tonight, robin williams is seriously funny. >>> and, oscar picks. four academy award nominees, all giving voice to the same unmistakable accent. it's boston's year at the oscars, and that's a "sign of the times." >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," february 25th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with bad news for american drivers. the price of oil jumped 14% this week, the biggest one-week percentage increase in two years. the rise is fueled by the unrest in the middle east, particularly in libya, where today, amid more violence, the united states evacuated its citizens and temporarily closed its embassy. the white house says the libyan president, moammar gadhafi's credibility is, quote, reduced to zero. chris bury is in chicago. >> reporter: the bloody turmoil in libya and the fear of more trouble in other oil-rich nations is sending shock waves from the mid-east to the midwest. they're reverberating, right here in h

i know robin is listening in, as well.sco to l.a. any advice for her? >> from san francisco to l.a.? >> yeah, the snow. >> i don't think it's going to make it down there. >> there's the good news, robin. >> if it was, i expect a weather oscar. >> you just brought a big smile to robin's face. thanks, spencer. take care. >> thanks, spencer. >> okay. thank you, guys. i want someone to bring the make-up counter to me. i want to be the first to discover the latest. and get a little advice from my avon representative whenever i ask. this is beauty that delivers from avon. see how avon can deliver extra income for you. go to avon.com or call 800 for avon to become a representative. all you expect from the number-one recommended detergent by dermatologists. all free clear is free of dyes and perfumes. and has powerful stainlifters to help get your whole wash clean. it's all good. to help get your whole wash clean. discover customersl are getting five percent cashback bonus at restaurants. it pays to switch, it pays to discover. tr

>> reporter: good morning, robin. this is an extraordinary day unfolding here in tahrir square, just behind me. these are the largest crowds we've seen here in days. robin, there was another marked difference this morning as we made our way to the square. we actually walked across one of those bridges. unheard of just 24 hours ago. that military presence, now massive. patting us down and everyone else. making sure that this square, this demonstration, is safer than we've seen the last few days. protesters against this president remained determined and defiant this morning, calling this the day of departure. they want mubarak to step down now. refusing to give into the pro-mubarak masses that have taken them on. the protesters here calling for a massive demonstration, the largest yet. a possible march to the presidential palace. aware of the angry mobs they could face. mobs who have aimed their attacks on journalists here. reporters' faces bloodied. more than 100 journalists have been targeted by mubarak supporters con

robin? >> no, indeed. all right, alex. thank you. >>> and hundreds of americans trying to leave libya are aboard a ferry that was supposed to depart wednesday for malta. rough seas has delayed their departure. miguel marquez is there with the latest on all of this. good morning miguel. >> reporter: good morning, robin. there is frustration and fear on that ferry in that libyan port just south of here. some people have been there for 24 hours. they may be there another 24 hours because of those rough seas. officials say they are safer in port than trying to get across the 12-foot swells. people at abc news talk to on that ferry, says they feel like sitting duck sitting in that libyan port. meanwhile, the libyan ambassador here in malta, did speak a short time ago. he gave some contradictory information, saying there's no fighting going on in tripoli. and says the country is open to foreign journalists because they want the world to see what's happening there. back to the ferry, when it arrive

you know, robin, i waited so long to have them.are of them very upsetting. i feel like a big sissy. >> no, no, no. >> because so many women go through this, and they're not as blessed as i was. they have to fight cancer. they've got to take care of their children. and it was just a nightmare. >> but the message is every bit as important because you were going to skip this exam. who knows what could have happened. you know how women, we get busy, all people, we get really busy. we put it off. >> i put it off for over a year. >> see that. >> between "swift justice" and the night show and the twins. i was just juggling as fast as i can. and they told me was fine. but it wasn't fine. it wasn't fine. and in surgery there were complications due to my cesarean. and i think i was under over five hours. yeah. and i'm just so blessed. >> so what do you say to folks who are watching? and what can they learn from your experience? >> you know, here's the twins right here. you think you love your children and you spend all your time with them, g

george, robin?m, i know you're keeping a close eye on it. >>. >> disturbing case of bullying caught on tape. recorded on tape, police say by one of the participants, a 13-year-old pennsylvania boy, dragged through the snow, tossed as you see there into a tree. hanging by a group of seven teens. police arrest six of those boys on monday andrea canning in upper darby, pennsylvania, with more. so disturbing to see continuing stories like this unfortunately. >> reporter: it really is, we see them all of the time. police calling this a wolfpack mentality. the boy claims he was hunted down on his way home from school for no reason. alleged bullies as young as 13, recorded the whole thing, seven minutes of a 30-minute attack. this cell phone video shows a 13-year-old boy being kicked, dragged through the snow and then hoisted into a tree by his alleged attackers. in the video we blurred to protect their identities, he tries to run away but is caught again and finally after several attempts the bullies hang

