:00:00. > :00:00.paedophiles. Time now for a look at the news as
:00:00. > :00:10.seen across the United States a couple of hours ago, in ABC World
:00:11. > :00:13.News with Dianne Sawyer. Welcome to world news. Tonight:
:00:14. > :00:20.washout. 1000 homes evacuating tonight. A big storm on the West
:00:21. > :00:24.Coast threatening mud and floods. Already, accidents on slippery
:00:25. > :00:29.roads. Will the sandbags and barricades hold off the possibility
:00:30. > :00:33.of slides like this? Attention shoppers: a major change
:00:34. > :00:38.on those levels of the grocery store.
:00:39. > :00:40.And real money: is this the most unsellable house in America? We will
:00:41. > :00:52.see lessons for everyone trying to see lessons for everyone trying to
:00:53. > :00:58.make money on selling your home. Good evening. We begin out west on
:00:59. > :01:03.the front lines where the sandbags Aaron plays. The barricades up and
:01:04. > :01:07.everybody is hoping they are ready for the wind and water is not. An
:01:08. > :01:14.evacuation order is in place for 1000 homes, families already leaving
:01:15. > :01:20.in fear of floods and mud. We start off in Southern California. When it
:01:21. > :01:26.rains, it pours. That is the problem here in California. Already, these
:01:27. > :01:31.storms have whipped up waves, snatched trees, and caused plenty of
:01:32. > :01:40.wrecks on the roads. More than 100 crashes in LA alone. Including this.
:01:41. > :01:48.The worst may be yet to come. Here, they are bracing for my clothes. ``
:01:49. > :01:59.mudslides. Last month they were fighting fire. Bring on the rain,
:02:00. > :02:06.and you could see a tsunami of mud. Landslides control up to 35 mph. In
:02:07. > :02:14.1969, a mudslide wiped out 160 homes. It is scary. Your home could
:02:15. > :02:20.be gone. It is unknown. If you look at the pictures from 1969, all the
:02:21. > :02:26.homes that are here, you can see the roof, that is it. What can they do
:02:27. > :02:28.to protect themselves? Not much. They are installing concrete
:02:29. > :02:35.barricades like these. Think of it like it giant final, channelling mud
:02:36. > :02:39.down the streets. They hope it will leave the homes intact. The
:02:40. > :02:47.barricades will stay here for five years. Until the vegetation grows
:02:48. > :02:52.back. If it keeps us safe, I am fine with that. The storm will head to
:02:53. > :02:59.the midwest, where the snow is already wreaking havoc on the roads.
:03:00. > :03:04.See that steam? It is so cold in Minnesota that the lake is warmer
:03:05. > :03:16.than the air. Back here, forecasters say the second wave of the storm is
:03:17. > :03:19.on its way. We now speak to a meteorologist.
:03:20. > :03:25.We are watching the storm that will cross the nation.
:03:26. > :03:30.Claire skies are not for long. The clouds are already thickening. ``
:03:31. > :03:34.clear skies. The heaviest rain will start tomorrow morning. A will show
:03:35. > :03:44.you are the numbers look like. It is not great. It is six inches of rain
:03:45. > :03:50.west of Los Angeles. We may have seven inches. They look at the
:03:51. > :03:55.timing. On Friday, the storm starts coming through Southern California.
:03:56. > :04:00.We will get the heavy rain, the gusts of 70 mph, a possibility of
:04:01. > :04:06.tornadoes coming onshore. Then the storm comes across and hits the
:04:07. > :04:11.colder. We will see freezing rain, sleet, anywhere from south of
:04:12. > :04:15.Chicago through to a higher and western Pennsylvania.
:04:16. > :04:22.He read comes again on the East Coast. Thank you. Next ` and the
:04:23. > :04:29.deadline for parents and schools across the country. `` and urgent
:04:30. > :04:34.headline. We have told you about the risk of football and concussion.
:04:35. > :04:39.Tonight, a soccer player has been linked with a disease as a result of
:04:40. > :04:44.repeated blows to the head. Our correspondent has more. American
:04:45. > :04:51.kids love to play soccer. Long seen as the safe alternative to American
:04:52. > :04:57.football. Today, an American soccer player has been diagnosed with CTE,
:04:58. > :05:05.a repetitive head trauma disease found in professional football
:05:06. > :05:08.players. He died nearly two years ago. Today doctors announced the
:05:09. > :05:13.frontal lobe of his brain was badly damaged. It was riddled with same
:05:14. > :05:18.disease that leads to dementia and depression. Getting hit in had
:05:19. > :05:24.hundreds of thousands of times is not on part of life. It does not
:05:25. > :05:29.happen outside of sports. It is this move that is so dangerous for
:05:30. > :05:34.youngsters. Players typically hit the ball with their head up to 12
:05:35. > :05:38.times in a single game. What again, the ball travelling up to 50 mph.
