this is rebecca casey. nice to meet you. hello, rebecca.mething i should know about? we'd better go before they start telling stories about my childhood. nice seeing you. so what do you think? very attractive, but a little too skinny. i think it's time for alberto to settle down, have a family. mr. mendoza: you women are terrible. me voy y las dejo. what ever happened to patricia? patricia? they still go out once in a while. i was hoping they would get married. she's a mexican american, you know? but not such luck. how, uh, old is this rebecca, anyway? i'm not sure... maybe 29? alberto better make up his mind fast if he's going to have kids. you're right. i would like to have more grandchildren. you have alex. you're lucky. yes! but you can never have too many grandchildren. alice: so, uh, rebecca and ramón are friends? mrs. mendoza: yes. he got her a job at alex's after- school program. looks like he's quite fond of her. no, they're just friends. she's alex's teacher, that's all. don't be too sure. man: ♪ quisiera haberte sido infiel ♪ ♪ y

rebecca is now on call from the moment mary wakes up every morning.ting her mother out of bed and dressed. and then helping to brush her teeth, combing her hair and figuring out new strategies for medication. >> come on, don't choke on this. >> reporter: it can be stressful and difficult. >> i mean, it's a 115 pound two- year-old who is not potty trained. >> reporter: even awkward at times in public. >> people still when they talk to her speak in a very loud voice because they think people with alzheimers can't hear. or they speak very slowly and i try and explain to them she's not understanding what you are saying so you don't have to worry about that, i mean, just speak in your normal voice and just go with the flow, but it's very uncomfortable for a lot of people because they don't understand the disease. >> reporter: but rebecca says people need to understand that her family's situation, all of it, is normal. and not without special moments. >> every now and then she'll-- i don't know what sparks in her mind-- but she'll just say, "oh," and she'll

rebecca delgado is in the house. rebecca, would you like to come up and say a few words about your group at the academy of arts? >> hello, everybody. thank you very, very much. first of all, i would like to say my name is rebecca delgado and i'm a board member of the graffiti advisory as well as a volunteer for dpw. i've been a volunteer with dpw for about 10 years and a board member for about sick years. and i am actually here to nominate -- oh, before i say that, i wanted to thank all of you, by the way, for being here today for joining the conference. i'd like to thank all the people, all the organizations responsible for putting together the international conference. and thank you for visiting our city. i hope you had a great time while you're here and you will continue to explore the city this weekend. you are very lucky because we have a great, great weather. it was winter not too long ago. i think the last 24 hours, and today it's borderline between spring and summer. so, you guys lucked out on the weather. i

rebecca, is it hogue? >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is rebecca hogue, or becky as most people call me. i live in treasure island. i'm very active in the citizen's advisory board of treasure island and making sure that the new development is safe for pedestrians since they want to be a pedestrian safe neighborhood. i have lived in san francisco since i was 6 years old. i'm disabled. i no longer work because i couldn't follow my job when the phone company left the city. i'm very active -- i'm vice president of the franklin eleanor roosevelt democratic [speaker not understood] for seniors. i'm vice president of disabled affairs. i'm also involved in [speaker not understood] california alliance for retired americans. i think that pedestrian safety -- i don't drive so i'm always a pedestrian. it's an issue that we don't see that much out in the island, but we're seeing more and more. we actually finally got signs up that some people don't get run down in the crosswalks we have out there. i'm very interested in that. so, any question

rebecca jarvis downtown tonight, rebecca, thank you. >>> overseas, and in syria, word this evening about civil war that's already claimed more than 70,000 lives. word tonight the regime shot at least 50 people in a village near the mediterranean coast this week. details of the killing coming as the obama administration now wrestles with whether to arm the rebels trying to overthrow the government. >>> meantime, back here at home now and to that showdown at an nra rally. 75,000 americans from all over converging in houston. more than ever before. fresh off of a big win. the defeat of the gun bill president obama pushed in response to the massacre at sandy hook elementary. here's abc's senior washington correspondent, jeff zeleny tonight. >> reporter: it's a victory lap. >> we will never back away from our resolve to defend our rights and the rights of all law-abiding american gun owners. >> reporter: five months after the newtown shooting, not a single new federal gun law has passed. and that had nra members celebrating. >> i believe they are stronger than ever. >> effective. >> it's grow

