04/03/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

hope. Lots more on the website. Now let's take a look at the news from

across the United States a couple of hours ago in ABC world News with

Diane Sawyer. Welcome to world News, time, a blast

to the final storm with a bang. The Texas Interstate paralysed with ice.

Drivers spinning on slippery roads in Pittsburgh. The capital is

frozen. What is next? Vladimir Putin flexes his muscles in the face of a

new warning from the White House. Our team is in the middle of the

Ukraine powderkeg. Real money, families earning thousands of

dollars by sharing their favourite belongings.

Grieving to you on this Monday night, the month of March has

arrived and roared in like a line. One giant storm racing 3000 miles

across the country causing temperatures to ponder, roads to ice

up, sexes had traffic 30 miles long. -- Texas. The wheels start to spin

and they are done. Going nowhere fast. Thousands caught on the

highway, it looks like Minnesota, this is Texas. How long have you

been stuck a? Four hours. The biggest backup happened south of

Dallas on Interstate 45. This morning, the lines of cars stretched

30 miles. Some spent the night in their car. I figured that I was

going south and I would be OK. Not so much. Texas weather is known for

its extremes, but this is crazy for here. On Saturday it was 81 and

sunny. 24-hour was later, it was 19. A swing of 60 degrees. The storm

that sparked huge waves and mudslides swept across the country.

Bringing sleet with thunder and lightning in Oklahoma. In

Washington, DC, more snow shutdown the government get. In

Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh, the town is out of salt. It is like

a sheet of ice. There is not a clear route inside. More than 2800 flights

cancelled. The delays and cancellations have cost the airline

's $5.8 billion. The worry tonight is that all the mess on the roads

will refreeze. It is supposed to be well below zero tonight. That is a

problem because a number Texas Interstate now look like this, hours

after the slate stopped falling. A lot of motorists are crawling down

here in Texas. 16 days until spring! Next, we turn to the tension rising

around the world as Russian front of the -- president Vladimir Putin

casts a shadow across Europe and Russia. His troops are holding firm

in the Crimea. Will he push any further and has the US and its

allies decided to push back? We are on the frontlines of the in Ukraine.

