. >>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline." january 1st, 2013. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran, and we begin tonight with some late-breaking news out of washington. just a little while ago, the house of representatives approved the passage of a last-minute deal to narrowly avoid that fiscal cliff after weeks of increasingly heated, even ridiculous infighting. this late compromise will prevent many of the dreaded effects of the cliff, only the top 2% of americans are going to see a tax increase, sparing the other 98%, and those big spending cuts, they will be postponed. president obama tonight spoke about the nation's road ahead. >> the sum total of all the budget agreements we have reached so far proves that there is a path forward, that it is possible, if we focus not on our politics, but on what's right for the country. and the one thing that i think hopefully in the new year we'll focus on is seeing if we can put a package like this together with a little bit less drama, not scare the heck o

. >> hello, everyone, i'm terry moran.to have you with us tonight. across the animal kingdom, gifts are an important part of the mating ritual. some bird woo their mates with fresh caught fish. humans, we opt for shiny rocks. and now, some dating web sites are cutting straight to the give and take, connecting young women with rich, older men to trade their youth and beauty for his cash and prizes. we have got our first look inside the mutually beneficial arrangements last summer. tonight we bring you the jetsetting new twist on the sugar baby dating game. here is abc's alex perez. >> reporter: you never know where you are going to find love, online, through a friend, possibly even at your doorstep. but for the right price, and legally, a young college student can come knocking. >> good to see you. >> reporter: meet 63-year-old tommy and 21-year-old monti. they have been together for two years. >> i am just not feeling -- >> hole in one! >> i love them. >> yeah, they look great. >> they're fun. >> yeah, they are. >> thank y

. >>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," january 3rd, 2013. >>> good evening. i'm bill weir. and it is the dream of countless american families. a knock on the door from a big-time college football scout and a spot on a team that fills coliseums on saturday. but tonight comes a revelation from a former star about the pain and pressure that exists inside the nation's football factories and the injectable risks some young men take in order to stay on the field. abc news's chief investigative correspondent brian ross brings us this "nightline investigates." >> reporter: game day at usc in los angeles. part of the huge college sports industry. with lucrative tv contracts, millionaire coaches and avid fans all dependent on their star players giving everything on the field, even when hurt. >> there's really no other option because i want to play, they wanted me to play, they needed me to play. >> reporter: but now abc news has found that behind the scenes of that drive to win at usc and other major

i'm terry moran. glad to have you with us tonight.kids' binge drinking antics have become a viral business. the creators call it "i'm schmacked" and they film co-eds getting wasted, high, and everything in between. it may seem like it's all in good fun, but once those students graduate, could their hard-partying online fame carry long-term career consequences? >> reporter: so maybe this isn't something that this 21-year-old college student, who we will call by his first initial only, j, is going to want to have out there the day he goes looking for a job interview. the night at college when he partied and partied with a fair amount of this going on, and with a camera in the room. a camera held by this guy. he's a college-aged student too who has been touring the nation's campuses shooting, well, moments like this with college students like j. and then putting them up on youtube. with a partner, he's got a whole series called "i'm schmacked." their videos have gotten 600,000 for their west virginia video. collectively on youtube, seven

i'm terry moran. glad you're with us tonight.ng to bring you the latest in the twisted tale of love turned deadly, centered around a young woman accused of stabbing, shooting and slashing her one-time boyfriend. as the gruesome details of this crime have been exposed in court, the bizarre turns just keep oncoming, including explosive testimony from the other man in her life. abc's ryan owens brings us the latest from phoenix, arizona. >> reporter: admitted killy jody arias has sobbed every day of trial, but prosecutors say tears shouldn't be enough to save her life. they say the petite, soft spoken 32-year-old deserves to die because alexander's death was so heinous. he was found butchered in the shower of his mesa, arizona, home in june of 2008. he had been stabbed 27 times, his throat was slit so deep he was almost decapitatdecapitated was shot in the head. the testimony of ryan burns this week may have made her look even worse. he was a romantic interest of jodi arias, who she visited in utah less than 24 hours after she commi