rebecca presented that just spoke to me a little bit more.n, overwhelming support also. >> i'll put my thoughts into this. once again, we have great candidates for not enough seats. so, i'm pretty torn with this decision also. i see both candidates giving something a little bit different what they could give. i really wish this were -- there were two other seats open at this point. given that there is only one, and the edge for me would go to becky. and much of it is her experience on these issues and having many, many years of being dedicated to these type of issues and fighting for the seniors. and kimberly, don't be disappointed. i know it's hard -- i hope that there will be other seats opening up soon and you will consider reapplying. as someone mentioned that we probably share a common story with our accidents, and, so, i understand where you're coming from with your passion for this. it certainly has driven me in my passion to look at pedestrian safety issues very seriously in the city. so, i'm going to go with becky. and would somebody

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. >> reporter: the fabulous four, hannah, ian, rachel and rebecca. >> these guys are apart from being my teammates and cocaptains. they're some of my closest friends. >> the four won the championship against friends. >> it's an amazing experience. we're so lucky. they don't come around that often. >> a soft more rebuilding year. >> it was the full circle. i couldn't ask for a better way. >> call them the book ends. >> it's the only way i wanted to go out. >> the coach, you don't get to -- as coach, you don't get to see things like this very often. now it's about thinking about their years spent here. their love of school and one another. >> i feel cared for and loved by the community. i mean, it's cool that i had the opportunity to go here. >> they taught me a lot of life lessons for not only college but whatever i choose to do afterwards. >> it looks at the students as individuals and as student athletes. >> the fabulous four -- rebecca, hannah, ian and rachel. you four or this week's bel air honda's student athletes of the week, jamie costello, abc2 news. >> love it. if you have a d

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rebecca, thanks to you. >>> and "world news" has laid their focus on bringing american jobs back. and tomorrow night, the "made in america" team is back. how are some of the american jobs being created? with some shoppers in mexico. shoppers in mexico putting a premium with anything with the label made in america. the middle-class in mexico, with more spending power than ever. beginning tomorrow night, we're on the lots as the american cars arrive on the train from michigan. and off to the supermarket, with a mexican family looking for the products made by american workers here at home. and look how much they found. what's selling most? and how can other american companies get in on the growing latin america market to create american jobs back here at home? it's "made in america" tomorrow night, right here on "world news" with diane sawyer. >>> in the meantime, we turn to maryland tonight, where there's an all-out effort to find a missing grandmother. she's 82 years old and had been returning to reagan national on a flight. the airport was supposed to meet her with a wheelchair. t

abc's rebecca jarvis is here with the latest.us what these numbers mean, rebecca. >> they mean good things for your wallet. stocks surged to new all-time highs as the country's housing market showed its best gains in nearly seven years, the dow surged 106 points to finish the session at 15,409, a new all-time high and by the way, it's the 20th tuesday in a row the dow finished higher. that's a long winning streak, in fact, 83% of the gains in stocks since mid-january have happened on tuesdays, so if you invested $10,000 when the streak began on january 15th and only put your money in stocks on tuesdays, well, you'd have made over a thousand dollars in just 20 days. just released figures also on the housing market show that home prices nationally rose 11%. pretty big there, robin. >> oh, yes, so where are we seeing the strongest housing markets, rebecca? >> reporter: the places where we saw the hardest hit housing markets, phoenix up 20.5%, san francisco, 22.2%, las vegas, 20.6%. the weakest, new york and cleveland. >> but still v

rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> tough one. >> it is.ally depends on how you look at the argument. you bring up a fair point. >> i don't mean to be insensitive. does victoria's secret discriminate against men they don't offer clothes for dudes. does big and tall discriminate against small and thin people, they offer big and tall. >> good point. >> not the bottom line. it's tough. >> tough one for sure. we'll leave it to the experts. >> exactly. >> tough one for sure. we'll leave it to the experts. >> exactly. we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep, and lunesta eszopiclone can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. do not take lunesta if you are allergic to anything in it. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. lunesta should not be taken together with alcohol. abnormal behavio

. >> reporter: rebecca is trying to use the new to save the old. she started an online petition to convince city hall to designate the nearly 50-year-old winchester theaters a historic landmark and hopefully save them from the same fate that doomed the dome in pleasant hill. >> i guess we have to ask ourselves, a building that's younger than me, is that historic? >> reporter: this councilman sees no reason why the city would change its mind. it recently approved a general plan that called for this lot to become an urban village. when the theater's 50-year lease expires soon. it would be similar to santana row across the street which he points out has been very successful. >> i believe the council will be steadfast in that because of the amount of planning. >> we don't need more shopping or more urban villas. >> reporter: rebecca and a few others believe an urban village would add to the traffic already brought on by the shoppers at santana row. her petition has gathered just over 100 signatures. for some perspective, 4,000 people signed onto that p

rebecca is joining us live from new york city. nice to see you again. >> good to see you, too, scott. >> you listen to the comments about what our guys think the rally will do from here, what do you think. >> we are bullish. we are increasing our equity over the last month so we clearly think things will extend further. i thought it was interesting your discussion on interest rates, one point not made yet that i would add onto the conversation is the backdrop to rising rates. if we continue to see good housing numbers, good consumer confidence numbers, decent jobs numbers and interest rates reflecting a better growth outlook, i think that's going to be overall a good backdrop for equity markets and beyond financials, one area that should benefit in the broader scenario would be consumer discretionary where we are overweight today. >> you think we continue to get a rotation out of the more defensive areas of the market into more offensive plays, cyclicals, industrials, and some of these -- you say health care, though, is one of you

abc's chief business correspondent, rebecca jarvis, breaks it down. >> reporter: tonight the national average for a gallon of gas is $3.66. drivers in the middle of the country are especially hard hit. midwest prices on average have jumped a whopping 66 cents this month. versus the rest of the country where prices are up between two and 12 cents. that's because? >> that's because of the refinery of work, it's ongoing in the middle of the country, and it will end soon. >> reporter: but in the meantime, it's adding up. a month ago, a road trip to the grand canyon from minneapolis would have cost $700, today about $900. experts say drivers on the coast should buckle up. americans pay the most at the pump during summer months. tips for your trip. park in the shade. less gas evaporation. plus fill the tank all the way up. filling up halfway only means you'll burn more gas going to and from the station. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> and still ahead on "world news," looking forward to the weekend. look at this pool. you can see that test figure at the bottom of the pool. but how ab

rebecca cooper is in moore, oklahoma, with the latest. ing what's darkness falls on the debris, air force captain ache blackburn patrols the street as volunteers. luckily, both survived the storms. >> and they ride out the storm and i got lucky. >> you need to go out and help your neighbor in any way you can. people need security. that's where a lot of us are here to do. >> so many children in moore have been left homeless. rather then going to the schools, they are now planning which funerals to attend. these students will be at the services for teacher and the mother. the 29-year-old and 3-month-old baby were killed sheltering inside the walk-in cooler inside the 7/11 as she tried to get to her 8-year-old son. >> i broke out in tears. >> 13-year-old janet said it's hard not to cry every time she thinks of the beloved teacher. >> every time i looked to her, she had a big smile. >> but there's stories of hope. knabes are who opened a storm shelter just in time to save others running from the storm. >> less then 60 seconds later, the torna