But it fits, proudly watching Russian military today. -- Vladimir

Putin. His eyes were on his troops 1000 miles south on the Crimean

peninsula. His F or schedules skies, his army controls the roads, borders

and military bases. His Navy controls the ports and sees. Putin

rules in Crimea now. Here is why he did it. Look at Ukraine and Premier,

down in the south, jutting out into the waters of the Black Sea. Home to

a critical ports and Russia may be as useful centuries. -- Russian

navy. Britain says he is defending ethnic Russians has ceased the

entire peninsula. President Obama reacted with scorn. Russia is on the

wrong side of history. We are examining steps, economic,

diplomatic, and we will isolate Russia. What back at the theatre

night that the Ukrainian military people will try to stop him,

touching out a -- touching off a bloody war. The Russian military

will would like crush any resistance from Ukrainian forces. It is a

generation behind. Russia has 145,000 uniformed troops, Ukraine,

130,000. They are spread throughout the country. Some are pro- Russian

who may defect. Russia has twice as many tanks. Six times as many

aircraft, ten times as many ships. Ukrainian troops in Crimea remain

stuck in their bases with Russian soldiers outside and we saw by

fiercely pro- Russian Crimean crowds. They stopped us from talking

to the trout Ukrainian Marines inside the base. They forced us to

turn back, providing an escort. Everybody is on edge here. Nobody

knows what tomorrow may bring except perhaps Vladimir Putin. The

uncertainty in the Ukraine has hit home in a lot of different ways

tonight. The Dow Jones closing down 150 points. That is the worst day in

Wall Street in one month. President Obama watching the shaken world

economy. One of your sources inside the house that the White House

saying tonight? Tonight he is meeting with his national security

team. Vladimir Putin is operating from a different set of facts. In

conversations with the President and Angela Merkel, you talked about

Russians in Ukraine being under attack. Saying churches were being

bored and and homes being raided. But American officials say there is

no evidence any of that is going on. A top official said he has his facts

and we have ours. US officials are working on drafting comprehensive

sanctions against Russia. The fastest growing crime in America,

half a million smart phone is stolen every year. An enquiry says phone

companies should be doing more to protect their customers. It can

happen so fast. This thief snatches a phone on the New York city subway

and gets away. Thieves race across the street to rob this man at

gunpoint. They search and steel has cellphone. To date the New York city

top cop is looking for a federal law to install a kill switch would would

render stolen cellphones useless. He says they are holding out because

they want to sell more cellphones. This is about corporate greed. One

victim who is 23 as a former star volleyball player was shot and kilda

macro Saint Lewis 21 months ago. She was talking to other on a

cellphone. Some cellphone companies say a kill switch would open them to

hacking. But Laura authorities say the real issue is one of life and

death. Today was the first day of a big trial, the legendary athlete

accused of murdering his girlfriend. Oscar Pistorius arrived at the court

ringo macro South Africa today and his girlfriend's family were there

ready to Stephen down. We report on the dramatic encounter. With the

eyes of the world upon, Oscar Pistorius arrives at court. He is a

school to directly in front of the family of the woman he killed. Reeva

Steenkamp's mother says he wants to look on the night and see the truth

is. But he looked straight ahead and there is no eye contact. Oscar

Pistorius and worldwide fame, overcoming enormous odds to become

the first athlete to compete at the able-bodied Olympics. Now he faces

four macro charges, including murder. How do you plead? Not

guilty. Reeva Steenkamp was a model and reality TV star and a trained

lawyer. The defence claims the killing was a tragic mistake. He

thought she was an intruder in the home. In court today, a neighbour

described hearing screams from a woman and a series of gunshots on

the early hours of Valentine's Day last year.

Prosecutors now hope to betray Oscar Pistorius as gun happy and reckless.

This is just the first step for Oscar Pistorius in what will be a

long and drawnout trial. Day one is over but there are many more to go.

Proceedings will last at least three weeks. He faces a possible life

sentence. Next night, real money, from the car in your driveway to

your own backyard, how families are earning thousands of dollars

uncovering untaxed resources in their own homes. You can do it too

when we are back in two minutes. Coming up, our real money team is

back. Americans made three Neha billion dollars just yet using some

of the things in their everyday lives. -- three and a half billion

dollars. You may have heard of renting out your home, but now

people are making money on things around their home. Things going

unused much of the time. It is called the sharing economy. Tonight

we show you the real money you could use by renting out what you have.

Meet Kelsey, a dog lover in Chicago. And ginger a Chihuahua who is

helping Kelsey pay your rent. How much do you think you made last

year? A lot. Sometimes, well over my rent. How? Kelsey rented out like a

hotel to other ferry friends through a website called dog vacation.

Kelsey signed up online and ginger's owner pecked her two dogs

that. Each puppy she owns -- cares for NZ $35 a day. Across town, and

is making money renting out his bike for 30 bucks a weekend. Through a

site called spin list. This past summer, it paid for the bike. And

how about your car which sits on used for 90 this -- 92% of the day.

This family rents out there by -- are three relay rides. Your car is

covered with the $1 million insurance policy. They say the

average user makes $250. The top earners make about $1000 a month. We

were hoping to save for her college fund. We are sitting on her college

fund. Instead of the car you could rent out the place where you park

it. This man does this with his driveway, not far from the Chicago

Bears Stadium. He rented out to football fans using a website. He

made $400 last season. You can even make money renting your backyard to

campers. Even if you are not making food you

can make money. Remember the money renting out their car on weekends,

$3000 in extra money each year. If they keep it up, they will have

stacked away $50,000 by the time their son goes to college. But

remember, different cities have different rules. Our instant index

begins with a comeback. Americans and for Microsoft co-founder will

Gates. Tonight he is back on top of the annual Forbes list as the

richest man in the world. Unseating the Mexican who had held the spot

for four years. The US has the most billionaires right now. For under a

92, including Warren Buffett, the Google cofounders and the Facebook

founder Mark sucker Burke. The nation with the second-highest

number of billionaires as China. -- more women make the list this year,

10% are women. Two thirds of the world's billionaires and say their

fortunes were self-made. We showed you that heartbreaking Kentucky the

eight priceless cars, vintage cars followed by a 40 foot sinkhole

beneath the National Corvette using. Today, progress. The first of

the cars hoisted back up. Listen, the engine roared back to life. And

then this little gem, a 1993 ruby red Corvette back on solid ground.

Two down, six to go. Talk about the ultimate driving experience, here is

one. One driver at catching 55 green lights one after the other and it

happened in New York. The driver says he calculated the precise speed

limit that would let him ride the green light. Like one giant wave. We

thank you for watching. Nightline will be along later. I will see you

back here again tomorrow night. Most of us will notice the

temperature is rising this week. Pretty cold this week. Temperatures