sawyer is charged with possession of a firearm in a liquor establishment.tains the gun wasn't his. >> i mean, who else would contact the police detective in charge of a case before you even secure an attorney. obviously, i didn't have anything to hide. >> at sawyer's trial, the video plays a key role. witnesses praise sawyer for fending off the gunmen from outside. >> in their opinion, if it weren't for the actions of lashon, then people would be dead or injured. >> the trial ends in a hung jury. prosecutors agree to let sawyer take a state administered polygraph test to see if he's telling the truth about finding the gun in the bar. he passes and the charges are dismissed. the gunman who started the fight, marquese robbins, is eventually found and arrested. pleading no contest to two counts of felonious assault. sawyer is thankful the ordeal is over. >> america saw this video and thought, oh, god, here's another one. you know, here's a criminal. here's a -- i don't know, probably even said here's a gang member or something. but people that know me knew bet

a diane sawyer special that could change your family's future.'s home there's a gun loaded? not locked away? so tempting. >> right there. >> 1.7 american million children live in a home with an unlocked and loaded firearm. so do you really know what's in your neighbor's close et. >> is that what you were talking about? >> yeah. >> come along to diane sawyer for a special that can change your family's future. no matter what you think you' done to keep your kids safe from accidental shootings, it hasn't prepared you for this. >> oh, my god. >> 15 cameras rolling, two stunning experiments, capturing children, 9-year-olds, 4-year-olds, and the irresistible temptation to play with the guns they find. >> parents, police, shocked at what they see. friday, little girls, little boys, young guns. the diane sawyer special friday on "20/20" at 10:00, 9:00 central. >> it looks extraordinary. again, that's a special "20/20" called young guns tomorrow night at 10:00 eastern. thank you for watching abc news. as always, we're online at abc news.com. gma first thi

a diane sawyer special that could change your family's future.s to a friend's home there's a gun loaded? not locked away? so tempting. >> right there. >> 1.7 american million children live in a home with an unlocked and loaded firearm. so do you really know what's in your neighbor's close et. >> is that what you were talking about? >> yeah. >> come along to diane sawyer for a special that can change your family's future. no matter what you think you' done to keep your kids safe from accidental shootings, it hasn't prepared you for this. >> oh, my god. >> 15 cameras

nbc's diane sawyer with the store that changed so much. from all over the country your overwhelming support and one surprising celebrity who took the message to heart. ♪ started from the bottom now we here ♪ ♪ started from the bottom now the whole team here ♪ >> "started from the bottom" singer drake with a gift that shocked them all. >> this is about you. this is about your principal. this is about your future. >> now they get some much-needed help but the battle isn't over yet. just another year at strawberry mansion. >> this special edition of "nightline," tears to triumph, >>> this is a special edition of "nightline," tears to triumph, two years at strawberry mansion. >> good evening. and thank you for joining us at the end of this long holiday weekend. as we celebrate the life of martin luther king jr. tonight, we're taking another look at a school that was considered one of america's most dangerous. switchblades and fistfights a daily concern. philadelphia's strawberry mansion high school was on the brink of closure, with the clock t

abc 7 coverage of the state of union begins at 9:00 tonight with a special report anchored by diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. scott thuman will have reaction tonight at 11:00. 6:00 -- 911 calls revealed how a child felt 30 feet into a well and the extruder efforts to save her. news chopper seven was over the scene as news -- as rescuers pulled her out of the icy waters in pasadena. steven tschida is there tonight with the latest details. you can hear the terror in the woman's voice as she tries to comfort the child and get guidance from the 911 operator on how best to rescue the little girl. it happened in this yard last night -- three little girls playing when one of them fell in the well. chopper sevenws as a frantic woman, the child's babysitter called 911 on a bitter cold afternoon. a little girl fell into a deep well. >> how far down is she? >> 30 feet. >> on the call, you hear the woman tried to comfort the child. girl is conscious and talks with her babysitter as they wait for rescue workers to arrive. the 911 operator instructs the collar on how to deal with a frightened ch

