:00:00. > :00:00.Time now for a look at the news as seen across the United States a
:00:07. > :00:13.couple of hours ago, in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer.
:00:14. > :00:17.Tonight, from the nation's capital. It is a frozen nation. Much of the
:00:18. > :00:22.country facing a once in a generation storm. The National Guard
:00:23. > :00:25.called the duty in the deep south, and already more than 200 accidents
:00:26. > :00:31.in one city alone. State of the union, and President Obama put more
:00:32. > :00:35.money in the pockets of middle-class Americans? News about the way the
:00:36. > :00:39.virus spread on that crew ship, and what the company told passengers
:00:40. > :00:46.that now has an even more upset. And, farther speed cameras getting
:00:47. > :00:50.it wrong? Look at this car, stopped at the light, but the camera says he
:00:51. > :01:02.was speeding. Tonight, drivers fight back.
:01:03. > :01:08.Good evening on this Tuesday night, we are here in Washington, DC for
:01:09. > :01:13.the President's State of the Union address. One thing is certain, the
:01:14. > :01:18.union is in the grip of a deep freeze. More than 140 million
:01:19. > :01:23.Americans with a big chill and a scramble for help. Tonight, we take
:01:24. > :01:31.you down south where the palm trees are frozen, and the fountains are
:01:32. > :01:34.icicles. First a blizzard, and now brutal
:01:35. > :01:42.cold for parts of the midwest, with wind chills as far as 40 degrees
:01:43. > :01:47.below. The governor sending in the National Guard to deal with a rare
:01:48. > :01:48.snow and ice storm. As soon as the first snowflakes fell school
:01:49. > :01:55.officials started counselling classes. -- cancelling. The roads
:01:56. > :01:59.here are no place for a school bus. Six teenagers were on the bus ride
:02:00. > :02:04.home when they flicked on the ice, and one of them had to be
:02:05. > :02:10.hospitalised. He was coming around the corner, and just slid off in the
:02:11. > :02:15.ditch. Children in Alabama stuck in school, with roads too dangerous for
:02:16. > :02:18.parents to come and get them. If you trust your teacher to take care of
:02:19. > :02:24.your child during the day, they will be taken care of tonight. This was a
:02:25. > :02:28.freeway in Austin, Texas, with police reporting more than 214
:02:29. > :02:37.accidents and counting. I passed about ten crashes on the way here.
:02:38. > :02:42.They are calling this their worst winter storm in at least ten years.
:02:43. > :02:46.Storms of this nature are very unpredictable and are to be
:02:47. > :02:52.respected. Around Atlanta, the highways were a mess. Families who
:02:53. > :02:56.emptied grocery stores spent hours trying to get home on the icy roads.
:02:57. > :03:03.If you don't have to be out, stay at home. This is the first measurable
:03:04. > :03:09.snow in years for many communities, and some areas could see between six
:03:10. > :03:13.and ten inches. North Carolina is inspecting snow all night, and they
:03:14. > :03:16.only have three snowploughs. The city of New York has hundreds of
:03:17. > :03:23.snowploughs, and you have how many? Three. We do hurricanes, we don't do
:03:24. > :03:28.snow. Yesterday, it was 65 degrees here. He read these three
:03:29. > :03:32.snowploughs, waiting for the snow. It is starting to sleet already.
:03:33. > :03:37.Governors across the South declaring state of emergency is, trying to get
:03:38. > :03:41.resources like these to the places where they are most needed. Stock
:03:42. > :03:50.will it is once in a generation. Is there any relief in sight?
:03:51. > :03:55.That is the question everyone is asking. We can see ice chunks
:03:56. > :04:00.floating on the Hudson River. The answer is, yes. Relief is in sight.
:04:01. > :04:02.That low pressure system slides across the south-east, and it will
:04:03. > :04:11.eventually pulled away tomorrow morning. You can see coastal
:04:12. > :04:17.Carolina is getting some of the mix. Then the wind chill will set in.
:04:18. > :04:21.That is going to be the headline. Two thirds of the nation gets the
:04:22. > :04:25.brunt of the cold. Places like Atlanta, which will struggle to make
:04:26. > :04:34.it to freezing as we going to Wednesday, will be 60 degrees by the
:04:35. > :04:42.weekend. Thank you. We are here on a cold Washington, DC tonight for the
:04:43. > :04:50.state of the union address. EC president fed up with Congress? Will
:04:51. > :04:55.he go at alone? -- is the president. From speech prep, President Obama
:04:56. > :05:01.got a taste of the frigid Washington weather. It is not just the weather
:05:02. > :05:03.that is cold. Obama has the lowest average approval rating of any
:05:04. > :05:07.president after five years in office. The White House sees tonight
:05:08. > :05:11.as a chance to get things back on track. The President has spent the
:05:12. > :05:19.last week refining this speech and practising his delivery. I think the
:05:20. > :05:22.framework is right. One of the big themes, the President to is right.