bill clinton had clogged teries, robin had a valve. >> robin, you and i had valves and robin, by the way, said they gave him a cow valve which they gave me. what did they give you? >> cow valve. >> so robin says he gives good milk. >> rose: (laughs) >> but charlie i knew you had almost died so you were not exactly the most comforting person. >> rose: no, that's true. it was already known that i almost died so i said go ahead, it's no problem. you're saying sure, but why did you almost die? >> you're all over the place making speeches, six years ago you were in an induced coma so it's not all perfect. but i don't want to scare people in this. i want women-- especially women over 40-- to have an e.k.g. the way they will go and have a mammography. to have a baseline of their heart. most women do not do it and many doctors don't advise women to do it because, you know, you're not in any trouble, you don't really need it. i want women to be aware that that the symptoms are often very different than t symptoms for men. it can be things you wouldn't notice. great fatigue. most women are tir

robin. this is what we're waking up to here. it may look like snow. clearly it isn't. everything is crusted, about an inch of ice. it is thick. enough to skate on. from texas to ohio, all the way into the northeast, the icy fist of this storm continues to rain down on 12 states. >> ice is covering everything. you can see the american flag is frozen stiff. >> crews have been on the road all day. >> the biggest concern for the power company is that tree limbs are covered in ice on power lines. >> reporter: indiana saw more than an inch of ice accumulate overnight. how are you supposed to plow in this weather? >> there isn't anything we can do about it. >> reporter: that ice, combined with snow, to form a slippery, dangerous mixture. >> this is like having ice skates on your car. >> reporter: this 15-car pileup shut down i-70 both ways between st. louis and kansas city, for the first time in missouri's history. in almost 300 miles of i-44 was shut down from springfield, missouri to oklahoma cit

robin? >> and when we saw in david's report, christiane, how you were treated by some, when you were in the square, you just returned from there. there's a real anti-western reporter sentiment there. is there still that sense? >> reporter: well, let me explain precisely that important question. the pro-mubarak supporters have been against the journalists. and partly this is because the state television, some of the local press, the state press, has been blaming journalists. and a statement from the foreign ministry was issued overnight saying, this uprising against mubarak, is, quote, a foreign conspiracy, led by international journalists. so, those people who been aggressive towards us are not the anti-mubarak demonstrators. they're the pro-regime, thugs and agitators that have been sent in to disrupt the protests. >> that's important to say. we've been saying in the days leading up to this, it was very peaceful. and when mubarak said he was not going to be leaving, we saw a totally differe

robin. >> good advice. thank you so much. and sam will have more coming up. >>> we're going to turn to egypt right now, where after two weeks of protests, the uprising continues to grow, with bus drivers and other public employees now on strike. but the government is not backing down. and there are new warnings that a crackdown could be coming. jim sciutto is in cairo with the latest. hey, jim. >> reporter: good morning, george. there's news this morning of a document posted on the protesters' main facebook page, in arabic which purports to be military plan to move into tahrir square tonight and break up the protests with force. it's not certain this document is real, but as we saw this morning, it is certainly raising tension in the square. sounding the alarm. fearing an imminent crackdown, hundreds of protesters spring into action this morning. the word is spreading here that security forces are coming this way. and they just asked for volunteers to come to this gate to help defend it. it's a sign of the real nervousness he

area. >>> now, to robin roberts in l.a. robin, you're going to say who wore best.ng last night, lady. we all say that. >> thank you. bless you, sam. we missed having you out here. that's the last time you're not going to come with me. if i'm coming, you're coming, sam. everybody in the pool. thank you. we're going to talk about fashion. we have suze yalof schwartz, a great friend to the program. and fashion expert. we'll get to your earrings in a moment. and george kotsiopoulos. he's here with us, too. and i can't get rid of this woman. erin andrews. now that she is a fashionista. >> the disco ball herself. you're going to help me out. george, let's talk about some of the red. a lot of red. >> designers have been trotting out red dresses all award season. it actually wasn't that unusual. they all chose to wear them for the oscars. so, you know. i'm not a big fan of super bold color only because the real housewives seem to wear those broes colors all of the time. i like the subdued tones. >> it looked really well. >> the red is fabulous. it is fabulous. >> did you l

