sharyn, what is the scene there tonight? what have you learned? >> reporter: terry, just to give you an idea of what this tornado did, this is concrete cinder blocks, destroyed this building. this was an auto body shop. as you can see, there's not a whole lot left of it. the amazing thing is, there were people inside when the tornado struck. they said they saw it coming through town. they took cover, everybody inside okay. and there are scenes like this all through town. we made our way through town, we could see all kinds of downed trees. we you a apartment buildings with the sides ripped off with the couch and the coffee table still in perfect place. it's really quite a scene. and right now the real focus is getting emergency vehicles through these towns to do any kind of search and rescue so they can get an idea how big this tornado was and how many more victims may or may not be out here. that's what they're trying to assess. it's an eerie feeling here tonight, terry, because all you can hear are alarms going off and people walking down the st

hi, i'm sharyn alfonsi. nice to meet you.hop owner mark envol opened the store a year ago with just 50 products. today, he has more than 3,000 items. paper towels from arizona. flip-flops from georgia. cleaning supplies from illinois. even dog food from minnesota. all that patriotism is turning a profit. in just a year, sales here have doubled. why the sudden surge of tourists? >> a lot of them say, you know, have you seen the "world news" series. once you guys did that, it just helps our store. >> reporter: andold spent about 25 hours on each item making sure every component is 100% made in america. not just the t-shirt. what about the hangers? but the display. and if it's not? >> i cut it up actually. i cut it up -- with a torch and i burned it up. >> reporter: that commitment has created 40 jobs in his store and hundreds of others at factories across the country. >> the only place to shop. >> that's what it should be, in every community in america. something -- this is groundbreaking stuff here. >> i mean, people travel 60

abc's sharyn alfonsi is here with the details. and this is strong evidence. >> reporter: it is really strong evidence. it seems like when it comes to breast cancer screenings, there are new findings every day. it can get confusing. but we've been talking to top doctors across the country all day, and they all agree, this study is a big deal. it's worth paying attention to. doctors say the results are absolutely conclusive and clear. mammography saves lives. fran levine knows that. she started getting mammograms at age 40. >> at 46, i got a surprise. the radiologist says we have to talk, i see something. >> reporter: breast cancer. 15 years later and now cancer free, she credits her annual mammogram with saving her life. and the new study shows she's not alone. the swedish study that stretched for nearly three decades showed that if screened regularly, 30% fewer women would die of breast cancer. experts say a 30% reduction would translate to 15,000 to 20,000 lives saved each year. what does this mean to women? >> so, what this mean

>> our thanks to sharyn alfonsi. 14 another region not used to such weather, northern california. four twisters were reported yesterday, including this one that touched down in a rural area about 50 miles north of sacramento. there was no damage. that same area was hit by three tornadoes just last week. >>> turning from tornadoes to flooding. thousands of people have left their homes in the dakotas this morning, as rivers in both states rise to dangerous levels. clayton sandell reports from the north dakota flood zone. >> reporter: near minot, north dakota, they're waging war against an old enemy. in 1 mabd, residents of about 20 flood-soaked houses used boats to collectbelongings. belonging. workers frantically fortified levees against the river, still rising. the mayor has ordered about 10,000 people to evacuate, one-quarter of the city's population. neighborhoods have become ghost towns. at this nursing home, elderly residents had to be evacuated. >> bye, neil. >> see you when you get back. >> reporter: in nebraska, iowa and south dakota, they're fighting the swollen missouri r

sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >>> and the other big political story this morning, will new york congressman anthony weiner resign? he was granted a two-week leave of absence by his colleagues. that is to get some treatment at an undisclosed location. it's only being increased. nancy pelosi saying it's in weiner's best interest to leave congress and president obama tells nbc weiner needs to go. >> ultimately there's going to be a decision for him and his constituents. i can tell you that if it was me, i would resign. >> now, the president also called weiner's conduct highly inappropriate. house democrats meet this morning on capitol hill with weiner at the top of the agenda. >>> more than half of the cash flown into iraq shortly after the start of the war is still unaccounted for and now congress is trying to track it down. according to the "l.a. times" $6.6 billion is missing and may have been stolen. it was all part of a $12 billion cash plan air lifted into iraq on cargo planes. the money belonged to iraq, and the u.s. may have to pay it back. >>> that monster wildlife in ariz

