11/04/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

Time for a look at the news as seen across the United States a couple of

hours ago in ABC World News. Welcome to welcome news. Tonight,

daring rescue. An elite FBI team races in to save the lives of their

hostage. Why did they check the chances?

Police bust and accused shoplifting ring.

Good evening. We begin with a daring rescue, the elite strike team of the

FBI in action. It was a kind of Mission impossible that work. At the

heart of the story, a dangerous gang, a vulnerable hostage and a

daughter who said she put her father at risk.

It was like an episode out of 24. With threats of torture,

dismemberment and a dramatic rescue. A military contract grabbed from his

doorstep nearly a week ago in North Carolina. Stuffed into a vehicle and

are driven to Atlanta. His wife began receiving a series of text

messages. If police were called, he would be sent back to her in six

boxes. Another showed a picture of him tied to a chair. The kidnapper

is' goal was to save an inmate at a correctional institution. A habitual

Fallon serving a life sentence parole. It was his daughter, a

prosecutor well`known the local community, who had put him and other

gang members behind bars. The FBI tracked the messages and the

cellphone logs. You have this digital footprints now of telephone

calls from the prison cell to the folks his using on the outside. You

can listen to the calls. That is exactly what the FBI was doing.

The FBI had to move fast. The phone calls leading to this apartment

complex. Minutes later in the darkness, the rescue. I just heard a

lot of commotion. A lot of explosions. He was free. He is safe

and back with his family today. Even though the kidnappers seemed

careless with their use of cellphones, this was an extremely

dangerous situation. Dealing with suspects like these, all are in

custody. It can be even more dangerous for the hostage has the

kidnappers and panic. A bold decision by the FBI. We don't have

the other story of today, the stabbing at a Pennsylvania high

school. Once again, we are studying a face and looking for a clue,

trying to understand what made a teenage boy crap. `` crack. The

16`year`old accused of this awful crime, betraying no emotion in

public but today, his lawyer hinting at troubles in his past. More things

are surfacing. Things concerning bullying? I think there are a lot of

things happening, I don't want to comment specifically but things have

occurred that led to where we are today. What could have pushed him to

a allegedly grabbed kitchen knives and rampage through the halls of his

high school? By all accounts, he was a typical teenager from a close`knit

family, living a comfortable life in a beautiful upscale neighbourhood.

His attorney describes the rivals as Aussie and Harriet. Last night, his

father could only offer his best wishes to the wounded. No school

today, but outside this sign: We love our school and we are strong.

In hospital, students visited students and we heard stories of

heroism. Gracie Evans, saved by her friend, who was himself stabbed. He

stepped in front of me and took a stab for me really close to his

spine. Protecting you? Yes. He is the hero in this, for me. He was my

hero. Speaking at the hospital today, he says that Gracie Evans

saved his life. I got stabbed in the back and I needed help getting to

the next room and her putting pressure on my room so I didn't

bleed out. On a day of horror, so many acts of eight of 22 victims

remain hospitalised. `` acts of heroism. Police are struggling to

find a motive for this knifing spree, including the possibility of

bullying. Thank you Ron. A headline about your money tonight, the market

took a dive today, closing more than 260 points. What is going on? Al

business correspondent with the big slide. `` Mac Alfei. The corporate

behind today's sell`off, the biggest winners of the last five years

became the biggest losers. Facebook, Google, Amazon and others

all took a beating. Netflix Down 24% just this last month. If you

invested $1000, you would have lost $240. Why has Wall Street fallen out

of love with its former darlings? Stop vices were getting out of

hand. Facebook playing a taxing at 419 million dollars, Amazon piloting

a drone delivered `` delivery programme to a game about candy

somehow being worth $6 billion. That is why you don't bet the house on

one hot stock. We spoke to market veterans today, who expect this

rocky road to continue for a couple weeks. We take you to South Africa

in round two of intense grilling for the athlete Oscar Pistorius on the

shooting of his girlfriend. Prosecutors today dug in on the

motive. It was his moment of truth. But,

truth was not what the prosecutor thought he was getting. The story is

has admitted to killing his girlfriend in the bathroom of his

home last year, and is now saying his gun accidentally discharged.