:05:23. > :05:25.One of the big themes, the President does not need Congress to get things
:05:26. > :05:27.done. It is better when you have the bipartisan solutions, but he has
:05:28. > :05:35.tremendous authority and he will use it. Case in point, a push to connect
:05:36. > :05:38.15,000 public schools to broadband Internet using both private funds
:05:39. > :05:43.and money Congress has appropriated. The President will
:05:44. > :05:46.promise executive action to require higher fuel standards for trucks and
:05:47. > :05:51.to raise the minimum wage for those working on future federal contracts.
:05:52. > :05:54.A warning from Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner who told
:05:55. > :06:02.reporters today that if the President tries to ignore Congress
:06:03. > :06:07.he will run into a brick wall. The President also hopes to inspire
:06:08. > :06:14.tonight. He and the first Lady have inspired some genuine American
:06:15. > :06:20.heroes. A Boston bombing victim and the person who tried to help save
:06:21. > :06:24.his life. And the bookkeeper who prevented a potential elementary
:06:25. > :06:28.school massacre by talking a would-be shooter into surrendering.
:06:29. > :06:32.The White House has just released a few experts from the President's
:06:33. > :06:36.speech. In the CCA note of determination and defiance. It says
:06:37. > :06:41.that America does not stand still and neither were live.
:06:42. > :06:50.-- will I. That is a message right to
:06:51. > :06:53.Republicans who have successfully blocked almost everything he has
:06:54. > :07:00.wanted in the last three years. We will be watching what happens
:07:01. > :07:08.tonight. George, what is the big picture? The President has come into
:07:09. > :07:13.this speech with the best economy of his presidency. Congress is still
:07:14. > :07:18.against what he is doing. The country has given up on all of them.
:07:19. > :07:22.They are fed up with everyone in Washington. He has to do one thing
:07:23. > :07:26.tonight, convince the country he can get something done. That is why he
:07:27. > :07:31.is showing determination. We had been looking at the pictures over
:07:32. > :07:34.the years. All the years he has been giving state of the union speeches.
:07:35. > :07:39.As you look at him and think about him, when he think he is tonight?
:07:40. > :07:44.More grave. He has always been a measured, tempered guy. There is
:07:45. > :07:48.more of that than ever before. He has a clear sense of what he has
:07:49. > :07:53.done, what he can do, and what he cannot do. A sense of the limits of
:07:54. > :07:58.the presidency. With the Super Bowl days away, a startling discovery. A
:07:59. > :08:02.lot of counterfeit tickets are being sold. Is there any way to catch
:08:03. > :08:11.them? We now have the secret any warning.
:08:12. > :08:16.Fans, fireworks, and with the Super Bowl just days away, fake seekers
:08:17. > :08:18.ceased overnight. They look so real that investigators believe they
:08:19. > :08:27.could have gotten somebody into the stadium. Some of the most
:08:28. > :08:33.counterfeiting techniques I have ever seen. This is a real tickets,
:08:34. > :08:38.side by side with the fake one. They have the same artwork, the same
:08:39. > :08:45.logo: even an identical watermark. How do you tell the difference?
:08:46. > :08:51.There is a graphic that is printed with a special ink. When you apply
:08:52. > :08:58.heat, it will disappear. When it cools off it will disappear. Every
:08:59. > :09:02.year, as many as 200 fans scammed with fake tickets. They are sold
:09:03. > :09:08.online and in person industries before games. This man bought a
:09:09. > :09:15.phoney ticket two years ago for $1900. The pressure to get the
:09:16. > :09:18.tickets. You go to the deal. Is the counterfeit is get more
:09:19. > :09:22.sophisticated, so does the NFL. We are hoping to stay ahead of them as
:09:23. > :09:33.much as we can. This is tickets have about 50 secret high-tech markings.
:09:34. > :09:38.-- 15. There are still real tickets up for sale tonight.
:09:39. > :09:42.Someone got a royal reality check today. The Queen of England and her
:09:43. > :09:48.family, a scolding you report warning them to start tightening the
:09:49. > :09:55.belt. They have apparently run through a fortune.
:09:56. > :09:58.Think of the British Royal family and opulence and grandeur and
:09:59. > :10:03.magnificent events. You would never believe they are nearly broke. While
:10:04. > :10:07.they are, not them personally but the royal household. The department
:10:08. > :10:12.that runs runs their palaces and properties, 360 buildings, thousands
:10:13. > :10:15.of employees. A scathing report to Parliament found that the Queen's
:10:16. > :10:20.public accounts are less than a couple of million dollars.
