27/02/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer


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Minister, David Ford. For now, it is time for the news from the US. ABC

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World News. Welcome to ABC World News. Rivers with icebergs the size

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of cars. Out west, trying to find tens of thousands of sandbags to

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block seems like this as an epic brainstorm is bearing down. Out of

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the shadows. A dramatic encounter today and about sex traffickers lure

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in American youth. And the girl who decided to speak out and fight back.

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A big change. The airline unravelling the rules for frequent

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flyers. Good evening. A giant rainstorm is

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bearing down on the West Coast and the race is on to protect homes

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against the threat of the mud and the floods. In one town, they are

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trying to Marshall 30,000 sandbags for the storm hits. Our reporter is

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they are. `` there. The storm is already causing problems in northern

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California and Oregon. Winds are snapping huge trees. It was very

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strong. Sandbags are at a fever pitch. This town is at the base of

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the mountains scorched by fire just a month ago. 18,000 sandbags are

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already in place. They want to 12,000 more and lay miles of

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concrete barriers. The heaviest rain is expected on Friday with winds of

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up to 60 mph. We will prepare for the worst. It takes hundreds of

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sandbags to shore up a home. What they cannot do is stop mudslides

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like the ones that covered this part of California in 2005. In the rest

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of the country, winter still rules supreme. In many Apple is a ground

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blizzard. Zero visibility. After a weekend warmth started breaking up

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icebergs, rivers are now dealing with ice jams. In Illinois,

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authorities had to shut this bridge because of the ice. These enormous

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chunks of ice pushing against the foundation of this bridge are a

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concern. Warm water has been released from a nuclear plant into

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the river to hope that it will melt the ice. The ice is threatening

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nearby homes. What are you worried about? The water will push the ice

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underneath and it will push the ice up and it will crush everything.

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That is the frustrating part for many as they cannot do anything

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about these ice jams. Flooding is a big concern but now they are coping

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with the bitter cold. It will not get above freezing for days.

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We are going to take you into an electrifying drama on Capitol Hill

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today. A stunning fact in America ` 300,000 children in the US are

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vulnerable to sex trafficking. Let out of rough neighbourhoods and out

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of good ones, and so often they're just the children next door.

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Lacey was just a normal 12`year`old girl. He bought me address and it

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was special. I felt like I was a princess, like a queen or something.

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She met her at a party and showered her with gifts and money but soon

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demanded something sinister. I was 13 when I started in the strip

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clubs. First he made a strip for money and then he told her that she

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would sell her body for sex or else. I got in the car with three people,

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I was scared and nervous and they did not want to do it but could not

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come back without any money. She came out of the shadows today at

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Capitol Hill. My story of seduction and explication is not unique. Many

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girls go through what I did. She wants punishments were human

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traffickers toughened, and to give police more tools to bust pimps and

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get the lives of victims back on track. The FPA estimates that

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293,000 children are victims of sex trafficking or at risk. What a

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terrible feeling that is to feel like at 14 or 15 or 16 you know that

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you life is over. But nobody will ever see you how you want to be

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seen. For a problem that is not going away, there are signs like

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these is designed to help victims out of the shadows and help put the

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traffickers behind bars. We have news about the culture war raging in

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Arizona. The law that puts religious liberty against equal rights. Many

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companies and big names like John McCain and met Romney are warning

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the government not to sign that bill. More than 65,000 people have

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signed a petition urging her not to sign the bill. She has until

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Saturday to decide. Not far away, in Texas, another debate about gay

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Americans. A federal judge struck down the Texas ban on same`sex

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marriage. No marriages can take place until an appeal, but Texas

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could join this map of 17 states were gay marriage is legal. A shock

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for everyone who treasures frequent flyer miles. Delta announced a big

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change with a big advantage to business travellers with corporate

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expense accounts. What is this mean for everybody else? You are already

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paying more for bags and food and tonight more bad news. The first

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major carrier, Delta, is completely overhauling its frequent flyer

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programme. Used to be able to earn your miles based on how far you

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flew. Now you are going to be rewarded for your spending and

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server time in the seat. Today somebody in first class and somebody

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in economy each fly and receive the same amount of miles. Under the new

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plans, if I have a ticket in advance for $350, I will only get 1700

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miles. That last`minute business traveller who pays $1000 will get

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5000 miles. Those high spending business travellers who Delta wants.

