scott goldberg has more. >> reporter: in the basement of the home where ayla reynolds was last seen,found blood that ble longs to the 1-year-old who is missing for six weeks. >> it wasn't a small amount. so -- it's really scary. >> reporter: her mother says police told her it's more than a small cut would produce. it turns the spotlight to justin dipietro. he reported her missing one morning. >> i can't comp hnd it like i -- i don't want to it be real. >> reporter: just this weekend, ajyla's parents were seen together for the first time. dipietro didn't want to talk. >> i'm not here to answer questions. i'm here to show support for the community -- >> for ayla. >> reporter: he's not been named a suspect. a state police spokesman said they have not found one piece of evidence that supports abduction. day don't believe dipietro, his mother, and one other adult there at the home at the time she disappeared don't have more information. >> it was amazing to have him by my side. >> reporter: she's trying to stay opt misic. >> i really miss her. >> reporter: anyone with information is urged

scott goldberg reports. >> reporter: for many republicans jon huntsman was the other moderate in thee. not mitt romney and not able to gain traction. >> this race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks, not worthy of the american people. and not worthy of this critical time in our nation's history. >> reporter: running low on>td cash and support, he trailed comedian steven colbert in one poll, today huntsman endorsed the gop front-runner he was hammering one week ago. >> i believe it is time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama, despite our differences and the space between us, on some of the issues, i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >> reporter: the former governor of utah and ambassador to china, under president obama, had been one of romney's harshest critics. his aides are scouring the web trying to erase videos highlighting romney's flip-flops. >> do you trust governor romney? >> he was hat put forth reason if give us a reasonq,e. for uso trust him. >> reporter: new hampshire was where hunts

scott goldberg reports. >> reporter: no longer the front-runner and forced to disclose more information sooner than he would have liked mitt romney released two years of tax details. his 2010 return and 2011 estimate say romney earned more than 42 million dollars over that period. romney gave seven million dollars to charity over those two years, more than half to the mormon church and paid six million dollars in taxes. that means romney's tax rate is about 14%. his taxes would be much higher if his income came from a but instead it is from investments. >> i pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. >> reporter: romney made no apologies last night in florida. this morning democrats were all too happy to weigh in. >> we need to mick shower -- make sure that middle class workers are not paying more than people making 100 million dollars a year. >> reporter: romney tried opportunity takes on gingrich after he disclosed he made hundreds of thousands working for freddie mac. romney call it lobbying. >> you just jumped a long way over here friend. >> another area of i

scott goldberg reports. >> reporter: for many republicans jon huntsman was the other moderate in thease. not mitt romney and not able to gain traction. >> this race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks, not worthy of the american people. and not worthy of this critical time in our nation's history. >> reporter: running low on>td cash and support, he trailed comedian steven colbert in one poll, today huntsman endorsed the gop front-runner he was hammering one week ago. >> i believe it is time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama, despite our differences and the space between us, on some of the issues, i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >> reporter: the former governor of utah and ambassador to china, under president obama, had been one of romney's harshest critics. his aides are scouring the web trying to erase videos highlighting romney's flip-flops. >> do you trust governor romney? >> he was hat put forth reason if give us a reasonq,e. for uso trust him. >> reporter: new was where huntsman play

scott goldberg reports. >> reporter: no longer the front-runner and forced to disclose more information sooner than he would have liked mitt romney released two years of tax details. his 2010 return and 2011 estimate say romney earned more than 42 million dollars over that period. romney gave seven million dollars to charity over those two years, more than half to the mormon church and paid six million dollars in taxes. that means romney's tax rate is about 14%. his taxes would be much higher if his income came from a but instead it is from investments. >> i pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. >> reporter: romney made no apologies last night in florida. this morning democrats were all too happy to weigh in. >> we need to mick shower -- make sure that middle class workers are not paying more than people making 100 million dollars a year. >> reporter: romney tried opportunity takes on gingrich after he disclosed he made hundreds of thousands working for freddie mac. romney call it lobbying. >> you just jumped a long way over here friend. >> another area of i