rebecca patterson of bessemer trust. i do want to buttonhole this conversation, guy, in terms of we've been talking about the exporters specifically you've been talking about toyota motor because for every about 1% depreciation in the yen, it means about a 1% appreciation in operating profits. >> $100 a car i think somebody said. and again, i would have thought toyota would have had a positive -- understanding the tape was negative, i still thought tm would have been up, and it actually was down most of the day, even when i think the tape was positive. so there are a lot of cross-currents here. i'm not ready to bail out on toyota yet. i'm not saying the markets -- the correction is upon us. but you know, you've got to take what the market gives you. and again, tomorrow's level's going to be interesting. if yen rallies, dollar-yen rallies and toyota weakens, again, maybe we'll see some decoupling. >> the dollar holding on to 15,000 as the bull run continues. should you be worried about the meltup? let's bring in ed yarden

abc's rebecca jarvis tells us how it all went down. >> reporter: this is how we usually think of bank robberies, guns, masks, but with this $45 million bank heist, not even an alarm bell. >> the scheme was organized for months and planned down to the minute, reminiscent of the casino heist in "ocean's 11." >> reporter: after an eight-man team of 20 somethings who allegedly in one day worked their way around new york hitting 100 atms collecting $2 million in cash like trick-or-treaters. about halfway through the heist, they came here to this bank of america where in just three transactions, they allegedly stole almost $2500. authorities say the suspects flashed their loot in these photos. prosecutors say the men were guided by unknown cyber masterminds who hacked computers at middle eastern banks creating homemade debit cards which they distributed to other bands of small time crooks and hit atms in 26 countries. no customer accounts were compromised, but still we could feel the effects when an increase in security gets passed in fees. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> boston bom

i would like to introduce andrea and we r we expect rebecca soon and next to that is alisa and kay. we have a quorum. >> well thank you very much commissioner and thank you very much inspector monroe. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday december 5, 2012 meeting and it's a joint meeting with the status of women. this is a mo mentus meeting and this is the third time we did a joint meeting and this one is a very important meeting tonight and a lot of work has gone into it and i would like to thank the commissioner on the status of women and thank commissioner loftus. she has been proactive. we had several meetings. before we go on we have different types of meetings in the community we introduce the commissioners and who they are during the day jobs and if that is possible i would like to start with dr. marshall. >> dr. joe marshall. i have been on the police commission for eight years, three terms. i am the cofounding executive director of make a boys club. i just want to mention it isn't on the agenda there is a gun buy back program which is happening on december 15. ther

rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> and another bit of encouraging economic news now. more americans are making their mortgage payments on time. according to transunion, the percentage of home owners two or more months behind fell by 21% in the first quarter of this year, the biggest drop in two decades thanks to the surging housing market and steady job gains. >>> all right. we may soon be able to read treasury secretary john lew's signature. used to look like this, a series of loops that didn't have any resemblance to his name. this is what it looks like now, a little ways to go but can see a lot of that signature that will be on every new dollar bill. >> i kind of liked the looped-loops. >>> good to be al gore. the former vice president is now nearly as itches are mitt romney. grown his net worth to more than $00 million thanks to the sale of his cable channel current tv as well as his stock in apple and successful investment firm. mitt romney is worth $250 million. >> right after that failed presidential bid he was worth $9.9 million. now 200 million. >> you start

here's abc's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: what a week for stocks and the economy.st off you have the jobs report. 7.5% unemployment, the lowest level in four years. 165,000 jobs were added to our economy in the month of april. meantime, stocks finished out the week at their highest levels ever. the dow recently was above 15,000 during friday's trading session. the s&p 500 finished out the week at record highs and you know what that means, your 401(k) is going to be looking much better this month. it's been about four years since the depths of the great recession and in that time, stocks have recovered 139%. so if you put $10,000 into the stock market in march of 2009, guess what you would have right now? about $24,000. for those who sat and waited and didn't touch their savings and left it there and let it ride and probably had to look away at times, this worked out. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> nice to get some good financial news this morning. rebecca, thanks to you. >>> it has been described as part political rally, part trade show, part victory lap. t

