the idea that you don't use your hands, are you going to beat sexting in driving? phone? >> from the most famous death on a segue, no steering wheel. the billionaire who bought it was writing it around his mountain retreat in went off of the mountain and died. >> i did not know that. >> yes. interesting. so we will let's see you. nighter you're doing that. okay. me either. mong lawns. oh, yes. the mayor of paris said added a group of a shaggy black she. the city has installed an electrified advance to prevent them from terrorizing the rest of paris. what dyou think of this idea? >> the kind of like the concept. they're trying to go green. instead of lawn mowers the used fuel and gasoline, they have these. melissa: notices of their black sheep. >> not only cutting the grass but fertilizing it as well. melissa: is that a good thing? >> i'm sorry. terrible idea for three reasons. don't fool with mother nature. sheep are flatulent and fill the and didn't cattle ranchers get in range wars with sheep farmers over the fact that they were running the cattle ranchers grazin

. >> new this morning, the narc d new york congress plan who resigned over a sexting scandal is considering coming back, weighing a run for new york city mayor this year, anthony weiner tells "new york times" magazine conceding he would be an underdog. he represented queens and brooklyn for a decade until it came to light he was texting naked pictures of himself to young women he met online. >> new this morning, the postal service will continue to deliver your mail on saturdays for now. this morning the postal service announced they were canceling plans to switch to five-day a week delivery. there were plans to stop delivering regular mail on saturday starting in august to save the agency $2 billion a year. now the board of governors says that congress has passed spending measures that prohibits a cut in services. >> i saw the temperature gauge on the car it was 70 degrees at 9:30 this morning. >> in san francisco! >> no doubt. 76 is the high here so if you are headed to the game, i will have the forecast. check out the beautiful picture from east bay hills back to the west, no low clouds i

he resigned after being cut in a sexting scandal. >>> and no leftover money from his failed campaign to sarah palin. the unspent $1.3 million was put in an account for future mcclain political runs >> the official dedication ceremony will be held next month. >> rand paul delivered a speech at howard university wednesday where he was again put in the spotlight over civil rights. >> i've never waivered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. the dispute, if there is one, has always been about how much of the remedy should come under federal or state or private purview. >> you might remember the issue dog paws ultimately successful 120 senate campaign. the group mayors against gun violence targeted florida senator marco rubio. it slams rubio saying his presidential ambitions make florida less safe. >>> and joe barton citing the old testament about man made global warming and said bp was the victim of the shakedown after the gulf oil spill. >> if you're a believer in the bible, one would have to say the great flood is an example of climate change that. certainly wasn't be

congressman anthony wiener and his wife will give their first interview since he resigned following his sexting scandal. something the publication neither confirmed or denied. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> we want you to take a look at this. incredible video out of kansas today where a storm dropped golf ball-sized hail. some hailstones reaching upwards of 2 inches. all over the place there. nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us now and hopefully we don't see too much more of that especially those without car insurance. that could be problematic. >> it's rough. the hail coverage. >> yeah. >> you need it in some areas of the country and maybe the next couple of days. severe weather outbreak. we haven't had many throughout the spring. very lucky. haven't had tornado fatalities in over a month. they approach st. louis, peoria, springfield and rain will be towards chicago during the morning rush hour. later today, though, as our spring storm comes out of the plains. the areas of yellow for large hail, possibly damaging winds and tornadoes near the colorado/kansas border most

. >>> two years after a sexting scandal cost him his job, anthony weiner is back on twitter.t was this half-naked picture that led to the downfall of the new york congressman. a link to a policy statement on new york city. >>> former south carolina governor mark sanford not apologizing for getting caught going out of the back door of his ex-wife's home in february. using his cell phone as a flashlight. in a newspaper ad, he addressed the accusations of trespassing. saying he entered the home because, quote, he didn't think his 14-year-old son should watch the super bowl alone. sanford is trying to re-enter politics, running for a vacant congressional seat. >> is that just getting more and more bizarre? >> that's a strange one. >>> it was supposed to be a fun canoe trip in south florida wilderness for a son his and father. but it turned into something much worse, much more menacing, when little joey fell from the boat ramp into the shallow water. and a gator grabbed him. that's when his dad sprang into action, punching the eight-foot gator, which eventually did let go. joey es

