:00:00. > :00:09.Time for a look at the news as seen across the United States a couple of
:00:10. > :00:13.hours ago in ABC World News. Welcome to welcome news. Tonight,
:00:14. > :00:17.daring rescue. An elite FBI team races in to save the lives of their
:00:18. > :00:22.hostage. Why did they check the chances?
:00:23. > :00:33.Police bust and accused shoplifting ring.
:00:34. > :00:41.Good evening. We begin with a daring rescue, the elite strike team of the
:00:42. > :00:47.FBI in action. It was a kind of Mission impossible that work. At the
:00:48. > :00:50.heart of the story, a dangerous gang, a vulnerable hostage and a
:00:51. > :01:00.daughter who said she put her father at risk.
:01:01. > :01:04.It was like an episode out of 24. With threats of torture,
:01:05. > :01:10.dismemberment and a dramatic rescue. A military contract grabbed from his
:01:11. > :01:19.doorstep nearly a week ago in North Carolina. Stuffed into a vehicle and
:01:20. > :01:22.are driven to Atlanta. His wife began receiving a series of text
:01:23. > :01:30.messages. If police were called, he would be sent back to her in six
:01:31. > :01:42.boxes. Another showed a picture of him tied to a chair. The kidnapper
:01:43. > :01:47.is' goal was to save an inmate at a correctional institution. A habitual
:01:48. > :01:53.Fallon serving a life sentence parole. It was his daughter, a
:01:54. > :02:02.prosecutor well`known the local community, who had put him and other
:02:03. > :02:12.gang members behind bars. The FBI tracked the messages and the
:02:13. > :02:15.cellphone logs. You have this digital footprints now of telephone
:02:16. > :02:24.calls from the prison cell to the folks his using on the outside. You
:02:25. > :02:37.can listen to the calls. That is exactly what the FBI was doing.
:02:38. > :02:44.The FBI had to move fast. The phone calls leading to this apartment
:02:45. > :02:49.complex. Minutes later in the darkness, the rescue. I just heard a
:02:50. > :02:59.lot of commotion. A lot of explosions. He was free. He is safe
:03:00. > :03:01.and back with his family today. Even though the kidnappers seemed
:03:02. > :03:05.careless with their use of cellphones, this was an extremely
:03:06. > :03:11.dangerous situation. Dealing with suspects like these, all are in
:03:12. > :03:20.custody. It can be even more dangerous for the hostage has the
:03:21. > :03:26.kidnappers and panic. A bold decision by the FBI. We don't have
:03:27. > :03:30.the other story of today, the stabbing at a Pennsylvania high
:03:31. > :03:34.school. Once again, we are studying a face and looking for a clue,
:03:35. > :03:44.trying to understand what made a teenage boy crap. `` crack. The
:03:45. > :03:49.16`year`old accused of this awful crime, betraying no emotion in
:03:50. > :03:54.public but today, his lawyer hinting at troubles in his past. More things
:03:55. > :03:58.are surfacing. Things concerning bullying? I think there are a lot of
:03:59. > :04:01.things happening, I don't want to comment specifically but things have
:04:02. > :04:05.occurred that led to where we are today. What could have pushed him to
:04:06. > :04:10.a allegedly grabbed kitchen knives and rampage through the halls of his
:04:11. > :04:14.high school? By all accounts, he was a typical teenager from a close`knit
:04:15. > :04:19.family, living a comfortable life in a beautiful upscale neighbourhood.
:04:20. > :04:25.His attorney describes the rivals as Aussie and Harriet. Last night, his
:04:26. > :04:35.father could only offer his best wishes to the wounded. No school
:04:36. > :04:41.today, but outside this sign: We love our school and we are strong.