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As the head of their frequent flyer programme said... This system, is

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already in effect at some smaller airlines and some hotels are using

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the same calculation. Is this the point plan of the future? It is bold

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and risky. Other airlines will observe and if consumers respond

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well they will follow. Getting that free ticket will cost you more. In

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international news, the US hurled a tough new warning at Russia, saying

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an intervention in Ukraine would be a great mistake. John Kerry urged

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restraint, saving this is not Rocky four. The Russian President ordered

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his troops to conduct military exercises on Ukraine's doorstep.

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From Russia, next to China. Tonight, in the grip of an epic dome

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of smog. The air pollution is so dire, someone said it was like a

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respiratory nuclear winter. We decided to have a look at how hard

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it is to reach clean air through smog.

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This is what it was like to wake up in China's capital. Life inside a

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toxic cloud, seven straight days. I'm looking at the sky, it is just

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about as polluted as I have ever seen. This application indicates the

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air quality index. That number is 512. The WHO says 20 is what is

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safe. I once lived in Beijing, but in the past 26 years, the pollution

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was never so bad. The air tastes metallic in your mouth. We are

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pulling out of a Beijing train station, and we are going to have a

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look at sea where the smog ends. Visibility dropped as we left the

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city and move across the industrial belt. The pollution index peaked at

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610. We travelled 450 miles, the same distance from Boston to

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Washington, DC, before finally escaping the worst of the haze. Will

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the first time we have some poking through the clouds. The number here

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is 142, and right now in Beijing it is still 533. The smog is the result

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of a booming industry without regulations, but if you think it is

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only China's problem, think again. A new study shows how the smog makes

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its way all the way to America, travelling in a matter of five or

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seven days across the Pacific, contributing up to 10% of the air

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pollution on the West Coast. 5.5 hours later we arrived at our

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destination, as far from Beijing as the distance between Boston and

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Colombia, South Carolina. Right here, it is only 83. It is certainly

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easier to breathe. That number is still four times higher than the WHO

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says is safe. We finally breathe clearer air, but we have not fully

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escaped the polluted sky. We turn now to a headline about

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modern health and the importance of a man's biological clock. Most of

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the emphasis through the year has been put on the age of a pregnant

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mother and risks for the child, but tonight a new study puts new

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emphasis on the age of the father. What they found was that the older

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you are when you have your children, the greater the risk they have for

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having a mental illness. This was a huge study, very well done. It was

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in Sweden, and they followed more than 2.5 million men. What they

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found, was that the age of the father really contributed. Compare

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to the youngest fathers, those who were fathered by men older than 45,

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three times the risk for autism, 13 times the risk for attention deficit

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disorder, 25 times the risk for bipolar, and twice the risk for

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schizophrenia. The risk is still low, but it goes up as your father

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gets older. Any conjecture about why? This doesn't prove it is age,

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but we know that the older you are, the more mutations there right in

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your sperm. It doesn't mean that you should rush out and have the

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children young, but if you wait longer there is a risk involved. It

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was an emotional day as members of the Kennedy family assembled in a

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court room in New York to support one of their own today. Ethel

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Kennedy was listening as her daughter took the stand. Her

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daughter on trial for driving under the influence of a sleeping eight,

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and today vividly recalling her father, his death, and the mother

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who carried the family forward. Testifying in her own defence at her

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drug driving trial, Kerry Kennedy opened up about a very public

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family. In entering the defence's initial questions, she described her

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rock ringing, affectionately referring to her father, the late

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Bobby Kennedy, as quote " daddy". She also spoke about his

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assassination. Kennedy's 85`year`old mother, Ethel,

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who rarely makes public appearances, was also in court. The

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trial is over a single misdemeanour count of driving while impaired.

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Kennedy says in July 2012 she accidentally took a prescription

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sleep drug with a breakfast instead of her thyroid medication, and each

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got behind the wheel. She has pleaded not guilty, and testified

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that she felt disorientated and frightened, and says... If these

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jurors agree that this was an accident, it seems like a stretch to

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convicted. On cross`examination, prosecutors tried to betray her say

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frequent user of the sleeping drug, who carelessly took the wrong pill

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`` portray. In the final moments, the prosecutor asked if a conviction

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would hurt her public image. She replied, yes.

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We are mums who are just trying to protect our children. Tonight,

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People magazine decides what should be off`limits, and we will tell you

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in a few minutes.

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