:00:00. > :00:08.more news at the top of the hour. Time for a look at the news as seen
:00:09. > :00:14.across the United States. Welcome to world news. Tonight,
:00:15. > :00:17.guilty. The stunning new verdict for the American girl Amanda Knox. Italy
:00:18. > :00:23.wants her back in prison for murder. Will America for such a go? The
:00:24. > :00:31.south thaws out, but still a slippery mess on the roads.
:00:32. > :00:36.How children behave when they think their parents are not looking. And
:00:37. > :00:40.what about parents who think their children do not know where the guns
:00:41. > :00:45.are hidden? And for the first time, the
:00:46. > :00:54.unconscious skydiver describes that plummet and the moment his friends
:00:55. > :01:00.saved his life. Good evening. We begin with the
:01:01. > :01:04.breaking news in the case of that American girl whose trial made
:01:05. > :01:09.headlines around the world. Amanda Knox, the American college student,
:01:10. > :01:19.today once again found guilty by an Italian court of motoring her
:01:20. > :01:22.roommate. She is now living in Seattle and his ruling sets the
:01:23. > :01:29.stage for a diplomatic duel. Will Italy try to get her back, will the
:01:30. > :01:32.US let her go? In a case with more twists than a
:01:33. > :01:38.Hollywood movie, an Italian court has once again found Amanda Knox
:01:39. > :01:40.guilty, guilty of the murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher,
:01:41. > :01:46.guilty of a crime that has been at the centre of an international media
:01:47. > :01:51.firestorm for more than six years. Her former boyfriend, Raffaele
:01:52. > :01:58.Sollecito was also did. -- convicted. We are told that she felt
:01:59. > :02:09.sick as the verdict was read, saying in a statement:
:02:10. > :02:18.her parents told us late today that they are stunned, but to find. --
:02:19. > :02:27.defiance. Angry is what moves us forward, to help us fight, probably
:02:28. > :02:30.more years of fighting. How can this happen? After being convicted in
:02:31. > :02:34.2009 and serving four years and risen, she was cleared after a
:02:35. > :02:38.second trial found that the original evidence unreliable. There is no
:02:39. > :02:46.evidence she was even found at the murder scene. Italy's highest court
:02:47. > :02:53.overturned the acquittal in order to have a new trial. I felt like after
:02:54. > :02:59.crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what I
:03:00. > :03:04.thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the Horizon and I
:03:05. > :03:12.had another field of barbed wire that I had a head of me. It will not
:03:13. > :03:16.end here. Amanda Knox can appeal yet again. If the verdict is upheld,
:03:17. > :03:22.only then will the question of extradition on the table. The
:03:23. > :03:26.parents say that the ordeal has cost them everything, devastating them
:03:27. > :03:32.financially. For now, Amanda Knox remains at home in Seattle. But with
:03:33. > :03:39.a cloud of a prison sentence hanging over her future.
:03:40. > :03:45.I want to bring in our Chief legal affairs anchor. Is there any way the
:03:46. > :03:51.United States will let the Italian striker back into prison? In most
:03:52. > :03:57.cases, the answer would be yes. She is a convicted murderer. In this
:03:58. > :04:02.case, it is likely. I do not think it is impossible. But it is unlikely
:04:03. > :04:06.that the US government will ultimately force her to go back to
:04:07. > :04:10.Italy. She talked about US government officials backing her.
:04:11. > :04:18.She had some state officials, particularly, standing by her. Is
:04:19. > :04:22.this a political decision? It helps that this is a political decision
:04:23. > :04:28.and not a legal one. You have somebody who has been convicted with
:04:29. > :04:31.due process. But since it is a political decision, it will go
:04:32. > :04:36.through the State Department. She will have a lot of support in this
:04:37. > :04:39.country. They are going to frame legal arguments to say that this is
:04:40. > :04:45.the reason we are not going to send her back. They can ask, but whether
:04:46. > :04:52.we do it is another issue. We turn to the final blast of Arctic
:04:53. > :04:57.air loosening its grip on 34 states. Even the National Guard had to help
:04:58. > :05:03.drivers. Some people are still digging out.
:05:04. > :05:11.How dangerous is the ice in the south? Watch carefully this video
:05:12. > :05:18.from Alabama. In Atlanta, they started moving abandoned cars with
:05:19. > :05:22.their bare hands. Today the National Guard took family she walked all the
:05:23. > :05:30.way to shelters back to the cars they abandoned in the snow. I have
:05:31. > :05:37.not been home since Tuesday. This woman, still in her high heels from
:05:38. > :05:43.work. I want to get in my bed and go to sleep. State officials apologised
:05:44. > :05:49.for not shutting the city down before the snow. The buck stops with
:05:50. > :06:01.me. I accept the responsibility for it. Such a mess. 1500 racks.
:06:02. > :06:07.We have certainly seen this happen in cities before. When all of
:06:08. > :06:13.Houston got on the roads to evacuate right before a hammer came in 2005.
