:00:00. > :00:00.hope. Lots more on the website. Now let's take a look at the news from
:00:00. > :00:08.across the United States a couple of hours ago in ABC world News with
:00:09. > :00:14.Diane Sawyer. Welcome to world News, time, a blast
:00:15. > :00:20.to the final storm with a bang. The Texas Interstate paralysed with ice.
:00:21. > :00:26.Drivers spinning on slippery roads in Pittsburgh. The capital is
:00:27. > :00:29.frozen. What is next? Vladimir Putin flexes his muscles in the face of a
:00:30. > :00:34.new warning from the White House. Our team is in the middle of the
:00:35. > :00:37.Ukraine powderkeg. Real money, families earning thousands of
:00:38. > :00:48.dollars by sharing their favourite belongings.
:00:49. > :00:54.Grieving to you on this Monday night, the month of March has
:00:55. > :00:59.arrived and roared in like a line. One giant storm racing 3000 miles
:01:00. > :01:07.across the country causing temperatures to ponder, roads to ice
:01:08. > :01:15.up, sexes had traffic 30 miles long. -- Texas. The wheels start to spin
:01:16. > :01:19.and they are done. Going nowhere fast. Thousands caught on the
:01:20. > :01:29.highway, it looks like Minnesota, this is Texas. How long have you
:01:30. > :01:32.been stuck a? Four hours. The biggest backup happened south of
:01:33. > :01:39.Dallas on Interstate 45. This morning, the lines of cars stretched
:01:40. > :01:42.30 miles. Some spent the night in their car. I figured that I was
:01:43. > :01:49.going south and I would be OK. Not so much. Texas weather is known for
:01:50. > :01:53.its extremes, but this is crazy for here. On Saturday it was 81 and
:01:54. > :02:06.sunny. 24-hour was later, it was 19. A swing of 60 degrees. The storm
:02:07. > :02:10.that sparked huge waves and mudslides swept across the country.
:02:11. > :02:13.Bringing sleet with thunder and lightning in Oklahoma. In
:02:14. > :02:19.Washington, DC, more snow shutdown the government get. In
:02:20. > :02:26.Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh, the town is out of salt. It is like
:02:27. > :02:33.a sheet of ice. There is not a clear route inside. More than 2800 flights
:02:34. > :02:38.cancelled. The delays and cancellations have cost the airline
:02:39. > :02:43.'s $5.8 billion. The worry tonight is that all the mess on the roads
:02:44. > :02:46.will refreeze. It is supposed to be well below zero tonight. That is a
:02:47. > :02:51.problem because a number Texas Interstate now look like this, hours
:02:52. > :03:00.after the slate stopped falling. A lot of motorists are crawling down
:03:01. > :03:05.here in Texas. 16 days until spring! Next, we turn to the tension rising
:03:06. > :03:09.around the world as Russian front of the -- president Vladimir Putin
:03:10. > :03:17.casts a shadow across Europe and Russia. His troops are holding firm
:03:18. > :03:23.in the Crimea. Will he push any further and has the US and its
:03:24. > :03:29.allies decided to push back? We are on the frontlines of the in Ukraine.
