:00:00. > :00:08.More on our website. We will be back in 20 minutes. Time now for a look
:00:09. > :00:11.at the news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago,
:00:12. > :00:14.in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer. A big apology from a man who
:00:15. > :00:20.said he is angry, humbled and betrayed. I am embarrassed and
:00:21. > :00:27.humiliated. New Jersey's governor scrambling after his aides created a
:00:28. > :00:34.four-day traffic jam for politics. Falling out. Why are all those pipes
:00:35. > :00:38.exploding across the country now? Good news for coffee drinkers, a
:00:39. > :00:49.surprising study may have you reaching for another couple copy. --
:00:50. > :00:53.and other cup of coffee. Good evening to you. What of the
:00:54. > :00:59.country's and most colourful political leaders makes an apology
:01:00. > :01:02.in the middle of a firestorm. Governor Chris Christie, already
:01:03. > :01:07.considered a leading contender in the presidential race, says today he
:01:08. > :01:13.is humiliated that somebody on his staff decided to create an epic
:01:14. > :01:16.traffic jam to play politics. He travelled to the scene of the snarl
:01:17. > :01:22.to face the music. Our correspondent has more. Apolitical Walk of Fame on
:01:23. > :01:33.what he called his worst day as governor. -- walk of shame. It has
:01:34. > :01:38.made a name to his heated politics. Today he stepped back and visited
:01:39. > :01:49.New Jersey to ask for forgiveness and tell the man who is sorry. I am
:01:50. > :01:55.embarrassed and humiliated. Gone are his deputy chief of staff and his
:01:56. > :02:01.political guru. They were doomed by the release of this e-mail:
:02:02. > :02:08.It was sent after the endorsement of Chris Christie's opponent. What came
:02:09. > :02:15.next was day after day of traffic jams as commuters tried to cross the
:02:16. > :02:21.George Washington roots. They shutdown two of the three toll
:02:22. > :02:24.booths serving cars leaving. It back to the streets and created citywide
:02:25. > :02:32.gridlock, crippling emergency response. I had no knowledge or
:02:33. > :02:41.involvement in this issue. In its planning or execution. I am stunned
:02:42. > :02:47.by the abject stupidity. I am not happy I was blindsided, I am not
:02:48. > :02:53.proud. I apologise. It went on like that. The motion, from sadness to
:02:54. > :02:59.shock, and humility. The Governor took question after question. After
:03:00. > :03:05.nearly a full two hours, some struggle to remember who got her to.
:03:06. > :03:14.I use the victim here? When I ask for an answer from a member of my
:03:15. > :03:20.staff and they like, they are gone. If you lie when I ask you a
:03:21. > :03:25.question, you are fired. That is it. He says his bold personal style,
:03:26. > :03:30.often characterised as bullying, should not have paved the way for
:03:31. > :03:37.this kind of retribution. Politics is not being bad. I am not a bully.
:03:38. > :03:45.Before he left, more of that usual crisp rescue. Did you ever entertain
:03:46. > :03:53.the idea that he should resign? No. That is a crazy question. He said
:03:54. > :04:08.before today, could not pick the man out of line. At today's meeting, he
:04:09. > :04:13.said, I guess I am on his radar now. Is it over? It is definitely not
:04:14. > :04:19.over. This is pretty close to textbook, the apology came right out
:04:20. > :04:23.of the gate and was unequivocal. He took action and exhausted all the
:04:24. > :04:30.questions over those two hours. There is still criminal
:04:31. > :04:36.investigations to go. There are subpoenas, and a lot more
:04:37. > :04:39.information could come out. Here is the question, he says he didn't know
:04:40. > :04:45.anything about it. Should you have to tell your staff you would be
:04:46. > :04:48.appalled if commuters are hurt? Definitely not. There is some kind
:04:49. > :04:54.of culture here that told people this was OK. It also undercuts his
:04:55. > :04:59.credentials as a bipartisan, and as a manager. There is grey opportunity
:05:00. > :05:03.cost here. This was meant to be a year that he was going to build
:05:04. > :05:09.towards a presidential race. It is going to cost in time, energy and a
:05:10. > :05:13.lot of goodwill. It gets stranger and stranger sometimes in politics.
:05:14. > :05:29.Now we turn to the rest of the country feeling the thought. --
:05:30. > :05:35.thaw. Stories are flowing into us about pipes bursting and flooding.