sharyn alfonsi has a preview. >> reporter: remember when a new american car -- >> deliver the goods. >> reporter: was part of the american dream? >> don't you feel luxurious? >> reporter: but american auto makers have struggled. and the affects to the economy have been huge. just one auto industry job supports nine others in the u.s. so, we wondered, if you're in the market for a new car, sold in america, which car would create the most american jobs? would it be an american brand? or could it be a foreign brand made here? to find out, we enlisted one brave american family -- ready to buy a car? >> we're so ready. >> reporter: and took to the assembly lines. pulling the cars apart, piece by piece. >> reporter: the panel on the side of the door? >> panel comes from illinois. >> reporter: could a foreign car stimulate more american jobs than a domestic? which one would our family buy? and would they get that new car before their old one conked out? >> reporter: how long has it been like this? >> reporter: the made in america team is on the road to find out. sharyn alfonsi, with david m

and tonight, a mississippi girl, sharyn alfonsi, looks back at three quarters of a century ago. ♪ >>ter: the music, the iconic images. a movie brought to life by the fiery characters written by margaret mitchell. >> great balls of fire. don't bother me anymore about don't call me sugar. >> reporter: one of the most popular and most quoted books ever. >> i won't think of it now. i'll go crazy if i do. i'll think about it tomorrow. >> reporter: scarlett o'hara. >> oh fiddly-dee. >> reporter: spoiled, selfish, strong-willed and loved for it. we visited beauty salons across the south today. >> bigger the hair, closer to god. >> reporter: where they dish out their own advice. >> i'm hanging in there just like a hair in a biscuit. >> reporter: but still find inspiration in mitchell's words. >> it ain't fitting, it just ain't fitting. >> i don't know nothing about birthing no babies. that part, for me, i can relate. >> as god as my witness -- >> as god as my witness, i'll never be hungry again. >> reporter: but what few fans realize is that one of the film's most quoted lines -- >> frankly,

here, with the playlist, from joyful to awful, the mother of an 18-month-old, sharyn alfonsi.e songs of crickets -- but >> reporter: from the sounds of the shore -- to the songs of crickets -- but there's no summer sound more instantly recognizable than this -- ♪ hoi far could you hear that sound when you were a little girl? >> i mean, like five blocks away. >> reporter: for kids, it's a beacon. they can hear that sound from miles away. >> oh, i'm telling you. and i hate to admit it, so i can. >> reporter: but for monos the ice cream man, it's haunting. he estimates he hears that same 40-second jingle 1,000 times a day. >> i keep hearing the sound all day. even when i go to sleep, i still hear it. >> reporter: and it turns out, ice cream may not be the only thing to start melting down on a hot summer's day. is there any sound more annoying? >> no! >> reporter: she's right. researchers recently gave a group of people math problems to do while listening to everything from a screeching saw -- -- to a baby crying. but the one sound that paralyzed most participants brains -- the mo