scott goldberg has more on the debate in myrtle beach, sponsored by fox news. >> reporter: five sharedstate. mitt romney and those still battling to be the anti-romney. are going to go out and have somebody criticize me for restoring voting rights to people who served their time and paid their debt, why didn't you try to change that when you were governor of massachusetts? >> first of all, >> i think is part of what a campaign is about to raise questions and see whether or not your competitor can answer them effectively, before you get to a general election. >> reporter: when huntsman bowed out he suggested the others should do the same. romney wind in the room when huntsman endorsed him. bad blood isn't the only reason. >> branded or embraced by the moderate candidate in this race is probably not something he was looking forward to >> reporter: the stakes in south carolina are high, since 1980, every winner of the republican primary there has gone on to win the nomination for president. scott goldberg, abc news, new york. >>> new hope for businesses at sierra ski resorts with pacific

we're joined by abc's scott goldberg. good morning, scott. >> reporter: good morning, rob and paula. if the weather cooperates, they'll start getting some of that 500,000 gallons of fuel off the ship. while rough seas kept crews out of the water and raised concerns that fuel might start leaking, back on land, the "costa concordia"'s first victim was identified. 38 year-old thshandor from hungy was the first victim identified. he was helping children get their life vests on. he went to his cab on the get his vie line and never came back. the captain is quoted as saying he didn't leave the ship on purpose. he says he tripped and fell into a lifeboat which hauled him to safety while passengers and crew members fought for their life. this vid know shows the same boat passing even closer to the island. the cruise company blames him for going off course. when divers can get back on the ship, they'll be up to their shoulders in water and debris. the grim reality, they're no longer looking for survivors. officials are now saying 2

scott goldberg, abc news, new york. >>> vice president biden will be in san francisco tomorrow for al range from $2500 to $10,000. president obama and the first lady are expected to be in town before april. >>> 6:45. the world's most popular online encyclopedia plans to shutdown tomorrow in protest. wikipedia is joining other tech companies to oppose an anti-piracy bill under consideration in congress. media companies and other supporters say the legislation is needed to protect intellectual property and jobs. those in the industry say it could give courts the power to take down a website that links pirated material hosted in a foreign country. >> this could interfere with the free speech rights of companies like google to link to sites that are accused of copyright violations. even google may not have done anything wrong linking to it could be a violation of this law. >> i have a message to users of wikipedia, do your homework before midnight. >> wick media is joining other sites in -- wikipedia is joining other sites in the planned shutdown which could last 24 to 48 hours. >>> well

scott goldberg, nbc news. >>> the parents of a teenager shot and killed by police in texas are demandingwers. officers were called to a middle school in brown's bill yesterday because the 15-year-old jaime gonzales had a gun. when they confronted him, he pointed it at them and they opened fire. it turns out the weapon was a pellet gun. his parents said police did not have to kill their son. >>> a service member in the navy and virginia has been arrested facing charges of stealing bomb- making materials from work. police went to joseph's home to investigate a domestic assault. a search turned up several bomb- making materials that included smokeless gunpowder and fire and piping. authorities are trying to figure out what he was up to. >>> authorities are blaming fog and smoke at a chain collision accident in southeast texas. two cars,. up to 30 people went to the hospital and four critically injured. fog and smoke from nearby marsh fires caused near zero visibility in that area. >> seems like there's some kind of chain reaction crash almost every day. >> seems like it happens a lot. >>> p

abc's scott goldberg is following the campaign and has the latest. r: rob, paula, iowa is ancient history on the political clock. it is on to new hampshire where mitt romney picked up the endorsement of the man who beat him there four years ago and rick santorum is hoping he can come from behind and knock off romney this year. >> new hampshire is a state that will catapult him on to victory in a very short period of time. that's why i'm here. >> reporter: senator john mccain won the state's primary four years ago and beat romney in a bruising fight for the gop nomination. now romney hopes to start rolling after his thin eight-vote win in iowa over rick santorum. >> game on. >> reporter: santorum isn't the only one promising to make that road rough. >> i said i would reassess last night. i reassessed. we're headed to, headed to new hampshire and then to south carolina. >> reporter: rick perry wants another shot after finishing fifth in iowa. fourth place finisher newt gingrich already is on the attack. >> governor romney is a moderate massachusetts rep

