28/01/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

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under half an hour. 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. Welcome to world news. Tonight: a

new blast, a new twist. Ice and snow in the deep south. The midwest may

hit -50 degrees. An American town you will recognise, cut off by an

avalanche. Young guns. Nearly every hour, a

child rest of the emergency river could of gun injury in this country.

We will see the video that stunned parents police. A new report coming

up. And take cover - can you make sure

your friends to give you a cold or the flu? Should they cover their

seizes with our hands or elbows? Or something else? -- Vara sneezes.

It is great to be with you. As we begin this week together, Americans

from north to south in this country are starting to feel a new Arctic

freeze. You can see it happening in the windy city already. The Chicago

waterway is an obstacle course of eyes. Further south in Tennessee, a

frozen waterfall. We have been telling you will about the coldest

winter, but here is what is different tonight. The Arctic blast

is driving as far south as Texas and Florida. They could both be hit by

treacherous snow and ice. Our weather team is ready to show you

how cold and fast it will drop. This is the battle millions are

facing across our frozen midwest - blowing snow and dangerous

conditions are shutting down roads, making cars disappear. In Illinois,

this past slip straight off the road. In Colorado, pile after

pileup. 27 states coping with brittle windchill. The public

schools 400,000 students told to stay home in Chicago. Across

Minnesota, schools closed. A snow-covered Minneapolis feels like

26 degrees below zero. In Minnesota, the propane that was meant to keep

this family warm until March is already almost finished. He is

relying on layers, heaters and electric blanket. Hazard safety? For

sure. One of millions who will rely on propane to stay warm. Facing a

nationwide is shortage and rising prices, he had turned the Salvation

Army. Last month, how much we are paying? $2 39. This month? $4.89.

The snow we January since the civil war. In Chicago, four foetus no,

more than a city usually gets all season. In Alaska, above average

temperatures are the problem. Food is being shipped to the town by it

barge. This no, I send cold in the midwest is now moving south. In

Alabama, they are salting roads and preparing for the work. We are not

ready to do 1000 miles of road. We would have to close the road. The

ice is a big concern the midwest. Just about everywhere we are

standing is covered in snow. Strangely beautiful. We'll bring in

a meteorologist Robert ahead. Winter storm warnings have gone up from

Texas to Marilyn. A warning means it is imminent, snow and ice. We will

show you how much we expect tomorrow. The low pressure will

slide across. We are in the range white. Anywhere pink or maroon is

more than half of the snow. Then there will be the ice. This will

make it extra messy. Something we will be watching, especially for

these towns that are not used to it. They do not have flowers all souls,

will they just have stands to put on some of the icy places. Head to the

Super Bowl, are you still predicting to bridges in the 30s? The trend

will get on by the end of the week. We are fortunate it is not tomorrow

or Wednesday. Thank you. We move to a mystery. How do they

giant cruise ship become a floating Petrie dish? Hundreds of passengers

sick with a virus that move from deck to deck like lightning.

Tonight, the crew ship making its way back to dry land with a lot of

miserable Americans on board. Vacations Robin.

The cruise line promises relaxation, fun and entertainment. Instead, for

3000 passengers denied, high anxiety on the high seas.

This passenger is just one of the more than 600 people on the ship who

have become violently ill. Officials say it is as likely a case

of the highly contagious Nora virus, which probably came on board with a

sick person or rent contaminated food. If it arrived in contaminated

seafood, not only would everyone who ate it be sick, but the virus could

spread to those who handled the fish, and anyone who touched the ice

it was served on. It survives on surfaces and on hands, so wanted

leaves the dining room and can spread exponentially through the

ship. The crew, sporting Hawaiian shirts and sanitation masks, is

scrubbing and disinfecting the ship from top to bottom. Why is the virus

surgical to contain? That tracks so difficult to contain? Is able to

survive for weeks, even months. Inspectors are run board. The

company said: Now we turn to the groundbreaking

news right here at home. From the Yale University, about American

children and guns. Every hour a child is rushed to the emergency

room because of gunshots. We have been working on this story for

nearly a year. We have teamed up and travelled across the country. On the

eve of our special report, that there are new numbers reported. They

look at children and guns, the most recent statistics are from 2009.

They are eye opening. The new numbers are resting. Nearly one

child or teenager every hour injured by a firearm in this country. --

arresting. So often they are accidents in the home. 453 of those

children died in hospital. You have seen it off and when it is an

accident inside the home. I have. It is devastating. This doctor has

spent many years in the ER. At one point he said he had seen gunshots

in children twice per week. He says this new window into the ER, he has

been witnessing for a long time. These happen inside the home,

generally? Dunseith left unlocked. Children and teens gain access. The

authors call this a national public health problem. For nearly a year we

have troubled coast-to-coast into neighbourhoods where the numbers

tell us that one in three homes in America have a gun. 1.7 million

children live in a home with an unlocked firearm. We turned to the

parent to say they have taught their children gun safety. They agreed to

take part in an elementary school experiment. Seven hidden cameras.