robin? >> jeffrey, that, indeed is the fear. >>> over here at the smart screen with john berman. want to delve in this a little deeper. a lot of government trying to get their people out. what do we know about the evacuations? >> thousands of foreign nationals live in libya right now. so many trying to get out as fast as they can. portugal, they're evacuating them by c-130. austria can't get their people all of the way home. they're going to the tiny island of malta. in the mediterranean. but turkey is very interesting. they're evacuating their citizens by land, to egypt. just ten days ago, egypt was a mess. now, a safe haven, compared to libya. >> you speak about egypt. of course, the military played a major factor there. what do we know about the libyan military? >> on paper, the libyan military is quite strong. 67,000 troops, about 1,000 tank, airplanes, helicopters, but something of a paper tiger e. half of the military, poorly trained, poorly motivated. and there's a sense that gadhafi

clearly the authorities in iran, one thing they understand as robin knows, robin has covered the middle east and the iranian revolution. they understand revolutions because they came to power in a revolution. they understand street politics. you don't give concessions. you crack down. you crack down hard. >> brown: just picking on the today aspect of it. we saw it in that shot in parliament. how likely, what are the prospects for arresting those leaders you just referred to? why hasn't it happened up to now and how likely now that they would be tried and jailed? >> well, the immediate after math of the protest in 2009, the government did arrest hundreds of or thousands of people. it put hundreds of them on trial and mass trials that were stalin stalinesque in their scope. it was a message clearly to the opposition leader and to the young followers, look, there are no limits to what we will do. and they were a former vice president, a former... several former members of parliament who were among those put on trial, given long sentences. in some ways what's interesting is egypt, president

robin? >> okay. >>> we're going to turn to scott brown, and his bombshell revelation that he was sexually abused as a child. it was something he kept secret from even his closest family members. and john berman has more on this. >> reporter: good morning, robin. scott brown kept this secret for more than 40 years. but someone close to brown told me in writing a new book he decided it was time to open up about everything. even while he was electrifying the political world with his stunning victory in massachusetts, scott brown had a secret. he was a survivor of sexual abuse. >> he said, if you tell anybody, you know, i'll kill you. i will make sure that no one believes you. >> reporter: it was a camp counselor. in an interview with "60 minutes" about his new book, "against all odds," the 51-year-old senator said it happened at a religious camp in fourth grade during a visit to the infirmary. in book excerpts, reported by "the boston globe," brown said, i was standing there with my pants down.

robin? >> all i can say is yuck. thanks sam. >>> in our royal diary this morning, the envelope, please. invitations were delivered to 1,900 guests this weekend. on the guest lists, european royals, the couple's former flames. and the world famous soccer players. nick watt has more on who made the cut. >> reporter: the guest list for the party of the year. the wedding the century, well, some snubs and surprises. britain's new vogue royalty, the beckhams will be there. david and william became friends working on england's soccer world cup bid. >> she's probably been invited on the premise that she doesn't sing at the reception afterwards. >> reporter: but no room in the abby for the obamas or president sarkozy of france or his wife carla bruni. apparently, kanye west's name is on the door. william's a big fan. and thumbs up, too, for sir elton john. and harry is bringing chelsy davy. kate's pre-william fellow, yes, william's first love, yes, both on the list. william's aunt fergie, a snub. she fell out with diana and s

robin?, thank you. >>> joining us now to talk more about teen pregnancy and the effects of the show, is dr. logan levkoff. she is a teen development expert. she is author of the book "third base ain't what it used to be." every time i see that title. >> thank you. >> it's difficult at any age. >> and with financial support, it's still difficult. >> what's your take on shows like this? >> i wish -- i hope these shows aren't glamorizing teen pregnancy. but we have more teens in pop culture than ever before. 16 and pregnant, the pregnant pact, "glee." the ex-secret life of the american teenager. our kids are being exposed to this all the time. and the problem is, it's not just the shows. it's the culture. we have our pregnant teens showing up on covers of magazines. they're getting paid. they're getting endorsement deals and being calendar models. that's the message. even if mtv shows the hardships. >> right. >> they're still being supported in so many other ways. >> on the other side, people a