. >> world news with diane sawyer is next. >> from all of us here, thanks for watching. we appreciate your time. one look live from san jose international airport, 49ers all aboard bound for seattle. after a win this weekend we hope, >>> welcome to "world news." >>> tonight, state of emergency. california running low on water, asking for help, as firefighters beat back that wildfire, and what these two men allegedly did in their careless campfire that started it all. >>> tough talk. george stephanopoulos with the russian president, his new comments about terrorists, security and gay athletes coming to russia for the olympics. >>> woman overboard. the woman who fell off the deck of this cruise ship, talks about the ordeal and what our reporter learned when she takes a plunge herself. >>> and omaha. >> omaha, omaha, omaha! >>> the superstar quarterback with the secret code, what is he really saying? >> omaha. >> omaha.

i looked over to see what diane sawyer was doing. she ate hers later.using their forks. when i tried to cut it with a fork it explode and almost hit wolf blitzer in the face. >> i am worried just about fact that wolf blitzer separates his vegetables. >> i thought that was a great idea. i didn't mean to tell that story outside of wolf's presence. >> i'm sure it's fine. >> i hear you have been tweeted. >> people are tweeting like crazy. talking about your interview with rick leventhal. it says i don't think rick leventhal is interested in your tweet. somebody else says you eat like a true southerner. #breakingfoodnews. >> go on. that's canned ham. >> someone else here says holy cow are you trying out for the food network? >> well, you know, there may come a time. that would be my guess. >> then talking about your cara cara oranges, oh, my gosh cara cara orange are the best. i just found them last week. >> i feel a lot of things are going to sell. the cara cara orange tart someone will try to make it. if you're watching over at the white house, man you guy

here is sawyer ra, who looks like she belongs in a zombie story. good luck sarah. trefer says i think all the zombie stuff started off as a scary idea, but has become a metaphor of all the monsters we are capable of becoming. all these movies highlight how we treat each other, or animal instincts. then facebook comment from michael, i want to ask max brooks, how does he return from making a zombie survival guide, does he do it to appeal to a wider audience? i'm sure we'll get to it throughout the show. >> we will be barraging max. could monster fiction prepare us? max brooks thinks so, he's made it a point to flush out a key theme, survivalism. the cdc has applied the zombie narrative for its own comic book. max welcome to our the stream." >> glad to be here. so who is our audience? >> i think it's a pretty broad spectrum. you've got people who are very into zombies, you have people who are very into survivalist culture. you've got people who are into sort of big picture disaster preparedness. i've spoken at the naval war college, ali khan at the cdc. they have cut

careyy why sawyer has been farming oysters for over 20 years.pany provides oysters to the restaurants in the san francisco bay area. >> everything these guys need to grow. >> as you can imagine, people love their oysters. so the industry has been doing very well since the 1970s. unfortunately, in 2006, some problems began to emerge. >> what we're seeing is all these larvae or the juvenile oysters, the entire populations are crashing, they're dying. it's throorming say th loormingo alarming to say the least. >> they began honing in on the real cause. >> when you have the entire loss like that, that entire crash, that is ocean acid fictio ification that we're talking about. >> ocean acidification is happening at least ten times faster than we could see in the record. >> ten times faster? >> alarming i agree. >> he started working with professor testa hill and u.s. davis's marine laboratory in bodega bay. >> about 30% what we put into the atmosphere just gets soaked like into that ocean. and that carbon dioxide changes the chemistry of the water. a

she told d diane sawyer the new was devastating. >> i felt like, after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what i thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the horizon. and i had another field of barbed wire that i had ahead of me to crawl through. >> reporter: but it won't end here. knox can appeal yet yet again to italy's supreme court. and if the guilty verdict is upheld, only then will the question of extradition be on the table. knox's parents say the ordeal has cost them everything. devastating them financially. for now, knox remains home in seattle, free. but with the dark cloud of a 28-year, 6-minute prison sentence hanging over her future. neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >> thanks to neal. >>> i want to bring in abc's chief legal affairs anchor, dan abrams. is there any way the united states will let the italians drag her back in prison in italy? >> in most cases, the answer would be yes. in italy, she is a convicted murderer. in this case, i think it's unlikely. i don't think it's impossible. but i think it's unlikely that the u.s. governmen