:05:39. > :05:45.While football players are protected by a helmet, in soccer there is
:05:46. > :05:49.nothing. As a youth, under the age of 14, it should not happen. Since
:05:50. > :05:55.the human brain is a developmental age 25, many doctors and coaching
:05:56. > :05:59.clinics advise parents against allowing practice until the age of
:06:00. > :06:07.14. They closely monitored children for concussions.
:06:08. > :06:11.Today in Washington, the president talked about something very
:06:12. > :06:16.personal. His father, and other fathers who walk out on their
:06:17. > :06:18.children. He offered a plan to help kids to succeed when they are angry
:06:19. > :06:25.and have made mistakes. Our correspondent has more. Flanked by
:06:26. > :06:29.young men struggling to grow up and some of Chicago's roughest
:06:30. > :06:37.neighbourhoods, President Obama" his own troubles as a teenager. I did
:06:38. > :06:42.not have a dad in the house. I was angry about it, they did not realise
:06:43. > :06:48.it at the time. I made bad choices. I got higher, without thinking about
:06:49. > :06:53.the harm it could do. A side of the president we rarely see. I can see
:06:54. > :06:59.myself in these young men. The only difference is that I was growing up
:07:00. > :07:03.in an environment that was a bit more forgiving. When I made a
:07:04. > :07:08.mistake, the consequences were not severe. The teams themselves in the
:07:09. > :07:12.present as well. He was just like me, growing up without a father.
:07:13. > :07:20.Sometimes not too concerned with school. Today's event was to launch
:07:21. > :07:28.a mentoring programme for at risk youth. Part of our message is that
:07:29. > :07:35.there are no excuses. It will take courage, but you will have to tune
:07:36. > :07:38.out the naysayers. This is the third time the President has met with this
:07:39. > :07:43.group of teams from Chicago. The last time was on Father's Day. You
:07:44. > :07:46.can expect he will meet with them again. It is a group that he has
:07:47. > :07:55.established a personal connection with. We now head overseas and to
:07:56. > :08:01.Ukraine where this was the image on the ground. Master gunmen raising
:08:02. > :08:08.the Russian flag. Russia made a point to reassure the US today. ``
:08:09. > :08:12.masked gunmen. Russia vowed to respect the integrity of Ukraine and
:08:13. > :08:18.said that they would not start an armed conflict. US officials remain
:08:19. > :08:21.watchful. At home, police are celebrating a victory against
:08:22. > :08:27.organised car thieves. The multimillion dollar
:08:28. > :08:30.international ring was hauled in and arrested today. They are accused of
:08:31. > :08:36.stealing cars and selling them overseas.
:08:37. > :08:43.Watch how quickly it can happen. Carjacker pulls gun on a man in
:08:44. > :08:51.front of his house, demanding his car keys to drive off with the
:08:52. > :08:54.victims Mercedes. A carjacker killed this man right in front of his wife
:08:55. > :08:59.at them all in order to gauge if the trees car. It is part of what
:09:00. > :09:09.authorities call a car jacking epidemic. `` in order to take his
:09:10. > :09:14.car. Some victims had been pistol whipped. More than two dozen people
:09:15. > :09:20.are in jail tonight. They will get what they deserve. The cars were
:09:21. > :09:27.stolen in New Jersey and New York to be shipped to West Africa. These are
:09:28. > :09:31.some of the 160 stolen cars. We are told that in West Africa, they would
:09:32. > :09:35.have sold for more than they are worth. This Mercedes and sells for
:09:36. > :09:41.$94,000 here stop in Africa, 30% more. That the man and new
:09:42. > :09:46.technology that makes car is impossible to hotwire a fuelling the
:09:47. > :09:53.crimes. You are concerned about the violence associated? It is probably
:09:54. > :10:00.a complement to the car companies. They had made it so tough to steal a
:10:01. > :10:00.car that you need the key. Getting the key means confronting the
:10:01. > :10:12.driver. This next story is a about all
:10:13. > :10:21.travellers. We told you about Delta Airl Airline changing the way they
:10:22. > :10:24.give out frequent`flier miles. American Airlines announced that
:10:25. > :10:36.they have done away with Britain fares. `` Readman.
:10:37. > :10:51.The seismic changes coming to the supermarket. The nation squinting at
:10:52. > :10:52.food labels. The FDA today announced that there labels have to be bigger
:10:53. > :11:02.and have bold type. As soon as you go into a grocery
:11:03. > :11:06.aisle, the fine print on those labels will tell you what you
:11:07. > :11:14.already know. You consume more than one serving at a time. You agree to
:11:15. > :11:18.treat the whole thing. Soda and other drinks are a perfect example.