oh, robin?merica's consumer," valentine's day less than a week away. and florists are getting ready to sell almost 190 million red roses. with prices averaging between $50 and $100, especially if you have the flowers delivered, we want to make sure you get your money's worth. so, we ask our consumer correspondent, elisabeth leamy, to put flower companies to the test, to find out what deals are the very best. >> reporter: there's a reason. robin just rhymes there. this was an unscientific test. but really interesting. we ordered from four national flower delivery companies and compared price, delivery time and how well they held up. roses are red. violets are blue. in the movie "valentine's day" george lopez faces quite a snafu. >> valentine's day is a big day, flower-wise. >> reporter: very true. so we called four national florists to see if they would come true. >> i want to order one dozen red roses. >> 1-800-flowers tried to sell us fancy roses for $89.99. we insisted the basic would be fine.

robin sax, thanks very much. >> thank you. >> robin?eorge. >>> now, to the dramatic video of an elderly driver headed the wrong direction on a california freeway. he caused a four-car pileup near san diego. and we'll tell you again. no one was killed or seriously injured in the accident. thank goodness. and the driver himself walked away. mike von fremd has the story that raises the question, how old is too old to drive? >> reporter: friday, february 4th, 9:44 a.m. >> what's this guy doing? >> reporter: a driver with a cell phone camera catches a silver pickup truck going the wrong way, heading south on the high-speed northbound lanes of interstate 5 near san diego. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: four other vehicles are caught in the pileup. at the wheel of that pickup, 83-year-old clarence kinney. he was driving on a suspended license. police simply gave him a traffic ticket and ordered him to be re-examined by the dmv. it's a scene that's played out before on the nation's highways. on i-95, near philadelphia, these pictures show an elder

and next is -- [cheers and applause] >> next is robin black. >> hi, robin! >> oh, ok. i had to know. this is called "eviction notice." the police turned us away. 11 years old eating baby food. days warm like the occasional free matsoff from next door. no plates the cups were yoplaits. i stepped on a nail taking my sister through the yard the drinking from beer bottles that tasted like warm quarters the i caught fleas from cookie puss sleeping on my stomk keeping us both warms. at that age i lost the comfort from lies. stranded on a crescent move, floating in a sea of ash littered with diamonds the i swallowed past lives to spit these alternate futures. >> one more big round of applause for our very talented apprentice program. fantastic. >> the person i am excited to meet her. her book is called, my miserable, lonely lesbian pregnancy. please, partake our free pens. andrea. >> thank you for wearing my buttons. it comforts me to see sad faces. my miserable, lonly lesbian pregnancy. tonight i am going to read, to snip or not to snip. >> conception. i drive to the califor

correspondent, robin wright. >>> first to richard engel who is in cairo as he has been throughout the story. richard, first, tahrir square, the heartbeat of where the revolution has happened. there's an attempt i understand this morning, to get back to normal. how has that played out? >> there were some people that were resisting this. the step to reopen tahrir square. the military police went in and briefly clashed with some of the demonstrators who don't want to leave the square. but in general, cars are now passing through tahrir and the situation across this country is one where egyptians want to go back to work. >> there is that sense, i've heard your reporting this morning, that everyone feels that taste of freedom and is protesting anew. >> they certainly are. there is a wave of empowerment that people are feeling here. and there have been small demonstrations all across cairo. starting in the morning. doctors, lawyers, journalists, the police, who are used to crush the demonstrators were themselves out demonstrating today. people said they will not accept poor working conditio

silicon valley reporter robin mcelhatton takes a look. >> reporter: welcome to farmville, population 30 million. "farmville" is not really a place; it's a social game played on social networking sites like facebook. last year, the game's popularity exploded, single-handedly changing the perceptions of online gaming. >> yummy, some water for my new trees, that's kind of cool. >> reporter: julie scopazzi is a "farmville" fan. >> farmville entices you, they keep it exciting by creating new themes. >> reporter: san francisco- based zynga makes "farmville" and "cityville." these games aren't child play. the social gaming market will top a billion dollars this year, according to e-marketer, a new york-based research group. that's up 28% from last year. justin smith, founder of inside network, a research firm focused on the social gaming market, calls zynga's growth phenomenal. >> those networks allow the viral spread of games in ways that haven't been seen before on other types of flat forms. they make it really easy for players to share the games they play, with their friends, enabling th