This is where the prosecutor stands but what these courtroom cameras do

not show you is how close he is to Oscar Pistorius on the witness

stand. From that vicinity, he creates so much tension. `` that

creates. He will question his love for Reeva Steenkamp. His strategy,

if the prosecution can show he was an truthful about these key moments,

they hope the judge won't believe the killing was accidental. What did

the prosecutor do to his credibility? It is totally

shattered. Probing into his story is just beginning.

Tonight, the latest on the sick baby rescued at sea after her parents

took her on the sale of around the world. We are hearing from the

military rescue teams who had to make baby food and do that in record

time. What ever your view of the Fire

storm over the families around the world trip with an infant, we are

getting a window tonight into just how good a good Samaritan can be ``

family's. We brought home the it is a huge save. We saw the rescue as

parachute into reach the dangerously sick one`year`old and we now know

that once they brought the family aboard the Navy warship, they got

creative, assembling a makeshift crib and grinding carrots into baby

food, all the while healing the sick child. It was a blessing to rescue

those children. The family have asked for privacy and on their blog

they think the military heroes. We will remember them for ever.

News just in, ABC News confirms Health and Human Services Secretary

Kathleen Sebelius will announce she is stepping down tomorrow and you

will remember she led the rocky introduction of Obamacare.

Another note, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton onstage to

make a speech when something flies through the air. Watch her dark,

dodging what appears to be a shoe, rushing it off with humour, asking

if it was part of a show. The accused woman is in custody

tonight. An unusual version of hide and seek, a chimp is on the loose my

giving zookeepers fits in Kansas City. We are told it escaped the

enclosure and is on top of the, and while on the run, employees are

being told to stay in their vehicles until it is back in its cage. Next,

hot off the shelf, why police say a shoplifting ring has been busted

after stealing from drugstores. Inside the warehouse filled from top

to bottom. We are back in minutes. Next, police said they have broken a

shoplifting ring so be it became a multi million`dollar business. The

accused nabbed thousands of dollars from drugstores shells and here is

our correspondent. `` drugstores. The discovery inside

and Oakland warehouse. Shelf after shelf is piled with stolen loot from

Victoria's Secret perfume is to weight`loss pills and cold remedies.

I don't recall anything of this size in all of my years. We are talking

up to those were then allegedly online deals sold to shoppers on

eBay and Amazon. They were part of a sophisticated crime ring, including

a mother and daughter team who were allegedly hired to steal so much

stuff that police had to use seven semi` trucks to move it out of the

warehouse. They get a shopping list and come with nine `$15,000 worth of

merchandise and would be paid $2500. In one day, they were hired to steal

$9,000 worth of drugs, how is that possible? We went to the experts.

That would be the trick of the trade? Correct. You have a bad that

blocks the signal as they walk we have seen the creative ways they get

out of the store. One man puts merchandise inside his neck brace.

Back in Micky Keegan, the thieves have pleaded not guilty. ``

Michigan. Are instant index begins with intriguing questions was Jesus

married? Scholars from Harvard and Colombia have been studying this

ancient text with the words, and Jesus said to them, my wife. It was

thought once to be a fake but tonight carbon testing proved it is

an ancient document. They caution that it does not prove he had a

wife, but for now it is an intriguing clue. And, the air to

David Letterman's throne is Stephen Colbeck who will take up when he

retires next year. He joked that in honour of his signature smile, he

had been grinding a gap in his front teeth. He will not perform in

character on the new show, but as himself. We have an announcement,

James Goldstein was named president of ABC News, taking over from

insured who is preparing to leave the television group. The three

years, James has guided the shows you have watched, including this

one. With his commitment to high impact journalism, he is a veteran

of the BBC and coverage around the world. He said today, with James at

the helm, Albert stays are ahead of us. We want to leave you with a

vibrant burst of spring, Cherry Blossoms in bloom in the nation 's

capital. `` al Zeach best days `` our best days.

Decent weather on the way for the weekend with dry weather around. A

frontal system works south across the northern half of the UK on

Saturday. A dry day on Sunday. Cold enough at night for a touch of

frost. Fridays