:05:36. > :05:40.On Lake Michigan there were giant balls of ice rolling onto the
:05:41. > :05:44.shore, but they won't stay there for long. From Chicago to New Orleans
:05:45. > :05:50.temperatures are rising by as much as 40 degrees. River flooding is
:05:51. > :05:53.possible. This was George on Monday, and this was George on Monday, and
:05:54. > :05:59.the city today. In the south, the wharfies revealing disaster. I don't
:06:00. > :06:02.know whether to cry, turn around and go back out, or what to do. I've
:06:03. > :06:08.never seen anything like this before. Families are waking up to
:06:09. > :06:13.thousands of dollars of damage from frozen water pipes that are busted.
:06:14. > :06:18.It took out the ceilings in the bathroom. Water that was trapped in
:06:19. > :06:21.pipes froze and expanded, putting thousands of pounds of pressure on
:06:22. > :06:25.pipes that busted on Sunday and Monday, that of melting on Tuesday
:06:26. > :06:33.and Wednesday, and are now flooding homes. It was cascading out from the
:06:34. > :06:38.ease of a waterfall. People in Nashville have to wait, as plumbers
:06:39. > :06:43.are overwhelmed. We have been running 24 hours a day every day. We
:06:44. > :06:48.have shipped around the clock. The school outside Atlanta is recovering
:06:49. > :06:54.from a foot of water. This plumber says it only takes a tiny break in
:06:55. > :07:02.the plumbing. It is not that big. No, it is not that big, just a tiny
:07:03. > :07:07.split. He says every family should know where the water shut-off valve
:07:08. > :07:11.is located in the house. News about protecting Americans at
:07:12. > :07:14.the Olympics. Authorities are on the alert after some troubling
:07:15. > :07:20.discoveries near the Olympic site in Sochi. In just 28 days, America's
:07:21. > :07:23.elite athletes will join the other stars and walking for the opening
:07:24. > :07:31.ceremony, but tonight there are extraordinary being made to keep
:07:32. > :07:34.them safe. With American athlete in the final
:07:35. > :07:39.athletes of preparation for next month's Winter Games, there was
:07:40. > :07:42.growing concern today by US officials that terrorists will make
:07:43. > :07:48.good on their threats to attack the Olympics in the Russian city of
:07:49. > :07:52.Sochi. I think will the ingredients are there, quite honestly. The
:07:53. > :08:00.latest came today, if you hours drive from Sochi, where police found
:08:01. > :08:07.two vehicles containing dead bodies and booby-trapped with bombs. Dozens
:08:08. > :08:12.of civilians have been killed this attacks on a train station and buses
:08:13. > :08:17.in the last few months. Sochi, just 250 miles from the border of
:08:18. > :08:20.Chechnya, would be a target rich environment for similar style
:08:21. > :08:28.attacks. Especially, say security experts, brand-new trains and
:08:29. > :08:32.transport that will take athletes to the ski hills. All these nutrients
:08:33. > :08:36.we have around Sochi will be soft targets. They say there will be
:08:37. > :08:41.small teams of armed American security officials in the Olympic
:08:42. > :08:44.Village itself, and the US ski and snowboard teams have already
:08:45. > :08:49.arranged with a private security company for a fleet of aircraft to
:08:50. > :08:52.be on standby in case there is a need for emergency evacuation in the
:08:53. > :08:57.wake of an attack. The events of the last 30 days demonstrate that none
:08:58. > :09:02.of this preparation can be viewed as overkill. Officials today said they
:09:03. > :09:16.were satisfied with security but still concern. Everyone is very
:09:17. > :09:20.heightened on what will happen. Some US officials told ABC news today
:09:21. > :09:23.that they are beginning to lose confidence in the ability of the
:09:24. > :09:27.Russians to keep ahead of the threat that could well include targets
:09:28. > :09:32.outside of Sochi such as more train stations or airports.
:09:33. > :09:37.Tonight, for the first time we are seeing dramatic images of a small
:09:38. > :09:41.plane crashed in the waters off the coast of Hawaii. Since see the plane
:09:42. > :09:46.about to hit the water, descending straight down to the ocean, crashing
:09:47. > :09:50.on the surface. We will watch again, because a passenger was recording
:09:51. > :09:53.video as it happened. Within moments the water begins to flood inside the
:09:54. > :09:58.plane as the passengers, never yelling, make their way out and
:09:59. > :10:03.clutch on the wings to stay afloat. In the end, one person, and Hawaii
:10:04. > :10:08.and health official, died. But eight people, including the pilot, were
:10:09. > :10:11.rescued. And, tonight a rare sighting of
:10:12. > :10:15.Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president making his first
:10:16. > :10:27.appearance in nine months. Picture show him at the opening of an art
:10:28. > :10:32.studio in Havana. Health problems forced him to hand over duties to
:10:33. > :10:39.his brother in 2006. And we have new research about
:10:40. > :10:43.whether coffee is good for you or bad for you. You need water on the
:10:44. > :10:48.site, and how much coffee crosses the line?