:04:42. > :04:47.In hospital, students visited students and we heard stories of
:04:48. > :04:52.heroism. Gracie Evans, saved by her friend, who was himself stabbed. He
:04:53. > :04:58.stepped in front of me and took a stab for me really close to his
:04:59. > :05:03.spine. Protecting you? Yes. He is the hero in this, for me. He was my
:05:04. > :05:07.hero. Speaking at the hospital today, he says that Gracie Evans
:05:08. > :05:13.saved his life. I got stabbed in the back and I needed help getting to
:05:14. > :05:17.the next room and her putting pressure on my room so I didn't
:05:18. > :05:27.bleed out. On a day of horror, so many acts of eight of 22 victims
:05:28. > :05:33.remain hospitalised. `` acts of heroism. Police are struggling to
:05:34. > :05:39.find a motive for this knifing spree, including the possibility of
:05:40. > :05:45.bullying. Thank you Ron. A headline about your money tonight, the market
:05:46. > :05:52.took a dive today, closing more than 260 points. What is going on? Al
:05:53. > :05:59.business correspondent with the big slide. `` Mac Alfei. The corporate
:06:00. > :06:01.behind today's sell`off, the biggest winners of the last five years
:06:02. > :06:16.became the biggest losers. Facebook, Google, Amazon and others
:06:17. > :06:22.all took a beating. Netflix Down 24% just this last month. If you
:06:23. > :06:28.invested $1000, you would have lost $240. Why has Wall Street fallen out
:06:29. > :06:35.of love with its former darlings? Stop vices were getting out of
:06:36. > :06:39.hand. Facebook playing a taxing at 419 million dollars, Amazon piloting
:06:40. > :06:45.a drone delivered `` delivery programme to a game about candy
:06:46. > :06:49.somehow being worth $6 billion. That is why you don't bet the house on
:06:50. > :06:54.one hot stock. We spoke to market veterans today, who expect this
:06:55. > :07:01.rocky road to continue for a couple weeks. We take you to South Africa
:07:02. > :07:08.in round two of intense grilling for the athlete Oscar Pistorius on the
:07:09. > :07:14.shooting of his girlfriend. Prosecutors today dug in on the
:07:15. > :07:20.motive. It was his moment of truth. But,
:07:21. > :07:26.truth was not what the prosecutor thought he was getting. The story is
:07:27. > :07:31.has admitted to killing his girlfriend in the bathroom of his
:07:32. > :07:47.home last year, and is now saying his gun accidentally discharged.
:07:48. > :07:52.This is where the prosecutor stands but what these courtroom cameras do
:07:53. > :07:57.not show you is how close he is to Oscar Pistorius on the witness
:07:58. > :08:04.stand. From that vicinity, he creates so much tension. `` that
:08:05. > :08:12.creates. He will question his love for Reeva Steenkamp. His strategy,
:08:13. > :08:15.if the prosecution can show he was an truthful about these key moments,
:08:16. > :08:20.they hope the judge won't believe the killing was accidental. What did
:08:21. > :08:25.the prosecutor do to his credibility? It is totally
:08:26. > :08:34.shattered. Probing into his story is just beginning.
:08:35. > :08:37.Tonight, the latest on the sick baby rescued at sea after her parents
:08:38. > :08:40.took her on the sale of around the world. We are hearing from the
:08:41. > :08:46.military rescue teams who had to make baby food and do that in record
:08:47. > :08:51.time. What ever your view of the Fire
:08:52. > :08:56.storm over the families around the world trip with an infant, we are
:08:57. > :09:03.getting a window tonight into just how good a good Samaritan can be ``
:09:04. > :09:09.family's. We brought home the it is a huge save. We saw the rescue as
:09:10. > :09:13.parachute into reach the dangerously sick one`year`old and we now know
:09:14. > :09:17.that once they brought the family aboard the Navy warship, they got
:09:18. > :09:22.creative, assembling a makeshift crib and grinding carrots into baby
:09:23. > :09:31.food, all the while healing the sick child. It was a blessing to rescue
:09:32. > :09:34.those children. The family have asked for privacy and on their blog
:09:35. > :09:43.they think the military heroes. We will remember them for ever.
:09:44. > :09:47.News just in, ABC News confirms Health and Human Services Secretary
:09:48. > :09:51.Kathleen Sebelius will announce she is stepping down tomorrow and you
:09:52. > :09:59.will remember she led the rocky introduction of Obamacare.