:03:30. > :03:36.But it fits, proudly watching Russian military today. -- Vladimir
:03:37. > :03:42.Putin. His eyes were on his troops 1000 miles south on the Crimean
:03:43. > :03:46.peninsula. His F or schedules skies, his army controls the roads, borders
:03:47. > :03:53.and military bases. His Navy controls the ports and sees. Putin
:03:54. > :03:57.rules in Crimea now. Here is why he did it. Look at Ukraine and Premier,
:03:58. > :04:01.down in the south, jutting out into the waters of the Black Sea. Home to
:04:02. > :04:08.a critical ports and Russia may be as useful centuries. -- Russian
:04:09. > :04:12.navy. Britain says he is defending ethnic Russians has ceased the
:04:13. > :04:19.entire peninsula. President Obama reacted with scorn. Russia is on the
:04:20. > :04:24.wrong side of history. We are examining steps, economic,
:04:25. > :04:26.diplomatic, and we will isolate Russia. What back at the theatre
:04:27. > :04:31.night that the Ukrainian military people will try to stop him,
:04:32. > :04:39.touching out a -- touching off a bloody war. The Russian military
:04:40. > :04:50.will would like crush any resistance from Ukrainian forces. It is a
:04:51. > :04:53.generation behind. Russia has 145,000 uniformed troops, Ukraine,
:04:54. > :05:00.130,000. They are spread throughout the country. Some are pro- Russian
:05:01. > :05:03.who may defect. Russia has twice as many tanks. Six times as many
:05:04. > :05:09.aircraft, ten times as many ships. Ukrainian troops in Crimea remain
:05:10. > :05:13.stuck in their bases with Russian soldiers outside and we saw by
:05:14. > :05:19.fiercely pro- Russian Crimean crowds. They stopped us from talking
:05:20. > :05:26.to the trout Ukrainian Marines inside the base. They forced us to
:05:27. > :05:30.turn back, providing an escort. Everybody is on edge here. Nobody
:05:31. > :05:38.knows what tomorrow may bring except perhaps Vladimir Putin. The
:05:39. > :05:42.uncertainty in the Ukraine has hit home in a lot of different ways
:05:43. > :05:49.tonight. The Dow Jones closing down 150 points. That is the worst day in
:05:50. > :05:55.Wall Street in one month. President Obama watching the shaken world
:05:56. > :06:06.economy. One of your sources inside the house that the White House
:06:07. > :06:10.saying tonight? Tonight he is meeting with his national security
:06:11. > :06:14.team. Vladimir Putin is operating from a different set of facts. In
:06:15. > :06:19.conversations with the President and Angela Merkel, you talked about
:06:20. > :06:26.Russians in Ukraine being under attack. Saying churches were being
:06:27. > :06:29.bored and and homes being raided. But American officials say there is
:06:30. > :06:36.no evidence any of that is going on. A top official said he has his facts
:06:37. > :06:41.and we have ours. US officials are working on drafting comprehensive
:06:42. > :06:45.sanctions against Russia. The fastest growing crime in America,
:06:46. > :06:50.half a million smart phone is stolen every year. An enquiry says phone
:06:51. > :07:01.companies should be doing more to protect their customers. It can
:07:02. > :07:05.happen so fast. This thief snatches a phone on the New York city subway
:07:06. > :07:08.and gets away. Thieves race across the street to rob this man at
:07:09. > :07:17.gunpoint. They search and steel has cellphone. To date the New York city
:07:18. > :07:23.top cop is looking for a federal law to install a kill switch would would
:07:24. > :07:28.render stolen cellphones useless. He says they are holding out because
:07:29. > :07:37.they want to sell more cellphones. This is about corporate greed. One
:07:38. > :07:43.victim who is 23 as a former star volleyball player was shot and kilda
:07:44. > :07:48.macro Saint Lewis 21 months ago. She was talking to other on a
:07:49. > :07:53.cellphone. Some cellphone companies say a kill switch would open them to
:07:54. > :07:58.hacking. But Laura authorities say the real issue is one of life and
:07:59. > :08:03.death. Today was the first day of a big trial, the legendary athlete
:08:04. > :08:08.accused of murdering his girlfriend. Oscar Pistorius arrived at the court
:08:09. > :08:14.ringo macro South Africa today and his girlfriend's family were there
:08:15. > :08:20.ready to Stephen down. We report on the dramatic encounter. With the
:08:21. > :08:24.eyes of the world upon, Oscar Pistorius arrives at court. He is a
:08:25. > :08:29.school to directly in front of the family of the woman he killed. Reeva
:08:30. > :08:33.Steenkamp's mother says he wants to look on the night and see the truth
:08:34. > :08:39.is. But he looked straight ahead and there is no eye contact. Oscar
:08:40. > :08:43.Pistorius and worldwide fame, overcoming enormous odds to become
:08:44. > :08:47.the first athlete to compete at the able-bodied Olympics. Now he faces
:08:48. > :08:54.four macro charges, including murder. How do you plead? Not
:08:55. > :08:57.guilty. Reeva Steenkamp was a model and reality TV star and a trained
:08:58. > :09:02.lawyer. The defence claims the killing was a tragic mistake. He
:09:03. > :09:08.thought she was an intruder in the home. In court today, a neighbour
:09:09. > :09:12.described hearing screams from a woman and a series of gunshots on
:09:13. > :09:18.the early hours of Valentine's Day last year.
:09:19. > :09:28.Prosecutors now hope to betray Oscar Pistorius as gun happy and reckless.
:09:29. > :09:32.This is just the first step for Oscar Pistorius in what will be a
:09:33. > :09:36.long and drawnout trial. Day one is over but there are many more to go.
