31/01/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer


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more news at the top of the hour. Time for a look at the news as seen

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across the United States. Welcome to world news. Tonight,

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guilty. The stunning new verdict for the American girl Amanda Knox. Italy

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wants her back in prison for murder. Will America for such a go? The

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south thaws out, but still a slippery mess on the roads.

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How children behave when they think their parents are not looking. And

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what about parents who think their children do not know where the guns

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are hidden? And for the first time, the

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unconscious skydiver describes that plummet and the moment his friends

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saved his life. Good evening. We begin with the

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breaking news in the case of that American girl whose trial made

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headlines around the world. Amanda Knox, the American college student,

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today once again found guilty by an Italian court of motoring her

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roommate. She is now living in Seattle and his ruling sets the

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stage for a diplomatic duel. Will Italy try to get her back, will the

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US let her go? In a case with more twists than a

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Hollywood movie, an Italian court has once again found Amanda Knox

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guilty, guilty of the murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher,

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guilty of a crime that has been at the centre of an international media

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firestorm for more than six years. Her former boyfriend, Raffaele

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Sollecito was also did. -- convicted. We are told that she felt

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sick as the verdict was read, saying in a statement:

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her parents told us late today that they are stunned, but to find. --

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defiance. Angry is what moves us forward, to help us fight, probably

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more years of fighting. How can this happen? After being convicted in

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2009 and serving four years and risen, she was cleared after a

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second trial found that the original evidence unreliable. There is no

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evidence she was even found at the murder scene. Italy's highest court

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overturned the acquittal in order to have a new trial. I felt like after

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crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what I

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thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the Horizon and I

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had another field of barbed wire that I had a head of me. It will not

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end here. Amanda Knox can appeal yet again. If the verdict is upheld,

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only then will the question of extradition on the table. The

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parents say that the ordeal has cost them everything, devastating them

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financially. For now, Amanda Knox remains at home in Seattle. But with

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a cloud of a prison sentence hanging over her future.

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I want to bring in our Chief legal affairs anchor. Is there any way the

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United States will let the Italian striker back into prison? In most

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cases, the answer would be yes. She is a convicted murderer. In this

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case, it is likely. I do not think it is impossible. But it is unlikely

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that the US government will ultimately force her to go back to

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Italy. She talked about US government officials backing her.

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She had some state officials, particularly, standing by her. Is

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this a political decision? It helps that this is a political decision

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and not a legal one. You have somebody who has been convicted with

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due process. But since it is a political decision, it will go

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through the State Department. She will have a lot of support in this

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country. They are going to frame legal arguments to say that this is

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the reason we are not going to send her back. They can ask, but whether

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we do it is another issue. We turn to the final blast of Arctic

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air loosening its grip on 34 states. Even the National Guard had to help

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drivers. Some people are still digging out.

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How dangerous is the ice in the south? Watch carefully this video

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from Alabama. In Atlanta, they started moving abandoned cars with

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their bare hands. Today the National Guard took family she walked all the

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way to shelters back to the cars they abandoned in the snow. I have

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not been home since Tuesday. This woman, still in her high heels from

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work. I want to get in my bed and go to sleep. State officials apologised

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for not shutting the city down before the snow. The buck stops with

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me. I accept the responsibility for it. Such a mess. 1500 racks.

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We have certainly seen this happen in cities before. When all of

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Houston got on the roads to evacuate right before a hammer came in 2005.

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One expert says that cities have to have a plan. Atlanta did not

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understand that snow is the enemy. Whatever was done was in response to

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the crisis, not because there was a plan. He says the governor should

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have encouraged schools to close by declaring a state of emergency

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earlier. Hindsight is 2020. A note tonight about California, a

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new alert about the state's driest year on record. There had been hoped

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that a new storm would bring some relief. But as a tonight, it looks

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as though there will not be enough rain. Now communities are running

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dry less than 100 days from using up all of their water reserves. Next

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tonight, we moved to an investigation with those new

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warnings about security during the Winter Olympics. Today Russia

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arrested two Brothers for a link to recent bombings. This is the

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question, if Sochi is a hotbed for terrorism, why was the chosen? This

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year's Winter Olympics could have been held at the Austrian Alps or

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the mountains of South Korea. Instead, the International Olympic

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Committee chose a subtropical city in Russia famed for its Black Sea

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summer beaches, where snow rarely falls, and, located a few hundred

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miles from the stronghold of a ruthless terrorists group that has

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declared war on the Olympics. Now, the question is being asked, why was

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so cheap it in the first place. -- why was Sochi chosen in the first

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place? And ABC News investigation has found that behind the scenes,

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Russia was helped in getting the vote by this mysterious

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businessman, who US law enforcement authorities say in public documents

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is actually a key member of one of the world's biggest organised crime

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networks involved in the trafficking of heroin across Russia into Europe.

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He is a dangerous gangster. Yet, seen here at a 2012 Olympic event,

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he has been publicly thanked by the Russian Olympic Committee for his

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work in delivering the votes of certain Asian countries without

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which it would have been hard for Sochi to count on the victory.