. >>> from new york city, this is "nightline" with terry moran. >> hello, i'm terry moran.you're with us tonight. well, love 'em or hate 'em, the calorie counts seen on many restaurant menus across the country will soon be going national thanks to a federal law. one of the latest weapons in the war on obesity. they're there to help americans pick healthy choices while dining out. but does all that menu math really add up, or could you be packing in more calories than you bargained for? abc's jim avila has the straight skinny. >> reporter: they are supposed to help america's obesity problem. calorie counts boldly displayed on restaurant menus. >> that's kind of important to have that visibility in what you're eating. >> reporter: two states in nine counties require them today, and by the middle of this year, a federal law is expected to force chain restaurants, convenience stores and vending machines nationwide to post calorie counts. it's all part of the government's effort to help tighten waistlines and stop the obesity epidemic. how many calories you need every day varies

. >>> "nightline" continues from new york city with terry moran. >> so when you pould you pay ne $2,000the limits of your physical endurance in a grueling test? some people call that vacation. it's a camp modelled after the training of america's most elite troops, the navy seals team 6. here's bill weir with an encore presentation. >> let's go. >> reporter: some guys golf. some guys fish. some guys lay on the beach and drink. but these guys are spending their vacation at almost $2,000 a week doing sit-ups until they're ready to puke. they're eating mud while being sprayed with pellet guns. setting their sleep-deprived shoulders on fire with 500-pound logs. and jumping out of the occasional helicopter into a freezing river, all while being insulted with real salient profanity. >> in a microsecond if you're [ bleep ] up, i'll make sure i correct that. >> reporter: welcome to the extreme seal experience, the closest most mortals wil ever get to tasting the pain and glory of buds. that's basic underwater demolition school, the navy's six-month meat grinder where 80% of the men who enter fai

abc news with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city this is "night line" january 7, 2013. >> i'm assistanty mcfadden. it's that time of year again time for the holiday spending hangover and for those of you feeling the sting it may surprise you to learn you could earn hundreds of dollars from the gifts you don't want or have lying around the house. paula farris brings us the tips. >> reporter: meet jamie and jordan from new jersey, jamie is a party planner and stay at home mom to four children. dad works in the software industry. >> what did you get for christmas? >> reporter: they shop the sales to make sure santa delivered on christmas morning. >> did you get this for christmas? what is it? >> reporter: but bills can pile up. and who doesn't need some extra cash. fortunately there is a lot of loot hiding in their home and we will help them buy a new camera. >> you have a nice camera. >> yes. >> but not practical. >> not at all. i have to try to get that out right now and i lost. moment's gone. and really? really? >> you're overloaded. >> you think. >> the camera

. >>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," january 2nd, 2013. >>> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. tonight we begin with a twisted tale of romance gone deadly wrong. today, opening arguments began in the shocking murder trial of a 32-year-old woman who stands accused of an unbelievably violent crime. slashing, stabbing and shooting her one-time boyfriend. since her arrest, her story of what happened that night has shifted dramatically, and soon, her life could depend on which version a jury believes. here's abc's ryan owens. >> reporter: she may have won this jailhouse christmas carolling contest, but jody arias may have a much tougher time winning over a jury. >> this is not a case of whodunit. the person who committed this killing sits in court today. >> reporter: the 32-year-old who faces the death penalty cried today as prosecutors laid out their opening arguments, detailing for the jury in phoenix, arizona, how she allegedly murdered her one-time boyfriend travis alexander in june of 200

"nightline" is back >>> from new york city, this is "nightline" with terry moran. >> thanks for joiningumbers are shocking. each year americans throw away enough food to fill 730 football stadiums. to bring that closer to home, maybe, the average american family throws out $190 worth of food every month. and part of all that waste might be due to surprising mistakes you might not realize you're making. for our series "easy money". >> reporter: met rebecca dickinson, a stay at home mom feeding a family of four in new jersey. she makes breast breakfast, packs school lunches and cooks dinner four times a week for her two kids and husband jeff who is a financial planner. add it up enit is a significant bill with a challenge. what is your weekly food bill? >> close to 300. >> all in? giving or take. >> reporter: 1200 to $1500 a month. >> yeah. >> reporter: but how much goes to waste? the average u.s. household tosses out 25% of food purchased. that's over 720 pounds of food per family per year. we throw out enough food a year to fill 730 football stadiums. we decided to follow the dickinsons