i also want to thank katie miller and rebecca from my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and common sense media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the school district we started public information a year ago and my partner richard carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. first of all let me tell you that bullying takes many different shapes. it can be physical, it can be emotional, it can be verbal. i can tell you having been a non english speaking student and immigrant early on and quite frankly times that were very different that we were bullied all the time and didn't know it was bullying and right to the point i actually dropped out of school, and i think it's also important to recognize it's not kids on kids and sometimes adults are part of it, and sometimes unfortunately staff members are part of it. i remember being accused early on by a science teacher and told i was using lsd and i didn't know what it was at the time. i was in the class for three months and didn't work englis

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ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rebecca randell. >> great, thank you, melinda. i'm going to ask you all to come up now. as they get seated i'll say a few words. all these panelists really bring a great wealth of experience and wisdom to what on the one hand is actually a really complicated issue and on the other hand at its very core is somewhat simple. whether it's online or off-line, bullying and harassment or as the teens that we encounter at common sense media often say, drama, it's about power. as you heard the boy on the video say, i'm the big dog. who has it, who wants it and who wants to keep it. i realize this is an incredibly simple definition so i will leave it to our panel to pick it apart and to delve deeper. each of our panelists will have the opportunity to give a brief introduction of who they are and their organizations and after we've done the rounds i will pose a series of questions to eefrp of they will and then you will all have the opportunity to interact with them yourselves so we can have a really dynamic conversation. the one thing i wil

abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis tells us which vehicles are selling so fast and why. >> smiling from ear to ear. >> reporter: rich safeeno is smiling because its all american ford dealership is having its best year since he opened for business at the height of the great recession in 2008. >> you just feel the volcano about to erupt. we're doing very well. >> reporter: in dealerships across the country, all said the same thing, americans are buying. >> consumer confidence. chance of losing a job is less. they know they have that paycheck. they're a whole lot more willing to come in and purchase a big item like an automobile. >> reporter: today's bestsellers are the ford fusion and honda accord. but what's really driving all of this -- trucks. the ram pickup chevy silverado and the ford f series. that speaks to the construction and housing come back. and to small, owners like this, who have bought 12 trucks in the last year. >> our business is up, we're growing and replacing older vehicles that are less fuel efficient and less reliable. >> reporter: also helping, car l

thank you, rebecca. >>> now we have some health news, a medical breakthrough in illinois. a two and a half-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has an artificial trachea grown from her own stem cells. doctors have done about a dozen of these operations on adults. little hannah is the first child to get an artificial trachea without donor cells. doctors say hannah will live a normal life. >>> and for a nation of people starved for energy, news tonight about a jolt of caffeine with, say, your popcorn. a new food group getting reaction from federal experts. normal snacks like popcorn, candy, even gum, infused with caffeine. david kerley shows us why some people are wary. ♪ >> reporter: they promise to double your pleasure, but now wrigley wants to give you a kick of caffeine. "alert," a new chewing gum. one piece equals a half cup of coffee. just the latest food product with added caffeine. a bag of cracker jack treats, equal to a cup of coffee. jelly bean sports beans, a half cup. and how about biofuel popcorn? caffeine infused. >> why are companies doing this? >> the f

