so we turn to that guru of all dancing, abc's george pinocchio to see who may go home tonight. >> reporter: actress jennifer grey and her partner are the judge's favorites this week, scoring triple 80s for the elegant viennese waltz. >> it's not the jennifer gray i met in rehearsals. >> no? >> you just wanted to get through the dance. >> that's all i tried to do. that's what happened. >> reporter: one point behind and tied for second between kyle massey and brandi. it's on. >> tied for second? >> next week we'll be leading! oh. bring it. >> i'm just going to do a lot more listening to matt if we get voted. >> week one. >> i really mean it. >> reporter: one point behind them in fourth place, a very competitive rick fox. >> we're looking for people to get behind us and looking to be the best. >> reporter: audrina and her partner are fifth on the leaderboard but they are not alone, tied with kurt warner and his partner. >> i look forward to every rehearsal. i get to see a smiling face. she's willing to work as hard as i push her. we want to have fun and perform and get it under our belt and h

in los angeles, george pinocchio your abc news. >>> country music returns to nashville tonight for the first time since the devastating floods closed the grand ole opry. one nashville flooded the opry sustained $20 million in damages. they've spent months restoring what the water destroyed. some of the biggest country singers are all going to be there to celebrate. >> joy, you know. it's a celebration. it's truly a celebration for the grand ole opry to be back. >> after the flooding curators sent damaged costumes, instruments and memorabilia to restoration shops around the country. much of it is still being worked on and they hope it all comes back in tact. tonight though it's all about the music. >>> david simon, creator of the hbo television series, "the wire," is among 23 recipients of this year's macarthur foundation genius grants. the $500,000 grants were announced. the money is paid quarterly over five years, it comes with no strings allowing winners freedom to persue their creative projects. >>> now with a look ahead to abc2 news at 6:00. the killer is silent and you'll never sm

the last piece of greenery down there we have already fenced off the other end for pinocchio and i was down there for a public event this saturday and i was really upset that i couldn't even cross the sidewalk, there were so many vendors. there was no path away to cross over to the ferry building. there was a horde of vendors. i don't think that parks and rec owns this i don't think they can just give away our public commons and claim that it's not being used. i think if they were so sure, they wouldn't have been so still think about this whole thing. i saw a notice -- somebody commented in the letters to the editor is where i saw it and i walked around the place down there. there is no notice on the street. there are articles in the curved.com that i found who had been very enthusiastic for it who said, oops, there has been no neighborhood outreach. it needs to be more than a neighborhood. this is an essential tral city plaza. -- central city plaza. it's not just for the neighbors. it's for the whole city. it's mixed use. it's one of the very few places that i, as a senior, can sit do

he was on tv for train women as a line pinocchio. >> when you look at his history of politics almostcalls a liar. he puts it out there again for this election. i stand by my ads, i am describing his record acts should louis accurate. his satellite timhe he in politics. unemployment, many more people out of job at the end of this administration than beginning. >> we also asked which man about money which is no object in her campaign. . new census figures indicate the national poverty latest line higher than average. it shows that one in seven americans are poor. zebra and because the story. >> more americans than ever before are struggling financially. this new census figures are record 43.6 million people were in poverty last year. that's up 14.3%. >> it is very demoralizing, it is humility humiliating. it is an adjustment of i have a problem with. been able to separate one from your news. >> $22,000 sold a year a family of four. an individual less than $11,000 a year periods this presence $700 billion stimulus plan helped stem people from going deeper the party peary and was a city

>> unlike pinocchio, however, lieing is not so obvious in california's gubernatorial race. >> she raisedf california, he had a surplus when he took office and decifit when he left. >> whitman says -- she spent millions saying jerry brown wastes taxes. >> true, false or just misleading? >> if you're looking for truth, don't watch political ads. sometimes they tell the truth but they almost never tell the whole truth. >> in '60s, brown enters politics and later served two terms as governor, he had big spending with a surplus and a billion dollars decifit. >> misleading, because it fails to say voters helped create the decifit. >> the legislateure had to backfill and raise money to pay local jurisdictions like schools, and so taxes did go up. >> meanwhile, special interests are going after whitman's record as ceo at ebay. >> what's her record as ceo? overhead spending, up, 2000 percent. fees, hiked, six times in six years. >> true, but the ad lacks context. ebay grew from 138, to more than 15,000 employees. >> obviously, she started with a small company and obviously the company spent a lot

they do that in like "pinocchio." [ laughter ] that is going to be fun.. [ laughter ] it's in 3-d, yeah? >> yeah, i hear that it might be in 3-d, yes. yes. i think it would work in 3-d, but then there's movies that will be better -- like -- did you see "avatar"? of course you saw "avatar." everybody saw "avatar." apart from people who don't want to see "avatar." >> jimmy: i guess that is the way to put it, yeah. >> but it was incredible. i think it will be amazing. you start filming soon? >> very soon, yes. >> jimmy: oh, very exciting. can you tell us anything? anything more about it? no, that's good. well, i'm psyched about that, but let's take a look at the clip from "social network." that's the movie coming out this friday. here is the clip. >> i do not want that guy representing himself as part of this company. >> you have to move out here, mark. this is where it's at. >> did you hear what i said? >> the connection, the energy -- >> mark, mark? >> i'm afraid if you don't come back, you are going to get left behind. >> i want -- i need you out here. pl

i won't call you pinocchio, at least not yet. let's get the facts straight here.axpayers have paid for her public education. she is here illegally. you argue that the taxpayers should not continue to pay for her and give her sort of a break on in state tuition to go to the college of her dreams, georgia tech. why? >> well, i do, gretchen and as pointed out, she has already been subsidized by the taxpayers of the state of georgia in fulton county where she attended high school to the tune of about $65,000. this business of her now being allowed to go to post secondary, to georgia tech in particular, and pay in state tuition is a subsidy that we are not required to make. the georgia board of regents has recently made a decision based on a case at kenisaw state university at my district that these students would have to pay out of state tuition but many georgia lawmakers, 13 state senators in the state of georgia are going to file legislation in january prohibiting these students from attending at all. >> right. all right, so the difference per semester if she gets i