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Minister, David Ford. For now, it is time for the news from the US. ABC | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
World News. Welcome to ABC World News. Rivers with icebergs the size | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
of cars. Out west, trying to find tens of thousands of sandbags to | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
block seems like this as an epic brainstorm is bearing down. Out of | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
the shadows. A dramatic encounter today and about sex traffickers lure | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
in American youth. And the girl who decided to speak out and fight back. | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
A big change. The airline unravelling the rules for frequent | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
flyers. Good evening. A giant rainstorm is | :00:42. | :00:56. | |
bearing down on the West Coast and the race is on to protect homes | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
against the threat of the mud and the floods. In one town, they are | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
trying to Marshall 30,000 sandbags for the storm hits. Our reporter is | :01:06. | :01:18. | |
they are. `` there. The storm is already causing problems in northern | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
California and Oregon. Winds are snapping huge trees. It was very | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
strong. Sandbags are at a fever pitch. This town is at the base of | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
the mountains scorched by fire just a month ago. 18,000 sandbags are | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
already in place. They want to 12,000 more and lay miles of | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
concrete barriers. The heaviest rain is expected on Friday with winds of | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
up to 60 mph. We will prepare for the worst. It takes hundreds of | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
sandbags to shore up a home. What they cannot do is stop mudslides | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
like the ones that covered this part of California in 2005. In the rest | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
of the country, winter still rules supreme. In many Apple is a ground | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
blizzard. Zero visibility. After a weekend warmth started breaking up | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
icebergs, rivers are now dealing with ice jams. In Illinois, | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
authorities had to shut this bridge because of the ice. These enormous | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
chunks of ice pushing against the foundation of this bridge are a | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
concern. Warm water has been released from a nuclear plant into | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
the river to hope that it will melt the ice. The ice is threatening | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
nearby homes. What are you worried about? The water will push the ice | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
underneath and it will push the ice up and it will crush everything. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
That is the frustrating part for many as they cannot do anything | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
about these ice jams. Flooding is a big concern but now they are coping | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
with the bitter cold. It will not get above freezing for days. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
We are going to take you into an electrifying drama on Capitol Hill | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
today. A stunning fact in America ` 300,000 children in the US are | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
vulnerable to sex trafficking. Let out of rough neighbourhoods and out | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
of good ones, and so often they're just the children next door. | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
Lacey was just a normal 12`year`old girl. He bought me address and it | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
was special. I felt like I was a princess, like a queen or something. | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
She met her at a party and showered her with gifts and money but soon | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
demanded something sinister. I was 13 when I started in the strip | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
clubs. First he made a strip for money and then he told her that she | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
would sell her body for sex or else. I got in the car with three people, | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
I was scared and nervous and they did not want to do it but could not | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
come back without any money. She came out of the shadows today at | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
Capitol Hill. My story of seduction and explication is not unique. Many | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
girls go through what I did. She wants punishments were human | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
traffickers toughened, and to give police more tools to bust pimps and | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
get the lives of victims back on track. The FPA estimates that | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
293,000 children are victims of sex trafficking or at risk. What a | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
terrible feeling that is to feel like at 14 or 15 or 16 you know that | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
you life is over. But nobody will ever see you how you want to be | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
seen. For a problem that is not going away, there are signs like | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
these is designed to help victims out of the shadows and help put the | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
traffickers behind bars. We have news about the culture war raging in | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Arizona. The law that puts religious liberty against equal rights. Many | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
companies and big names like John McCain and met Romney are warning | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
the government not to sign that bill. More than 65,000 people have | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
signed a petition urging her not to sign the bill. She has until | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
Saturday to decide. Not far away, in Texas, another debate about gay | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Americans. A federal judge struck down the Texas ban on same`sex | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
marriage. No marriages can take place until an appeal, but Texas | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
could join this map of 17 states were gay marriage is legal. A shock | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
for everyone who treasures frequent flyer miles. Delta announced a big | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
change with a big advantage to business travellers with corporate | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
expense accounts. What is this mean for everybody else? You are already | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
paying more for bags and food and tonight more bad news. The first | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
major carrier, Delta, is completely overhauling its frequent flyer | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
programme. Used to be able to earn your miles based on how far you | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
flew. Now you are going to be rewarded for your spending and | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
server time in the seat. Today somebody in first class and somebody | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
in economy each fly and receive the same amount of miles. Under the new | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
plans, if I have a ticket in advance for $350, I will only get 1700 | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
miles. That last`minute business traveller who pays $1000 will get | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
5000 miles. Those high spending business travellers who Delta wants. | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
As the head of their frequent flyer programme said... This system, is | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