jennings monday rated longer than any other broadcaster except dan wrather and most recently diane sawyer closed with the words, "i'll see you right back here tomorrow night." reflecting the god like certainty of a measure oh or cronkite but it's a product that market share is crucial and that getting the viewers right back here tomorrow night is of high concern. at no time in the short closing remarks to look at public broadcasting not much time for the advent of 24 hour broadcast news. ted turner's cnn news in 1981 which began another profound change 24 hours of coverage every day. it was on january 16th, 1991, that cnn reporters found themselves as we recall in the hotel in baghdad as america launched operation desert storm. cnn's bernard shaw reported on live tell fiftying the incoming missile rounds of an air bombardment all around. the whole nature expanding once again literally overnight. edward r. morrow offered live coverage of german bombings and 50 years later here were american broadcasters in the enemy capital reporting incoming missiles about them. two observations final obs

hard hit countries governments have been selling of the families over to pay their debts artist as a sawyer reports. it's been dubbed the great european fire sale in a bid for cash these are just some of what's been up for grabs but even funds raised from headline grabbing deals might not be enough like six greek island sold for eight point five million euros an italian island sold for two point nine million exclusive rights to use the coliseums image on their products for fifteen years twenty five million euros government debt in the euro zone is greater now than it was a year ago and some of the sales of led to public anger and frustration bestselling history and culture there selling beauty things that a priceless and they've attached a price tag to it i think that's absolutely reprehensible there's absolutely no guarantee that that privatization will help consumers at all and one of the most surprising items recently put on the market was citizenship for a little over a million euros you get a maltese passport and therefore become an e.u. citizen a move that's been put on hold as two th

monica and ryan sawyer from corpus christi, texas, face a texas-sized problem, every time the bills roll >> we have a discussion all the time about how are we going to save money? we need to cut here and there. >> reporter: cable, internet, electricity, phones. it's all piling up. nearly half of american families, revealed by that brand-new "real money" poll, say they think they're overpaying for those expenses. but there's a new company that says it's probably even worse than that. it's called billcutterz. >> everybody is being overcharged, in my opinion. >> reporter: meet founder, barry gross. >> we're just like a really good tax expert, that saves you money when you file your taxes. except we do it with your monthly bills. >> reporter: his team of savings experts analyze your bill. then, call companies on your behalf and negotiate. splitting the savings they get with you, 50/50 for the first year. they wouldn't let us reveal all their trade secrets. but gave us a few tips that will work if you want to try going it alone. tip one, call at off-peak times, like early morning. they're les

place the national poverty rate would have reached thirty one percent by two thousand and twelve sawyer haters out there who scream about the socialist takeover can be quiet because when smartly implemented these programs can and do work there's perhaps no better example of this phenomenon in the poverty rate among the elderly community nine hundred sixty the official poverty rate for americans sixty five or older was an astonishing thirty five percent today thanks almost exclusive. latest social security that rate stands at just nine percent all these successes aside this country has abysmally failed one vital demographic when it comes to poverty children according to the two thousand and twelve census nearly twenty two percent of those living under the age of eighteen live in poverty when it comes to minorities the statistics are even more dire thirty eight percent of black children and thirty four percent of hispanic live in poverty and predator twelve percent of white kids consider that children have little no political voice in this country it's no wonder there's such a disparity i

and diane sawyer right back here tomorrow night. have a good evening.ood night. >> win as lose, niner fans were out in force. we'll join the 49ers faithful. for those who made the trek to green bay, we'll find out how cold it got today. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> it is good! san francisco moves on as they win here at lambeau field. >> despite frigid conditions in green bay the niners are still alive after a last, second boot to win 23-20. good evening and thank you for joining us, i'm ama daetz. there's celebration underway in san francisco. cornell bernard is live from a park, one of the many spots painted red and gold. reporter: what a game. despite the frigid temperatures in green bay, the 49ers pulled it off. this was a watch party here in san francisco. the crowd has taken off, but earlier it was a victory party. [cheering] reporter: the crowd went wild the moment the 49ers kicked that field goal, winning the game over the packers, 23-20. the food truck park hosted this watch party. one of many gathering places across the bay area from the 49

"good morning america," first thing in the morning and my pal diane sawyer right back here tomorrow nightwe join the niners party in san francisco, and look how the city is prepared for a possible celebration. >>> a thief is targeting the same home over and over. >> batkid cost more than $100,000. the tab two donors are covering. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> good evening. i'm ama daetz. it is game day and san francisco and other part0s the bay area are abuzz as the niners are on a quest to get back to tper bowl for the sixth time. let's start off our team coverage with john alston, live at a huge niners party. reporter: so far a lot of cheers and a few into boos here at 11th and division in the past few moments san francisco police showed up because there was scuffle between people outside, and now san francisco officers are trying to sort oat what is going -- sort out what is going on. generally everything has been fine here. fans have been lining up here for much of the afternoon. inside the faithful went bonkers after the 49ers' first touchdown. tv sets are set up around the outdoo

who is tom sawyer? yes. state the senator for $200. sarah. what is massachusetts? that's the state.enator, $400. sarah. what is pennsylvania? yes. literary title guy, $400.