scott goldberg explains. >> reporter: in seat altransformer explodes on the horizon. a quarter of a million customers begin without power in western washington state with ice falling on top of snow. warmer temperatures are on the way. in oo the flood waters are falling back after three people died, some areas saw more than 15 inches of rain. >> we are hoping to save their camper and car. the water was moving so fast, we got there too late. >> reporter: the storm rolls in to the midwest, chicago, hundreds of flights have been canceled, and temperatures have plunged to the lowest depths of the season. >> reporter: across the entire midwest, they are getting ready for what could be the heaviest snowfall this winter, which isn't saying much given the 1000 or so cities across the country reporting record warmth at the beginning of the month. by mondays, temperatures here in new york should climb in to the 50s. first, the east coast is expecting the same storm. salt trucks getting ready from new york to boston on the back end that brought something to everyone up north. >>>

scott goldberg, abc news, new york. >> so the arresting officer is a reserve deputy. a year? >> guessing not a lot. >> how about $1. $1 a year. >> what he makes? >> a dollar, four quarters, ten dimes. 20 nickels. >> you are a math major. >> wonder if they get taxed on that? >> let's hope not. $1 a year, he's the one who cracked the case. in store for a raise. earned a raise. $10. >> he is an attorney. an iranian-american attorney. this is just part time. >> congratulations to him. volunteers. worth not measured in money. >> doesn't it make you feel better that you make $2 a year. >> feels about right. here in new york that goes a long way. >>> in other news, the counsel on islamic american relations slamming a fire bomb attack on an islamic cultural center here in new york city. police are investigating the attack and three others at nearby sites on sunday night. look at the video. investigating these as possible hate crimes. so far though they have made no arrests and security around the center is extra heavy this morning. >>> an iraqi war vet suspected in the killin

scott goldberg, abc news, new york. >> gop candidates may be focusing on the primary in south carolinada is getting a jumpstart. the primary is not until january 31 but more than 82,000 ads have been turned in and ballots have been turned in. early voter turnout is expected to set a record in florida. >> voters starting voting in florida two weeks ago. ballots are critical. that is the difference maker here. >> larry: we've seen that before. campaign workers for mitt romney and newt gingrich are using directed mail add automatic phone dialers. about a third of the state's 4 million registered republicans are expected to cast ballots early. first lady laura bush is revealing her pick. she told an audience she and her husband both wish younger brother jeb was are running for office. jeb bush is the former governor of florida. he said he is not running this time around. >> cheryl: coming up, california is moving down, not up in the worldwide economic ranking. which country knocked the golden state toward the bottom. >> larry: plus the bone chilling words of a skier moments before a tragic

here's scott goldberg. [applause] p. >>reporter: first product announcementment from apple since the death of the company founder would have made steve jobs proud. >> i am extremely proud to be the first to tell you about the brand new i book 2. >>reporter: executives in boring clothes unveiled splashy new technology. in this case application for the i pad that makes text book prettier, lighter and full of things you can't do on paper. >> i don't think there has been a text book with such a great intro movie. >>reporter: apple announce new software for creating text book and partnership with 3 company that make most of the text book students use now. >> you want to add a note tap on the note icon. >>reporter: what apple didn't say is how many students actually will be able to use this new technology the text book cost 15 dollars but i pad start at 500 and company didn't announce plans to discount or give away any of those. >> already over 1.5 million i pad in education institution so it is taking off very quickly. >>repo

scott goldberg has the story. without huntsman in the race 5 candidate shared the stage. romney.ing to be the anti-romney. >> you are now going to go out and have somebody criticizing me for restoring voting rights to people who exhaust their sentence and serve their time and pay the debt to society why didn't you change that when governor of massachusetts. >> first of all -- [applause]. >> i think that's part who have a campaign is about. is to raise questions and see whether or not your competitor can answer them effectively before you good it to a general election. >>reporter: earlier in the day when hunts map bowed out he suggested the others should do the say. >> i believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. >>reporter: in new hampshire hunts map thought had he a chance against romney but finished disappointing third. conservative south carolina it would have been an uphill battle. in one poll he even trailed a heed. now the former utah governor and china ambassador trying to undue the attack his campaign waged lik

abc's scott goldberg has details. military leaders who have been studying the budget for months presented a plan for a scaled down military that maintains superiority in the president's words, at the same time there is new violence in the country. the u.s. military just left. in parts of iraq it looks like chaos is coming back. two apparently coordinated attacks in shiite neighborhoods around baghdad killed 68 people. on the same day president obama announced a major turning point in u.s. military policy. a new strategy after athe wars in iraq and afghanistan pushed defense spending to new highs. >> yes the tide of war is receding. but the question that this strategy answers is what kind of military will we need long after the wars of the last decade are over. >> reporter: a military that defense secretary leon panetta says will be stronger and leaner and because of budget constraints has to be more agile, flexible, innovative and creative. fewer troops, more focus on asia. >> let me be clear, the united states milita