. >> new this morning, the narc d new york congress plan who resigned over a sexting scandal is consideringing back, weighing a run for new york city mayor this year, anthony weiner tells "new york times" magazine conceding he would be an underdog. he represented queens and brooklyn for a decade until it came to light he was texting naked pictures of himself to young women he met online. >> new this morning, the postal service will continue to deliver your mail on saturdays for now. this morning the postal service announced they were canceling plans to switch to five-day a week delivery. there were plans to stop delivering regular mail on saturday starting in august to save the agency $2 billion a year. now the board of governors says that congress has passed spending measures that prohibits a cut in services. >> i saw the temperature gauge on the car it was 70 degrees at 9:30 this morning. >> in san francisco! >> no doubt. 76 is the high here so if you are headed to the game, i will have the forecast. check out the beautiful picture from east bay hills back to the west, no low clouds in th

i hear about sexting, i hear about kids committing suicide, we naed to talk about it. have you thought about hurting yourself? >> is that hard for parents to do, to say those words? >> absolutely. as a parent i would think i'm going to place the thought in my child's mind. studies show 50 percent of high school students have ideation of suicide. 50 percent. >> you have been an advocate now. as hard as this journey has been for you and your wife, it's been several years, how is the community responding to you all. >> it's amazing, 43 months, 3 days. we look at it, keeps going -- the community has been very responsive. very helpful. we have devised and we created a fund raiser called jill's right for hope. we've held this, it's a fund raiser for cassie in memory of jill. the people in our community to be there and understand the cause to support cassie and how important it is to be there for kids, now not only are they in the high school for 4 years, they have just entered the feeder middle school for another 3 years. that's 7 years that kids will have free mental health

. >>> and disgraced democrat whose sexting scandal cost him his congressional seat.n to twitter once again. what anthony weiner is using his 140 characters to say this time. it's tuesday, april 23rd. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >>> >>> we are going to begin with terror stopped in its tracks. two men are under arrest accused of taking aim at train passengers. >> the suspects were picked up in canada and officials say they have been linked to al qaeda in iran. abc's pierre thomas has the very latest. >> reporter: the deadly plot to derail a busy passenger train en route from new york to toronto. murdering hundreds. >> had this plot been carried out, it would have resulted in innocent people being killed or seriously injured. >> reporter: the target, an amtrak passenger line that partners with canada's via rail. thousands of people use the targeted route from new york's penn station to toronto every year. and the service crosses one of the most spectacular bridges in north america. sources tell abc news the pla

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. >>> a teenage girl accused of sexting in northern virginia, why some say there was a double standard in the way she was published. >> everything was loud, i heard the explosion, called 911, i was waiting for the firefighters to come. >>> the fight to reach three college students trapped as the house went up in flames around them. >>> and temperatures will continue to warm as we finish off the workweek. but cooler air arrives for the weekend. your complete forecast coming up >>> honoring the victims of virginia tech, the solemn . >> neighbors in arlington say they watched as two women jumped from the second floor of a burning home. the fire started this morning along north dinwiddy street. the flames were so intense it took more than 50 firefighters to get it under control. three people were home at the time. crews rushed two of them to the hospital with burns. the fire trapped a third person, samantha pazzo in the basement of the house. >> when i saw the smoke outside the door and i was trapped, i just had one exit, which was the back door. and the fire was in the back of the house.

. >> the new york congressman who resigned in 2011 over a sexting scandal is considering a comeback.representative anthony weiner says he is weighing a run for new york city mayor this year. the democrat tells "new york times" that "it is now or never" for me. he concedes he would be appear underdog and represented queens and brooklyn for more than a decade until it came to light he was texting naked pictures of himself to young women he met online. >> the people have spoken and gamemaker electronics arts is named the worst contain in america. consumer affairs blog on tuesday wrapped up the annual poll where readers picked the worst company, they were up against bank of america in the final round of the competition and claimed the title with overwhelming 78 percent of the vote. comcast and ticket master topped the list as being the best of the worst. >> occupy. the worst of the worst. >> right, worst of the worst. home values are moving. that is not good for a south bay city. >> with tax day a few days away, you can rest easy if you are worrying about appear audit. >> we will explain

this is not the first politician that has fallen to a sext scandal and returned successfully.id vitter caught up in a prostitution scandal, got re-elected. mark sanford just got -- he got open the appalachian trail and now he'll run against stephen colbert's sister. >> vanessa, i want your opinion. we're thinking in terms of former mayors in new york city -- oh, and we just lost ben. down to three. can we still keep rolling? we have three. let's keep going. vanessa, to you, because we were thinking, we have a picture of a cross-dressing rudy giuliani from some time ago. supposed to be a joke, right? a little kerfuffle, like a political roast. it is new york. not like it is peoria we're talking about. >> right. i mean, you know, politicians have nine lives. we have such a short memory in terms of what they have done in the past, and people have come back from a lot worse things than tweeting out, you know, their indiscretions over the airwaves. i think that if he comes out legitimately humble with policies that the new yorkers believe are strong and can actually help the city,