:09:37. > :09:48.Proceedings will last at least three weeks. He faces a possible life
:09:49. > :09:52.sentence. Next night, real money, from the car in your driveway to
:09:53. > :09:56.your own backyard, how families are earning thousands of dollars
:09:57. > :10:00.uncovering untaxed resources in their own homes. You can do it too
:10:01. > :11:29.when we are back in two minutes. Coming up, our real money team is
:11:30. > :11:31.back. Americans made three Neha billion dollars just yet using some
:11:32. > :11:38.of the things in their everyday lives. -- three and a half billion
:11:39. > :11:41.dollars. You may have heard of renting out your home, but now
:11:42. > :11:47.people are making money on things around their home. Things going
:11:48. > :11:51.unused much of the time. It is called the sharing economy. Tonight
:11:52. > :11:58.we show you the real money you could use by renting out what you have.
:11:59. > :12:03.Meet Kelsey, a dog lover in Chicago. And ginger a Chihuahua who is
:12:04. > :12:08.helping Kelsey pay your rent. How much do you think you made last
:12:09. > :12:13.year? A lot. Sometimes, well over my rent. How? Kelsey rented out like a
:12:14. > :12:22.hotel to other ferry friends through a website called dog vacation.
:12:23. > :12:28.Kelsey signed up online and ginger's owner pecked her two dogs
:12:29. > :12:33.that. Each puppy she owns -- cares for NZ $35 a day. Across town, and
:12:34. > :12:39.is making money renting out his bike for 30 bucks a weekend. Through a
:12:40. > :12:44.site called spin list. This past summer, it paid for the bike. And
:12:45. > :12:51.how about your car which sits on used for 90 this -- 92% of the day.
:12:52. > :12:59.This family rents out there by -- are three relay rides. Your car is
:13:00. > :13:05.covered with the $1 million insurance policy. They say the
:13:06. > :13:11.average user makes $250. The top earners make about $1000 a month. We
:13:12. > :13:15.were hoping to save for her college fund. We are sitting on her college
:13:16. > :13:19.fund. Instead of the car you could rent out the place where you park
:13:20. > :13:26.it. This man does this with his driveway, not far from the Chicago
:13:27. > :13:32.Bears Stadium. He rented out to football fans using a website. He
:13:33. > :13:33.made $400 last season. You can even make money renting your backyard to
:13:34. > :13:46.campers. Even if you are not making food you
:13:47. > :13:51.can make money. Remember the money renting out their car on weekends,
:13:52. > :13:55.$3000 in extra money each year. If they keep it up, they will have
:13:56. > :13:59.stacked away $50,000 by the time their son goes to college. But
:14:00. > :14:06.remember, different cities have different rules. Our instant index
:14:07. > :14:12.begins with a comeback. Americans and for Microsoft co-founder will
:14:13. > :14:16.Gates. Tonight he is back on top of the annual Forbes list as the
:14:17. > :14:21.richest man in the world. Unseating the Mexican who had held the spot
:14:22. > :14:29.for four years. The US has the most billionaires right now. For under a
:14:30. > :14:33.92, including Warren Buffett, the Google cofounders and the Facebook
:14:34. > :14:39.founder Mark sucker Burke. The nation with the second-highest
:14:40. > :14:46.number of billionaires as China. -- more women make the list this year,
:14:47. > :14:50.10% are women. Two thirds of the world's billionaires and say their
:14:51. > :14:55.fortunes were self-made. We showed you that heartbreaking Kentucky the
:14:56. > :15:00.eight priceless cars, vintage cars followed by a 40 foot sinkhole
:15:01. > :15:11.beneath the National Corvette using. Today, progress. The first of
:15:12. > :15:19.the cars hoisted back up. Listen, the engine roared back to life. And
:15:20. > :15:27.then this little gem, a 1993 ruby red Corvette back on solid ground.
:15:28. > :15:31.Two down, six to go. Talk about the ultimate driving experience, here is
:15:32. > :15:37.one. One driver at catching 55 green lights one after the other and it
:15:38. > :15:40.happened in New York. The driver says he calculated the precise speed
:15:41. > :15:47.limit that would let him ride the green light. Like one giant wave. We
:15:48. > :15:51.thank you for watching. Nightline will be along later. I will see you
:15:52. > :16:11.back here again tomorrow night. Most of us will notice the
:16:12. > :16:13.temperature is rising this week. Pretty cold this week. Temperatures