. >> reporter: good morning, robin. it's been a wild week here at the state capitol. some protesters are still camped out inside the building. and a dramatic political showdown is under way. ♪ last night, more public workers, including these firemen, poured into the capitol. some families camping out overnight, in a last-ditch effort to protest budget cuts they fear would cripple their union rights. >> i want to do everything in my power to raise awareness that this can't happen. >> reporter: on thursday republicans were set to pass a budget requiring state workers to pay pour more for pensions and health care. but what really has them steamed is a move from by the republican governor, to eliminate union bargain, everything from wages to work rules. >> he wants to dictate how we'll do it. >> this is about stripping away our rights to have a union. >> reporter: so, senate democrats, more than a dozen, fled the state, to prevent a vote and keep wisconsin police from rounding them up. >> the state police jurisdiction stops at the wisconsin border. so, that's why we had t

robin, on assignment this morning. juju slid over from the newsdesk. >> glad to be here. >> we have a lot of news this morning. >> absolutely. >> in addition to the stories out of new zealand and libya, we're learning more about the four americans captured by somali pirates. most situations end with ransom paid. this time, negotiations to secure the release had been going smoothly until one of the pirates fired a rocket at the u.s. warship. then, gunfire began. by the time forces reached the ship, it was too late. >> a tragic end. >>> also this morning, insurance scams caught on tape. and look at these falls. they may look really painful. but authorities say these folks are faking them. we'll tell you why the schemes are on the rise. >>> and big health news about your cell phone. new research reveals they may have an impact on your brain. >>> we start with the hunt for survivors in new zealand. search and rescue teams from the u.s. and around the world have rushed to the scene of that deadly earthquake in christchurch,

the top news of the week god's name middle eastern states are robin spy and some government protests by the uprisings in tunisia and egypt at least two hundred firefighters are reported killed by the military in libya look here green union scrambles to help italy with waves of north african immigrants as politicians and out spurred sound doubts on whether multiculturalism is viable for europe. also pulling the strings with the leaks has revealed the u.s. has been spying on top nato what threshold and using prosser to distance the alliance from votes. this week the man said. put it on mars twice and go it was just a mock up thread about hope it's hope you can forge my journey will bring our real mission to the red planet a step closer. kate she joins us and there is a russian representative in the women's tennis final in dubai this evening yes that's right svetlana kuznetsova is just starting how much is caroline wozniacki the russians first final since august against the new world number one look at that plus rest of this post is coming up there. and i welcome to the sports news on a

man is sidelined with a hamstring injury and to have also changed coaches twice since that phenolic robin need to stepped in to fill the void left by murray used to bottom a dream that he was later replaced with current boss who insists his side's mindset is right for the upcoming match. i know something for sure this squad is still you can. we are the champions now we have the mentality in our minds we want to win and we're able to compete with anyone i know that to a few that. elsewhere manchester united have arrived in ma say ahead of the first leg of the champions league last sixteen tie of the star velodrome say will be without a strike on j.p. as uniacke due to a growing injury and forwards lloyd creamy and brandow are also a doubt premier league leaders united meanwhile will play with algae of ferdinand and ryan giggs while chris smalling is sad to part time the money of a bitch at the heart of the defense much to united's boss of a serious champions league is anybody's game. i think the prayers because it doesn't concern as should doesn't concern. an opportunity when you get to th

and hopefully this will have a domino effect of democratic reforms across the region why from london robin simcox from the think tank the center for social cohesion thanks for that. well argues military analyst getting himself explains how president karzai fearful of the events in egypt is safe guarding himself against a potential u.s. backed coup when the whole international attention has been foreclosed on the unraveling situation in egypt suddenly got his life popped up on the headlines with his new and american resume this style to deprive the united states any opportunity to swap or to dismiss him with a more pliable pseudo democratic leader he decided to regain the initiative and momentum and to capitalize on and to american sentiments in afghanistan thanks to american occupation now he's in charge. clinton used to call narco state due to drug trafficking karzai has acquired total financial independence from the united states or international community it's to president obama whether he has the guts to learn the lesson from cairo to arrange the program to a school in kabul before the

we're also seeing, robin, more protests in yemen. more protests in bahrain, all across the region. >> everyone has been asking about the possible ripple effect from what we're seeing in egypt. >>> also this morning, a simple test. we'll show you on tape right here. can it tell you whether your child has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? dr. richard besser looks at a really revealing study. >> that's important news for a lot of parents. >>> and tiger woods, and there was the longest time it didn't seem like he could do wrong. now, it seems like he can't do right. you see him spitting on the green. he got in a lot of trouble for that. >> that's a huge no-no. >>> we start with the budget fight in washington. president obama has submitted his budget, as you know, which he says contains painful cuts. the republicans say the cuts are not deep enough. if the two sides cannot agree, next month, there could be a government shutdown. all this goes on as the national debt creeps toward a milestone. jonathan karl has more from washington

