10/01/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

More on our website. We will be back in 20 minutes. Time now for a look

at the news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago,

in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer. A big apology from a man who

said he is angry, humbled and betrayed. I am embarrassed and

humiliated. New Jersey's governor scrambling after his aides created a

four-day traffic jam for politics. Falling out. Why are all those pipes

exploding across the country now? Good news for coffee drinkers, a

surprising study may have you reaching for another couple copy. --

and other cup of coffee. Good evening to you. What of the

country's and most colourful political leaders makes an apology

in the middle of a firestorm. Governor Chris Christie, already

considered a leading contender in the presidential race, says today he

is humiliated that somebody on his staff decided to create an epic

traffic jam to play politics. He travelled to the scene of the snarl

to face the music. Our correspondent has more. Apolitical Walk of Fame on

what he called his worst day as governor. -- walk of shame. It has

made a name to his heated politics. Today he stepped back and visited

New Jersey to ask for forgiveness and tell the man who is sorry. I am

embarrassed and humiliated. Gone are his deputy chief of staff and his

political guru. They were doomed by the release of this e-mail:

It was sent after the endorsement of Chris Christie's opponent. What came

next was day after day of traffic jams as commuters tried to cross the

George Washington roots. They shutdown two of the three toll

booths serving cars leaving. It back to the streets and created citywide

gridlock, crippling emergency response. I had no knowledge or

involvement in this issue. In its planning or execution. I am stunned

by the abject stupidity. I am not happy I was blindsided, I am not

proud. I apologise. It went on like that. The motion, from sadness to

shock, and humility. The Governor took question after question. After

nearly a full two hours, some struggle to remember who got her to.

I use the victim here? When I ask for an answer from a member of my

staff and they like, they are gone. If you lie when I ask you a

question, you are fired. That is it. He says his bold personal style,

often characterised as bullying, should not have paved the way for

this kind of retribution. Politics is not being bad. I am not a bully.

Before he left, more of that usual crisp rescue. Did you ever entertain

the idea that he should resign? No. That is a crazy question. He said

before today, could not pick the man out of line. At today's meeting, he

said, I guess I am on his radar now. Is it over? It is definitely not

over. This is pretty close to textbook, the apology came right out

of the gate and was unequivocal. He took action and exhausted all the

questions over those two hours. There is still criminal

investigations to go. There are subpoenas, and a lot more

information could come out. Here is the question, he says he didn't know

anything about it. Should you have to tell your staff you would be

appalled if commuters are hurt? Definitely not. There is some kind

of culture here that told people this was OK. It also undercuts his

credentials as a bipartisan, and as a manager. There is grey opportunity

cost here. This was meant to be a year that he was going to build

towards a presidential race. It is going to cost in time, energy and a

lot of goodwill. It gets stranger and stranger sometimes in politics.

Now we turn to the rest of the country feeling the thought. --

thaw. Stories are flowing into us about pipes bursting and flooding.

On Lake Michigan there were giant balls of ice rolling onto the

shore, but they won't stay there for long. From Chicago to New Orleans

temperatures are rising by as much as 40 degrees. River flooding is

possible. This was George on Monday, and this was George on Monday, and

the city today. In the south, the wharfies revealing disaster. I don't

know whether to cry, turn around and go back out, or what to do. I've

never seen anything like this before. Families are waking up to

thousands of dollars of damage from frozen water pipes that are busted.