now here is diane sawyer. >> coming up on world news our team everywhere in monster storm. we're going to show you people working in impossible conditions, so cold, they're helping everyone out as well. also, families sleeping at airport still trying to get home from the to those whoworried...... poked and prodded... taken risks... and lived in a state of "what if?"... welcome to a new state... of health. welcome to covered california. the place to find quality, affordable coverage. financial help for those in need. and nobody can be denied because of a pre-existing condition. enroll now at coveredca.com or call 1-800-752-6631. >>> a 9-year-old girl in illinois stepped up when her mom went into labor and she helped deliver her little sister. she says just push the baby out. she knew something was wrong something she'd seen on a medical tv show. >> the cord was around the baby. so i had to unwrap it a little the baby was a little purple. >> quick-thinking young lady the mom and new baby came home on new year's day. both in good health. alisa wants to be a paramedic and has s

joining i to do just that is former cia operative michael sawyer and fox newsiddle eastern terrori analystg here. let's turn right straight to it. the new york times report that says very simply, there is no volvement. your reaction. >> just being a mouthpiece for the administration. they want to make sure that hillary clinton as a chance said it elected. al qaeda owns eastern libya. there were involved in the attack. it was a very professional attack, and we are going back to this silly video that the administration first landed on. it is a ridiculous story. it is shameful for a professional news organization to be involved in this kind of clear deceits. lou: do you agree? is -- >> absolutely. actually, the ahor of this report has been criticized in egypt for months now for having sided ancontinue to side with the muslim brotherhood. more and fork to but more important, this was an attempt to shift the debate from what it was in 2012 and 2013, meaning that the administration did not do what it should have done according to what congress was disccssing to something else. yes, this was an o

and she flew home to seattle opening up to abc's diane sawyer. >> did you kill meredith kercher?. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> >> reporter: the acquittal was overturned. her boyfriend received the same ber verdict. the concern now is that italy will use its extradition treaty and ask the u.s. to send her back to italy. >> how could they not. they have a convicted felon on the book. >> you will obviously fight it. there is no way she is going back over there. >> this case can be appealed to italy's supreme court. rafael in italy, was sentenced to 25 years and was ordered to hand over his passport, john and marci. >> brandi hitt, thank you for that. we will talk hear from ammanda knox on "good morning america." >> the justice department statement says sar nie ef pleaded not guilty. the two bombs last april killed three and wunded hundreds. boston's mayor opposed the death penalty in general but says he supports the justice department's decision. >> over the past nine months the people of boston have shown the world that we have a city full of heart and courage. we stand

i'm not diane sawyer. >> jimmy: yeah. yeah. yeah. you're kevin connolly. you're a nice guy.ng to the games since i was a little kid. so i got to interview -- >> jimmy: age eight, there's kevin's right there. [ audience aws ] yeah, he's a cute guy. who is this guy? >> this is bobby nystrom. >> jimmy: bobby nystrom. good man. >> still got the 'stache. >> jimmy: he's got the mullet. he's rocking the hockey mullet. >> this is mike bossy. >> jimmy: i mean, that's a great -- >> that's a hockey face. >> jimmy: that's a hockey face right there yeah, that's so real. >> a face only a mother could love. >> jimmy: yeah. i love that. well i love that you did this, 'cause i didn't know you directed a bunch of stuff. i wanted you to direct the "entourage" movie, which you are holding out for that. probably all that director money. >> but we tried to start the rumor here. it got a little traction. >> jimmy: it did. >> and then it got shot down. >> jimmy: who might direct the movie? just say it. turtle's holding out, right? >> he is not holding -- >> jimmy: it's adrian grenier. >> it's someb