abc's scott goldberg is following the gop campaign. er: rob and paula, mitt romney wants to keep his momentum going, and his opponents are fighting for their political lives as they all move on to south carolina, a state where the winner of the republican primary has gone on to win the gop presidential nomination in every election since 1980. mitt romney landed in south carolina with the wind in his sails. >> i think you have to say, this has been a failed presidency. >> reporter: but also a target on his back. his rivals already are playing hard to the conservative crowd. >> i'm proud to stand up and say that i'm a christian. >> reporter: rick perry is talking up his evangelical credentials, knowing romney's mormonism might be more of an issue in the south. perry also kept pummeling the management firm romney used to lead. >> companies like bain capital could have come in and helped these companies. if they truly were venture capitalists. but they're not. they're vulture capitalist. >> reporter: before he left new hampshire, romney sai

with the very latest on this now we are joined by abc's scott goldberg. . >> reporter: good morning, rob and paula. if the weather cooperates today, crews will start extracting the 500,000 gallons of fuel still inside that ship and divers will go back to the wreckage where they now admit they are no longer looking for survivors. while rough seas kept rescue crews out of the water and raised concerns that fuel might start leaking, back on land the "costa concordia's" first victim was identified. ♪ 38-year-old sandor feher from hungary seen here in a video he posted on youtube while he was looking for a job was an entertainer on the ship. one of his colleagues said feher was helping children put on life jackets before he went back to his room to get his violin and never came back. the ship's captain, francesco schettino, remains under house arrest facing possible charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. but he's quoted in an italian newspaper saying he didn't leave on purpose. he now says he tripped and fell into a lifeboat which hauled him to safety whi

abc's scott goldberg shows us more. >> english lessons, scott?ave them or couldn't afford them. that didn't happen. but for those who already own the technology apple says this new app will revolutionize learning. the first product announcement from apple since the death of the company's founder would have made steve jobs proud. >> i am extremely proud to be the first to tell you about the brand new ibooks 2. >> reporter: executives in boring clothes unveiled splashy new technology. >> the content's amazing. >> reporter: in this case an application for the ipad that makes textbooks prettier, lighter, and full of things you can't do on paper. >> i don't think there's ever been a textbook that started with such a great intro movie. >> reporter: apple also announced new software for creating textbooks and a partnership with the three companies that make most of the textbooks students use now. >> if you want to add a note, tap on the notes icon. >> reporter: what apple did not say is how many students actually will be able to use this new technology.

abc's scott goldberg is joining us now with more on this ongoing story. tain says he acted honorably, but these recorded phone conversations between the captain and the italian coast guard suggest that was not the case. as the giant cruise ship was listing and more than 4,200 people on board scrambled to save their own lives, captain francesco schettino was sitting safely in a rescue boat. at least that's how it sounds in these recorded phone calls. an italian coast guard official says, "you go on board the ship and you tell me if there are children, women or people that need assistance. look, schettino, you may have saved yourself from the sea but i will put you through a lot of trouble. it will be very bad for you. get back on board." at a preliminary court hearing prosecutors accused schettino of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and then abandoning crew members and passengers after he deliberately steered the ship off course. >> he's a coward. i mean, we're fighting for our lives and he's more concerned about himself. >> he's supposed to go down with t

. >> abc's scott goldberg is covering the republicans who debated again last night. ing, paula and dan. it was a pivotal day for jon huntsman. he went from being a candidate to being out of the race and from saying mitt romney is unelectable to saying romney has the best chance of beating president obama in november. without jon huntsman in the race, five candidates shared the stage in the debates on the fox news channel. mitt romney and those still battling to be the anti-romney. >> you are now going to go out and have somebody criticize me for restoring voting rights to people who have exhausted their sentence and served their time and paid their debt to society, then why didn't you try to change that when you were governor of massachusetts? >> well, first of all -- [ applause ] >> i think that's part of what a campaign is about, is to raise questions and see whether or not your competitor can answer them effectively before you get to a general election. >> reporter: earlier in the day, when huntsman bowed out, he suggested the others should do the same. >> i believ