already in effect at some smaller airlines and some hotels are using | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
the same calculation. Is this the point plan of the future? It is bold | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
and risky. Other airlines will observe and if consumers respond | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
well they will follow. Getting that free ticket will cost you more. In | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
international news, the US hurled a tough new warning at Russia, saying | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
an intervention in Ukraine would be a great mistake. John Kerry urged | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
restraint, saving this is not Rocky four. The Russian President ordered | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
his troops to conduct military exercises on Ukraine's doorstep. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
From Russia, next to China. Tonight, in the grip of an epic dome | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
of smog. The air pollution is so dire, someone said it was like a | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
respiratory nuclear winter. We decided to have a look at how hard | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
it is to reach clean air through smog. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
This is what it was like to wake up in China's capital. Life inside a | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
toxic cloud, seven straight days. I'm looking at the sky, it is just | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
about as polluted as I have ever seen. This application indicates the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
air quality index. That number is 512. The WHO says 20 is what is | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
safe. I once lived in Beijing, but in the past 26 years, the pollution | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
was never so bad. The air tastes metallic in your mouth. We are | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
pulling out of a Beijing train station, and we are going to have a | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
look at sea where the smog ends. Visibility dropped as we left the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
city and move across the industrial belt. The pollution index peaked at | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
610. We travelled 450 miles, the same distance from Boston to | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Washington, DC, before finally escaping the worst of the haze. Will | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the first time we have some poking through the clouds. The number here | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
is 142, and right now in Beijing it is still 533. The smog is the result | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
of a booming industry without regulations, but if you think it is | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
only China's problem, think again. A new study shows how the smog makes | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
its way all the way to America, travelling in a matter of five or | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
seven days across the Pacific, contributing up to 10% of the air | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
pollution on the West Coast. 5.5 hours later we arrived at our | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
destination, as far from Beijing as the distance between Boston and | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
Colombia, South Carolina. Right here, it is only 83. It is certainly | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
easier to breathe. That number is still four times higher than the WHO | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
says is safe. We finally breathe clearer air, but we have not fully | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
escaped the polluted sky. We turn now to a headline about | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
modern health and the importance of a man's biological clock. Most of | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
the emphasis through the year has been put on the age of a pregnant | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
mother and risks for the child, but tonight a new study puts new | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
emphasis on the age of the father. What they found was that the older | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
you are when you have your children, the greater the risk they have for | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
having a mental illness. This was a huge study, very well done. It was | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
in Sweden, and they followed more than 2.5 million men. What they | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
found, was that the age of the father really contributed. Compare | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
to the youngest fathers, those who were fathered by men older than 45, | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
three times the risk for autism, 13 times the risk for attention deficit | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
disorder, 25 times the risk for bipolar, and twice the risk for | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
schizophrenia. The risk is still low, but it goes up as your father | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
gets older. Any conjecture about why? This doesn't prove it is age, | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
but we know that the older you are, the more mutations there right in | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
your sperm. It doesn't mean that you should rush out and have the | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
children young, but if you wait longer there is a risk involved. It | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
was an emotional day as members of the Kennedy family assembled in a | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
court room in New York to support one of their own today. Ethel | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Kennedy was listening as her daughter took the stand. Her | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
daughter on trial for driving under the influence of a sleeping eight, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
and today vividly recalling her father, his death, and the mother | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
who carried the family forward. Testifying in her own defence at her | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
drug driving trial, Kerry Kennedy opened up about a very public | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
family. In entering the defence's initial questions, she described her | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
rock ringing, affectionately referring to her father, the late | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Bobby Kennedy, as quote " daddy". She also spoke about his | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
assassination. Kennedy's 85`year`old mother, Ethel, | :12:45. | :12:57. | |
who rarely makes public appearances, was also in court. The | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
trial is over a single misdemeanour count of driving while impaired. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Kennedy says in July 2012 she accidentally took a prescription | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
sleep drug with a breakfast instead of her thyroid medication, and each | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
got behind the wheel. She has pleaded not guilty, and testified | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
that she felt disorientated and frightened, and says... If these | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
jurors agree that this was an accident, it seems like a stretch to | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
convicted. On cross`examination, prosecutors tried to betray her say | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
frequent user of the sleeping drug, who carelessly took the wrong pill | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
`` portray. In the final moments, the prosecutor asked if a conviction | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
would hurt her public image. She replied, yes. | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
We are mums who are just trying to protect our children. Tonight, | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
People magazine decides what should be off`limits, and we will tell you | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
in a few minutes. | :14:11. | :14:12. |