:10:00. > :10:01.Another note, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton onstage to
:10:02. > :10:08.make a speech when something flies through the air. Watch her dark,
:10:09. > :10:13.dodging what appears to be a shoe, rushing it off with humour, asking
:10:14. > :10:17.if it was part of a show. The accused woman is in custody
:10:18. > :10:23.tonight. An unusual version of hide and seek, a chimp is on the loose my
:10:24. > :10:29.giving zookeepers fits in Kansas City. We are told it escaped the
:10:30. > :10:35.enclosure and is on top of the, and while on the run, employees are
:10:36. > :10:40.being told to stay in their vehicles until it is back in its cage. Next,
:10:41. > :10:42.hot off the shelf, why police say a shoplifting ring has been busted
:10:43. > :10:43.after stealing from drugstores. Inside the warehouse filled from top
:10:44. > :12:02.to bottom. We are back in minutes. Next, police said they have broken a
:12:03. > :12:06.shoplifting ring so be it became a multi million`dollar business. The
:12:07. > :12:10.accused nabbed thousands of dollars from drugstores shells and here is
:12:11. > :12:18.our correspondent. `` drugstores. The discovery inside
:12:19. > :12:22.and Oakland warehouse. Shelf after shelf is piled with stolen loot from
:12:23. > :12:27.Victoria's Secret perfume is to weight`loss pills and cold remedies.
:12:28. > :12:35.I don't recall anything of this size in all of my years. We are talking
:12:36. > :12:44.up to those were then allegedly online deals sold to shoppers on
:12:45. > :12:47.eBay and Amazon. They were part of a sophisticated crime ring, including
:12:48. > :12:52.a mother and daughter team who were allegedly hired to steal so much
:12:53. > :12:58.stuff that police had to use seven semi` trucks to move it out of the
:12:59. > :13:03.warehouse. They get a shopping list and come with nine `$15,000 worth of
:13:04. > :13:09.merchandise and would be paid $2500. In one day, they were hired to steal
:13:10. > :13:14.$9,000 worth of drugs, how is that possible? We went to the experts.
:13:15. > :13:21.That would be the trick of the trade? Correct. You have a bad that
:13:22. > :13:25.blocks the signal as they walk we have seen the creative ways they get
:13:26. > :13:31.out of the store. One man puts merchandise inside his neck brace.
:13:32. > :13:39.Back in Micky Keegan, the thieves have pleaded not guilty. ``
:13:40. > :13:45.Michigan. Are instant index begins with intriguing questions was Jesus
:13:46. > :13:51.married? Scholars from Harvard and Colombia have been studying this
:13:52. > :13:58.ancient text with the words, and Jesus said to them, my wife. It was
:13:59. > :14:00.thought once to be a fake but tonight carbon testing proved it is
:14:01. > :14:05.an ancient document. They caution that it does not prove he had a
:14:06. > :14:11.wife, but for now it is an intriguing clue. And, the air to
:14:12. > :14:16.David Letterman's throne is Stephen Colbeck who will take up when he
:14:17. > :14:20.retires next year. He joked that in honour of his signature smile, he
:14:21. > :14:25.had been grinding a gap in his front teeth. He will not perform in
:14:26. > :14:36.character on the new show, but as himself. We have an announcement,
:14:37. > :14:42.James Goldstein was named president of ABC News, taking over from
:14:43. > :14:47.insured who is preparing to leave the television group. The three
:14:48. > :14:51.years, James has guided the shows you have watched, including this
:14:52. > :14:54.one. With his commitment to high impact journalism, he is a veteran
:14:55. > :15:00.of the BBC and coverage around the world. He said today, with James at
:15:01. > :15:05.the helm, Albert stays are ahead of us. We want to leave you with a
:15:06. > :15:14.vibrant burst of spring, Cherry Blossoms in bloom in the nation 's
:15:15. > :15:24.capital. `` al Zeach best days `` our best days.
:15:25. > :15:29.Decent weather on the way for the weekend with dry weather around. A
:15:30. > :15:35.frontal system works south across the northern half of the UK on
:15:36. > :15:40.Saturday. A dry day on Sunday. Cold enough at night for a touch of
:15:41. > :15:41.frost. Fridays