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. >> good morning, robin. it's quite a story. madoff, apparently now spending his days in a 12-foot-square cell, with a window, overlooking the prison lawn, with his roommate. the interview was his first since he went to prison. and he's still trying to spin the case in ways he apparently thinks will help him. madoff was interviewed tuesday by "the new york times," at this federal prison in butner, north carolina. no reporter had seen him since he entered the prison in july 2009, in shackles and a blue jump suit. reporter diana henriques noticed he looked noticeably slimmer and frail and a bit agitated. in the interview and a series of e-mails, madoff pointed the finger at unnamed banks and hedge funds he said were complicit, and had to know about his massive ponzi scheme. but the attitude, he said, was, if you're doing something wrong, we don't want to know. that's much the same claim the bankruptcy trustee has made in court filings against madoff's family and close associates. >> some of these people were in control or were abs

of these people my uncle, my grand mother and so forth, all were from a town land called outside of robin. when i was growing up i would hear the names. and they would conjure the sense of another world i was no longer a part of but was connected to. i think the -- i came to the brink of this sort of, you know, really quest gradualy by hearing the names. the other experience i had when i was growing up is music in my grand mother's house. my grand mother live on the first floor of the apartment building the door was open. everyone in the apartment building stopped there after work. they would stop for a drink and play polka, not polka, poker. and lynched to john gibbons play an accordion on his wooden leg. you had the sense of people having come over if not in mass by a great number to this other place with a kind of echo of that place being transposed into the world that became my world. so that of my mother's side of the family. my father's side was more mysterious. over time i heard stories of lost aunts and saint john >> new found land which is not where they are from and a deeper ech

it seems that we have a round robin going. they get to it to thousands of dollars in overtime and get thousands in pay. >> i am president of the san francisco police officers association i just came to talk about going through mine campaign. what do you see as your particular assignment? i know that we are fully aware that there is a budget crunch and we are aware of an economic downturn. it is important to remember that the basic tenet of any police department is to respond to calls for service in a timely manner to respond to the citizens of san francisco. i just returned from harvard on a seminar on the future of policing. these are tools in the toolbox, we can't get so caught up in statistics and crime suppression which we have done a fantastic job of in the city but we cannot forget that the front-line officers are the one that it is all about. i have seen stations that have gone down in the past six months and that is putting a tremendous burden on the stations. calls for service are not going anywhere. trying to do more

i'm robin roberts, in los angeles. >> and i'm george stephanopoulos. it's friday, february 18th.igh-stakes battle in the heartland. thousands converge on wisconsin's capitol, camp out overnight, to protest the governor's budget cuts. teachers call in sick. and democrats escape the state to prevent a vote. is your state next? >>> mystery solved. that reporter who garbled her live broadcast, speaks for the first time about what really caused her confusion on-air. >>> and a "gma" exclusive. lindsay lohan's mom. what does she say about the missing necklace? more jail time for lindsay? and how to get her daughter, back on track. dina lohan joins us live. ♪ >>> good morning, america. >> and we're live from the set of "modern family," with the cast and all the behind-the-scenes secrets. "gma's" "modern family" friday kicks off right now. >> this is going to be so good. >>> and, boy, manny is exactly right. what a week we had with "modern family." and, robin, you had a chance to cap it off today. >> we thought we'd have a little fun, since it's friday, george. i'm actually in jay and glo

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a local red robin restaurant helped a fourth grader raise some money for her school. there she is.icture from last night's event. they celebrated her victory. her hamburger is a winning gourmet burger, which is filled with roasted bell peppers, you are seeing it there, bacon and avocados. so tasty that it won a nationwide red robin burger contest. >> i think we need to do some investigative reporting on that one. >>> we have a lot more coming up at 6:00. >> a man is accused of molesting children at an after school program, and now police are worried there could be more victims. we'll have details on that. >>> we will also talk to a bay area woman whose friend is trapped in her apartment in cairo. a live report is coming up next. >>> violence is heating up again in cairo this morning. we'll show you what's happening at the center of the city and hear the desperate pleas of a woman trying to get out. >>> and we'll talk to a bayre