if dan rather or diane sawyer said no i wouldn't be here. does that make sense?art a moving company without getting his competitor's permission. >> we will schedule this one or this one first. >> we put an ad on craig's list and we have been busy all summer long. now he has 30 employees and 6 trucks. clean cut young guys that really sell in the moving industry. >> this customer is pleased. >> it has been great. the guys showed up exactly on time. they have been loading and working hard. >> rj learned pleasing customers sfrnt enough. he got a threatening letter from state legislators. >> -- regulators. >> we need a certificate of necessity saying there is room in the market for us to operate. >> certificate of necessity? >> a necessity within the moving market in kentucky for another mover. >> what? a business has to prove it is needed to get a license? >> you have to get permission from your own competition first. >> his law firm took his case for free. >> when starbucks began it would have had to have gotten permission from other coffee shops? >> if you proved t

if dan rather or die door diane sawyer said no, i wouldn't be here. that makes since. >> r.j.r o kentucky assumed he could start a moving company without having to get his competitors permission, so he started one. >> put an ad on craigslist, pickup truck, and we were busy all summer long. >> people wanted your services. now in just a couple years, you have 30 employees, six trucks. >> over 30 now, cleancut young guys. that sells. >> this customer is pleased. >> it's been great. they showed up exactly on time. >> but r.j. soon learned that easing customers is not enough. he got a threatening letter from state regulators. >> we need a certificate of necessity saying that there is room in the market for us to operate. >> certificate of necessity. meaning? >> the necessity within the moving mark in kentucky for another mover. >> what? a business has to prove it's needed? to get a license? >> you essentially have to get permission from your own competition first. >> tim's law firm took the case for ee. >> when starbucks began it would have had to have gotten permission from all th

if dan rather or die door diane sawyer said no, i wouldn't be here. that makes since. >> r.r of kentucky assumed he could start a moving company without having to get his competitors permission, so he started one. >> put an ad on craigslist, pickup truck, and we were busy all summer long. >> people wanted your services. now in just a couple years, you have 30 employees, six trucks. >> over 30 now, cleancut young guys. that sells. >> this customer is pleased. >> it's been great. they showed up exactly on time. >> but r.j. soon learned that pleasing customers is not enough. he got a threatening letter from state regulators. >> we need a certificate of necessity saying that there is room in the market for us to operate. >> certificate of necessity. meaning? >> the necessity within the moving mark in kentucky for another mover. >> what? a business has to prove it's needed? to get a license? >> you essentially have to get permission from your own competition first. >> tim's law firm took the case for free. >> when starbucks began it would have had to have gotten permission from a

diane sawyer and i anchor abc's state of the union coverage beginning at 9:00 eastern. >>> now to joshh the news. >>> we begin with word that one of the most popular smartphone games could be providing spies with information about millions of us. that game in question, angry birds. documents leaked by former nsa contractor edward snowden say that it -- and i'm sorry, robin -- and other popular phone apps feed massive amounts of personal data to the government, which can include your location, your political party, even your sexual orientation. >>> a new security concern for this sunday's super bowl, two men have been arrested for trying to sell highly sophisticated counterfeit tickets to the game. we saw these at the top of the show. authorities say that the suspects used a state-of-the-art piece of equipment to duplicate the bar codes which meant someone holding one of those tickets likely would have been allowed into the stadium. now, investigators say the tickets were so similar they believe it may have been an inside job. >>> and a fire lit up the sky in oklahoma as an oil tank at

. >>> here with diane sawyer an she has a riveting and unsettling special tonight on "20/20."t the legal combination of kids and guns. and diane, the numbers here are just stunning. every hour a child hospitalized because of gunshots. every other day, a child killed. >> in this country. we wanted to do something different, bring together gun owners, nongun owners, address this together as neighbors and see what we could do about those numbers. and for instance, we're asking a question. if you teach very little kids, do not touch, tell an adult but leave them alone in a room and watch them. what do they do? >> don't mess with it. >> within ten minutes they take the gun out and then do this. right afterwards this young boy narrates what it is to cross the line. >> i'm touching. i'm pulling it. see how many times i -- i'm just kidding. >> his friend shows this is how you check to see if the gun is real. >> i'm just seeing if it's real. >> only after they've had time to play they get around to those rules. >> help! help! we found a gun. two guns. i mean three -- >> two guns. >> di

