:00:00. > :00:00.gathering dust on a departmental shelf. Time now for a look at the
:00:00. > :00:11.news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago in ABC
:00:12. > :00:15.World News with Dianne Sawyer. A huge earthquake off the coast of
:00:16. > :00:24.Alaska. Experts are watching for signs of a tsunami. In nationwide
:00:25. > :00:29.sweep by the FBI releases nearly 200 children from traffickers. Tonight,
:00:30. > :00:45.experts find stunning things buried inside your medical bills. How one
:00:46. > :00:53.family saved $30,000. Good evening. We have breaking news from Alaska. A
:00:54. > :00:57.powerful earthquake erupted off the coast of Alaska, triggering a
:00:58. > :01:05.tsunami warning. Evacuations are under way on the islands off the
:01:06. > :01:09.mainland. This is a significant earthquake and it carries with it a
:01:10. > :01:15.tsunami warning. It struck just before one o'clock this afternoon,
:01:16. > :01:20.local time, on and uninhabited island on the tip of that island
:01:21. > :01:27.chain that stretches out towards Russia. We spoke with the city mayor
:01:28. > :01:31.of a town just a few islands away from the epicentre. He said the
:01:32. > :01:35.shaking was incredibly strong and that the water was receding from the
:01:36. > :01:40.harbour. Because of the tsunami warning, people were looking for
:01:41. > :01:44.higher ground and we had to cut short our conversation so he could
:01:45. > :01:49.evacuate. We think of California as earthquake country but Alaska is
:01:50. > :01:59.more seismically active. Half of the earthquakes that occur in the US
:02:00. > :02:04.occur in Alaska. 1964, 9.2 on the Richter scale, one of the strongest
:02:05. > :02:10.earthquakes ever in North American history. They are monitoring the
:02:11. > :02:18.situation is far south as Oregon. Thank you. Now, a nationwide
:02:19. > :02:22.crackdown on a problem that could reach into every community in this
:02:23. > :02:28.country. The FBI moved in to rescue nearly 200 children in the US, most
:02:29. > :02:35.of them girls, many enticed from their homes by sex traffickers. We
:02:36. > :02:42.were with the investigators and captured the drama of that rescue.
:02:43. > :02:46.This red light district is just one target on a nationwide crackdown
:02:47. > :02:51.announced today, a place where prostitutes come to make their
:02:52. > :03:00.money, many of them just girls. How young are we talking? The youngest I
:03:01. > :03:05.have seen is 13. This undercover police officer is part of that sweep
:03:06. > :03:10.and I'm here for the sting as the FBI and police try to rescue as many
:03:11. > :03:14.goals as they can. Today, they announce that operation
:03:15. > :03:20.cross`country but 281 alleged pimps behind bars and rescued 168
:03:21. > :03:28.prostitutes in more than 100 cities from Tampa to Denver to Los Angeles.
:03:29. > :03:33.These are our children on our street corners, our truck stops, our
:03:34. > :03:39.motels, our casinos. Some of them are runaways, many forced into
:03:40. > :03:47.prostitution, Lloyd by boyfriends offering promises of love and
:03:48. > :03:50.affection. I was 17 years old. He said he would take me all and we
:03:51. > :03:56.would go to the shopping mall first. He wheedled me into it. I was
:03:57. > :04:01.scared. Police on the streets say they often see a pattern. They come
:04:02. > :04:04.from a broken background so if anyone shows them any common decency
:04:05. > :04:09.or love, tells them that they love them, they believe them because they
:04:10. > :04:15.have to believe them. As the night goes on, Oakland police bring in
:04:16. > :04:21.woman after woman. This is the problem. There are more prostitutes
:04:22. > :04:27.and temps on the streets than there are police officers who can arrest
:04:28. > :04:32.them all. The underage girls go to juvenile hall, where police say they
:04:33. > :04:42.will get help and most importantly forced time away from their pimps.
:04:43. > :04:47.We go after their exploiters to prevent future victims from
:04:48. > :04:51.occurring. One girl at a time. Many of these girls were not even
:04:52. > :04:56.reported missing. Police say if it weren't for these operations, they
:04:57. > :04:59.might not have been found. We know that girls rescued in the same
:05:00. > :05:02.operation a few years ago are now in college, studying nursing. Police
:05:03. > :05:04.say the key is to say the key is to get to the girls
:05:05. > :05:20.and get them off the streets. A state of emergency caused with
:05:21. > :05:26.severe floods. What than 13 million people watching the water and the
:05:27. > :05:31.sky. Tonight, thousands are still without
:05:32. > :05:38.power in Texas. Drenched with four inches of rain in just one hour.