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sharyn alfonsi now with what this means, and the dollars and cents of what americans should do in their lives. >> reporter: he's still optimistic the economy will recover, just not as quickly as he thought a few months ago. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke today, saying the problems that are slowing the economy could persist well into next year. >> some of the head winds that have been concerning us, like problems in the housing sector, some of these head winds may be stronger or more persistent than we thought. >> reporter: and it's not just housing stalling the economy. bernanke blamed high gas prices and temporary factors, like high food prices and supply chain disruptions associated with the earthquake that slammed japan. is there some silver lining in there? >> yeah, there is. those are temporary factors. oil prices are back down. we were paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline just a few weeks ago, now we're down to $3.50. that's pretty good. and the japanese quake effects of course are temporary and japan is coming back fast. >> reporter: so, in the meantime, we wondered, what do

here's sharyn alfonsi. >> reporter: the berry family today. beautiful. athletic. full of life.wins when they were little. >> are you having a seizure? >> reporter: sick. debilitated. both plagued with mysterious illness after illness, from birth. >> one of the two of us was awake every moment of the day and night. rocking the kids to sleep or dealing with them throwing up or something. so, it was a household under chaos. >> reporter: at age 2, noah and alexis were finally diagnosed with cerebral palsy. the family learned everything they could about it, trying therapies and medications. but they noticed something strange with alexis. >> alexis would wake up in the morning and she was able to function. but by 10:30, 11:00 in the morning, she could literally no longer sit up, she couldn't swallow, she couldn't walk. >> reporter: loretta started digging. >> and i came across an article that was titled "deft diagnosis." it mimics cerebral palsy. >> reporter: the symptoms matched the twins. they were diagnosed with the disorder. treated with medication. and soon -- ♪ then about 16 mo

sharyn alfonsi has the story. >> reporter: the beery family today. beautiful, athletic, full of life. but these were the beery twins when they were little. >> are you having a seizure? >> reporter: sick, debilitated. >> yea. >> reporter: both plagued with mysterious illness after illness. >> one or the two of us was awake every moment of the day or night. rocking the kids to sleep. or dealing with them throwing up or something. so it was a household under chaos. >> reporter: at age 2, noah and alexis were finally diagnosed with cerebral palsy. the family learned all they could about it. but mom retta noticed something strange with alexis. >> alexis would wake up in the morning, and she was able to function but by 10:30 or 11:00 in the morning, she could no longer sit up. she could not swallow. she couldn't walk. >> reporter: so retta started digging. >> i came up with an article titled "deft diagnosis." >> reporter: the symptoms matched the twins, they were diagnosed with the disorder, given medications and soon -- ♪ >> reporter: then about 16 months

the list of the worst offenders was unveiled today, and sharyn alfonsi has it. >> reporter: even whenasma tv isn't on, there's no power going through it, you still suck $64 worth of electricity out of it every year. $64. and it's not the only thing. >> "selling new york," "modern family." >> reporter: meet victor. like you and i, he got a dvr so he can watch what he wants, when he wants. >> these days i'm watching a lot of "game of thrones." >> reporter: "game of thrones?" >> yeah. >> reporter: and not waste time. but that dvr is wasting more of his money than he ever dreamed. how? well, an average dvr when on and recording burns about 30 watts an hour. and when it's not on and not recording, it still burns 29 watts an hour -- every hour, 24 hours a day, costing home owners an extra $30 a year. and those are just two of the vampire appliances busy sucking electricity at night while you sleep. there's your gaming system. leave that on, and that will cost you an extra $60 a year. your computer screen saver actually doesn't save you anything. you use more electricity, costing about $50 a

sharyn alfonsi on the dollars and cents on putting americans back to work. >> reporter: if you're one of the 14 million unemployed like michael webster looking for a lead at a job fair outside of dallas -- >> i try to stay positive. it's been pretty tough. >> reporter: -- you won't be surprised by what president obama said today. >> jobs were being created. they were not being created fast enough. >> reporter: the president today in north carolina, a battleground state with 9.7% unemployment. obama today laying out a series of initiatives with the head of his jobs council. >> there's no one silver bullet on job creation. >> reporter: the suggestions included training workers for jobs that are tough to fill, like advanced manufacturing, streamlining permitting to kick start construction projects. easing visa restrictions to boost jobs like tourism and facilitating lending to small businesses. we have asked a panel of the nation's top economists to weigh in. could this work? five of six thought the concepts could create jobs, but cautioning could have little impact in the near term. oth