:06:14. > :06:20.One expert says that cities have to have a plan. Atlanta did not
:06:21. > :06:24.understand that snow is the enemy. Whatever was done was in response to
:06:25. > :06:29.the crisis, not because there was a plan. He says the governor should
:06:30. > :06:41.have encouraged schools to close by declaring a state of emergency
:06:42. > :06:44.earlier. Hindsight is 2020. A note tonight about California, a
:06:45. > :06:47.new alert about the state's driest year on record. There had been hoped
:06:48. > :06:51.that a new storm would bring some relief. But as a tonight, it looks
:06:52. > :06:57.as though there will not be enough rain. Now communities are running
:06:58. > :07:02.dry less than 100 days from using up all of their water reserves. Next
:07:03. > :07:07.tonight, we moved to an investigation with those new
:07:08. > :07:10.warnings about security during the Winter Olympics. Today Russia
:07:11. > :07:17.arrested two Brothers for a link to recent bombings. This is the
:07:18. > :07:27.question, if Sochi is a hotbed for terrorism, why was the chosen? This
:07:28. > :07:34.year's Winter Olympics could have been held at the Austrian Alps or
:07:35. > :07:39.the mountains of South Korea. Instead, the International Olympic
:07:40. > :07:42.Committee chose a subtropical city in Russia famed for its Black Sea
:07:43. > :07:48.summer beaches, where snow rarely falls, and, located a few hundred
:07:49. > :07:52.miles from the stronghold of a ruthless terrorists group that has
:07:53. > :08:01.declared war on the Olympics. Now, the question is being asked, why was
:08:02. > :08:09.so cheap it in the first place. -- why was Sochi chosen in the first
:08:10. > :08:12.place? And ABC News investigation has found that behind the scenes,
:08:13. > :08:19.Russia was helped in getting the vote by this mysterious
:08:20. > :08:22.businessman, who US law enforcement authorities say in public documents
:08:23. > :08:28.is actually a key member of one of the world's biggest organised crime
:08:29. > :08:36.networks involved in the trafficking of heroin across Russia into Europe.
:08:37. > :08:42.He is a dangerous gangster. Yet, seen here at a 2012 Olympic event,
:08:43. > :08:46.he has been publicly thanked by the Russian Olympic Committee for his
:08:47. > :08:49.work in delivering the votes of certain Asian countries without
:08:50. > :08:55.which it would have been hard for Sochi to count on the victory.
:08:56. > :08:59.Portrayed as a powerful figure in the Russian media, he confirmed
:09:00. > :09:04.through a translator gets role in helping Russia get the Olympic
:09:05. > :09:08.Committee votes. He convinced them because of his good relations with
:09:09. > :09:13.these people. He has great influence, the spokesperson said. He
:09:14. > :09:19.said no bribes were necessary. The International Olympic Committee says
:09:20. > :09:22.it's bidding process is wrong and transparent but they would not
:09:23. > :09:26.respond directly to our questions about how this accused heroin
:09:27. > :09:32.kingpin apparently has such friends and influence with both the Olympics
:09:33. > :09:34.and the Russian government. And we have news tonight about the
:09:35. > :09:41.surviving suspect in the Boston bombing will stop today, federal
:09:42. > :09:50.prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty against
:09:51. > :09:55.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. And another cruise ship with six
:09:56. > :10:05.passengers today. The Caribbean Princess is returning to Houston
:10:06. > :10:09.tomorrow one ahead of schedule. -- one day ahead of schedule. It has
:10:10. > :10:15.been stricken by the highly infectious Norovirus. Passengers
:10:16. > :10:25.will get a cruise credit of 20% of their careful top some harrowing
:10:26. > :10:30.video -- 20% of their travel fair. Some harrowing video footage tonight
:10:31. > :10:38.of a scuba-diving boat sinking. It went down in a matter of minutes but
:10:39. > :10:46.everyone was saved. Now, our special report on children and firearms in
:10:47. > :10:52.our homes and the homes where our children play. Every other day, a
:10:53. > :10:55.child is accidentally shot to death. We want to start a conversation
:10:56. > :11:00.about what we can do together to make them safe. Tell children not to
:11:01. > :11:06.touch guns and watch what they do when they think no one is watching.
:11:07. > :11:10.We showed you parents who thought they had taught their children never
:11:11. > :11:16.to touch a gun. See what they do when they think no one is watching.