:05:39. > :05:43.Neighbourhoods submerged. All of that water even knocking this house
:05:44. > :05:47.of its foundation. In the midwest, floodwaters are still rising after
:05:48. > :05:52.two weeks of heavy rain. In Minnesota, 35 counties are in a
:05:53. > :06:01.state of emergency. They saw funnel clouds today. A state trooper's bash
:06:02. > :06:05.camera caught this mudslide. As the waters creep higher, bridges are
:06:06. > :06:13.being closed before they go under water. You can see the water is so
:06:14. > :06:16.high they have had to shut it down. If you want to get from here to
:06:17. > :06:23.Wisconsin today, you are going to need a boat. This woman is watching
:06:24. > :06:30.the water slowly invade her home. It started coming in this morning. Her
:06:31. > :06:37.backyard is now a marina. You accept the fact that it is going to take
:06:38. > :06:43.over from time to time. The raging river is making daredevil kayakers
:06:44. > :06:48.happy. But the rescue teams nervous. Stay away from the water right now.
:06:49. > :06:52.It is too aggressive. Rivers are cresting in some small towns. In
:06:53. > :06:57.Saint Paul, these waters are expected to rise another three feet
:06:58. > :07:01.by Thursday. Today we learned that the global
:07:02. > :07:09.temperature last month was the warmest May on record in history.
:07:10. > :07:16.The average temperature just shy of 60 degrees. And we now go to the
:07:17. > :07:21.crisis in Iraq. The country is unravelling. Today the White House
:07:22. > :07:29.is taking new place as they try to avoid the civil war.
:07:30. > :07:35.John Kerry went to Baghdad today with a blunt warning for leaders,
:07:36. > :07:39.telling them if they do not get their acts together and form a
:07:40. > :07:44.united front right now with minority groups, the country could fall
:07:45. > :07:49.apart. US officials believe the biggest problem right now is a
:07:50. > :07:54.political, not military. The government is so unpopular with the
:07:55. > :07:58.country's minorities that they are unwilling to join the fight against
:07:59. > :08:03.the militants. The military situation is incredibly grim. One
:08:04. > :08:08.out of every three divisions is deemed unable to fight. The air
:08:09. > :08:12.force has only two aeroplanes capable of firing missiles. If that
:08:13. > :08:21.is not bad enough, they are out of vessels. `` missiles.
:08:22. > :08:29.Now the news back in this country tonight. A woman who told the Mormon
:08:30. > :08:34.Church to give women a bigger role. She was excommunicated. She argued
:08:35. > :08:40.women priests should be included. She was tried and sentenced with
:08:41. > :08:44.apostasy. After being tried in absentia by an all`male panel, this
:08:45. > :08:49.afternoon eight got the news she was dreading.
:08:50. > :08:55.A lifelong excommunication. Punished for forming a group ordained women,
:08:56. > :09:03.which seeks to allow women into the priesthood. The officials said:
:09:04. > :09:10.thank you for being here today. Since forming the group, she has led
:09:11. > :09:21.several protests, saying she found the group so that young girls would
:09:22. > :09:26.not doubt they were. She can be readmitted to the group if she meets
:09:27. > :09:31.several conditions after a year. She tells ABC News tonight that she is
:09:32. > :09:37.devastated by the decision and a spokesperson says the group will
:09:38. > :09:43.continue. Now, sometimes the heavens seem to
:09:44. > :09:46.be watching over a child at risk. An eight`month`old baby abducted by a
:09:47. > :09:52.car thief and abandoned by the side of the road. The girl had
:09:53. > :10:01.disappeared without a trace until a jogger happens to run by.
:10:02. > :10:05.It is a heartbreaking picture out of Houston. A car thief took off with
:10:06. > :10:12.girl all by herself in the middle of girl all by herself in the middle of
:10:13. > :10:17.the night in this empty field. Police had helicopters in the air,
:10:18. > :10:25.searching the streets, setting out and amber alert. That is when the
:10:26. > :10:28.mother ran inside with the baby in the back. Police say this man stole
:10:29. > :10:34.the car and abandoned the child ten minutes away.