our made in america team summer is back with david muir and sharyn alfonsi. >> reporter: this whole made in american journey began this time, driven by a central question, that took us from new jersey to missouri to kentucky. which new car sold in america creates the most american jobs? our first stop, right after the mailman. the stewarts' house. yes, we'd found another brave american family willing to take our challenge. >> reporter: hello, hi. >> reporter: "world news," how are you? >> reporter: you guys ready to buy a car? >> we're so ready. >> reporter: there was that quick trip to the first dealership that wasn't so quick. >> reporter: that's frightening. the thing that goes in between the seats. i mean -- what -- what good is that? >> reporter: i smell something. >> reporter: you get a running start for these hills? >> reporter: dad waiting, but still waving. and they were off. first in the toyota camry. then the ford escape. and as they were looking -- >> reporter: we were digging, all the way to kansas city, missouri, to the ford plant. >> reporter: the door? >> comes from chica

sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >> interesting. >>> well, it's not surprising, then, that the economyin focus during the first major republican debate that happened last night in new hampshire. the seven candidates included the newly declared tea party favorite, michele bachmann. they reserved their most severe criticism for the president over jobs and health care. >> this president has failed. >> the obama administration is an anti-jobs, anti-business, anti-american energy, destructive force. >> president obama is a one-term president. >> now, there was a bit of controversy, when newt gingrich suggested that the u.s. would be justified in treating muslims like it has treated nazis and communists in the past. >>> now, to our daily chapter in the weinergate scandal and the political push to force anthony weiner out of his new york congressional seat. weiner's colleagues have overwhelmingly approved his request for a two-week leave of absence, so he can seek psychological treatment at an undisclosed location. house democrat uk leader nancy pelosi said yesterday, it's in weiner's best in

david muir and sharyn alfonsi are taking a look at cars and the jobs that they create. >> reporter: meetnd dad meet us at the dealership. are you guys ready to buy a car? >> we are so ready. >> reporter: who could forget the ride to the dealership in the ford explorer they bought before the kids were born, more than 111,000 miles. something that goes in between the seats? what good is it? >> i smell something. >> reporter: the transmission dying. 30 is about as fast as it goes right now. the engine light flashing. do you need a running start for these hills? we got there. dad had been waiting and waiting. but still waving. >> reporter: the stewarts' first stop? the toyota dealership and the toyota camry, the top-selling sedan in america for 13 of the last 14 years. we were off. >> a very smooth ride. very nice. very comfortable inside. >> reporter: we keep going. next up, ford and the ford escape. sales up 21% in just the last year. the most popular compact suv in america. start your engines. they were off again. as they took that escape for a test drive with an eye on gas mileage and ro

sharyn alfonsi is there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, george. i'm standing in an interior cellar staircase. you can see the house has been picked up and actually thrown to the side. the people who were inside were rescued. but next door, they weren't as lucky. the neighbors there, a woman, protected her daughter in the bathtub. the daughter survived. but the woman did not. the firefighters say they believe that mother saved her daughter's life. residents hearsay they really had no warning. trapped in a car and terrified, as the tornado touches down. >> i don't know what the right thing to do is here. but it seems like it's coming right towards us. >> dude, i really don't know. >> reporter: passengers on this highway, caught in the middle. and catching it all on video. >> wow. >> moving this car. look at that building right there. that whole thing just -- >> holy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: so much damage, the back half of this building was ripped away. so many homes left in ruins. so many lives uprooted. >> wow. look down there. destroyed. >> watch

sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >> isn't that amazing. >> it's an awareness thing too.really look at the label of anything that you buy when you go into the store? do you even know where it's made? >> hopefully more now. the fact that the "made in america" store is a novelty store. it's such an unusual idea to have a store filled with things made in america. >> exactly. >> is unusual. he brought up the walmart. that's a lot of people's complaint about walmart is so many things are not made here. >> we're talking about jobs ultimately. >>> after the break, does the color of your eyes determine your achievements in life? >> how about that. and the surprise one woman had for police when they pulled her over. gives new meaning to the term "got milk." when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement nsurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to " 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp...