my co-anchor terry moran went to find out. >> reporter: no matter how old you are, you can probably still remember what the bell sounded like in your school. you can still remember pushing your way through the hallways to your next class, or the minute hand on the clock in your math class that you score ran slower than every other clock in the building. but that was then. this is now. >> eight meters. and the same thing along the side. >> reporter: welcome to the kahn academy. online learning on steroids. a one-world schoolhouse that is skyrocketing to popularity, sparking controversy and fundamentally challenging the very notion of education in the 21st century. >> what we're tackling right now is the learning side. how can we democratize is information, the knowledge, so that anyone can get to whatever level they want to. >> reporter: sal kahn founded the kahn academy kind of by accident. more on that in a minute. first the sheer scale of this thing. seven million students around the world are attending the kahn academy online every month, and that number is growing by 400% per year. th

"nig >>> from new york city, this is "nightline" with terry moran. >> hello, everyone.s for joining us. tonight, a high stakes rescue mission is under way. police are staking out the underground bunker where a 6-year-old boy is being held hostage after being kidnapped from his ride home from school. it was a deadly attack in broad daylight, one raising some chilling questions about how safe children really are on the school bus. abc's jim avila brings us this report. >> just had a bus driver shot. possibly deceased. >> reporter: that was bad enough. an innocent driver shot to death. as police rushed toward his school bus in midland, atlanta, they found much worse. this bright yellow rolling sanctuary for a group of elementary school kids had become a horrific crime scene. the armed suspect police would learn had escaped with a 6-year-old boy in his hands, heading to an underground bunker on his property, holding the boy prisoner, eight feet below ground in an earthen cave stocked with supplies that could last weeks. the young witnesses telling authorities it was a raid

a special edition of >>> this special edition of "nightline," inauguration 2013 continues with terry moran. >> hello and thanks for joining us on this inauguration night. an american ritual and a grand party. president barack obama took the oath of office for a second time. the massive crowd out there on the national mall there to witness it all as a vast and divided nation paused to take note and listen. he was having a blast. [ cheers and applause ] on pennsylvania avenue, in the reviewing stand with his family. at lunch with congressional leaders. and up on the capital's west front, barack obama relished every moment of his second inauguration. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> a sea of people stretching down the mall. not as many as four years ago but still more than half a million strong, witnessed the grand ritual that every four years confirms american democracy in a uniquely american way. ♪ glory glory hallelujah >> but this was more than just a celebration. president obama is a president renewed in office by the votes of 65 million

. >> from the global resources of abc news, with cynthia mcfadden, terry moran, and bill weir in new york city, this is a special edition of "nightline" -- to hold again. >>> good evening, i'm bill weir. can you even imagine waking up after doctors removed both hands and both feet? the realization that you suddenly have no idea how to brush your teeth or go out on a date, not to mention start a family or dress a child. a few years ago, a lovely young woman named lindsay experienced just that, but somehow managed to hold on to the dream of somehow being able to touch again. and what happened next is nothing short of incredible. "nightline" producers spent three years following lindsay's journey. >> reporter: it is the simplest thing. the grasp of one hand inside another. but lindsay will never see it that way, for her hands, these, once belonged to someone else. her story and these hands' story are one in the same. now. but listen to how that came to be. growing up, lindsay was always one of the pretty girls. she went to college. she did some modelling and got to work building a caree

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." >> i'm terry moran. coming up next on "nightline" the american man living a nightmare. jailed in a south american prison. he is now out on bail. the "nightline" investigation that took us inside his personal hell. plus my co anchor bill weir goes inside >>> in fremont tonight, hundreds of people turned out to offer prayers and express their anger over the gang rape and murder of a woman in india. alan wang has the story. >> let's make a difference. >> the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in new delhi struck a nerve in fremont where the largest indian community came to pray at the hindu temple. >> it is too brutal and hit home. >> even though six mensted and been arrested and charged, protesters in new delhi and around the world are calling for a changing in-laws to protect women. >> it is a matter of safety. it is a matter of pride. it is a matter of dignity, and we have to altogether no matter whether you are a man or woman, we all have to fight. >> of the hundreds who came to pray, many say it represents a clash between old world culture and india's new mod

