reporting this morning that pg&e temporarily increased the pressure on 11 transmission lines since 2003, including the san bruno line. pg&e said it was required by federal law to increase gas efficiency but later backtracked and said there was no such law and had increased the pressure to observe operational flexibility. no word of the spikes having anything to do with the san bruno explosion but it's something federal investigators are still looking into to deter

and he even imagines before the meeting in philadelphia that henry is plotting disunion. so these are real, they're not only emotional, they're not only about style, but they're also about this kind of very personal political tension that existed among virginians. >> henry mattered very much. he died in 1799, the same -- just a few months before george washington. and not long before his death washington urged patrick henry to run against the democratic republicans to deny national election to jefferson, and it shows that throughout their building careers madison and jefferson faced henry in every way imaginable. when after the falling out with washington, once again patrick henry loomed as a perspective candidate to oppose jefferson, another virginian who might oppose jefferson for the presidency. is that all we got? yes. >> can you tell us something about how you collaborated on the two men and if there was issues that went back and forth between them? how did you deal with that to make it, you know -- continuity. >> yeah. the question is how i we collaborated on writin

taking on the philadelphia 76ers. magic down four. 90-86. under 30 to play in the fourth.on richardson, the three plus the foul. so, we go to overtime. in o.t., magic down one. j.j. redick, the three. plus the foul. he makes the free throws. orlando, up 99-96. last chance for philly. down one. under 20 to play. andre iguodala, no. evan turner, the rebound. he can't get it to go. magic hold on, 99-98, snapping the sixers' two-game win streak. >>> on the college hardwood, penn state taking on number 13 purdue. this game featuring three of the top five scorers. talor battle to david jackson. he was three of five from deep. penn state up one. little over two to play. purdue with the lead. e'twaun moore, number two in the conference, to the rack. 16 points. boilers up three. 20 seconds to play. penn state down two. battle to jackson, three more. he had 13 points. nittany lions back up one. purdue ball. five seconds on the clock. down one. how about jajuan johnson. the fourth-leading scorer in the conference, that's why. 45 points. purdue takes a one-point lead. penn state going

traffic has been a nightmare through philadelphia a major highway was closed for several hours. and in connecticut, a five-miles of cars, stuck. washington d.c., spinning tires, buses, cars, not moving. and even abandoning their cars. huffed school closings, and many people were telling to stay home! unless they absolutely positively have to get out. and with our laws, and roof tops collapsing in-power outages. >> we have gotten a lot of snow and we are going to get more. >> that snowfall in york is a record breaker. the mayor is not happy. >> and its stock at about 4:00 a.m., the official reading in central park was 19 in. when stopped at 4:00 a.m. this is about the toys the amount that the national weather forecast expected. it--twice the amount. >> and a few of these videos. look at this car sliding down this hill, in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. cars were flying out of control. with more and more cars smashing down that hill. and amazingly, nobody was injured in any of these accidents. this next one, from you tube, and this is so making you so happy that you live in southern ca

most forecasters had predicted a foot of snow but places like new york city and philadelphia woke up to a whole lot more than that. it made for dangerous roads. the storm is blamed for at least six deaths, and canceled flights more than 900 across the region disrupting air travel nationwide and schools were closed in a lot of districts, including the nation's largest here in new york. elaine quijano is in central park tonight, and elaine, this winter is a real record breaker. >> reporter: it really is, katie. this is the sixth snowiest winter, in fact, in new york city's history, and it's only january, and for residents all along the east coast, this truly is their winter of discontent. in the weather-beaten northeast, residents are fed up. >> i'm truly tired of the snow. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: this latest round of the snow hit especially hard. near boston, two men narrowly escaped serious injury after heavy snow caused the roof of this garage to collapse on to their car. the storm knocked out power to nearly half a million people. nearly 350,000 in the washington, d.c. area.

philadelphia. boston. and while some places now look like a story book, this storm made it one for the record books. philadelphia normally gets 21 inches of snow. so far this season, 38. so much snow, you needed skis to negotiate the subway stairs today. boston's average snowfall, 41 inches. this season, 60. dwarfing those trying to dig out. new york city slammed, too. 56 inches of snow so far. the city that never sleeps, today, stalled. >> it's taken me about a half an hour just to get six blocks. >> reporter: the storm snarled flights, too. more than 1,500 cancelled. dozens of amtrak trains delayed. and the roads weren't much better. in connecticut, an accident caused i-95 to be shut down both ways for hours. jackie was forced to sleep in her car. >> i've been shutting it off every ten minutes, then turning it back on. >> reporter: do you have a full tank of gas? >> i have about a third left. >> reporter: patience now running low, too. >> people are pretty much over it. pretty grouchy, pretty grumpy. >>