:11:17. > :11:22.Even when their words say over and over, don't touch it, tell and
:11:23. > :11:28.adult... Their bodies cannot seem to resist. They look for bullets by
:11:29. > :11:34.staring right down the barrel of the gun. They re-enact the movies,
:11:35. > :11:38.aiming at each other. They can learn the knowledge. We can ask them to
:11:39. > :11:43.repeated but you cannot educate Shihri city out of a child. Since
:11:44. > :11:50.one in three homes on average has guns in it... Many parents think
:11:51. > :11:55.they had hidden them safely away from young children, tucking them
:11:56. > :12:00.away in the closet. Even in a hollowed out Bible. And the NRA
:12:01. > :12:05.recommends guns be stored so that they are not accessible to
:12:06. > :12:11.children. But what is not accessible to a child? Give a child and
:12:12. > :12:15.incentive and they can do impossible things to get where they want to
:12:16. > :12:23.go. And you will see parents like Stephanie, who tells us she is so
:12:24. > :12:28.sure her son doesn't know she has a gun or even where she placed it. He
:12:29. > :12:34.takes us to the first place where it had been stored. When she moves it
:12:35. > :12:40.to a truly secret hiding place, we come back one month later and, guess
:12:41. > :12:43.what? He has found that one as well. He asked for a flashlight to point
:12:44. > :13:09.out that pump action shotgun. I don't want anyone to touch it. She
:13:10. > :13:12.points out that it's unloaded but since so many little American
:13:13. > :13:16.children live in homes with guns or a play at their neighbour's house,
:13:17. > :13:23.we wonder how many parents ask the question what gun safety is in other
:13:24. > :13:27.people's houses. Many Americans would be surprised to see how many
:13:28. > :13:33.parents actually own guns. We decided to go knocking. What we
:13:34. > :13:37.found was surprising. Next, an incredible rescue at 12,000 feet. We
:13:38. > :13:42.will meet the unconscious skydiver plummeting to earth and unable to
:13:43. > :13:47.watches parachute. This new video footage shows what his friends did
:13:48. > :14:29.before he finally opened his eyes. We will be back.
:14:30. > :14:35.We told you yesterday about that amazing midair rescue of the
:14:36. > :14:40.unconscious skydiver plummeting towards the earth and saved by his
:14:41. > :14:43.friends. Tonight, we have an interview and new video footage of
:14:44. > :14:48.the man whose friends helped him both defy gravity and the odds. When
:14:49. > :14:53.James clambered out onto this aeroplane, even though he had done
:14:54. > :14:57.more than 1000 jumps, he had no way of knowing that his fellow jumpers
:14:58. > :15:04.were about to have just seconds in which to save his life. A jumper who
:15:05. > :15:08.left the aircraft afterwards came down and knocked me unconscious.
:15:09. > :15:19.From them I have no recollection of what happened. He had been knocked
:15:20. > :15:25.unconscious. The camera on James's head was still rolling as he free
:15:26. > :15:32.fell more than 120 mph over the countryside. You can actually see
:15:33. > :15:38.him falling. Experts say that to land safely, you have to deploy your
:15:39. > :15:43.parachute 75 seconds into the dive. 30 seconds in, something amazing
:15:44. > :15:53.happened. His friends realised that he was in trouble. As you can see,
:15:54. > :15:58.they jump into action. My legs were bent and I was travelling backwards.
:15:59. > :16:00.The signals they were trying to give were straight in your legs and
:16:01. > :16:06.because I was not responding, they grabbed hold of me. At 58 seconds,
:16:07. > :16:13.they managed to open his parachute. At this point, James comes to. I was
:16:14. > :16:16.so happy to be on the ground. Obviously, having been knocked in
:16:17. > :16:24.the head, your muscles are that saw... It was all a bit dramatic.
:16:25. > :16:30.Dramatic and terrifying but despite it all, James has already jumped
:16:31. > :16:43.again since this incident. And some dazzling seen only in
:16:44. > :16:50.space. An eclipse of the sun. The sun in a rainbow of colours.
:16:51. > :16:59.And tonight for one young football fan at the Seahawks are superheroes.
:17:00. > :17:11.Time for a story about two big surprises. 12 -year-old Kevin plays
:17:12. > :17:16.violin. More rough and tumble fund could be life-threatening. I had
:17:17. > :17:22.heart surgery and something could go wrong and I could die. Kevan had his
:17:23. > :17:29.first surgery when he was three days old. He is still at high risk. When
:17:30. > :17:33.Make A Wish Foundation asked him what he wanted most in the world, he
:17:34. > :17:40.said to meet his favourite football team. But there is a catch. His
:17:41. > :17:46.parents are divorced. His father lives and works in the Middle East
:17:47. > :17:50.and only travels home once per year. Sports is a major part of their
:17:51. > :17:55.relationship. With his father not being here, this is one thing that
:17:56. > :18:03.they share. When he gets his wish... It's not complete. Why are
:18:04. > :18:08.you upset? Is their part of your wish that is missing? Until...
:18:09. > :18:24.Downstairs, someone has travelled 7000 miles to be here. This is for
:18:25. > :18:31.you. It's his father. Hey, buddy. How you doing? Days later, Kevin and
:18:32. > :18:39.his father are on the sidelines. They are part of the team. Are you
:18:40. > :18:44.ready? Are you enthusiastic? That's what I'm talking about! And then the
:18:45. > :18:51.boy who doesn't always get to play back home takes the field and scored
:18:52. > :19:00.a touchdown! Congratulations, Kevin! The newest Seahawks player
:19:01. > :19:11.makes a prediction. It's a prediction that has come true for
:19:12. > :19:26.the Seahawks and for Kevin. Kevin will be at the Super Bowl on
:19:27. > :19:28.Sunday. Thank you for watching this evening. It