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out of her way to avoid giving the name toffee that didn't like "god bless america" and it was terry moran want to say anything about it at all. i decided for the sake of fairness and protect her -- >> dana: why is that fair? >> eric: that is the definition of being beckeled. >> bob: i thought it was important to do it because it was something i thought you held back. >> dana: i was trying to be nice. you made me not nice. >> bob: you were nice. >> dana: i was being niceed and you ruined the point of me being nice. it cannot believe that. >> bob: sorry. the answer is i don't think she is running. this would be the fourth presidential campaign she has been through. nobody has gone through that in their life. and she is just, i think in a position now she has had a tremendous run of secretary of state. she is going on with obama because they think they will try to deal with some of the things on benghazi. i think that she has decided -- bill may want her to run but i think she decided she doesn't want to run. >> andrea: i don't think it hurts her. i talked to a moderate friend of mine who sa

and, it was terry moran, she didn't want to say anything about it at all.ed for the sake of fairness and to protect her... >> why that is fair? thanks, bill. >> the definition of being beckeled. >> i thought it was important to do it. it was something i thought you held back and you did... >> i was trying to be nice and you, like -- like me not being nice. i was being nice and you ruined the point of me being nice. >> i'm sorry. >> i can to the believe that! >> anyway... >> and, the answer, this is, i don't think she is running, i'll tell you why. this would be the fourth presidential campaign she had been through and nobody ever had to go through that in their life. and, she is just, i think in a position now where she has had a tremendous run as secretary of state and is going out with obama because they'll try and deal with some of the things on benghazi and she has decided. bill may want her to run but she's decided not to. >> i don't think that this hurts her. i talked to a moderate friend of mine and she said, what did you think of hillary at the hear

abc's terry moran put it to the test. >> reporter: head injuries and potential lifelong consequencesthe biggest threat to america's gridiron heroes. concern is mounting at every level, the nfl, colleges. even high school. >> there is definitely the fear every single time he goes out there and plays. you wonder. >> reporter: concussions are the most common injury among high school football players. so jennifer, president of the warriors booster club decided to do something. she raised money to buy the team helmet inserts made by unequal technologies for added protection. it is all part of a sort of cottage industry that sprung up to cater to worried parents. unequal technologies one of the highest profile players in the market described its product explicitly as concussion reduction technology or crt. it is a liner, a strip of composite material including bulletproof kevlar. you stick it inside the helmet. rob vito is founder and ceo of unequal technologies. >> these athletes need to take control of their safety. >> reporter: he worked with scientists s ts to create a mi grade composi

and edward jones, "nightline" anchor, terry moran, spoke with the hugely popular khan academy online.afar, he's an icon, is how much he deeply cares about education. and really understands the issues. people have their own views. but like my conversations, he thinks teachers are it. teachers, he's like, this technology is nice. we can help. the tools are nice. the data's nice. but at the end of the day, it's about having a great teacher. that's what's moving the dial. and that's what he cares about. >>> one of my favorite movies of the year is "argo" up for five golden globes this sunday, including best director for ben affleck. it's a true story based on cia agent tony mendez, who hatched a plot to free six americans during the iran hostage crisis, by having them pretend their a film crew. >> what was the last movie you produced? >> "high and dry." >> who paid for that? what's your middle name? >> leon. >> shoot him. he's an american spy. look, they're going to try to break you. trying to get you agitated. you have to know your resume back-to-front. >> you believe your story is going

and terry moran here at abc sent an e-mail after the speech.ica, younger, more diverse, more nonnative, socially liberal as the source of authority even legitimacy in going forward. and the feeling seems more than the usual inaugural victory lap of the party in power. it seems cultural and historic. it is their moment and so is tomorrow, not in a partisan way, in a factual way. very profound words from terry. he looked at that crowd and the message, very progressive message. spoke a lot to the coalition that got him elected and we are at that transformational moment where we go politically in the country does depend on the very different voting bloc that it has for decades past. >> a lot of folks mentioned it's the first time the president has brought up gay rights, gay marriage and climate change in a speech. and we could probably expect a whole lot more in the state of the union address in february. february 12th. >> it's an ambitious agenda. speeches are easy. governance is hard. now the parties are done, let's get back to work and see what