here's sharyn alfonsi. >> reporter: the music, the iconic images, a movie brought to life by the fierylls of fire, don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. >> reporter: one of the most popular and most quoted books ever. >> i won't think about it now. i'll go crazy if i do. i'll think about it tomorrow. >> reporter: scarlett o'hara. spoiled, selfish, strong willed and loved for it. we visited beauty salons across the south. >> the bigger the hair the closer to god. >> reporter: where they dish out their own advice. >> i am hanging in there just like a hair in a biscuit. >> reporter: but still find inspiration. >> it ain't fitting. just ain't fitting. >> i don't know nothing abut birthing no babies. i can relate. >> as god is my witness. as god is my witness. >> as god is my witness, i will never be hungry again. >> reporter: but what few fans realize is that one of the film's most quoted lines. >> frankly my darling, i don't give a damn. >> reporter: didn't start out that way. in the novel, mitchell wrote that he drew a breath and said my darling i don't give a damn. >> frankl

sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >> not a lot of fun but worth doing.bsolutely worth doing. and we were just talking about the fact that men can get breast cancer as well. >> right. >> so it's something to look out for. but definitely want to get in there and get that done. >> take care of it. >> especially if you have a history. >>> overseas now. there's been a deadly terror attack on the luxury hotel in the capital of afghanistan. at least ten people were killed along with six suicide bombers in the assault on the intercontinental in kabul. >> the four-hour standoff ended when nato gunships fired at gunmen on the roof and also afghan security forces stormed inside. the taliban has claimed responsibility. >>> a lot of folks on edge in new mexico with new worries this morning that the 93-square mile fire burning out of control near the los alamos nuclear lab could soon double or triple in size. >> the fire has already forced the evacuation of the town's entire population of about 11,000 people. flames have come within 50 feet of the lab's grounds. offic

sharyn alfonsi is looking at this. >> might be just a game but try telling that to the parents.little league mom was so upset her son was rejected from ray team she sent threatening letters to the coach, even the school principal. janet chiauzzi is a suburban mother of two, a regular at the little league field and now in a mess of trouble. >> it's disturbing when you see children getting caught in the cross fire between this jilted mother, a teen mom and a coach. >> reporter: little league officials say her son didn't have what it takes to make a traveling team. upset, police say she sent a half dozen threatening letters to league officials, a coach, even one coach's 11-year-old son. >> i am permanently making it my goal to make sure you and your family suffer dearly. >> reporter: chiauzzi isn't the only parent whose temper got the best of them. remember thomas junta, the hockey dad who killed another parent. >> you never stopped between any of those punch, did you, mr mrmr. ju mr. junta, to see whether that was enough. >> it took about two seconds to throw three punches. that w

sharyn alfonsi abc news, west springfield, massachusetts. >>> very interesting.ore damage. right now massachusetts, they're still going door to door looking for anybody that may not be accounted for. maybe people trapped under rubble there. >> absolutely. still never ceases to amaze me how one building can be demolished. and right next door, pristine. >> or sometimes the same building, one side sheared off. electrical issues. a lot of people without power the continue to follow that in massachusetts. >>> taking a look now at your weather. severe storms with the threat of tornados from the upper midwest down to the texas panhandle. storminess, southeast, montgomery, atlanta, charleston. scorching heat in the south. expecting rain in northern california. >> a wet 68 in sacramento. 83 in colorado springs. 65, billings. omaha, 90, chicago, 86. 70s, boston, new york. we'll take the relief. atlanta, 96, dallas, 97. >>> and now, on to our favorite golden girl. if you don't need any more evidence, betty white can't be stopped these days. the nation's favorite actress, at

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