:10:35. > :10:40.Genesis was still strapped in her seat in the middle of the bush is
:10:41. > :10:45.for nearly seven hours when this woman decided to go jogging for the
:10:46. > :10:52.first time in her life. I saw the baby moving in the car seat and
:10:53. > :10:54.crying. The police used their uniforms as blankets. She was
:10:55. > :11:06.uninjured and brought home safe and sound. Babies like to be swaddled.
:11:07. > :11:07.Up next, real money. Outrageous medical bills and the stunning
:11:08. > :12:00.things buried inside. Next tonight, we are back on the
:12:01. > :12:03.Trail of outrageous medical bills. Medical bills are the number one
:12:04. > :12:09.cause of personal bankruptcy in this country. We show you what happened
:12:10. > :12:17.to one family putting thousands of dollars back in their pocket and how
:12:18. > :12:23.you can do it too. His parents from San Antonio are
:12:24. > :12:32.still sifting through a mountain of medical bills for his delivery. We
:12:33. > :12:38.owe $150,000. `` $50,000. We brought in our healthcare consumer advocate
:12:39. > :12:43.to try and cut down that bill. Step one, ask for an itemised bill.
:12:44. > :12:52.Contest any service you do not remember getting. Get a comparison
:12:53. > :13:00.shop, even after the fact. Call down the hospital and is the guy down the
:13:01. > :13:04.street is charging less. They found out they were being charged four
:13:05. > :13:08.times the national average for a C section delivery and were able to
:13:09. > :13:12.negotiate a whopping $12,000 off their bills. To get extra savings
:13:13. > :13:18.you might have missed, consider hiring a professional negotiator.
:13:19. > :13:24.They keep 30% of whatever savings they get you. You keep the rest. We
:13:25. > :13:30.are seeing some kind of charging 85% of your bill. Almost all of them.
:13:31. > :13:37.They are using advanced computer programmes to find out billing
:13:38. > :13:41.errors. They said he was a sick at delivery and needed special
:13:42. > :13:49.attention. That was not the case. That is $17,000. They will even help
:13:50. > :14:00.your family find special discount programmes. I have saved $18,000
:14:01. > :14:08.today. $18,000 so far. That is $30,000 in total. It stunned us all.
:14:09. > :14:17.That is good news. What does this mean for your lives? It means we can
:14:18. > :14:25.move on. Unbelievable. They fought back from
:14:26. > :14:29.more than two years. Never give up. Even if you do not hire a help,
:14:30. > :14:36.there are things you can do on your own. We have put
:14:37. > :14:43.website. This is what you can do on your own.
:14:44. > :14:47.Our instant index tonight starts with a piece of advice from someone
:14:48. > :14:51.who knows a couple of things about sharks. A group of fishermen came
:14:52. > :15:03.face to face with a 16 foot great white. Watched it snatched the bait
:15:04. > :15:07.bag. It convinced them to leave. There is a certain number of great
:15:08. > :15:14.whites along the east coast. A lot of people talking about a new role
:15:15. > :15:21.for the family pet. Crawling coach. An extraordinary idea the dog had.
:15:22. > :15:26.He is a loving companion to the baby, who was not making a lot of
:15:27. > :15:31.tracks on her hands and knees until he kept slipping in front of her to
:15:32. > :15:36.encourage her moving forward. We are told after a lot of tutoring by the
:15:37. > :15:46.dog, she is now off and crawling. Finally tonight, the picture making
:15:47. > :15:50.history. `` picture. The first major league pitcher to do something that
:15:51. > :16:00.could light a revolution. It is something that could offer
:16:01. > :16:06.protection from a street back. It is safe to 95 mph. Does it look odd?
:16:07. > :16:10.Are they said the same thing when that in helmets became mandatorily
:16:11. > :16:17.and the little ear recovering. Remember football, went from this to
:16:18. > :16:27.this to this, because people kept getting heart. 2 million kids play
:16:28. > :16:32.baseball. I hope they can use them. He may not go down in history as one
:16:33. > :16:37.of baseball's greatest left`handers, but if the helmet catches on, he
:16:38. > :16:46.will always have that footnote of having gotten their first.
:16:47. > :16:56.We will always be here, Nightline later.
:16:57. > :17:04.We saw some thunderstorms to end the day in the south of the UK
:17:05. > :17:06.yesterday. But for many of us it is a decent sort of day. There is some
:17:07. > :17:09.warmth and warmth and sunshine to be found. The
:17:10. > :17:17.best is to be found in the south of the UK. Starting the day quite warm
:17:18. > :17:18.here. In the far north, much fresher conditions. It will be filtering its
:17:19. > :17:19.way south during the