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Portrayed as a powerful figure in the Russian media, he confirmed

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through a translator gets role in helping Russia get the Olympic

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Committee votes. He convinced them because of his good relations with

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these people. He has great influence, the spokesperson said. He

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said no bribes were necessary. The International Olympic Committee says

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it's bidding process is wrong and transparent but they would not

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respond directly to our questions about how this accused heroin

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kingpin apparently has such friends and influence with both the Olympics

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and the Russian government. And we have news tonight about the

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surviving suspect in the Boston bombing will stop today, federal

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prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty against

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. And another cruise ship with six

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passengers today. The Caribbean Princess is returning to Houston

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tomorrow one ahead of schedule. -- one day ahead of schedule. It has

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been stricken by the highly infectious Norovirus. Passengers

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will get a cruise credit of 20% of their careful top some harrowing

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video -- 20% of their travel fair. Some harrowing video footage tonight

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of a scuba-diving boat sinking. It went down in a matter of minutes but

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everyone was saved. Now, our special report on children and firearms in

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our homes and the homes where our children play. Every other day, a

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child is accidentally shot to death. We want to start a conversation

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about what we can do together to make them safe. Tell children not to

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touch guns and watch what they do when they think no one is watching.

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We showed you parents who thought they had taught their children never

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to touch a gun. See what they do when they think no one is watching.

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Even when their words say over and over, don't touch it, tell and

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adult... Their bodies cannot seem to resist. They look for bullets by

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staring right down the barrel of the gun. They re-enact the movies,

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aiming at each other. They can learn the knowledge. We can ask them to

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repeated but you cannot educate Shihri city out of a child. Since

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one in three homes on average has guns in it... Many parents think

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they had hidden them safely away from young children, tucking them

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away in the closet. Even in a hollowed out Bible. And the NRA

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recommends guns be stored so that they are not accessible to

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children. But what is not accessible to a child? Give a child and

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incentive and they can do impossible things to get where they want to

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go. And you will see parents like Stephanie, who tells us she is so

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sure her son doesn't know she has a gun or even where she placed it. He

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takes us to the first place where it had been stored. When she moves it

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to a truly secret hiding place, we come back one month later and, guess

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what? He has found that one as well. He asked for a flashlight to point

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out that pump action shotgun. I don't want anyone to touch it. She

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points out that it's unloaded but since so many little American

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children live in homes with guns or a play at their neighbour's house,

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we wonder how many parents ask the question what gun safety is in other

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people's houses. Many Americans would be surprised to see how many

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parents actually own guns. We decided to go knocking. What we

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found was surprising. Next, an incredible rescue at 12,000 feet. We

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will meet the unconscious skydiver plummeting to earth and unable to

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watches parachute. This new video footage shows what his friends did

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before he finally opened his eyes. We will be back.

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We told you yesterday about that amazing midair rescue of the

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unconscious skydiver plummeting towards the earth and saved by his

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friends. Tonight, we have an interview and new video footage of

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the man whose friends helped him both defy gravity and the odds. When

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James clambered out onto this aeroplane, even though he had done

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more than 1000 jumps, he had no way of knowing that his fellow jumpers

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were about to have just seconds in which to save his life. A jumper who

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left the aircraft afterwards came down and knocked me unconscious.

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From them I have no recollection of what happened. He had been knocked

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unconscious. The camera on James's head was still rolling as he free

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fell more than 120 mph over the countryside. You can actually see

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him falling. Experts say that to land safely, you have to deploy your

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parachute 75 seconds into the dive. 30 seconds in, something amazing

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happened. His friends realised that he was in trouble. As you can see,

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they jump into action. My legs were bent and I was travelling backwards.

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The signals they were trying to give were straight in your legs and

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because I was not responding, they grabbed hold of me. At 58 seconds,

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they managed to open his parachute. At this point, James comes to. I was

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so happy to be on the ground. Obviously, having been knocked in

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the head, your muscles are that saw... It was all a bit dramatic.

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Dramatic and terrifying but despite it all, James has already jumped

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again since this incident. And some dazzling seen only in

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space. An eclipse of the sun. The sun in a rainbow of colours.

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And tonight for one young football fan at the Seahawks are superheroes.

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Time for a story about two big surprises. 12 -year-old Kevin plays

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violin. More rough and tumble fund could be life-threatening. I had

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heart surgery and something could go wrong and I could die. Kevan had his

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first surgery when he was three days old. He is still at high risk. When

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Make A Wish Foundation asked him what he wanted most in the world, he

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said to meet his favourite football team. But there is a catch. His

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parents are divorced. His father lives and works in the Middle East

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and only travels home once per year. Sports is a major part of their

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relationship. With his father not being here, this is one thing that

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they share. When he gets his wish... It's not complete. Why are

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you upset? Is their part of your wish that is missing? Until...

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Downstairs, someone has travelled 7000 miles to be here. This is for

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you. It's his father. Hey, buddy. How you doing? Days later, Kevin and

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his father are on the sidelines. They are part of the team. Are you

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ready? Are you enthusiastic? That's what I'm talking about! And then the

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boy who doesn't always get to play back home takes the field and scored

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a touchdown! Congratulations, Kevin! The newest Seahawks player

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makes a prediction. It's a prediction that has come true for

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the Seahawks and for Kevin. Kevin will be at the Super Bowl on

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Sunday. Thank you for watching this evening. It

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