and she flew home to seattle opening up to abc diane sawyer. >> did you kill meredith. >> no.eporter: last year italy supreme court overturned that acquittal and ordered this new trial and knox ex boyfriend rafael received the same verdict. >> so until this matter is completely resolved and resolved favorably, she will remain understandably concerne concerned. >>reporter: that concern is now growing with possibility of italy using its extra diagnosis treaty and pressuring the u.s. to send knox become to italy. >> how not ask to have her extradited because they have a convicted felon on the book who they will then have to demand the extradition this. >>reporter: case can be appealed to italy supreme cour court. rafael who is in italy was sentenced to 25 years and ordered to hand over his passport. this is abc news los angeles. >> now tomorrow on good morning america amanda knox will have first appearance since i tall i don't know court found her guilty of murder again. live interview with knox tomorrow on good morning america beginning at 7:00 a.m. over on channel 7. tune if ne

abc's diane sawyer has more. >> negros north and south still live in segregation, housed in slums. >>r. martin luther king striking the themes that echo around the world with that famous march on washington. like this one. oe is starting to counsel against despair. >> to adjourn the councils of despair. >> reporter: just like at the foot of the capitol. and on this newly discovered tape, dr. king cites an old slave preacher giving this message to anyone who would listen for years to come. >> lord, we ain't what we ought to be. we ain't what we want to be. we ain't what we're going to be but thank god, we ain't what we was. >> powerful, powerful stuff. >> yeah. >> 53-year-old reel to reel tape was discovered in a tennessee aktic and the last several minutes are just now being made public. >> it was from an interview done in 1960 in tennessee by a man who was planning to write a book but never ended up writing it. so his son found that tape 50 years later while he was rummaging through old boxes left in the attic by his dad. can you imagine making that discovery? >> yes. can you see the

we hope you'll join us friday night for diane sawyer's report called "young guns" at 10 p.m.arents to have with their children. watching that video just gave me chills. it's right after learning the lesson, too, with it fresh in their minds. they're still looking at it because they probably think it's a toy. they're not imagining it's a real gun. that's where -- >> guns, lock them in the safe. >>> coming up -- remembering an american icon. we'll be right back. l be right back. >> "world news now" continues af ♪ michael row the boat ashore ♪ hallelujah ♪ michael row the boat ashore ♪ ♪ hallelujah >>> some sad news to pass along to you this morning. we have learned pete seeger, icon of american folk music, has died. >> his five decade long song book once formed our culture and his life's message became part of the history of our nation. abc's linsey davis has a look at the life of this legend. ♪ >> reporter: you may >> reporter: seeger wrote hundreds of songs performed by many of the great in american folk music. ♪ every day turn turn turn >> reporter: he was a gifted story tel

thinkers, diane sawyer, george stephanopoulos and the entire team, literally sitting in the dark for20 minutes of hitting it because we plugged in some heaters on the outside to keep the team warm and times square and they had just been struck into the wall. there were lots of power checks. one of the things that i've seen in my career is to see our electrical team running from the basement of the building at times square up the stairs with a cable to plug us back and to keep us on the air. this is our network. >> david knows the story. >> the second thing that happened that night is that we know what happened in the previous presidential election when they didn't call it correctly and we had said to the team and the projection specialist that we have to be right. that we just have to be right. and so there was a gap between abc news coverage and the projection of ohio and some of the other networks and summer between eight to 15 minutes and that is an agonizing time because one sees other networks proclaiming the president obama has been reelected president. and abc news is not ther

we hope you will join us friday night for diane sawyer's report called young guns at 10:00 p.m.me. >> such an important conversation for parent to have with their children watching that video just gave me chills. right after learning the lesson too, with it fresh in their minds, still looking at it because they probably think it is a toy. not imagining it is a real gun. >> coming up, remembering an american icon. we'll be right back. >> "world news now" continues after this.mmmmeemaaa >> sad news to pass along. pete seeger has died. >> he formed our culture and his life's message became the history of our nation. linsey davis has a look at this legend. >> reporter: you may not recognize his face, but you certainly know pete seeger's music. seeger wrote hundreds of songs performed by many of the greats in american folk music. he was a gifted story teller and learned at the feet of a master, woody guthrie. >> when i first heard this song -- ♪ i said, that's just too simple. >> reporter: seeger's career as mainstream performer with the weavers was ended with a red scare.