legislators can't even keep up with this notion of sexting and children that have naked pictures of themselves. >> given steubenville and the publicity that that received, that these kids are out there still doing this, taking pictures, it's utterly disgraceful and there's some message not getting through to these young people that this is criminal behavior, it's rape, sexual battery, and you go to prison for it. why is this message not getting through to these kids? i don't understand. >> or perhaps this is all contemporaneous. it's been happening, coming to light, these very high-profile cases in the last several months. >> yeah. you know, i think it's a direct result of sort of the u bic quit to us nature of the internet and how all of the teens have cell phones and have the capabilities of taking these pictures rather than back in the day where they would talk about it, right, and perhaps talk about it amongst themselves. now we have people facebooking and tweeting about it and taking pictures. but i think to paul's point, my goodness, is this a matter of educating our children? you know,

nearly two years after he resigned because of a sexting scandal, former congressman anthony weiner ofk is considering a possible come back. in an interview with "time" magazine, he is mulling over a run as mayor of new york. it may be, quote, now or never for me. we will see what he decides. john mccain is still benefiting from his 2008 presidential run. the arizona senator recently transferred more than $1.3 million in left over money to his senate campaign committee. that would indicate the 76-year-old senator plans to run for reelection in 2016. >>> and did you hear this news today? probably not. postal service just announcing it is canceling plans to end saturday service mail delivery starting in august. the agency says the funding bill congress recently passed prohibit the move which was designed to save $2 billion a year. but funding runs out september 30. so stay tuned on this one. those are the things we just thought you should know. [ female announcer ] new york strips. sudden trips. mr. wiggles and curling irons. for the little mishaps you feel, use neosporin to help you hea

are voters willing to be as forgiving about his sexting scandal?begin with the money lead, the "closing bell" on wall street where they will be talking about this day for a long time to come or at least until the next time the dow and the s&p 500 both shatter records all at once. alison kosik is standing by. what pushed stocks so high today? >> reporter: it seems to be about sheer momentum much of it being driven by the fed, the federal reserve pumping billions of dollars into the economy. the fed is buying billions of dollars in treasuries and mortgage backed securities every month. that's driving down interest rates and moving any investors who would otherwise invest in bonds moving them over to stocks. they are buying into stocks. and, you know, then you see the dow rocketing to their highest levels ever. it's really surprising, actually to some of the more pessimistic traders and analysts. they were predicts levels like this to come maybe during the summer time. >> when we talk about this we're not adjusting for inflation. if you adjust for inf

he resigned two years ago after a sexting scandal you probably also remember began on twitter. >> theconsidering but he may be tied up with a new film. >>> the boston herald says a dance teacher injured in the marathon bombings vows to dance again. 32-year-old adrian los her left leg below the knee. she says next year she is going to run the boston marathon even though she has never been a runner. if that doesn't give you chills and inspire you, wow. >> i believe her too. >>> the boston globe reports the newspaper received an act of kindness. the chicago tribune sent dozens of pizzas to the globe staff on monday in a note the tribune said "we can only imagine what an exhausting and heartbreaking week it's been for you and your city. you make us all proud as journalists." >> boston is trying to return to normal. about 1,000 people gathered on boylston street yesterday. at the white house president obama observed the moment of silence in the oval office and this is boylston street this morning. it's expected to reopen in sections over the next few days. >>> many people in boston use fai

it was a sex scandal with no sex involved, just sexting. >> huge scandal. >> read the whole interviewughtful. gripping stuff. >> it really is. >> thanks, juju. >>> next in our "heat index," a major shake-up at victoria's secret. reports that they're not renewing miranda kerr's contract. has that angel had her wings really clipped? and linsey davis as that story. >> good morning. victoria's secret only hires ten models to be their angels and miranda kerr, one of the highest paid has held one of those highly coveted spots since 2007 but now it seems her halo may be at stake. her eyes and smile may be devilish but make no mistake, miranda kerr became a supermodel by playing an angel. according to at least one online report, the 30-year-old model may now be getting her victoria's secret wings clipped. there are claims that the lingerie empire won't be renewing her contract, a million dollar fall from modeling heaven. >> to walk into the victoria's secret show is a huge accomplishment in the fashion industry. >> reporter: the wife of actor orlando bloom made angel history in 2007 signing o

pete's sexting. there arelets of similar examples. by the way, every one of these emergent changes brings with it the fraternal twins of opportunity and peril. there are some risks that we need to manage as we all move our lives into the global mind. if you go right now on your smartphone to dictionary.com and look up a word, without you knowing it, that business will put 200 and -- 234 small computer programs or cookies on your smartphone that will track your movements around the internet from now on. and there are lots of business that do that. we have a stalker economy out there. and they're compiling these digital files on everybody. and most of it is be -- bee nine, just selling it to advertisers so they can better target the ads they send you so you'll be more likely to want to see what they're showing you. but they're selling them to other people now, too. and there have been all too many examples of where this has caused tremendous problem, and hackers are getting into files, and foreign governments. many of our high-tech busi