:11:19. > :11:24.Eight ounces is considered a serving but that is only 40% of an average
:11:25. > :11:28.bottle and we usually drink the whole bottle. Instead of 100
:11:29. > :11:33.calories, we are really getting 250. Under the plan announced today
:11:34. > :11:38.nutrition labels will now reflect how we really eat and drink, showing
:11:39. > :11:44.us how many calories were actually consumed in mulled numbers on the
:11:45. > :11:47.label. Ice cream, your treat at the end of the day but admit it, you
:11:48. > :11:53.skip out more than the standard serving. Today, half cup is the
:11:54. > :11:58.serving size but we usually put a full cup in our bowl. That will be
:11:59. > :12:05.the new serving size. 130 versus calories. A bagel is considered a
:12:06. > :12:11.serving but we usually eat the whole size `` Hall of the bagel. We don't
:12:12. > :12:16.be just half a muffin so the whole thing a serving size. Along with the
:12:17. > :12:22.larger numbers, food makers will also have to list their sugars
:12:23. > :12:23.added. A more realistic look at what we are really putting into our
:12:24. > :12:31.bodies. A note about the high`profile trial
:12:32. > :12:38.involving a member of America's best`known political family. It is
:12:39. > :12:41.nearing the end. Jury deliberations began in the case of the daughter of
:12:42. > :12:45.Robert Kennedy, accused of driving while under the influence of a
:12:46. > :12:50.sleeping pill full she testified that she took it by mistake. The
:12:51. > :12:56.jury met for 20 minutes this afternoon and will get back to work
:12:57. > :13:02.tomorrow. Up next, real money: Is this the most unsellable house in
:13:03. > :13:04.America and why? Big lessons on how to sell your house for the most
:13:05. > :14:22.money. We reveal a secret about what people
:14:23. > :14:27.have been doing quietly to survive the cold winter. The answer?
:14:28. > :14:33.Americans have booked 38% trips to Hawaii or other warm destinations
:14:34. > :14:41.this winter than last winter. Those of us who are not lucky enough to
:14:42. > :14:47.book a trip have been dreaming. An extraordinary encounter at the
:14:48. > :14:57.National zoo. ? Unlikely friends. This seven`year`old engaged in tag
:14:58. > :15:02.with a sea lion. Alex has as burgers. His mother says that he
:15:03. > :15:12.sometimes has trouble making friends. The sea lion volunteered.
:15:13. > :15:14.`` Asbergers. This person was the face of the game
:15:15. > :15:32.show. Remember him as a chaperone as three
:15:33. > :15:38.men tried to get a date? Some very famous faces here. He died at the
:15:39. > :15:43.age of 81. He added a signature stamp to the show, blowing the
:15:44. > :15:50.audience a kiss at the end. Next tonight, we look at the sale of new
:15:51. > :15:56.homes in America. The highest point in five years. The market is heating
:15:57. > :16:05.up. How can you get the most if you decide to sell? Apparently, learn
:16:06. > :16:08.from someone else's big mistakes. Welcome to the million`dollar
:16:09. > :16:17.mansion that might be the most unsellable house in America full it
:16:18. > :16:21.is beautiful but comes at a cost. We have five structures. The main
:16:22. > :16:26.house, the guesthouse, the pool house, the ballroom conference
:16:27. > :16:31.centre... It sounds good only it feels like we are in a cape. The
:16:32. > :16:39.ceiling is low and there is a hole in the wall. The dining room has
:16:40. > :16:44.mirrors. Lines in the kitchen. Lessons for anybody buying or
:16:45. > :16:49.selling a home. First, never be the most expensive house on the block.
:16:50. > :16:53.At $1.3 million, it's the most expensive house in entire zip code.
:16:54. > :17:03.What is the cost of the average house? $150,000. This is ten times
:17:04. > :17:07.that. Curb appeal is critical. The majority of buyers won't get out of
:17:08. > :17:12.a car if they pull up to a house with an ugly front yard. The massive
:17:13. > :17:22.dolphins that she? No. Personality is a dirty word. `` statue. So what
:17:23. > :17:27.should you do to your own home? Turn and Dan into a bedroom by adding a
:17:28. > :17:34.closet for less than $1500. More bedrooms is more value. They can
:17:35. > :17:37.solid first impression. Go for a nice handle and lock on the front
:17:38. > :17:45.door. Invest in your lawn. Plants trees. They can up the value by 15%.
:17:46. > :17:50.A lesson to Americans everywhere. Stay in touch with us. We will see
:17:51. > :18:06.tomorrow. Good night. Frost so far this winter, so far few
:18:07. > :18:12.and far between but we look at widespread frost overnight tonight.
:18:13. > :18:17.Icy patches in the north and west of the UK. To the south and west,
:18:18. > :18:18.wintry weather to be found. Snow over the hills