:10:49. > :10:54.For so many, that morning cup of coffee is essential. But for as long
:10:55. > :10:59.as you can remember, you have likely heard from your mother, Doctor, or a
:11:00. > :11:05.fitness guru, they took up of Joe will leave you dehydrated. What have
:11:06. > :11:12.you heard about the negative potential of copy? Dependency and
:11:13. > :11:17.dehydration. I would say that if I am drinking coffee I would like to
:11:18. > :11:23.follow the copy with a water. It is true, caffeine can dehydrate you.
:11:24. > :11:26.But today's study found that that wasn't the case when you drink
:11:27. > :11:32.moderate amounts of coffee. They took a group of men, half of whom
:11:33. > :11:38.drank for small cups of coffee, the other half drank for small cups of
:11:39. > :11:46.water. Then they switched. And they found no significant differences in
:11:47. > :11:56.their dehydration levels. They found that's for small marks per day
:11:57. > :12:03.should not dehydrate you. -- they found that four small mugs per day
:12:04. > :12:07.should not dehydrate you. Next, trapped in the eyes, the truck
:12:08. > :12:10.driver frozen to the ground for hours and losing hope. The lifeline
:12:11. > :13:04.and luck that led to his rescue. -- trapped in the ice.
:13:05. > :13:10.An astonishing story of survival. A man stuck in the ice, his body
:13:11. > :13:19.frozen to the ground and his truck for almost eight hours.
:13:20. > :13:23.The Sun had not yet come up on Monday morning when this man called
:13:24. > :13:29.his 18 wheeler into a truck stop to avoid the road covered in black ice.
:13:30. > :13:34.But he could never have prepared for what happened next. It is a story
:13:35. > :13:39.that is hard to tell. The Arctic cold froze the truck's breaks, so he
:13:40. > :13:43.went under the truck to manually release on. That is when the truck
:13:44. > :13:47.lurched, pinning his left arm between the axle. He was stuck
:13:48. > :13:58.underneath the truck for almost eight hours. It was nearly 40
:13:59. > :14:04.degrees below zero, so brutally cold his clothes froze to the ground. It
:14:05. > :14:13.was so cold that I went to blink and my right eye froze shut. Is panicked
:14:14. > :14:19.wife was calling him from back home in Florida. That is the only morning
:14:20. > :14:24.he didn't call me, so I can't believe he didn't. The vibrations
:14:25. > :14:30.caused the phone to fall out of his pocket, and he desperately reached
:14:31. > :14:34.and pushed buttons until he finally activated the voice function and
:14:35. > :14:39.called his boss. His paramedic quickly arrived and began looking
:14:40. > :14:43.for him. It was like try to find a needle in a haystack in the middle
:14:44. > :14:52.of a snowstorm. Paramedics called in to pull him out. And that he was
:14:53. > :14:57.very lethargic. We didn't mess around, we needed to get into a
:14:58. > :15:02.hospital. The nursing staff were telling me it was a miracle I was
:15:03. > :15:06.alive. He was released from the hospital
:15:07. > :15:13.today, lucky to be alive, surviving on experience frozen in his mind for
:15:14. > :15:16.ever. We begin with news about a white
:15:17. > :15:20.knuckle moment foray Hollywood leading lady, and Hathaway. We
:15:21. > :15:26.learned that while taking a swing of the Beach in Hawaii she was caught
:15:27. > :15:29.in a rip tide. Eyewitnesses say at a nearby surfer heard her screams and
:15:30. > :15:36.came to the rescue, and we are happy to report she was not seriously
:15:37. > :15:40.injured. And something we rarely see, some of
:15:41. > :15:45.the first steps across the room for a baby polar bear. This one at the
:15:46. > :15:55.zoo in Toronto. There he is, wobbling his way onto his forelegs.
:15:56. > :15:59.Also tonight, we have the answer, who is happiest at work? We know the
:16:00. > :16:10.truth about being the big boss. A new study from a research centre
:16:11. > :16:16.find our suspicions are real. Bosses are happy. 83% of bosses are very
:16:17. > :16:22.happy with their family, versus 74% of regular workers. 69% of bosses
:16:23. > :16:28.are happy in their jobs, compared to 48% of the rest.
:16:29. > :16:41.Thank you for watching, we are always here at ABC .com.
:16:42. > :16:47.It looks as though we finally get a dry spell of weather as we move
:16:48. > :16:51.towards the weekend. That will come as welcome news. Some patchy rain
:16:52. > :16:53.around today, but a