For half the kids, reinforcing that message with a camera. Stop. Do not

touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult. Then the police come in with

a gun safety class at and repeat the message. If you do -- a few days

later they repeat this. The teacher tells them that they are there free

memory test. She tells them that there is candy on the table. Ten

minutes after this, there is this. One child looking down the barrel of

the gun. His friend about to do the same.

Both of them already having looked down the barrel by the time they

call an adult. Help! Help! Help! Anyone! We found a gun! Two guns.

From the control room, the professor and police watching. It is natural

to look down the barrel. The parents who agree to it, are watching too.

Oh my God. On Friday night we hear from those parents and children who

were severe them. Do parents ever really ask neighbours or their

friends parents if there is a gun in the home, whether it is locked,

loaded, or put away? We want to hear from everyone on all sides of this

issue. Big news about Hillary Clinton. The former Secretary of

State expressed regret over the mistake that cost four Americans

their lives in Benghazi 16 months ago. What did she say and what does

it mean if she runs for the White House in 2016?

Hillary Clinton was asked today if she would have any two overs from

the four years of Secretary of State. Without hesitation she points

to Benghazi. The attack that killed four Americans, including our

ambassador to Libya. My biggest regret is what happened in Benghazi.

It was a terrible tragedy. It has also become a political issue.

Republicans saying it is Hillary Clinton who ultimately there is

responsible for the breakdown in security. She called it the biggest

regret, but it was not a mea col pop. You make these choices based on

imperfect information. You may come to the best of your ability. That

does not mean that there will not be unforeseen consequences. Over the

past week, to make major magazine cover stories have treated Hillary

Clinton like the all but certain democratic candidate for 2016. She

says she is not even thinking yet about whether she will run. It came

before a group of car dealers. She admitted to them that she has not

driven a car for almost two decades. Last time I actually drove a car

myself was 1996. I remember it well. So does the Secret Service. That is

why I have not driven since then. Quite a thing to say, especially in

front of people who sell cars for a living.

A long time ago. Next, is that a way to protect yourself from a sneeze or

a cough? We will show you in the lab in just two minutes.

They care on land, as the countdown to the Super Bowl on Sunday,

hundreds of thousands of people are already coming to New York and New

Jersey. There is something in the shadows, sex trafficking. Tonight, a

counter-attack as we are being asked to help and step in. Here is a

senior National correspondent. These flight attendants and airport

workers being trained to recognise sex traffickers are mum that

thousands heading to the Super Bowl. Criminals transporting women

and children to New York against their will. For the biggest weekend

in prostitution. Any major event where there is a lot of men, money,

and alcohol, increases the demand for sex. It is expected to triple by

Sunday. Today, a counter-attack. New billboards and videos played in

major train and bus stations. It is time to open our eyes. These places

we know victims will end up. The training works. In Boston a ring was

smashed and 86 children were freed after an airline worker noticed a

man travelling with two crying children. We caught a dozen. All

because the worker had been trained to look for tell-tale signs. It is

better to be a little nosy and wrong man to let a victim walk out of your

life. A London hotel is on the lookout this weekend for the young

and exploited. -- airlines and hotels.

Next, the latest tonight on the Olympics. Today another terror

warning, a new assessment, and this one from British security services.

The BBC reporting their conclusion that a terror attack is very likely

before or during the Olympics. Today there was no better symbol of

confounding danger than this. The Olympic torch being carried through

the capital of Dagestan, a hotbed of extremism thought to be the most

dangerous of the regions near the Olympic site. Next, an enemy

travelling through the air all around us. Every sneeze that can

give you cold or flu, is using your hand or an arm the best way to stop

it? Our chief medical editor shows us something else that really works.

On the flu season battle field, everyone around you is a potential

enemy. Firing their germs like ballistic missiles. We set out to

answer how can you best stop your sneezes and not get everyone around

you sick. Is it with your hands? Or into your elbow? We put together a

demonstration. We rinsed a mouse with food colouring so we could see

where the sneezes landed. We put on protective suits to keep the die off

our clothes. And we did everything we could to incite a sneeze. I even

sniffed cat hair. I could not sneeze. Two of my producers found a

way. Tickling their noses with leaves. Round one, he plays the rude

guide. Sneezing without blocking at all. Look at that. As small part of

it landed 11 feet away. She covers her mouth with her hands. She cannot

block it all. Some of it landed 3.5 feet away. Look at that on her

hands. Disgusting. What about that new move we have been advised to

use? Into your elbow. Better. Look a much is still getting through. Parts

of that landed 8.5 feet away. If you are spreading germs sneezing, even

covering your mouth and sneezing into your elbow, is there anything

you can do? Grab a tissue. Believe it or not, we found nothing getting

through. There you have it. Thank you so much for watching

tonight. We hope you will join us tomorrow in Washington for world

news and the state of the union tomorrow night.

It looks as though you will have to keep your