:10:21. > :10:24.Privately, she is still fabulously rich. A public finances and her
:10:25. > :10:30.Pallas RMS. Buckingham Palace looks great on the outside, behind the
:10:31. > :10:37.scenes it is in desperate of repair. Chunks of stone falling off the
:10:38. > :10:40.building. The report demanded that the Queen and her family tighten
:10:41. > :10:44.their belts and find ways to make more money, like by bringing more
:10:45. > :10:50.paying tourists into Buckingham Palace. It is only open 78 days per
:10:51. > :10:53.year. The White House is open all year round. The Queens defenders say
:10:54. > :10:57.that the royals make Britain billions every year in tourism. And
:10:58. > :11:03.that Elisabeth is a frugal housekeeper. At night, if there are
:11:04. > :11:11.lights on, she goes and switches them off. She could always sell the
:11:12. > :11:16.jewellery. But next, caught on camera, drivers
:11:17. > :11:20.fighting back against speed cameras. Do they sometimes say you are
:11:21. > :11:21.driving too fast even when your car is not moving? See it when we are
:11:22. > :12:11.back. Last that we told you about the
:12:12. > :12:14.mystery on board a cruise ship. Hundreds of people sickened by a
:12:15. > :12:21.virus. Tonight, new clues on how its bread and what the company has
:12:22. > :12:26.offered those passengers. -- how it spread.
:12:27. > :12:30.On board the Royal Caribbean explorer of the Seas, anger is
:12:31. > :12:40.spreading as fast as illness. One woman on board centres this picture.
:12:41. > :12:45.We did not go to half our ports. There is almost nothing to do on the
:12:46. > :12:51.ship. Royal Caribbean has apologised that they are unable to deliver the
:12:52. > :12:56.vacations. They are offering a 50% refund for this cruise and 50% of
:12:57. > :13:01.the cost of a future cruise. We had to two good days out of ten that we
:13:02. > :13:07.were promised. They want their money back. Experts say it is unlikely. Is
:13:08. > :13:13.it rare for people to receive full compensation? The cruise lines do
:13:14. > :13:15.not have to compensate you at all. When they decide to compensate
:13:16. > :13:22.passengers it is out of their goodness. The stomach bug is highly
:13:23. > :13:28.contagious. Each infected person generally passes it along to as many
:13:29. > :13:35.as three other people. It leases many as 100 cases by the third day
:13:36. > :13:39.of an outbreak. The first case was reported last Tuesday. By Sunday the
:13:40. > :13:44.number of people infected had reached 303. 24 hours later the
:13:45. > :13:50.number had more than doubled. Today, that number shot up to his 607 the
:13:51. > :13:58.two people. For the thousands on that ship, it is a vacation that
:13:59. > :14:05.Connacht and soon enough. -- cannot and.
:14:06. > :14:13.Today a new government report says the over the counter drug Aleve may
:14:14. > :14:17.be the safest pain reliever for anybody with hard issues. The key
:14:18. > :14:25.ingredient may provide a lower level of heart attack and stroke than
:14:26. > :14:29.other products. Next tonight, caught in the act. Almost two dozen states
:14:30. > :14:33.use traffic cameras to catch drivers speeding and running red lights. The
:14:34. > :14:40.tickets, big fines. Surprising new questions about how often they are
:14:41. > :14:46.wrong. One city has lodged an investigation because of so many
:14:47. > :14:52.mistakes. It is the flash out of nowhere, when
:14:53. > :14:55.you do not expect it, sometimes when you do not deserve it. An
:14:56. > :15:00.intersection, this driver has clearly stopped. The speed camera
:15:01. > :15:07.sites the car, brake lights on and traffic in front of it, forgoing 38
:15:08. > :15:16.mph in 825 mother hour zone. A costly mistake. -- for going. Some
:15:17. > :15:24.individual cameras up by as much as 50%. The City Council is
:15:25. > :15:30.investigating. Nationwide, about half states use the cameras.
:15:31. > :15:33.Class-action suit in Ohio and New York have attacked their
:15:34. > :15:40.reliability. Los Angeles stopped issuing the tickets altogether. This
:15:41. > :15:46.driver videotaped his speed. He was ticketed for being ten miles over
:15:47. > :15:55.the limit. This school teacher got five tickets. I was clocked at 51
:15:56. > :16:02.mph. It was physically impossible from each of having going that fast.
:16:03. > :16:07.Her car could not reach that speed in a short distance. In all, 22
:16:08. > :16:12.teachers were ticketed. If you give companies an incentive to ticket
:16:13. > :16:16.more, they will ticket more. California has banned the fees.
:16:17. > :16:21.Advocates say that the cameras slow people down. Some cities are using
:16:22. > :16:26.them in new and different ways. This one monitors stop science. If you
:16:27. > :16:33.roll through the stop, it will click. It costs you cash in a flash,
:16:34. > :16:36.even when the picture does not tell the story.
:16:37. > :16:39.We thank you for watching tonight. We will see you again tomorrow