and, diane, there are no guarantees on that front. >> on our financial coverage, rebecca jarvis, thank you. >>> and a wake-up call tonight for anyone who takes ambien or the generic version of the sleeping pill. a new report shows a huge jump in emergency room visits and most of them are women. abc's lisa stark with those details tonight. >> reporter: a growing number of those who are popping the sleeping pill ambien, or its generic version, zolpidem, are ending up in the emergency room. a new study finds adverse reactions, which can include hallucinations, paranoia, and confusion, sent more than 19,000 people to ers in 2010. a 220 percent increase from 2005. and 2/3 of them were women. >> why more women than men? >> i think we know that women clear the drug from their system more slowly than men. and in fact, the fda recommended a lower dose in women. >> reporter: this sleeping pill has often been in the news for a very dangerous side effect. >> you hit something with your car. >> reporter: sleep driving. i tried a driving test simulation on ambien and found out how scary this is. 30

rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >> the body of the dead suspect is not claarnaev imed. we will have details on the latest arrest and any new developments right here. >> breaking news out of d.c. superior court where a jury found a man on trial for the severe beating of t.c. maslin guilty on all counts. we are live from the courthouse with wreaking details. >> the jury deliberated six hours on this case. the attack on t.c. maslin was brutal. it stunned and shocked people across the city. it left him with severe brain damage. just a short while ago his wife issued a response to this guilty verdict. she said that even though the verdict is what we hoped for, we remain extremely saddened by the devastation that was caused and the lives that were shattered as a result of this senseless act. the prosecution put on an array of witnesses including victims from the night of the assault which left t.c. maslin severely brain damaged. also the mother of tommy branch who said her son admitted knocking t.c. maslin during the assault last august 18. she said she found and disposed of

abc's rebecca jarvis is here to tell us more. >> reporter: it began like any other night on a holidayn atlantic city. the casinos crowded, bars busy, and hotels booked full. but early sunday, authorities responded to an emergency call at the revel hotel. >> when we got there, we realized we had 22 people trapped in the elevator. they were anxious. particularly uncomfortable when you feel like you're trapped. people get claustrophobic. >> reporter: the fire department cut power, pried open the elevator doors and dropped a 35-foot ladder down the shaft to the car below. four firefighters, wearing harnesses, then descended on to the car. attached ropes to the passengers and one by one, helped them up that ladder. it took 45 minutes to free everyone, but then a second emergency, 28 people stuck in another elevator at the same hotel. >> normally we get you know, six to ten of those type of calls in a year. never had one back to back like that. >> reporter: still these things can happen. for example, this guy trapped for 41 hours. and the cast of "modern family," begging for help. >> get us

rebecca, i'll ask you as well, how would o.j.t yale galanter told him, go and get your stuff and knowingly that there were weapons involved, o.j. was going to ask for guns, let him go he had and do that. how does he prove it? >> he doesn't prove it. it becomes his word against galanter's word. in a normal case you say, well, we're going to weigh it fairly. but in this case, you have o. j. simpson who has been clearly problematic over the course of time. >> jamie: can i bring up one more thing? >> absolutely. >> jamie: before we go, a lot of people say that he's in prison right now not for going and grabbing his memorabilia, but because they believe he killed his wife and her friend. so the question is, could he have made an argument that there was some prejudice against him for sentencing due to a prior crime? >> he could have made that argument, but the jury came to a conclusion that he was guilty on these counts. so any argument that he may make in that vein doesn't really hold any water in a court of law. it may be all of his

>> all right, rebecca. thanks so much to do you. >>> now, to governor chris christie and the life-changing decision. joining the 200,000 americans who will get weight loss surgery this year. you see the difference. here he is two years ago. and here he is today. 30 pounds lost since the operation 3 months ago. and as you know, he's a possible presidential candidate in 2016. abc's paula faris has more. >> reporter: chris christie is losing it, quite literally. >> in terms of keeping it secret it's nobody else's business. >> reporter: but still, the colorful governor of new jersey decided to share why he underwent secret weight loss surgery. >> i did this for myself, my wife and my children. and unlike some of you, they will still pay attention to me whether i run for president or not. >> reporter: once slender and athletic, christie has struggled with his weight for 30 years, telling diane he's tried everything from fad diets to personal trainers. >> what do you say to yourself to psych yourself into it? >>