It took out the ceilings in the bathroom. Water that was trapped in

pipes froze and expanded, putting thousands of pounds of pressure on

pipes that busted on Sunday and Monday, that of melting on Tuesday

and Wednesday, and are now flooding homes. It was cascading out from the

ease of a waterfall. People in Nashville have to wait, as plumbers

are overwhelmed. We have been running 24 hours a day every day. We

have shipped around the clock. The school outside Atlanta is recovering

from a foot of water. This plumber says it only takes a tiny break in

the plumbing. It is not that big. No, it is not that big, just a tiny

split. He says every family should know where the water shut-off valve

is located in the house. News about protecting Americans at

the Olympics. Authorities are on the alert after some troubling

discoveries near the Olympic site in Sochi. In just 28 days, America's

elite athletes will join the other stars and walking for the opening

ceremony, but tonight there are extraordinary being made to keep

them safe. With American athlete in the final

athletes of preparation for next month's Winter Games, there was

growing concern today by US officials that terrorists will make

good on their threats to attack the Olympics in the Russian city of

Sochi. I think will the ingredients are there, quite honestly. The

latest came today, if you hours drive from Sochi, where police found

two vehicles containing dead bodies and booby-trapped with bombs. Dozens

of civilians have been killed this attacks on a train station and buses

in the last few months. Sochi, just 250 miles from the border of

Chechnya, would be a target rich environment for similar style

attacks. Especially, say security experts, brand-new trains and

transport that will take athletes to the ski hills. All these nutrients

we have around Sochi will be soft targets. They say there will be

small teams of armed American security officials in the Olympic

Village itself, and the US ski and snowboard teams have already

arranged with a private security company for a fleet of aircraft to

be on standby in case there is a need for emergency evacuation in the

wake of an attack. The events of the last 30 days demonstrate that none

of this preparation can be viewed as overkill. Officials today said they

were satisfied with security but still concern. Everyone is very

heightened on what will happen. Some US officials told ABC news today

that they are beginning to lose confidence in the ability of the

Russians to keep ahead of the threat that could well include targets

outside of Sochi such as more train stations or airports.

Tonight, for the first time we are seeing dramatic images of a small

plane crashed in the waters off the coast of Hawaii. Since see the plane

about to hit the water, descending straight down to the ocean, crashing

on the surface. We will watch again, because a passenger was recording

video as it happened. Within moments the water begins to flood inside the

plane as the passengers, never yelling, make their way out and

clutch on the wings to stay afloat. In the end, one person, and Hawaii

and health official, died. But eight people, including the pilot, were

rescued. And, tonight a rare sighting of

Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president making his first

appearance in nine months. Picture show him at the opening of an art

studio in Havana. Health problems forced him to hand over duties to

his brother in 2006. And we have new research about

whether coffee is good for you or bad for you. You need water on the

site, and how much coffee crosses the line?

For so many, that morning cup of coffee is essential. But for as long

as you can remember, you have likely heard from your mother, Doctor, or a

fitness guru, they took up of Joe will leave you dehydrated. What have

you heard about the negative potential of copy? Dependency and

dehydration. I would say that if I am drinking coffee I would like to

follow the copy with a water. It is true, caffeine can dehydrate you.

But today's study found that that wasn't the case when you drink

moderate amounts of coffee. They took a group of men, half of whom

drank for small cups of coffee, the other half drank for small cups of

water. Then they switched. And they found no significant differences in

their dehydration levels. They found that's for small marks per day

should not dehydrate you. -- they found that four small mugs per day

should not dehydrate you. Next, trapped in the eyes, the truck

driver frozen to the ground for hours and losing hope. The lifeline

and luck that led to his rescue. -- trapped in the ice.

An astonishing story of survival. A man stuck in the ice, his body

frozen to the ground and his truck for almost eight hours.

The Sun had not yet come up on Monday morning when this man called

his 18 wheeler into a truck stop to avoid the road covered in black ice.

But he could never have prepared for what happened next. It is a story

that is hard to tell. The Arctic cold froze the truck's breaks, so he

went under the truck to manually release on. That is when the truck

lurched, pinning his left arm between the axle. He was stuck

underneath the truck for almost eight hours. It was nearly 40

degrees below zero, so brutally cold his clothes froze to the ground. It

was so cold that I went to blink and my right eye froze shut. Is panicked

wife was calling him from back home in Florida. That is the only morning

he didn't call me, so I can't believe he didn't. The vibrations

caused the phone to fall out of his pocket, and he desperately reached

and pushed buttons until he finally activated the voice function and

called his boss. His paramedic quickly arrived and began looking

for him. It was like try to find a needle in a haystack in the middle

of a snowstorm. Paramedics called in to pull him out. And that he was

very lethargic. We didn't mess around, we needed to get into a

hospital. The nursing staff were telling me it was a miracle I was

alive. He was released from the hospital

today, lucky to be alive, surviving on experience frozen in his mind for

ever. We begin with news about a white

knuckle moment foray Hollywood leading lady, and Hathaway. We

learned that while taking a swing of the Beach in Hawaii she was caught

in a rip tide. Eyewitnesses say at a nearby surfer heard her screams and

came to the rescue, and we are happy to report she was not seriously

injured. And something we rarely see, some of

the first steps across the room for a baby polar bear. This one at the

zoo in Toronto. There he is, wobbling his way onto his forelegs.

Also tonight, we have the answer, who is happiest at work? We know the

truth about being the big boss. A new study from a research centre

find our suspicions are real. Bosses are happy. 83% of bosses are very

happy with their family, versus 74% of regular workers. 69% of bosses

are happy in their jobs, compared to 48% of the rest.

Thank you for watching, we are always here at ABC .com.

It looks as though we finally get a dry spell of weather as we move

towards the weekend. That will come as welcome news. Some patchy rain

around today, but a