this west philadelphia abortion clinic, where 69-year-old dr.ermit gosnell operated for more than 30 years. >> children were born, and then killed. killed by putting scissors in the back of their necks and snipping their spinal cord. >> reporter: the adult victim, prosecutors say, was 41-year-old karnamaya monger who died in 2009 after receiving an overdose of anesthesia. the nearly 300-page investigative report said paramedics who arrived at the clinic found her lifeless and said gosnell was just standing there, not doing anything. photos from inside the clinic visited mostly by minority and immigrant women show unsanitary, squalid conditions. with jars and bags of aborted fetuses. >> there were fetal remains in the same exact refrigerator that the employees had their lunch in that day. >> reporter: authorities say gosnell has been named in 46 lawsuits. but that his clinic had not been inspected by state officials since 1993. none of the employees had any medical training. nine, including his wife, have also been arrested. >> he even employed a

that snow mixes with some light rain as it moves into washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york and boston. it will get a lot heavier later on tonight, leaving up to eight inches on the ground by thursday morning. light snow from the dakotas into minnesota. >> 27 degrees in fargo. 23 in minneapolis. and 31 degrees in kansas city. 40s from boise to albuquerque. and 54 in sacramento. 30s from boston to baltimore. 50s in dallas and in new orleans. >>> and when we come back on this wednesday morning, grading the president's state of the union address. abc news experts weigh in. >>> plus, your business news. a new toyota recall announced overnight. and this one's big. nearly 2 million vehicles affected. >>> and later on, a miami mystery. how a piano ended up in the middle of that harbor. experts from a leading consumer publication recently tested automatic dishwashing detergents. they rated finish quantum number one, beating the competition ! try finish quantum for amazing clean and shine. satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. and what it doesn't cover can cost you some money. that's why

right now philadelphia does have flight arrival delays and snow skirting boston, denver and salt lake city could cause i have fallen in love with making bird houses. caw caw! [ director ]what is that? that's a horrible crow. here are some things that i'll make as little portals. honestly, i'd love to do this for the rest of my life so i've got to take care of my heart. for me, cheerios is a good place to start. [ male announcer ] got something you'll love to keep doing? take care of your heart. you can start with cheerios. the natural whole grain oats can help lower cholesterol. brrrbb... makes you feel ageless. [ male announcer ] it's time. love your heart so you can do what you love. cheerios. [ bob ] squak. ♪ >>> i'm terry mcsweeney live in walnut creek where tonight parents, teachers and students at three schools will find out if theirs is on the list of schools recommended for closure. the story in a live report. >> also this morning a traffic stop takes a deadly turn after san pablo police shot and killed a man. >> the roof cam in downtown san francisco. notice the lack of fog.

[applause] >> the san diego padres -- the atlanta braves, the philadelphia phillies, the texas rangers all otta here! [applause] -- outta here! i came to this organization in 1982 and i only knew the couple of things about it. one, it had a really bad ballpark. it used to have a center fielder by the name of willie mays. its current center fielder was some guy named chilly. i also knew that it had not won a change in ship. my daughter started in 1982 and i am happy to say, thanks to these gentlemen here, the torture is over! [applause] how great was that parade? i know everyone up here felt it. i know you felt it. everyone here today, yre

andy reid coached for 12 seasons in philadelphia, he is the longest tenured coach.victim of a sprained ankle, he will not play sunday. peppers, another fine has come down, $10,000 for his hetimate hit on aaron rodgers. funny part is, peppers wasn't pennallized but that's what is going on now with all the preplays. sphf you think something is illegal, they are trying to protect the quarterbacks, concussions, as we were talking about, they want to add two more games to sell beer for $9. tiger woods is back. tiger at a place where he won seven tournaments throughout his career. tory pines, his debut for 2011. he would shoot 69. five strokes back. his most famous appearance here, 2008, and beat rocko in the u.s. open playoff. he had minus eight, he is your leader. little media event. bright yellow thing going on. did you know the starting pitchers choose the uniforms the team will play on the days they pitch? >> no. >> he is still unsure what his role will be on the team. they tore up the coliseum, getting ready for supercross this weekend. 40,000 fans expected on satur

in philadelphia and baltimore, they used duratherm and it worked well. the upkeep on duratherm -- it is embedded in asphalt. essentially, you have to route out four inches of asphalt, and then they embed the duratherm in the asphalt. this is similar to something they do in london. supervisor mar: i think they do this in hong kong, too. >> it has been well appreciated in the neighborhoods. we put cameras underneath the intersection to make sure all the pipes are working correctly, but if i had to do it over again, i do not know if i would put them in such a large intersection because you are vulnerable when you tear it up, it gets expensive. it is very nice, an improvement, but any time you have to replace something under the street, it is costly. i would only do it in special places. open sidewalks. there was money available for rainwater. the mission gets flooded a lot, so we started opening up sidewalks. we also wanted to get to the news stands. we got those new news racks, and we purposely put them up against the building's. that frees up the sidewalk