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diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos lead our coverage beginning at 9:00 p.m. a great day. >> in the news this morning a police warning from police for women at san jose state after two women were assaulted just hours apart. and the competition for the next america's cup will be held. why officials are considering other venues over san francisco. >> good morning. the view from mt. tam with a few more clouds around. 30s and 40s for much of the north by. record warmth for the first half of the week. how about rain the second half? that's coming up next on the

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he coanchored primetime live the with diane sawyer and agency news sunday morning broadcast with sam donaldson and cokie roberts. sam continues to work in many freelance projects and we are thrilled to have them back for this evening evenings discussion. james swanson is the edgar award winning author of "the new york times" bestseller manhunt the 12 day chase for lincoln's killer. in 2006 entertaining weekly magazine named manhunt one of the 10 best books of the year and an acclaimed crime writer patricia cornwell named truman capote's in cold blood and manhunt is the best nonfiction books ever published. his other books include acclaimed lincoln's assassin's, the trial and execution and bloody crimes come the chase for jefferson davis. james swanson's current book and a topic for this evening is titled sub for the assassination of john f. kennedy. it was released today and received an outstanding review from the "washington post" who lauded the book is fresh, modern contribution to the literature of one of our most heartbreaking crimes in history. we are fortunate to have oath jame

diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos and the in the eam were sitting dark for 20 minutes.we plugged in some heaters on outside to keep time f our team warm in square and they were stuck into a wall. someone plugged some heaters and blew the entire power system out. one of the things that was the ohhing i had ever seen as to see our electrical team running from the basement of with auare up the stairs cable to plug us back in. our network. was d thing that happened that we know what happened in a presidential election when major organizations did not call it correctly. to our projection specialists we to have been right. we just have to be right. gab between abc news coverage and projection of ohio some of the other networks of somewhere between 8 and 15 minutes. agonizing because one sees other networks proclaiming he was re-elected and abc news was not there. on some of the screens behind our people at the various headquarters, the heads are going crazy because other projecting a are winner and abc news was not there. others, d to david and our job is to get it right. if

was a train wreck i guess a train crash in north dakota on monday and two trains one was carrying sawyer the other was carrying crude oil collided and people up to five miles away had to evacuate you have some thoughts on this like it is sure whether what you know what we learned we learned a lot about the oil transport in refinery business from the explosion that took place in the gulf when b.p. just committed the most horrendous crimes down here on the gulf coast well we're seeing the same thing play out with the with the rail industry now what you have to is you have a rail industry that simply does not have the infrastructure to be able to handle most of this traffic where there's been an explosion the traffic traffic almost five hundred percent north dakota is a great example sixty new transport sections put together in tracks for north dakota well part of the tracks are still the old you know business as usual you have industry continuing to externalise all the risk for the american public industry right now is the rail industry is making a ton of money by transporting oil that doe

now, reporting from washington, diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. >>> and a good evening. and welcome to all of you, as we gather together on this cold night for a lot of the country, for the state of the union 2014. and in just moments, president barack obama is going to walk into the congressional chamber and try to capture the imagination of the american people once again. for this next chapter, george, the last three years of his presidency, it's not going to be easy. >> not at all because he's coming off the worst year of the his presidency, diane. the president has never given one of these speeches as weak politically as he is today. congress dead-set against his agenda. and those who support his policies aren't sure he can get things done. the president's number one job, tonight, convince them he can. >> we want to go into the room tonight. we want to go in the chamber. show you some of the things that's happening. we think the first lady's arriving. here, the cabinet coming in. and jonathan karl is right there, inside that room. jon, tell us what you're seeing and

everybody sawyer reaction to the peace you think it is a witch hunt. >> it is.cs what major league baseball did to get its -- evidence to pay all sorts of money to witnesses paying for stolen documents over $125,000 in cash to an unknown individual. when i see bud selig on national television talk about the suspension if it makes me gag and makes the players scag because first and foremost, he has the ability to talk about every station in talk about alex. he wanted to raise his hand and takes the oath. connell: the ruling has been made all next season so what argument do you make with the legal team? what is the basis and given what the arbitrators already ruled? >> it is basically twofold. that the penalties handed out is a violation with the agreement between the union. connell: how was it a violation? >> the collective bargaining agreement either call 162 game suspension. connell: you say that they impeded the investigation? >> there is no evidence of that. there was no findings that alex did some of the things that he claimed. connell: how do you explain th